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USA Today:
Exclusive: Clooney responds to ‘Daily Mail’ report — I want to speak to the irresponsibility of Monday's Daily Mail report. I seldom respond to tabloids, unless it involves someone else and their safety or well being. The Daily Mail has printed a completely fabricated story …
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Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE - ‘She can do better’: Amal Alamuddin's mother ‘is unimpressed with George Clooney and wants daughter to marry within their strict Lebanese religious sect’ — Baria Alamuddin has been ‘telling half of Beirut’ that she wanted daughter to marry within the Druze sect
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Washington Post:
The tea party's embrace of martyrdom — Hiroo Onoda, the last imperial Japanese soldier to surrender after World War II, hid out in a jungle in the Philippines for 29 years, refusing to believe that the war was over. He finally turned himself in, wearing his sword, cap and patched uniform, in 1974.
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Cameron Joseph / The Hill:
Untamed Cruz refuses to play nice with GOP campaign arm — GOP hopes of corralling Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) during the 2014 primary season are officially dead. — The defiant Republican's brutal criticism of Sen. Thad Cochran's (R-Miss.) reelection campaign on Tuesday …
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Cameron Joseph / The Hill:
Cochran gets lost on way to Senate lunch — Sen. Thad Cochran (R-Miss.) is back with his colleagues in Washington, D.C., after winning his hard-fought primary runoff — but he had a bit of trouble finding Senate Republicans' weekly luncheon on Tuesday. — Cochran, while talking with The Hill …
Ed O'Keefe / Washington Post:
Gay rights groups withdraw support of ENDA after Hobby Lobby decision — Several major gay rights groups withdrew support Tuesday for the Employment Non-Discrimination Act that would bolster gay and transgender rights in the workplace, saying they fear that broad religious exemptions included …
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Left frets on Ginsburg's next steps — Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg might be a hero of the left, but liberals are beginning to question whether it's time for her to go. — Their rationale is that the court's oldest member, who at 81 has battled colon and pancreatic cancer …
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New York Times:
Faith Groups Seek Exclusion From Bias Rule
Faith Groups Seek Exclusion From Bias Rule
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Sahil Kapur / Talking Points Memo:
Senate Dems Ready To Unveil Bill Reversing Hobby Lobby Ruling
Senate Dems Ready To Unveil Bill Reversing Hobby Lobby Ruling
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National Review
Rea Carey / Advocate:
Op-ed: Why One of the Biggest LGBT Orgs Has Stopped Supporting ENDA
Op-ed: Why One of the Biggest LGBT Orgs Has Stopped Supporting ENDA
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Metro Weekly, ThinkProgress and Daily Kos
The Intercept:
Meet the Muslim-American Leaders the FBI and NSA Have Been Spying On — The National Security Agency and FBI have covertly monitored the emails of prominent Muslim-Americans—including a political candidate and several civil rights activists, academics, and lawyers—under secretive procedures intended …
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Paul Begala / CNN:
What's behind Boehner's nutty lawsuit threat — John Boehner's political career … (CNN) — House Speaker John Boehner's threatened lawsuit against President Obama has elicited scorn from the right and blistering attacks from the left. So why is Boehner pursuing it?
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Byron Tau / Politico:
Why the GOP is holding its convention early
Why the GOP is holding its convention early
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Washington Times, American Thinker, Washington Post and Balloon Juice
Billy House / NationalJournal.com:
The Boehner Lawsuit Against Obama Is Beginning to Take Shape
The Boehner Lawsuit Against Obama Is Beginning to Take Shape
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Washington Examiner, No More Mister Nice Blog and Booman Tribune
Patrick Howley / The Daily Caller:
Rick Perry Admirably Refuses To Shake Obama's Hand At Airport
Rick Perry Admirably Refuses To Shake Obama's Hand At Airport
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Politico and Power Line
Erica Ritz / TheBlaze.com:
‘We Must Open Our Hearts’: Glenn Beck Announces Major Border Event in Texas — Glenn Beck on Tuesday announced that he will be bringing tractor-trailers full of food, water, teddy bears and soccer balls to McAllen, Texas on July 19 as a way to help care for some of the roughly 60,000 underage refugees …
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Darlena Cunha / Washington Post:
This is what happened when I drove my Mercedes to pick up food stamps — Sara Bareilles played softly through the surround-sound speakers of my husband's 2003 Mercedes Kompressor as I sat idling at a light. I'd never been to this church before, but I could see it from where I was …
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Ravi Somaiya / New York Times:
The New Yorker Alters Its Online Strategy — The New Yorker is overhauling its website and making all the articles it has published since 2007 available free for three months before introducing a paywall for online subscribers. — Beginning July 21, the magazine's new and archived articles …
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Melanie Eversley / USA Today:
Obama shakes hands with supporter wearing horse head — One task that world leaders must perform and perform well is that of handling situations without blinking an eye or missing a beat. — President Obama's ability to do this might have been tested Tuesday night as he greeted people …
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Fox News and National Review
John Hinderaker / Power Line:
A Window Opens Onto the Left-Wing Conspiracy — The Democracy Alliance is not a famous organization, but it deserves to be. The Alliance consists of approximately 100 rich liberals who have taken upon themselves the task of coordinating America's many left-wing organizations to promote a single radical agenda.
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Washington Free Beacon
Alec MacGillis / The New Republic:
The Border Crisis Is Not “Obama's Katrina.” Not Even Close. — Rarely have we been presented with a policy problem as complex as the crisis unfolding on the U.S.-Mexico border in South Texas, where thousands of women and children, including many unaccompanied minors, have been making …
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Raphael Ahren / The Times of Israel:
Top Obama official blasts Israel for denying Palestinians sovereignty, security, dignity — 'How can Israel have peace if it's unwilling to delineate a border, end the occupation?' asks Obama's Mideast chief, Phillip Gordon, in blistering Tel Aviv speech — Israel's ongoing occupation …
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Power Line, Truth Revolt, The Right Scoop, Washington Free Beacon and Haaretz
Jonathan Topaz / Politico:
The Bear meets a horse — The bear was on the loose on Tuesday evening — this time in Colorado. — President Barack Obama greeted supporters on a walk following dinner in downtown Denver, a night that resulted in shaking hands with a man in a horse mask, and shooting pool and drinking beers during …
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Outside the Beltway
Katie Pavlich / Townhall.com:
Violent MS-13 Gang Members Leave Graffiti on Bathroom Walls of Nogales Border Patrol Processing Center — 4.6K — SHARES — An internal Border Patrol executive summary obtained by Townhall confirms that at least 16 unaccompanied illegal minors (those under the age of 18 …
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Amanda Terkel / The Huffington Post:
GOP Senate Candidate Joni Ernst Floated Obama Impeachment — WASHINGTON — Iowa GOP Senate candidate Joni Ernst floated the idea of impeaching President Barack Obama in January, calling him a “dictator” and arguing he was “overstepping his bounds” by using executive authority to enact parts of his agenda without Congress' cooperation.
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Meredith Shiner / Yahoo! News:
Joni Ernst: ‘Impeachment’ of Obama should be on the table Yahoo News 29 mins ago
Joni Ernst: ‘Impeachment’ of Obama should be on the table Yahoo News 29 mins ago
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