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Richard Wolf / Associated Press:
Supreme Court blocks Wisconsin's voter ID law — WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Thursday night blocked Wisconsin from implementing its new voter identification law on the eve of next month's elections. — In a related action, a district court judge in Texas ruled that state's voter ID law …
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Ryan J. Reilly / The Huffington Post:
Federal Court Blocks Texas Voter ID Law, Calling It A ‘Poll Tax’ — WASHINGTON — A federal judge in Texas struck down the state's voter ID law on Thursday, calling the measure an “unconstitutional poll tax” that creates “an unconstitutional burden on the right to vote” …
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Feeds, The Nation and ThinkProgress
Will Weissert / Associated Press:
Texas Voter ID Law Blocked by Federal Judge — A federal judge on Thursday blocked Texas from enforcing voter ID requirements just weeks ahead of the November elections, knocking down a law that the U.S. Justice Department condemned in court as the state's latest means of suppressing minority turnout.
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The Moderate Voice
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Courts Strike Down Voter ID Laws in Wisconsin and Texas — WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Thursday evening stopped officials in Wisconsin from requiring voters there to provide photo identification before casting their ballots in the coming election. — Three of the court's …
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Balloon Juice and Democratic Strategist
Ahiza Garcia / Talking Points Memo:
READ: Anchorage Police Release Report For Palin Family Brawl — Police in Anchorage, Alaska announced on Thursday there are no plans to press charges over the brawl that reportedly involved several members of former GOP vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin's family.
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Anchorage Daily News:
Anchorage police: No charges in Palin birthday brawl — Prosecutors won't proceed with charges in a brawl that involved several members of the Palin family, Anchorage police said Thursday. — The news comes as Anchorage police released a report Thursday morning outlining witness statements in the fight.
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The Daily Caller, Mediaite and Raw Story
Matt Higgins / CBS DC:
CDC Director: We Have To Work Now So Ebola 'Is Not The World's Next AIDS' — WASHINGTON (CBSDC/AP) — The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention told a top-level forum in Washington, D.C., that the Ebola outbreak is unlike anything he's seen since the AIDS epidemic.
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American Thinker, Rush Limbaugh and The Gateway Pundit
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Philip Klein / Washington Examiner:
HHS secretary: There may be other cases of Ebola in the U.S.
HHS secretary: There may be other cases of Ebola in the U.S.
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The PJ Tatler and National Review
Jonathan Cohn / The New Republic:
Stop Freaking Out About America's Single Ebola Death, and Start Worrying About West Africa
Stop Freaking Out About America's Single Ebola Death, and Start Worrying About West Africa
Phil Helsel / NBC News:
Americans Want Flights Banned From Ebola Countries
Americans Want Flights Banned From Ebola Countries
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Los Angeles Times, Hot Air, Bloomberg View, Mediaite, Washington's Blog and Mashable
Sabrina Tavernise / New York Times:
Newly Vigilant, U.S. Will Screen Fliers for Ebola
Newly Vigilant, U.S. Will Screen Fliers for Ebola
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The Moderate Voice and National Review
Tina Nguyen / Mediaite:
NYPD Breaks Reporter's Camera for Interviewing Students — NY1 recently filmed a segment about police officers hustling black and Latino students out of the predominantly-white neighborhoods where they attend school. In a thing that should no longer surprise you, they ran into trouble …
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FOX News Radio
Miranda Blue / Right Wing Watch:
Phyllis Schlafly: Obama Intentionally Bringing In Ebola To Make America More Like Africa — In an interview with WorldNetDaily published today, Eagle Forum founder Phyllis Schlafly weighed in on the unfounded theory gaining traction in the right-wing media that Central American young people …
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WND, Mediaite, The Daily Banter, FOX News Radio and CANNONFIRE
Tina Nguyen / Mediaite:
Justice Kennedy's Typo Accidentally Stops Same-Sex Marriage in Nevada — Yesterday, Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy stunned America when he ordered a halt on Nevada's same-sex marriages, less than a day after the Court voted to overturn a ban on gay marriages in that state.
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PoliticusUSA, ThinkProgress, Associated Press, FOX News Radio and The New Civil Rights Movement
Dylan Stableford / Yahoo! News:
Rights group asks for probe into shooting range that refuses to cater to Muslims — Yahoo News 18 hrs ago — A Muslim civil rights group is asking the Department of Justice to investigate an Arkansas shooting range whose owner recently declared it a “Muslim-free zone.”
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Raw Story and Patterico's Pontifications
Associated Press:
‘Why do I have to be half-naked to swim?’ Muslim woman barred from swimming in public pool with her children while wearing shirt, pants and dress — Saba Ali said she was barred from swimming at recreation center in Commerce City, Colorado on Sunday — A distressed Mrs Ali asked: 'Why do I have to be half-naked to swim?
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Opposing Views, The Daily Caller, FOX News Radio and Daily Surge
Jake Tapper / CNN:
Senate math seems impossible to some Democrats — Washington (CNN) — Four weeks away from the 2014 midterm elections and even some Democratic operatives struggle to imagine a scenario where they retain control of the U.S. Senate. The terrain and current momentum seem all but overwhelming and against them.
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Power Line, Liberal Values, National Review, Washington Post, Hot Air and Wall Street Journal
Ed Payne / CNN:
Police: Off-duty St. Louis officer shoots, kills man who fired at him — (CNN) — An off-duty St. Louis police officer shot and killed an 18-year-old Wednesday, firing his gun 17 times, authorities said. — Angry residents damaged several police cars in response, even though police say the man fired first.
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