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New York Times:
South Carolina Officer Is Charged With Murder in Black Man's Death — WASHINGTON — A white police officer in North Charleston, S.C., was charged with murder on Tuesday after a video surfaced showing him shooting and killing an apparently unarmed black man in the back while he ran away.
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Andrew Knapp / Post and Courier:
North Charleston officer faces murder charge after video shows him shooting man in back — A North Charleston police officer was arrested on a murder charge Tuesday after video surfaced of the lawman shooting eight times at 50-year-old Walter Scott as he ran away.
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Judd Legum / ThinkProgress:
Everything The Police Said About Walter Scott's Death Before A Video Showed What Really Happened — CREDIT: Charleston County Police Department — On Tuesday, South Carolina police officer Michael Thomas Slager was charged with first-degree murder for the shooting death of Walter Scott.
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Post and Courier
CNN:
How the U.S. thinks Russians hacked the White House — Washington (CNN)Russian hackers behind the damaging cyber intrusion of the State Department in recent months used that perch to penetrate sensitive parts of the White House computer system, according to U.S. officials briefed on the investigation.
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Kate Andersen Brower / Politico:
The Secret Lives of Hillary and Bill in the White House — Broken lamps, shouting matches, sneaking away to the pool—and other scenes from the Clinton residence during the Lewinsky scandal. — Lead image by AP Photo. — White House Florist Ronn Payne remembers one day in 1998 …
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Hot Air, ABC News, Associated Press, Weekly Standard and Ed Driscoll
J. Michael Waller / Investor's Business Daily:
Hillary Clinton's Private Server A Foreign Spy Magnet — BY J. MICHAEL WALLER, FOR INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY — Hillary Clinton's private email server was a spy magnet for the Russian, Chinese, Iranian and other intelligence services, say current and former intelligence officials.
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The Gateway Pundit and Ed Driscoll
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
YouTube's copyright system has taken Rand Paul's presidential announcement offline — If you're looking for Rand Paul's presidential announcement on YouTube, bad news. As of writing, the video has been blocked by the video streaming site, thanks to a copyright claim from Warner Music Group, as Vox's Andrew Prokop spotted.
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McKay Coppins / BuzzFeed:
Black Pastor Who Spoke At Rand Paul's Rally: Obama Will “Evolve” From Christianity — “In five years we'll find out what [Obama's] real religion is.” — MICHAEL B. THOMAS / Getty — LOUISVILLE, Kentucky — One of the high points from Sen. Rand Paul's presidential campaign kickoff Tuesday came …
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Hot Air and Talking Points Memo
TIME:
Transcript: Read Full Text of Sen. Rand Paul's Campaign Launch
Transcript: Read Full Text of Sen. Rand Paul's Campaign Launch
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Washington Post, Daily Kos, Daily Signal and Common Dreams
Emily Atkin / ThinkProgress:
Don't Let Rand Paul Fool You On Climate Change
Don't Let Rand Paul Fool You On Climate Change
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Salon, BarbWire.com, Yahoo Politics and Hit & Run
New York Times:
Rand Paul Announces Presidential Run
Rand Paul Announces Presidential Run
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Ashley Killough / CNN:
Rand Paul: ‘I am running for president’
Rand Paul: ‘I am running for president’
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Lonnae O'Neal / Washington Post:
Book author Joan Walsh Anglund says of Angelou stamp: 'That's my quote' — A number of luminaries are expected at Tuesday morning's unveiling ceremony for the new stamp honoring the late author Maya Angelou, among them first lady Michelle Obama. An 89-year-old children's book author named Joan Walsh Anglund won't be there.
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Windy City / Bloomberg Business:
Emanuel Wins Second Term as Mayor of Fiscally Ravaged Chicago — Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel outdistanced a lesser-known challenger to win a second term and the daunting prize of steering the third-most-populous U.S. city away from financial collapse. — Emanuel, a former chief of staff …
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Alexandra Jaffe / CNN:
Battle for ‘future of Chicago’ decided in mayoral runoff Tuesday
Battle for ‘future of Chicago’ decided in mayoral runoff Tuesday
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Politico:
Obama holds private meeting with journalists on Iran — President Barack Obama held a private meeting with reporters and liberal columnists at the White House on Monday to discuss the administration's Iran policy, sources with knowledge of the meeting told the On Media blog.
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Domenico Montanaro / NPR:
Obama To Scott Walker: ‘Bone Up On Foreign Policy’
Obama To Scott Walker: ‘Bone Up On Foreign Policy’
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Brendan James / Talking Points Memo:
Chris Matthews Shames MSNBC For Airing ‘Goddamn’ Rightwing Ads (VIDEO) — MSNBC anchor Thomas Roberts ended up under friendly fire on Tuesday when his colleague Chris Matthews launched into a tirade against his own network for airing “goddamn” ads by rightwing groups.
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Raw Story
Brad Heath / USA Today:
U.S. secretly tracked billions of calls for decades — WASHINGTON — The U.S. government started keeping secret records of Americans' international telephone calls nearly a decade before the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, harvesting billions of calls in a program that provided a blueprint …
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Numbers / Pew Research Center:
A Deep Dive Into Party Affiliation — Sharp Differences by Race, Gender, Generation, Education — Democrats hold advantages in party identification among blacks, Asians, Hispanics, well-educated adults and Millennials. Republicans have leads among whites - particularly white men …
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CBS News, Hot Air and Washington Post
Orin Kerr / Washington Post:
Tribe considered “a traitor” for advocacy in climate change case — The New York Times has an interesting story about Harvard Law Professor Laurence Tribe's controversial work as a lawyer in an environmental case. Tribe represents Peabody Energy, a coal company, in an effort to stop …
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eenews.net and The Beacon
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Coral Davenport / New York Times:
Laurence Tribe Fights Climate Case Against Star Pupil From Harvard, President Obama
Laurence Tribe Fights Climate Case Against Star Pupil From Harvard, President Obama
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Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, Business Insider, Above the Law and Althouse
Seung Min Kim / Politico:
Sen. Harry Reid says he's ‘sightless’ in right eye — Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said he's now “sightless” in his right eye following a brutal exercise injury in January, in comments released Tuesday. — In an interview with Univision, Reid said he has undergone 11 hours …
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Political Wire and Hot Air
The White House:
FACT SHEET: Administration Announces Actions To Protect Communities From The Impacts Of Climate Change — President Obama is committed to combating the health impacts of climate change and protecting the health of future generations. We know climate change is not is not a distant threat …
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Mediaite, ThinkProgress, The Daily Caller and InsideClimate News
Scott Jaschik / Inside Higher Ed:
Check Before You Hit Send — Drexel University is investigating a law professor who thought she was sending her class a link to an article on writing legal briefs, but who actually sent a link to a pornography site's video of a woman using anal beads. — “Drexel has been made aware …
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The Daily Caller and New York Magazine
Sarah Ferris / The Hill:
Last-minute lobbying threatens $200B Medicare package — Lawmakers and lobbyists representing children's insurance advocates, seniors' healthcare providers and other specialty groups are pressing to amend a $200 billion Medicare package the Senate hopes to send to President Obama's desk next week.
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Daily Kos
Tampa Bay Times:
John Travolta happy with Scientology, won't see ‘Going Clear’ (w/video) — John Travolta said Monday he hasn't viewed the HBO documentary Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief, currently shining an accusatory light on his church. — “No, I haven't,” the star of Saturday Night Fever …
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The Daily Banter, The Huffington Post, Page Six and The Daily Caller
Dylan Byers / Politico:
Sean Hannity shows his influence — Something to keep in mind: When Ted Cruz announced that he was running for president two weeks ago, reporters weren't allowed to publish their interviews with the candidate until 10 p.m. ET, several hours after the Texas senator's announcement.
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The Hill
Associated Press:
NEW BOOK BY DICK CHENEY TAKES ON BARACK OBAMA — NEW YORK (AP) — The next book by former Vice President Dick Cheney is aimed directly at President Barack Obama. — Cheney's “Exceptional: Why the World Needs a Powerful America” will be published on Sept. 1 by Threshold Editions, the publisher announced Tuesday.
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FOX News Radio and John Hawkins' Right Wing News
David Edwards / Raw Story:
Tom DeLay: I have a ‘right’ to not serve gay sinners because they ‘undermine’ my religious liberty — DON'T MISS STORIES. FOLLOW RAW STORY! — Former House Speaker Tom DeLay (R-TX) blasted the governors of Indiana and Arkansas this week for changing religious liberty laws to prevent discrimination against LGBT people.
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