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Hillary Clinton to call for end to ‘mass incarceration’ — Hillary Rodham Clinton will call Wednesday morning for far-reaching reforms in the criminal justice system that would “end the era of mass incarceration,” according to a campaign aide. — In a speech at Columbia University in New York City …
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Guardian, Bloomberg Business, Progress Pond, Washington Monthly, Taylor Marsh and Talking Points Memo
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The Note: What The 2016ers Are Saying About Baltimore
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Associated Press, digital.vpr.net and Yahoo Politics


The Blue-City Model — Baltimore shows how progressivism has failed urban America.
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AMERICAN DIGEST and Instapundit

Clinton: ‘Baltimore is burning’
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ABC News, Hot Air, Mediaite and Weekly Standard

Clinton Urges U.S. to Confront Racial Justice Issues
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The Atlantic, Daily Kos, The Week and OnPolitics

Hillary Clinton calls for end to mass incarceration, reversing Bill Clinton legacy
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BuzzFeed, ThinkProgress and Guardian

Hillary Clinton's forgotten death penalty shift
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Washington Post and New York Times

Hillary Clinton To Call For ‘End To The Era Of Mass Incarceration’ In Major Speech
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Vox, Hit & Run, Common Dreams, Taylor Marsh, The Verge, Hot Air and Business Insider


‘We Will Not Obey’: Christian Leaders Threaten Civil Disobedience if Supreme Court Legalizes Gay Marriage — “We will not obey.” — That's the blunt warning a group of prominent religious leaders is sending to the Supreme Court of the United States as they consider same-sex marriage.
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Supreme Court: ‘Judges are not politicians’ when it comes to fundraising
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Justice Anthony Kennedy seems to see a nobility of purpose in gay marriage.
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The Progressive Pulse, Hullabaloo, The Atlantic and RH Reality Check

Majority of Republicans would attend a loved one's gay wedding: Reuters/Ipsos poll
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The Huffington Post, Washington Post and Hot Air


David Simon on Baltimore's Anguish — David Simon is Baltimore's best-known chronicler of life on the hard streets. He worked for The Baltimore Sun city desk for a dozen years, wrote “Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets” (1991) and with former homicide detective Ed Burns co-wrote …
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Baltimore mom who smacked son during riots: “I don't want him to be a Freddie Gray” — Shares - — The Baltimore mother caught on video repeatedly smacking her son after catching him throwing things at police during rioting in Baltimore told CBS News that she was only concerned about protecting him.
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Goodbye to Freddie Gray and Goodbye to Quietly Accepting Injustice
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U.S. economic growth slows to 0.2 percent, grinding nearly to a halt — The U.S. economy ground nearly to a halt in the first three months of the year, according to government data released Wednesday morning, as exports plunged and severe winter weather helped keep consumers indoors.
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U.S. Economic Growth Nearly Stalls Out
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State of the News Media 2015 — Call it a mobile majority. At the start of 2015, 39 of the top 50 digital news websites have more traffic to their sites and associated applications coming from mobile devices than from desktop computers, according to Pew Research Center's analysis of comScore data.
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Cable News: Fact Sheet
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61 Times Bill Kristol Was Reminded of Hitler and Churchill — Foreign-policy analysts hate this one weird historic example that explains every foreign-policy scenario. — Shares — Weekly Standard editor William Kristol, writing in opposition to the Iran deal recently, observed …
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Washington Monthly and Lawyers, Guns & Money


The Church of Lyin'tology … Eventually even very high-powered, very highly-paid and very public political con men like Mr. David Brooks of the New York Times start to run out of road. After enough years have passed, a career's worth of public bulls**t and bad faith start to roll downhill faster …
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New York Times and Progress Pond


Obama: ‘No excuse’ for violence in Baltimore — Washington (CNN)President Barack Obama on Tuesday condemned the “criminals and thugs who tore up” the city of Baltimore on Monday night, after rioting and looting paralyzed the city and overwhelmed local officials.
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Mashable and The Huffington Post
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Why Do We Expect Barack Obama to Fix Race Relations?
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U.S. Attacks in Afghanistan Go Beyond White House's Pledges — KABUL, Afghanistan — Months after President Obama formally declared that the United States' long war against the Taliban was over in Afghanistan, the American military is regularly conducting airstrikes against low-level insurgent forces …
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Outside the Beltway, Political Wire and The Week


Senators vote to block EPA's use of ‘secret science’ — A Senate committee voted Tuesday to prohibit the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from using ‘secret science’ to back its regulations. — The vote in the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee came after the GOP-controlled House repeatedly approved the bill.
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ThinkProgress, ucsusa.org/press/all, Hit & Run and The Daily Caller


Clinton Foundation Failed to Disclose 1,100 Foreign Donations — Hillary Clinton's presidential run is prompting new scrutiny of the Clintons' financial and charitable affairs—something that's already proved problematic for the Democratic frontrunner, given how closely these two worlds overlap.


Mother viciously beats woman over parking space at LI mall as husband, children watch — Warning: Video contains graphic language and violence. — VALLEY STREAM, Long Island (PIX11) — Police are looking for a mother who viciously beat a woman in a Long Island mall parking lot as her husband …
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Mom claims school did not let child finish lunch — Mom claims school did not let child finish lunch. 9NEWS at 9 p.m. 04/27/15. — CONNECT — AURORA - A mother in Aurora claims a teacher at her child's preschool, Children's Academy, refused to let the little girl eat part of her lunch, because it wasn't nutritious.
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New York's PIX11


Baltimore Is a Democrat Problem, Not America's Problem — Contrary to the emotional blackmail some leftists are attempting to peddle, Baltimore is not America's problem or shame. That failed city is solely and completely a Democrat problem. Like many failed cities, Detroit comes to mind …
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No More Mister Nice Blog, Guardian and Daily Kos


Thousands of new Lerner emails found — An inspector general investigating the IRS's improper scrutiny of Tea Party groups has found thousands of emails from Lois Lerner, the agency official at the center of that controversy, according to committees involved in the probe.
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