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NYPD cop critically injured after being shot in the head — Scene of the shooting in Queens on 212 Street and 104 Avenue. — An NYPD cop was shot in the head and chest and critically wounded in Queens on Saturday. — The anti-crime officer worked out of the 105th Precinct in Queens Village …
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Police Officer Is Shot and Critically Wounded in Queens — A New York City police officer in plain clothes was shot in the face and critically wounded on Saturday in Queens after approaching a man on the street, officials said. — The officer, whose name was not immediately released …
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New York Times:
Christie's Camp Mobilizes to Salvage White House Hopes — Around 7:30 a.m., as an audience of technology executives started streaming through the ballroom doors of a Ritz-Carlton Hotel in suburban Virginia on Friday, Chris Christie's iPhone buzzed with the grim news he has awaited for 16 months.
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Kate Zernike / New York Times:
U.S. Indictment Details Plotting in New Jersey Bridge Scandal
U.S. Indictment Details Plotting in New Jersey Bridge Scandal
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Timothy Cama / The Hill:
GOP rep introduces bill to gut EPA — A House Republican wants to cut 13 programs at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), including all of its grants and its ability to regulate ground-level ozone and carbon dioxide. — Rep. Sam Johnson (R-Texas) introduced a bill …
Nicholas Kristof / New York Times:
‘Inequality Is a Choice’ — THE eruptions in Baltimore have been tied, in complex ways, to frustrations at American inequality, and a new measure of the economic gaps arrived earlier this year: — It turns out that the Wall Street bonus pool in 2014 was roughly twice the total annual earnings …
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Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Conservative Party's fortune is cautionary tale for GOP — LONDON — Five years ago, British Prime Minister David Cameron looked like a modern conservative ready to offer the Republican Party a model for the future. Today, four days before critical elections here, he is a politician fighting …
Timothy Egan / New York Times:
The End of California? — ANGELS CAMP, Calif. — IN a normal year, no one in California looks twice at a neighbor's lawn, that mane of bluegrass thriving in a sun-blasted desert. Or casts a scornful gaze at a fresh-planted almond grove, saplings that now stand accused of future water crimes.
Mark Hensch / The Hill:
Palin: Obama ‘flirting with the devil’ on Iran — Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin on Saturday urged Congress to stop President Obama's nuclear arms negotiations with Iran at any cost. — “We must realize Iranian leadership refuses to acknowledge Israel's right to exist, and …
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Rosie Gray / BuzzFeed:
Rick Santorum: “Love And Accept” Bruce Jenner — COLUMBIA, South Carolina — Former Senator Rick Santorum, a longtime culture warrior known for his conservative views on marriage equality and other social issues, said on Saturday than he believes Bruce Jenner when he says he's a woman.
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Yemen: Saudi-Led Airstrikes Used Cluster Munitions — US-Supplied Weapon Banned by 2008 Treaty — (Beirut) - Credible evidence indicates that the Saudi-led coalition used banned cluster munitions supplied by the United States in airstrikes against Houthi forces in Yemen, Human Rights Watch said today.
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Eric Lichtblau / New York Times:
F.E.C. Can't Curb 2016 Election Abuse, Commission Chief Says — WASHINGTON — The leader of the Federal Election Commission, the agency charged with regulating the way political money is raised and spent, says she has largely given up hope of reining in abuses in the 2016 presidential campaign …
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Josh Feldman / Mediaite:
Alan Dershowitz Rips Charges Against Baltimore Cops: ‘Sad Day for Justice’ — Alan Dershowitz really went after Baltimore State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby today for charging the six cops involved in the death of Freddie Gray, saying it was entirely based on politics and “crowd control.”