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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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The Moderate Voice, Hot Air and Taylor Marsh
NY Daily News:
NYPD Officer Brian Moore, 25, shot in face in Queens; suspect is ex-con and cousin of former Giants player Kory Blackwell — A plainclothes city cop was shot in the face in Queens Saturday when the ex-con cousin of a former New York Giant opened fire into his unmarked patrol car, authorities said.
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Ben Schreckinger / Politico:
Martin O'Malley: Baltimore unrest a ‘heartbreaking setback’ — Former Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley said on Sunday the unrest in Baltimore has boosted his motivation to address economic marginalization and that it would be a central theme of his expected Democratic presidential campaign.
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Bloomberg Business and The Week
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Ben Schreckinger / Politico:
John Boehner sees a national policing crisis
John Boehner sees a national policing crisis
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Bloomberg View and The Week
Ben Schreckinger / Politico:
John Kasich on a 2016 bid: 'I don't really do odds'
John Kasich on a 2016 bid: 'I don't really do odds'
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Bloomberg Business
Walter Russell Mead / The American Interest:
Media Gives President a Pass Again — The media has by and large give President Obama's failed Afghanistan policy a pass—just as they have his larger foreign policy missteps. — Once again, be very glad we don't have a Republican president right now. If we did, we would be treated …
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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Daily Kos
Justin George / Baltimore Sun:
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Business Insider, The Daily Caller, Mediaite, Washington Post and John Hawkins' Right Wing News
Ben Schreckinger / Politico:
Bernie Sanders: 'Don't underestimate me' — Citing a history of surprising victories, Bernie Sanders said on Sunday the political world shouldn't discount his chances of winning the presidency. — “Don't underestimate me,” the Vermont senator said on ABC's “This Week.”
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ABC News, The Huffington Post, Bloomberg Business and The Week
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 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 …
Brendan O'Neill / Reason:
Meet the Vagina Voters — The women voting for Hillary because she's a woman are setting feminism back a hundred years. — “I intend to vote with my vagina.” — Have you ever read a more squirm-inducing sentence than that? It appeared in a pro-Hillary piece in Dame magazine …
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protein wisdom, Hit & Run and The PJ Tatler
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.
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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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Common Dreams, Middle East Eye and Fox News