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Associated Press:
GOP Prospects in Iowa Agree to Get Tough With Terrorists — Republicans wooing Iowa's most active party members called Saturday for a stronger presence in the world but ran the gamut in tone and just how tough to get with America's enemies. — On Armed Services Day …
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David McCabe / The Hill:
George W. Bush defends religious liberty — Former President George W. Bush offered a defense of religious liberty and faith more broadly while speaking at Southern Methodist University's (SMU) commencement ceremony Saturday. — He spent some of his speech talking about why graduates …
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New York Times:
ISIS Official Killed in U.S. Raid in Syria, Pentagon Says — WASHINGTON — American Special Operations forces mounted a rare raid into eastern Syria early Saturday, killing a leader of the Islamic State and about a dozen militant fighters, as well as capturing his wife and freeing …
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CNN:
Story highlights — (CNN)U.S. Special Operations forces killed …
Story highlights — (CNN)U.S. Special Operations forces killed …
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Sarah El Deeb / Associated Press:
US COMMANDOS KILL SENIOR IS COMMANDER IN SYRIA RAID
US COMMANDOS KILL SENIOR IS COMMANDER IN SYRIA RAID
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Jim Messina / Politico:
What My British Win Taught Me About 2016 — My British experience—including advice from Mick Jagger—taught me that the Republican Party could end up like Ed Miliband. — Lead image by Getty. — One of the savviest political observers I've come across is Mick Jagger.
New York Times:
Housing Apartheid, American Style — The riots that erupted in Baltimore last month were reminiscent of those that consumed cities all over the country during the 1960s. This rage and unrest was thoroughly explained five decades ago by President Lyndon Johnson's National Advisory Commission …
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Katie Pavlich / Townhall.com:
Peter Schweizer: ABC Should Redo Our Interview After Stephanopolous Admitted to Clinton Donations — In case you missed it yesterday, ABC News chief anchor and former Clinton White House communication advisor George Stephanopoulos admitted to donating $75,000 dollars to the Clinton Foundation …
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Jonathan Allen / Vox:
Hillary Clinton personally took money from companies that sought to influence her — Almost a decade ago, as Hillary Clinton ran for re-election to the Senate on her way to seeking the presidency for the first time, the New York Times reported on her unusually close relationship with Corning, Inc., an upstate glass titan.
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New York Times:
Death Sentence for Boston Bomber, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Unsettles City He Tore Apart — BOSTON — The finish line of the Boston Marathon is a landmark here, a blue and yellow slash across Boylston Street that for more than a century has represented pride and achievement for those who stagger across …
BBC:
Mohammed Morsi, Egypt's ex-leader, sentenced to death — Morsi has rejected the authority of the courts — An Egyptian court has pronounced death sentences on ousted president Mohammed Morsi and more than 100 other people over a mass prison break in 2011.
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Benjamin Elgin / Bloomberg Business:
Oil CEO Wanted University Quake Scientists Dismissed: Dean's E-Mail — The billionaire CEO of Continental Resources told a dean at the University of Oklahoma that he wanted earthquake researchers dismissed — Oil tycoon Harold Hamm told a University of Oklahoma dean last year …
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Helena Bottemiller Evich / Politico:
Food industry braces for Obama trans fat ban — The FDA is expected to move toward eliminating an ingredient seen as a health risk. — The Obama administration is expected to all but ban trans fat in a final ruling that could drop as soon as next week, killing most uses of an ingredient …
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Nicole Winfield / Associated Press:
POPE CALLS PALESTINIAN LEADER “ANGEL OF PEACE” DURING VISIT — VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis praised Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas as an “angel of peace” during a meeting Saturday at the Vatican that underscored the Holy See's warm relations with the Palestinians as it prepares …
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