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Grant Hermes / Heavy.com:
Cossacks Motorcycle Club: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know — Cossacks Motorcycle Club logo. — Members of the Cossacks Motorcycle Club were among five gangs involved in a violent brawl and shootout outside a Waco, Texas restaurant that left at least 9 dead and 18 wounded.
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Olivia Messer / Waco Tribune-Herald:
UPDATES: Police believe five motorcyle gangs involved in deadly Twin Peaks shootout — UPDATE, 7:45 p.m.: Police now believe there were five gangs involved in Sunday's deadly shootout at Twin Peaks in Central Texas Marketplace, and some were allied with one another.
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Dallas Morning News:
9 bikers killed in rival gang shootout outside Waco restaurant — WACO — A shootout among rival motorcycle gangs at a crowded Waco restaurant Sunday afternoon killed nine bikers and injured at least 18, police said. — No bystanders were injured in what police said was the culmination …
New York Times:
9 Are Killed in Biker Gang Shootout in Waco
9 Are Killed in Biker Gang Shootout in Waco
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Sarah Kaplan / Washington Post:
Dean Potter, extreme climber, dies in Yosemite base jumping accident — Yet again, Dean Potter was hurtling through the air. A dead tree stood on the ground below him, a strange tug at the space between his shoulders came from above. — Potter, already a famous rock climber, had been having this dream night after night.
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Grayson Schaffer / Outside Online:
Dean Potter Killed in BASE-Jumping Accident — The climbing great died Saturday while attempting a wingsuit flight from Yosemite's Taft Point — On Saturday evening, May 16, BASE jumpers Dean Potter and Graham Hunt died after attempting a wingsuit flight from Taft Point …
Andrew Bisharat / Beyond the Edge:
Pioneering Climber Dean Potter Killed in Wingsuit BASE Jumping Accident
Pioneering Climber Dean Potter Killed in Wingsuit BASE Jumping Accident
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Washington's new odd couple: McConnell and Obama — Washington's new odd couple is President Obama and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. — The longtime adversaries — McConnell memorably said his top priority was to make Obama a one-term president — are suddenly cooperating …
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The Note: Trouble In Mason City, Feat. Hillary Clinton and Rick Santorum
The Note: Trouble In Mason City, Feat. Hillary Clinton and Rick Santorum
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Reid J. Epstein / Wall Street Journal:
Jeb Bush's GOP Rivals Keep Him Front and Center
Jeb Bush's GOP Rivals Keep Him Front and Center
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Eli Stokols / Politico:
Bush insists he's not writing off Iowa
Bush insists he's not writing off Iowa
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Ed O'Keefe / Washington Post:
Jeb Bush: No constitutional right to same-sex marriage
Jeb Bush: No constitutional right to same-sex marriage
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Daniel J. McGraw / Politico:
The GOP is dying off. Literally. — Lead image by Getty. — It turns out that one of the Grand Old Party's biggest—and least discussed—challenges going into 2016 is lying in plain sight, written right into the party's own nickname. The Republican Party voter is old—and getting older …
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Stan Greenberg / Politico:
Right-wing wins come at too high a price
Right-wing wins come at too high a price
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Lloyd Grove / The Daily Beast:
ABC Colleague: George Stephanopoulos 'Really Isn't a Journalist' — If ABC's chief anchor thought two apologies over his undeclared Clinton Foundation donations would be enough to pacify his critics, he was wrong. — It has been a rough weekend for ABC News's embattled chief anchor, George Stephanopoulos, and an even worse Sunday.
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John Fund / National Review:
Stephanopoulos's Long, Long Record of Loyal Service to the Clintons
Stephanopoulos's Long, Long Record of Loyal Service to the Clintons
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ABC News:
Exclusive Interview: Elian Gonzalez Wants to Come to the US … Elian Gonzalez would like to return to the United States, he tells ABC News in an exclusive interview. — “To the American people, first I say thank you for the love they give me,” Gonzalez said. “I want the time to give my love to American people.”
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Julie Hirschfeld Davis / New York Times:
Obama to Limit Military-Style Equipment for Police Forces — WASHINGTON — President Obama on Monday will ban the federal provision of some types of military-style equipment to local police departments and sharply restrict the availability of others, administration officials said …
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Rebecca Kaplan / CBS News:
Lindsey Graham: “I'm running” because the world is falling apart — Shares - — Sen. Lindsey Graham says he won't announce his plans for the 2016 election until June 1, but there's very little ambiguity about what those plans will be. — “I'm running because I think the world is falling apart.
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Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) to announce 2016 presidential decision June 1
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) to announce 2016 presidential decision June 1
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Alexandra Jaffe / CNN:
Lindsey Graham: June 1 presidential announcement
Lindsey Graham: June 1 presidential announcement
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Jonathan Topaz / Politico:
Bobby Jindal forming exploratory committee for White House run — Bobby Jindal announced Monday that he's forming a presidential exploratory committee for a potential run for the 2016 Republican nomination. — The Louisiana governor, a fierce social conservative who has been active …
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Tyler Durden / Zero Hedge:
Shape Of Greek Endgame Emerges: IMF Discussed “Cyprus-Like” Plan After Tsipras Warned Of Looming Default — As we said over the weekend, it's all about Riga again for Greece. EU leaders will meet on Thursday and Friday in Latvia where PM Alexis Tsipras will try to secure a more favorable outcome …
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Glenn Harlan Reynolds / USA Today:
Democrats sic identity politics on their own — The left has handicapped its ability to debate policy, even among themselves. — They told me if I voted for Mitt Romney, we'd have a condescending president who looked down on his female critics as “little ladies” who didn't understand how the world works.