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Senator: Springdale Police Chief Should Be Fired Over Child Sex-Crime Report … SPRINGDALE (KFSM) - A state senator from Northwest Arkansas is calling for the Springdale police chief to be fired over the recent release of a 2006 police report detailing accusations that Josh Duggar as a teenager molested five underage girls.
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Stephanie McNeal / BuzzFeed:
A Homeschooling Program Promoted By The Duggars Has Troubling Advice On How To Handle Sexual Abuse — A homeschooling program promoted by the Duggar family has distributed documents in the past that offer troubling advice about how to handle sexual abuse in the home. — Via Facebook: duggarfamilyofficial
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Catherine Thompson / Talking Points Memo:
GOPer Wants Police Chief Who Released Duggar Offense Report To Be Fired — A Republican lawmaker on Saturday called for the termination of the police chief who released a 2006 offense report alleging that Josh Duggar, of TLC's “19 Kids and Counting,” molested five underage girls when he was a teenager.
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Los Angeles Times:
SPECIAL REPORT U.S. MILITARY AND CIVILIANS ARE INCREASINGLY DIVIDED — Jovano Graves' parents begged him not to join the Army right out of high school in 2003, when U.S. troops were fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan. — But their son refused his parents' pleas to try college.
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
The Big Meh — Remember Douglas Adams's 1979 novel “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”? It began with some technology snark, dismissing Earth as a planet whose life-forms “are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.”
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Bloomberg Business:
Charter Near Deal for Time Warner Cable at $195 a Share — Charter Communications Inc. is near an agreement to buy Time Warner Cable Inc. for about $55.1 billion in cash and stock, according to people familiar with the matter. — Charter will pay about $195 a share, with $100 in cash …
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Gabriella Morrongiello / Campus Reform:
Student vet with PTSD suspended, labeled ‘threat’ to peers after requesting to meet with non-Muslim counselor — Jeremy Rawls, a former active-duty Marine and senior at Mississippi College was recently suspended and labeled a threat to himself and other students after requesting to meet with a non-Muslim counselor.
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Nigel Farndale / Telegraph:
Art Garfunkel on Paul Simon: ‘I created a monster’ — Forty-five years after Simon & Garfunkel split up, the singer is still consumed with bitterness — I hear Art Garfunkel before I see him, singing to himself as he drifts across the hotel lobby in a blue T-shirt, heading for the lifts.
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Timothy P. Carney / Washington Examiner:
The 2016 political report: Walker emerges from Southern confab as GOP front-runner — OKLAHOMA CITY — The annual Southern Republican Leadership Conference provided a glimpse into the state of the Republican base and the presidential field. — The conference revealed a Republican base that is …
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John Schwartz / New York Times:
John Scalzi, Science Fiction Writer, Signs $3.4 Million Deal for 13 Books — John Scalzi, a best-selling author of science fiction, has signed a $3.4 million, 10-year deal with the publisher Tor Books that will cover his next 13 books. — Mr. Scalzi's works include a series known as the …
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Kurt Wagner / Re/code:
Twitter Suspends Troll Chuck Johnson — Are Its New Guidelines Actually Working? — Notorious Twitter troll Chuck Johnson was placed in time-out Sunday — at least temporarily — and it looks like the company's new policy on violent threats was the reason. — Twitter suspended Johnson …
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Nigel Duara / Los Angeles Times:
Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio asks public's help with legal fees — With his legal fees mounting and a trial turning increasingly personal, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio is turning to the public for money and the legal system for a new judge. — Arpaio said in a letter to supporters …
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BBC:
‘Beautiful Mind’ mathematician John Nash killed in crash — US mathematician John Nash, who inspired the Oscar-winning film A Beautiful Mind, has died in a car crash with his wife, police have said. — Nash, 86, and his 82-year-old wife Alicia were killed when their taxi crashed in New Jersey, they said.
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