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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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Washington Monthly, The Moderate Voice and RedState
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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Fort Smith/Fayetteville News:
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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Talking Points Memo, Hinterland Gazette, Arkansas Blog, Arkansas Times, Friendly Atheist and Raw Story
Myles Ma / New Jersey Online:
Famed ‘A Beautiful Mind’ mathematician John Nash, wife killed in taxi crash, police say — File photo: Nobel Prize winning mathematician John Nash (right) and his wife Alicia sit on a coach inside their inside their home in 2009. Nash, a senior research mathematician at Princeton University …
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Erica Goode / New York Times:
John F. Nash Jr., Mathematician Whose Life Story Inspired ‘A Beautiful Mind,’ Dies at 86
John F. Nash Jr., Mathematician Whose Life Story Inspired ‘A Beautiful Mind,’ Dies at 86
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The Atlantic, Washington Post and Outside the Beltway
BBC:
‘Beautiful Mind’ mathematician John Nash killed in crash
‘Beautiful Mind’ mathematician John Nash killed in crash
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Engadget, ABC, CBS New York, Mediaite and EconLog
Hartford Courant:
Pastor Shot Outside Hartford Church — HARTFORD —The Rev. Dr. Augustus Sealy, who leads the First Church of the Nazarene on Capitol Avenue, was injured at about 6:30 a.m. Sunday in a drive-by shooting, police said. — Sealy, 54, was planting small flags in the church's lawn at 932 Capitol Ave. in honor of Memorial Day.
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Liberaland and Hinterland Gazette
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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CNN and Washington Monthly
Jay Korff / WJLA-TV:
Capitol Police bomb squad blows up pressure cooker from ?suspicious? car near Capitol, Memorial Day Concert — WASHINGTON (AP) - A bomb squad safely destroyed a pressure cooker found in an unattended vehicle parked on the National Mall near the U.S. Capitol and the vehicle's owner was found and arrested …
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ABC News, CNN, Associated Press and The Week
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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Hullabaloo, Raw Story, The Huffington Post and Friendly Atheist
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Driving Uber Mad — WASHINGTON — ON a reporting expedition to Los Angeles recently, I realized I could stop renting cars. — I would never again have to brave the L.A. freeway behind the wheel. I would never have to obsess, like the characters in the “Saturday Night Live” skit …
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New York Magazine, Progress Pond and Brad DeLong's Grasping Reality
seattlepi.com:
Protesters target Oakland policy on street demonstrations — OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Police made arrests as demonstrators marched in downtown Oakland against the city's new get-tough policy for monitoring street protests — the second such gathering in as many days.
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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Vox Popoli and Whatever
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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