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Vanity Fair:
Introducing Caitlyn Jenner — See Vanity Fair's July 2015 cover. Shot by Annie Leibovitz, the cover features the first photo of Caitlyn Jenner, formerly known as Bruce. — Meet Caitlyn Jenner, Vanity Fair's July cover star. Pulitzer Prize-winning contributing editor and author …
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Judd Legum / ThinkProgress:
Fox News Repeatedly Mocks And Misgenders Caitlyn Jenner — A segment on Fox Business' Cavuto repeatedly mocked Caitlyn Jenner, who debuted her new identity Monday on the cover of Vanity Fair, and misidentified her with male pronouns. — Neil Cavuto introduced the segment by asking in an exaggerated voice …
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Politico:
GOP hits another roadblock on Obamacare repeal — After winning both chambers of Congress, they thought they could get a repeal bill to the president's desk. It's turning out to be more complicated than that. — Yislaine Diaz sits with Amaury Garcia an insurance agent from Sunshine Life …
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Juan Williams / The Hill:
Supreme Court risks healthcare chaos — “This Congress, your honor?” — That snappy one-liner got a rare laugh from the packed crowd at the Supreme Court back in March. — Justice Antonin Scalia had asked Solicitor General Donald Verilli if there was any chance Congress could put aside politics …
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Ariane de Vogue / CNN:
SCOTUS rules in favor of man convicted of posting threatening messages on Facebook
SCOTUS rules in favor of man convicted of posting threatening messages on Facebook
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Marianne LeVine / Politico:
Supreme Court rules against Abercrombie in hijab case
Supreme Court rules against Abercrombie in hijab case
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Julian Zelizer / CNN:
Obamacare ruling a time bomb for Democrats?
Lawrence Hurley / Reuters:
U.S. Supreme Court rules for Muslim woman denied job at clothing store
U.S. Supreme Court rules for Muslim woman denied job at clothing store
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Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Supreme Court throws out conviction for violent Facebook postings
Supreme Court throws out conviction for violent Facebook postings
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Lydia Wheeler / The Hill:
Court sides with Muslim woman in workplace discrimination case
Court sides with Muslim woman in workplace discrimination case
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Jose A. DelReal / Washington Post:
Lindsey Graham has a plan to win the GOP nomination. If it works, it'd be a first. — As a native South Carolinian, GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham's candidacy could shake up that early-voting state's primary. — But that's not the same thing as shaking up the presidential race.
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Katie Glueck / Politico:
Lindsey Graham, in announcing White House run, gets personal
Lindsey Graham, in announcing White House run, gets personal
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Sean Sullivan / Washington Post:
Lindsey Graham launches presidential campaign
Lindsey Graham launches presidential campaign
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Alan Rappeport / New York Times:
Lindsey Graham Announces Presidential Bid
Lindsey Graham Announces Presidential Bid
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Jonathan Heaf / GQ:
True Detective's Vince Vaughn covers British GQ — Forget the Frat Pack's fast-talking “so money” man: instead, he's America's plain-speaking superstar. From calling time on the “assembly-line comedies” to his career-redefining role in TV's darker-than-noir detective thriller, True Detective …
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Andrew Dugan / Gallup:
Once Taboo, Some Behaviors Now More Acceptable in U.S. — Story Highlights — WASHINGTON, D.C. — While a select few actions remain deeply taboo for much of the country, there has been an increasing shift to moral acceptability for some of these over time.
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Politico:
GOP senators tear into Rand Paul — One fellow Republican accuses him of ‘lying’ about government surveillance to get more campaign donations. — Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) and U.S. Sen. Dan Coats (R-IN) are pictured. Getty — The Rand Paul pile-on session began a few hours before sunset Sunday evening.
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Tierney Sneed / Talking Points Memo:
Meet The Man Pushing SCOTUS For A Monumental Change To Voting Laws — Edward Blum has been trying to take down “one person, one vote” — a tenet of modern voting rights law — since 1997. Last week brought him his biggest breakthrough yet, with the Supreme Court surprising many election law experts …
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ABC News:
EXCLUSIVE: Undercover DHS Tests Find Security Failures at US Airports … An internal investigation of the Transportation Security Administration revealed security failures at dozens of the nation's busiest airports, where undercover investigators were able to smuggle mock explosives …
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Dylan StablefordSenior / Yahoo Politics:
Bernie Sanders on Hillary Clinton: ‘Would she be interested in being my vice president?’ — Bernie Sanders says he isn't running for president to push Hillary Clinton further to the left nor to become a candidate for vice president on a potential Clinton ticket. — “No,” Sanders told Yahoo News' Katie Couric on Monday.
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Dylan StablefordSenior / Yahoo Politics:
LIVE: Bernie Sanders talks to Katie Couric
LIVE: Bernie Sanders talks to Katie Couric
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Josh Hafner / Des Moines Register:
Trump: I won't do straw poll if everyone backs out — Donald Trump, the reality TV star, businessman and serial flirter with presidential campaigns, recently announced that he'll declare his 2016 ambitions on June 16 in New York City. — Before he heads to Iowa this week with visits …
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Elizabeth Harrington / Washington Free Beacon:
Justice Department Studying ‘Far-Right’ Social Media Use — The Department of Justice is concentrating on “far-right” groups in a new study of social media usage aimed at combatting violent extremism. — The Justice Department's National Institute of Justice (NIJ) awarded Michigan State University $585,719 …
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Journalism.org:
Millennials and Political News — Social Media - the Local TV for the Next Generation? — When it comes to where younger Americans get news about politics and government, social media look to be the local TV of the Millennial generation. About six-in-ten online Millennials (61%) …
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Patrick O'Connor / Wall Street Journal:
Dick Cheney Ramping Up New Policy Push — Former vice president to release book and mount lobbying campaign that is likely to play into 2016 presidential election — CASPER, Wyo.—Few people noticed the 74-year-old in the tan Stetson at a high-school rodeo here. Dick Cheney was happy to blend in.
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Garth Kant / WND:
WHY AMERICA IS MOVING LEFT — Trio of powerful conservative women explain reversible trend — Garth Kant is WND Washington news editor. Previously, he spent five years writing, copy-editing and producing at “CNN Headline News,” three years writing, copy-editing and training writers at MSNBC …
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Aaron Klein / WND:
HILLARY'S TOP AIDE WITH TERROR TIES SAW ALL EMAILS — Exposed to highly sensitive information regarding Benghazi — Aaron Klein is WND's senior staff writer and Jerusalem bureau chief. He also hosts “Aaron Klein Investigative Radio” on Salem Talk Radio. Follow Aaron on Twitter and Facebook.
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Hastert judge also donated to his campaigns — The donations could fuel questions about the judge's impartiality in the case. — The federal judge assigned to preside over the criminal case against former House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) donated at least twice to Hastert's congressional campaigns …
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Peter Sullivan / The Hill:
Judge digs deeper into House GOP's lawsuit against Obama — A federal judge who is hearing a lawsuit from House Republicans against President Obama is requesting more information about a funding dispute at the center of the case. — The House argues the president overstepped his executive authority …
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Meghan Keneally / ABC News:
What We Know About the Dennis Hastert Scandal … New details about an alleged hush money scandal involving former Republican Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert have been trickling out over the weekend. — Now, sources say, two male students who knew Hastert, 73, when he was a high school teacher …
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