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David Mack / BuzzFeed:
Texas Police Officer Suspended After Pulling Weapon On Teens During Pool Party — A police officer in McKinney, Texas, has been suspended from duties after being filmed aggressively handcuffing, and then pulling a weapon on, a group of black teens following an “incident” at a local pool party on Friday night.
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Kim Bellware / The Huffington Post:
Cop Suspended After Video Emerges Of Brutal Arrests At Teen Pool Party — A Texas police officer has been suspended pending the outcome of an investigation after video surfaced showing one cop pulling a gun on a crowd of teens at a pool party while others handcuffed teenage partygoers.
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McKinney Police Department / Facebook:
Pool Party Incident: — On June 5, 2015 at approximately 7:15 p.m. …
Pool Party Incident: — On June 5, 2015 at approximately 7:15 p.m. …
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Jonathan Topaz / Politico:
Christie calls Clinton's voter law critique ‘ridiculous’ — New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie says Hillary Clinton's attack on state voter identification and registration laws is “ridiculous.” — “She doesn't know what she's talking about,” the Republican governor and likely presidential candidate …
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Rebecca Kaplan / CBS News:
Christie's last question on 2016: “Do I want to do it?” — Shares - — For Chris Christie, the final question on a potential 2016 bid is: “Do I want to do it?” — The New Jersey governor has said he'll decide whether to join the already-crowded field of candidates vying …
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ABC News:
‘This Week’ Transcript: Gov. Scott Walker
‘This Week’ Transcript: Gov. Scott Walker
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John Amato / Latest from Crooks and Liars:
Chris Wallace Smacks Rick Santorum On Flat Tax Myth That Helps The Rich — It's hard to try and pass yourself off as the true champion of the working class in America if your fiscal policies are pro-rich. And anyone who proposes the fraudulent flat tax scheme as a way to fix our economy is more charlatan than candidate.
Lee Siegel / New York Times:
Why I Defaulted on My Student Loans — ONE late summer afternoon when I was 17, I went with my mother to the local bank, a long-defunct institution whose name I cannot remember, to apply for my first student loan. My mother co-signed. When we finished, the banker, a balding man in his late 50s …
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Mark Fainaru-Wada / ESPN:
Documents reveal new details about Hope Solo's actions last June — As Hope Solo prepares for her third World Cup, Mark Fainaru-Wada examines the tumultuous year she's had away from the game.
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Jordyn Phelps / ABC News:
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker Wouldn't Rule Out Re-Invasion of Iraq … Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker says he wouldn't rule out a full-blown re-invasion of Iraq if he were to become the next commander-in-chief. — The likely Republican presidential candidate and early frontrunner in several polls …
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Sahil Kapur / Bloomberg Business:
Scott Walker Won't Rule Out Another Iraq Invasion
Scott Walker Won't Rule Out Another Iraq Invasion
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Elinor Burkett / New York Times:
What Makes a Woman? — Do women and men have different brains? — Back when Lawrence H. Summers was president of Harvard and suggested that they did, the reaction was swift and merciless. Pundits branded him sexist. Faculty members deemed him a troglodyte. Alumni withheld donations.
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Eric Bradner / CNN:
Lindsey Graham's GOP tent is big enough for Caitlyn Jenner
Lindsey Graham's GOP tent is big enough for Caitlyn Jenner
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Janet Adamy / Wall Street Journal:
Liberals Make Big Comeback in 2015, Poll Analysis Finds — There are signs that liberals are making a comeback — and not just because a socialist is running for president, gay marriage is spreading like wildfire and pot legalization is gaining acceptance. — A new analysis of Wall Street …
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Common Dreams
New York Times:
Hillary Clinton Traces Friendly Path, Troubling Party — WASHINGTON — Hillary Rodham Clinton appears to be dispensing with the nationwide electoral strategy that won her husband two terms in the White House and brought white working-class voters and great stretches of what is now red-state America back to Democrats.
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New York Times:
Search Continues for 2 Killers Who Escaped New York Prison — DANNEMORA, N.Y. — The State Police and other law enforcement agencies were continuing on Sunday to hunt for two fugitive murderers in the wilderness and rural communities of northern New York, a day after the two men escaped from the maximum-security state prison here.
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Milo Yiannopoulos / BREITBART.COM:
‘Mattress Girl’ Emma Sulkowicz Just Released a Sex Tape: Here's My Review — In preparing for this review, my researcher had to watch Emma Sulkowicz, a.k.a. “Mattress Girl,” perform fellatio on an overweight man eleven times. He tells me that he is now seriously considering homosexuality.
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