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Public to Supreme Court: Don't gut Obamacare — The Affordable Care Act hangs in the balance in the Supreme Court for the second time in three years, but the public has rendered a judgment ahead of the court's ruling. By a margin of 55 percent to 38 percent, more people say the court …
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CNN, Guardian, Politico, Daily Kos and Bloomberg Business
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Supreme Court Rejects NRA Appeal To Loosen San Francisco Gun Laws — WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has turned down another National Rifle Association-led appeal aimed at loosening gun restrictions and instead left in place two San Francisco gun laws.
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Arkansas Blog, Arkansas Times


Can Republicans Win by Losing at the Supreme Court?
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ABC News

The GOP has 5 plans to fix Obamacare if the Supreme Court blows it up. They're all a mess.
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Daily Kos

Clinton Donated $100K to New York Times Group the Same Year Paper Endorsed Her — A little-known private foundation controlled by Bill and Hillary Clinton donated $100,000 to the New York Times' charitable fund in 2008, the same year the newspaper's editorial page endorsed Clinton …
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Clintons gave $100k to NYT fund in '08 — Bill and Hillary Clinton's Family Foundation gave $100,000 to a New York Times' charitable fund in 2008, the same year that the paper endorsed Hillary Clinton in the hotly contested Democratic presidential primary, the Washington Free Beacon reported Monday.
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The Daily Caller and The Week, more at Mediagazer »

Kalief Browder, 1993-2015 — Last fall, I wrote about a young man named Kalief Browder, who spent three years on Rikers Island without being convicted of a crime. He had been arrested in the spring of 2010, at age sixteen, for a robbery he insisted he had not committed.
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ThinkProgress, The Atlantic, Bloomberg Business, Hit & Run, Washington Post, The Huffington Post, Daily Mail and The Week
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Wisconsin straw poll surprise: A narrow Clinton win — Bernie Sanders surprises with 41 percent of the vote. — Bernie Sanders scored 41 percent in a straw poll vote at the Wisconsin Democratic Party convention this weekend — finishing a close second to Hillary Clinton, who won 49 percent.
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Power Line, Mediaite, Common Dreams, The Week and Radio Or Not
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The Note: What Scott Walker Said In Iowa
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Wall Street Journal, Daily Kos and Hot Air

Wisconsin Straw Poll: Clinton 49 Percent, Sanders 41 Percent
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Washington Monthly, OnPolitics, US News, WisPolitics.com and Washington Times


Employee probed as possible accomplice in jailbreak — A female prison worker was interrogated Sunday as a possible accomplice in the Hollywood-style escape of two killers from an upstate penitentiary, sources told The Post. — “It's an employee being questioned,” a high-level source said …
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ABC News, New York Times, Scared Monkeys, Daily Mail, Gothamist, NY State of Politics and Capital New York
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Gov. Cuomo on escaped murderers: ‘They definitely had help’
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USA Today, The Huffington Post, CNN, NBC News, The Week, CBS New York and Washington Post

A Convicted Murderer's Escape Alarms Investigators From His Past
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Daily Mail, John Hawkins' Right Wing News, Reuters, Business Insider and Gothamist


Local Homeowners Defend Texas Cops Who Brutalized Black Teens At Pool Party — The police's brutal treatment of black teens attending a pool party in McKinney, Texas has sparked a nationwide outrage. The video shows officer Eric Casebolt grabbing 15-year-old Dajerria Becton …
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The Moderate Voice, Daily Kos, Vox, Raw Story, Shakesville, Taylor Marsh, Talking Points Memo, WREG-TV and Hinterland Gazette
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Scandals only make the Clintons stronger — The Republican plan to defeat Hillary Clinton is doomed. It's time to go easy on her. — Lead image by AP Photo. — One has to wonder: When Republicans gathered earlier this year to scheme the defeat of Hillary Clinton, who was the genius who stood up and said, “I know.
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New York Times, The Colorado Independent and Washington Free Beacon
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Nader: Hillary Tried to ‘Overcompensate’ for Gender with ‘Shocking’ Militarism

Barbara Bush: I'm keeping quiet during Jeb's likely 2016 run
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Political Wire


On talk circuit, George W. Bush makes millions but few waves — Toward the end of his presidency, George W. Bush told Robert Draper, reporting for a book called Dead Certain, that he intended after vacating the Oval Office to “replenish the ol' coffers.” He said he could make “ridiculous” money on the lecture circuit.
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Liberaland, Talking Points Memo, Mediaite, No More Mister Nice Blog, RedState, The Reaction and The Week


This Is the Way to Win Elections (But It Makes Governing Harder) — First Read is a morning briefing from Meet the Press and the NBC Political Unit on the day's most important political stories and why they matter — This is how you win elections. But it makes governing harder
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Hot Air, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, Washington Post, NBC News and Advocate


Box Office: FIFA Movie ‘United Passions’ Bombs in U.S. — Even bad publicity is usually good publicity — except in the case of the FIFA-financed film United Passions, which was quickly red-carded at the U.S. box office this weekend. — Writer-director Frederic Auburtin's film beyond bombed …
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Guardian, Washingtonian, Fusion, The Big Lead, The Week and NBC News

McKinney, Texas, and the Racial History of American Swimming Pools — A woman swims in a pool in Tampa, Florida. (Shaun Best / AP) — On Friday, a large group of teens gathered for a pool party in the city of McKinney, Texas. Shortly thereafter, someone called the police.
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NBC News, CNN, Crime Blog, Daily Mail, The Week, ThinkProgress, CBS Dallas, Hit & Run, Fusion, The Huffington Post, Mediaite and BuzzFeed


Santorum: Climate change about ‘political science’ — Former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.) said on Sunday science behind climate change arguments is far from settled. — “This is what bothers me about this debate - the idea that the science is settled,” he told host Chris Wallace on “Fox News Sunday.”
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Political Wire


NJSP fire tear gas into angry Summer Jam concert crowd — Concert fans threw bottles at State Police officers on a phalanx defense positions outside the MetLife gate at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford on Sunday evening. This is raw video of an arrest. VIDEO BY CHRIS JORDAN — CONNECT
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CBS New York, Gothamist, Scared Monkeys and Mediaite