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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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Obama: Supreme Court shouldn't have heard Obamacare challenge — President Barack Obama expressed deep frustration with the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday, questioning why justices even took up a case that imperils his signature health insurance reform plan. — The high court is set to issue …
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Bloomberg Business


Supreme Court Rejects NRA Appeal To Loosen San Francisco Gun Laws
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Arkansas Blog, Arkansas Times

Supreme Court Backs White House on Jerusalem Passport Dispute
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Washington Monthly, SCOTUSblog and Outside the Beltway

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

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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Kalief Browder, jailed for 3 years in N.Y. without a trial, commits suicide — Kalief Browder, whose three years in jail without trial inspired calls for reform in New York, has committed suicide at age 22, his attorney said Sunday. — Browder was 16 when he was arrested on suspicion …

The Brief and Tragic Life of Kalief Browder
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Common Dreams

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
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The Daily Caller and The Week, more at Mediagazer »


Video Emerges of Violence at ‘Innocent Pool Party’ in McKinney, Texas — Left media is ablaze with articles condemning the police response to a pool party at a McKinney, Texas, subdivision. Now a video is emerging showing why police were called to the scene to begin with - violence.
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Washington Post, John Hawkins' Right Wing News, Crime Blog, TPNN, The Huffington Post and BuzzFeed
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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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New video shows Texas police officer pulling gun on teenagers at pool party
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Talking Points Memo, USA Today, The Daily Caller, Common Dreams, NPR, Raw Story, BizPac Review and WREG-TV


Obama, sounding like his critics, admits no ‘complete strategy’ for Iraq — A presidential gaffe when talking about the fight against ISIL. — President Barack Obama still doesn't have a strategy to combat the Islamic State. — Back in September, Obama created a political problem for himself by saying …
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The Awkward Moment Between Obama and Iraqi Prime Minister
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Washington Free Beacon


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, Washington Monthly, The Huffington Post, The Nation, Common Dreams, Mediaite, The Week, WisPolitics.com 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


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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Mediaite, Talking Points Memo, No More Mister Nice Blog, RedState, The Reaction, The Week and Liberaland


Danny Diaz to Be Jeb Bush's Campaign Manager — Danny Diaz, a 39-year-old Washington, D.C., native who has worked for the last three Republican presidential nominees, will serve as campaign manager of Jeb Bush's anticipated presidential campaign. — The job of running day-to-day campaign operations …
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Talking Points Memo and Political Wire


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 …


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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Concerns Mount As Artificial Turf Hits 120 Degrees At Women's World Cup — Rupali Srivastava is an intern with ThinkProgress at the Center for American Progress Action Fund. — The Women's World Cup is being played on artificial turf instead of natural grass. — CREDIT: AP PHOTO/Luca Bruno
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Washington Post


The Cream Of The Crop — Mainstream media has expended much ink over the size and varying quality of the Republican presidential field, and in some respects this is correct. There are a lot of Republicans running, and some are less ready for primetime than others. That happens every election cycle.


College Declares Haymarket Riot Reference a Violent Threat to College President — Oakton Community College (OCC) is insisting that a one-sentence “May Day” email referencing the Haymarket Riot sent by a faculty member to several colleagues constituted a “true threat” to the college president.
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Lawyers, Guns & Money and Hit & Run


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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