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Sarah Wheaton / Politico:
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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Peyton M. Craighill / Washington Post:
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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Guardian, Daily Kos and Bloomberg Business
Cliff Owen / Associated Press:
Supreme Court Rejects NRA Appeal To Loosen San Francisco Gun Laws
Supreme Court Rejects NRA Appeal To Loosen San Francisco Gun Laws
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Arkansas Blog, Arkansas Times
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Supreme Court Backs White House on Jerusalem Passport Dispute
Supreme Court Backs White House on Jerusalem Passport Dispute
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Washington Monthly, SCOTUSblog and Outside the Beltway
Sarah Kliff / Vox:
The GOP has 5 plans to fix Obamacare if the Supreme Court blows it up. They're all a mess.
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
Jennifer Gonnerman / New Yorker:
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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Matt Pearce / Los Angeles Times:
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 …
Ta-Nehisi Coates / The Atlantic:
The Brief and Tragic Life of Kalief Browder
The Brief and Tragic Life of Kalief Browder
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Alana Goodman / Washington Free Beacon:
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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Dylan Byers / Politico:
Clintons gave $100k to NYT fund in '08
Clintons gave $100k to NYT fund in '08
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Vanity Fair:
The War on the Times — The Sulzberger family would never let go of The New York Times.
The War on the Times — The Sulzberger family would never let go of The New York Times.
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Washington Free Beacon and Hot Air
Dylan Byers / Politico:
The N.Y. Times vs. Washington Free Beacon
The N.Y. Times vs. Washington Free Beacon
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Washington Free Beacon
Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Obama: 'We don't yet have a complete strategy' against ISIS — President Obama said Monday the United States does not have a complete plan to train and equip Iraqi forces to fight the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), saying Baghdad needs to show a greater commitment to building a fighting force.
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The White House:
Remarks by President Obama in Press Conference after G7 Summit
Remarks by President Obama in Press Conference after G7 Summit
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Edward-Isaac Dovere / Politico:
Obama, sounding like his critics, admits no ‘complete strategy’ for Iraq
Obama, sounding like his critics, admits no ‘complete strategy’ for Iraq
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Daily Kos
Bob Price / BREITBART.COM:
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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Beth Reinhard / Wall Street Journal:
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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Rebecca Shabad / The Hill:
Dem senator wants more funds to research Lyme Disease — Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) is calling for more funding to research ways to fight Lyme Disease, according to the Connecticut Post. — The Democrat is making the announcement Monday in Connecticut.
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Yoni Appelbaum / The Atlantic:
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.
Michael Kruse / Politico:
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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Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Ted Cruz: First Thing I'll Do As President Is Send Flowers And Condolences To Reporters Checking Into Therapy — He said the second thing he'll do is start planning a pig roast on the South Lawn of the White House. — Scott Olson / Getty Images — Texas Sen. Ted Cruz poked fun at reporters …
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Rupali Srivastava / ThinkProgress:
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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New York Post:
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 …
Ezra Klein / Vox:
Why the most informed voters are often the most badly misled — The case for Hillary Clinton's proposal to make voter registration automatic is simple: it will make it easier for people to vote. — The case against Hillary Clinton's proposal to make voter registration automatic is also simple …
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NBC News:
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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Pamela McClintock / Hollywood Reporter:
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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Jonathan Topaz / Politico:
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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