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GOP Swiftly Rejects Obama's ‘One-Sentence Fix’ to Obamacare if Supreme Court Voids Subsidies — A Supreme Court ruling is expected within weeks. — President Barack Obama had barely finished proposing an idea to deal with a far-reaching Supreme Court decision on Obamacare before Republicans fired …
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The GOP has 5 plans to fix Obamacare if the Supreme Court blows it up. They're all a mess.
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New York Magazine and Daily Kos

Obama: Supreme Court wrong to take up ObamaCare challenge
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Bloomberg Business, Daily Kos and ABC News


15-Year-Old Who Shot McKinney Pool Party Video Speaks Out — MCKINNEY, TX - Brandon Brooks, the 15-year-old boy who shot the McKinney pool party video that's being broadcast around the world, is telling his side of the story to NewsFix. — “The cops showed up and the parents immediately started yelling …
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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.

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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The N.Y. Times vs. Washington Free Beacon
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Clinton Family Foundation Donation To New York Times Charity Came After Endorsement
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Moe Lane

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

The Brief and Tragic Life of Kalief Browder
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Common Dreams


New doubts on Second Amendment rights — Raising significant new questions about how much protection the Constitution's Second Amendment actually gives to gun owners, the Supreme Court on Monday left intact a local ordinance that restricts access to guns even within one's own home.
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89.3 KPCC, NPR, Daily Kos and Outside the Beltway


Dennis Hastert to Be Represented by High-Powered D.C. Attorney Thomas Green … Embattled former House Speaker Dennis Hastert has hired veteran Washington white collar criminal defense attorney Thomas C. Green to head his legal team, ABC News has confirmed. — Green told ABC News he will head …
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Politico and Associated Press
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Cheney: I don't know what makes Obama tick — Former Vice President Dick Cheney (R) said on Sunday that he has not figured out what motivates President Obama. — “I've tried for a long time, John, to understand what makes him tick, and frankly, I don't know,” Cheney told host John Catsimatidis on AM 970's …
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Obama: 'We don't yet have a complete strategy' against ISIS
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Politico, Daily Kos and Balloon Juice


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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Bloomberg View and New York Times


Spike TV will cut Eastwood's Jenner joke — Clint Eastwood is courting controversy again, this time with a Caitlyn Jenner joke at the Spike TV Guys' Choice 2015 awards on Saturday night. — USA TODAY has learned that Spike TV will cut an Eastwood joke about Jenner when the show airs Saturday, June 18.
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Hollywood Life, Mediaite, EW.com, Hot Air, TMZ.com, Daily Mail, In Touch Weekly, Celebuzz and BizPac Review


What's Happening To Players At The Women's World Cup, Where The Artificial Turf Is 120 Degrees — 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.
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NBC News, ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES and Washington Post


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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Mediaite


A Raid on ISIS Yields a Trove of Intelligence — WASHINGTON — American intelligence agencies have extracted valuable information about the Islamic State's leadership structure, financial operations and security measures by analyzing materials seized during a Delta Force commando raid …
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Business Insider, The Daily Caller and Fox News


Introducing Apple Music — All The Ways You Love Music. All in One Place. — SAN FRANCISCO—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Apple® today unveiled Apple Music™, a single, intuitive app that combines the best ways to enjoy music — all in one place. Apple Music is a revolutionary streaming music service …
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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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CNN, Talking Points Memo, Washington Post, Bloomberg Business, Politico and The Week

Fighting the Derp — When it comes to economics — and other subjects, but I'll focus on what I know best — we live in an age of derp and cheap cynicism. And there are powerful forces behind both tendencies. But those forces can be fought, and the place to start fighting is within yourself.
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Hullabaloo


Seinfeld slams politically correct students for hurting comedy: “They just want to use these words, 'that's racist, that's sexist, that's prejudice'” — The comedian thinks that PC culture, particularly on college campuses, has gone too far — Speaking on ESPN Radio's “The Herd with Colin Cowherd” …
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RedState

The Right Way and Wrong Way to Win the Presidency — Hillary Clinton appears to be taking the easy path. It would be the wrong one. — Democratic and Republican presidential candidates face a choice: They can appeal to the broadest possible audience or pander to their most devoted partisans.