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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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The Hill:
Obama: Supreme Court wrong to take up ObamaCare challenge
Obama: Supreme Court wrong to take up ObamaCare challenge
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Bloomberg Business and Daily Kos
Peyton M. Craighill / Washington Post:
Public to Supreme Court: Don't gut Obamacare
Public to Supreme Court: Don't gut Obamacare
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Guardian, Daily Kos and Bloomberg Business
Sahil Kapur / Bloomberg Business:
GOP Swiftly Rejects Obama's ‘One-Sentence Fix’ to Obamacare if Supreme Court Voids Subsidies
GOP Swiftly Rejects Obama's ‘One-Sentence Fix’ to Obamacare if Supreme Court Voids Subsidies
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Washington Monthly and Politico
Lyle Denniston / SCOTUSblog:
Opinion analysis: Walking on a tightrope on Mideast policy
Opinion analysis: Walking on a tightrope on Mideast policy
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Washington Post, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, ImmigrationProf Blog and Bloomberg View
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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New York Magazine and Daily Kos
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 and Outside the Beltway
Fox News:
Obama says Supreme Court should never have taken up health law case, in blunt challenge
Obama says Supreme Court should never have taken up health law case, in blunt challenge
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American Spectator and BizPac Review
Lyle Denniston / SCOTUSblog:
New doubts on Second Amendment rights
New doubts on Second Amendment rights
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89.3 KPCC, NPR and Outside the Beltway
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:
The N.Y. Times vs. Washington Free Beacon — Two years ago, The New York Times published a front-page story about Michael Goldfarb and the Washington Free Beacon, a website that, per the Times, was “gaining prominence as a conservative clarion.” — At Free Beacon, Goldfarb …
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
NYT runs to Politico for comment on embarrassing Free Beacon story ... again
NYT runs to Politico for comment on embarrassing Free Beacon story ... again
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Washington Free Beacon and Betsy's Page
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
Dylan Byers / Politico:
Clintons gave $100k to NYT fund in '08
Clintons gave $100k to NYT fund in '08
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The Daily Caller and The Week, more at Mediagazer »
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, jailed for 3 years in N.Y. without a trial, commits suicide
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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Common Dreams
Derek Hunter / Townhall.com:
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.
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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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The Moderate Voice, Bloomberg View and New York Times
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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Politico, Bloomberg Business, CNN, Talking Points Memo, Washington Post, The Week and Political Wire
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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Politico and Balloon Juice
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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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Little Green Footballs, The Daily Caller, Vox, Washington Post, Crime Blog, TPNN and John Hawkins' Right Wing News
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.
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
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.
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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Business Wire:
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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MacRumors, Guardian, The Huffington Post, Engadget, VentureBeat and Associated Press, more at Mediagazer »
Rupali Srivastava / ThinkProgress:
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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Washington Post
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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Mediaite, No More Mister Nice Blog, RedState, The Reaction, Talking Points Memo, The Week and Liberaland
Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Apple To Launch New Flipboard-Like App, While Newsstand Goes Away — Apple plans to announce a free, Flipboard-like product that will show consumers samplings of content from big media partners including ESPN, the New York Times, Conde Nast and Hearst, sources say.
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Washington Post, Engadget, Wall Street Journal, Poynter., VentureBeat, The Verge and Capital New York, more at Mediagazer »
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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