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Sahil Kapur / Bloomberg Business:
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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Sarah Wheaton / Politico:
Obama: Supreme Court shouldn't have heard Obamacare challenge
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
K. McDonald / CW33 NewsFix:
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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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.
Rosie Gray / BuzzFeed:
Clinton Family Foundation Donation To New York Times Charity Came After Endorsement — WASHINGTON — A charity administered by the New York Times received a $100,000 check from the Clinton Family Foundation on July 24, 2008, months after the paper endorsed Hillary Clinton in the Democratic primary …
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Dylan Byers / Politico:
The N.Y. Times vs. Washington Free Beacon
The N.Y. Times vs. Washington Free Beacon
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Alana Goodman / Washington Free Beacon:
Clinton Donated $100K to New York Times Group the Same Year Paper Endorsed Her
Clinton Donated $100K to New York Times Group the Same Year Paper Endorsed Her
ABC News:
Dennis Hastert Emerges From Seclusion at Wisconsin Property … With his initial court appearance set for tomorrow, former Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert emerged today from his sprawling vacation home in Wisconsin, where he has been secluded from public view, returning to his estate in Plano, Ill.
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Matthew Mosk / ABC News:
Dennis Hastert to Be Represented by High-Powered D.C. Attorney Thomas Green
Dennis Hastert to Be Represented by High-Powered D.C. Attorney Thomas Green
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Politico and Associated Press
Lyle Denniston / SCOTUSblog:
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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Mark Hensch / The Hill:
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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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Obama: 'We don't yet have a complete strategy' against ISIS
Obama: 'We don't yet have a complete strategy' against ISIS
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Politico, Daily Kos and Balloon Juice
Bryan Alexander / USA Today:
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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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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Bloomberg View and New York Times
Emily Lane / New Orleans Times-Picayune:
After 4 decades in solitary, Albert Woodfox's release ordered by federal judge — A federal judge in Baton Rouge has called for the unconditional release of Albert Woodfox, the only remaining imprisoned member of the Angola 3. — Woodfox, 68, was placed solitary confinement …
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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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Eric Schmitt / New York Times:
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
Ron Fournier / National Journal:
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.
Salon:
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
Lindsay Abrams / Salon:
Fox News host gets schooled on fracking — and angrily orders his guest off the show — “Why would you not frack on our own property and then prescribe it for other people in America?” — The long-awaited study on fracking and water contamination released Thursday by the EPA almost seemed designed …
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Charleston Gazette, The Daily Caller, EcoWatch, Slantpoint and Mediaite
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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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
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.
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New York Times:
Cleveland Leaders Bypass Prosecutors to Seek Charge in Tamir Rice Case — WASHINGTON — Community leaders in Cleveland, distrustful of the criminal justice system, said Monday that they would not wait for prosecutors to decide whether to file charges against the police officers involved …
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Jim Miklaszewski / NBC News:
Army's Public Website Hacked by Unknown Intruders — Defense officials confirm the official public Army website has been hacked by unknown intruders demanding the U.S. stop training rebel fighters inside Syria. — Unlike the massive hack into Office of Personnel Management records …
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