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David Faber / CNBC:
Rupert Murdoch preparing to step down as CEO from 21st Century Fox — Rupert Murdoch expected to hand Fox CEO title to son James, reports CNBC's David Faber. — Rupert Murdoch, the 84-year-old chief executive officer and controlling shareholder of 21st Century Fox, is preparing to step …
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Rupert Murdoch stepping down from 21st Century Fox
Washington Post:
How Jeb Bush's campaign ran off course before it even began — When asked to pinpoint where Jeb Bush's presidential effort began running into trouble, many confidants utter a single word: Dallas. — Mike Murphy, Bush's political alter ego, decided early on to hold regular senior staff meetings …
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Mediaite, The Daily Caller, OnPolitics, RedState, The Huffington Post, Daily Kos, NPR and BarbWire.com
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Leonid Bershidsky / Bloomberg View:
Jeb Bush Flunked His Berlin Test
Jeb Bush Flunked His Berlin Test
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Hinterland Gazette, Washington Post, The Moderate Voice, Los Angeles Times, CNN, Taylor Marsh and Defense One
Ben Brody / Bloomberg Business:
Jeb Bush in Warsaw: 'I'll Talk to My National Security Adviser'
Jeb Bush in Warsaw: 'I'll Talk to My National Security Adviser'
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Catherine Rampell / Washington Post:
Jeb Bush's recipe for a better society: Shame
Jeb Bush's recipe for a better society: Shame
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Daily Kos, Business Insider and Raw Story
Telegraph:
Sir Christopher Lee dies at 93 - latest reaction and tributes — Screen legend famous for roles in Count Dracula, Lord of the Rings and Star Wars dies in hospital after suffering respiratory problems … 13.05 — Boris Johnson, the Mayor of London, has paid tribute to …
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CANNONFIRE, The Verge and The Daily Caller
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Benjamin Lee / Guardian:
Christopher Lee dies at the age of 93 — The veteran actor was best known for roles including Dracula and Saruman in the Lord of the Rings franchise — Sir Christopher Lee has died at the age of 93 after being hospitalised for respiratory problems and heart failure.
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Liberaland, Mashable, Towleroad News #gay, NPR and TMZ.com
UnionLeader.com:
Union Leader to host Presidential candidates' forum Aug. 6 — Staff Report — On the same August night that Fox News hosts a much-criticized and limited Republican presidential debate in Cleveland, the Union Leader will host a New Hampshire Presidential Forum in the first primary state.
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Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Co-Author Of Mike Huckabee Books Was Accused Of Child Molestation In Two Legal Cases — Prominent Christian author John Perry, who has also co-authored a book with Alabama Supreme Court Justice Roy Moore, has been accused of child molestation in two separate lawsuits.
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Talking Points Memo, Liberaland, Business Insider, Progress Pond, Political Wire, Raw Story and Joe. My. God.
Ezra Klein / Vox:
The man who helped kill Clintoncare explains why Obamacare can't be killed — In 1993, Republican strategist (and Weekly Standard editor) William Kristol was running the Project for the Republican Future, where he thought about how to assure a — you guessed it — Republican future.
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Washington Monthly, The Moderate Voice and Slantpoint
Bloomberg Business:
Obama Fast-Track Trade Plan Heading to Narrow House Vote — The House will vote Friday on a bill that would give fast-track trade authority to President Barack Obama, a measure likely headed for a close vote after months of lobbying by the White House and business groups.
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Jonathan Weisman / New York Times:
Republicans Tie Their Favorite Causes to the Trade Agreement
Republicans Tie Their Favorite Causes to the Trade Agreement
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Washington Post, Reuters, Politico and Vox
William Mauldin / Wall Street Journal:
Paul Ryan Seeks to Bar Obama From Tweaking Immigration, Climate-Change Law
Paul Ryan Seeks to Bar Obama From Tweaking Immigration, Climate-Change Law
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BREITBART.COM, The Huffington Post and John Hawkins' Right Wing News
Jack Shafer / Politico:
How not to become Brian Williams — How did a man so fastidious screw up so magnificently? — We give thanks for Brian Williams' fall—not because we have anything against the broadcaster, but because from his disgrace can be distilled a medicine that, when taken as directed, will prevent others from a place in perdition.
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ucl.ac.uk:
Sir Tim Hunt FRS and UCL — UCL can confirm that Sir Tim Hunt FRS has today resigned from his position as Honorary Professor with the UCL Faculty of Life Sciences, following comments he made about women in science at the World Conference of Science Journalists on 9 June.
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Allum Bokhari / BREITBART.COM:
Will Reddit Revolt Against Ellen Pao? — When failed discrimination plaintiff Ellen Pao was appointed CEO of Reddit last January, many predicted that it would herald a new age of censorship on the link-sharing and discussion site. Those predictions appear to have come true …
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VentureBeat and Vox Popoli
Tom Cary / Telegraph:
Lance Armstrong: I've admitted to it all and I have suffered enough - it's now time to draw line in the sand — Lance Armstrong believes he has been punished enough, insists cycling is still in a bad place and admits $100m court case could ruin him — The words coming out of his mouth …
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OlympicTalk, Guardian, The Week and USA Today
Jon WardSenior / Yahoo Politics:
The Koch brothers and the Republican Party go to war — with each other — The Republican National Committee's data arm last year called it a “historic” occasion when it struck a deal to share voter information with the Koch brothers' rapidly expanding political empire.
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Washington Post, The Week and OpenSecrets.org
Kim Chipman / Bloomberg Business:
Jamie Dimon Says He's Unsure If Elizabeth Warren Understands Global Banking System — Jamie Dimon, CEO of JP Morgan Chase & Co. — JPMorgan Chase & Co. Chief Executive Officer Jamie Dimon took aim at U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren, a critic of large banks, as he expressed broad concerns about leadership in Washington.
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Zach Schonfeld / Newsweek:
Joyce Carol Oates Says She Was Joking About Those Poor Dinos — National Book Award winner Joyce Carol Oates would like to set the record straight: She does not fear for the fate of the mechanical Triceratops being plundered by Steven Spielberg. — The very earnest-seeming tweet that lit …
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EW.com, NPR, The Huffington Post and Salon
Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:
A blow for mobile advertising: The next version of Safari will let users block ads on iPhones and iPads — Think making money on mobile advertising is hard now? Think how much more difficult it will be with a significant share of your audience is blocking all your ads — all with a simple download from the App Store.
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Scott Eric Kaufman / Salon:
Megyn Kelly and Howard Kurtz attacked me for quoting her accurately and in context: “They take something and distort it” — Though it is refreshing to see Fox News acknowledging there's a problem with ideological echo chambers — On Wednesday's “The Kelly File,” host Megyn Kelly …
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Ben Ratliff / New York Times:
Ornette Coleman, Jazz Innovator, Dies at 85 — The alto saxophonist and composer Ornette Coleman, one of the most powerful and contentious innovators in the history of jazz, died on Thursday morning in Manhattan. He was 85. — The cause was cardiac arrest, a representative of the family said.
Drew Altman / Wall Street Journal:
Seniors and Income Inequality: How Things Get Worse With Age — Income inequality has been rising on the political agenda, yet one group has been left out of the discussion: seniors. — Older adults are somewhat less likely than working-age adults to be poor by the government's traditional poverty measure, developed in the 1960s.
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Yahoo:
Why Republican candidates should want to be shut out of debates — Now that we know the number of Republicans running for president this year is exponentially higher than the number of voters Rick Santorum can lure into a room in Iowa, the media that sponsor debates are freaking out.
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Political Wire and Politico