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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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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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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 …
Sam Stein / The Huffington Post:
Lindsey Graham Is A ‘Bro With No Ho,’ According To Mark Kirk — WASHINGTON — Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) is a “bro with no ho,” according to his colleague, Sen. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) — The assessment of Graham's love life was made during a Senate Appropriations Committee markup on Thursday and caught on a live microphone.
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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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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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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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Leonid Bershidsky / Bloomberg View:
Jeb Bush Flunked His Berlin Test
Jeb Bush Flunked His Berlin Test
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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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BBC:
Sir Tim Hunt resigns from university role over girls comment — Sir Tim Hunt was speaking at a conference in South Korea — A Nobel laureate has resigned from his position as honorary professor at a UK university after he made comments about the “trouble with girls” in science.
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ucl.ac.uk:
Sir Tim Hunt FRS and UCL
Sir Tim Hunt FRS and UCL
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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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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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Tim Devaney / The Hill:
Obama making bid to diversify wealthy neighborhoods — The Obama administration is moving forward with regulations designed to help diversify America's wealthier neighborhoods, drawing fire from critics who decry the proposal as executive overreach in search of an “unrealistic utopia.”
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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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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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Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
These 9 words prove that Bill Clinton still doesn't get it on the Clinton Foundation — Bill Clinton sat for an interview with Bloomberg News on Wednesday to talk about, among other things, the controversy surrounding the Clinton Foundation and his wife's 2016 presidential bid.
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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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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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Lubbock Avalanche-Journal:
Frenship ISD teacher apologizes after McKinney-related segregation post — Fitzgibbons: ‘I apologized to the appropriate people’ — A Frenship teacher said she apologized after writing a — Facebook post saying she was “almost to the point” of wanting segregation regarding a racially charged police issue in McKinney.
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Kyle Smith / New York Post:
Women are not capable of understanding ‘GoodFellas’ — “GoodFellas” is the ultimate male fantasy film, according to movie critic Kyle Smith. — The first time I saw “GoodFellas,” on a rented Blockbuster videotape in 1991, I was in a daze as the final credits rolled.
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Kathleen Miller / Bloomberg Business:
Ex-Im Bank Reauthorization Gets Support in U.S. Senate Test — The U.S. Senate showed strong support for reauthorizing the Export-Import Bank in a test vote bolstering backers' argument that a majority of Congress wants to keep its charter from expiring at the end of this month.
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Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
Dem unveils automatic voter registration bill — Rep. David Cicilline (D-R.I.) has proposed a bill to automatically register Americans to vote, fresh off of similar calls by Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton. — “Today, too many politicians are trying to make it harder …
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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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Jerome R. Corsi / WND:
CHOMSKY: HILLARY LIKE OBAMA, ONLY ‘MORE MILITANT’ — 86-year-old icon for liberals talks to WND — Jerome R. Corsi, a Harvard Ph.D., is a WND senior staff writer. He has authored many books, including No. 1 N.Y. Times best-sellers “The Obama Nation” and “Unfit for Command.”
Gary D. Robertson / Associated Press:
N.C. Passes Law Allowing Court Officials To Refuse To Perform Gay Marriages — RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A measure allowing some court officials to refuse to perform gay marriage responsibilities because of their religious beliefs became law in North Carolina on Thursday, with the state House voting …
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Ben Ratliff / New York Times:
Ornette Coleman Dies at 85; Composer and Saxophonist Reshaped Jazz — Ornette Coleman, the alto saxophonist and composer who was 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.
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