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Dallas Morning News:
Sniper fires at suspect in Dallas police headquarters attack; condition undetermined — Urgent update: A police sniper has fired at the suspect and police say the suspect is dead. — Police were continuing attempts to negotiate with a man in an armored vehicle after he opened fire …
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Nomaan Merchant / Associated Press:
SUSPECTS OPEN FIRE ON OFFICERS OUTSIDE DALLAS POLICE HQ — DALLAS (AP) — Multiple gunmen toting automatic weapons opened fire on officers outside Dallas Police headquarters early Saturday morning, before one man fled the scene being chased by police in what witnesses described as an armored van …
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Dallas Morning News and The Gateway Pundit
Curtis Skinner / Reuters:
Bombs planted in attack on Dallas police headquarters — Bombs were planted outside Dallas Police headquarters in an attack early on Saturday that may have involved as many as four gunmen firing automatic weapons, police said. — Dallas Police Chief David Brown told reporters that a motive …
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The Atlantic, The Huffington Post and New York Times
David Frum / The Atlantic:
Why Americans Are Turning Against Free Trade — A decade and a half ago, I filled my days writing speeches urging Congress to grant President George W. Bush fast-track trade authority. If memory serves, I wrote more speeches on that one subject than on any other.
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No More Mister Nice Blog and Washington Post
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David Dayen / Salon:
The Democrats' TPP rebellion just drew blood: Everything you need to know about today's shocking vote
The Democrats' TPP rebellion just drew blood: Everything you need to know about today's shocking vote
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Washington Monthly, The Nation, Vox, Slantpoint, Booman Tribune, PoliticusUSA, The CT Mirror and Lawyers, Guns & Money
Jennifer Steinhauer / New York Times:
Washington Dysfunction, With a Twist: Democrats Desert Their President
Washington Dysfunction, With a Twist: Democrats Desert Their President
The Huffington Post:
Democrats Rebel To Block Obama's Trade Deals
Democrats Rebel To Block Obama's Trade Deals
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Gawker, Slantpoint and ChrisWeigant.com
CNN:
Democrats reject Obama on trade
Democrats reject Obama on trade
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Power Line, Informed Comment and American Spectator
Cristina Marcos / The Hill:
House deals humiliating blow to Obama in trade fight
House deals humiliating blow to Obama in trade fight
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The Nation, RedState, PoliticusUSA, The Last Refuge, Hit & Run and New York Times
Israel Hayom:
‘My position was: you need to have boots on the ground’ — Former U.S. President George W. Bush tells Israel Hayom in an exclusive interview, “My strategy, the Bush doctrine, was to vigorously pursue those who do us harm and bring them to justice” • “America has been very supportive of Israel,” he remarks.
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Political Wire
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Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Mitt's new mission — Romney is working to rid the GOP presidential primary of the mayhem that marked his own race. — DEER VALLEY, Utah — Mitt Romney is working with an unlikely collaborator — Sheldon Adelson, the billionaire casino mogul who bankrolled Newt Gingrich's 2012 campaign …
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Talking Points Memo
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Brent Budowsky / The Hill:
Romney hosting GOP summit, planning nomination coup?
Romney hosting GOP summit, planning nomination coup?
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US News, Balloon Juice, Politico and TIME
Politico:
Newly disclosed hack got ‘crown jewels’ — “This is not the end of American human intelligence, but it's a significant blow,” a former NSA official says. — Hackers have breached a database containing a wealth of sensitive information from federal employees' security background checks …
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The Gateway Pundit and Bloomberg Business
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Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post:
Chinese hack of federal personnel files included security-clearance database
Chinese hack of federal personnel files included security-clearance database
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Defense One, NPR and Engadget
TMZ.com:
John Stamos — Busted for DUI (VIDEO UPDATE) — BUSTED FOR DUI — EXCLUSIVE — John Stamos was booked for DUI Friday night in Beverly Hills, and was allegedly so out of it ... police sent him straight to a hospital. — Law enforcement sources tell TMZ ... Bev Hills officers responded …
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Daily Mail, Variety, The Daily Caller, Mediaite, In Touch Weekly and Full Feed
Joe Nocera / New York Times:
Scott Walker's Wisconsin Audition — Anticipating a Republican presidential bid by Scott Walker, the two-term governor of Wisconsin, both The New York Times Magazine and The Washington Monthly recently published lengthy articles about him. (The Times feature, which is in the magazine this weekend, was published online Friday.)
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Washington Monthly and Booman Tribune
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Dan Kaufman / New York Times:
Scott Walker and the Fate of the Union
Scott Walker and the Fate of the Union
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Washington Monthly and Fox News
Grace Alone / American Prospect:
As sex-abuse allegations multiply, Billy Graham's grandson is on a mission to persuade Protestant churches to come clean. — I. The Calling — In November 2012, Bob Jones University, the longtime flagship institution of fundamentalism, announced it had hired GRACE (short for Godly Response …
LeftOfCenter / Latest from Crooks and Liars:
Fox News Finds Black Mom To Blame Pool Melee On Black Kids — Day after day it is astounding to see how the producers at Fox and Friends find ways to appeal to their bigoted, and sexist viewers. Saturday Night Live's sketch that accurately portrays the trio of trivia must be revamped this next season …
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Raw Story
Adam B. Lerner / Politico:
Elizabeth Warren: I know too much about banking for Wall Street's liking — Elizabeth Warren fired back at Jamie Dimon for suggesting she has no clue what she's talking about in her attacks on Wall Street. — “The problem is not that I don't understand the global banking system,” …
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Mediaite
Jonathan Capehart / Washington Post:
The damage Rachel Dolezal has done — The fascinating Rachel Dolezal story has more layers than one of those flaky Pillsbury biscuits. She's the president of the Spokane, Wash., chapter of the NAACP and a professor of African American studies at Eastern Washington University, who was outed as not actually being African American.
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Power Line, Instapundit, BREITBART.COM and The Moderate Voice
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