memeorandum: Rachel Dolezal pictured after white parents said she is pretending to be black (Daily Mail)

3:55 PM ET, June 13, 2015

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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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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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Dpdpio / DPD Beat:
Shooting at Dallas Police Headquarters

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Tasneem Nashrulla / BuzzFeed:

Rachel Dolezal's Brother Says She Warned: “Don't Blow My Cover” — Ezra Dolezal told BuzzFeed News that his adopted sister warned him to not tell anyone in Spokane that she wasn't really black as she started a new life for herself. — It was 2012, and Rachel Dolezal had a warning …

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Daily Mail:

Rachel Dolezal pictured after white parents said she is pretending to be black — Rachel Dolezal, 37,was pictured outside her home Friday for the first time since scandal erupted over her misrepresentation of her race — She also responded to her detractors in a new interview, saying …

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Chris Spargo For / Daily Mail:
Rachel Dolezal led local Black Lives Matter movement

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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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Brent Budowsky / The Hill:
Romney hosting GOP summit, planning nomination coup?

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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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Andrew Prokop / Vox:

Transcript: Hillary Clinton's official campaign launch speech — CLINTON: Thank you! Oh, thank you all! Thank you so very, very much. (Cheers, applause.) — It is wonderful to be here with all of you. — To be in New York (cheers) with my family, with so many friends …

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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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New York Times:
ISIS Is Winning the Social Media War, U.S. Concludes

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Jesse Byrnes / The Hill:
Bush: You need ‘boots on the ground’

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Judith Berdy / Politico:

The rocky history of Roosevelt Island — At its heart, this American landmark is a a living, historical embodiment of the major issues Hillary Clinton wants to champion. — Lead image by Getty. — Today, Hillary Clinton delivered the first major policy speech of her presidential campaign standing …

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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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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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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 …

Jennifer Steinhauer / New York Times:

Washington Dysfunction, With a Twist: Democrats Desert Their President — WASHINGTON — After years of Republican derision of President Obama's fiscal agenda, which they frequently describe as socialism, in the end it was the president's own Democratic Party that deprived …