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Spokane NAACP / Facebook:
Dear Executive Committee and NAACP Members, — It is a true honor to serve in the racial and social justice movement here in Spokane and across the nation. Many issues face us now that drive at the theme of urgency. Police brutality, biased curriculum in schools, economic disenfranchisement …
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Wbastone / The Smoking Gun:
NAACP Imposter Sued School Over Race Claims — Rachel Dolezal alleged she was victim of white discrimination — The NAACP official who today resigned in the face of evidence that she masqueraded as black once sued Howard University for denying her teaching posts and a scholarship …
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Eyder Peralta / NPR:
Rachel Dolezal Resigns As President Of Spokane NAACP
Rachel Dolezal Resigns As President Of Spokane NAACP
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Jelani Cobb / New Yorker:
Black Like Her — On June 7th, Elinor Burkett published …
Black Like Her — On June 7th, Elinor Burkett published …
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Richard Pérez-Peña / New York Times:
Rachel Dolezal Quits N.A.A.C.P. in Spokane
Rachel Dolezal Quits N.A.A.C.P. in Spokane
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Nick Gass / Politico:
Mitt: Hillary smiles with her mouth, but her eyes say 'Where's my latte?' — Mitt Romney took on Hillary Clinton's campaign launch speech, calling it “jarring” in some respects from what the former secretary of state has said in the past. Clinton's mouth often belies her eyes, he said.
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Washington Post:
Donald Trump will declare $9 billion in assets as he reveals 2016 plans — Businessman and TV personality Donald Trump is a possible Republican contender for the White House in 2016. Here's his take on Obamacare, building a border wall, and more, in his own words. (Julie Percha/The Washington Post)
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Nate Cohn / New York Times:
Jeb Bush's Surprising Struggle With Moderates
Jeb Bush's Surprising Struggle With Moderates
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Chris Spargo / Daily Mail:
Hillary Clinton campaign denies access to DailyMail.com political editor as Monday's pool reporter in New Hampshire — The Clinton campaign denied access to David Martosko of DailyMail.com in New Hampshire this morning — Clinton press aide Nick Merrill offered varied and contradictory reasons …
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Dylan Byers / Politico:
Clinton campaign denies access to pool reporter
Clinton campaign denies access to pool reporter
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David Zweig / Salon:
The facts vs. David Brooks: Startling inaccuracies raise questions about his latest book — Factual discrepancies in the NYT columnist's new book raise some alarming questions about his research & methods — For at least the past four years David Brooks, the New York Times columnist …
Page Six:
Prince puts on private show at White House — Prince played two shows in Washington, DC, on Sunday, but he also gave a private VIP performance at the White House on Saturday night to celebrate African-American Music Appreciation Month. — Spies exclusively told Page Six that the …
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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
White House defends private Prince party — The White House on Monday defended a private concert over the weekend featuring Prince and Stevie Wonder, saying the Obamas paid for it themselves. — Around 500 people attended the event, which was not disclosed on the president's public schedule.
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Francis X. Rocca / Wall Street Journal:
Papal Draft Blames Most Global Warming on Human Activity — Draft of encyclical calls reducing carbon emissions an ‘urgent’ matter — ROME—Pope Francis calls global warming a major threat to life on the planet, says it is due mainly to human activity and describes the need to reduce …
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John Follain / Bloomberg Business:
Draft of Pope's Climate Change Encyclical Leaked by Magazine
Draft of Pope's Climate Change Encyclical Leaked by Magazine
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James Hibberd / EW.com:
GAME OF THRONES STAR ON HER BRUTAL WALK OF SHAME — 'I don't think anyone deserves that treatment' — Warning: This story discusses a sequence from the Game of Thrones season 5 finale... Even on the sunny Game of Thrones set, surrounded by a friendly production team and tourist-trap bars …
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James Hibberd / EW.com:
GAME OF THRONES STAR ON THAT SHOCKING DEATH: 'I'M NOT COMING BACK'
GAME OF THRONES STAR ON THAT SHOCKING DEATH: 'I'M NOT COMING BACK'
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Peter Baker / New York Times:
The Trans-Pacific Partnership and a President's Legacy — WASHINGTON — For more than six years, the short walk from the Oval Office downstairs to the Situation Room has all too often meant bad news or grim choices. Whether it was war in the Middle East, Russian aggression in Ukraine …
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Democrats Being Democrats — On Friday, House Democrats shocked …
Democrats Being Democrats — On Friday, House Democrats shocked …
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Athens Daily News:
The sun has not exploded — OnlineAthens.com, the website of the Athens Banner-Herald, was the victim of an online miscue early Monday when an unauthorized updated news item atop the site announced “the sun just exploded.” — The item was taken off the site and the Banner-Herald is investigating.
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Casey Conley / Portsmouth Herald:
Scott Brown goes from Senate to cycle assembly — Scott Brown's work at Gus' Bike Shop on his ‘bucket list’
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Joe Siegrist / The LastPass Blog:
LastPass Security Notice — We want to notify our community that on Friday, our team discovered and blocked suspicious activity on our network. In our investigation, we have found no evidence that encrypted user vault data was taken, nor that LastPass user accounts were accessed.
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Katie Pavlich / Townhall.com:
121 Illegal Aliens Avoid Deportation, Now Charged With Murder — Between 2010 and 2014, a group of 121 illegal aliens were held by Immigration and Customs Enforcement and scheduled for deportation. Despite being scheduled for deportation, they were never removed from the country and have now been charged with murder.
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Jack Healy / New York Times:
A Thirsty Colorado Battles Over the Destiny of Its Raindrops — DENVER — When Jason Story bought an old soy sauce barrel to collect the rain dripping from his downspout, he figured he had found an environmentally friendly way to water his garden's beets and spinach.
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New York Post:
Bride rages as Waldorf cancels reception after shooting — Anna Goldshmidt was not told of the shooting as she got married to Elan Stratiyevsky. — She got married at the Waldorf-Astoria not knowing that two of her guests had just been wounded by gunfire, but the real shocker came later …
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Lydia Wheeler / The Hill:
Scalia slips, refers to Justice ‘Goldberg’ — The Supreme Court erupted in laughter Monday morning when Justice Antonin Scalia goofed and referred to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg by the wrong name. — While delivering the decision in the immigration case Kerry v. Din on Monday …
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Fredric U. Dicker / New York Post:
Cuomo created ‘total cluster f—k’ in escaped-killers hunt — The massive manhunt for two escaped murderers from the Dannemora prison has been hampered by State Police secrecy, inter-agency rivalries, and the disrupting involvement of Gov. Cuomo on the first day of the breakout, law-enforcement sources have told The Post.
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New York Post:
Bob Simon knew he was dying after crash: suit — Newsman Bob Simon was in horrific agony and knew he was dying after a West Side crash caused by a limo driver who never should have been behind the wheel, his widow charges in a new lawsuit. — The award-winning CBS vet “suffered conscious pain …
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