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Adam B. Lerner / Politico:
The 12 Hillary Clinton emails you must read — From Hillary's frustration with the White House to that epic battle with the fax machine. — On Tuesday evening the State Department released approximately 3,000 pages of emails sent by and to Hillary Clinton during her time as secretary of state, primarily in 2009.
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Daily Kos, New York Times and Taylor Marsh
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Elizabeth Potter / Washington Examiner:
Yes, Clinton lied about her emails — It is rare for news events, even as momentous as the past week's, to drown out absolute proof that a candidate for president has lied willfully to the public and Congress. Yet precisely such proof has emerged, and it has appeared not only in this newspaper …
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The Last Refuge
Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
Clinton: Benghazi panel a ‘charade’ — The House Select Committee on Benghazi is a “charade,” Hillary Clinton's campaign charges in a new video blasting the committee for wasting taxpayer money on politics. — “The Benghazi Select Committee is spending $8,000 a day in taxpayer money to keep digging …
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Real Clear Politics and Daily Kos
Markos Moulitsas / The Hill:
A bad week for the GOP — If you're one of the nearly 20 Republicans running for president next year, you need to find a way to differentiate yourself from the herd — so you're probably grateful to the conservative-led Supreme Court for chumming the waters last week.
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Bloomberg Business
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Chris Geidner / BuzzFeed:
Appeals Court Takes Formal Step To End Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas Marriage Bans
Appeals Court Takes Formal Step To End Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas Marriage Bans
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Talking Points Memo, Advocate and Mashable
Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly:
Supreme Fallout — Yesterday morning when I was discussing …
Supreme Fallout — Yesterday morning when I was discussing …
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Booman Tribune, Advocate and The Daily Beast
CNN:
Poll: Bush, Trump rising nationally for GOP, but both trail Clinton — Story highlights — Washington (CNN)With nearly all of the expected 2016 presidential candidates formally in the race, a new CNN/ORC national poll finds two recent entrants to the GOP field on the rise …
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S.V. Dáte / National Journal:
Trump Trouble For The GOP in New Hampshire
Trump Trouble For The GOP in New Hampshire
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Bloomberg Business, Des Moines Register and Trail Blazers Blog
MJ Lee / CNN:
First on CNN: Macy's dumps Donald Trump
First on CNN: Macy's dumps Donald Trump
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Melissa Clark / New York Times:
Green Pea Guacamole — Adding fresh English peas to what is an otherwise fairly traditional guacamole is one of those radical moves that is also completely obvious after you taste it. The peas add intense sweetness and a chunky texture to the dip, making it more substantial on the chip.
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ABC News, Associated Press, Guardian, Hot Air, Trail Blazers Blog, Mashable, Washington Post, NPR and CBS Dallas
Jessica Derschowitz / EW.com:
TV LAND PULLS DUKES OF HAZZARD EPISODES OFF ITS SCHEDULE — TV Land has pulled reruns of The Dukes of Hazzard off its schedule, a spokesperson for the network confirmed to EW on Wednesday. — The network did not comment further or say why the episodes were removed, but the news comes …
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Todd Starnes / Fox News:
EXCLUSIVE: County Clerk Resigns Instead of Issuing Gay Marriage Licenses — Linda Barnette has issued marriage licenses in Grenada County, Mississippi for 24 years. On Tuesday, she resigned. — “I choose to obey God rather than man,” Mrs. Barnette wrote in her one paragraph resignation letter …
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USA Today, Friendly Atheist and Joe. My. God.
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Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Cruz: Cuba embassy a ‘slap in the face’ to Israel — Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) slammed Obama's decision to reopen the U.S. embassy in Cuba, suggesting that it was a “slap in the face” to Israel. — The administration announced on Wednesday that it has told lawmakers that a deal has been reached …
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Politico, Daily Kos, ABC News, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion and Booman Tribune
Yanisv / Yanis Varoufakis:
Why we recommend a NO in the referendum - in 6 short bullet points — Negotiations have stalled because Greece's creditors (a) refused to reduce our un-payable public debt and (b) insisted that it should be repaid ‘parametrically’ by the weakest members of our society, their children and their grandchildren
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Telegraph, Business Insider and Agence France-Presse
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Jennifer Rankin / Guardian:
Greek debt: Merkel dismisses Tsipras's last-ditch compromise plan
Greek debt: Merkel dismisses Tsipras's last-ditch compromise plan
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Reuters and YouGov US Opinion Center News
Laylan Connelly / Orange County Register:
'I've never seen this before': How a family outing took ‘totally bizarre’ turn after dolphin lands in boat, breaks woman's ankles — A dolphin jumped from the water and landed inside a family's boat on June 21. Dirk Frickman drove the dolphin to a dock, where it was released back into the ocean.
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NBC News and Associated Press
USA Today:
FBI investigating 11 attacks on San Francisco-area Internet lines — The FBI is investigating at least 11 physical attacks on high-capacity Internet cables in California's San Francisco Bay Area dating back a year, including one early Tuesday morning. — Agents confirm the latest attack …
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Fusion, Business Insider and Engadget
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Drew FitzGerald / Wall Street Journal:
FBI Investigates New Attack On Internet Fiber Optic Cables
FBI Investigates New Attack On Internet Fiber Optic Cables
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Los Angeles Times, Computerworld, ThinkProgress and 89.3 KPCC
Daniel Schulman / Mother Jones:
An Inside Look at How Hillary Clinton Plays the Media — “Greta...is malleable.” — On Tuesday night, the State Department released some 3,000 pages of emails between Hillary Clinton and her aides during her tenure as secretary of state. The correspondence offers a fascinating behind …
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Mediaite, The Daily Caller, Hot Air, Politico and Bloomberg Business, more at Mediagazer »
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Vincent Broughton / CBS Denver:
Black Suspect Arrested After Racist Message Discovered Outside Predominately Black Church — COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (CBS4)- A Colorado Springs man was arrested after police believe he left racist messages outside a church. — Vincent Broughton, 44, who is black, is facing charges …
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The Gateway Pundit and The Last Refuge
Sultan Knish:
No Truce With the Left — There comes a time when every conservative thinker tries to find some common ground with the left in some area. Today it's criminal rights and the headlines have Rand Paul denouncing the racist justice system while Grover Norquist and the Koch Brothers join with the left to back their reforms.
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Vox Popoli
Robert D. McFadden / New York Times:
Nicholas Winton Is Dead at 106; Saved Children from the Holocaust — Nicholas Winton, a Briton who said nothing for a half-century about his role in organizing the escape of 669 mostly Jewish children from Czechoslovakia on the eve of World War II, a righteous deed like those of Oskar Schindler …
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Outside the Beltway and ImmigrationProf Blog
Pew Internet:
Americans, Politics and Science Issues — Summary of Findings — One of the key trends in public opinion over the past few decades has been a growing divide among Republicans and Democrats into ideologically uniform “silos.” A larger share of the American public expresses issue positions …
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Business Insider, Pew Research Center and NBC News
Monte Morin / Los Angeles Times:
California residents cut water use by hefty 29% in May, officials say — Residential water use in California dropped by a hefty 29% in May, according to figures released Wednesday by the State Water Resources Control Board. — The drop in usage was the biggest monthly decline yet reported since …
Steve Mistler / The Portland Press Herald:
LePage attorney tells watchdog agency: You don't have power to investigate governor — In a letter to the Legislature's Office of Program Evaluation and Government Accountability, the governor's legal counsel cites the Maine Constitution. — AUGUSTA — Gov. Paul LePage's chief legal counsel …
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Daily Kos
Jonathan O'Connell / Washington Post:
Obama Administration rebuffs D.C.'s efforts to bring back the Redskins — Efforts to lure the Washington Redskins back to the District have come up against a potentially insurmountable challenge: the Obama Administration's objections to the team's name. — Interior Secretary Sally Jewell …
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ProFootballTalk and SBNation.com