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Brian Mahoney / Politico:
AFL-CIO leader tries to quell pro-Sanders revolt — The labor federation's rules don't allow its state and local leaders to endorse presidential candidates, Richard Trumka says as the Vermont senator surges. — Richard Trumka has a message for state and local AFL-CIO leaders tempted to endorse Bernie Sanders: Don't.
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Sarah Lyall / New York Times:
Bernie Sanders's Revolutionary Roots Were Nurtured in '60s Vermont
Bernie Sanders's Revolutionary Roots Were Nurtured in '60s Vermont
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Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
Bernie Sanders is drawing bigger crowds than any other 2016 candidate
Bernie Sanders is drawing bigger crowds than any other 2016 candidate
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Allum Bokhari / BREITBART.COM:
Reddit is in meltdown. — The hugely popular link-sharing site is in a state of virtual lockdown after the volunteers who run some of the site's biggest communities (known as “subreddits") went on the digital equivalent of a general strike. This followed the sacking of Victoria Taylor …
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Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:
The worst agreement in U.S. diplomatic history — The devil is not in the details. It's in the entire conception of the Iran deal, animated by President Obama's fantastical belief that he, uniquely, could achieve detente with a fanatical Islamist regime whose foundational purpose is to cleanse …
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Kate Amara / WBAL-TV:
Sign inside Baltimore police van under investigation — Sign posted inside van: ‘Enjoy your ride, cuz we sure will!’ — SHOW TRANSCRIPT — The Baltimore City Police Department has launched an internal investigation after a WBAL-TV 11 News viewer shared four photographs of a sign inside a city police wagon.
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Kelsey Harkness / The Daily Signal:
State Silences Bakers Who Refused to Make Cake for Lesbian Couple, Fines Them $135K — Oregon Labor Commissioner Brad Avakian finalized a preliminary ruling today ordering Aaron and Melissa Klein, the bakers who refused to make a cake for a same-sex wedding, to pay $135,000 in emotional damages to the couple they denied service.
George Takei / Facebook:
A few fans have written wondering whether I intended to utter a racist remark by referring to Justice Thomas as a “clown in blackface.” — “Blackface” is a lesser known theatrical term for a white actor who blackens his face to play a black buffoon. In traditional theater lingo, and in my view and intent, that is not racist.
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Janine Stanwood / WPLG-TV:
Courtroom school reunion between judge, suspect — Judge Mindy Glazer, suspect Arthur Booth attended middle school together — Author: Jeff Tavss, Executive Producer, jtavss@local10.com … MIAMI - — While most school reunions are held in hotel ballrooms or local gymnasiums …
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Art Swift / Gallup:
Smaller Majority “Extremely Proud” to Be an American — Story Highlights — WASHINGTON, D.C. — As Independence Day approaches, most in the U.S. say they are proud to be an American, including a slight majority, 54%, who are “extremely proud.” The percentage saying they are “extremely proud” …
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Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Romney to host the Christies, Rubios at his New Hampshire home — BEDFORD, N.H. — New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's comeback journey begins here in New Hampshire, so the Republican presidential candidate is paying a visit to the last winner of the state's first-in-the-nation primary and one of its most famous summertime residents.
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Claire Moser / ThinkProgress:
Koch-Backed Group Calls For No More National Parks — Claire Moser is the Research and Advocacy Associate with the Public Lands Project at the Center for American Progress. You can follow her on Twitter at @Claire_Moser. — Just in time for the Fourth of July — when millions of people across …
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Katherine Krueger / Talking Points Memo:
Bubba Watson Says He Will Paint Over Confederate Flag On ‘Dukes Of Hazzard’ Car — As the tide continues to turn against Confederate flags, two-time Masters champion Bubba Watson said Thursday that he too would remove the flag from one of its most visible cultural likenesses.
San Francisco Chronicle:
TV news crews robbed in S.F.; cameraman pistol-whipped — News crews from two television stations were robbed of cameras Thursday morning, and a camera operator was pistol-whipped by a man in a ski mask, as they reported on a homicide at Pier 14 in San Francisco.
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Daniel Nussbaum / BREITBART.COM:
Illegal Aliens Disrupt Ann Coulter Book Signing, Author Fires Back — COSTA MESA, CA - Political commentator and author Ann Coulter was signing copies of her new book Adios America: The Left's Plan to Turn our Country into a Third World Hellhole at a Barnes and Noble Tuesday night when the calm …
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Gabriel San Roman / Navel Gazing:
What REALLY Happened During the Ann Coulter Protest? UPDATE
What REALLY Happened During the Ann Coulter Protest? UPDATE
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Raw Story, BREITBART.COM and Mediaite
BostonGlobe.com:
State chemist's addiction may have affected more drug cases than previously known — For years, Sonja Farak was addicted to cocaine, methamphetamine, and amphetamines, the kind of drugs usually bought from street dealers in covert transactions that carry the constant risk of arrest.