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Donald Trump: I didn't expect business backlash to be “quite this severe” — Shares - — On the heels of several major corporations distancing themselves from Donald Trump's various business interests, the Republican presidential candidate admitted Saturday that he didn't think the corporate backlash …
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Mark Hensch / The Hill:
Jeb: Trump's Mexico talk ‘extraordinarily ugly’ — Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush on Saturday said he is “absolutely” offended by Donald Trump's recent remarks on Hispanic immigrants and Mexico. — Bush told reporters Trump's comments paint a false picture of Republican values, according to The Washington Post.
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Fox News:
Trump stands by statements on Mexican illegal immigrants, surprised by backlash — Republican presidential candidate and real estate mogul Donald Trump on Saturday stood by statements he made recently that too many illegal immigrants from Mexico are criminals, but said he was surprised …
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Daily Mail, The Daily Caller and No More Mister Nice Blog
Cassie Spodak / CNN:
Trump's immigration comments hurting GOP, Romney says
Trump's immigration comments hurting GOP, Romney says
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Ken Meyer / Mediaite:
Marco Rubio on Trump: ‘Offensive’ and ‘Divisive’ Comments Are Not Offering A Solution
Marco Rubio on Trump: ‘Offensive’ and ‘Divisive’ Comments Are Not Offering A Solution
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Guardian, Trail Blazers Blog, BREITBART.COM, John Hawkins' Right Wing News, BizPac Review and Politico
Jeff Gluck / USA Today:
NASCAR will not return to Donald Trump resort
NASCAR will not return to Donald Trump resort
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BizPac Review and Mediaite
Mary Margaret / People.com:
Billy Joel Marries Alexis Roderick in Surprise Wedding at His Estate — Surprise! — Billy Joel and Alexis Roderick got married on Saturday evening. — The couple “surprised guests at their annual July 4th party by exchanging vows in front of their family and close friends,” the singer's spokeswoman said in a statement to PEOPLE.
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Liz Kreutz / ABC News:
Hillary Clinton Reporters Kept Behind Moving Rope Line At New Hampshire Parade — At the Fourth of July parade Hillary Clinton marched in today in Gorham, New Hampshire, reporters following the candidate were kept — and at moments, dragged — behind an actual moving rope line.
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Joseph Weber / Fox News:
Clinton campaign ropes off reporters at New Hampshire parade
Clinton campaign ropes off reporters at New Hampshire parade
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Annie Karni / Politico:
Hillary Clinton: ‘I take a back seat to no one’ on liberal record
Hillary Clinton: ‘I take a back seat to no one’ on liberal record
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Linda Greenhouse / New York Times:
The Supreme Court and the Politics of Fear — WHEN he ran for president the second time almost half a century ago, Richard M. Nixon made Earl Warren's Supreme Court a target of his campaign. It was a brilliant move. His accusation that the court had tilted “too far in weakening …
ABC News:
???This Week??? Transcript: Gov. Rick Perry — THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT FOR “THIS WEEK” ON JULY 5, 2015. — GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS, HOST: That brings us to our next guest, the longest serving governor in Texas history, now candidate for president. — GOV. RICK PERRY (R-TX) …
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Sally Kohn / The Daily Beast:
The New Post-Homophobic Christianity — Most Christians are going to adapt to the new America just fine. — Since the Supreme Court's decision in Obergefell v. Hodges that legalized marriage equality in America, some conservative Christians have been downright apoplectic.
Matt Schiavenza / The Atlantic:
China's Unsettling Stock Market Collapse — An investor is reflected in a screen showing stock information at a brokerage house in Hefei, Anhui province. (Reuters) — This summer has not been calm for the global economy. In Europe, a Greek referendum this Sunday may determine whether the country will remain in the eurozone.
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Power Line and New York Times
Kevin D. Williamson / National Review:
Americans Are Blessed with Liberty, but Not Because We Deserve It — The American proposition is a theological proposition: “that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights.” — Just how radical that idea is is difficult for the 21st-century Western mind to comprehend.
Haley Bull / KFDM-TV:
Alligator Attacks And Kills 28-Year-Old Man — Investigators, a witness and friends are revealing the harrowing accounts of the first recorded fatal alligator attack in Texas and more about the victim. — A justice of the peace tells KFDM News Tommie Woodward, 28, is from St. Louis, but moved to Orange with his twin brother.
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Cristina Marcos / The Hill:
GOP punts on Confederate symbolism in Capitol — House Republicans are struggling with the question of whether to remove the Confederate image from around the Capitol complex — and they seem in no hurry to commit themselves one way or another. — Democratic Rep. Bennie Thompson …
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