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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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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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Ben Gittleson / ABC News:
Rick Perry on Donald Trump: ‘I Was Offended by His Remarks’
Rick Perry on Donald Trump: ‘I Was Offended by His Remarks’
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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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Suzanne Daley / New York Times:
Early Returns Show Greeks Reject Terms of E.U. Bailout — ATHENS — Greek voters appeared to decisively reject a bailout deal offered by the country's creditors two weeks ago, an outcome that could redefine the country's place in Europe and shake the Continent's financial stability.
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Mehreen Khan / Telegraph:
Greek Referendum Day results live: Voting closes with polls showing ‘No’ …
Greek Referendum Day results live: Voting closes with polls showing ‘No’ …
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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.
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.
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 …
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Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Paris When It Sizzles — PARIS — THE turquoise tranquillity of the Côtes d'Azur was rocked a couple of times during the Cannes Lions Festival, the advertising world's rosé-soaked answer to the Cannes Film Festival. — Al Gore snubbed Monica Lewinsky.
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Chicago Tribune:
3 killed, 27 wounded over eight hours in Chicago, including boy, 7 — After a relatively quiet start to the Fourth of July weekend in Chicago, a burst of gun violence overnight left three dead and 27 people wounded in just eight hours, including a 7-year-old boy killed after returning from a celebration.
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Kevin Sullivan / Washington Post:
The Americans are coming! Some in a Texas county fear an Obama-led U.S. military invasion. — BASTROP, Texas — The office of the Bastrop County Republican Party is in an old lumber mill on Main Street, with peeling brown paint and a sign out front that captures the party's feelings about the Obama administration: “WISE UP AMERICA!”
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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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