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Katherine Krueger / Talking Points Memo:
Trump Lashes Out At Critics, Makes Incendiary New Claims About Mexico — In a lengthy written statement Monday, Donald Trump doubled down on his recent remarks about Mexican immigrants being “rapists” and criminals, making the additional claim that “tremendous infectious disease is pouring across the border.”
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Hunter Walker / Business Insider:
Donald Trump just released an epic statement raging against Mexican immigrants and ‘disease’ — Donald Trump is doubling down on his controversial comments about Mexican immigration. — The entrepreneur and Republican presidential candidate sent out an epic three page …
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Jordan Chariton / The Wrap:
Donald Trump Deletes Tweet About Jeb Bush's Wife: You Like ‘Mexican Illegals’ Because of Your Wife
Donald Trump Deletes Tweet About Jeb Bush's Wife: You Like ‘Mexican Illegals’ Because of Your Wife
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Talking Points Memo and PoliticusUSA
Alex Pappas / The Daily Caller:
Ben Carson On The Trump Uproar: 'It's The PC Police Out In Force'
Ben Carson On The Trump Uproar: 'It's The PC Police Out In Force'
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Josh Feldman / Mediaite:
‘Disease Is Pouring Across the Border’: Trump Releases New, Very Long Statement
‘Disease Is Pouring Across the Border’: Trump Releases New, Very Long Statement
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David Edwards / Raw Story:
‘The devil is taking control’: Watch SC senator derail Confederate flag debate with insane gay marriage rant — DON'T MISS STORIES. FOLLOW RAW STORY! — South Carolina state Sen. Lee Bright (R) began debate about removing the Confederate flag from the statehouse grounds on Monday …
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Cynthia Roldan / Post and Courier:
Senate suspends Confederate Flag debate for short break — The State president for the National Action Network James Johnson, right, calls for the immediate removal of the Confederate flag from the Statehouse grounds in Columbia, S.C. Monday, July 6, 2015. — COLUMBIA — It's been a morning …
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Politico, Washington Post, ThinkProgress and Daily Kos
Jesse Byrnes / The Hill:
South Carolina Senate votes to remove Confederate flag
South Carolina Senate votes to remove Confederate flag
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Jamie Self / The State:
S.C. Senate pushes forward with removing Confederate flag
S.C. Senate pushes forward with removing Confederate flag
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Maryclaire Dale / Associated Press:
APNewsBreak: Cosby said he got drugs to give women for sex — 5 photos — PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Bill Cosby admitted in 2005 that he got quaaludes with the intent of giving them to young women he wanted to have sex with, and that he gave the sedative to at least one woman and “other people …
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TMZ.com:
Amanda Peterson Dies — 'Can't Buy Me Love' Star Dead at 43 … KIDD KIDD — BONDSMAN TO THE RESCUE WITH $105K — ... Plus a Hot Dog
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Financial Times:
Unyielding eurozone gives Athens last chance — Peter Spiegel in Brussels, Claire Jones in Frankfurt and Kerin Hope in Athens — Athens will be given a final chance to present a new reform plan to eurozone leaders on Tuesday night despite a hardening attitude to Greece in many capitals …
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ELA to Greek banks maintained
ELA to Greek banks maintained
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Stelios Bouras / Wall Street Journal:
Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis Resigns After Referendum
Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis Resigns After Referendum
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Washington Post, Guardian, Telegraph, The Daily Signal, New York Times and Yanis Varoufakis
Jonathan Allen / Vox:
Confessions of a Clinton reporter: The media's 5 unspoken rules for covering Hillary — The reporter's job is to “comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable” — a credo that, humorously, was originally written as a smear of the self-righteous nature of journalists.
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New York Times:
Bernie Sanders' Momentum in Iowa Leaves Clinton Camp on Edge — The ample crowds and unexpectedly strong showing garnered by Senator Bernie Sanders are setting off worry among advisers and allies of Hillary Rodham Clinton, who believe the Vermont senator could overtake her in Iowa polls …
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Josh Kraushaar / National Journal:
Here's the Real Reason Hillary Clinton Has a Lock on the Democratic Nomination
Here's the Real Reason Hillary Clinton Has a Lock on the Democratic Nomination
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Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
Team Clinton ‘worried’ about Bernie Sanders campaign
Team Clinton ‘worried’ about Bernie Sanders campaign
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CNN, Wall Street Journal, American Spectator and Washington Times
Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
White House defends immigration policies after killing of San Francisco woman — The White House on Monday defended its immigration policies and blasted Republicans following the killing of a San Francisco woman — allegedly by an illegal immigrant. — When asked if the case was a failure …
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Emily Shapiro / ABC News:
San Francisco Shooting Suspect Says He Kept Coming Back to the City to Avoid Deportation
San Francisco Shooting Suspect Says He Kept Coming Back to the City to Avoid Deportation
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FOX News Radio, Daily Mail, Power Line, San Francisco Chronicle, KFOR-TV and Twitchy
Tallahassee Democrat:
Video shows punch that led to QB De'Andre Johnson's arrest — FSU quarterback De'Andre Johnson at the Tallahassee bar Yiannis, State Attorney's Office — The State Attorney's Office released surveillance video today of Florida State University quarterback De'Andre Johnson punching a woman at a bar last month.
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Lucas Tomlinson / Fox News:
Officials: US jets scramble to intercept Russian bombers off California, Alaska coasts on July 4 — This file photo shows a Russian Tupolev Tu-95 plane photographed by the Norwegian Air Force outside the coast of Norway in 2007. (Reuters) — While the United States celebrated Independence Day …
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Addicting Info and The Daily Caller
Mary Jordan / Washington Post:
Scott Walker's wife, toughened by life, is ready for fires of a campaign — WAUWATOSA, Wis. — Tonette Tarantino's year of sorrow came when she was only 30. First she lost the grandmother who helped raise her, like a second mother. Weeks later her brother, her only sibling, died of bone cancer.
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Yahoo Politics:
Eric Holder: The Justice Department could strike deal with Edward Snowden — Former attorney general Eric Holder said today that a “possibility exists” for the Justice Department to cut a deal with former NSA contractor Edward Snowden that would allow him to return to the United States from Moscow.
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Business Insider, Mediaite and Guardian
Patrick Marley / JSOnline:
Walker office already acts as if records exemption is law — Madison— Gov. Scott Walker announced over the weekend that Republicans were abandoning their plan to create new exceptions to the state's open records law, but for months the all-but-certain presidential candidate has been operating as if one exemption already was in place.
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Sky News:
Alien Life On Philae Comet, Scientists Say — An image transmitted by the Rosetta space craft — Evidence of alien life is “unequivocal” on the comet carrying the Philae probe through space, two leading astronomers have said. — The experts say the most likely explanation for certain features …
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Steven Hayward / Power Line:
Perry Sense — While Donald Trump continues to get disproportionate attention for his correctly grounded—if not well formulated—attacks on out of control immigration, Texas Gov. Rick Perry is quietly emerging as a much more serious candidate. Worth catching the excerpts of his remarks …
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Wall Street Journal and Instapundit
Steven Shepard / Politico:
Democrats face narrow path to retake Senate in 2016 — The 2016 map is favorable for Democrats, but margin for error is slim. — Democrats can take back the Senate in 2016 after a stinging, nine-seat defeat last year — but their path is narrow, and any gains could be fleeting.
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Political Wire
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
The next big liberal cause: universal child care — Universal child care is becoming a central pillar of the liberal agenda — one that, if it is ever realized, could take its place alongside some of the great progressive reforms of the 20th Century, and possibly the Affordable Care Act …
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KING-TV, Addicting Info and Washington Monthly