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Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post:
FBI: Breakdown in background check system allowed Dylann Roof to buy gun — Dylann Roof, who is accused of killing nine people at a church in South Carolina, should not have been able to purchase the gun used in the attack and was allowed to buy the weapon only because of breakdowns …
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Politico, Liberaland, Talking Points Memo, Los Angeles Times, ThinkProgress, Guardian, Business Insider and The Daily Caller
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New York Times:
Background Check Flaw Let Dylann Roof Buy Gun, F.B.I. Says — WASHINGTON — The man accused of killing nine people in an historically black South Carolina church last month should not have been able to buy a gun, the F.B.I. said Friday in what was the latest acknowledgment of flaws in the national background check system.
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CNN, Hit & Run, Mediaite, The Federalist, The Huffington Post and The Week
Julie Hirschfeld Davis / New York Times:
Katherine Archuleta, Director of Office of Personnel Management, Resigns — WASHINGTON — Katherine Archuleta, the director of the Office of Personnel Management, will resign effective Friday, according to a White House official, one day after it was revealed that sweeping cyberintrusions …
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CNN, Power Line, Hot Air, Political Wire, Fox News, Instapundit, Bangor Daily News, Business Insider, The Week, Washington Free Beacon, Slantpoint, Engadget and The Atlantic
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ABC News:
OPM Director Resigns After Devastating Data Breaches — Embattled Office of Personnel Management Director Katherine Archuleta has resigned, sources told ABC News today. — Archuleta is stepping down after the personal information of more than 22 million people was compromised in devastating hacks.
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Yahoo Politics, Washington Free Beacon, Moe Lane, Engadget and Guardian
National Journal:
OPM Director Katherine Archuleta Quits — Congressional support eroded after announcement that 21 million Social Security numbers were compromised. — Katherine Archuleta, the director of the Office of Personnel Management, has resigned from her post amid a cascading scandal over her handling …
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Outside the Beltway, Washington Times, Wall Street Journal and ABC News
Guardian:
Go Set A Watchman: read the first chapter - interactive — An exclusive extract from the new novel by Harper Lee, the author of To Kill A Mockingbird, published on 14 July — Since Atlanta, she had looked out the dining-car window with a delight almost physical.
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The Atlantic, The Week, The Verge, KTLA, Raw Story, Mashable and Daily Mail
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Wall Street Journal:
Harper Lee's ‘Go Set a Watchman’: Read the First Chapter — Read the first chapter of Harper Lee's ‘Go Set a Watchman,’ which will be published July 14. — In 1957, when she was 31 years old, Harper Lee submitted her first attempt at a novel to the publisher J.B. Lippincott.
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NBC News, NPR, LiberalAmerica.org, New York Times, Bloomberg View and The Verge
Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Hillary Clinton's push on gun control marks a shift in presidential politics — In her standard stump speech, Hillary Rodham Clinton talks about fighting income inequality, celebrating court rulings on gay marriage and health care and, since the Emanuel AME church massacre, toughening the nation's gun laws.
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Daily Kos, Los Angeles Times, Taylor Marsh, Hot Air and Bloomberg Business
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Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly:
The Promise and Peril of “Hidden Majority” Theories
The Promise and Peril of “Hidden Majority” Theories
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Progress Pond
Ben Schreckinger / Politico:
Confederate flag comes down for good at S.C. Statehouse — COLUMBIA, S.C. — With thousands looking on, the Confederate flag at the South Carolina Statehouse came down permanently on Friday morning. — The flag was removed in a short ceremony by an honor guard of the South Carolina Highway Patrol …
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Greece's Economy Is a Lesson for Republicans in the U.S. — Greece is a faraway country with an economy roughly the size of greater Miami, so America has very little direct stake in its ongoing disaster. To the extent that Greece matters to us, it's mainly about geopolitics …
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Washington Monthly, Forbes, Washington Post and Salon
Wall Street Journal:
Wisconsin's Friend at the IRS — Emails show a common cause in restricting political speech. — Wisconsin's campaign to investigate conservative tax-exempt groups has always seemed like an echo of the IRS's scrutiny of conservative groups applying for tax-exempt status.
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JSOnline, RedState and National Review
Dylan Byers / Politico:
N.Y. Times keeps Cruz off bestseller list — The New York Times informed HarperCollins this week that it will not include Ted Cruz's new biography on its forthcoming bestsellers list, despite the fact that the book has sold more copies in its first week than all but two of the Times' bestselling titles, the On Media blog has learned.
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Jason Pohl / Coloradoan Online:
Spotify search warrant helps nab alleged child abductors — There was food left on the table. — Dishes filled the kitchen sink. — It looked like 25-year-old Wellington resident Brittany Nunn, her husband Peter Barr, and her two young girls had gone out for ice cream, said Drew Weber …
Stephanie Kafka / Gallup:
U.S. Uninsured Rate at 11.4% in Second Quarter — Story Highlights — WASHINGTON, D.C. — The uninsured rate among U.S. adults aged 18 and older was 11.4% in the second quarter of 2015, down from 11.9% in the first quarter. The uninsured rate has dropped nearly six percentage points since …
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Washington Post, PoliticusUSA and Business Insider
Bill Cotterell / Reuters:
Florida Supreme Court orders redrawing of some U.S. congressional districts — The Florida Supreme Court on Thursday ordered the redrawing of some of the state's U.S. congressional districts before the 2016 elections. — In a 5-2 ruling, the state's high court found the legislature's redistricting plan …
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Orlando Weekly and MintPress News
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New York Times:
In Bolivia, Pope Francis Apologizes for Church's ‘Grave Sins’ — SANTA CRUZ, Bolivia — Pope Francis offered a direct apology on Thursday for the complicity of the Roman Catholic Church in the oppression of Latin America during the colonial era, even as he called for a global social movement to shatter a …
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Religion News Service, Slantpoint and Eschaton
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BBC:
Film star Omar Sharif dies aged 83 — Omar Sharif earned an Oscar nomination for Lawrence of Arabia — Actor Omar Sharif, best known for his roles in classic films Lawrence of Arabia and Doctor Zhivago, has died aged 83. — Egypt-born Sharif won two Golden Globe awards and an Oscar nomination …
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The Scoop Blog and American Spectator
Noah Phillips / Washington Post:
I tried to escape my privilege with low-wage work. Instead I came face to face with it. — The advantages of race and class are not easily shed, even in a falafel shop. — I attended the Edmund Burke School, one of Northwest Washington's small private prep schools …
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Althouse
Kaveh Waddell / National Journal:
OPM Doesn't Know Who It Will Hire to Protect the 21.5 Million Individuals Affected by Hack — The agency said it would notify 21.5 million people and offer at least three years of free identity-protection services, but it has not found a contractor that will do so on its behalf.
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Wired, Hit & Run, Weekly Standard, John Hawkins' Right Wing News, Hot Air and Washington Free Beacon
Susan Jones / CNSNews:
Jan Brewer: Donald Trump ‘Telling It Like It Really, Truly Is’ — (CNSNews.com) - Although he's been villified by amnesty advocates, business tycoon Donald Trump is right about the problems, including crime, caused by people crossing into the United States illegally, says the former governor of Arizona.
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BREITBART.COM and John Hawkins' Right Wing News
Valerie Strauss / Washington Post:
What Gov. Scott Walker is about to do to Wisconsin's public schools — Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is busy these days, what with preparing to officially join the gaggle of Republican candidates vying for the 2016 GOP Republican nomination and planning to sign a new state budget.
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Diane Ravitch's blog