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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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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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Associated Press:
US PERSONNEL CHIEF RESISTS CALLS TO RESIGN AMID DATA HACK
US PERSONNEL CHIEF RESISTS CALLS TO RESIGN AMID DATA HACK
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American Spectator, Hot Air, John Hawkins' Right Wing News and National Journal
Senator Ben Sasse / Wired:
Senator Sasse: The OPM Hack May Have Given China a Spy Recruiting Database
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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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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Cameron Joseph / New York Daily News:
Presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders defends past votes on gun control measures
Presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders defends past votes on gun control measures
Noah Rothman / Commentary Magazine:
Hillary Clinton's Lies
Hillary Clinton's Lies
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Stuart Stevens / The Daily Beast:
This Is How Hillary Loses the Primary
This Is How Hillary Loses the Primary
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Outside the Beltway and CANNONFIRE
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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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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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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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.
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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Radley Balko / Washington Post:
Michigan judge bullies children in open court for refusing to see their dad — The Internet is abuzz this morning about Michigan Circuit Judge Lisa Gorcyca, who berated three juvenile siblings in her court before sending them to juvenile detention. Their crime? They didn't want to have lunch with their father.
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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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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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Leah Libresco / FiveThirtyEight:
Women Haven't Had Their Own Ticker-Tape Parade Since 1960 — Friday's ticker-tape parade in honor of the U.S. women's national soccer team, which won the World Cup on Sunday, is the first such parade in New York to honor exclusively women since 1960. That's when Carol Heiss received …
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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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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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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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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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