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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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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.
Ben Schreckinger / Politico:
Confederate flag comes down for good at S.C. Statehouse
Confederate flag comes down for good at S.C. Statehouse
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Yahoo Politics
Damian Paletta / Wall Street Journal:
FBI Admits Error in Charleston Suspect's Gun Background Check
FBI Admits Error in Charleston Suspect's Gun Background Check
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Fox News Insider
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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Jeryl Bier / Weekly Standard:
Day Before Hack Announced, OPM Released ‘Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Discrimination’ Guide
Day Before Hack Announced, OPM Released ‘Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Discrimination’ Guide
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Federal Times, Fusion and National Journal
Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly:
The Promise and Peril of “Hidden Majority” Theories — If you are a political party or party faction, and you find yourself in what appears to be a durable minority position with the electorate as it currently exist, you have four basic options to boost your standing: (1) …
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Booman Tribune and Democratic Strategist
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Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Hillary Clinton's push on gun control marks a shift in presidential politics
Hillary Clinton's push on gun control marks a shift in presidential politics
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Los Angeles Times, Daily Kos, Taylor Marsh, Hot Air and Bloomberg Business
Kara Swisher / Re/code:
Pao Out as Reddit CEO; Co-Founder Huffman Takes Over — Ellen Pao is stepping down as Reddit CEO, a move that comes amid mounting pressure after a series of management mishaps that has angered its very vocal online community. Steve Huffman, Reddit co-founder and its original CEO, is taking over immediately.
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Mike Isaac / New York Times:
Ellen Pao Is Stepping Down as Reddit's Chief — Ellen Pao, the interim chief executive of Reddit, resigned from the online message board on Friday after a week of ceaseless criticism from scores of angry users over the handling of an employee departure. — Ms. Pao will be replaced by Steve Huffman …
Peggy Noonan / Wall Street Journal:
Donald Trump's Appeal—and Its Limits — Sometimes an ill wind feels like a breath of fresh air. — Donald Trump is an unstable element inserted into an unsettled environment. Sooner or later there will be a boom. — He has shot up like a rocket since his June announcement but likely has a low ceiling and short staying power.
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Hot Air, The Hill, Outside the Beltway and No More Mister Nice Blog
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Rasmussen Reports:
Voters Want to Punish Sanctuary Cities
Voters Want to Punish Sanctuary Cities
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Washington Free Beacon and Hot Air
Susan Jones / CNSNews:
Jan Brewer: Donald Trump ‘Telling It Like It Really, Truly Is’
Jan Brewer: Donald Trump ‘Telling It Like It Really, Truly Is’
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BREITBART.COM and John Hawkins' Right Wing News
McKay Coppins / BuzzFeed:
HarperCollins Refutes New York Times Claim That Ted Cruz Tried To Game Bestseller List — “No evidence of bulk orders or sales through any retailer or organization,” says the publisher, in a rare rebuttal to the all-powerful Times. — Richard Ellis / Getty Images
Michiko Kakutani / New York Times:
Review: Harper Lee's ‘Go Set a Watchman’ Gives Atticus Finch a Dark Side — We remember Atticus Finch in Harper Lee's 1960 classic, “To Kill a Mockingbird,” as that novel's moral conscience: kind, wise, honorable, an avatar of integrity who used his gifts as a lawyer to defend …
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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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Marc Caputo / Politico:
Court ruling opens door to Charlie Crist comeback
Court ruling opens door to Charlie Crist comeback
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Washington Monthly and Moe Lane
Politico:
The Daily Cruz — How Breitbart.com, partly funded by a top Ted Cruz donor, became the Texas senator's media lifeline. — Ted Cruz has a media strategy. It's called Breitbart.com. — The Texas senator is firmly ensconced in the middle of the Republican presidential primary pack.
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Washington Monthly, Trail Blazers Blog and Daily Kos
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, Talking Points Memo, Business Insider and PoliticusUSA
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
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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Telegraph, The Atlantic, New York Times, Instapundit, The Scoop Blog and American Spectator
Debra Kessler / The Interrobang:
Washington Post Writer Who Accused Amy Schumer Of Racism Never Saw Her Standup or TV Show … The Washington Post, one of our nation's most venerable guardians of free speech took a step in a surprising direction earlier this week, publishing an article by Dr. Stacey Patton and David Leonard …
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Hit & Run, UPROXX, Balloon Juice and Instapundit
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 Post, Washington Monthly, Forbes and Salon
Nina Totenberg / NPR:
Ginsburg: Liberal Justices Make A Point To Speak With One Voice — Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Thursday provided an unusual peek behind-the-scenes at how the court did its work this term. — It's true, she said, that the liberal justices tried to be disciplined about having …
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Business Insider
James Risen / New York Times:
Psychologists Shielded U.S. Torture Program, Report Finds — WASHINGTON — The Central Intelligence Agency's health professionals repeatedly criticized the agency's post-Sept. 11 interrogation program, but their protests were rebuffed by prominent outside psychologists who lent credibility to the program …
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Guardian
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 …