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Ben Norton:
Dashcam Video of Violent Arrest of Sandra Bland Was Edited — The dashcam video released to the public of the violent arrest of Sandra Bland was edited. — Bland was a 28-year-old Black Lives Matter civil rights activist and vocal critic of police brutality who died in police custody …
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Richie Duchon / NBC News:
Sandra Bland Death: Texas to Look Into Alleged Edits of Dashcam Video — Texas Department of Public Safety authorities said late Tuesday they were looking into alleged edits to a 52-minute dashcam video of the traffic stop and arrest of Sandra Bland, who subsequently died in her jail cell three days after her arrest.
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Jaeah Lee / Mother Jones:
New Video Shows Aggressive Arrest of Sandra Bland Prior to Her Death in a Texas Jail
New Video Shows Aggressive Arrest of Sandra Bland Prior to Her Death in a Texas Jail
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Guardian, Slantpoint, Raw Story, Chicago Tribune, The Huffington Post, The Atlantic, Hot Air, The Texas Tribune and Hit & Run
David Montgomery / New York Times:
Officer Threatened Sandra Bland With Taser, Police Video Shows
Officer Threatened Sandra Bland With Taser, Police Video Shows
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Molly Hennessy-Fiske / Los Angeles Times:
What happened to Sandra Bland in cell 95? Debate continues with video release
What happened to Sandra Bland in cell 95? Debate continues with video release
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Kirsten Powers / USA Today:
Crush Planned Parenthood — Caught in stomach-turning video, all it can apologize for is the tone. — Planned Parenthood head Cecile Richards apologized last week for the uncompassionate tone her senior director of medical research, Deborah Nucatola, used to explain the process …
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New York Times:
The Campaign of Deception Against Planned Parenthood — A hidden-camera video released last week purported to show that Planned Parenthood illegally sells tissue from aborted fetuses. It shows nothing of the sort. But it is the latest in a series of unrelenting attacks on Planned Parenthood …
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Melissa Quinn / The Daily Signal:
Meet the 41 Companies That Donate Directly to Planned Parenthood
Meet the 41 Companies That Donate Directly to Planned Parenthood
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Fred Fleitz / National Review:
IAEA Tells Congressmen of Two Secret Side Deals to Iran Agreement That Won't Be Shared with Congress — Senator Tom Cotton (R., Ark.) and Congressmen Mike Pompeo (R., Kan.) issued a press release today on a startling discovery they made during a July 17 meeting with International Atomic …
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Pompeo, Mike:
Pompeo, Cotton Urge Disclosure of Complete Iran Nuclear Deal — Pompeo, Cotton Urge Disclosure of Complete Iran Nuclear Deal — IAEA tells the lawmakers that two inspections arrangements regarding Iran's past military work will remain secret — WASHINGTON, D.C. - Congressman Mike Pompeo …
Nick Gass / Politico:
Trump: I gave out Lindsey Graham's phone number ‘for fun’ — Donald Trump has no regrets about giving out Lindsey Graham's cellphone number on Tuesday. — In fact, Trump said Wednesday, he “did it for fun.” — Story Continued Below — Asked on “Fox and Friends” …
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Ed O'Keefe / Washington Post:
Lindsey Graham's phone is still ringing. Now Kelly Ayotte's kids are answering. — Sen. Lindsey Graham's cellphone is still ringing hours after Donald Trump shared the number on national television. And he's still picking up. But he's not the only one: he's got another senator's kids on phone duty too.
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Donald Trump / The Onion:
Admit It: You People Want To See How Far This Goes, Don't You? — The latest polls are out, and just as I predicted, I'm leading the Republican presidential race by a wide margin. You might be wondering how that could be. After all, it's hardly been a month since I entered the field …
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Dylan Byers / Politico:
Will GOP debate be the Trump show?
Kristina Wong / The Hill:
Trump orders flags flown at half-staff for ‘soldiers’ — Donald Trump said Tuesday that he has ordered flags to be flown at half-staff at all Trump properties in honor of four Marines and a sailor killed last week in Chattanooga, Tenn. — Trump also referred to the victims as “soldiers …
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whitehouse.gov:
Presidential Proclamation — Honoring the Victims of the Tragedy in Chattanooga, Tennessee
Presidential Proclamation — Honoring the Victims of the Tragedy in Chattanooga, Tennessee
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New York Times and Alaska Governor News
Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
Obama lowers White House flag
Obama lowers White House flag
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Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
Trump to visit Texas border — Donald Trump will visit the border between Texas and Mexico on Thursday. — The presidential candidate will arrive in Laredo to meet with a local border patrol union before traveling to the border to address the media. He'll then speak at an event for law enforcement, his campaign said.
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The Texas Tribune, The Gateway Pundit and The Right Scoop
Lucas Tomlinson / Fox News:
Army chief Odierno, in exit interview, says US could have ‘prevented’ ISIS rise — EXCLUSIVE: The Army's top officer told Fox News Tuesday it's “frustrating” to watch the gains he helped achieve in Iraq disintegrate at the hands of the Islamic State, saying in an exit interview that the chaos now unfolding …
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Politico, Hot Air, Washington Free Beacon, Daily Mail, The Right Scoop and New York Times
Nancy Dillon / New York Daily News:
‘No one remembers him’: Donald Trump's classmates from UPenn business school have ‘no memory of him whatsoever,’ doubt his claims of being top in class — Donald Trump styles himself a natural-born genius with the academic credentials and business savvy to save the nation.
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Art Swift / Gallup:
Pope Francis' Favorable Rating Drops in U.S. — Story Highlights — WASHINGTON, D.C. — Pope Francis' favorability rating in the U.S. has returned to where it was when he was elected pope. It is now at 59%, down from 76% in early 2014. The pontiff's rating is similar to the 58% …
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Politico and Religion News Service
BBC:
The 100 greatest American films — BBC Culture polled film critics from around the world to determine the best American movies ever made. The results are surprising - Gone With the Wind appears at 97. — Google + — America's films are among its greatest exports.
Stephen Dinan / Washington Times:
Obama defends IRS, says tea party targeting didn't happen — President Obama defended the IRS Tuesday in an interview with “Daily Show” host Jon Stewart, saying the tea party targeting scandal was actually Congress's fault for passing “a crummy law” and that the real problem is the agency doesn't have enough money.
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John Hawkins' Right Wing News and The Daily Caller
Bruce Weber / New York Times:
E. L. Doctorow, Literary Time Traveler Who Stirred the Past Into Fiction, Dies at 84 — E. L. Doctorow, a leading figure in contemporary American letters whose popular, critically admired and award-winning novels — including “Ragtime,” “Billy Bathgate” and “The March” …
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David Larter / Navy Times:
Sources: Navy officer, Marine fought to take out Chattanooga gunman — A Navy officer and a Marine fired their sidearms hoping to kill or subdue the gunman who murdered five service members last week in Chattanooga, Tennessee, according to multiple military officials familiar with internal reporting on the tragedy.
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Washington Post, Associated Press and The Gateway Pundit
The Annie E. Casey Foundation:
1.7 Million More Children Live in Low-Income Working Families Today Than in Midst of Great Recession — About 1.7 million more children live in low-income working families today than during the Great Recession, according to the newly released 2015 KIDS COUNT Data Book from the Annie. E. Casey Foundation.
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