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Associated Press:
Court bars anti-abortion group from releasing new videos of Calif. company officials — LOS ANGELES - A temporary restraining order has been issued preventing an anti-abortion group from releasing any video of leaders of a California company that provides fetal tissue to researchers.
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Dylan StablefordSenior / Yahoo Politics:
Marco Rubio: ‘All this outrage over a dead lion, but where is all the outrage over the planned parenthood dead babies’
Marco Rubio: ‘All this outrage over a dead lion, but where is all the outrage over the planned parenthood dead babies’
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Katie Yoder / NewsBusters:
Nets Covered Cecil the Lion More in 1 Day Than Abortion Videos in 2 Weeks
Nets Covered Cecil the Lion More in 1 Day Than Abortion Videos in 2 Weeks
Emma Ockerman / The Columbus Dispatch:
Rep. Bill Patmon introduces bill to strip state funding from Planned Parenthood
Rep. Bill Patmon introduces bill to strip state funding from Planned Parenthood
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Quinnipiac University:
Release Detail — July 30, 2015 - Trump Tops Republican Pack By Wide Margin, Quinnipiac University National Poll Finds; But Dems Trump Trump In General Election — With 20 percent of Republican voters, Donald Trump is the clear leader in the crowded Republican presidential primary field …
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Ravi Somaiya / New York Times:
Will Dana, Rolling Stone's Managing Editor, to Depart — Will Dana, the managing editor of Rolling Stone, will leave the magazine, just months after a controversial article about a supposed gang rape at the University of Virginia was retracted. — Mr. Dana, whose planned last day is Aug. 7 …
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T. Rees Shapiro / Washington Post:
Phi Kappa Psi fraternity members sue Rolling Stone over retracted U-Va. rape story — Three Phi Kappa Psi fraternity brothers are suing Rolling Stone magazine in New York federal court for defamation, alleging that a now-retracted December 2014 article on rape at the University of Virginia identified …
NBC News:
U.S. Dentist Who Killed Famous Lion Illegally Hunted Bear — The American dentist who killed a well-known lion in Zimbabwe also has a felony record over the hunting of black bear in in Wisconsin, court documents show. — Walter James Palmer sparked outrage when it emerged he killed Cecil the lion …
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Ryan Broderick / BuzzFeed:
People Are Flooding This Dentist's Facebook After He Was Named As The Hunter Who Killed Cecil The Lion
People Are Flooding This Dentist's Facebook After He Was Named As The Hunter Who Killed Cecil The Lion
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CNN:
American dentist says he regrets role in death of Cecil the lion
American dentist says he regrets role in death of Cecil the lion
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Kevin Cirilli / The Hill:
Cecil the lion's killer donated to Romney
Cecil the lion's killer donated to Romney
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Chris Stigall / CBS Philly:
Author Ronald Kessler On Bill Clinton: ‘He Has A Blonde, Busty Mistress’ — PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — Author Ronald Kessler defends secret service agents and makes some sensational claims about former Presidents in his new book, The First Family Detail: Secret Service Agents Reveal the Hidden Lives of the Presidents.
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Judicial Watch:
Federal Judge Threatens To Hold IRS Commissioner, DOJ Lawyers in Contempt of Court over Lerner — (Washington, DC) - Judicial Watch announced that U.S District Court Judge Emmet Sullivan today threatened to hold the Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service and Justice Department attorneys …
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Richard Pérez-Peña / New York Times:
University of Cincinnati Officer Indicted in Shooting Death of Samuel Dubose — A University of Cincinnati police officer was indicted Wednesday on a murder charge in what a prosecutor called “a senseless, asinine shooting” of an unarmed man during a minor traffic stop.
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A.B. Stoddard / The Hill:
Clinton must be joking — Those Clinton campaign strategists are so clever: trying to just lighten up this whole process, appeal to the young, show they get the joke and turn Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign into a late-night comedy punch line. — In just days, Clinton …
New York Post:
‘Law & Order’ director busted on child porn charges — TV director Jason “Jace” Alexander was busted on child-porn charges for allegedly promoting a video showing a girl stripping and masturbating, according to the Westchester County DA's office. — Alexander, 50, of Dobbs Ferry …
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Rachael Bade / Politico:
Hillary Clinton's former spokesman turns over 20 boxes of emails — Long-time Hillary Clinton spokesman Philippe Reines handed the State Department 20 boxes of work-related emails taken in part from a personal email account, State officials said Wednesday, calling into question the extent …
Wall Street Journal:
UBS Deal Shows Clinton's Complicated Ties — Donations to family foundation increased after secretary of state's involvement in tax case — A few weeks after Hillary Clinton was sworn in as secretary of state in early 2009, she was summoned to Geneva by her Swiss counterpart to discuss an urgent matter.
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Matt Dinger / Daily Oklahoman:
Former Valley Brook police officer arrested on sex crimes complaints — Former Valley Brook police officer Courtney Breanne Schlinke, 21, was arrested on 33 complaints, including 16 counts of rape by instrumentation, nine counts of lewd acts with a child under 16 and eight counts of oral sodomy, records show.
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Robert Schmidt / Bloomberg Business:
Wall Street Money Dries Up for Lawmaker After Anti-Gay Remarks — Representative Scott Garrett, who heads an influential House subcommittee overseeing the U.S. capital markets, is facing a revolt by corporate and Wall Street donors after he reportedly made anti-gay remarks at a private meeting of Republican lawmakers.
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Yahoo Politics:
Donald Trump amuses us to death — All right then, let's do this. If we have to talk about Donald Trump, because apparently the subject will not just go away on its own, then let's talk about him, even if it means going back on a vow I made 16 years ago. — This was back in 1999 …
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Eliza Collins / Politico:
Ted Cruz stands by calling President Obama a sponsor of terrorism — According to Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, President Barack Obama's nuclear deal with Iran is essentially financing terrorism. And he's not backing down after the president called his comments “outrageous.”
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Carrie Dann / NBC News:
Former Va. Gov. Jim Gilmore Files Paperwork for Presidential Run — Former Virginia Gov. Jim Gilmore has filed paperwork with the Federal Election Commission to run for president of the United States. — His entry into the 2016 race makes him the 17th major Republican candidate for president.
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France 24:
France deploys riot police to stem flow of migrants from Calais — France deployed 120 riot police to Calais on Wednesday to bolster security after thousands of migrants tried to enter Britain through the Channel Tunnel in recent days, with the resulting chaos leading to at least one death.
Billings Gazette:
Couple shot to death near Pryor; daughter survives shooting — A Pryor couple was shot to death and their daughter wounded at about 10:30 a.m. Wednesday when they stopped to help a man who had run out of gas on the Crow Reservation. — A suspect, identified by a Wyoming Highway Patrol dispatcher …
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Darcie Loreno / fox8.com:
Pregnant woman shot to death in murder-suicide, unborn baby survives — CLEVELAND, Ohio — A pregnant woman was shot to death, but doctors were able to save her unborn child after an apparent murder-suicide Tuesday night. — That's according to Mary Scruggs, the mother of the suspected shooter, Chris Scruggs, 32.
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Washington Post:
Trump's presence in first GOP debate makes prep challenging for candidates — Next week's Republican presidential debate in Cleveland marks not only the inaugural formal gathering of the expansive GOP field but the start of a new and unpredictable chapter in an already raucous 2016 race.