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Topeka Capital-Journal:
Mike Huckabee, Republican presidential candidate, won't rule out employing U.S. troops, FBI to stop abortion — Presidential candidate indicates defying Supreme Court not out of the question — justin.wingerter@cjonline.com and celia.llopisjepsen@cjonline.com
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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
White House threatens to veto bill blocking Planned Parenthood's funding — The White House on Friday threatened a veto on any bill that defunds Planned Parenthood. — A budget measure that strips funding from the organization “is certainly something that would draw a presidential veto,” press secretary Josh Earnest said.
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Mark Joseph Stern / Slate:
Fetal Tissue Gives Hope for One of the Worst Diseases — Planned Parenthood is right to supply it. — For five years, I watched my best friend die of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, a terrible disease that causes one's muscles to waste away. First he struggled to walk, then to speak, then to breathe.
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Kay Steiger / ThinkProgress:
Huckabee Floats Plan To Deploy U.S. Troops To Stop Women From Getting Abortions — Presidential candidate Mike Huckabee said at a campaign stop on Thursday that he would consider sending federal troops or the Federal Bureau of Investigation to stop abortions.
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Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly:
Pope Erick Speaks: Shut Down the Government!
Pope Erick Speaks: Shut Down the Government!
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Amanda Terkel / The Huffington Post:
Mike Huckabee Won't Rule Out Using Federal Troops To Stop Abortions
Mike Huckabee Won't Rule Out Using Federal Troops To Stop Abortions
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Lauren Fox / National Journal:
Manchin and Collins Team Up for Alternative to Defunding Planned Parenthood
Manchin and Collins Team Up for Alternative to Defunding Planned Parenthood
Politico:
GOP support grows for hardline Planned Parenthood strategy
GOP support grows for hardline Planned Parenthood strategy
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Erick Erickson / RedState:
Killing Them — “The sick irony of President Barack Obama's …
Killing Them — “The sick irony of President Barack Obama's …
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Michael Brendan Dougherty / The Week:
The astonishing weakness of Hillary Clinton — Hillary Clinton is as unpopular as she ever has been. Her favorability ratings have fallen to just 40 percent. Her campaign is already heading south, even though she has serious advantages over everyone else in the campaign, both Democratic and Republican.
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Marist Poll:
7/31: Trump as Independent Gives New Meaning to Name “Billary”
7/31: Trump as Independent Gives New Meaning to Name “Billary”
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Jesse Byrnes / The Hill:
Bush at Urban League: Obama was ‘speaking the truth’ after shooting
Bush at Urban League: Obama was ‘speaking the truth’ after shooting
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Michael Barbaro / New York Times:
Hillary Clinton Hits Jeb Bush First, and Hard, in Speech on Race
Hillary Clinton Hits Jeb Bush First, and Hard, in Speech on Race
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Politico:
Why Jeb Bush played nice with Hillary Clinton in Florida
Why Jeb Bush played nice with Hillary Clinton in Florida
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S.V. Dáte / National Journal:
Can The Black Vote Win Jeb Bush The Presidency?
Can The Black Vote Win Jeb Bush The Presidency?
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Mark Zuckerberg / Facebook:
Priscilla and I have some exciting news: we're expecting a baby girl! — This will be a new chapter in our lives. We've already been so fortunate for the opportunity to touch people's lives around the world — Cilla as a doctor and educator, and me through this community and philanthropy.
TMZ.com:
‘Rowdy’ Roddy Piper — Dies at 61 from Cardiac Arrest — Wrestling legend “Rowdy” Roddy Piper has died at the age of 61 ... TMZ Sports has learned. — Piper — born Roderick George Toombs — died from cardiac arrest in his sleep at his home in Hollywood on Thursday night. He was discovered on Friday.
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Chelsia Rose Marcius / New York Daily News:
EXCLUSIVE: Gay Staten Island man says cops beat him outside of home, shouting homophobic slurs (VIDEO) — A gay Staten Island caterer says cops who were captured on video taking him down in his front yard, beat him while shouting homophobic slurs, the Daily News has learned.
Anne Saker / Cincinnati.com:
Tensing, through union, demands his UC job back — The union representing the University of Cincinnati police force has filed a grievance on behalf of Raymond Tensing demanding that he get his job back as an officer because the university fired him this week without due process, a union official said Friday.
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Mike Levine / ABC News:
Trump Sues Chef Who Backed Out Of Restaurant Deal — Presidential candidate Donald Trump wants a prominent chef to pay $10 million in damages after the food star bailed on plans to open a new restaurant inside Trump's latest project in the nation's capital.
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Benjamin Freed / Washingtonian Best Bites Blog:
Donald Trump Sues José Andrés Over Old Post Office Hotel Restaurant
Donald Trump Sues José Andrés Over Old Post Office Hotel Restaurant
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Wall Street Journal:
Uber Valued at More Than $50 Billion — Ride-sharing app, which just closed a funding round, reaches mark faster than Facebook — Uber Technologies Inc. has closed a new round of funding valuing the five-year-old ride-hailing company at close to $51 billion, according to people familiar with the matter …
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Patricia Cohen / New York Times:
A Company Copes With Backlash Against the Raise That Roared — Dan Price, chief of Gravity Payments, raised the annual salary floor for his employees to $70,000. Most responses were positive, but Mr. Price says that even the negative letters were valuable. — By ERICA BERENSTEIN and JESSEY DEARING on
Jonathan Allen / Vox:
Read the Clinton campaign's scathing letter in response to bungled New York Times story — Hillary Clinton's campaign sent a letter to New York Times Executive Editor Dean Baquet Tuesday asking him to fully address the paper's erroneous reporting in a story that claimed inspectors general …
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Rachel Yonkunas / WCDC-TV:
Vet finds hateful note on car at local shopping center — QUEENSBURY, N.Y. (NEWS10) - A simple trip to the store ended with a veteran getting a hateful letter left on his car. — When a local Iraq War veteran went shopping Thursday morning, he did not expect to find an anonymous note with ugly language left on his car.
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Sarah Palin / BREITBART.COM:
Exclusive — Palin: Trump Stumps Media Kingmakers — What a hoot to watch pundits clutching their pearls and whimpering for smelling salts aghast over the latest “shocking” thing Donald Trump said, while The Donald ignores them and continues to soar. Silly kingmakers just don't know what to make of this.
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Daily Mail:
California college asks students to choose from SIX genders when filling out admissions forms — One California college is asking students to define themselves from one of six genders on application forms. — Beginning this year, students applying to University of California Irvine will pick from male …
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Ananda Rochita / WSLS-TV:
Federal judge upholds ban on new Confederate flag plates, deciding what happens to existing plates — DANVILLE (WSLS 10) - A federal judge decided Friday to uphold Virginia's ban on issuing any new license plates with the Confederate flag. — U.S. District Judge Jackson Kiser …
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Antonio Olivo / Washington Post:
Federal judge rules that Virginia may ban Confederate license plates
Federal judge rules that Virginia may ban Confederate license plates
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Ashley Southall / New York Times:
Award in Lead Paint Lawsuit Can't Be Tied to Ethnicity, Judge Rules — A federal judge in Brooklyn explained in a court memo released on Wednesday why he rejected a landlord's attempt to use a child's Hispanic ethnicity to argue for reduced damages in a lead poisoning case.
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