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Daily Mail:
Unarmed hero US marine took bullet in the neck as he and colleague tackled euro-train gunman armed with AK47: American duo saved hundreds when they jumped on Moroccan terrorist after he opened fire on terrified passengers — A suspected Moroccan terrorist opened fire with a Kalashnikov on board a high speed train in northern France
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protein wisdom, SOOPERMEXICAN, The Jawa Report, Power Line, The Daily Caller, National Review, Shot in the Dark and Clayton Cramer
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CNN:
Official: 2 U.S. Marines stop Islamist attacker on train in France — European official: France shooting a terrorist attack — As a gunman on an Amsterdam-to-Paris train was about to launch an attack by loading his Kalashnikov he was surprised by two U.S. Marines in civilian clothing …
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UPROXX, KFOR-TV, The Daily Caller and Moe Lane
BBC:
France train shooting: Americans overpower gunman — Forensics experts check the crime scene — Three people have been hurt after a heavily armed man opened fire on a train in northern France, before being overpowered by two American passengers. — The incident happened …
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American Spectator, NPR, Balloon Juice and New York's PIX11
James Rothwell / Telegraph:
US marines prevent French train massacre: latest — Unarmed US marines foil attack by Moroccan gunman with Kalashnikov and handgun on train - follow live updates — Security agents of French national railway operator SNCF stand next to Thalys trains at the main train station in Arras, northern France
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Daily Mail, Blazing Cat Fur, Washington Times and Washington Free Beacon
ABC News:
Ellen Page Confronts Ted Cruz on Gay Rights at Iowa State Fair — While Sen. Ted Cruz was grilling pork chops at the Iowa State Fair today, actress Ellen Page, wearing a hat and sunglasses, snuck her way up to the grill and asked the GOP presidential candidate about “the persecution of gays in the workplace and LGBT rights.”
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John McCormick / Bloomberg Business:
Ted Cruz Criticizes Carter Day After Wrenching Talk on Cancer
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Politico, USA Today, BizPac Review, Daily Kos and New York Times
Katie Glueck / Politico:
Ellen Page confronts Ted Cruz on LGBT issues
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National Review, Mediaite and New York Times
Katie Glueck / Politico:
Cruz: Jeb is ‘confused’ about my citizenship
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Toledo Blade, Washington Examiner, SOOPERMEXICAN, ThinkProgress and ABC News
Norm Ornstein / The Atlantic:
Maybe This Time Really Is Different — Historical context is a great asset. But is history always an accurate guide? Does past performance always give us the best predictor of future outcomes? — This election season provides a fascinating frame to see if the polarization in politics …
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The Moderate Voice and Hot Air
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Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly:
Ornstein's Warning — Us old folks remember a time when AEI's Norman Ornstein was the very voice of The Conventional Wisdom. So his new column at The Atlantic ought to come as a particularly significant warning about this election cycle and the particular level of conservative freakout we are dealing with:
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Hullabaloo and Democratic Strategist
John Harwood / CNBC:
Scott Walker talks birthright citizenship — Walker: ‘no position’ on birthright citizenship — Gov. Scott Walker ducks on Trump's call for ending birthright citizenship — MANCHESTER, N.H.—Days after seeming to echo Donald Trump's call for ending birthright citizenship …
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Tom Boggioni / Raw Story:
Scott Walker: I don't have time for Black Lives Matter — let's talk about ‘things that matter’
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Addicting Info
Nick Gass / Politico:
Trump calls O'Malley a ‘disgusting, little, weak, pathetic baby’
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Liberal Values and Business Insider
Daily Mail:
Scott Walker says ‘Black Lives Matter’ doesn't matter! …
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Liberaland, PoliticusUSA and Daily Kos
Katie Glueck / Politico:
GOP insiders to Trump: Enough already
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Jay Bookman and Daily Kos
Michael Scherer / TIME.com:
Read TIME's cover story and watch Trump's take on the Clintons, his opponents and how to change American politics — There are some things you just can't do in politics, not at the presidential level, anyway. — This is a game like any other, with rules honed over decades by the pros …
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Politico, UPROXX, Hot Air, Mediaite, BizPac Review, TIME and Washington Post
Judd Legum / ThinkProgress:
Jeb Bush Super PAC Sends Mailer To 86,000 Iowans With Jeb's Head On A Black Body — Jeb Bush has been lagging in the polls, trailing Donald Trump by a wide margin nationally and in early states. — Nevertheless, he's still considered one of the most likely eventual nominees by pundits and political experts.
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Talking Points Memo and Hullabaloo
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Christine Byers / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Man killed by St. Louis police died from gunshot in the back — ST. LOUIS • An autopsy on Mansur Ball-Bey, whose death from police gunfire this week stirred protests, showed that he died from a single wound in the back, police officials said. — Chief Sam Dotson said the wound's …
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Washington Post, New York Times, FOX2now.com, Slantpoint, Daily Kos, NPR, Guardian, Daily Mail and ABC News
Robert Simonson / New York Times:
Sasha Petraske, Bar Owner Who Changed Cocktail Culture, Dies at 42 — Sasha Petraske, the founder of the influential New York cocktail bar Milk & Honey and many other polished drinking spots across the world, was found dead on Friday in Hudson, N.Y. He was 42 and had recently moved temporarily …
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Daily Mail and Gothamist
Peter Sullivan / The Hill:
Pennsylvania becomes fifth state to find no Planned Parenthood wrongdoing — Pennsylvania has found no wrongdoing by Planned Parenthood in the state after a review, according to a letter from the state health department. — That decision makes it the fifth state to announce that they have found …
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Daily Kos
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Joe Coscarelli / New York Times:
Dr. Dre Apologizes to the 'Women I've Hurt' — For Dr. Dre, the self-proclaimed “first billionaire in hip-hop,” the movie “Straight Outta Compton” and its quasi-soundtrack, “Compton,” his first album in 16 years, were meant to be a victory lap. That biopic, about his hip-hop group, N.W.A. …
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The Verge, Washington Post, Medium, Mashable, Mediaite, TMZ.com, UPROXX, LAist, Daily Mail and Guardian
Joshuakarpf / Spotify Blog:
SORRY. — We are in the middle of rolling out new terms and conditions and privacy policy and they've caused a lot of confusion about what kind of information we access and what we do with it. We apologize for that. We should have done a better job in communicating what these policies mean …
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Evelyn Cheng / CNBC:
Stocks plunge as global growth concerns weigh; Apple falls nearly 4% — CNBC's Bob Pisani rounds up the most hit stocks in the market selloff, and the pop in the VIX. Kensho data shows the VIX up 10 percent 3 days in a row is rare. — U.S. stocks traded about 2 percent lower on Friday …
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Slate, The Gateway Pundit, The Atlantic and The Week
Bryan Lowry / Wichita Eagle:
Kansas Democratic Party chair resigns … Larry Meeker has resigned as chair of the Kansas Democratic Party following uproar over comments he made this week about moving the party in a more conservative direction. — Meeker's resignation was confirmed by the party's executive director …
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Associated Press
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
A View From the Clinton Scandal Nonsense Mill — There's no question that the Clinton email ‘scandal’ has become a major issue for Hillary Clinton's campaign. Not that it should necessarily but it has. It's the focus of negative press stories that appear clearly to have at least helped pull down her favorability numbers nationwide.
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New York Times, The Hill, Hot Air and The Daily Caller
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Jonathan Allen / Reuters:
Exclusive: Dozens of Clinton emails were classified from the start, U.S. rules suggest
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