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Michael Birnbaum / Washington Post:
3 American friends tackle and hogtie gunman aboard European train — BRUSSELS - A gunman opened fire on a packed high-speed train running from Amsterdam to Paris on Friday before being tackled and tied up by three Americans, according to family members and French officials, who said their quick work had foiled a major tragedy.
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Isabelle Fraser / Telegraph:
Chris Norman: I realised the only way to survive was to go for him — More from that press conference with the British businessman who helped overcome the attacker on the train. — He said: “I was just sitting working on my computer. i saw a man with a Kalashnikov. I said to myself s***.
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Adam Nossiter / New York Times:
American Describes Taking Down Gunman on Train to France — PARIS — The two American service members who tackled a gunman on a high-speed train traveling from Amsterdam to Paris rushed him even though he was fully armed, then grabbed him by the neck and beat him over the head …
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Washington Post:
Trump's audacious Southern spectacle is part of his strategy — MOBILE, Ala. — It was the most audacious Donald Trump spectacle yet in a summer full of them, as the Republican presidential front-runner, in his Boeing 757, thundered over a football stadium here Friday night and gave …
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CNN:
30,000 turn out for Trump's Alabama pep rally — Mobile, Alabama (CNN)Donald Trump brought 30,000 supporters from deep red Alabama to a Friday night pep rally in a football stadium, the latest sign that the Republican front-runner has broad, nationwide strength.
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Ben Schreckinger / Politico:
Donald Trump, Alabama and the ghost of George Wallace
Donald Trump, Alabama and the ghost of George Wallace
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Joshua Green / Bloomberg Business:
Trump Thinks Alabama Is Key to Winning the GOP Nomination
Trump Thinks Alabama Is Key to Winning the GOP Nomination
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Garrett Epps / The Atlantic:
The War That Congress Won't Declare — “To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle,” George Orwell wrote in 1946. Here's a corollary: The real scandal in any given system is usually the thing there's no argument about. — We hear a lot of discussion about executive power and the military these days.
John C. Goodman / Townhall.com:
Why Conservatives Should Care About Ferguson — Last Saturday I made a first-ever visit to the down town Dallas Police Department to fill out a report. I had never been to a police department before. My only image of one was the police station I had seen on the television series Hill Street Blues.
Mark Hensch / The Hill:
Glenn Beck: Trump is not conservative — Conservative media personality Glenn Beck on Saturday said GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump is a false conservative. — Beck added that Trump's rhetoric shows that the outspoken billionaire often deviates from conservativism's traditional principles.
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Zoya Sheftalovich / Politico:
Google ordered to remove UK search results — U.K. data watchdog orders Google to remove links in right to be forgotten case. — Google must remove nine search results to news stories that contain irrelevant information about a criminal conviction, the U.K. data protection watchdog ruled …
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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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Perry Chiaramonte / Fox News:
Packing heat in Detroit: Motown residents answer police chief's call to arms — Rick Ector, an NRA-certified firearms instructor and the blogger behind “LegallyArmedinDetroit.com,” says business is booming. (Courtesy of Rick Ector) — Detroit resident Darrell Standberry doesn't navigate streets …
New York Times:
Hillary Clinton's Woes Pushing Joe Biden to Reach Out to Those Who Could Back a Campaign — WASHINGTON — As Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign struggles with sliding poll numbers, Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr.'s exploration of a presidential candidacy is taking on a new seriousness.
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Fox News:
California judge orders immigrant families released from detention — A federal judge in California on Friday ordered the government to release immigrant children from family detention centers “without unnecessary delay,” and with their mothers when possible, according to court papers.
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