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Bradford Richardson / The Hill:
Sanders: DNC using debates to rig primary — Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) believes the Democratic Party is using its limited primary debate schedule to rig the nomination process. — “I do,” Sanders reportedly responded when asked Friday whether he agrees with former Maryland …
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Bradford Richardson / The Hill:
O'Malley challenges DNC over ‘rigged’ debate schedule — Former Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley thinks the Democratic Party's decision to limit the number of primary debates is tantamount to rigging the nomination process. — “Four debates and only four debates — we are told, not asked …
Washington Post:
Democratic challengers launch attacks against Clinton, party leadership — MINNEAPOLIS — Hillary Rodham Clinton sought to cement her standing as the rightful leader of the Democratic Party here Friday, but two of her challengers launched a fierce counterattack against her and a party establishment …
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Power Line and Prairie Weather
Patrick Healy / New York Times:
Hillary Clinton's Rivals Critical of Democratic Party Politics
Hillary Clinton's Rivals Critical of Democratic Party Politics
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Political Wire and Althouse
Jonathan Swan / The Hill:
Hillary: ‘Party of Lincoln has become the party of Trump’
Hillary: ‘Party of Lincoln has become the party of Trump’
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ABC News and JustOneMinute
Matthew Dallek / Yahoo:
Trumpalooza: We've seen this show before — From left: Ross Perot, Ed Clark, Donald Trump, Ronald Reagan, George Murphy and Meg Whitman. (Photo illustration: Yahoo News; photos: AP) — If all you knew about Donald Trump's presidential campaign came from commentary in the media …
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Politico
Eugene Scott / CNN:
Church says Donald Trump is not an ‘active member’ — Trump on Charleston forgiveness: ‘an incredible moment’ — Washington (CNN)Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump told reporters Thursday that he attends a church in Manhattan, but the church released a statement saying the real estate developer is not an “active member.”
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Elliot Smilowitz / The Hill:
Trump rips Clinton aide Abedin and ‘perv’ husband Weiner — Donald Trump on Friday took aim at longtime Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin, poking fun at her marriage to former Rep. Anthony Weiner, who he called a “perv” and a “sleazebag.” — Speaking to donors in Boston …
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Faith Karimi / CNN:
Texas deputy killed ‘execution-style’ while fueling patrol car, authorities say — [Breaking news update 8:42 a.m.] — Authorities have a man in custody who is “believed to be the alleged gunman” in the killing of a uniformed sheriff's deputy, Sgt. William Kennard of the Texas Department of Public Safety told CNN.
Jess Bidgood / New York Times:
Owen Labrie of St. Paul's School Is Found Not Guilty of Main Rape Charge — CONCORD, N.H. — The prep school graduate accused of raping a younger student at the elite St. Paul's School dropped his head and sobbed for the first time since the start of his trial: He had been found not guilty …
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The Reality-Based Community, Althouse and Fusion
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Orin Kerr / Washington Post:
A misleading story about Justice Thomas — The home page of the New York Times has this provocative link: — The story begins by presenting Justice Thomas as a real outlier: … It continues: … Sounds significant, right? The implication is that Justice Thomas is not doing his job.
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Mediaite, The Daily Caller, Weasel Zippers, Crime and Consequences Blog and Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion
Catherine Herridge / Fox News:
Source: FBI ‘A-team’ leading ‘serious’ Clinton server probe, focusing on defense info — An FBI “A-team” is leading the “extremely serious” investigation into Hillary Clinton's server and the focus includes a provision of the law pertaining to “gathering, transmitting or losing defense information …
Stephen R. Kelly / Washington Post:
When Mexicans crossed our border to feed Americans in need — Stephen R. Kelly, a former U.S. diplomat who served in Mexico from 2004 to 2006, teaches at the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University. — In a scene that would have given Donald Trump heart palpitations …
Brad Heath / USA Today:
Lawyers plan challenge to arrests based on secret cellphone tracking — Defense lawyers in Baltimore are examining nearly 2,000 cases in which the police secretly used powerful cellphone tracking devices, and they plan to ask judges to throw out “a large number” of criminal convictions as a result.
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Daily Kos, Daily Mail and Business Insider
Nahal Toosi / Politico:
The Republicans' Red Scare — <p>GOP presidential candidates have a new country to bash: the People's Republic of China. </p> <p>This week's Chinese stock market crash — and the resulting turmoil in U.S. markets — prompted Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker to demand the White House cancel next month's state visit by China's president.
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Addicting Info, Daily Kos and The Diplomat
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Crash-Test Dummies as Republican Candidates for President
Crash-Test Dummies as Republican Candidates for President
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Washington Post and Democratic Strategist
John Stoehr / Washington Spectator:
The Prophetic President — How Jimmy Carter's 1977 voting reform proposals revealed the dark Id of conservative Republicanism — James Earl Carter is nearing the end. In an extraordinary press conference last week, the 39th president discussed his impending death from metastasizing liver cancer …
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Hullabaloo, Democratic Strategist and Washington Monthly
James Hibberd / EW.com:
THE WALKING DEAD TO SHOW AIRLINE ZOMBIE ATTACK IN STAND-ALONE SPECIAL — Exclusive: Mysterious new character to be introduced via stand-alone content — What if an episode of The Walking Dead was set on a passenger airliner before civilization had fallen?
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The Verge, Mashable and Wall Street Journal
Jon Swaine / Guardian:
Young black man jailed since April for alleged $5 theft found dead in cell — Jamycheal Mitchell, 24, had been held in Virginia jail without bail for nearly four months, accused of stealing a Mountain Dew, Snickers bar and a Zebra Cake — A young black man arrested by police in Portsmouth …
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Sarah Palin / Facebook:
WTH, LAMESTREAM MEDIA! STAY OUT OF MY BIBLE — WTH? Lamestream media asks GOP personal, spiritual “gotchas” that they'd NEVER ask Hillary, or they'd feed the question to her and/or liberal cohorts before they asked it on-air (we know how these things work, lapdog media... the public's on to you) …
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Daily Kos, Mediaite, Hot Air, Political Wire, Raw Story and Business Insider