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Wayne Coffey / New York Daily News:
EXCLUSIVE: James Blake, former tennis star, slammed to ground and handcuffed outside midtown hotel by white NYPD cops who mistook him for ID theft suspect — Former tennis great James Blake was slammed to the ground, handcuffed and detained by five plainclothes city cops Wednesday outside …
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Lindsay Gibbs / ThinkProgress:
Black Tennis Star Tackled By 5 White Police Officers
Black Tennis Star Tackled By 5 White Police Officers
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SBNation.com and Gothamist
The Hill:
House GOP to postpone vote on Iran after member revolt — House Republican leaders are delaying a vote on the Iran nuclear deal scheduled for Wednesday because of a rebellion from rank-and-file conservatives. — The House was to hold a procedural vote to begin 11 hours of debate …
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Jake Sherman / Politico:
House Republicans revolt against Iran vote — <p>House Republican leaders are, once again, in a jam.</p><p>Just one day after returning from a monthlong summer recess, Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) and Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) …
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Washington Post, Vox, Washington Monthly, The Hill, Slantpoint, No More Mister Nice Blog, Daily Kos and Hot Air
Sara Jerde / Talking Points Memo:
Gohmert Vows To Quit Congress And Await ‘Nuclear Holocaust’ If Iran Deal Passes — Conservative pundit Glenn Beck said Tuesday that he had received an email from Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) vowing to quit his Congress if the Iran deal went through. — Beck read the email on air during his radio show.
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CNN, Raw Story, The Daily Banter and AMERICAblog News
Jack Jenkins / ThinkProgress:
Watch Mike Huckabee's ‘Biblical’ Support For Kim Davis Get Dismantled On Live Television — Tuesday afternoon, former Arkansas governor and current Republican candidate for president Mike Huckabee stood on a stage in Kentucky and held hands with Kim Davis, a county clerk who was released …
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Talking Points Memo, No More Mister Nice Blog, Hullabaloo, msnbc.com and The Stranger …
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Greg Stohr / Bloomberg Business:
Same-Sex Marriage Returns As 2016 Issue, Worrying Some Republicans — Just when they thought they were out, Kim Davis pulled them back in. — Republican strategists are worried that the return of same-sex marriage as a presidential campaign piñata could hurt the party in the 2016 general election …
Bob Barr / Townhall.com:
Be Careful What You Wish For In the “Kim Davis” Case — Imagine waking up to the news that a Quaker county sheriff is denying concealed carry permits to citizens because of his religious objection to violence; or, a Muslim DMV supervisor in Dearborn, Michigan has ordered his staff to refuse …
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American Spectator
Patrick Svitek / The Texas Tribune:
Kim Davis Rally Puts Huckabee Camp, Cruz at Odds
Kim Davis Rally Puts Huckabee Camp, Cruz at Odds
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msnbc.com, Daily Kos, Washington Post, Trail Blazers Blog, Arkansas Blog, Arkansas Times and Warren Throckmorton
Alex Griswold / Mediaite:
Shep Smith Rails Against Anti-Gay ‘Haters’ During Kim Davis Presser
Shep Smith Rails Against Anti-Gay ‘Haters’ During Kim Davis Presser
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Commentary, Raw Story, Friendly Atheist and The Daily Banter
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Stop Comparing Donald Trump And Bernie Sanders — A lot of people are linking the candidacies of Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump under headings like “populist” and “anti-establishment.” Most of these comparisons are too cute for their own good — not only because it's too early to come …
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Mark Z. Barabak / Los Angeles Times:
What's behind Republican voters' support of Trump? Anger at Republicans
What's behind Republican voters' support of Trump? Anger at Republicans
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Daily Kos
Sahil Kapur / Bloomberg Business:
Filibuster Opponents Have Gone Quiet Since Democrats Lost the Senate
Filibuster Opponents Have Gone Quiet Since Democrats Lost the Senate
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Politico and The Daily Caller
Nick Gass / Politico:
Trump storms Washington — <p>With the outline of the Capitol behind him and the expansive Mall spread before him, Donald Trump — the anti-Washington, anti-establishment hero of the right — brought his bombast to the nation's capital on Wednesday.</p><p> He didn't hold back.</p><p>" We …
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Liz Kreutz / ABC News:
What Clinton Plans If Iran Cheats on Nuke Deal
What Clinton Plans If Iran Cheats on Nuke Deal
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Kylee Wierks / Fox 59:
Man shares photos with gorilla on smart phone and the gorilla's reaction is priceless — He was visiting the zoo's gorilla sanctuary for the first time with his daughter when he noticed another visitor showing his iPhone to a gorilla named Jelani. — Jelani looked very intrigued …
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Fars News Agency:
Supreme Leader: Israel Not Alive in 25 Years — TEHRAN (FNA)- Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei described Israel as a “fake” regime, and said there won't be any Israel in 25 years from now. — “Some of the Zionists have said that given the results …
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Reuters, The PJ Tatler, The Daily Caller and Power Line
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Donald Trump / USA Today:
Amateur hour with the Iran nuclear deal
Amateur hour with the Iran nuclear deal
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CNN, NBC News, Sydney Morning Herald, Reuters, The Gateway Pundit, Bloomberg View, Just Security and The Hill
Thomas Erdbrink / New York Times:
Iran's Supreme Leader Says Israel Won't Exist in 25 Years
Iran's Supreme Leader Says Israel Won't Exist in 25 Years
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Hot Air, USNI News, Washington Free Beacon and US News
Justin Kroll / Variety:
Ronda Rousey to Star in ‘Road House’ Reboot (EXCLUSIVE) — UFC fighter Ronda Rousey is starring in MGM's reboot of the 1980s cult classic “Road House.” Rousey will step into the role Patrick Swayze made famous. — Sources say MGM is currently meeting with screenwriters, with production set to begin in 2016.
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Paper, Wall Street Journal, Polygon, Comicbook.com, The Daily Caller, Hollywood Life, BizPac Review, Twitchy and Jezebel
Tracybloomktla / KTLA:
3 Boys Found Dead Inside SUV; Suspect Believed to Be in Custody: LAPD — In what LAPD Chief Charlie Beck described as a “gruesome” scene, three boys were found dead and a man was discovered with stab wounds inside an SUV in South L.A. on Wednesday morning. — The bodies of three elementary …
Candace McCowan / WFLA-TV:
St Pete teen kills masked intruder who turns out to be his dad — ST PETERSBURG, FL (WFLA) - Investigators now tell us a teen who killed his father Tuesday morning is a case of justifiable homicide. Malachi Heisler tells us he woke up to cries for help early Tuesday morning.
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FOX31 Denver and Daily Mail
Health Affairs Blog:
Quantifying Planned Parenthood's Critical Role In Meeting The Need For Publicly Supported Contraceptive Care — Over the past few months, legislative attempts to defund Planned Parenthood have flared at both the federal and state levels; these moves are clearly an attempt …
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Slate, The Hill, Common Dreams, Daily Kos and Feministing
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Lauren Gambino / Guardian:
Planned Parenthood not invited to congressional hearing on organization
Planned Parenthood not invited to congressional hearing on organization
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Jezebel, goodlatte.house.gov, AMERICAblog News, Liberaland and Common Dreams
Henry Allen Michael / CBS Detroit:
Police: Man Finds Wife Naked In Bed With Her Dad, Gets Stabbed By Father-In-Law — PONTIAC (WWJ) - Police in Oakland County say a man was stabbed by his father-in-law after finding the 47-year-old nude in bed with his wife — the man's own daughter — and the older man is now behind bars.
Jeb Bush / Wall Street Journal:
My Tax Overhaul to Unleash 4% Growth — Three income-tax rates: 10%, 25% and 28%, plus a 20% corporate rate and immediate expensing on new investment.
David A. Graham / The Atlantic:
Hillary Clinton's Bungled Reboot — It's a bad sign when your presidential campaign needs a reboot. It's a worse sign when your advisers announce that reboot publicly. — That's exactly where Hillary Clinton finds herself this week. In an attempt to right what is universally seen …
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Politico, Hillary Clinton, Guardian, Liberal Values, Fox News, Mediaite, ABC News and US News
Martin O'Malley / USA Today:
Lady Liberty should open arms to Syrian refugees — “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.” — Last week a forgotten war forced itself onto the TV screens and consciences of people across the world. The images of poor Aylan Kurdi's lifeless body washed …
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New York Times, CNN, Guardian, AMERICAblog News, JSOnline, Slantpoint and NPR
Arlette Saenz / ABC News:
Joe Biden's No. 1 Advisor: Why Jill Biden May Be Key to His 2016 Decision — In 1975, Frank Biden encouraged his brother Joe, a first-term Delaware senator, to call an aspiring teacher and part-time local model named Jill Jacobs to ask her out on a date. — “You'll like her Joe. ...
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Politico and abc7ny.com
Guardian:
Oregon judge against same-sex marriage displayed Hitler photo in courthouse — Vance Day, who is under state ethics review for refusing to marry gay couples, said he put up picture of Nazi dictator to honor second world war veterans — An Oregon judge who refused to perform same-sex marriages …
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Mediaite and Talking Points Memo