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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 — The latest accusation of racial profiling and police brutality comes from a familiar face in the sports world: Former tennis star James Blake. — Blake was in New York City for the U.S. Open on Wednesday when, as reported by Wayne Coffey …
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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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Sara Jerde / Talking Points Memo:
Gohmert Vows To Quit Congress And Await ‘Nuclear Holocaust’ If Iran Deal Passes
Gohmert Vows To Quit Congress And Await ‘Nuclear Holocaust’ If Iran Deal Passes
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CNN, Raw Story and The Daily Banter
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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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
Be Careful What You Wish For In the “Kim Davis” Case
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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
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
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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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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Donald Trump / USA Today:
Amateur hour with the Iran nuclear deal
Amateur hour with the Iran nuclear 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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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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Eliza Collins / Politico:
Trump: I'd bring Mike Ditka on board
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 …
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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.
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Richard Rubin / Bloomberg Business:
Jeb Bush Updates Romney's Tax Plan With Populist, Supply-Side Twists — Jeb Bush's tax plan attempts to fuse disparate streams of Republican thinking on U.S. fiscal policy, moving beyond the base-broadening, rate-lowering mantra that has animated the party.
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New York Times
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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Nick Anderson / Washington Post:
The U.S. News and World Report college rankings: A public vs. private dilemma — There was a time in the 1980s when the University of California at Berkeley was deemed a top-five national university on the most prominent annual ranking in higher education, up there with Harvard, Princeton, Stanford and Yale.
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Washington Monthly
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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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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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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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.
Kevin Frey / WAFB-TV:
Transgender female turned away at Baton Rouge OMV for not looking like a man — A self-identified transgender woman was denied a driver's license at the Baton Rouge Office of Motor Vehicles on Friday after being told she did not suitably look like a man. — “It's such discrimination …
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Raw Story
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
SC Republicans to Graham: Drop Out — PPP's newest South Carolina poll finds a clear message for Lindsey Graham from Republican voters in the state: drop out. 78% of GOP primary voters think Graham should end his Presidential bid, compared to only 15% who think he should continue on with it.
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Daily Kos, Slantpoint and The Last Refuge
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