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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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Paul Solotaroff / Rolling Stone:
Trump Seriously: On the Trail With the GOP's Tough Guy — “I'm owned by the people. I'm no angel, but I'm going to do right by them.” — Hey, ya made it, great to see ya!" says Donald Trump, having just stepped aboard his throne room of a plane and stopping by my seat to extend his hand. "
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Neetzan Zimmerman / The Hill:
Trump mocks Fiorina's physical appearance: ‘Look at that face!’ — Another day, another Donald Trump insult making waves in an already-tumultuous election cycle. — The GOP front-runner added to his ever-expanding laundry list of questionable comments aimed at women with a knock …
Shane Harris / The Daily Beast:
Exclusive: 50 Spies Say ISIS Intelligence Was Cooked — It's being called a “revolt” by intelligence pros who are paid to give their honest assessment of the ISIS war—but are instead seeing their reports turned into happy talk. — More than 50 intelligence analysts working …
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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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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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Brian Beutler / New Republic:
Donald Trump's Biggest Conservative Enemies Helped Create Him — Donald Trump's durable lead in Republican primary polls, and improving approval ratings, continue to befuddle people who ought to have better insight into the state of the conservative mind. Writing for National Review …
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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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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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Guardian:
Oregon judge against same-sex marriage displayed Hitler photo in courthouse
Oregon judge against same-sex marriage displayed Hitler photo in courthouse
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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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Wall Street Journal:
Ted Cruz, Donald Trump Lead Rally Against Iran Nuclear Deal
Ted Cruz, Donald Trump Lead Rally Against Iran Nuclear Deal
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Eliza Collins / Politico:
Trump: I'd bring Mike Ditka on board
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 …
John Solomon / Washington Times:
The Huma Files: Feds formally investigated top Hillary aide for embezzlement — Blames husband Weiner for failing to notice extra $30K payment
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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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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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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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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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Lauren Etter / Bloomberg Business:
The Tiny Town That Hates Elon Musk — Residents of South Texas town may be asked to evacuate — State officials wooed company with $15 million in incentives — People who live in Boca Chica Village, all 26 of them, knew Elon Musk's SpaceX company would put the South Texas town on the map …
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Mike Lillis / The Hill:
Pelosi: GOP ‘out to get’ Planned Parenthood — The Republican attacks on Planned Parenthood are part of a much larger GOP fight against women's reproductive health and family planning, Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) charged on Wednesday. — “This is more than Planned Parenthood.
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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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New York Times:
Justice Department Sets Sights on Wall Street Executives — WASHINGTON — Stung by years of criticism that it has coddled Wall Street criminals, the Justice Department issued new policies on Wednesday that prioritize the prosecution of individual employees — not just their companies …
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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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