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Ryan Struyk / ABC News:

Rick Perry Drops Out of 2016 Presidential Race — Shares-

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Theodore Schleifer / CNN:

Rick Perry drops out of presidential race — 13 photos: — Moments from Rick Perry's career — Former Texas Governor Rick Perry addresses the 42nd annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) February 27 in National Harbor, Maryland. — 13 photos: — Moments from Rick Perry's career

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John McCormick / Bloomberg Business:
Rick Perry Drops Out of Presidential Race

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RT:

107 dead after crane collapses at world's holiest mosque in Mecca — At least 107 people died and 238 more were injured when a crane collapsed at the Grand Mosque of Mecca ahead of the annual Hajj pilgrimage, the Saudi Interior Ministry said on Friday. — The Kingdom's General Directorate …

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Daily Mail:

Mecca's Grand Mosque crane collapse leaves 107 people dead — Saudi official announced today that the hajj will go ahead in Mecca despite the horror of yesterday's crane collapse — An investigation has been launched in the disaster as critics claim authorities were negligent in allowing the cranes

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Ben Hubbard / New York Times:
Scores Killed in Mecca as Crane Crashes Into Grand Mosque

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Matt Apuzzo / New York Times:

U.S. Drops Charges That Professor Shared Technology With China — WASHINGTON — When the Justice Department arrested the chairman of Temple University's physics department this spring and accused him of sharing sensitive American-made technology with China, prosecutors had what seemed …

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Ruby Cramer / BuzzFeed:

Justice Department Lawyers: Clinton Had Authority To Delete Personal Emails — In a little noticed brief, filed on Wednesday to a federal court, Department of Justice lawyers outlined a comprehensive defense of the contentious decision by Hillary Clinton to wipe the private email server …

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KOIN-TV:

Portland-bound passengers urinated on; man jailed — PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN 6) — A 27-year-old man spent about 5 hours in jail Friday after he reportedly urinated on several passengers right before landing at Portland International Airport. — According to a police report first obtained by KOIN 6 News …

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Chris Geidner / BuzzFeed:

Kentucky Clerk Asks For Order Allowing All Couples To Marry To Be Put On Hold — On Sept. 3, Judge David Bunning expanded his order that Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis end her “no marriage licenses” policy to cover all couples — not just the plaintiffs in the case.

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Andrew Sparrow / Guardian:

Jeremy Corbyn wins Labour leadership race in stunning victory - live updates — Rolling coverage of the Labour special conference where the results of the leadership election and the deputy leadership election are announced, with reaction and analysis — Order by

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Eugene Volokh / Washington Post:

University of California considering recognizing a “right” to be “free from ... expressions of intolerance” — Here is a proposed policy that the Regents of the University of California's Committee on Education Policy will be discussing next Thursday: … So let's look closely at this:

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Andrea Peyser / New York Post:

America is being bullied into sympathizing with 9/11 attackers — We gather together on this solemn anniversary in a spirit of mourning and peace. — But this is also a time of unspeakable shame. — As we remember the nearly 3,000 souls who were butchered on American soil 14 years ago …

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Jim O'Sullivan GLOBE / BostonGlobe.com:

New mission for Team Romney: Stop Trump — Some of them go back to 2002, the win. Others slogged through Iowa, twice, and rode aboard the Mitt Mobile. In 2012, they were so close to the White House they could taste it. — Now, the Mitt Romney diaspora — an army of former aides …

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Heather Haddon / Wall Street Journal:
Donald Trump Says Immigrant Deportations Done in Two Years

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Rebecca Kheel / The Hill:

Study: All-male Marine units outperform squads with women — All-male ground combat units in the Marines were faster, more lethal and less injured than units with mixed genders, according to a Marine Corps study that looked at integrating women into all service jobs.

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