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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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Laura Kuenssberg / BBC:
Jeremy Corbyn wins Labour leadership contest — Jeremy Corbyn has promised to lead a Labour “fight back” after being elected the party's new leader by a landslide. — The veteran left winger got almost 60% of more than 400,000 votes cast, trouncing his rivals Andy Burnham, Yvette Cooper and Liz Kendall.
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Nancy LeTourneau / Washington Monthly:
President Obama Announces the College Scorecard — This morning in his weekly address, President Obama made an important announcement. — Today the Department of Education launched a new College Scorecard to provide families and prospective students with useful data on the outcomes of investing in a college education.
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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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Perry for President:
Thank you. It is such an honor to speak to the patriots of Eagle Forum. In case you didn't know, we have a pretty vibrant chapter in Texas. They have long lived up to the standard set by your outstanding founder, whom I am proud to recognize today, Phyllis Schlafly.
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Ryan Struyk / ABC News:
Rick Perry Drops Out of 2016 Presidential Race
Rick Perry Drops Out of 2016 Presidential Race
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John McCormick / Bloomberg Business:
Rick Perry Drops Out of Presidential Race
Rick Perry Drops Out of Presidential Race
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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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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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Telegraph:
Cabinet ministers' email hacked by Isil spies — Intelligence agency investigation discovers extremists linked to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isil) have been targeting information held by some of David Cameron's most senior ministers — Jihadists in Syria have hacked …
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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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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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Megan McArdle / Bloomberg View:
How Grown-Ups Deal With ‘Microaggressions’ — Whenever I first heard the word “microaggression,” sometime in the last five years, I'm sure I was unaware how big “micro” could get. The accusation of a microaggression was about to become a pervasive feature of the Internet, and particularly social media.
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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