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Lauren French / Politico:
Boehner might postpone elections for majority leader, whip — <p>Speaker John Boehner is considering delaying the internal election for House majority leader and majority whip, leaving only the party vote for speaker to be decided on Thursday, according to multiple Republican sources …
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John Bresnahan / Politico:
Chaffetz enters speaker's race, pans McCarthy — <p>Rep. Jason Chaffetz has officially launched his dark-horse campaign for House speaker, arguing he's a better choice to unite the fractious Republican conference and that Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy lacks the communication skills …
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Fox News, Scared Monkeys, The Daily Signal, Guardian, RedState, Prairie Weather, Associated Press, The Week, NPR and The Hill
Bradford Richardson / The Hill:
Chaffetz announces bid for Speaker
Chaffetz announces bid for Speaker
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Politico and Outside the Beltway
New York Post:
Kinky Orthodox priest brought down by ‘cake porn’ sex tape — Fr. George Passias and Edith Bouzalas leaving St. Spyridon Greek Orthodox Church in 2013. — A high-ranking Greek Orthodox priest starred in kinky sex tapes with his much-younger parish-school principal and was forced to resign …
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Daily Mail, Gothamist and For What It's Worth
Mark Murray / NBC News:
Polls: Trump Still Leads in IA and NH, But Loses Ground — Donald Trump remains ahead in the early Republican nominating contests of Iowa and New Hampshire, but his lead has shrunk from a month ago, according to brand-new NBC News/Wall Street Journal/Marist polls of these two states.
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Ali Vitali / NBC News:
Trump: Middle East Would Be More Stable With Hussein and Gadhafi
Trump: Middle East Would Be More Stable With Hussein and Gadhafi
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Daily Mail
James Pindell / BostonGlobe.com:
Sanders draws big crowds in Mass. campaign swing
Sanders draws big crowds in Mass. campaign swing
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USA TODAY College, Liberal Values and Washington Post
Patrick Healy / New York Times:
Democrats Find That Anti-Establishment Isn't Just a G.O.P. Theme
Democrats Find That Anti-Establishment Isn't Just a G.O.P. Theme
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The Huffington Post and Liberaland
Daily Mail:
Philip Chism is charged with raping and killing teacher Colleen Ritzer — NEW The 9th grader charged with raping and murdering his teacher has told police he turned on 24-year-old Colleen Ritzer (left) when she ‘insulted’ him. 'After she insulted me, that's when I became the teacher …
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John Hawkins' Right Wing News and Independent Journal
Bradford Richardson / The Hill:
Carson: Pro-Islam nonprofit broke the law with political attack — Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson says a nonprofit Islamic advocacy group broke the law by calling for him to drop out of the presidential race. — “The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) …
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BizPac Review, Independent Journal, Allen B. West, Weasel Zippers and Jihad Watch
John Tierney / New York Times:
The Reign of Recycling — IF you live in the United States, you probably do some form of recycling. It's likely that you separate paper from plastic and glass and metal. You rinse the bottles and cans, and you might put food scraps in a container destined for a composting facility.
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JustOneMinute, Instapundit and Power Line
Kevin Fallon / The Daily Beast:
‘Saturday Night Live’ Premiere Basically a Hillary Clinton Campaign Ad — Miley Cyrus may have hosted the SNL Season 41 premiere, but the show was all about applauding Hillary Clinton—and not just when she appeared. — Live From New York...it's a Hillary Clinton campaign ad.
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Liberal Values
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Annie Karni / Politico:
Clinton mocks Trump in ‘SNL’ premiere
Clinton mocks Trump in ‘SNL’ premiere
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Bloomberg Business and The Moderate Voice
New York Post:
Doctor ‘strangled to death’, left in doorway of Chelsea apartment — NYPD detectives at the scene of the crime. — A 38-year-old doctor from Long Island was found dead with bruising around her neck in the doorway of a Chelsea apartment building Sunday morning, law-enforcement sources said.
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Daily Mail, Gothamist and The Last Tradition
Nolan Finley / Detroit News:
Obama just jawboning on guns — So President Barack Obama is angry that America has done nothing to change its gun laws despite a series of mass shootings throughout his presidency. He showed us that Thursday in yet another self-righteous, finger-wagging speech that he admits himself he's tired of giving.
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The Daily Beast, Hot Air and National Review
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Nicholas Kristof / New York Times:
A New Way to Tackle Gun Deaths
A New Way to Tackle Gun Deaths
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JustOneMinute, John Hawkins' Right Wing News, ThinkProgress and Pirate's Cove
Tommy Witherspoon / Waco Tribune-Herald:
Most of 177 Twin Peaks bikers no longer wearing ankle monitors — Of the 177 bikers jailed after the May 17 Twin Peaks shootout, none remain in McLennan County jails and 135 of those were fitted with GPS ankle monitors after negotiating reduced bonds. — Almost five months later …
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Guardian and Q13 FOX News
Ross Douthat / New York Times:
Is Putin Winning? — ONCE again, Vladimir Putin is on the move in ways the Obama White House did not anticipate. Once again, American foreign policy analysts can't agree on whether he's acting out of brilliance or desperation. — Is Putin's bombing campaign in Syria a geopolitical masterstroke?
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ParaPundit and Hot Air
WWL-TV:
4 students arrested for Calif. school shooting plot — Four students were arrested Saturday after police discovered a shooting plot involving Summerville High School in Tuolumne, Calif. — Among the evidence, deputies said they found a list of the names of the targeted victims.
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NBC News, Raw Story, addictinginfo.org and Independent Journal
Sara Jerde / Talking Points Memo:
Ore. Shooter's Dad: If He Hadn't Had Access To The Guns, It Wouldn't Have Happened — Ian Mercer, the father of the man who shot and killed nine people and injured nine others at a community college in Oregon last week told CNN Saturday that, had gun laws prevented his son from accessing the guns, the incident wouldn't have happened.
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The Times of Israel:
Breaking silence, PA condemns Israel for killing Jerusalem assailants — Palestinians urge world to intervene after ‘killing of 2 young men’ in capital, referring to terrorists who stabbed 2 to death, injured 3 — After days of silence amid a string of terror attacks and skyrocketing tensions …
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Israel Matzav and Algemeiner.com
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Josh Lederman / Associated Press:
Biden Backs Transgender Military Service As US Considers Policy — WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Joe Biden is throwing his unequivocal support behind letting transgender people serve openly in the U.S. military, as the Obama administration considers whether and when to lift the longstanding ban.
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Bradford Richardson / The Hill:
Biden celebrates gay rights activists for changing course of America
Biden celebrates gay rights activists for changing course of America
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Weasel Zippers and The Last Refuge