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Khaleda Rahman For / Associated Press:
Dallas sniper was sent home from Afghanistan for sexually harassing a female soldier who said he bought her Victoria's Secret underwear - then ‘got in touch with bad folks and went all Black Panther’ — The Dallas sniper who targeted police officers during a Black Lives Matter protest …
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Fox News, Allen B. West and Fox News Insider
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Shanelle Matthews / Black Lives Matter:
The Black Lives Matter Network advocates for dignity, justice, and respect. — In the last few days, this country witnessed the recorded murders of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile at the hands of police, the latest victims in this country's failed policing system.
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ThinkProgress, CNN, New York Times, Hullabaloo, Mashable, Bearing Arms, Chicago Tribune, Guardian, Fox News Insider, The Nation, Complex, Common Dreams, The Texas Tribune and Politico
Theresa Vargas / Washington Post:
Dallas Police Chief David Brown lost his son, former partner and brother to violence — Few people understand loss better than David Brown, the Dallas police chief who stood before television cameras Friday morning and said, “We are heartbroken.” — Even before five police officers …
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Clash Daily, NBC News, Instapundit, Daily Wire, New York Magazine, Navy Times and Mother Jones
Timothy Egan / New York Times:
The Political Orphans — In barely two weeks, Republicans will converge in Cleveland for the Trumpocalypse, a fact-free and hate-filled gathering likely to be as scary as it will be entertaining. A week later the Democrats will assemble in Philadelphia in a focus-group-tested pander fest …
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Vox Popoli
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Neil Munro / Breitbart:
Hillary Clinton Blames Whites, Cops for Deaths of Young Black Men — Hillary Clinton used a CNN interview on Friday to completely embrace the Democrats' claim that white people and cops must change to help reduce the number of African-Americans killed in tense exchanges with cops.
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CNN and John Hawkins' Right Wing News
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Joe Millitzer / FOX2now.com:
Police say officers have been targeted in Missouri, Georgia and Tennessee
Police say officers have been targeted in Missouri, Georgia and Tennessee
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BizPac Review, FOX6Now.com, Fox 59 and KTLA
Gabriel Sherman / New York Magazine:
Six More Women Allege That Roger Ailes Sexually Harassed Them — Fox News host Gretchen Carlson may be the highest-profile woman to accuse Roger Ailes of sexual harassment, but she is not the first. In my 2014 biography of the Fox News chief, I included interviews with four women who told …
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Politico, Raw Story and Mediaite, more at Mediagazer »
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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Republican attacks on Comey undermine the rule of law — Republicans summoned FBI Director James Comey to Capitol Hill on Thursday to question him about his determination that Hillary Clinton did not break the law with her use of a private email server. They termed it an “emergency” …
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Arriana McLymore / CNBC:
Rep Trey Gowdy rips into FBI Director James Comey on Hillary Clinton's ‘intent’
Rep Trey Gowdy rips into FBI Director James Comey on Hillary Clinton's ‘intent’
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Power Line and Clash Daily
Julian Hattem / The Hill:
Clinton rebuts FBI charge of recklessness
Jesse Byrnes / The Hill:
Gingrich: White Americans 'don't understand being black in America' — Former Speaker Newt Gingrich on Friday said white Americans “don't understand being black in America” as he reflected on a series of shootings across the nation this week. — “It took me a long time and a number …
CBS News:
Cops: Tennessee shooter targeted white victims, similar to Dallas ambush — BRISTOL, Tenn. - The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation has released the name of the suspect behind Thursday morning's random shooting in Bristol, TN that claimed the life of an area newspaper carrier and injured three others, including a local police officer.
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Breitbart, Oath Keepers, John Hawkins' Right Wing News, The Other McCain, The Root and Balloon Juice
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Natasha Geiling / ThinkProgress:
Wharton Students Write Open Letter To Donald Trump: ‘You Do Not Represent Us’ — Donald Trump, businessman and presumptive Republican nominee for president, likes to remind people that he graduated from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Finance, one of the top-twenty undergraduate business programs in the country.
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CBS Boston:
Police Departments Across Mass. Get Special Deliveries, Shows Of Support After Dallas Shootings — FRAMINGHAM (CBS) — Individuals across the state are doing their part to show support for law enforcement amid the recent deadly attack on police officers in Dallas.
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WNCT-TV
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Gregg Zoroya / USA Today:
26 police killed so far in 2016, up 44% from 2015
26 police killed so far in 2016, up 44% from 2015
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The Week, Hot Air, National Review, Washington Post and CNN
Arizona Republic:
Police deploy pepper spray, fire bean bags at Phoenix rally … Police pressed farther down 7th Street, shooting bean bags at the rapidly shrinking crowd and telling people to leave. — Police appear to have detained a man on 7th Street and McKinley Street.
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ThinkProgress, Washington Post and Associated Press
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Nancy Cook / Politico:
Clinton outlines progressive health care agenda — Hillary Clinton is pledging to follow through on progressive health care policies in a new campaign document as Democratic delegates meet in Orlando on the party's platform and she woos Bernie Sanders' supporters.
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Tunku Varadarajan / Politico:
A miserable Europe plays miserable football — Politics, like football, is now largely about dogged and grudging accommodation, backlash and self-protection. — By any honest reckoning, this European Championship has been a prolonged exercise in mediocrity.
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Guardian
Media Matters for America:
Megyn Kelly And Mark Fuhrman Agree That African-Americans' Grievances With Police Are Overblown — MEGYN KELLY (HOST): There's been, you know, a big brush. A lot of these folks paint with a very big brush, Mark, and they find a couple of shootings that are deeply problematic.
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Politicus USA
Media Matters for America:
Roger Stone's Pro-Trump RNC Rally Drops White Nationalist Sponsor — A pro-Donald Trump rally scheduled to take place at the Republican National Convention and co-hosted by longtime Trump adviser Roger Stone has cut ties with a white nationalist website that was previously sponsoring the event.
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Plain Dealer
New York Post:
Video surfaces of NYPD cop's road-rage shooting — An off-duty NYPD cop waited just one second before fatally gunning down another driver in a Brooklyn road-rage incident early Monday. — Exclusive video obtained by The Post shows the moment that Officer Wayne Isaacs fired two shots through …
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The Root, Gothamist and The Unz Review