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Robert Costa / Washington Post:
A curveball in Trump's Veep search: He's seriously considering a retired general — After weeks of focusing on a group of current and former elected officials in his search for a running mate, Donald Trump is increasingly intrigued by the idea of tapping retired Lt. Gen. Michael T. Flynn …
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Rosie Gray / BuzzFeed:
Anti-Trump Delegates Are Making A Plan To Pick Their Own Vice Presidential Nominee — WASHINGTON — Anti-Trump delegates are preparing a rules change proposal that would chart a path for delegates to choose their own vice presidential nominee at the Republican National Convention, instead of voting for Donald Trump's choice.
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The Hill, Raw Story, Business Insider and Political Wire
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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Kelsey Sutton / Politico:
More women come forward with allegations of sexual harassment against Roger Ailes
More women come forward with allegations of sexual harassment against Roger Ailes
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RedState, BizPac Review and Deadline
Tegna / WFAA-TV:
No suspect found after SWAT search of DPD headquarters parking garage … No suspect was found after a “systematic search” of the parking garage at Dallas Police headquarters following a threat made toward law enforcement. — The search was for a “suspicious person” who was possibly armed.
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Cbscruz / CBS Dallas:
Threat Made On Dallas Police Headquarters, SWAT On Scene — DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) - According to police, a credible threat was made against Dallas Police headquarters late Saturday afternoon. — SWAT is currently on the scene and circling the perimeter. — Sources tell our Brian …
Justin Sink / Bloomberg:
Obama Decries ‘Vicious, Calculated’ Attack on Police in Dallas
Obama Decries ‘Vicious, Calculated’ Attack on Police in Dallas
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Politico
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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Dallas Morning News:
Ousted from Army, Dallas shooter used military skills for murder
Ousted from Army, Dallas shooter used military skills for murder
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Shanelle Matthews / Black Lives Matter:
The Black Lives Matter Network advocates for dignity, justice, and respect.
The Black Lives Matter Network advocates for dignity, justice, and respect.
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Brian Fung / Washington Post:
The NRA's internal revolt over Philando Castile — After a fatal shooting involving gun violence in Minnesota, it wasn't just gun control advocates criticizing the National Rifle Association. — Some blowback, surprisingly, was coming from within the organization.
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Delroy Meadows / Ministry of Foreign Affairs …:
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Immigration Issues Travel Advisory for Bahamians traveling to United States of America — The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Immigration has taken a note of the recent tensions in some American cities over shootings of young black males by police officers.
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Salvador Hernandez / BuzzFeed:
The Bahamas Just Issued A Travel Advisory For The U.S., Citing Police Violence
The Bahamas Just Issued A Travel Advisory For The U.S., Citing Police Violence
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The Root
Dylan Matthews / Vox:
No, really, George W. Bush lied about WMDs — The best estimates available suggest that more than 250,000 people have died as a result of George W. Bush and Tony Blair's decision to invade Iraq in 2003. A newly released investigative report from the UK government suggests …
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bradford-delong.com and Scripting News
Andrew Prokop / Vox:
Hillary Clinton strongly backs public option, wins praise from Bernie Sanders — On Saturday morning, Hillary Clinton released a new health care policy proposal that emphasized several major progressive priorities, including a public option and increased funding for community health centers.
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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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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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John R. Lott Jr / New York Post:
Obama's false racism claims are putting cops' lives in danger — Hours before the murders of five police officers in Dallas, Texas, President Obama was again spouting false claims about racism by the police. He sees racism whenever there is any disparity in outcomes, no matter what the cause.
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Robert D. McFadden / New York Times:
Sydney H. Schanberg Is Dead at 82; Former Times Correspondent Chronicled Terror of 1970s Cambodia — Sydney H. Schanberg, a correspondent for The New York Times who won a Pulitzer Prize for covering Cambodia's fall to the Khmer Rouge in 1975 and inspired the film “The Killing Fields” …
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Bradley Klapper / Associated Press:
AP: Islamic State's Twitter traffic drops amid US efforts — WASHINGTON (AP) — The Islamic State group's Twitter traffic has plunged 45 percent in the past two years, the Obama administration says, as the U.S. and its allies have countered messages of jihadi glorification with a flood …
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