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Michael Flynn / New York Post:
The military fired me for calling our enemies radical jihadis — Retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, who is reportedly being vetted by Donald Trump as a potential running mate, was fired as head of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) in the winter of 2014 after three decades in the military.
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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.
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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Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
The Clinton Contamination — WASHINGTON — IT says a lot about our relationship with Hillary Clinton that she seems well on her way to becoming Madam President because she's not getting indicted. — If she were still at the State Department, she could be getting fired for being …
Gabriella Canales / Victoria Advocate:
Goliad judge only lowers state flag — Silhouetted in the backdrop of the Victoria County courthouse, the Texas and United States flags fluttered at half-staff in the Friday afternoon breeze. — The flags were lowered to honor the Dallas police officers killed Thursday night by a sniper.
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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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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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Wesley Lowery / Washington Post:
Black Lives Matter activist DeRay McKesson taken into custody by Baton Rouge police — DeRay McKesson, one of the most prominent activists associated with the police reform protest movement, is in police custody in Baton Rouge, where he traveled earlier Saturday to demonstrate in solidarity …
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BBC:
Matador Victor Barrio killed by bull in Spain — A matador has died after being gored by a bull in Spain - the first bullfighter to die in the ring in Spain this century. — Victor Barrio, 29, a professional bullfighter, was killed when the bull's horn pierced his chest.
Baltimore Sun:
Woman dies after being stabbed in Roland Park … A 59-year-old woman was fatally stabbed in Roland Park as she was walking her dogs Friday night, police said. — Officers were called to the 600 block of W. University Parkway around 11 p.m. for a report of an injured person.
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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Tegna / KARE-TV:
LIVE: Protesters shut down I-94 … ST. PAUL, Minn. — Traffic on Interstate 94 came to a stop Saturday evening as demonstrators entered the freeway, protesting the fatal shooting of a black man by a police officer. — The group marched from the Governor's residence in St. Paul around 7 p.m. …
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Associated Press:
Nude models become artists' canvases on NYC Bodypainting Day — NEW YORK (AP) — About 100 naked people gathered on Saturday to paint the town red — and blue, green, orange, magenta and neon yellow. — Dozens of artists used the naked bodies as canvases on the third annual NYC Bodypainting Day …
Neil Munro / Breitbart:
Obama Pushes More Federal Oversight of Cops After Dallas Attack on Cops — President Barack Obama is harnessing the increasing attacks on police in Dallas — and the periodic shootings of people by stressed cops — to push his agenda to federalize state and local police forces.
Dallas Morning News:
Ousted from Army, Dallas shooter used military skills for murder — Maybe it was the run-in with police in Richardson a year ago, after someone reported that he looked suspicious sitting in a parked Chevy Tahoe at a strip mall. — Maybe it was his encounter with a famous black-power activist this spring.
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Khaleda Rahman For / Associated Press:
Dallas sniper was sent home from Afghanistan for sexually harassing a female soldier …
Dallas sniper was sent home from Afghanistan for sexually harassing a female soldier …
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hillaryclinton.com:
Hillary Clinton's Commitment: Universal, Quality, Affordable Health Care for Everyone in America — The Affordable Care Act was a critically important step toward the goal of universal health care, offering coverage to 20 million more Americans, and ensuring all Americans will never …
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Andrew Prokop / Vox:
Hillary Clinton strongly backs public option, wins praise from Bernie Sanders
Hillary Clinton strongly backs public option, wins praise from Bernie Sanders
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