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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.
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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Media Matters for America, Politico, BizPac Review, Mashable, Addicting Info, Deadline, New York Times, Raw Story and Mediaite, more at Mediagazer »
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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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CBS Dallas, KFOR-TV and Mashable
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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.
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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bradford-delong.com and Scripting News
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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Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, Fox News and Fox News Insider
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.
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.
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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
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
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 …
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.
CBS News:
Republicans to consider softening party's official language on LGBT — With the Republican National Convention less than two weeks away, moderate Republicans are drafting an amendment that would soften the GOP's official position on gays and lesbians, CBS News has learned.
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 …
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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Washington Post, New York Times and Associated Press
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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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