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Chuck Ross / The Daily Caller:
Baton Rouge Shooter Gavin Eugene Long Was Nation Of Islam Member, Railed Against ‘Crackers’ On YouTube Channel [VIDEO] — A Youtube account operated by Gavin Eugene Long and discovered by The Daily Caller reveals key insight into what might have motivated the 29-year-old black man …
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Gavin or ‘Cosmo’? Baton Rouge Shooter Left Long, Twisted Digital Footprint — The suspect in the fatal shooting of three Baton Rouge cops maintained a robust social media presence and a website called Convos With Cosmo in which he describes himself as a “freedom strategist, mental game coach …
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Heather Mac Donald / City Journal:
The Fire Spreads — Three cops dead in Baton Rouge, and the analogies to the 1960s deepen. — Public safety — Perhaps it will turn out that the latest assassination of police officers, this time in Baton Rouge, is unrelated to the hatred fomented by the Black Lives Matter movement.
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The Advocate:
‘Humble, kind, sweet,’ new dad Montrell Jackson one of Baton Rouge officers killed in attack
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Theresa Vargas / Washington Post:
Sister of slain Baton Rouge officer Montrell Jackson: 'It's coming to the point where no lives matter'
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John Eligon / New York Times:
Black Lives Matter Leader Calls for End to Violence
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Allegra Kirkland / Talking Points Memo:
In Heated Interview, Sheriff Blames Black Lives Matter For Police Shootings
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Andrew Holleran / College Spun:
Facebook Post From Baton Rouge Police Officer Killed Today Is Going Viral
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CBS News:
Dead Baton Rouge shooter attacked police on his birthday
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Michelle Broder Van Dyke / BuzzFeed:
Here Are The Victims Of The Baton Rouge Attack
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Kansas City Star:
Suspect in killings of three Baton Rouge officers identified as Kansas City man
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Jane Mayer / New Yorker:
Donald Trump's Ghostwriter Tells All — “The Art of the Deal” made America see Trump as a charmer with an unfailing knack for business. Tony Schwartz helped create that myth—and regrets it. — Last June, as dusk fell outside Tony Schwartz's sprawling house, on a leafy back road in Riverdale …
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2016 GOP Convention:
2016 GOP Convention Program Announced — CLEVELAND, Ohio - Jeff Larson, CEO of the 2016 Republican National Convention, today released an updated program for the “Make America Great Again” convention, July 18-21, in Cleveland. — Veterans, political outsiders, faith leaders …
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Kira Lerner / ThinkProgress:
Trump Campaign Weighs In On Open Carry At The Republican Convention — CLEVELAND, OHIO — Hours after the head of Cleveland's police union pleaded with the governor to suspend Ohio's open-carry laws during the Republican National Convention, Donald Trump's spokesperson told ThinkProgress she is …
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Niall Stanage / The Hill:
Curtain goes up on Trump show — The curtain is about to rise on the most extraordinary political convention of modern times. — , a man who has never run for political office before, is about to become the Republican presidential nominee. — Trump has flouted every rule of campaigning known …
New York Daily News:
Donald Trump selects Scott Baio as speaker for Republican National Convention
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Gregory Krieg / CNN:
Cleveland police union asks for suspension of ‘open carry’ in wake of Baton Rouge, ahead of RNC
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Lesley Stahl / CBS News:
The Republican Ticket: Trump and Pence — Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and his running mate, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, speak to Lesley Stahl in their first joint interview — The following is a script from “The Republican Ticket” which aired on July 17, 2016.
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Donald Trump's answer on Mike Pence's Iraq vote is really something
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Jennifer Jacobs / Bloomberg:
Convention Protests Will Probably Help Trump, Top Aide Says
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Jenna Johnson / Washington Post:
Four times Donald Trump answered Mike Pence's questions on ‘60 Minutes’
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John Nichols / The Nation:
Republicans Will Nominate a Candidate Who Would Violate the First, Fourth, Fifth and Eighth Amendments — If the GOP had any respect for the Bill of Rights, they would reject Trump. — By , — Cleveland—As Republican Party “constitutionalists” prepare to nominate authoritarian billionaire Donald Trump …
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McKay Coppins / BuzzFeed:
Donald Trump stood on a — debate stage in downtown Detroit, surrounded by haters he was determined to dispatch: Liddle Marco to his right, Lyin' Ted to his left, Megyn Kelly at the moderator's table straight ahead, and — somewhere out there, in a darkened living room 1,500 miles away — me.
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Keiligh Baker / Daily Mail:
The universe as you've never seen it before: Groundbreaking radio telescope finds 1,300 galaxies in tiny corner of the sky where only 70 were known about before — A groundbreaking radio telescope has discovered 1,300 galaxies in a tiny corner of the sky where just 70 had been spotted before …
Steven Shepard / Politico:
GOP insiders dreading Trump's convention — Forget about the balloons, the expressions of party unity and the quadrennial celebration of partisan pride. GOP insiders are dreading the Republican convention in Cleveland this week. — That's according to The POLITICO Caucus …
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Emily Richmond / The Atlantic:
Why Are Third-Graders Afraid of Donald Trump? — Although he's almost a decade shy of the voting age, Micah St. George has a message he's anxious to deliver to the Republican National Committee: Please don't nominate Donald Trump for president. — A soon-to-be fourth grader in Newton …
Tim Hains / RealClearPolitics:
Cleveland Police Association President Steve Loomis: Obama “Has Blood On His Hands” — Detective Steve Loomis said that the shootings of police officers, from Dallas to now, started with what he deemed as a completely false narrative that police are ‘racist.’
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