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New York Times:
Judge in Bill Cosby Case Declares a Mistrial — • The judge presiding over the Bill Cosby sexual assault trial declared a mistrial Saturday after jurors reported being hopelessly deadlocked. — • The exhausted jurors had been deliberating since Monday, sometimes for as much as 12 hours a day.
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LGBTQ Nation, Althouse and USA Today
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Chris Francescani / ABC News:
Bill Cosby's sexual assault case ends in a mistrial — Bill Cosby's sexual assault case has ended in a mistrial. — After six days of deliberation, the seven men and five women selected to serve on the jury were unable to render a unanimous verdict on any of the three counts …
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ThinkProgress, Washington Post, Conservative News Today, Language Log, The Week and Associated Press
Manuel Roig-Franzia / Washington Post:
Mistrial declared in Bill Cosby sex-assault trial — NORRISTOWN, Pa. — A Pennsylvania judge declared a mistrial Saturday after a jury was “hopelessly deadlocked” on sexual-assault charges against Bill Cosby, the comic legend whose legacy as a promoter of wholesome values has been tarnished by a years-long sex and drugging scandal.
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NPR, Outside the Beltway, Scared Monkeys and Gothamist
Fox News Insider:
Bill Cosby's Spox: Tell Gloria Allred to ‘Go Back to Law School’ — After the indecent assault case against Bill Cosby was declared a mistrial, the comedian's spokesman took aim a high-profile lawyer representing several of his other accusers. — Outside the Montgomery County Courthouse in Norristown …
Malcolm Gay / BostonGlobe.com:
Knives are out for theaters that bear the name ‘Shakespeare’ — The messages started pouring in earlier this week. — “Your play depicting the murder of our President is nothing but pure hatred,” read one of the tamer ones. — “[H]ope you all who did this play about Trump are the first do …
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Joe Tacopino / New York Post:
Protester rushes stage at controversial ‘Julius Caesar’ production — A woman was arrested after rushing the stage at the controversial production of ‘Julius Caesar’ in Central Park Friday night during a stunt live streamed on social media. — Laura Loomer, who works for the alt-right website The Rebel …
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Raw Story, New York Times, Mediaite, Gothamist, Althouse and The Daily Caller
Jerome Hudson / Breitbart:
Protesters Crash Trump Assassination ‘Julius Caesar’ Play (VIDEO) — Two protesters crashed Friday night's production of Shakespeare in the Park Julius Caesar, which depicts the assassination and brutal stabbing of a stand-in for President Donald Trump. — Laura Loomer, formerly of Project Veritas …
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Daily Wire, Washington Post, The Guardian and John Hawkins' Right Wing News
John Bowden / The Hill:
Gingrich: Somebody probably going to jail over Russia investigation — Former Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) told Fox News on Friday that “somebody” will likely go to jail following the FBI's investigation into Russian election meddling, but said it won't be President Trump. — “They're going to get somebody.
Adam Goldman / New York Times:
Alexandria Gunman Carried List With Names of 3 Republican Lawmakers — WASHINGTON — The gunman who targeted Republican congressmen this week at a baseball field in suburban Washington was carrying a list with the names of at least three lawmakers, and had pictures of the ballpark stored on his cellphone …
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Business Insider and Infowars
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Robby Soave / New York Times:
Michelle Carter Didn't Kill With a Text — Can malicious speech constitute violence? No. But Friday's shocking court decision — which found Michelle Carter guilty of sending lethal text messages — is bound to confuse the issue. — Judge Lawrence Moniz, of Bristol County Juvenile Court …
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Axios, Hit & Run, Above the Law, Gothamist, Fast Company and theGrio
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David French / National Review:
A Sad and Terrible Verdict in Massachusetts
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Los Angeles Times:
Carrie Fisher died of sleep apnea and ‘drug use’ was also a factor, L.A. coroner says — Carrie Fisher, right, who died Dec. 27, presents the Life Achievement Award to her mother, Debbie Reynolds, at the 21st Screen Actors Guild Awards at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles on Jan. 25, 2015.
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NBC News:
7 U.S. Sailors Unaccounted for After Navy Destroyer Collides With Ship Off Japan — TOKYO — Seven American sailors are unaccounted for after a Navy destroyer collided with a merchant ship southwest of Yokosuka, Japan, early Saturday local time, the Navy said.
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James DeWolf Perry / Associated Press:
7 US Navy sailors missing, 1 injured after warship collision
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Ryan Lizza / New Yorker:
Why Trump Attacked His Own Deputy Attorney General — Nearly everyone who knows him seems to agree that Rod Rosenstein, the Deputy Attorney General and the official overseeing the special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation of links between the Trump campaign and Russia, has a reputation for integrity.
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Breitbart, Talking Points Memo, CNN, Bloomberg and The New Civil Rights Movement
Bloomberg:
Trump Reveals Flat Revenue at Controversial Washington Hotel — Discloses at least $528.9 million in total revenue and income — Hotel lost $1.2 million in first weeks, lawmakers say — President Donald Trump's latest financial disclosure indicates that his Washington, D.C. …
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Tarini Parti / BuzzFeed:
New Trump Financial Disclosures Show Millions In Increased Income From Mar-A-Lago
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ThinkProgress, The Atlantic, Politico and Mother Jones
Richard Elliot / WSB-TV:
6TH DISTRICT POLL: Ossoff leads Handel by less than 2 points — ATLANTA - With just a few days to go before Georgia's 6th Congressional District runoff, Democrat Jon Ossoff and Republican Karen Handel are still very, very close. — Our latest WSB-Landmark Communications poll of 800 likely voters …
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ABC News, Talking Points Memo, Political Insider blog, CANNONFIRE and twitchy.com
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Anne Applebaum / Washington Post:
Everyone said Old Europe was dying. Sure doesn't look like it now. — The contrast could not be more stark. Theresa May, the British prime minister, presides over a hung Parliament and a divided country. Donald Trump, the American president, rules alongside a Congress almost too paralyzed to legislate.
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Financial Times
Max Boot / Yahoo:
Donald Trump Is Proving Too Stupid to Be President — “You know, I'm, like, a smart person.” Uh huh. — I'm starting to suspect that Donald Trump may not have been right when he — said, “You know, I'm like a smart person.” The evidence continues to mount that he is far from smart …
Discussion:
Raw Story
Erica L. Green / New York Times:
Education Dept. Says It Will Scale Back Civil Rights Investigations — WASHINGTON — The Department of Education is scaling back investigations into civil rights violations at the nation's public schools and universities, easing off mandates imposed by the Obama administration that the new leadership says have bogged down the agency.
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Emma Brown / Washington Post:
U.S. Commission on Civil Rights to investigate civil rights enforcement under Trump
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The Washington Journal, Politico and Fusion
Edward-Isaac Dovere / Politico:
How Jason Kander Won by Losing — MANCHESTER, N.H.—Jason Kander was wearing a mic pack here as he wandered around the Puritan Backroom, chatting with local activists and politicians at the Manchester Democratic Club chicken dinner. A videographer, who followed him around as he moved from table to table …
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