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Jean Marbella / Baltimore Sun:
Capital Gazette shooting victim Rob Hiaasen: A joyful stylist, a generous mentor — Capital Gazette editor Rob Hiaasen has been identified as victim of a shooting at the newspaper. — Rob Hiaasen once wrote a description of his ideal job: “I would like to be paid for the occasional amusing remark …
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Sources identify suspect in Annapolis Capital shooting as Jarrod Ramos, who had long-running feud with paper — Police and federal agents gathered late Thursday outside the address of 38-year-old Jarrod W. Ramos, who is being held as the suspect in the deadly shooting at Capital Gazette, law enforcement sources said.
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Daily Mail:
'He'll be the next mass shooter': Newsroom gunman who killed five had stalked ex-classmate …
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Erin Cox / Baltimore Sun:
Capital Gazette shooting victim Gerald Fischman: Clever and quirky voice of a community newspaper
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Yvonne Wenger / Baltimore Sun:
Capital Gazette shooting victim Wendi Winters: A prolific writer who chronicled her community
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Jessica Anderson / Baltimore Sun:
Capital Gazette shooting victim Rebecca Smith: Recent hire loved spending time with family
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Talia Richman / capitalgazette.com:
‘We are putting out a damn paper tomorrow’: Capital Gazette journalists report on shooting in their own newsroom
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Tonya Alanez / Sun-Sentinel:
South Florida's Rob Hiaasen, novelist Carl Hiaasen's brother, killed in newsroom shooting
Andrea K. McDaniels / Baltimore Sun:
Capital Gazette shooting victim John McNamara: Sports reporting was his dream job
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capitalgazette.com:
Capital Gazette shooting suspect charged with five counts of first-degree murder
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New York Times:
Inside the White House's Quiet Campaign to Create a Supreme Court Opening — WASHINGTON — President Trump singled him out for praise even while attacking other members of the Supreme Court. The White House nominated people close to him to important judicial posts.
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Megan McArdle / Washington Post:
Behold the priest-kings of the future Supreme Court — One can easily imagine a 24th-century American civics class in which the teaching bot is struggling to explain how the United States passed from having a roughly representative democracy into the more modern arrangement of having …
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
‘Say Hello to Your Boy. A Special Guy.’ — The Times has a fascinating article tonight on the Trump White House's courtship of Justice Anthony Kennedy, building a relationship and rapport to make Kennedy comfortable retiring on Trump's watch and ahead of the 2018 midterm election.
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Daniel Lippman / Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Inside Senate Democrats' SCOTUS strategy
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Eugene Kontorovich / USA Today:
Who should Donald Trump nominate to replace Justice Anthony Kennedy on the Supreme Court?
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Amanda Terkel / HuffPost:
Democrats Tie Trump Supreme Court Pick To Russia Investigation
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David Pitt / Associated Press:
Iowa court blocks 72-hour waiting period for abortion — DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The Iowa Supreme Court on Friday blocked a law requiring a 72-hour waiting period before a woman can get an abortion. — The court ruled that the law violates the Iowa Constitution, siding with a lawsuit filed …
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Washington Examiner:
Overturn Roe v. Wade — We write not to praise Anthony Kennedy's jurisprudence, but to bury it. — Across 31 years, Justice Kennedy issued many rulings, good and bad. But his most lasting legacy was the travesty he released 26 years ago today, Planned Parenthood v. Casey.
The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation:
Poll: Two-thirds of Americans Don't Want the Supreme Court to Overturn Roe v. Wade
Clare Foran / CNN:
The plan to overturn Roe v. Wade at the Supreme Court is already in motion
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
‘The optics do matter’: Trump nudged to pick woman for Supreme Court
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The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation:
Further Findings from Kaiser's June Health Tracking Poll: Women's Issues
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Colin Woodard / Press Herald:
Collins to judge Trump's Supreme Court pick without ‘litmus tests’ such as Roe v. Wade support
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Edward-Isaac Dovere / Politico:
Obama: ‘You are right to be concerned’ — In his first public comments in months, the former president talks about anger, regrets — and what the Republicans are doing right. — LOS ANGELES — Barack Obama's message to Democrats: Stop dreaming of him. — Speaking at a Democratic National …
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Dan Merica / CNN:
Obama offers Democrats tough love ahead of midterms: ‘Enough moping’ — Beverly Hills, California (CNN)Former President Barack Obama, re-emerging into the political fray for a Democratic National Committee fundraiser here on Thursday, had a message for troubled Democrats: Do more than just mope.
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Dan Merica / CNN:
Obama: I told Trump to just rename Obamacare and take credit for it
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Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Scoop: Trump's private threat to upend global trade — President Trump has repeatedly told top White House officials he wants to withdraw the United States from the World Trade Organization, a move that would throw global trade into wild disarray, people involved in the talks tell Axios.
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Josh Rogin / Washington Post:
Trump is trying to destabilize the European Union — As President Trump heads to Europe next month for the NATO summit and then a historic meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, his personal attacks on the European Union and other pillars of the Western order are overshadowing …
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Lam Thuy Vo / BuzzFeed:
They Played Dominoes Outside Their Apartment For Decades. Then The White People Moved In And Police Started Showing Up. — “This used to be a bad neighborhood.” Two areas of New York City that have recently gentrified have a corresponding high rate of quality-of-life complaints, which sometimes draw the police.
Nicholas St. Fleur / New York Times:
He Died at Pompeii, but His Head Wasn't Crushed by a Block — The skull of the “unluckiest man” at Mt. Vesuvius' eruption was found by archaeologists, intact and with a mouth full of teeth. — He was known across the internet as “Pompeii's Unluckiest Man.”
Matthew Acton / The Sun:
BLOWN TO SHREDS Kim Jong-un has top army officer blasted with 90 bullets for giving his troops extra rations of food and fuel — Lieutenant General Hyon Ju-song was put to death after being found guilty of charges of abusing authority, profiting the enemy and engaging in anti-Party acts
Elise Labott / CNN:
Trump's controversial pick for top UN migration job voted down in Geneva — (CNN)The UN migration agency on Friday voted down Ken Isaacs, the Trump administration's candidate to lead the International Organization for Migration, a US official told CNN, leaving it without an American at the helm since 1951.
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NBC News:
Trump admin ran ‘pilot program’ for separating migrant families in 2017 — The numbers show the government was separating migrant kids from their parents back in 2016 and 2017. — EL PASO, Texas — The government was separating migrant parents from their kids for months prior …
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Dara Lind / Vox:
Exclusive: Trump administration plan would bar people who enter illegally from getting asylum — A sweeping regulation being considered by the Department of Justice would likely stop most Central Americans from winning asylum in the US. — The Department of Justice, under Attorney General Jeff Sessions …
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Emily Jane Fox / Vanity Fair:
“He Could Go Down in History as the Man That Saved This Country”: Freed from Trump, Michael Cohen Sees a New Identity: National Hero — As Cohen is further distanced from the president, friends have been encouraging him to change his narrative. “Washington is actively pushing him away,” a person close to Cohen says.
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Ron Nixon / New York Times:
Agents Seek to Dissolve ICE in Immigration Policy Backlash — WASHINGTON — At least 19 Immigration and Customs Enforcement investigators are seeking to dissolve the agency, concerned that the Trump administration's crackdown on illegal migrants has limited their ability to pursue national security threats …
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