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Newspaper Staff Warned Years Ago to Call 911 if They Saw Jarrod Ramos — Authorities charge suspect in Capital Gazette shooting with five counts of first-degree murder — Capital Gazette staff were shown a photo of Jarrod W. Ramos years ago, and warned that if they ever saw him to call 911, a former editor and publisher said.
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Daily Mail:
'He'll be the next mass shooter': Newsroom gunman who killed five had stalked ex-classmate, got her fired and forced her to move state then began vendetta against the newspaper that exposed him — Five people are dead after a gunman opened fire Maryland's Capital Gazette newsroom on Thursday
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Conservative Review, Raw Story, WBAL, theGrio, Scared Monkeys and Balloon Juice
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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Brian Flood / Fox News:
Reuters editor apologizes, could be disciplined after blaming Capital Gazette shooting on Trump
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Power Line, New York Post, The Gateway Pundit, RedState, Chicks On The Right, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion and TheBlaze
Erin Cox / Baltimore Sun:
Capital Gazette shooting victim Gerald Fischman: Clever and quirky voice of a community newspaper
Denise Lavoie / Associated Press:
Shooting suspect had bitter history with Maryland newspaper
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Arkansas Blog, Arkansas Times and Common Dreams
Yvonne Wenger / Baltimore Sun:
Capital Gazette shooting victim Wendi Winters: A prolific writer who chronicled her community
Baltimore Sun:
Sources identify suspect in Annapolis Capital shooting as Jarrod Ramos, who had long-running feud with paper
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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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Steve Holland / Reuters:
Trump may nominate Supreme Court pick before July 10: White House official
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Power Line
Daniel Lippman / Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Inside Senate Democrats' SCOTUS strategy
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American Prospect, Shareblue Media, Los Angeles Times and Vox
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
‘Say Hello to Your Boy. A Special Guy.’
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New Republic and The Week
Jonah Goldberg / National Review:
‘Living Constitution’ Faces a Mercy Killing
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Townhall and Maggie's Farm
Daily Mail:
Comedian John Melendez ‘hoax calls President Trump on Air Force One and chats with him about controversial family separation policy while pretending to be a New Jersey senator’ — A voice sounding very much like that of President Donald Trump is heard in a phone call a comedian claims …
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Political Wire
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Alexi McCammond / Axios:
Prank caller patched through to Trump on Air Force One — The host of “The Stuttering John” podcast, John Melendez, got President Trump on the phone yesterday by pretending he was New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez. “This is how easy it is to infiltrate the administration.” Melendez said in the podcast episode.
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New Republic and Joe.My.God.
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: I told Trump to just rename Obamacare and take credit for it — Beverly Hills, California (CNN)President Barack Obama told donors on Thursday in Los Angeles that he told then-incoming President Donald Trump that he should rename Obamacare and take credit for its successes, instead of repealing it.
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Dan Merica / CNN:
Obama offers Democrats tough love ahead of midterms: ‘Enough moping’
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The Daily Caller
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
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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.
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The Henry J. Kaiser …, Daily Kos and Maggie's Farm
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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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Political Wire
Reuters:
Manafort assistant gave FBI access to storage locker: testimony — ALEXANDRIA, Va. (Reuters) - A personal assistant to Paul Manafort granted an FBI agent access to a storage locker in Virginia, allowing the government to secure evidence that President Donald Trump's former campaign manager …
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Associated Press may have led FBI to Manafort storage locker — A meeting last year where Associated Press reporters discussed with federal officials the news outlet's investigation of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort's finances may have led the FBI to a storage locker the bureau raided, an FBI agent testified Friday.
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Daily Caller News Foundation and Law & Crime
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.
The Babylon Bee:
Democratic Socialist Candidate's Primary Win Revoked After All Her Votes Forcibly Redistributed — NEW YORK, NY—Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was elated when reports broke that she had won the Democratic primary for her district, defeating long-term incumbent Rep. Joe Crowley Tuesday.
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Trump's Always-Wrong Economist Lawrence Kudlow Wrongly Says Deficit Is Falling — President Trump's chief economic adviser Lawrence Kudlow has made a career out of being extraordinarily wrong about everything without ever reconsidering his absolute devotion to the supply-side economics dogma that has produced all the wrongness.
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Tarini Parti / BuzzFeed:
The White House Is Becoming A Ghost Town. Trump Loyalists Worry It's Going To Get Worse. — With high-profile departures and a dysfunctional hiring process, a former White House official jokes part of the building is a “barren wasteland” with rustling “tumbleweed.” — Reporting From Washington, DC
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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ThinkProgress, Axios, Los Angeles Times, Talking Points Memo, The Daily Caller, The Week and Splinter
Paul Szoldra / Task & Purpose:
Trump's Pentagon Quietly Made A Change To The Stated Mission It's Had For Two Decades — For at least two decades, the Department of Defense has explicitly defined its mission on its website as providing “the military forces needed to deter war and to protect the security of our country.”
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
Natasha Korecki / Politico:
‘I snookered them’: Illinois Nazi candidate creates GOP dumpster fire — Republicans fear blowback from Holocaust denier's run for Congress. — CHICAGO — Illinois Republicans botched four opportunities to stop an avowed Nazi from representing their party in a Chicago-area congressional district.
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Raw Story and Joe.My.God.
Hamilton Nolan / Splinter:
We Get Voicemails — This week I wrote something that got widely circulated among angry right-wing people on the internet, which caused my personal contact information to be published online, which allowed me to hear voicemails from many new friends. Let's listen to a few.
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