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1:25 PM ET, July 22, 2012

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Statue of Hall of Fame Penn State coach Joe Paterno taken down from outside football stadium  —  STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — The famed statue of Joe Paterno was taken down from outside the Penn State football stadium Sunday, eliminating a key piece of the iconography surrounding …
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Police interview associate of movie theater suspect  —  AURORA, Colo. — Aurora Police said they interviewed an associate of the suspect in the shooting spree Friday at the Century 16 Movie Theaters.  —  Sources tell FOX31 Denver reporter Justin Joseph that a second man is now a person …
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Rep. McCarthy says colleagues lack spine to take on the NRA  —  Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (D-N.Y.), one of Congress's most outspoken advocates for gun control, criticized her colleagues Sunday for not standing up to the National Rifle Association to “save lives.”
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Hickenlooper: Stricter gun laws would likely not have stopped killer  —  Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper (D) said Sunday he doubted tougher gun control laws would have averted the movie-house killings in Aurora, Colo., speculating the attacker could have found various ways to perpetrate a massacre.
Discussion: CNN and The Hinterland Gazette
Christina Ng / ABCNEWS:
ABC News Exclusive: First Video of Colorado Shooting Suspect James Holmes Emerges  —  ABC News has obtained exclusive video and photos of Colorado shooting suspect James Holmes.  The video was recorded six years ago when Holmes was 18.  —  Federal authorities and local police today …
Discussion: L.A. NOW, Mashable! and TMZ.com
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NY Daily News:
Aurora shooting suspect James Holmes jailed in solitary: ‘All the inmates were talking about killing him’  —  ‘He was spitting at the door and spitting at the guards,’ a just-released inmate told the Daily News.  'He's spitting at everything.  Dude was acting crazy.'
Washington Post:
Explosives removed from James Holmes's apartment, officials say
Discussion: Crooks and Liars
Aviva Shen / ThinkProgress:
Tea Party Senator: Keeping Guns From ‘Demented Individuals’ Will ‘Restrict Our Freedoms’  —  Responding to the tragic shooting in Colorado during an appearance on Fox News Sunday, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) said he would oppose gun control efforts that could be used to “restrict our freedoms” …
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Justin Sink / The Hill:
Feinstein urges assault weapons ban renewal after Colo. shootings
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iowahawk:
You Didn't Build That  —  1 In the beginning Govt created the heavens and the earth.  2 Now the economy was formless and void, darkness was over the surface of the ATMs, and the Spirit of Govt was hovering over the land.  —  3 And Govt said, “Let there be spending,” and there was spending.
Los Angeles Times:
Obama's campaign attack on Romney was costly  —  President Obama's campaign spent $58 million in June, chiefly in TV advertising assailing his GOP rival's business record and personal finances.  Romney spent less, but raised more than Obama.  —  Casino mogul Sheldon Adelson and his wife …
Discussion: The Other McCain, Hot Air and Politico
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Joe Gandelman / The Moderate Voice:
Rupert Murdoch Tweets Support for Gun Control  —  Conservative media baron Rupert Murdoch has Tweeted his support for gun control: … I guess this makes him a short-sighted, liberal, tree hugger.  —  Or are some things too important to remain in the septic tank of American political polemics?
James Asher / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
McClatchy's Washington Bureau establishes no-alter quote policy  —  To our staff and to our readers:  —  As you are aware, reporters from The New York Times, Washington Post, Bloomberg and others are agreeing to give government sources the right to clear and alter quotes as a prerequisite to granting an interview.
Associated Press:
Poverty levels on rise  —  The ranks of America's poor are on track to climb to levels unseen in nearly half a century, erasing gains from the war on poverty in the 1960s amid a weak economy and fraying government safety net.  —  Census figures for 2011 will be released this fall in the weeks ahead of the November elections.
 
 
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