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2:25 PM ET, July 8, 2013

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New York Times:
At Least 43 Die as Soldiers Said to Open Fire on Morsi Backers  —  By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK and KAREEM FAHIM  —  CAIRO — Egyptian soldiers opened fire on hundreds of unarmed supporters of ousted President Mohamed Morsi early Monday as they were praying before dawn outside the facility …
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Al Jazeera English:
Massacre in Cairo deepens Egypt crisis
Discussion: Gawker, The Agonist and Shakesville
Paul Owen / Guardian:   Dozens killed as army fires at Morsi supporters - live coverage
Ben Smith / BuzzFeed:
Eliot Spitzer Is Nothing Like Anthony Weiner  —  He's a f**king steamroller.  —  Spitzer poses for a selfie after watching Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner testify on Capitol Hill last July.  —  Via: Jonathan Ernst / Reuters  —  Eliot Spitzer's attempt to return to public life …
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New York Times:
Spitzer Seeks Ballot for City Comptroller's Race
Tal Kopan / Politico:
Kathleen Parker: Eliot Spitzer ‘beguiling’
Discussion: Mediaite
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Lizette Alvarez / New York Times:
Zimmerman Case Has Race as a Backdrop, but You Won't Hear It in Court
Discussion: JustOneMinute and Althouse
Andrew Branca / Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion:   Why Zimmerman's Motion for Acquittal Should Have Been Granted
John Hudson / Foreign Policy:
Cameras Catch Mystery Break-In at Whistleblower's Law Firm  —  The offices of a Dallas law firm representing a high-profile State Department whistleblower were broken into last weekend.  Burglars stole three computers and broke into the firm's file cabinets.
Daniel Ellsberg / Washington Post:
Snowden made the right call when he fled the U.S.  —  Daniel Ellsberg is the author of “Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers.”  He was charged in 1971 under the Espionage Act for theft and conspiracy for copying the Pentagon Papers.  The trial was dismissed in 1973 after evidence …
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Jeff Cohen / The Huffington Post:
How Do You Know When President Obama Is Lying? MSNBC Won't Tell You
Lydia Saad / Gallup:
TV Is Americans' Main Source of News  —  Preferred news source varies by age, education, and politics, among other factors  —  PRINCETON, NJ — Television is the main place Americans say they turn to for news about current events (55%), leading the Internet, at 21%.
Steven Yaccino / New York Times:
Schools Seeking to Arm Employees Hit Hurdle on Insurance  —  As more schools consider arming their employees, some districts are encountering a daunting economic hurdle: insurance carriers threatening to raise their premiums or revoke coverage entirely.  —  During legislative sessions this year …
Discussion: Yahoo! News and The Raw Story
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San Francisco Chronicle:
SF plane crash: Victim may have been run over  —  Photo: Carlos Avila Gonzalez, The Chronicle  —  An autopsy was being conducted Sunday to determine whether one of the two teenage passengers killed on the Asiana Airlines flight had been run over by a San Francisco fire rig at the crash scene.
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Ashley Halsey III / Washington Post:
NTSB: South Korean plane was flying far too slowly to reach runway just before crash
Meghashyam Mali / The Hill:
Obama loses altitude, needs solid wins  —  Six months into his second term, the momentum that President Obama gained from his reelection win is a fading memory.  [WATCH VIDEO]  —  Few could have foreseen this White House struggling so much after Obama's convincing 332-206 electoral vote victory over Mitt Romney last November.
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Zachary A. Goldfarb / Washington Post:
Obama's summertime push: Immigration and the economy
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Defining Prosperity Down  —  Friday's employment report wasn't bad.  But given how depressed our economy remains, we really should be adding more than 300,000 jobs a month, not fewer than 200,000.  As the Economic Policy Institute points out, we would need more than five years of job growth …
Maggie Haberman / Politico:
Hillary Clinton's answer to the has-been charge  —  Republicans in search of an attack line against Hillary Clinton have begun to cast her as a tired relic of the past — an implicit contrast to their own bench of up-and-comers like hip hop-listening Marco Rubio and libertarian-leaning Rand Paul.
Associated Press:
Secret Court Ruling Expanded Spy Power  —  The National Security Agency's ability to gather phone data on millions of Americans hinges on a secret court ruling that redefined a single word: “relevant.”  —  This change—which specifically enabled the surveillance recently revealed …
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Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Privacy group to ask Supreme Court to halt NSA phone spying
Discussion: CNN, CANNONFIRE and americanthinker.com
Alexandra Jaffe / Ballot Box:
Lautenberg family endorses Pallone over ‘celebrity’ Cory Booker in NJ Senate race  —  The family of the late Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.) has endorsed Rep. Frank Pallone (D) over “celebrity” frontrunner Cory Booker (D) in the race to fill his Senate seat.  —  In a statement …
Discussion: Politico and CNN
Wall Street Journal:
The White House says you can sign up ‘without further verification.’  —  The White House seems to regard laws as mere suggestions, including the laws it helped to write.  On the heels of last week's one-year suspension of the Affordable Care Act's employer mandate to offer insurance to workers …
Elizabeth Harrington / CNSNews:
101M Americans Get Food Aid from Federal Gov't; More Than the Number of Private Sector Workers  —  (CNSNews.com) - The number of Americans receiving subsidized food assistance from the federal government has risen to 101 million, representing roughly a third of the U.S. population.
Beth Matusoff Merfish / New York Times:
My Mother's Abortion  —  BOULDER, Colo. — ON June 25, I sat with my mother and sister in the gallery of the Texas State Senate to support Wendy Davis, a Democratic senator, in her filibuster against legislation that would limit abortions after 20 weeks and impose new regulations that would leave just a few abortion clinics open.
Burgess Everett / Politico:
Nuclear option urged to negate filibuster rule  —  Senate Democrats are inching ever closer to pulling the trigger to limit the filibuster, even after a notable spate of bipartisanship in the chamber to pass the comprehensive immigration bill.  —  And the liberal base is cheering them on.
 
 
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Guardian:
Edward Snowden: ‘The US government will say I aided our enemies’ - video interview
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Cameron Joseph / Ballot Box:
Tea Party group launches $1M ad blitz against ObamaCare
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Julian Hattem / The Hill:
EPA set to unveil host of new regs
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Who's a journalist?  —  Don't let Uncle Sam decide
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New York Times:
Immigration in the House
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Glenn Harlan Reynolds / USA Today:
Uphold the Third Amendment: Column
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