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3:45 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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Paul Owen / Guardian:   Dozens killed as army fires at Morsi supporters - live coverage
Al Jazeera English:
Massacre in Cairo deepens Egypt crisis
Discussion: Gawker, Shakesville and The Agonist
New York Times:
The Perils of a 'People's Coup'
Discussion: normblog and Commentary Magazine
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  —  I was a young person when I first heard the quip: “How do you know when the President is lying?  His lips are moving.”  At the time, President Nixon was expanding the war in Vietnam to other countries and deploying the White House …
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
Breanna Edwards / Politico:
Rand Paul slams ‘military junta’ support  —  Sen. Rand Paul lashed out Monday against neoconservatives on Twitter for supporting the “military junta” in Egypt and arguing for continued monetary aid to the country, whose armed forces recently ousted the sitting president, Mohamed Morsi.
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Jennifer Epstein / Politico:
White House won't say whether Egypt was a coup
Discussion: Hit & Run, Hot Air and Weasel Zippers
Associated Press:
US scrambles to avoid Egypt ‘coup’ designation
Discussion: ABC News
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, Mediaite and The Raw Story
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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%.
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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
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 …
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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.
Catalina Camia / Associated Press:
Texas Gov. Rick Perry to declare political plans  —  Texas Gov. Rick Perry is scheduled to announce Monday plans for his political future, leaving open the question of whether he'll seek an unprecedented fourth term next year or try again to seek the White House.
Radley Balko / Salon:
“Why did you shoot me?  I was reading a book”: The new warrior cop is out of control  —  Overwhelming paramilitary force is on the rise  —  Sal Culosi is dead because he bet on a football game — but it wasn't a bookie or a loan shark who killed him.  His local government killed him …
Marianne Lavelle / National Geographic:
Oil Train Tragedy in Canada Spotlights Rising Crude Transport by Rail  —  Fire rages in the town of Lac-Mégantic Saturday after rail tankers carrying crude oil escaped the tracks.  North America has seen skyrocketing growth in rail transport of fuel from the booming Bakken shale in North Dakota and the tar sands of Canada.
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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 …
Alexandra Jaffe / Ballot Box:
Lautenberg family endorses Pallone over ‘celebrity’ Booker in NJ Senate race  —  The family of the late Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.) on Monday endorsed Rep. Frank Pallone (D) and jabbed at “show horse” frontrunner Cory Booker (D) in the race to fill New Jersey's Senate seat.
Discussion: Politico and CNN
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.
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.
 
 
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U.S. should tread lightly on Iran
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Mary Anastasia O'Grady / Wall Street Journal:
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Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
Obama to Use Google and Campaign Model to Make Gov't Smarter
Discussion: Hot Air and Weasel Zippers
Tyler Kingkade / The Huffington Post:
UNC Faces Federal Investigation Into Retaliation Complaint By Sexual Assault Survivor
Discussion: Jezebel and ThinkProgress
TIME:
Senate Plan to Militarize Border Draws Backlash
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Beth Matusoff Merfish / New York Times:
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