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6:20 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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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.
Peter Baker / The Caucus:
Obama Administration Rules Out Suspension of Aid to Egypt in Near Term
Discussion: msnbc.com
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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 …
Tal Kopan / Reuters:
Edward Snowden: I believed in U.S. ‘nobility’  —  In a new video released by The Guardian, Edward Snowden says he once believed in the “nobility” of the U.S. government's causes but grew disillusioned.  —  The video contains more excerpts from a June 6 interview with Snowden in Hong Kong that The Guardian had previously not released.
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 …
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.
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John Schwartz / New York Times:
Perry Will Not Seek Re-election as Texas Governor  —  SAN ANTONIO, Tex. — Rick Perry, the longest-serving governor of Texas and an unsuccessful Republican presidential candidate in 2012, announced that he would not seek another term in Austin but would instead “pray and reflect and work to determine my own future path.”
Jay Root / The Texas Tribune:
Rick Perry Won't Run for Re-election … SAN ANTONIO — Gov. Rick Perry announced Monday that he will not run for re-election next year, creating the first open race for Texas governor since 1990 and making Attorney General Greg Abbott the instant favorite to replace him.
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 …
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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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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.
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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 …
Reprieve:
Yasiin Bey force-feeding video launches campaign to support Guantanamo hunger-strikers  —  Yasiin Bey appears in a video launched today demonstrating the Standard Operating Procedure for force-feeding prisoners on hunger strike at Guantanamo Bay.  —  Made by human rights charity Reprieve …
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Lizette Alvarez / New York Times:
Zimmerman Case Has Race as a Backdrop, but You Won't Hear It in Court  —  SANFORD, Fla. — From the very beginning, there was no more powerful theme in the fatal shooting of Trayvon Martin than the issue of race.  But in the courtroom where George Zimmerman is on trial for second-degree murder …
Discussion: JustOneMinute and Althouse
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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.
Alexandra Jaffe / Ballot Box:
Lautenberg's son blasts ‘show horse’ Booker as family endorses Pallone  —  The family of the late Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.) on Monday endorsed Rep. Frank Pallone Jr. (D) in the New Jersey Senate race and criticized frontrunner Cory Booker (D) as a glory-seeking “show horse” who lacks their father's work ethic.
Discussion: Politico and CNN
NBCNews:
July 7: Bob Menendez, Raul Labrador, Robin Wright, Tom Friedman, Jeff Goldberg, Chuck Todd, Andrea Mitchell, EJ Dionne, David Brooks, Gene Robinson  —  Below:  —  MR. DAVID GREGORY: This Sunday, breaking news on two fronts this morning; the crash landing in San Francisco and the chaos …
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.
The Texas Tribune:
Texas Senators Reopen Debate on Abortion Regulations … For many Texas senators, Monday's Health and Human Services Committee hearing was the first opportunity to discuss proposed abortion legislation since Sen. Wendy Davis' much-publicized filibuster in the first special session.
Discussion: Yahoo! News and Daily Kos
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 …
 
 
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Financial Times:
White House set for Wall Street clash over trade talks
Discussion: ThinkProgress
Fred Burton / Vanity Fair:
40 Minutes In Benghazi  —  When U.S. ambassador J. Christopher Stevens …
Erik Wasson / The Hill:
Farm bill decision looms for Boehner
Politico:
U.S. should tread lightly on Iran
Discussion: ThinkProgress
Associated Press:
US scrambles to avoid Egypt ‘coup’ designation
Discussion: Politico, Hit & Run, ABC News and Hot Air
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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
Kaja Whitehouse / New York Post:
Corzine off the crook
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Ben Smith / BuzzFeed:
Eliot Spitzer Is Nothing Like Anthony Weiner