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David Mack / BuzzFeed:
Texas Police Officer Suspended After Pulling Weapon On Teens During Pool Party  —  A police officer in McKinney, Texas, has been suspended from duties after being filmed aggressively handcuffing, and then pulling a weapon on, a group of black teens following an “incident” at a local pool party on Friday night.
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Kim Bellware / The Huffington Post:
Cop Suspended After Video Emerges Of Brutal Arrests At Teen Pool Party  —  A Texas police officer has been suspended pending the outcome of an investigation after video surfaced showing one cop pulling a gun on a crowd of teens at a pool party while others handcuffed teenage partygoers.
Judd Legum / ThinkProgress:
Local Homeowners Defend Texas Cops Who Brutalized Black Teens At Pool Party  —  The police's brutal treatment of black teens attending a pool party in McKinney, Texas has sparked a nationwide outrage.  The video shows officer Eric Casebolt grabbing 15-year-old Dajerria Becton …
Discussion: Raw Story
McKinney Police Department / Facebook:
Pool Party Incident:  —  On June 5, 2015 at approximately 7:15 p.m. …
Discussion: CBS Dallas and The Week
Mark Hensch / The Hill:
NYC mayor: America has a ‘democracy problem’  —  New York Mayor Bill de Blasio (D) said on Sunday that Americans would benefit from reformed national voting laws.  —  “We have a democracy problem,” de Blasio told host John Dickerson on CBS's “Face the Nation.”
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
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Jonathan Topaz / Politico:   Christie calls Clinton's voter law critique ‘ridiculous’
Janet Adamy / Wall Street Journal:
Liberals Make Big Comeback in 2015, Poll Analysis Finds  —  There are signs that liberals are making a comeback — and not just because a socialist is running for president, gay marriage is spreading like wildfire and pot legalization is gaining acceptance.  —  A new analysis of Wall Street …
Constanze Letsch / Guardian:
Turkey election: ruling party on course to lose majority  —  Recep Tayyip Erdoan's Justice and Development party is projected to win 41% of vote - meaning it will need a coalition partner to form a government  —  Turkey's president, Recep Tayyip Erdoan, suffered his most significant electoral defeat …
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New York Times:
Turkey's Ruling Party Loses Parliamentary Majority  —  ISTANBUL — Turkish voters delivered a rebuke on Sunday to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan as his party lost its majority in Parliament in a historic election that ended, for now, his ambition to rewrite the Constitution and establish an American-style presidential system.
Matt Latimer / Politico:
Scandals Only Make the Clintons Stronger  —  The Republican plan to defeat Hillary Clinton is doomed.  It's time to go easy on her.  —  Lead image by AP Photo.  —  One has to wonder: When Republicans gathered earlier this year to scheme the defeat of Hillary Clinton, who was the genius who stood up and said, “I know.
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John Amato / Latest from Crooks and Liars:
Chris Wallace Smacks Rick Santorum On Flat Tax Myth That Helps The Rich  —  It's hard to try and pass yourself off as the true champion of the working class in America if your fiscal policies are pro-rich.  And anyone who proposes the fraudulent flat tax scheme as a way to fix our economy is more charlatan than candidate.
Lee Siegel / New York Times:
Why I Defaulted on My Student Loans  —  ONE late summer afternoon when I was 17, I went with my mother to the local bank, a long-defunct institution whose name I cannot remember, to apply for my first student loan.  My mother co-signed.  When we finished, the banker, a balding man in his late 50s …
David Crary / Associated Press:
AP Exclusive: Abortions declining in nearly all states  —  Abortions have declined in states where new laws make it harder to have them — but they've also waned in states where abortion rights are protected, an Associated Press survey finds.  Nearly everywhere, in red states and blue, abortions are down since 2010.
Discussion: Liberaland
Elinor Burkett / New York Times:
What Makes a Woman?  —  Do women and men have different brains?  —  Back when Lawrence H. Summers was president of Harvard and suggested that they did, the reaction was swift and merciless.  Pundits branded him sexist.  Faculty members deemed him a troglodyte.  Alumni withheld donations.
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Eric Bradner / CNN:
Lindsey Graham's GOP tent is big enough for Caitlyn Jenner
Discussion: Daily Mail and Advocate
New York Times:
With Power Tools and a Ruse, 2 Killers Flee New York Prison  —  DANNEMORA, N.Y. — The State Police and other law enforcement agencies were continuing on Sunday to hunt for two fugitive murderers in the wilderness and rural communities of northern New York, a day after the two men escaped from the maximum-security state prison here.
Sahil Kapur / Bloomberg Business:
Scott Walker Won't Rule Out Another Iraq Invasion  —  The Wisconsin governor keeps all options open.  —  Probable Republican presidential candidate Scott Walker says he wouldn't rule out a full-scale American re-invasion of Iraq “if the national interests of this country are at stake.”
Discussion: ABC News
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Jordyn Phelps / ABC News:
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker Wouldn't Rule Out Re-Invasion of Iraq
Discussion: Hot Air
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
The man to beat in Iowa: Scott Walker
Discussion: Wall Street Journal
 
 
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