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9:35 AM ET, June 8, 2015

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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
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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.
Kim Bellware / The Huffington Post:
Cop Suspended After Video Emerges Of Brutal Arrests At Teen Pool Party
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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Rebecca Shabad / The Hill:
Clinton Labor secretary: Bill Clinton should stop paid speeches  —  Former President Bill Clinton's former Labor secretary is recommending that his old boss stop giving paid speeches and disclose everything for the sake of Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign.
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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Ishaan Tharoor / Washington Post:
Turkey's election is a blow to Erdogan and a victory for Kurds
Niall Stanage / The Hill:
Which GOP governor can make best economic case in '16?  —  Seven governors are among the possible contenders for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016, and all will be making their state economic records a pivotal part of their campaign pitch.  —  “If you are a governor who has been able …
Arlette Saenz / ABC News:
The Awkward Moment Between Obama and Iraqi Prime Minister … President Obama will meet with Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi at the G7 Summit in Germany today to discuss the fight against ISIS.  But there was an awkward moment between the two leaders ahead of their meeting.
Jonathan Topaz / Politico:
Wisconsin straw poll surprise: A narrow Clinton win  —  Bernie Sanders surprises with 41 percent of the vote.  —  Bernie Sanders scored 41 percent in a straw poll vote at the Wisconsin Democratic Party convention this weekend — finishing a close second to Hillary Clinton, who won 49 percent.
Greg Stohr / Bloomberg Business:
Can Republicans Win by Losing at the Supreme Court?  —  With the U.S. Supreme Court poised to issue blockbuster rulings on same-sex marriage and health care, Republicans have a blueprint for victory: They need to lose.  —  Republicans have played a leading role in asking the court …
Discussion: ABC News
Michael Kruse / Politico:
On talk circuit, George W. Bush makes millions but few waves  —  Toward the end of his presidency, George W. Bush told Robert Draper, reporting for a book called Dead Certain, that he intended after vacating the Oval Office to “replenish the ol' coffers.”  He said he could make “ridiculous” money on the lecture circuit.
Discussion: RedState
Austin American-Statesman:
APD looking into downtown incident posted to YouTube  —  STORY HIGHLIGHTS  —  Police Department “conducting a review to determine if the officers' conduct is compliant with our policy.”  —  Man who posted video said he wanted to be clear his intention was only to stir discussion.
Discussion: Daily Mail, Mediaite and Raw Story
New York Post:
Employee probed as possible accomplice in jailbreak  —  A female prison worker was interrogated Sunday as a possible accomplice in the Hollywood-style escape of two killers from an upstate penitentiary, sources told The Post.  —  “It's an employee being questioned,” a high-level source said …
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Jennifer Gonnerman / New Yorker:
Kalief Browder, 1993-2015  —  Last fall, I wrote about a young man named Kalief Browder, who spent three years on Rikers Island without being convicted of a crime.  He had been arrested in the spring of 2010, at age sixteen, for a robbery he insisted he had not committed.
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 …
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.”
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Glenn Harlan Reynolds / USA Today:
Glenn Reynolds: ‘New York Times’ shows its ‘gotcha’ colors
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Louis Sahagun / Los Angeles Times:
Drought hastens decline of the Joshua tree, California's desert symbol
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Politico:
Fast-track vote still up in the air
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Eric Bradner / CNN:
Lindsey Graham's GOP tent is big enough for Caitlyn Jenner
Discussion: Daily Mail and Advocate
Lee Siegel / New York Times:
Why I Defaulted on My Student Loans