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8:20 AM ET, July 17, 2015

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CBS News:
4 Marines killed in attacks on Chattanooga military facilities  —  Shares -  —  CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — A gunman unleashed a barrage of gunfire at two military facilities Thursday in Chattanooga, killing four Marines, officials told CBS News.  The suspect also was killed.
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Katie Zavadski / The Daily Beast:
Read Chattanooga Shooter's Blog  —  The killer of four U.S. Marines in Chattanooga maintained a short-lived blog that hinted at his religious inner life.  Mohammad Youssef Abdulazeez's blog had only two posts, both published July 13 and written in a popular style of Islamic religious reasoning.
Tom Cleary / Heavy.com:
Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know  —  Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez, left, opened fire at two military facilities in Chattanooga, Tennessee, killing four Marines and wounding three others before he was killed.  At right is the recruiting center's front door, which was pierced by bullets.
timesfreepress.com:
This story is developing. … The gunman in the Chattanooga military installation shooting has been identified as 24-year-old Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez.  —  He was believed to have been born in Kuwait, and it was unclear whether he was a U.S. or Kuwaiti citizen.
Discussion: Belmont Club, Guardian and Reuters
Fbi / Federal Bureau of Investigation:
FBI Statement on Shootings at Military Facilities in Chattanooga, Tennessee … The FBI's Knoxville Field Office, along with the Chattanooga Police Department and other law enforcement partners, are working jointly to investigate today's shootings at a military recruitment center and a reserve center …
Benny Johnson / Independent Journal Review:
Mohammad Youssef Abdulazeez's High School Yearbook Quote Will Give You Chills
Discussion: Jihad Watch and The Gateway Pundit
Tennessean.com:
Last Slide  —  CHATTANOOGA — The gunfire came in rapid bursts …
Associated Press:
Official: 4 Marines killed in military attacks in Tenn.
Discussion: VICE and Jihad Watch
Julian Hattem / The Hill:
Gunman identified in Tennessee rampage
Discussion: Daily Kos and Hit & Run
Jason Hanna / CNN:
‘Active shooter incident’ reported at Tennessee naval center
Discussion: Slantpoint
Niall Stanage / The Hill:
Sanders makes play for black vote  —  Bernie Sanders is making a push for support from black and Hispanic voters as he seeks to intensify his challenge to Hillary Clinton for the Democratic presidential nomination.  —  Sanders, the independent senator from Vermont, has made a number …
Discussion: Politico and Prairie Weather
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Politico:
Small donor myth debunked  —  The heavily touted grassroots fundraising engines were largely spin, a POLITICO analysis shows.  —  Don't believe the small donor hype.  —  Suggestions by Hillary Clinton and other presidential candidates that their campaigns are being powered …
Washington Post:
Clinton burns through millions as she assembles a political battleship
Discussion: Prairie Weather
Kyle Blaine / BuzzFeed:
Hillary Clinton Declines To Support A National $15 Minimum Wage  —  Clinton says she supports raising the national minimum wage, but adds that “what you can do in L.A. or in New York may not work in other places.”  —  Darren McCollester / Getty Images  —  Hillary Clinton on Thursday …
Politico:
The mystery of the Trump coalition  —  Pollsters can't get a read on his supporters.  —  Last weekend, Donald Trump added to his long list of bold claims by declaring himself the champion of a new “silent majority” of Americans.  —  While 17 percent of Republican voters isn't a majority …
Sarah Wheaton / Politico:
I could have wound up in prison, Obama tells inmates  —  On a visit to a federal prison in Oklahoma, the president says he believes social disparities mean some youth go to the principal's office while others go to jail.  —  EL RENO, Okla. — Instead of the White House, but for the grace of God …
Discussion: ABC News and The Daily Caller
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Darlene Superville / Yahoo Politics:
Obama visits prison to call for a fairer justice system
Discussion: ABC News
Perry for President:
Statement by Gov. Perry on Donald Trump's Border Security Comments  —  AUSTIN - Gov. Rick Perry today released the following statement regarding Donald Trump's ongoing comments about Governor Perry and border security:  —  “Donald Trump continues to demonstrate his fundamental misunderstanding of border security.
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NBC News:
First Read: How Donald Trump Shrank the GOP Field
Discussion: Phantom Public
abc7chicago.com:
Road trip for suburban woman ends in jailhouse death  —  New video shows the arrest of 28-year-old Sandy Bland, who died three days later in a Texas jail cell.  Police say her death was self-inflicted.  —  ABC7 I-Team Investigation  —  Embed  —  Newly obtained video shows the arrest …
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Tim Anderson / The Register:
Windows 10: You'll get UPDATES LIKE IT or NOT - unless you have Enterprise Edition  —  ‘You agree to receive automatic updates without notice’  —  Microsoft's licensing on the upcoming Windows 10 OS means that most users will find their systems updating on command from Redmond without any option to stop this.
Discussion: Guardian and The Verge
Chris Geidner / BuzzFeed:
Sexual Orientation Discrimination Is Barred By Existing Law, Federal Commission Rules  —  “[A]llegations of discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation necessarily state a claim of discrimination on the basis of sex” barred by the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Equal Employment Opportunity …
Ellen Pao / Washington Post:
Former Reddit CEO Ellen Pao: The trolls are winning the battle for the Internet  —  Ellen Pao resigned this month from her position as interim chief executive of Reddit.  —  I have just endured one of the largest trolling attacks in history.  And I have just been blessed with the most astonishing human responses to that attack.
noaanews.noaa.gov:
International report confirms: 2014 was Earth's warmest year on record  —  Climate markers continue to show global warming trend  —  In 2014, the most essential indicators of Earth's changing climate continued to reflect trends of a warming planet, with several markers such as rising land …
Discussion: NPR, Slantpoint and Common Dreams
 
 
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