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11:50 AM ET, September 12, 2015

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Andrew Sparrow / Guardian:
Jeremy Corbyn wins Labour leadership race in stunning victory - live updates  —  Rolling coverage of the Labour special conference where the results of the leadership election and the deputy leadership election are announced, with reaction and analysis  —  Order by
Discussion: Mashable
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Laura Kuenssberg / BBC:
Jeremy Corbyn wins Labour leadership contest  —  Jeremy Corbyn has promised to lead a Labour “fight back” after being elected the party's new leader by a landslide.  —  The veteran left winger got almost 60% of more than 400,000 votes cast, trouncing his rivals Andy Burnham, Yvette Cooper and Liz Kendall.
Discussion: National Review and NPR
Nancy LeTourneau / Washington Monthly:
President Obama Announces the College Scorecard  —  This morning in his weekly address, President Obama made an important announcement.  —  Today the Department of Education launched a new College Scorecard to provide families and prospective students with useful data on the outcomes of investing in a college education.
Discussion: SaintPetersBlog
Matt Apuzzo / New York Times:
U.S. Drops Charges That Professor Shared Technology With China  —  WASHINGTON — When the Justice Department arrested the chairman of Temple University's physics department this spring and accused him of sharing sensitive American-made technology with China, prosecutors had what seemed …
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Theodore Schleifer / CNN:
Rick Perry drops out of presidential race
Discussion: Balloon Juice
John McCormick / Bloomberg Business:
Rick Perry Drops Out of Presidential Race
Daily Mail:
Mecca's Grand Mosque crane collapse leaves 107 people dead  — Saudi official announced today that the hajj will go ahead in Mecca despite the horror of yesterday's crane collapse  — An investigation has been launched in the disaster as critics claim authorities were negligent in allowing the cranes
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RT:
107 dead after crane collapses at world's holiest mosque in Mecca  —  At least 107 people died and 238 more were injured when a crane collapsed at the Grand Mosque of Mecca ahead of the annual Hajj pilgrimage, the Saudi Interior Ministry said on Friday.  —  The Kingdom's General Directorate …
Andrea Peyser / New York Post:
America is being bullied into sympathizing with 9/11 attackers  —  We gather together on this solemn anniversary in a spirit of mourning and peace.  —  But this is also a time of unspeakable shame.  —  As we remember the nearly 3,000 souls who were butchered on American soil 14 years ago …
Discussion: Liberty Unyielding
KOIN-TV:
Portland-bound passengers urinated on; man jailed  —  PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN 6) — A 27-year-old man spent about 5 hours in jail Friday after he reportedly urinated on several passengers right before landing at Portland International Airport.  —  According to a police report first obtained by KOIN 6 News …
Discussion: The American Mirror and Mediaite
Ruby Cramer / BuzzFeed:
Justice Department Lawyers: Clinton Had Authority To Delete Personal Emails  —  In a little noticed brief, filed on Wednesday to a federal court, Department of Justice lawyers outlined a comprehensive defense of the contentious decision by Hillary Clinton to wipe the private email server …
Discussion: Hot Air
Megan McArdle / Bloomberg View:
How Grown-Ups Deal With ‘Microaggressions’  —  Whenever I first heard the word “microaggression,” sometime in the last five years, I'm sure I was unaware how big “micro” could get.  The accusation of a microaggression was about to become a pervasive feature of the Internet, and particularly social media.
Eugene Volokh / Washington Post:
University of California considering recognizing a “right” to be “free from ... expressions of intolerance”  —  Here is a proposed policy that the Regents of the University of California's Committee on Education Policy will be discussing next Thursday: … So let's look closely at this:
Discussion: Hot Air, The Daily Caller and Hit & Run
 
 
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Ben Domenech / The Federalist:
The Day We Forgot  —  Fourteen years after the greatest terrorist …
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Stewart Rhodes / oathkeepers.org/oktester:
Kim Davis' Legal Team Declines Oath Keepers' Offer to Protect Her Against Unlawul Arrrest
Discussion: Right Wing Watch and Joe.My.God.
New York Times:
Hillary Clinton's Long Road to ‘Sorry’ Over Email Use
Discussion: Power Line, Politico and Mediaite
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Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
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Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
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