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12:50 PM ET, June 17, 2017

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New York Times:
Judge in Bill Cosby Case Declares a Mistrial  —  • The judge presiding over the Bill Cosby sexual assault trial declared a mistrial Saturday after jurors reported being hopelessly deadlocked.  —  • The exhausted jurors had been deliberating since Monday, sometimes for as much as 12 hours a day.
Discussion: LGBTQ Nation, Althouse and USA Today
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Chris Francescani / ABC News:
Bill Cosby's sexual assault case ends in a mistrial  —  Bill Cosby's sexual assault case has ended in a mistrial.  —  After six days of deliberation, the seven men and five women selected to serve on the jury were unable to render a unanimous verdict on any of the three counts …
Brendan Pierson / Reuters:   Despite Mistrial in Criminal Case, Civil Lawsuits Await Cosby
Malcolm Gay / BostonGlobe.com:
Knives are out for theaters that bear the name ‘Shakespeare’  —  The messages started pouring in earlier this week.  —  “Your play depicting the murder of our President is nothing but pure hatred,” read one of the tamer ones.  —  “[H]ope you all who did this play about Trump are the first do …
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Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
BOOM!!  Protesters INTERRUPT Trump Assassination Play - RUSH STAGE — Screaming “Goebbels Would Be Proud!”
Adam Goldman / New York Times:
Alexandria Gunman Carried List With Names of 3 Republican Lawmakers  —  WASHINGTON — The gunman who targeted Republican congressmen this week at a baseball field in suburban Washington was carrying a list with the names of at least three lawmakers, and had pictures of the ballpark stored on his cellphone …
Discussion: Business Insider and Infowars
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Peter Hasson / The Daily Caller:
EXCLUSIVE: Assassination List Found On James Hodgkinson's Body
Robby Soave / New York Times:
Michelle Carter Didn't Kill With a Text  —  Can malicious speech constitute violence?  No. But Friday's shocking court decision — which found Michelle Carter guilty of sending lethal text messages — is bound to confuse the issue.  —  Judge Lawrence Moniz, of Bristol County Juvenile Court …
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Bloomberg:
Trump Reveals Flat Revenue at Controversial Washington Hotel  —  Discloses at least $528.9 million in total revenue and income  —  Hotel lost $1.2 million in first weeks, lawmakers say  —  President Donald Trump's latest financial disclosure indicates that his Washington, D.C. …
Discussion: Raw Story
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Ryan Lizza / New Yorker:
Why Trump Attacked His Own Deputy Attorney General  —  Nearly everyone who knows him seems to agree that Rod Rosenstein, the Deputy Attorney General and the official overseeing the special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation of links between the Trump campaign and Russia, has a reputation for integrity.
Richard Elliot / WSB-TV:
6TH DISTRICT POLL: Ossoff leads Handel by less than 2 points  —  ATLANTA - With just a few days to go before Georgia's 6th Congressional District runoff, Democrat Jon Ossoff and Republican Karen Handel are still very, very close.  —  Our latest WSB-Landmark Communications poll of 800 likely voters …
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David Badash / The New Civil Rights Movement:
WATCH: Karen Handel Cites Her Faith to Tell Mom of LGBTQ Child She's Against Gay People Adopting, Having Families
Discussion: Raw Story
Mike Allen / Axios:
Pence parlor game: who would he pick for Veep?  —  One of the parlor games Republicans are playing in the shadows of the Russia investigation is this: Who would President Pence pick as his vice president?  —  Quick refresher: If a president leaves offices for any reason …
Discussion: Politicus USA
Edward-Isaac Dovere / Politico:
How Jason Kander Won by Losing  —  MANCHESTER, N.H.—Jason Kander was wearing a mic pack here as he wandered around the Puritan Backroom, chatting with local activists and politicians at the Manchester Democratic Club chicken dinner.  A videographer, who followed him around as he moved from table to table …
Discussion: Political Wire
Max Boot / Yahoo:
Donald Trump Is Proving Too Stupid to Be President  —  “You know, I'm, like, a smart person.”  Uh huh.  —  I'm starting to suspect that Donald Trump may not have been right when he  —  said, “You know, I'm like a smart person.”  The evidence continues to mount that he is far from smart …
Discussion: Raw Story
John Bowden / The Hill:
Gingrich: Somebody probably going to jail over Russia investigation  —  Former Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) told Fox News on Friday that “somebody” will likely go to jail following the FBI's investigation into Russian election meddling, but said it won't be President Trump.  —  “They're going to get somebody.
Discussion: RedState
Anne Applebaum / Washington Post:
Everyone said Old Europe was dying.  Sure doesn't look like it now.  —  The contrast could not be more stark.  Theresa May, the British prime minister, presides over a hung Parliament and a divided country.  Donald Trump, the American president, rules alongside a Congress almost too paralyzed to legislate.
Discussion: Financial Times
Erica L. Green / New York Times:
Education Dept. Says It Will Scale Back Civil Rights Investigations  —  WASHINGTON — The Department of Education is scaling back investigations into civil rights violations at the nation's public schools and universities, easing off mandates imposed by the Obama administration that the new leadership says have bogged down the agency.
Discussion: Axios and NPR
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Emma Brown / Washington Post:
U.S. Commission on Civil Rights to investigate civil rights enforcement under Trump
Matthew Nussbaum / Politico:
White House plans to push House GOP for friendlier Russia sanctions deal  —  The White House plans to work with House Republicans on administration-friendly changes to the Senate's overwhelmingly bipartisan bill that slaps new sanctions on Russia and curbs President Donald Trump's power …
 
 
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Emily Kopp / Kaiser Health News:
Exclusive: White House Task Force Echoes Pharma Proposals
Discussion: ThinkProgress, The Hill and Politico
Sean Sullivan / Washington Post:
Rubio's friendship with Trump blossoms even as he helps investigate the president's associates
Christopher Brennan / New York Daily News:
Philando Castile's uncle calls on Trump to bring federal charges against Jeronimo Yanez
Discussion: CNN, Shareblue and Washington Post
Abdul Matin / Reuters:
U.S. soldiers wounded in apparent shooting at Afghan base: official
Jana Jones / WFLA-TV:
VIDEO: Machete-wielding homeowner holds armed robbery suspect until officials arrive, 5 arrested
The Washington / Denver Post:
Environmental watchdog group warns of lead in baby food
Daily Kos:
LEADING OFF  —  Pennsylvania: A group of Pennsylvania voters …
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CNN:
Money stolen by Russian mob linked to man sanctioned for supporting Syria's chemical weapons program
Elana Schor / Politico:
'Somebody's Trying to Kill Me'
Discussion: CBS News
Rebecca Ballhaus / Wall Street Journal:
Here's How Pence Could Pay for a Personal Lawyer in Special Counsel Russia Probe
Discussion: Raw Story
Dan Springer / Fox News:
Seattle gun tax failure? Firearm sales plummet, violence spikes after law passes
Foreign Policy:
White House Officials Push For Widening War in Syria Over Pentagon Objections
 

 
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