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Paul Krugman, The New York Times
Krugman writes: "All the experts tell us not to pay too much attention to polls for another week or two. Still, it does look as if Hillary Clinton got a big bounce from her convention, swamping her opponent's bounce a week earlier."
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Paul Krugman, The New York Times
Krugman writes: "All the experts tell us not to pay too much attention to polls for another week or two. Still, it does look as if Hillary Clinton got a big bounce from her convention, swamping her opponent's bounce a week earlier."
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Donald Trump Admits He Gets Confused and Makes Things Up After Watching Fox News
Robert Mackey, The Intercept
Mackey writes: "Donald Trump admitted on Friday that a story he has been telling audiences at rallies on Wednesday and Thursday - that he had seen a video shot and distributed by the Iranian government showing the world a 'top-secret' American shipment of cash arriving in Iran - is completely false."
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Robert Mackey, The Intercept
Mackey writes: "Donald Trump admitted on Friday that a story he has been telling audiences at rallies on Wednesday and Thursday - that he had seen a video shot and distributed by the Iranian government showing the world a 'top-secret' American shipment of cash arriving in Iran - is completely false."
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FBI Encouraged ISIS Shooter to 'Tear Up Texas'
Katie Zavadski, The Daily Beast
Zavadski writes: "Days before an ISIS sympathizer attacked a cartoon contest in Garland, Texas, he received a text from an undercover FBI agent. 'Tear up Texas,' the agent messaged Elton Simpson days before he opened fire at the Draw Muhammad event, according to an affidavit (pdf) filed in federal court Thursday."
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Katie Zavadski, The Daily Beast
Zavadski writes: "Days before an ISIS sympathizer attacked a cartoon contest in Garland, Texas, he received a text from an undercover FBI agent. 'Tear up Texas,' the agent messaged Elton Simpson days before he opened fire at the Draw Muhammad event, according to an affidavit (pdf) filed in federal court Thursday."
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LAPD Officers Claim They're Being Discriminated Against for Shooting an Unarmed Black Man
Carimah Townes, ThinkProgress
Townes writes: "Two years after police gunned down Ezell Ford, an unarmed black man who suffered from bipolar disorder and schizophrenia, the officers involved sued the city of Los Angeles for racial discrimination. According to Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) Officers Sharlton Wampler and Tony Villegas, who are Caucasian and Latino, respectively, they've been "benched" because of their race."
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Carimah Townes, ThinkProgress
Townes writes: "Two years after police gunned down Ezell Ford, an unarmed black man who suffered from bipolar disorder and schizophrenia, the officers involved sued the city of Los Angeles for racial discrimination. According to Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) Officers Sharlton Wampler and Tony Villegas, who are Caucasian and Latino, respectively, they've been "benched" because of their race."
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The Repression Lists: How No-Fly Lists and Other Watch Lists Are Used as Instruments of Political Repression
Chip Gibbons, Jacobin
Gibbons writes: "In 1951, the Civil Rights Congress, an organization closely affiliated with the Communist Party (CPUSA), drew up a petition to deliver to the United Nations (UN). Entitled 'We Charge Genocide,' the 237-page document laid out, with extensive corroboration, the lynchings, wrongful executions, and voter suppression African Americans endured."
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Chip Gibbons, Jacobin
Gibbons writes: "In 1951, the Civil Rights Congress, an organization closely affiliated with the Communist Party (CPUSA), drew up a petition to deliver to the United Nations (UN). Entitled 'We Charge Genocide,' the 237-page document laid out, with extensive corroboration, the lynchings, wrongful executions, and voter suppression African Americans endured."
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Protests by Athletes and Displaced Rio Residents Accompany Opening of 2016 Olympic Games
Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!
Excerpt: "Dave Zirin, sports editor for The Nation magazine, says protests highlighting racial and economic injustice are expected from athletes attending the 2016 Olympics in Brazil, such as tennis champion Serena Williams and players from the NBA, WNBA and other countries. Polls show more than 60 percent of Brazilians think hosting the Games will hurt their country."
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Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!
Excerpt: "Dave Zirin, sports editor for The Nation magazine, says protests highlighting racial and economic injustice are expected from athletes attending the 2016 Olympics in Brazil, such as tennis champion Serena Williams and players from the NBA, WNBA and other countries. Polls show more than 60 percent of Brazilians think hosting the Games will hurt their country."
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Greenland Ice Melt Could Expose Hazardous Cold War Waste
Andrea Thompson, Scientific American
Thompson writes: "When the U.S. military abandoned Camp Century, a complex of tunnels dug into the ice of northwest Greenland, in the mid-1960s, they left behind thousands of tons of waste, including hazardous radioactive and chemical materials. They expected the detritus would be safely entombed in the ice sheet for tens of thousands of years, buried ever deeper under accumulating layers of snow and ice."
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Andrea Thompson, Scientific American
Thompson writes: "When the U.S. military abandoned Camp Century, a complex of tunnels dug into the ice of northwest Greenland, in the mid-1960s, they left behind thousands of tons of waste, including hazardous radioactive and chemical materials. They expected the detritus would be safely entombed in the ice sheet for tens of thousands of years, buried ever deeper under accumulating layers of snow and ice."
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