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A.M. Links: Alton Sterling Shooting, Philando Castile Shooting, James Comey Appears Before Congress

Damon Root | 7.7.2016 9:00 AM


  • Senate Judiciary Committee

    FBI Director James Comey is scheduled to appear before Congress today to explain the FBI's decision not to bring charges against Hillary Clinton.

  • Gary Johnson: Police shooting of Alton Sterling in Baton Rogue, Louisiana, appears to be a "murder."
  • "A woman who began streaming video on Facebook immediately after her boyfriend was shot by police in suburban Minneapolis, Minn., says he had been stopped for a broken tail light—and that he was licensed to carry a gun. The killing of Philando Castile, 32, is the second fatal encounter between police and a black man to gain national attention this week."
  • California poll: Hillary Clinton 50 percent, Donald Trump 26 percent, Gary Johnson 10 percent.
  • "The nobodies on the Trump and Clinton short lists."
  • The town of Timmonsville, South Carolina, has banned saggy pants.

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Damon Root is a senior editor at Reason and the author of A Glorious Liberty: Frederick Douglass and the Fight for an Antislavery Constitution (Potomac Books). His next book, Emancipation War: The Fall of Slavery and the Coming of the Thirteenth Amendment (Potomac Books), will be published in June 2026.