The Tea Party goes down in Mississippi

The Brief Wednesday, June 25th 2014

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1. Thad Ain't Sad
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Sen. Thad Cochran narrowly won Mississippi's Republican primary election on Tuesday, prevailing over a Tea Party challenger in a hard-fought runoff vote that was seen as a proxy for the intramural fight between the GOP establishment and conservative candidates

2. U.S. Special Forces Arrive in Iraq
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A first wave of military advisers deployed by President Barack Obama landed in Baghdad to establish a strategic base from which they will conduct intelligence evaluations

3. Google Has New Toys
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The tech giant will offer a peek at its future during this week's annual Google I/O conference, which caters to software developers but is also used to unveil big consumer products

4. Jihadis Barred From Selling T-Shirts on Facebook
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Facebook is blocking the sale of merchandise linked to the group Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, whose Sunni fighters are deep into an insurgency in Iraq, on its platform after pages advertising the items appeared

5. Uruguay Through to Knockout Round by the Skin of Suarez's Teeth
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Uruguay's striker Luis Suarez apparently sunk his teeth into Italy's Giorgio Chiellini, casting a shadow over his team's 1-0 victory. The Uruguayan star with a Dracula-like penchant for biting opponents has been suspended twice for it, once in 2010 and again in 2013

6. George Lucas Plans to Open Museum in Chicago
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The famed Star Wars director selected the Windy City to host a museum that will showcase movie memorabilia and his art collection, after San Francisco and Los Angeles had campaigned for it but "aggressive" lobbying by Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel ultimately won him over

7. Dick Cheney Says Iraq War Was 'the Right Thing'
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Former Vice President Dick Cheney is standing by the Bush Administration's decision more than a decade ago to wage war in Iraq, saying he has never second-guessed the move even as Iraq once again descending into chaos

8. NASA's New Rover May Explore Frozen Waters in Space
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Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory have finally built a robot that will be able to chart the icy waters found on celestial bodies like Jupiter's moon Europa, going where no other space robot has gone before

9. Versatile Actor Eli Wallach Dies at 98
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Eli Wallach, the prolific actor and New York City native who held roles in more than 80 films over the course of his six-decade career, from his first movie in 1956's Baby Doll to his last in 2010's Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, died on Tuesday

10. 4 Feasible Options as LeBron Becomes a Free Agent
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Miami Heat star LeBron James will opt out of his contract and become an unrestricted free agent after his squad's loss in the NBA Finals, in a move that casts the Heat's future into doubt, so TIME's Sean Gregory looks at four paths the four-time league MVP could go down

11. 5 Years Later, an Unusual Portrait of the King of Pop
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Michael Jackson was a cultural phenomenon, but excessive spending before his 2009 death—amid fallout from child molestation accusations—prompted an auction to avoid foreclosure on his estate and gave photographer Henry Leutwyler access to 2,000 of his possessions

12. Congress Votes to Rename Road by Chinese Embassy After Jailed Dissident
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The official address for the Chinese embassy in Washington is to be changed to 1 Liu Xiaobo Plaza after the jailed Chinese Nobel Peace Prize laureate. Beijing is not amused by the "provocative action," as Liu "has been convicted in accordance with the law"

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