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8:25 PM ET, July 22, 2013

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Matt Gutman / ABC News:
George Zimmerman Emerged From Hiding for Truck Crash Rescue  —  George Zimmerman, who has been in hiding since he was acquitted of murder in the death of Trayvon Martin, emerged to help rescue someone who was trapped in an overturned truck, police said today.
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George Zimmerman Emerged From Hiding for Truck Crash Rescue … George Zimmerman, defendant in the killing of Trayvon Martin, is sworn in as a witness in Seminole circuit court for a pre-trial hearing April 30, 2013 in Sanford, Fla.  —  Joe Burbank/Getty Images
Kerry Picket / BREITBART.COM:
Zimmerman Saves Family of Four in Florida Car Crash, Extinguishes Car Fire  —  On Wednesday, July 17 at about 5:45 PM Sanford Police responded to a single car accident in the area of I- 4 and State Road 46 in Sanford.  A blue Ford Explorer SUV traveled off the road and rolled over.
Margaret Sullivan / The Public Editor's Journal:
Nate Silver Went Against the Grain for Some at The Times  —  Why did Nate Silver decide to leave The New York Times and accept an offer from ESPN?  —  That's the cause of great speculation in media circles at the moment.  As has been noted elsewhere, there's no question that The Times …
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Mike Allen / Politico:
How ESPN and ABC landed Nate Silver  —  If you were away from your screens this weekend, you may have missed Mike Allen's fascinating behind-the-scenes look at how ESPN and ABC News fought to lure data-whiz Nate Silver away from The New York Times.  Because this all went down in Playbook, it'll be lost to the archives soon.
Amy Phillips / ESPN:
Nate Silver - Renowned Statistician, Author and Founder of FiveThirtyEight - Joins ESPN in Multi-Faceted Role  —  Nate Silver - Renowned Statistician, Author and Founder of FiveThirtyEight - Joins ESPN in Multi-Faceted Role  —  Will Also Contribute Regularly to ABC News Platforms
David Leonhardt / New York Times:
In Climbing Income Ladder, Location Matters  —  The odds of rising to another income level are notably low in certain cities, like Atlanta and Charlotte, and much higher in New York and Boston.
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Matthew Yglesias / Slate:
In America, Where You're Born Has a Huge Impact on How Far You'll Go in Life
Justin Sink / The Hill:
Report: Jay Z, Kanye West, Rolling Stones join Stevie Wonder's Florida boycott  —  Some of the music industry's biggest acts are joining Stevie Wonder in boycotting Florida over the state's controversial “Stand Your Ground” law.  —  Artists joining Wonder include Rod Stewart, Madonna …
Discussion: Firedoglake
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John Fund / National Review:
Obama Voted to Strengthen Illinois's Stand Your Ground Law in 2004
April D. Ryan / AprilDRyan.com:
Celebrities Take Action Against Stand Your Ground Law in Florida
BBC:
Royal baby: Kate gives birth to boy  —  The Duchess of Cambridge has given birth to a baby boy, Kensington Palace has announced.  —  The baby was delivered at 16:24 BST at St Mary's Hospital in Paddington, west London, weighing 8lb 6oz.  —  The palace said in a statement that the duchess and the baby were …
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USA Today:
The royal baby has arrived
Associated Press:
Why I left the NAACP: Column … The NAACP has stopped advancing colored people and started advancing colored progressives.  —  CONNECT  —  After a Florida juryacquitted George Zimmermanin the killing of Trayvon Martin, theNAACP pledgedthat it “will not rest until racial profiling in all its forms is outlawed.”
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Los Angeles Times:
Rhetoric, race and reality in America
Shelby Steele / Wall Street Journal:   The Decline of the Civil-Rights Establishment
Pew Research Center for the People and the Press:
Big Racial Divide over Zimmerman Verdict  —  Whites Say Too Much Focus on Race, Blacks Disagree  —  OVERVIEW  —  The public is divided over the not guilty verdict in the George Zimmerman trial and over the conversation about race that has surrounded it.  The latest national survey …
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Chris Geidner / BuzzFeed:
Ohio Officials Ordered To Recognize Gay Couple's Marriage  —  Married on July 11 in Maryland, John Arthur is in hospice care and “certain to die soon.”  He and his husband have sued to ensure their marriage is recognized by Ohio officials at Arthur's death.  —  Via: Photo courtesy of Jim Obergefell
Patrick Howley / The Daily Caller:
The Obama appointee implicated in congressional testimony in the IRS targeting scandal met with President Obama in the White House two days before offering his colleagues a new set of advice on how to scrutinize tea party and conservative groups applying for tax-exempt status.
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Nedra Pickler / Associated Press:
Obama Lines Up Celebrities To Promote Obamacare
Brian Tashman / Right Wing Watch:
Priebus: GOP Not Embracing ‘Tolerance,’ Just Becoming More Loving  —  Following their 2012 election debacle, the Republican National Committee and the College Republicans issued reports which urged the party to go through an image makeover without adjusting its political stances.
Evan McMurry / Mediaite:
Scarborough Rips Hannity For Trayvon Weed Comments: Are ‘White Kids On College Campuses Fair Game’ Too?  —  On his show Monday morning, Joe Scarborough tore into Sean Hannity for the latter's attempt to link Trayvon Martin and Barack Obama through their allegedly similar drug history.
Mark Landler / New York Times:
Obama Plans to Unveil His Agenda for Economy  —  WASHINGTON — With major battles looming in the fall over the federal budget and the debt ceiling, President Obama is trying to regain the initiative, embarking on a campaign-style tour of the Midwest this week to lay out his agenda for reinvigorating …
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Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
Obama Seeking to Take Credit and Set Course for Economy
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
Pew Research Center:
Are unauthorized immigrants overwhelmingly Democrats?  —  As Congress debates immigration reform, some political leaders and analysts have speculated that there will be “an electoral bonanza for Democrats” if the nation's estimated 11.1 million unauthorized immigrants - three quarters of whom are Hispanics …
Discussion: Politico, Post Politics and Twitchy
Reuters:
Al Qaeda militants flee Iraq jail in violent mass break-out  —  (Reuters) - Hundreds of convicts, including senior members of al Qaeda, broke out of Iraq's Abu Ghraib jail as comrades launched a military-style assault to free them, authorities said on Monday.
Reuters:
Exclusive: U.S. congressional hurdles lifted on arming Syrian rebels  —  (Reuters) - President Barack Obama can go ahead with a plan for the United States to arm the struggling Syrian rebels after some congressional concerns were eased, a key Republican lawmaker said on Monday.
Discussion: Politico and Hot Air
Laurie Goodstein / New York Times:
Some Mormons Search the Web and Find Doubt  —  A Mormon Doubts: Hans Mattsson was once a high-ranking leader for the Mormon church in Europe.  He joins others who are experiencing a crisis of faith and finding few answers from their church.  —  In the small but cohesive Mormon community where he grew up …
 
 
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Jeremy Herb / The Hill:
Gen. Dempsey: Syria no-fly zone could cost US $1B per month
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Mari Yamaguchi / Associated Press:
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Harvey Fierstein / New York Times:
Russia's Anti-Gay Crackdown
Adam Ozimek / Forbes:
The Free Market Plan To Save Detroit
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BBC:
Dubai rape case Norwegian woman ‘free to go’
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Jacob Fischler / BuzzFeed:
Mayors Abandon Bloomberg's Gun Control Group
CNN:
At 90, Dole looks back at why Congress worked
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Steve Kornacki / Salon:
Christie may be forced to quit as governor
Peter Hamby / CNN:
‘Stop Hillary’ group ramps up anti-Clinton efforts
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
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