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12:20 PM ET, July 24, 2013

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New York Times:
Mr. Weiner and the Elusive Truth  —  At some point, the full story of Anthony Weiner and his sexual relationships and texting habits will finally be told.  In the meantime, the serially evasive Mr. Weiner should take his marital troubles and personal compulsions out of the public eye …
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Andrew Kaczynski:
Here Is The Woman Linked To Anthony Weiner In Sex Chats  —  A progressive activist from Indiana in her early 20s who identifies herself online as “Sydney Leathers” and “sidneyelainexo” is the woman whose online profile is linked to the latest Weiner scandal.  Weiner, she wrote, could “continue sending dick pics every single day.”
Daily Mail:
REVEALED: The Obama election campaigner, 23, who ‘received illicit messages and had phone sex with Anthony Weiner’ a year after humiliated wife forgave him  — Sydney Leathers, a liberal activist from Illinois, is allegedly the woman who revealed explicit images she received from Weiner
Wall Street Journal:
The Anthony Weiner Show  —  What he and Eliot Spitzer have in common.  —  Lewd tweets aside—there's a line we never thought we'd write— Anthony Weiner ought to drop out of the New York City mayor's race simply because of what he's forced his wife to endure.
Discussion: msnbc.com and TheBlaze.com
New York Times:
Account of Weiner's Conversation Fits Pattern of Online Exchanges  —  The racy online conversations now convulsing Anthony D. Weiner's campaign for mayor began with an angry Facebook message, according to the editor of a blog that has communicated with the young woman involved.
Chris Kirk / Slate:
The Carlos Danger Name Generator
NikRichie / The Dirty:
EXCLUSIVE IMAGE: Anthony Weiner Penis Picture And Timeline
Reuters:
Snowden could soon leave Moscow airport: airport source  —  (Reuters) - Former U.S. spy agency contractor Edward Snowden has been granted the papers that will allow him to leave the transit area of a Moscow airport where he is holed up, an airport official said on Wednesday.
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CNN:
Snowden can't leave Moscow airport yet, lawyer says
Discussion: Politico
Gary Langer / ABC News:
Attitudes Shift Against Snowden; Fewer than Half Say NSA is Unjustified
Discussion: Yahoo! News and Hot Air
Darlene Superville / Associated Press:
Obama to Try to Focus Public Attention on Economy
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Associated Press:
Russian state news agency says US leaker Edward Snowden has documents to enter Russia
Politico:
Denis McDonough to Democrats: We've got this  —  White House officials knew that selling Obamacare to the public would be difficult, but it wasn't until Sen. Max Baucus called the rollout a “huge train wreck coming down” that they realized they were losing a key constituency: congressional Democrats.
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Jonathan Weisman / New York Times:
House G.O.P. Sets New Offensive on Obama Goals  —  WASHINGTON — Congressional Republicans are moving to gut many of President Obama's top priorities with the sharpest spending cuts in a generation and a new push to hold government financing hostage unless the president's signature health care law is stripped of money this fall.
Politico:
The new power triangle  —  Barack Obama, to hear his advisers tell it …
Ben White / Politico:
5 things to watch in Obama's economy speech
Discussion: msnbc.com and Yahoo! News
Meghashyam Mali / The Hill:
Poll: Obama approval nears record low  —  A new poll finds President Obama's approval rating dropping to its lowest level in nearly two years, and near his all-time low.  —  A Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll released late Tuesday finds Obama with 45 percent approval and 50 percent disapproval.
Discussion: CNN, Scared Monkeys and Politico
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Mark Murray / First Read:
America's race relations take hit after Zimmerman verdict, NBC News/WSJ poll finds
Discussion: NBC Politics, theGrio and msnbc.com
Eric W. Dolan / The Raw Story:
Pennsylvania police chief: F*ck all you libtards out there, you take it in the a**  —  The mayor of Gilberton, Pennsylvania is standing by her city's police chief despite a series of profanity-laced and threatening videos.  —  In a video that has received wide attention …
Spencer Ackerman / Guardian:
House forces NSA surveillance vote  —  Opposition to bulk surveillance swells with vote that would ‘end authority for blanket collection of records under the Patriot Act’  —  Congressional opposition to the NSA's bulk surveillance on Americans swelled on Tuesday as the US House prepared …
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O.Kay Henderson:
Congressman King defends “drug mule” comments about “DREAMers” (AUDIO)  —  Iowa Congressman Steve King did an interview with Newsmax last week and King made reference to the so-called “DREAMers” — people under the age of 35 who were brought into the U.S. illegally by their parents …
Manu Raju / Politico:
Mitch McConnell slams Matt Bevin in Senate race  —  Matt Bevin is getting a Mitch McConnell welcome in Kentucky: A slashing TV ad seizing on the political newcomer's problems with his Connecticut-based bell manufacturing business.  —  Bevin, a wealthy Louisville businessman …
Discussion: CNN, Yahoo! News, The Hill and Roll Call
Peter Hamby / CNN:
First on CNN: Republicans launch their own ‘50 state strategy’  —  Washington (CNN) - After weaknesses in its ground game were badly exposed in 2012, the Republican National Committee is taking a page straight out of the Democratic playbook and launching an ambitious “50 state strategy” …
Discussion: Ballot Box
KPBS San Diego:
Filner Harassment Scandal Grows As Second Woman Comes Forward … Another woman came forward today to report an unwanted advance by Mayor Bob Filner, telling KPBS News in an exclusive interview that the then-congressman patted her “posterior” while making a crude joke at a crowded fundraiser.
Discussion: Politico, CNN, Los Angeles Times and Gawker
Gary Strauss / USA Today:
Could door-to-door Postal Service delivery end soon?  —  Congressional effort to cut Postal Service losses proposing an end to door-to-door mail delivery  —  First, it was doing away with Saturday delivery.  Now, door-to-door service could be coming to an end.
Discussion: americanthinker.com
 
 
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Tyler Kingkade / The Huffington Post:
USC Student: Police Said I Wasn't Raped Because He Didn't Orgasm
Discussion: AMERICAblog, Jezebel and Politico
John L. Allen Jr / ncronline.org:
Right wing ‘generally not happy’ with Francis, Chaput says
Discussion: CNN, National Review and The Raw Story
ProPublica:
NSA Says It Can't Search Its Own Emails