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12:50 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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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
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.”
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.
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
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.
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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.
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, Politico and Scared Monkeys
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Wall Street Journal:
Approval of Obama, Congress Falls in New Poll
Darlene Superville / Associated Press:
Obama to Try to Focus Public Attention on Economy
Discussion: Washington Monthly
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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Mark Murray / First Read:
America's race relations take hit after Zimmerman verdict, NBC News/WSJ poll finds  —  In the wake of the George Zimmerman case, U.S. views of race relations have taken a hit, and one-third of Americans say his acquittal in the death of Trayvon Martin has shaken their confidence in the legal system …
Discussion: NBC Politics, theGrio and msnbc.com
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Paul Thompson / Daily Mail:
The family rescued by George Zimmerman after a rollover crash in Florida are terrified …
Marist Poll:
7/24: A Look at the 2016 Presidential Contest  —  If former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton were to announce a candidacy for the Presidency, she would be the clear frontrunner for the Democratic nomination.  Clinton outdistances her closest potential opponent, Vice President Joe Biden …
Discussion: Yahoo! News
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Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
2016 poll: Clinton tops likely GOP rivals
Discussion: Reuters
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 …
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: Yahoo! News and The Hill
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Paul Steinhauser / CNN:
Conservative challenger takes on top Senate Republican
Discussion: Politico and Roll Call
O.Kay Henderson:
Congressman King defends “drug mule” comments about “DREAMers” (AUDIO)  —  UPDATE: Read the Radio Iowa story here; below you'll find the text and audio of the interview.  —  Iowa Congressman Steve King did an interview with Newsmax last week and King made reference to the so-called “DREAMers” …
Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
Book: Jimmy Carter targeted by US and foreign assassins  —  Potential assassins have threatened the life of Jimmy Carter multiple times since he left the White House in 1981, making the one-term Georgian the most threatened former president in history, according to a new book about John F. Kennedy and his assassination 50 years ago.
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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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
 
 
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Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
Obama ‘Pivots’ for 19th Time
Discussion: Hot Air, Weasel Zippers and ABC News
Gary Langer / ABC News:
Attitudes Shift Against Snowden; Fewer than Half Say NSA is Unjustified
Discussion: Yahoo! News and Hot Air
Justin Sink / The Hill:
Participation unclear in Wonder-backed boycott of Florida
Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
New Book Quotes Not-So-Humble Christie on Presidential Thoughts
Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
Joe Biden Claims Indian Relatives
Discussion: TheBlaze.com and Weasel Zippers
Seth McLaughlin / Washington Times:
Records of snooping into Christine O'Donnell tax records disappear
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
Washington Post:
Defense firms weathering budget cuts more easily than expected
Gary Strauss / USA Today:
Could door-to-door Postal Service delivery end soon?
Discussion: americanthinker.com
John L. Allen Jr / ncronline.org:
Right wing ‘generally not happy’ with Francis, Chaput says
Discussion: CNN, The Raw Story and National Review
 

 
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Caitlin Huston / The Hollywood Reporter:
Internal memo: Hearst Magazines president announces layoffs as part of a decision to “reallocate resources” to “continue our focus on digital innovation”

Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel announced she will leave the agency on January 20; she was the first woman to be confirmed to lead the agency

Lachlan Cartwright / The Ankler:
Sources: MSNBC renewed Rachel Maddow's contract early this fall, but with a pay cut; MSNBC bosses' plan to shake up daytime and weekend programming

 
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