George Zimmerman Juror Says He ‘Got Away With Murder’  —  The only minority on the all-female jury that voted to acquit George Zimmerman said today that Zimmerman “got away with murder” for killing Trayvon Martin and feels she owes an apology Martin's parents.

7/25: Quinn Reclaims Lead from Weiner in Democratic Primary... Should Weiner Drop Out?  Dems Divide  —  In light of new revelations that Anthony Weiner continued to engage in lewd online behavior after he resigned from Congress two years ago, Weiner now trails Christine Quinn in the Democratic primary for New York City mayor.

Inside Groundswell: Read the Memos of the New Right-Wing Strategy Group Planning a “30 Front War”  —  Ginni Thomas, Allen West, and a crew of conservative activists and journalists have formed a hush-hush coalition to battle progressives—and Karl Rove.  —  From left: Frank Gaffney; Ginni Thomas; Allen West

Voting rights challenge in Texas opens up new Obama-GOP fight  —  Attorney General Eric Holder's surprise decision to challenge Texas's voting laws triggers a huge new fight between the federal government and southern states dominated by the Republican Party.

Feds tell Web firms to turn over user account passwords  —  Secret demands mark escalation in Internet surveillance by the federal government through gaining access to user passwords, which are typically stored in encrypted form.  —  The U.S. government has demanded that major Internet …

Jindal and Walker: Unworkable ObamaCare  —  Opaque rules, big delays and rising costs: The chaos is mounting.  —  By - BOBBY JINDAL - AND SCOTT WALKER  —  Remember when President Obama famously promised that if you like your health-care plan, you'll be able to keep your health-care plan?

CBO: Sequester cuts would cost up to 1.6M jobs through 2014  —  The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office on Thursday estimated that keeping the spending cuts from sequestration in place through fiscal 2014 would cost up to 1.6 million jobs.  —  Canceling the cuts, on the other hand …

Paula Deen's Cook Tells of Slights, Steeped in History  —  SAVANNAH, Ga. — Dora Charles and Paula Deen were soul sisters.  That's what Ms. Deen called the black cook from the start, even before the books and the television shows and the millions of dollars.  —  For 22 years, Mrs. Charles was the queen of the Deen kitchens.

Halliburton will plead guilty in BP Gulf oil spill  —  Oilfield services giant Halliburton has agreed to plead guilty to destroying evidence in connection with the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil disaster, the Justice Department (DOJ) announced Thursday evening.  —  Halliburton was the cement contractor …

Al-Qaeda hosts a family fair in Syria, complete with ice cream and jihad  —  Nothing says wholesome family fun like al-Qaeda, which is why the group's Syrian and Iraqi branches held a festival in a rebel-held neighborhood of Aleppo.  The bizarre event, captured on video …

Rush Limbaugh: 'Weiner isn't Clinton'  —  Rush Limbaugh has a theory for why Anthony Weiner's bid for New York mayor, even when bolstered by his wife's insistence to speak for his character, isn't working: Weiner, he says, isn't Bill Clinton.  —  “There are a number of Drive-By Media outlets who think Weiner's gotta go now.

Senior GOPer: Try To Ditch Obamacare?  Dream On, Guys  —  As conservatives escalate their efforts to shut down the government if Obamacare is not defunded, a familiar voice of reason is returning to the fray to send them a message: Dream on.  —  Rep. Tom Cole (R-OK), a deputy majority whip …

How Safe Is Train Travel?  —  There was an awful high-speed rail crash in Spain yesterday, and according to the latest reports at least 80 people are confirmed dead.  It appears that for some reason, the train took a turn much too fast and then derailed.  What's notable about the accident, though, is how rare this kind of accident is.

The Politics of Voter ID  —  The New Republic's Nate Cohn brings some data to the debate over the Republican push, in North Carolina and elsewhere, for increasingly-stringent identification requirements at the polls: … Depending on the design of the rules, Cohn concludes …

John Boehner blasts Steve King again  —  If it wasn't clear Wednesday, House Speaker John Boehner wants Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) to pipe down.  —  Boehner on Thursday called his comments about illegal immigrants “deeply offensive and wrong.”  —  “What he said does not reflect the values …

Obama: Ho Chi Minh Was Inspired by Our Founders  —  President Obama hailed hard-core communist revolutionary Ho Chi Minh today as a pretty open guy who was actually inspired by the Founders.  —  Obama took a break from his jobs-pivot speeches to meet Vietnamese President Truong Tan Sang at the White House.