memeorandum: Rep. Peter King Blasts Rand Paul For ‘Apologizing For America’: ‘Fringes’ Will ‘Destroy’ GOP (Evan McMurry/Mediaite)

11:55 PM ET, July 28, 2013

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Greg B. Smith / NY Daily News:

Weiner campaign paid private eye $45,000 to investigate own 2011 Twitter ‘hacking’ lie, reports show — The ‘hacking’ never happened — Weiner later admitted to sending the racy pics himself — but his furious attempt at damage control included an expensive investigation by T&M Protection services.

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Bob Cusack / The Hill:

Marion Barry: Weiner a ‘good Democrat’ — Former Washington, D.C. Mayor Marion Barry said Anthony Weiner is a “good Democrat” who should be talking more about his accomplishments in Congress. — In an interview Saturday night on Geraldo Rivera's show on Fox News, Barry said …

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Jake Miller / CBS News:
Anthony Weiner's campaign manager calls it quits

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Michael Barbaro / New York Times:
Weiner's Campaign Manager Quits After Latest Revelations

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Melissa Klein / New York Post:

Iconic Ground Zero photo was nearly excluded from museum for being too ‘rah-rah’ American — This iconic picture of firefighters raising the stars and stripes in the rubble of Ground Zero was nearly excluded from the 9/11 Memorial Museum — because it was “rah-rah” American, a new book says.

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Peter Schroeder / The Hill:

Obama, Hillary Clinton set for Monday lunch — President Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton are set to meet for lunch Monday. — The private lunch between the president and the woman many Democrats hope will succeed him in office was announced Sunday by the White House press office.

New York Times:

A New Defense of Voting Rights — On Thursday, Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. took an important step toward repairing the damage from last month's Supreme Court ruling striking down a central element of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. He is right to adopt an aggressive approach to defending …

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Nicole Flatow / ThinkProgress:
Governor Admits He ‘Does Not Know Enough’ About The Voter Suppression Bill He's About To Sign

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Dylan Byers / Politico:

Cumulus planning to drop Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity — In a major shakeup for the radio industry, Cumulus Media, the second-biggest broadcaster in the country, is planning to drop both Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity from its stations at the end of the year, an industry source told POLITICO on Sunday.

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Kari Rea / ABC News:

Glenn Greenwald: Low-Level NSA Analysts Have ‘Powerful and Invasive’ Search Tool — Today on “This Week,” Glenn Greenwald - the reporter who broke the story about the National Security Agency's surveillance programs - claimed that those NSA programs allowed even low-level analysts to search …

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Evan McMurry / Mediaite:
Greenwald Claims Private Contractors Can Spy On Calls, Emails: ‘I Defy NSA Officials To Deny’ These Capabilities

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Meghashyam Mali / The Hill:
Greenwald: Low-level NSA analysts allowed to spy on phone calls

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Hope Yen / Associated Press:

EXCLUSIVE: 4 IN 5 IN US FACE NEAR-POVERTY, NO WORK — You are here — Home » Barack Obama » Exclusive: 4 in 5 in US face near-poverty, no work — WASHINGTON (AP) — Four out of 5 U.S. adults struggle with joblessness, near poverty or reliance on welfare for at least parts of their lives …

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Jim Mustian / Baton Rouge news …:

Sheriff's Office sets up park stakeouts to ensnare gay men — An undercover East Baton Rouge Parish sheriff's deputy was staking out Manchac Park about 10 a.m. one day this month when a slow-moving sedan pulling into the parking lot caught his attention. The deputy parked alongside …

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Evan McMurry / Mediaite:

Rep. Peter King Blasts Rand Paul For ‘Apologizing For America’: ‘Fringes’ Will ‘Destroy’ GOP — Congressman Peter King appeared on CNN's State of the Union on Sunday morning and warned that Senator Rand Paul's “isolationist streak” will destroy the GOP in much the same way the anti-war movement crippled …

Sam Baker / The Hill:
Rep. Peter King: Rand Paul destroying GOP reputation on national security

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Meghashyam Mali / The Hill:

Lew: No federal bailout for Detroit — Treasury Secretary Jack Lew on Sunday defended the administration's decision not to help bail out Detroit, saying that the city would need to negotiate its own resolution with creditors. — “Detroit's economic problems have been a long time in developing.

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Peter Schroeder / The Hill:
Lew: IRS exhibited ‘equal opportunity bad judgment’ in targeting

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Peter Schroeder / The Hill:
Lew warns GOP to avoid ‘false crises’ over spending, debt limit

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Burgess Everett / Politico:

GOP senators to Liz Cheney: We like Mike Enzi — Republican senators are nearly united in their response to Liz Cheney's challenge to their low-key Wyoming colleague: We like Mike. — That is Mike Enzi, the three-term senator from the Cowboy State who was otherwise on a glide path …

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Alan Duke / CNN:

Police: Robbers tell man, ‘This is for Trayvon Martin’ — (CNN) — A weekend robbery in a racially diverse neighborhood of Washington may have been a hate crime, police said. — “This is for Trayvon Martin,” one of the three black men told a white man as they approached him early Saturday …

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Associated Press:

Col. Bud Day, Medal of Honor Recipient, Dies at 88 — Retired Col. George “Bud” Day, a Medal of Honor recipient who spent 5½ years as a POW in Vietnam and was Arizona Sen. John McCain's cellmate, has died at the age of 88, his widow said Sunday. — Day, one of the nation's …

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John Hinderaker / Power Line:

The Sequester, “Austerity,” and Obama's Attempt at a Comeback — On Thursday, the Congressional Budget Office wrote a letter to Democratic Congressman Chris Van Hollen, responding to Van Hollen's questions about the effect of canceling the sequester of a modest amount of federal spending for the rest of 2013, and 2014.

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