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Nicholas Confessore / New York Times:
A Bet on Clinton: If They Network, She Will Run — A new group dedicated to paving the way for a Hillary Clinton campaign in 2016 has already recruited dozens of the Democratic Party's most elite donors and bundlers, effectively kicking off the presidential money hunt more than three years before Election Day.
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Rick Klein / ABC News:
Sources: Clintons' Patience Growing Thin with Anthony Weiner — Bill and Hillary Clinton increasingly see Anthony Weiner's mayoral campaign as an embarrassment and potential liability, and are signaling through associates that they are eager to see him exit the race, several former Clinton aides and advisers told ABC News.
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The Daily Caller, Yahoo! News and The Reaction
Dylan Byers / Politico:
CNN to produce Hillary Clinton film — CNN Films has tapped documentary filmmaker Charles H. Ferguson to direct a feature-length documentary about former Hillary Clinton, POLITICO has learned. — “CNN is very pleased to be working with Academy-Award winner Charles Ferguson on the film …
Maggie Haberman / Politico:
Concern grows for Huma Abedin within Clinton world — In 2011, Huma Abedin had support from her friends and Clinton associates when she decided to stay with her husband, scandal-plagued New York City mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner. — The past week, that support has morphed into concern.
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Quinnipiac News + Events:
Release Detail — July 29, 2013 - Weiner Should Drop Out, NYC Likely Dem Voters Tell Quinnipiac University Poll; Quinn Leads, With De Blasio, Thompson Tied For Second — Congressman Anthony Weiner drops to fourth place among likely Democratic primary voters in the race for New York City mayor …
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James Arkin / Politico:
Eliot Spitzer not voting for Anthony Weiner
Eliot Spitzer not voting for Anthony Weiner
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Kristin Dos Santos / E! Online:
NEWS/ Julianna Margulies Talks Anthony Weiner Scandal: “It's the Gift That Keeps on Giving” for The Good Wife
NEWS/ Julianna Margulies Talks Anthony Weiner Scandal: “It's the Gift That Keeps on Giving” for The Good Wife
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Politico and The Huffington Post
Tom LoBianco / Associated Press:
AP Exclusive: GOP Donor's School Grade Changed — Former Indiana and current Florida schools chief Tony Bennett built his national star by promising to hold “failing” schools accountable. But when it appeared an Indianapolis charter school run by a prominent Republican donor might receive a poor grade …
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The Reality-Based Community and Mercury Rising
New York Times:
Choosing the Next Fed Leader — Despite a campaign from allies both inside and outside the White House, the recent drive to install Lawrence Summers as the next chairman of the Federal Reserve seems to be faltering — and with good reason: He is not the best person for the job …
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Fear of a Female Fed Chief
Fear of a Female Fed Chief
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Paul Krugman, Wall Street Journal, Lawyers, Guns & Money, Calculated Risk, Econbrowser and msnbc.com
Bill Draper / Associated Press:
Jackson County Circuit judge fires 34-year court veteran for good deed — A Kansas City man freed from prison three decades after being wrongfully convicted of rape considers Sharon Snyder his “angel” for giving him a public document that showed him how to properly seek DNA tests.
Luke Johnson / The Huffington Post:
Mitt Romney On 47 Percent Remark: 'Actually, I Didn't Say That' About Personal Responsibility — His infamous 47 percent remarks were taken out of context, Mitt Romney told The Washington Post's Dan Balz in an interview published Sunday. — Asked about the oft-cited quote that 47 percent …
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David Corn / Mother Jones:
Mitt Romney's Incredible 47-Percent Denial: “Actually, I Didn't Say That”
Mitt Romney's Incredible 47-Percent Denial: “Actually, I Didn't Say That”
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Booman Tribune, msnbc.com, Yahoo! News, Washington Monthly, The Stranger …, Taking Note and Daily Kos
Shaila Dewan / New York Times:
A City Invokes Seizure Laws to Save Homes — The power of eminent domain has traditionally worked against homeowners, who can be forced to sell their property to make way for a new highway or shopping mall. But now the working-class city of Richmond, Calif., hopes to use the same legal tool to help people stay right where they are.
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Law Blog and Obsidian Wings
Kathryn Jean Lopez / National Review:
What the Pope Did and Didn't Say on the Plane — Papal plane rides have been known to get people talking. Infamously, there was Pope Benedict's 2009 plane ride to Africa, when a remark about condoms was woefully misunderstood (and the cardinal archbishop of Buenos Aires …
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Rachel Donadio / New York Times:
On Gay Priests, Pope Francis Asks, ‘Who Am I to Judge?’
On Gay Priests, Pope Francis Asks, ‘Who Am I to Judge?’
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Reuters:
Abbas: ‘Not a single Israeli’ in future Palestinian state — PA president says would agree to int'l presence in W. Bank. — CAIRO - Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas laid out his vision on Monday for the final status of Israeli-Palestinian relations ahead of peace talks due …
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americanthinker.com, Jerusalem Post and Israel Matzav
Washington Examiner:
Obamacare train wreck is crashing employment, too — Every day we hear new reports of challenges surrounding the implementation of the president's health care law. More workers and businesses are coming forward to express frustration with the law. — Under the law's employer mandate …
Rachel Abrams / Variety:
Hollywood Studios Denied Payments from China — China's new value-add tax has kept profits away from studios since at least January — Sony just got the green light for “Smurfs 2″ to play in China, but there's one big problem facing the studio: China hasn't paid Hollywood in months.
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The Verge, Deadline.com and New York Times
Jules Witcover / Baltimore Sun:
GOP's Obamacare obsession is starting to look like political suicide — There is no chance Republicans will prevail in attempt to repeal or de-fund the health care law — Many present-day Republicans seem bent on making “Backward, Christian Soldiers” their marching song in their relentless determination …
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Daily Kos
Associated Press:
AP sources: Pentagon likely to cut furlough days — WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense department civilians will likely face up to five fewer unpaid furlough days than originally planned, as Pentagon leaders scrimp to find up to $900 million in savings in the final months of the budget year that ends Sept. 30 …
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Weekly Standard and Outside the Beltway
Joe / Joe. My. God.:
Pat Robertson On Transgender People — Bring It Online is the daily portion of Pat Robertson's CBN show where he answers questions from viewers. Today he was asked the above question and his answer, while far from perfect, was rather surprising. “I don't understand all that, but I think they are men who are in a woman's body.
Ashley Parker / New York Times:
Big-Name G.O.P. Donors Urge Members of Congress to Back Immigration Overhaul — WASHINGTON — More than 100 Republican donors — many of them prominent names in their party's establishment — sent a letter to Republican members of Congress on Tuesday urging them to support an overhaul of the nation's immigration laws.
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Ben Goad / The Hill:
GOP launches summer assault on regs — House Republicans are pivoting to regulations as part of a broad assault on President Obama's economic record for the August recess. — The House is expected to approve a slate of bills this week that would limit the federal government's rule-making authority.
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Politico
Rebecca Elliott / Politico:
Changing Colorado 6th could be 2014's tightest race — With the trifecta of big money, deep investment from both parties and a split electorate with a sizable swing vote, the race between Republican Rep. Mike Coffman and Democrat Andrew Romanoff in Colorado's 6th Congressional District stands …
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Taegan Goddard's …
David W. Chen / New York Times:
Groups That Are Often at Odds Join Forces to Oppose Spitzer's Campaign — Alarmed by Eliot Spitzer's momentum in his unexpected bid to win citywide office, an unlikely coalition of business leaders, women's groups and labor unions is vowing to finance an ambitious effort to thwart the former governor's ambition.
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ABC News and Politicker
Ed Payne / CNN:
All employees accounted for in plant blast — (CNN) — When the propane tank cylinders began exploding at the central Florida refilling plant late Monday night, authorities braced for the worst. — And for a time, it seemed their fears were well-founded.
Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
Senate Backs F.B.I. Chief and Considers Other Picks — WASHINGTON — The Senate overwhelmingly confirmed James B. Comey as director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation on Monday even as Republicans and Democrats struggled to hold together the fragile deal that preserved the filibuster for executive branch appointees.
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Ryan J. Reilly / The Huffington Post:
Guantanamo's Secret Camp Loves ‘Shades Of Grey’ Series, Officials Tell Congressional Delegation — ALEXANDRIA, Va. — Military officials gave a congressional delegation a tour of Guantanamo's secretive Camp Seven last week and told a visiting congressional delegation that the camp's high-value detainees enjoy …
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