memeorandum: Obama Enlists 9 Allies to Help in the Battle Against ISIS (Helene Cooper/New York Times)

WHITE HOUSE: OBAMA TO DELAY IMMIGRATION ACTION — WASHINGTON (AP) — Abandoning his pledge to act by the end of summer, President Barack Obama has decided to delay any executive action on immigration until after the November congressional elections, White House officials said.

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Michael D. Shear / New York Times:

Obama Delays Immigration Action, Yielding to Democratic Concerns — WASHINGTON — President Obama has bowed to the concerns of Senate Democrats up for election this fall and will delay until late this year executive action that would reshape the nation's immigration system without congressional approval …

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Tom Kludt / Talking Points Memo:

Dana Perino Bashes Obama For Being Shown Walking Alone At Stonehenge — Were you, concerned American citizen, dismayed by those pictures of President Obama touring Stonehenge on Friday? Did it bother you that many of the photos showed Obama taking in the prehistoric structure by himself?

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Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post:

Legal memos released on Bush-era justification for warrantless wiretapping — The Justice Department released two decade-old memos Friday night, offering the fullest public airing to date of the Bush administration's legal justification for the warrantless wiretapping of Americans' phone calls and e-mails …

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Helene Cooper / New York Times:

Obama Enlists 9 Allies to Help in the Battle Against ISIS — NEWPORT, Wales — President Obama escalated the American response to the marauding Islamic State in Iraq and Syria on Friday, recruiting at least nine allies to help crush the organization and offering the outlines …

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Cruz Moves to Stop American ISIL Fighters from Reentering the U.S. — The Senate could move to strip Americans fighting alongside Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL or ISIS) of their U.S. citizenship under a new bill set to be introduced next week by Sen. Ted Cruz (R., Texas), according to a source close to the senator's office.

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Brian Tashman / Right Wing Watch:

Alan Keyes: Obama Is Funding ISIS To Wage ‘War On The People Of The United States’ — Alan Keyes has joined a growing chorus of far-right activists who claim that President Obama is secretly supporting ISIS, writing today in WorldNetDaily that Obama administration officials believe …

Wall Street Journal:

Joan Rivers: The Entertainer — There was nobody like her. Some people are knockoffs or imitations of other, stronger, more vivid figures, but there was never another Joan Rivers before her or while she lived. She was a seriously wonderful, self-invented woman. — She was completely open and immediately accessible.

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Stephen Ohlemacher / Associated Press:

IRS SAYS IT HAS LOST EMAILS FROM 5 MORE EMPLOYEES … WASHINGTON (AP) — The IRS says it has lost emails from five more workers who are part of congressional investigations into the treatment of conservative groups that applied for tax exempt status. — The tax agency said in June …

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Matt Ridley / Wall Street Journal:

Whatever Happened to Global Warming? — Now come climate scientists' implausible explanations for why the ‘hiatus’ has passed the 15-year mark.

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Hayley Munguia / FiveThirtyEight:

The 2,128 Native American Mascots People Aren't Talking About — When Samuel Henry was a kid growing up in D.C. in the late 1950s, he and his friends were devoted Washington Redskins fans — they had the jerseys and knew the lore. And as the lore had it, the “reddish-brown tint” …

Discussion: Althouse

Jason Horowitz / New York Times:

For Bob McDonnell, a Miscalculation at the Scene of a Blunder — WASHINGTON — On Aug. 15, 2013, Bob McDonnell visited the site of one of Virginia's great tactical blunders. — As part of his final official tour of the state as its governor, Mr. McDonnell went to Ball's Bluff State Park in Leesburg …

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The White House:

Remarks by President Obama at NATO Summit Press Conference — PRESIDENT OBAMA: Good afternoon. Let me begin by thanking my great friend, Prime Minister Cameron — and his entire team — for hosting this NATO Summit and making it such a success. And I want to thank the people of Newport …

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