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Mike Allen / Politico:
HILLARY'S OMNIPRESENT HUMA emerges as own power center - DEMS WANT BILL to rai$e for HRC super PAC; fears she'll lag Jeb - PERRY speech courts African Americans - RAND banks on Nev. — By Mike Allen (@mikeallen; mallen@politico.com), and Daniel Lippman (@dlippman; dlippman@politico.com)
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Annie Karni / Politico:
Hillary's shadow — After years as the former secretary of state's loyal assistant, Huma Abedin is emerging as a campaign power center of her own. — Hillary Clinton had just wrapped a campaign event in the warehouse of the Smuttynose Brewery in New Hampshire in May, when the crowd began crushing in …
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Political Wire
Nick Gass / Politico:
Scott Walker to announce White House run on July 13 — Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker will officially announce his bid for the White House on July 13 in the Milwaukee suburb of Waukesha. — Walker, whose announcement has long been expected, will also file his paperwork with the Federal Election Commission …
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Talking Points Memo and The Week
John McCormick / Bloomberg Business:
Scott Walker to Announce Presidential Campaign Intentions July 13
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Peter Baker / New York Times:
Emails Show Hillary Clinton Trying to Find Her Place
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Politico and Mother Jones, more at Mediagazer »
Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
As Donald Trump surges in polls, Democrats cheer — For Democrats, Donald Trump amounts to a kind of divine intervention. — With the Republican Party on an urgent mission to woo Latino voters, one of its leading presidential candidates has been enmeshed for two weeks in a nasty feud …
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Claire Boston / Bloomberg Business:
Serta Will Stop Selling Donald Trump Mattress Line in Latest Defection — The move comes after the presidential candidate made disparaging comments about Mexican immigrants. — Serta, the largest U.S. mattress manufacturer, will end its business relationship with Donald Trump …
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Gawker, Hinterland Gazette, Mashable, Mediaite and Political Wire
Arelis R. Hernández / Washington Post:
Police swarm Washington Navy Yard after reports of active shooter — The Washington Navy Yard was on lockdown Thursday as police responded to a report of an active shooter at the facility, authorities said. — The call came in about 7:40 a.m. — D.C. Police have closed streets near …
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WIS-TV, Associated Press, Talking Points Memo and Guardian
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WUSA9:
Navy Yard lockdown: Police look for 2 men, say sources — 8:37 a.m.: Homeland Security vehicle rolls in — 8:30 a.m.: People evacuated from buildings near Navy Yard building are on the street waiting to see what to do next. One man told Mike Hydeck that he saw a note on the door of the Dept …
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Fox News, Politico, CNN, Fox News Insider, The Week, fox13now.com, Hit & Run, Mediaite and KTLA
Elliot Smilowitz / The Hill:
Sanders draws massive crowd in Wisconsin — Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders drew 10,000 supporters, the largest crowd of his campaign thus far, according to reports. — “Tonight, we have more people at any meeting for a candidate of president of the United States …
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Taylor Marsh, RedState and The Last Refuge
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Ben Brody / Bloomberg Business:
Bernie Sanders Gains on Hillary Clinton in Iowa, Quinnipiac Poll Says
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Scott Bauer / Associated Press:
In Wisconsin, Sanders appeals to like-minded liberals
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ABC News, Taylor Marsh and Althouse
Loretta Chao / Wall Street Journal:
Revamped Bubble Wrap Loses Its Pop — Sealed Air, maker of the iconic packaging material, is rolling out a new flat version to cut down on the high costs of shipping air — Sealed Air Corp. has revamped its iconic Bubble Wrap. The new product dubbed iBubble Wrap looks …
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The Week and The Huffington Post
Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
Democrats Regain Edge in Party Affiliation — Story Highlights — PRINCETON, N.J. — In the second quarter of 2015, Democrats regained an advantage over Republicans in terms of Americans' party affiliation. A total of 46% of Americans identified as Democrats (30%) or said they are independents …
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Bloomberg Business:
Jobs Report Disappoints, Participation Rate Falls to Lowest Since 1977 … An increase in June payrolls followed smaller gains in the prior two months and wages were little changed as U.S. job market reflected a more moderate pace of economic growth. — The addition of 223,000 jobs followed …
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Hot Air, Politico, 89.3 KPCC, NPR, The Reformed Broker and Patterico's Pontifications
Monica Potts / Washington Monthly:
The Post-Ownership Society — Five and a half years ago, when I first moved to Washington, D.C., for a magazine job, I rented a basement apartment in a neighborhood called Bloomingdale. The area was full of Victorian-era homes that had once been occupied by mostly middle-class black families …
Stevepostrel / StrategyProfs.net:
Good Strategy/Bad Strategy: Obama Foreign Policy Division — An overview article in the Wall Street Journal about President Obama's foreign policy, apparently fueled by White House image-polishing sources (such as noted foreign policy expert David Axelrod), brings to mind what Richard Rumelt called …
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The Hugh Hewitt Show
CNN:
Poll: Majority sees Confederate flag as Southern pride symbol, not racist — Story highlights — About 57% of Americans see the Confederate flag more as a symbol of Southern pride than as a symbol of racism, the poll says — Washington (CNN)American public opinion on the Confederate flag remains …
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Washington Post, Political Insider blog, The Week, No More Mister Nice Blog, Balloon Juice and USA Today
John DiStaso / WMUR:
New Hampshire Primary Source: Texas governor now sending ‘love’ letters to NH businesses — Also: Ayotte won't talk about the ‘Hassan question’ — (New Hampshire Primary Source covers breaking and behind-the-scenes news and analysis on the New Hampshire presidential primary and all things political in the Granite State.
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Political Wire
Laylan Connelly / Orange County Register:
'I've never seen this before': How a family outing took ‘totally bizarre’ turn after dolphin lands in boat, breaks woman's ankles — A dolphin jumped from the water and landed inside a family's boat on June 21. Dirk Frickman drove the dolphin to a dock, where it was released back into the ocean.
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CBS Los Angeles, 89.3 KPCC, NBC News and The Week
Timothy Cama / The Hill:
Oklahoma sues to stop Obama's climate rule — Oklahoma's attorney general filed a lawsuit Wednesday to stop the Obama administration's signature proposed climate change regulation. — The federal lawsuit from Attorney General Scott Pruitt is comes less than a month after the Court of Appeals …
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Washington Post and Instapundit
Alissa Greenberg / TIME:
Another Black Church Burns in the South, the 8th in 10 Days — #WhoIsBurningBlackChurches trended on Twitter throughout the week — Mount Zion African Methodist Episcopal Church, a prominent African-American church in Greeleyville, S.C., caught fire late Tuesday.
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John Hawkins' Right Wing News, Lawyers, Guns & Money, MichelleMalkin.com and Post and Courier
Sean Davis / The Federalist:
Sorry, Chuck Todd, But Reporters Are Not The Referees Of Politics — Chuck Todd, a reporter for NBC News and the host of NBC's Meet The Press, appeared to imply on Twitter earlier today that reporters in politics are really no different than referees in sports.
Dylan Redwine / Durango Herald:
Investigators say they have ‘person of interest’ in Redwine case — Former FBI criminal profiler, mountain search help advance case … La Plata County Sheriff's Office investigators said Wednesday they have identified a “person of interest” in the Dylan Redwine case after a former FBI criminal profiler …
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Daily Mail and CBS Denver
Kenneth P. Vogel / Politico:
Soros helps pro-Clinton Super PACs to $20 million haul — A trio of pro-Hillary Clinton groups raised more than $20 million in the first half of the year, including at least $1 million from billionaire financier George Soros, POLITICO has learned. — American Bridge 21st Century …
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NBC News
Shawn Cohen / New York Post:
Ex-CNN anchor survives wild motel shootout — Lynne Russell and her husband, Chuck de Caro, survived the shootout in Albuquerque, New Mexico. — A road trip down old Route 66 led to a Wild West-style motel shootout for a pioneering CNN anchor and her former-soldier hubby.
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Guardian, Daily Mail and The Daily Caller
Con Coughlin / Telegraph:
US blocks attempts by Arab allies to fly heavy weapons directly to Kurds to fight Islamic State — Middle East allies accuse Barack Obama and David Cameron of failing to show strategic leadership in fight against Isil, as MPs could be given vote on whether to bomb Syria
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