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2:55 PM ET, July 8, 2015

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CNNMoney:
New York Stock Exchange suspends trading  —  The New York Stock Exchange suspended trading at 11:32 a.m ET Wednesday.  It's been down for over an hour.  —  In a brief announcement, the exchange said it was experiencing a “internal technical issue.”  The NYSE said later in a tweet that it's “not the result of a cyber breach.”
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Jacob Pramuk / CNBC:
NYSE floor trading halted; no sign of cyberattack  —  CNBC's Bob Pisani reports on halted trading operations at the NYSE.  —  Trading in all symbols was halted on the New York Stock Exchange floor Wednesday due to an apparent technical issue.  The NYSE tweeted that there was no sign of a cyberattack.
Hadas Gold / Politico:
Wall Street Journal website down amid NYSE, United tech problems  —  The Wall Street Journal's homepage experienced an outage on Wednesday amid similar troubles at the New York Stock Exchange and United Airlines.  —  The newspaper's homepage displayed a 504 outage, though other sections …
Lloyd Grove / The Daily Beast:
Hillary Plays the Victim in CNN Interview  —  She may be the frontrunner in the presidential race, but Clinton still comes across as guarded, quibbling, and poker-faced under the TV lights.  —  Any Clinton supporters who hoped that a New Hillary would emerge from Tuesday's televised grilling …
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NBC News:
Donald Trump: ‘I Will Win the Latino Vote’  —  Donald Trump said Wednesday that he believes he will win the Latino vote, slamming Hillary Clinton for promoting what he called an immigration policy that would “let everybody come in... killers, criminals, drug dealers.”  —  “I have a great relationship with the Mexican people.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
MJ Lee / CNN:
How much money will running for president cost Donald Trump?
Discussion: The Hill
Matt Hamilton / Los Angeles Times:
Tom Selleck ‘drought shamed,’ accused of using hydrant water  —  Actor Tom Selleck had truckloads of water from a public hydrant delivered to his sprawling Hidden Valley ranch, according to court documents filed against the veteran actor by a Ventura County water district.
Ian Shapira / Washington Post:
Federal judge orders cancellation of Redskins' trademark registrations  —  The Washington Redskins lost their biggest legal and public relations battle yet in the war over its mascot after a federal judge in Northern Virginia on Wednesday ordered the cancellation of the NFL team's federal …
Cristina Marcos / The Hill:
House votes to ban Confederate flags at federal cemeteries  —  After just two minutes of floor debate late Tuesday evening, the House passed a measure to prohibit the display of Confederate flags on graves in federal cemeteries.  —  Despite the lack of fanfare, the vote marked the House's …
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Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
Democrats' Views on Confederate Flag Increasingly Negative
Sarah Ferris / The Hill:
GOP blames ObamaCare for health insurance merger-mania  —  A frenzy of healthcare mergers has given Republicans' a new line of attack against ObamaCare, which they say is boosting profits for insurance giants at a cost to consumers.  —  The merger mania — evidenced most recently …
Discussion: Bloomberg View and Daily Kos
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Emily Badger / Washington Post:
Obama administration to unveil major new rules targeting segregation across U.S.  —  Administration calls move “historic,” while conservatives decry it as “social engineering”  —  CHICAGO — When the Fair Housing Act was passed in 1968, it barred the outright racial discrimination that was then routine.
Reuters:
China stocks tumble as regulator warns of ‘panic’  —  Chinese stocks dived on Wednesday after the securities regulator said the tumbling stock market in the world's second-biggest economy was in the grip of “panic sentiment” as investors ignored a battery of support measures from Beijing.
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David Barboza / New York Times:
Stock Sell-Off Is Unabated in China
The Nation:
Austerity Has Failed: An Open Letter From Thomas Piketty to Angela Merkel  —  Five leading economists warn the German chancellor, “History will remember you for your actions this week.”  —  The never-ending austerity that Europe is force-feeding the Greek people is simply not working.
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Hadas Gold / Politico:
Dave Weigel returns to The Washington Post  —  Less than a year after joining Bloomberg Politics, Dave Weigel is making a surprise return to The Washington Post.  —  Weigel will cover national politics with a focus on grass-roots movements, traveling the country on the campaign trail …
Discussion: FishbowlDC
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Washpostpr / Washington Post:
Dave Weigel joins The Post's Politics team
New York Post:
The IRS scandal just got even worse  —  So the Obama IRS wasn't just persecuting right-leaning nonprofits — it was out to prosecute them, too.  And with the help of the Obama Department of Justice and FBI.  —  Via Freedom of Information Act lawsuits, the watchdog group Judicial Watch just got evidence of the plot.
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Caitlin Winner / Medium:
How We Changed the Facebook  —  Friends Icon  —  Facebook headquarters is an amazing place.  The snacks are free, the sun always shines and everyone is full of the best intentions.  During my first week I encountered hundreds of people earnestly trying to to make the world a better place.
Tierney Sneed / Talking Points Memo:
Chaos In Maine: Gov. LePage Botches Veto Of 19 Bills He Opposed  —  The office of Maine Gov. Paul LePage (R) and the clerk in the Maine House are in disagreement over the fate of 19 bills that the governor apparently did not veto in time to prevent them from becoming law.
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Mario Moretto / Bangor Daily News:
LePage attempts to ‘pocket veto’ remaining bills
Discussion: Daily Kos and David Farmer
Microsoft:
Satya Nadella email to employees on sharpening business focus  —  Over the past few weeks, I've shared with you our mission, strategy, structure and culture.  Today, I want to discuss our plans to focus our talent and investments in areas where we have differentiation and potential for growth …
Javier Panzar / Los Angeles Times:
It's official: Latinos now outnumber whites in California  —  The demographers agreed: at some point in 2014, Latinos would pass whites as the largest ethnic group in California.  —  Determining when exactly that milestone would occur was more of a tricky question.  Counting people isn't like counting movie ticket receipts.
Discussion: Liberaland
David Hume Kennerly / Politico:
The (Real) Bank of America  —  The USA has a bizarre $3 trillion portfolio of loans on its books—and no one in charge.  —  By MICHAEL GRUNWALD JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2015  —  Lead image by Oliver Munday.  —  David Matsuda had never been a mariner or an administrator before he became the head of the U.S. Maritime Administration in 2009.
Discussion: The Daily Signal
Flynn Murphy / Telegraph:
New Zealand makes internet ‘trolling’ illegal  —  Supporters believe it will help mitigate the harm caused by cyber-bulling but critics say it is a threat to free speech  —  Internet trolls face up to two years' jail in New Zealand under a controversial new law which bans “harmful digital communications”.
Discussion: Washington Times
 
 
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