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7:55 PM ET, July 8, 2015

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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.
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Emily Heil / Washington Post:
Jose Andres backs out of restaurant in Donald Trump's hotel  —  Jose Andres, the D.C.-based super-chef with a growing national brand, is backing out of a deal to open the flagship restaurant in Donald Trump's forthcoming Washington hotel - the latest on a growing list of high-profile partners …
Daniel Strauss / Politico:
Donald Trump declines to rule out third-party bid  —  Donald Trump is almost completely shutting the door on the possibility of switching to a third-party presidential bid in the 2016 presidential cycle — almost.  —  “I've had many, many people ask me about running as an independent,” …
Lloyd Grove / The Daily Beast:
Hillary Plays the Victim in CNN Interview
Dylan Byers / Politico:
Donald Trump, clickbait
Discussion: Bloomberg Business and FishbowlDC
Hamilton Nolan / Gawker:
Ladies and Gentlemen, It's Time to Panic  —  Have you noticed anything odd going on this morning?  Oh yes.  Let us be the first to tell you that the time to panic is upon us.  —  ITEM: The New York City subway system suffered an atrocious commute today, with some trains being inexplicably stranded …
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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.”
Nathaniel Popper / New York Times:
New York Stock Exchange Resumes Trading
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Trump leads GOP field in North Carolina  —  PPP's newest North Carolina poll finds that Donald Trump's momentum just keeps on building.  He's the top choice of Republican primary voters in the state, getting 16% to 12% for Jeb Bush and Scott Walker, 11% for Mike Huckabee …
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Sahil Kapur / Bloomberg Business:
Marco Rubio Says He Opposes Same-Sex Marriage Constitutional Amendment
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.
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Katie Pavlich / Townhall.com:   New Documents Show Extensive Collaboration Between IRS, DOJ to Criminally Prosecute Conservative Groups
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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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 …
Andrew Kirell / Mediaite:
Trump Steamrolls NBC Reporter, Takes Shots at Krauthammer and Jonah Goldberg  —  For those who didn't watch Donald Trump's lengthy interview with NBC's Katy Tur this afternoon, here's a one-sentence summation: The Republican candidate constantly chided and condescended to his interviewer …
Discussion: Business Insider
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.
John Podhoretz / New York Post:
Homelessness and empty stores becoming the new normal in NYC  —  “Eileen,” a familiar panhandling presence on Broadway in the 90s, is one of a growing number of homeless people amid shuttered businesses, raising the sense of neighborhood unease.  —  If you've been out and about in Manhattan …
Daniel Engber / Slate:
Hot and Bothered  —  Air conditioning isn't bad for you or even (relatively) for the planet.  —  “Why is America so over air-conditioned?” asks the New York Times in last weekend's Sunday Review.  The article's premise will be familiar to certain members of the paper's demographic …
Marisa Guthrie / Hollywood Reporter:
Keith Olbermann, ESPN to Part Ways Once Again  —  The departure follows a point of contention over delivering “commentary” on his ESPN2 program.  —  Keith Olbermann is exiting ESPN once again.  —  The television personality, who rejoined the sports network in August 2013, won't be renewing his deal to anchor his ESPN2 program.
Byron Tau / Wall Street Journal:
A Fact-Check of Hillary Clinton's CNN Interview on Her Personal Email  —  In an interview with CNN on Tuesday, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton defended her use of a personal email server and her larger record on transparency while running the department between 2009 and 2013.
Discussion: Hit & Run
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”.
Emily E. Smith / Oregonian:
Priest pretended to notify police after teen found camera in church bathroom, records say  —  In the 24 days he waited to report that a boy had found a hidden camera in a men's bathroom at his Sherwood church, Father Ysrael Bien pacified parishioners with a tall tale about a nonexistent police investigation, according to court records.
Discussion: Friendly Atheist and Raw Story
Candace Smith / ABC News:
Jeb Bush: People Need to Work Longer Hours  —  Today, Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush, who as of-late has gone relatively gaffe-free, uttered a phrase that may not go over too well with the constituency he seeks to reach.  During an interview that was live-streamed on the app Periscope …
Discussion: ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES
ABC News:
To Help US Veterans Charity, George W. Bush Charged $100,000  —  Former President George W. Bush charged $100,000 to speak at a charity fundraiser for U.S. military veterans severely wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan, and former First Lady Laura Bush collected $50,000 to appear a year earlier …
Discussion: Daily Mail and Politico
Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
A Political Lifer, Scott Walker Has Long Been His Own Strategist  —  WASHINGTON — When Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin met privately here at the Capitol Hill Club recently with a group of congressional Republicans, he did not just seek their support for his presidential candidacy.
Terence P. Jeffrey / CNSNews:
Top 5 Districts for Criminal Cases in U.S. District Court Are on Mexican Border  —  According to data released by the U.S. Justice Department, 41.7 percent of the federal criminal cases that U.S. attorneys filed in U.S. district courts in fiscal 2014 were in the five U.S. attorneys' districts that sit along the U.S.-Mexico border.
Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Senate clears first circuit judge nominee of 2015  —  The Senate approved its first circuit judge nomination of the year on Tuesday.  —  Senators voted 95-0 on Kara Stoll's nomination to be a U.S. circuit court judge for the federal circuit, making her the first Hispanic woman to be approved for the court.
Discussion: Politico, Daily Kos and Philly.com
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.
Katherine Timpf / National Review:
Students Told to Take Photos With a ‘Consent Contract’ Before They Have Sex  —  Apparently, just asking isn't enough.  —  A “yes means yes” advocacy group, the Affirmative Consent Project, is instructing college students to take a picture with a contract before they have sex with each …
 
 
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Los Angeles Times:
Surge in L.A. crime in first 6 months ends more than decade of declines
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Sarah Ferris / The Hill:
GOP blames ObamaCare for health insurance merger-mania
Discussion: Bloomberg View and Daily Kos
Washington Post:
Automation problem led to ground stop for United Airlines
Daily Mail:
'It's time people listened to Donald Trump,' says Jamiel Shaw's mother
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House votes to ban Confederate flags at federal cemeteries
 

 
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