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Eric Bradner / CNN:
Graham on Trump: He came in like a ‘wrecking ball’ — (CNN)Sen. Lindsey Graham says Donald Trump is a “wrecking ball” who has put the Republican Party's future on the line with his controversial remarks about Mexican immigrants. — “I think he's hijacked the debate.
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Maxwell Tani / Business Insider:
Donald Trump just gave an amazingly surreal speech in Las Vegas — Donald Trump just gave one of the most bizarrely captivating speeches of his several-weeks-old campaign. — Standing in front of an animated screen in Las Vegas on Saturday, Trump spoke passionately for almost a half an hour …
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Jordain Carney / The Hill:
McCain: ‘Circus’ around immigration debate hurting GOP — Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) took a veiled shot at Donald Trump on Friday, saying that the “circus” surrounding Republican infighting on illegal immigration is hurting the party. — “The circus currently surrounding the debate …
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Washington Post:
Donald Trump: ‘We have to take back the heart of our country’ — PHOENIX — Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, whose caustic comments about Mexicans have inflamed the immigration debate, told thousands of cheering supporters here Saturday that “we have to take back the heart of our country.”
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Daily Kos and ThinkProgress
Ben Schreckinger / Politico:
Donald Trump storms Phoenix
Donald Trump storms Phoenix
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Howell Raines / New York Times:
The Dream World of the Southern Republicans — UNLIKE previous Alabama governors, Robert J. Bentley is not a fount of oratory. Nor is he a champion of “kinder and gentler.” His dyspeptic refusal to accept federal funds for Medicaid expansion, in a state where more than one million …
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Associated Press:
APNewsBreak: Diplomats: Iran announcement planned Monday — 2 photos — VIENNA (AP) — Negotiators at the Iran nuclear talks plan to announce on Monday that they have reached agreement on a historic deal capping nearly a decade of diplomacy that would curb the country's atomic program …
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Power Line, Reuters, The Gateway Pundit, Weekly Standard and The Week
Stacy Brown / New York Post:
Bill Cosby's wife says accusers ‘consented’ to drugs and sex — Bill Cosby's wife knows her husband is a serial philanderer, but believes his scores of accusers consented to drugs and sex, two confidants of the couple say. — Last week's revelation that Cosby admitted during a deposition …
Todd Gitlin / New York Times:
The Bernie Sanders Moment — THE white-haired politician stands before 10,000 cheering supporters in Madison, Wis., and calls for “political revolution,” denouncing a “rigged economy” that produces “a grotesque level of inequality,” returning to a theme that '60s radicals have long been trumpeting.
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Anthony Weiner / Business Insider:
I have one big question for Bernie Sanders
I have one big question for Bernie Sanders
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Andrew Gilligan / Telegraph:
By day, at heart of counter-terror policing. And by night, preacher of extremism — Government watchdog, which inspects police forces' readiness for terrorism, employed preacher of extremism — The Government watchdog which inspects police forces' readiness for terrorism admitted …
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Jihad Watch and Forbes
ABC News:
???This Week??? Transcript: Carly Fiorina — THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT FOR “THIS WEEK” ON JULY 12, 2015. — STEPHANOPOULOS: That's going to bring us to a senior Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Bob Menendez. — Thank you for joining us. — You just saw that optimism in Iran.
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providencejournal.com:
DEM: ‘Something happened,’ but no evidence of device after ‘ground disturbance’ at Salty Brine beach — PROVIDENCE, R.I. — The Salty Brine beach was evacuated Saturday morning while the state bomb squad investigates reports of a possible explosion near the rocks, according to a spokeswoman …
Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Senate Republicans push to punish ‘sanctuary cities’ — Republicans want to use a largely non-controversial education bill to crack down on so-called “sanctuary cities” in the wake of a San Francisco shooting that garnered national attention. — The recent killing of 32-year old Kathryn Steinle …
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Red Alert Politics and Liberaland
Erik Eckholm / New York Times:
Voting Rights Legacy of the '60s Heads to Court as North Carolina Law Is Tested — Days after South Carolina confronted its past and lowered the Confederate battle flag, North Carolina will grapple with its present-day rules that determine access to the voting booth.
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