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8:55 PM ET, July 12, 2015

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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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Washington Post:
Donald Trump: ‘We have to take back the heart of our country’
Discussion: Daily Kos, The Hill and Yahoo Politics
Rick Klein / ABC News:   5 Stories You'll Care About in Politics This Week
Ben Schreckinger / Politico:
Donald Trump storms Phoenix
Doug Sosnik / Politico:
The End of the 2016 Election Is Closer Than You Think  —  The campaign might be lost even before the GOP picks a nominee.  —  SHARES  —  The end of the 2016 presidential election is actually much closer than you might think.  —  Get POLITICO Magazine in your feeds
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Disaster In Europe  —  Obviously the news from Europe is terrible, with much confusion about exactly what is happening.  Here's what I think is the story, although I haven't done any independent reporting.  —  1. Tsipras apparently allowed himself to be convinced, some time ago, that euro exit was completely impossible.
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 …
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 …
Matt O'Brien / Washington Post:
Germany doesn't want to save Greece.  It seems to want to humiliate Greece.  —  Greece has offered an almost unconditional surrender on its bailout, but Germany might not accept anything less than a Carthaginian peace.  In other words, a deal that not only forces Athens to submit, but also humiliates it in the process.
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Mehreen Khan / Telegraph:
24 hours to save the euro: Germany prepares for a ‘temporary’ Greek exit as euro project on the brink of collapse
Discussion: Reuters, CANNONFIRE and Forbes
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Killing the European Project  —  Suppose you consider Tsipras an incompetent twerp.  Suppose you dearly want to see Syriza out of power.  Suppose, even, that you welcome the prospect of pushing those annoying Greeks out of the euro.  —  Even if all of that is true, this Eurogroup list of demands is madness.
Discussion: Politico and Business Insider
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 …
D.R. Tucker / Washington Monthly:
All the Views Unfit to Print … I'm sure the late, great Ms. Ivins would be shaking her head at a bizarre controversy involving a New England newspaper that has been humiliated because of its nonsensical 2013 decision to provide a forum to far-right views.  Hopefully, as a result of this controversy …
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.
Discussion: Politico and Fox News
Kevin D. Williamson / National Review:
WHINOS: On the Martyrdom of the Holy, Holy Base  —  What's generally misunderstood on the Left is that the tea-party movement did not arise as an alternative to the Obama-Reid-Pelosi Democrats but as an alternative to the Bush-McConnell-Hastert Republicans, who were judged to have spent too much …
New York Times:
The End of Federally Financed Ghettos  —  The Supreme Court issued an important ruling last month when it reminded state and local governments that the Fair Housing Act of 1968 bars them from spending federal housing money in a manner that perpetuates racial segregation.
Discussion: Power Line
 
 
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Shawna Thomas / NBC News:
Meet the Press Transcript - July 12, 2015
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Jennifer Conlin / New York Times:
Last Stop on the L Train: Detroit
Washington Post:
An opportunity gamed away
Rocco Parascandola / New York Daily News:
Daniel Pantaleo, the NYPD officer who put Eric Garner in a fatal chokehold, is loathed …
Discussion: Raw Story, Gothamist and Daily Mail
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William C. Davis / Wall Street Journal:
The Right Way to Remember the Confederacy
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Erik Eckholm / New York Times:
Voting Rights Legacy of the '60s Heads to Court as North Carolina Law Is Tested
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
Andrew Gilligan / Telegraph:
By day, at heart of counter-terror policing. And by night, preacher of extremism
Discussion: Forbes and Jihad Watch
Todd Gitlin / New York Times:
The Bernie Sanders Moment
Discussion: Hullabaloo and Daily Kos
providencejournal.com:
DEM: ‘Something happened,’ but no evidence of device after ‘ground disturbance’ at Salty Brine beach
Discussion: WCTX-TV and Raw Story