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Trump's popularity spikes among Republicans — Donald Trump's popularity has surged among Republicans after dominating several news cycles with his anti-illegal immigration rhetoric, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll. — Nearly six in 10 — 57 percent …
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Donald Trump: I don't know why I'm meeting Ted Cruz — Donald Trump is meeting with Texas Sen. Ted Cruz in Manhattan on Wednesday, though he claimed in an interview on MSNBC that he does not know why. — “Ted Cruz called me. And I don't know why I'm meeting him, to be honest …
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Nick Gass / Politico:
Poll: Hillary Clinton's lead shrinks among Democrats — Hillary Clinton is still leading the Democratic field for 2016, but her lead has shrunk in recent months, according to a new Monmouth University poll out Wednesday, as independent Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders continues to make steady gains despite trailing by a wide margin.
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Catherine Thompson / Talking Points Memo:
Trump Swears He's Not Running For President As A Democratic Plant (VIDEO)
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Gregory Holyk / ABC News:
Trump's Popularity Rises, Still 2-1 Negative, While Clinton Regains Positive Territory (POLL)
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Tyler Miller / The Daily Beast:
Planned Parented Doesn't Sell Fetuses: The Real Story Behind That Shady Video — A pro-life group's viral video would have you believe an abortion doctor is hawking body parts. — Pro-lifers are already calling it the end of Planned Parenthood. An undercover video released early Tuesday morning …
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Steve Allen / National Review:
‘A Lot of People Want Liver’: Planned Parenthood's Bloody Business
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Washington Post:
Undercover video shows Planned Parenthood official discussing fetal organs used for research
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Planned Parenthood:
Statement from Planned Parenthood on New Undercover Video
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Jackie Calmes / New York Times:
Video Accuses Planned Parenthood of Crime
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John McCormack / Weekly Standard:
Planned Parenthood's PR Firm: Harvesting Organs of Aborted Babies a ‘Humanitarian Undertaking’
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Amanda Marcotte / Slate:
Live Action Puts Out Another Titillating but Misleading Video About Planned Parenthood
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Eliza Collins / Politico:
Republicans call for investigations into Planned Parenthood
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Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Sen. Mark Kirk On Iran Deal: Obama “Wants To Get Nukes To Iran,” Predicts Nuclear War In Middle East — “...tens of thousands of people in the Middle East are gonna lose their lives because of this decision by Barack Hussein Obama.” — Mark Wilson / Getty Images — w.soundcloud.com
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Mark Steyn / Steyn Online:
Far Worse Than Munich
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Nick Gass / Politico:
Dick Cheney: Iran deal makes ‘actual use of nuclear weapons’ more likely
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Politico:
Revenge of Citizens United — Republicans could barely contain their glee when the Supreme Court's 2010 Citizens United decision cleared the way for unlimited spending in political campaigns. — But now — headed into a crowded presidential primary that promises to be longer …
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Washington Monthly and The Daily Caller
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Rebecca Ballhaus / Wall Street Journal:
What to Watch in Presidential Campaigns' Quarterly Filings
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Julie Bykowicz / Associated Press:
Presidential election already fueled by $377 million
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Paul Waldman / Washington Post:
The next GOP president won't walk away from the Iran deal. Here's why. — Now that we have a nuclear deal with Iran, Republicans are jostling each other to determine who can make the most angry and apocalyptic statements about it. — Scott Walker said it “will be remembered as one of America's worst diplomatic failures.”
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Nick Gass / Politico:
Republican senators warn Iran in open letter — Republican senators want to give Iranian leaders — and the president — a refresher on the constitutional balance of power. — In a highly unusual move, a group of 47 Republicans in the upper chamber has written to Iran's top leaders …
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Mark Leibovich / New York Times:
Re-Re-Re-Reintroducing Hillary Clinton … A few minutes before my meeting with Hillary Clinton on the Fourth of July, during my drive to the Mount Washington hotel in Bretton Woods, N.H., where she was staying, I passed a moose near the side of the road.
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Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
C-SPAN to preempt first GOP debate — C-SPAN is partnering with a handful of regional newspapers in early-voting states for a nationally televised forum with the Republican presidential candidates just days before Fox News Channel's first scheduled debate. — The network has invited all 17 …
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Washington Monthly, FishbowlDC, Political Insider blog and The Week
Catherine Thompson / Talking Points Memo:
This Parody Perfectly Nails Every Jade Helm Conspiracy Theory Video — What's more sinister than FEMA death camps? Some black tarps and a chain-link fence. — Just in time for the Wednesday kickoff of “Jade Helm 15,” a YouTube user under the handle Get Right America posted an amazing parody …
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Los Angeles Times:
This is the video Gardena police didn't want you to see — In the two years since Gardena police officers fatally shot an unarmed man, city officials fought to keep graphic video of the killing under wraps. — The grainy videos, captured by cameras mounted in two patrol cars …
Martin Matishak / The Hill:
Dems: Benghazi panel has ‘abandoned’ its work to focus on Hillary — Democrats serving on the House Select Committee on Benghazi say the panel's GOP chairman has “abandoned” plans for hearings to shift the focus of the investigation to Hillary Clinton. — “At the beginning of this year …
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Matthew Cole / The Intercept:
Israeli Special Forces Assassinated Senior Syrian Official — On Aug. 1, 2008, a small team of Israeli commandos entered the waters near Tartus, Syria, and shot and killed a Syrian general as he was holding a dinner party at his seaside weekend home. Muhammad Suleiman, a top aide to the Syrian president …
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Erwin Chemerinsky / Los Angeles Times:
Op-Ed Justice Scalia: Why he's a bad influence — Justice Antonin Scalia is setting a terrible example for young lawyers. Ignore, for now, his jurisprudence, his famously strict originalism; it's his tone that's the problem. — I have taught argumentation for many years …
Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Reid threatens to block No Child Left Behind renewal — Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) warned Tuesday that Democrats would block a rewrite of the No Child Left Behind law unless they are allowed to make further changes. — “We are not going to allow cloture to succeed unless …
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