memeorandum: Obama pushes to extend gun background checks to Social Security (Alan Zarembo/Los Angeles Times)

1:55 AM ET, July 20, 2015

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Fact Check: The Washington Post on Donald Trump and John McCain — [Above image: Republican Presidential Candidate Donald Trump at the 2015 Conservative Political Action Conference] — Donald Trump appears to have gotten under the skin of not only Democrats, but also fellow Republicans and the news media.

Discussion: Mediaite, Scared Monkeys, The Gateway Pundit, Naked Politics and Fox News Insider

Donald Trump / USA Today:

I don't need to be lectured — McCain has abandoned our veterans. I will fight for them. — John McCain has called his own constituents who want a secure border “crazies.” No one in the news media or the establishment, including the Republican National Committee, criticized the senator for those comments.

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ABC News:

Transcript for Donald Trump Says He Does Not Owe John McCain an Apology — And let's get straight to Donald Trump, who joins us right now on the phone for his first interview since those controversial comments. Thanks for joining us, Mr. Trump, do you owe John McCain an apology? No, not at all.

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Mike Allen / Politico:

TRUMP: NO APOLOGY! — 'TRUMP IS TOAST ... Boom to bust': Luntz sees onslaught by veterans if no apology - HILLARY on Trump and GOP field: ‘can be hard to tell the difference’ — By Mike Allen (@mikeallen; mallen@politico.com) and Daniel Lippman (@dlippman; dlippman@politico.com)

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Olivia Nuzzi / The Daily Beast:
Draft-Dodging Trump Says POW McCain ‘Not A War Hero’

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ABC News:
Trump Says McCain has ‘Done Nothing to Help the Vets’

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ABC News:
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Chris Moody / CNN:

Democrats lose control of presidential event — Story highlights — Phoenix (CNN)A town hall for liberal activists featuring two Democratic presidential candidates was interrupted by dozens of demonstrators on Saturday who shouted down the contenders and demanded they address criminal justice issues and police brutality.

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Chris Moody / CNN:
O'Malley apologizes for saying ‘all lives matter’ at liberal conference

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Annie Linskey / BostonGlobe.com:

Sanders vaults from fringe to the heart of the fray — SOMEWHERE OVER THE AMERICAN WEST — It's 7:20 a.m. and Bernie Sanders looks irritated. He's already buckled into his economy seat on Delta Flight 4516 and an attendant just announced that the flight would sit on the runway for 30 minutes before taking off.

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John Wagner / Washington Post:
Bernie Sanders draws his biggest crowd yet — in Arizona of all places

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TMZ.com:

Demi Moore — Man Found Dead in Pool — MAN FOUND DEAD IN POOL — EXCLUSIVE — The man who died did not know how to swim and it appears he slipped and fell in the pool, law enforcement sources tell TMZ. We're told there was no foul play. Our sources say Demi's caretaker threw the party and invited the victim.

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Dawn Ennis / Advocate:

WATCH: ‘Reporting Tonight: Thomas Roberts,’ First Out Gay Man To Anchor Network News — NBC News pulled out its Nightly News anchor chair Saturday night for Thomas Roberts, the rugged and dashing MSNBC host who came out when it was still considered career suicide.

Discussion: Towleroad

Dana Bash / CNN:

Scott Walker: 'I don't know' if being gay a choice — Story highlights — (CNN)In a weekend interview with Republican presidential candidate Scott Walker about whether the Boy Scouts should allow gay troop leaders, CNN's Dana Bash asked Walker, “Do you think being gay is a choice?”

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Mark Hensch / The Hill:
Walker: 'I don't know' if being gay is a choice

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Maui News:

Police: Pedestrian struck by car operated by 11-year-old — A pedestrian suffered life-threatening injuries Saturday afternoon after she was struck in a Kahului parking by a vehicle operated by an 11-year-old boy, police said. — At 12:48 p.m., the boy was backing a white 1999 Mitsubishi …

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Alan Zarembo / Los Angeles Times:

Obama pushes to extend gun background checks to Social Security — Seeking tighter controls over firearm purchases, the Obama administration is pushing to ban Social Security beneficiaries from owning guns if they lack the mental capacity to manage their own affairs, a move …

Discussion: Fox News, Addicting Info and The Gateway Pundit

Amy Chozick / New York Times:

Hillary Clinton Draws Scrappy Determination From a Tough, Combative Father — As a little girl, if Hillary Rodham forgot to screw the cap back on the toothpaste, her father would toss the tube out the bathroom widow. She'd scurry around in the snow-covered evergreen bushes outside …

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Dave Urbanski / TheBlaze.com:

KKK Faces Off With New Black Panther Group in Heated, Competing Rallies at South Carolina Statehouse — The Ku Klux Klan faced off with a group affiliated with the New Black Panthers Saturday at the South Carolina Statehouse, as opposing rallies attracting about 2,000 at one point led to a rock-throwing scuffle.

Discussion: The Gateway Pundit, NBC News and John Hawkins' Right Wing News