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3:55 PM ET, July 20, 2015

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Nope. Trump's Latest Outrage Will Not Sink Him One Bit — Has Donald Trump finally done it? Finally gone too far? — Coming from Trump, the comments seem more ridiculous than outrageous. And let's not forget that only a decade ago Republicans ran an entire presidential campaign around …

Discussion: The Mahablog, Booman Tribune and The Week

Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly:

Wild Weekend — Well, I expected the Family Leadership Summit in Ames, Iowa, and the Netroots Nation gathering in Phoenix, to be potentially significant presidential campaign events over the weekend (see Nancy LeTourneau's succinct summary). But I didn't figure (a) Donald Trump might hand …

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Donald Trump / USA Today:
I don't need to be lectured — McCain has abandoned our veterans.

Wall Street Journal:
Trump and His Apologists — The conservative media who applaud him are hurting the cause.

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Paul Mirengoff / Power Line:
When politics imitates pro wrestling

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Michael Falcone / ABC News:
The Note: Taking On Trump

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New York Times:
Who Advises Candidate Trump? (Hint: His Name Is Donald)

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Allison Samuels / Vanity Fair:

Rachel Dolezal's True Lies — For a time this summer, it seemed all anyone could talk about was the N.A.A.C.P. chapter president whose parents had “outed” her as white. The tornado of public attention has since moved on, but Rachel Dolezal still has to live with her choices—and still refuses to back down.

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TMZ.com:

Blake Shelton & Miranda Lambert — Divorcing — BLAKE SHELTON & MIRANDA LAMBERT — DIVORCING — EXCLUSIVE — Blake Shelton and Miranda Lambert are getting divorced ... TMZ has learned. — The couple filed divorce docs a while ago, and a judge is expected to officially end their 4 year marriage today.

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Associated Press:

BLAKE SHELTON, MIRANDA LAMBERT DIVORCE AFTER 4 YEARS — NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — After years of tabloid gossip, country music's top couple Blake Shelton and Miranda Lambert announced their divorce after four years of marriage. — The news was confirmed in a statement Monday to The Associated Press, issued by their representatives.

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Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security:

Online Cheating Site AshleyMadison Hacked — Large caches of data stolen from online cheating site AshleyMadison.com have been posted online by an individual or group that claims to have completely compromised the company's user databases, financial records and other proprietary information.

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Kristen Schweizer / Bloomberg Business:

AshleyMadison.com Hack Threatens Millions of Would-Be Adulterers … Adultery website AshleyMadison.com has been hacked, potentially exposing names, addresses, and sexual preferences of millions of would-be cheaters just as the site's owner was preparing to go public.

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J.K. Trotter / Gawker:

Tommy Craggs and Max Read are Resigning from Gawker — Tommy Craggs, the executive editor of Gawker Media, and Max Read, the editor-in-chief of Gawker.com, are resigning from the company. In letters sent today, Craggs and Read informed staff members that the managing partnership's vote …

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Examiner:

Woman burns NAACP card at rally, injured in crash after allegedly being chased — Arlene Barnum, a Vietnam-era veteran of the U.S. Army and Republican activist who supports the Confederate battle flag, burned her lifetime membership card to the NAACP at a multi-racial unity rally to save …

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MJ Brickey / News-Capital & Democrat:
Stuart woman involved in a fatality accident after flag rally

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Therese Apel / The Clarion Ledger:
Anthony Hervey, killed in wreck, was piece of Oxford history

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Julian Hattem / The Hill:

US should hang Edward Snowden, says former spy panel senator — The U.S. should publicly hang leaker Edward Snowden if and when he falls into the government's hands, according to the former top Republican on the Senate Intelligence Committee. — “We need to hang him on the courthouse square …

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Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:

Retired Senator And Intelligence Vice Chair: Hang Snowden Publicly When We Get Him — “I hope none of you have sympathy for him because we need to hang him on the courthouse square as soon as we get our hands on him,” said former Sen. Saxby Chambliss. — View Video ›

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Stephen F. Hayes / Weekly Standard:

Bush-Walker Dispute Catches Fire Over Iran Nuclear Deal — A smoldering policy dispute over the Iran deal between two frontrunners for the Republican nomination caught fire over the weekend, as the campaigns of Wisconsin governor Scott Walker and former Florida governor Jeb Bush traded accusations …

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Fox News:

UN Security Council endorses Iran deal, Tehran diplomat lashes out at US — The U.N. Security Council on Monday unanimously endorsed the Iran nuclear deal, though the show of support was interrupted shortly afterward by a war of words between the American and Iranian ambassadors.

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Michelle Nichols / Reuters:
U.N. Security Council endorses Iran nuclear deal

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Mike Lillis / The Hill:
Iran deal tests Dems' loyalty to Obama

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Mollie Hemingway / The Federalist:

Ideas For Reporters Struggling To Cover Planned Parenthood — Many years ago I interviewed for a reporting job covering government waste, fraud and mismanagement. The interview went well and my future employers mentioned that they'd had trouble keeping the position filled as many reporters had trouble coming up with story ideas.

Michael Brown / Townhall.com:
Buy a Baby's Liver For Just $24K!

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Katherine Krueger / Talking Points Memo:

Gen. Wesley Clark: Let's Throw Radical Muslims Into Internment Camps — U.S. General Wesley Clark floated a plan Friday for dealing with so-called “lone wolf” terrorists on American soil: imprison them in internment camps before they get the chance to attack the U.S.

Adrian Sanchez-Gonzalez / The Intercept:
Wesley Clark Calls for Internment Camps for “Radicalized” Americans

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David Dayen / The New Republic:

Bernie Sanders and Martin O'Malley Failed Their #BlackLivesMatter Test — Neither Democratic candidate measured up after being interrupted at Netroots Nation — At the Presidential Town Hall this weekend at Netroots Nation 2015, the largest annual gathering of liberal activists in America …

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Sam Frizell / TIME:
Sanders and O'Malley Stumble During Black Lives Matter Protest

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Marc Caputo / Politico:

Crist: ‘I intend on running’ for Congress — “If the new congressional map includes my home, I intend on running to serve the people again,” Crist said in a post on Twitter. — Former Florida Gov. Charlie Crist all but announced his intentions to run for Congress in a Tampa Bay-area House seat …

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Adam C. Smith / Tampa Bay Times:
U.S. Rep. David Jolly enters race for U.S. Senate

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BREITBART.COM:

Ben Shapiro Files Police Report Against Transgender Reporter Zoey Tur — Breitbart News Senior Editor-at-Large Ben Shapiro has filed a report with the Los Angeles Police Department alleging battery against transgender Inside Edition reporter Zoey Tur, née Robert Albert Tur.

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