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10:10 PM ET, July 20, 2015

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Washington Post:
Poll: Trump surges to big lead in GOP presidential race  —  Businessman Donald Trump surged into the lead for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination, with almost twice the support of his closest rival, just as he ignited a new controversy after making disparaging remarks …
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Gary Langer / ABC News:
Donald Trump Gains Yet Shows Vulnerability in a Crowded, Contentious GOP Race (POLL)  —  Controversial Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump leads the GOP primary field in a new ABC News/Washington Post poll, while also garnering enough support as a hypothetical independent candidate …
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
The Republican poll nightmare that is Donald Trump, in four charts  —  Ten days ago, we raised an important point.  People referring to Donald Trump as the Republican front-runner ignored that his leads, where they existed, were within the margin of error.  Meaning that he was among the leaders, but he wasn't the clear leader.
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Scott Walker: We might have to take military action on Day One  —  A dispute has erupted between Scott Walker and Jeb Bush over how to handle the task of undoing Obama's Iran deal as president, with Bush hinting that Walker is approaching the issue with a lack of maturity …
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 …
Jake Tapper / CNN:
First on CNN: Palin calls both McCain and Trump heroes  —  Trump insults McCain, draws scrutiny 02:35  —  Washington (CNN)Asked about the dispute between Donald Trump and Sen. John McCain, R-Arizona — the candidate at the top of the ticket when she was 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee …
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Des Moines Register:
Trump should pull the plug on his bloviating side show  —  It's time for Donald Trump to drop out of the race for president of the United States.  —  People who run for public office typically perform a great public service, regardless of whether they win on Election Day.
Discussion: USA Today, Mediaite, 7online.com and US News
Ashley Killough / CNN:
Lindsey Graham: Donald Trump is a ‘jackass’
Discussion: Guardian, The Week and Mediaite
Paul Mirengoff / Power Line:
When politics imitates pro wrestling
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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Aaron David Miller / The Daily Beast:
Iran's Win-Win...Win Win Win Nuke Deal  —  Why would the mullahs cheat on a deal as good for them as this one?  —  The Obama Administration sent the Iran Nuclear Deal to Congress on Sunday, and on Monday the 60-day clock starts ticking for a largely hostile Capitol Hill to review all the elements, unclassified and classified.
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Avi Lewis / The Times of Israel:
US mulling ‘unprecedented’ arms package to Israel after Iran deal
Somini Sengupta / New York Times:
U.N. Moves to Lift Iran Sanctions After Nuclear Deal, Setting Up a Clash in Congress
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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Kristin M. Hall / Associated Press:
Blake Shelton, Miranda Lambert divorce after 4 years
Discussion: Guardian, The Week and USA Today
Ryan Anderson / Townhall.com:
How Redefining Marriage Puts Unborn Children at Risk  —  Last week many of us were disgusted to learn Planned Parenthood is harvesting and selling body parts from aborted children.  As the largest provider of abortion in America, Planned Parenthood is part of the problem, on the “supply” side.
Discussion: Mock Paper Scissors
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Mollie Hemingway / The Federalist:
Ideas For Reporters Struggling To Cover Planned Parenthood
Michael Brown / Townhall.com:
Buy a Baby's Liver For Just $24K!
Discussion: Walid Shoebat
Therese Apel / The Clarion Ledger:
Anthony Hervey, killed in wreck, was piece of Oxford history  —  A man who has been considered an Oxford fixture for at least the last two decades died in a car accident following a flag rally on Sunday, officials said.  —  Lafayette County Coroner Rocky Kennedy confirmed that a man killed …
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Smithsonian Institution / Kickstarter:
Reboot the Suit: Bring Back Neil Armstrong's Spacesuit  —  You'll need an HTML5 capable browser to see this content.  —  Play  —  Unmute  —  Play with  —  sound  —  A chance for citizens of Earth to conserve, digitize, and display Neil Armstrong's Apollo 11 spacesuit for explorers everywhere.
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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Associated Press:
Cheating website Ashley Madison hacked, personal info posted
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 …
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 …
Discussion: Liberaland and The Week
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Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Retired Senator And Intelligence Vice Chair: Hang Snowden Publicly When We Get Him
Discussion: Salon, The Week and Hullabaloo
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
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 …
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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Tom Boggioni / Raw Story:
Breitbart editor Ben Shapiro files assault charges against trans woman who called him ‘little man’
Discussion: Liberaland and Mock Paper Scissors
 
 
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Patrick Svitek / The Texas Tribune:
In Texas, Sanders' Tough Talk Fires Up Thousands
Discussion: Daily Kos, Common Dreams and TIME
Mark Hertsgaard / The Daily Beast:
Climate Seer James Hansen Issues His Direst Forecast Yet
Discussion: Slate and RTCC
Nick Ballon / Wired:
Inside the Secret World of Russia's Cold War Mapmakers
Jeb Hensarling / Wall Street Journal:
After Five Years, Dodd-Frank Is a Failure
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Industry rails against Obama's dishwasher rules
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Europe's Impossible Dream
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Katherine Krueger / Talking Points Memo:
Gen. Wesley Clark: Let's Throw Radical Muslims Into Internment Camps
Discussion: The Intercept and Mediaite
 

 
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Katie Robertson / New York Times:
The NYT reports adding 260K digital subscribers in Q3, for 11.9M in total, with digital ad revenue up 8.8% YoY to $81.6M, and The Athletic had its first profit

Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:
Around 75% of the largest US newspapers aren't endorsing anyone for president this year, as publishers try not to annoy any sliver of their remaining customers

Sean Burch / The Wrap:
Report: Garrett Ventry, who will join NBC News' Election Night coverage as a Republican pundit on election day, registered as an agent of Qatar in September

 
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