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Donald Trump gives out Lindsey Graham's cell phone number — If Lindsey Graham has to change cellphone numbers, he has Donald Trump to thank. — On Tuesday, Trump ramped up his attacks on the South Carolina senator — who made headlines Monday for calling the Donald a “jackass” — and even gave out Graham's private phone number.
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Lindsey Graham to Trump: “Stop being a jackass” — Shares - — Presidential candidate and South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham has “had it” with Donald Trump. — After Trump undermined the military service of Graham's longtime colleague Sen. John McCain, Graham had a clear message for his GOP rival.
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Jonathan Capehart / Washington Post:
What Al Sharpton learned from James Brown that Donald Trump hasn't — The Rev. Al Sharpton perfectly assessed the character of Donald Trump's death-defying campaign for the Republican presidential nomination. “What plays at Lincoln Center don't play at the Apollo,” Sharpton said about Trump.
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Victor Davis Hanson / National Review:
Obama and Trump: Two of a Kind — Outwardly they couldn't be more different. But take a closer look. — President Obama is said to feel liberated, in the sense that he can finally say what, and do as, he pleases — without much worry any more over political ramifications, including presidential and congressional elections.
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Jesse Byrnes / The Hill:
Rick Perry compares Trump to cancer
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Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
Obama lowers White House flag — President Obama has ordered flags at the White House and other public buildings to fly at half-staff after mounting criticism over the delay in honoring five armed forces members killed last week by a gunman. — Obama's proclamation calls for the flags …
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Andy Greenberg / Wired:
Hackers Remotely Kill a Jeep on the Highway—With Me in It — I was driving 70 mph on the edge of downtown St. Louis when the exploit began to take hold. — Though I hadn't touched the dashboard, the vents in the Jeep Cherokee started blasting cold air at the maximum setting …
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Peter Sullivan / The Hill:
Second secretly recorded Planned Parenthood video fuels storm — A second secretly recorded video released by an anti-abortion rights group appears to show an official from Planned Parenthood negotiating prices for selling fetal tissue. — The new video from the Center for Medical Progress highlights …
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New Video Shows Another Planned Parenthood Doctor Haggling Price of Baby Body Parts
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David Daleiden / The Center for Medical Progress:
Second Planned Parenthood Senior Executive Haggles Over Baby Parts Prices, Changes Abortion Methods
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Harry Enten / FiveThirtyEight:
John Kasich: A Jeb Bush In Jon Huntsman Clothing — It reads like a dream résumé for a Republican presidential candidate: nine-term congressman, six-year Fox News host and now twice-elected governor of a crucial swing state. His record puts him snugly in the mainstream of the Republican Party.
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Eli Stokols / Politico:
Jeb Bush vs. Scott Walker: Round 1 of a long brawl
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Dan Zak / Washington Post:
The old suburban office park is the new American ghost town — The shrubbery stirs in the breeze, which carries the odor of crushed asphalt. — Yellow paint is chipping off the curbs. — A single orange traffic cone sits in the revolving door that no longer revolves …
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Los Angeles Times:
Op-Ed Republicans' ‘Munich’ fallacy — You have to feel sorry for Munich. Home to museums, universities, beer halls and one spectacular glockenspiel, it gets international recognition instead for a misbegotten 1938 summit conference in which British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain …
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Washington Monthly
Bruce Weber / New York Times:
E.L. Doctorow, Literary Time Traveler Who Stirred the Past Into Fiction, Dies at 84 — E. L. Doctorow, a leading figure in contemporary American letters whose popular, critically admired and award-winning novels — including “Ragtime,” “Billy Bathgate” and “The March” …
Daniel Wiessner / Reuters:
Facebook must hand over New York users' info to prosecutors, court rules — Facebook Inc cannot challenge search warrants New York prosecutors used to get information from its site on hundreds of users suspected of Social Security fraud, a state appeals court said on Tuesday …
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The Week
Tim Arango / New York Times:
ISIS Transforming Into Functioning State That Uses Terror as Tool — ISTANBUL — The Islamic State uses terror to force obedience and frighten enemies. It has seized territory, destroyed antiquities, slaughtered minorities, forced women into sexual slavery and turned children into killers.
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CNN:
Jeb Bush defends McCain, but supported Swift Boat attacks against Kerry — Washington (CNN)After Donald Trump questioned Republican Sen. John McCain's status as a war hero, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush quickly jumped to McCain's defense. — “Enough with the slanderous attacks.
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Ginger Adams Otis / New York Daily News:
Photos show Donald Trump in military uniform, with athletic teams before dodging the Vietnam draft …
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Don Superior / Ashley Madison Media:
STATEMENT FROM AVID LIFE MEDIA, INC. JULY 20 - 12:25PM — We were recently made aware of an attempt by an unauthorized party to gain access to our systems. We apologize for this unprovoked and criminal intrusion into our customers' information. We have always had the confidentiality …
Brian X. Chen / New York Times:
Apple Profit Up 38%, but iPhone Sales Disappoint Wall Street — Apple's profit soared 38 percent and revenue rose 33 percent in its fiscal third quarter, as sales of iPhones continued to surge, yet the performance did not meet Wall Street's high expectations.
Claire Webb / RadioTimes:
Emma Thompson: the acting industry is more sexist today than it was in my youth — “I don't think there's any appreciable improvement and I think that for women, the question of how they are supposed to look is worse than it was even when I was young. So, no, I am not impressed at all”
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Matt McGrath / BBC:
Arctic ice ‘grew by a third’ after cool summer in 2013 — The volume of Arctic sea ice increased by around a third after an unusually cool summer in 2013. — Researchers say the growth continued in 2014 and more than compensated for losses recorded in the three previous years.
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U.S. : NPR:
Transcript: Secretary Of State John Kerry On Cuba, Nuclear Deal With Iran — At the State Department in Washington on Monday, secretary of State John Kerry welcomed Bruno Rodriguez, the foreign Minister of Cuba. Later in the day, Kerry sat down with Morning Edition host Steve Inskeep …
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Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly:
The Great Lost Huckabee Constituency — Something I was vaguely aware of but hadn't really focused on came very much to my attention yesterday while we were taping this week's WaMo BloggingheadsTV/podcast with guest Matt Cooper of Newsweek. Matt wrote a column that actually got Trump's personal attention …
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David Weigel / Washington Post:
Chainsaw-wielding Rand Paul wants voters to care about tax cuts again — The presidential candidate stands in the yard of his campaign headquarters, wearing blue jeans and a black and white T-shirt that reads “Detroit Republican.” Naturally, it's Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.).
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