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9:50 PM ET, July 22, 2015

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New York Times:
Donald Trump, Stealing Spotlight With Caustic Comments, Eclipses His Rivals  —  The month of July once held great potential for Republican presidential candidates hoping for momentum to carry them into the first primary debates.  —  Instead, the summer campaign has been dominated by Donald J. Trump …
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Charlie Gasparino / Fox Business:
Trump is Digging His Own Grave...Literally  —  GOP presidential contender and real estate mogul Donald Trump wants to live in the White House but he's planning to be buried on a golf course—his own.  —  The flamboyant billionaire has received approval to build a private cemetery …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Wall Street Journal:
Donald Trump's Financial Disclosure — What We Learned  —  Republican Donald Trump's federal financial disclosure provides a window into his sprawling network of real-estate and entertainment companies, marking his first-ever public tally of his holdings.  Here are some things we learned:
Gabriel Sherman / New York Magazine:
Rupert Murdoch Wants to Stop Donald Trump, But First He's Got to Rein In Roger Ailes  —  Has Fox News spun out of the media mogul's control?  —  Shares … The mounting problem Donald Trump poses to Republicans is also a mounting problem for the country's most powerful conservative media mogul: Rupert Murdoch.
Eric Bradner / CNN:
Poll: Clinton trails top Republicans in battleground states  —  Washington (CNN)Hillary Clinton trails three top Republican presidential candidates in head-to-head matchups in Colorado, Iowa and Virginia, a new survey shows.  —  The latest Quinnipiac University swing state polling released Wednesday shows …
Richard Rubin / Bloomberg Business:
Donald Trump's Financial Disclosure Form Has Landed—And It's Huge  —  Donald Trump's personal financial disclosure form is public now, and it's as big as promised.  —  The 92-page report starts with the 515 entities where the Republican presidential candidate has a title (usually president, chairman or both).
Discussion: Slantpoint
Frank Rich / New York Magazine:
The GOP Only Has Itself to Blame for Weaponizing Donald Trump  —  The candidate's campaign circus keeps gaining steam because of the fault lines within his own party.  —  Shares … Donald Trump's lead in the polls has been called “the classic pattern of a media-driven surge,” …
Rick Wilson / Politico:
Trump voters are Hillary's new best friends
New York Times:
The Campaign of Deception Against Planned Parenthood  —  A hidden-camera video released last week purported to show that Planned Parenthood illegally sells tissue from aborted fetuses.  It shows nothing of the sort.  But it is the latest in a series of unrelenting attacks on Planned Parenthood …
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Catherine Thompson / Talking Points Memo:
Conservatives Are Furious That Trump Is Distracting From Planned Parenthood  —  Republican presidential candidate and noted abortion flip-flopper Donald Trump has yet to make a statement on a pair of sting videos that allege Planned Parenthood affiliates are selling tissue from aborted fetuses for profit.
FactCheck.org:
Unspinning the Planned Parenthood Video
Peter Sullivan / The Hill:
DOJ to review Planned Parenthood videos
Discussion: LifeNews.com and Hot Air
St. John Barned-Smith / Houston Chronicle:
Officials: Sandra Bland spoke of previous suicide attempt  —  The 28-year-old woman who died in the Waller County jail three days after police arrested her in a controversial traffic stop told jailers during her intake that she previously had tried to commit suicide, authorities said Wednesday.
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Ben Norton:
Dashcam Video of Violent Arrest of Sandra Bland Was Edited
Richie Duchon / NBC News:
Sandra Bland Death: Texas to Look Into Alleged Edits of Dashcam Video
Bloomberg Business:
These Are the Top 20 Cities Americans Are Ditching  —  Soaring costs of living meant residents left New York City and its suburbs in droves  —  New York City, Los Angeles, Honolulu: They're all places you would think would be popular destinations for Americans.
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Los Angeles Times:
Dead man with cache of 1,200 guns identified — ‘He was just a loner’
Discussion: Daily Mail and KTLA
Senator Tom Cotton / Facebook:
On Friday, I had a meeting in Vienna with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), during which the agency conveyed to the lawmakers that two side deals made between the Islamic Republic of Iran and the IAEA as part of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) will remain secret …
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Fred Fleitz / National Review:
IAEA Tells Congressmen of Two Secret Side Deals to Iran Agreement That Won't Be Shared with Congress
Michael R. Gordon / New York Times:
Verification Process in Iran Deal Is Questioned by Some Experts
Discussion: Politico, JustOneMinute and Hot Air
Henry Farrell / Washington Monthly:
A Brief Theory of Very Serious People  —  Tyler Cowen argues that the concept of “Very Serious People” refers to people who “realize that common sense morality must, to a considerable extent, rule politics.”  I'm not either the originator nor the popularizer of the term, but I think that's wrong.
Discussion: The Mahablog and Booman Tribune
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Tyler Cowen / Marginal REVOLUTION:   What makes the Very Serious People so very serious?
Matt Flegenheimer / New York Times:
De Blasio Administration Dropping Plan for Uber Cap, for Now  —  The de Blasio administration has backed away from its fight with the app company Uber, agreeing on Wednesday to drop for now its plan to place a cap on the number of vehicles operated by Uber in New York City.
Pete Kasperowicz / Washington Examiner:
Obama: New citizens can skip pledge to take up arms and defend the U.S.  —  Share Tweet Reddit Digg Mail Print SMS More  —  U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services on Tuesday said it will no longer require incoming U.S. citizens to pledge that they will “bear arms on behalf of the United States” …
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Zeke J Miller / TIME:
Rick Perry Calls Donald Trump a Cancer and Carnival Act
Discussion: Booman Tribune
Eliza Griswold / New York Times:
Is This the End of Christianity in the Middle East? … There was something about Diyaa that his wife's brothers didn't like.  He was a tyrant, they said, who, after 14 years of marriage, wouldn't let their sister, Rana, 31, have her own mobile phone.  He isolated her from friends and family, guarding her jealously.
Discussion: Fox News Insider
 
 
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Washington Post:
Why Hillary Clinton and her rivals are struggling to grasp Black Lives Matter
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Christian Asylum Seekers Hounded Out of Immigrant Housing by Muslim Residents
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Justin McCarthy / Gallup:
More Than Four in 10 Americans Say They Have Tried Marijuana
John Marzulli / New York Daily News:
EXCLUSIVE: Video shows cops beating alleged pizza thief as he raises arms to surrender inside Brooklyn grocery store
Discussion: Raw Story and Gothamist
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