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The Hill:
Exclusive: Trump threatens third-party run — NEW YORK — Donald Trump says the chances that he will launch a third-party White House run will “absolutely” increase if the Republican National Committee is unfair to him during the 2016 primary season. — “The RNC has not been supportive.
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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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Michael Falcone / ABC News:
The Note: Donald Trump Makes A Run For The Border — NOTABLES —TRUMP TAKES TEXAS: Unlike Des Moines, Iowa and Manchester, New Hampshire, Laredo, Texas isn't a typical stop on the presidential campaign trail. Unless you are Donald Trump. The town on the U.S.-Mexico border will become …
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Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Trump Still Leads GOP Field But Descent May Be Beginning — PPP's newest national poll finds that Donald Trump is likely facing at least some fallout from his comments about John McCain over the weekend. Nevertheless we do find him narrowly leading the national field in our survey, which went into the field on Monday.
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ABC News:
Immigration Critics Drive Trump Surge; Yet Most Americans Favor Legal Status — Donald Trump's visit to the U.S.-Mexico border marks the extent to which negative views on immigration fuel his candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination - and the limits they may impose.
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Eric Bradner / CNN:
Poll: Clinton trails top Republicans in battleground states
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Frank Bruni / New York Times:
To Trump or Not to Trump? — Bob Kerrey served in the Senate …
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The Hill:
Fears on the left growing for Planned Parenthood — Critics of Planned Parenthood on Tuesday released a second secretly recorded video related to fetal parts, putting the group on the defensive and spurring fears on the left of a new ACORN scandal. — The new video shows Dr. Mary Gatter …
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Catherine Thompson / Talking Points Memo:
Conservatives Are Furious That Trump Is Distracting From Planned Parenthood
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Peter Sullivan / The Hill:
DOJ to review Planned Parenthood videos
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Jeff Jacoby / BostonGlobe.com:
Planned Parenthood videos should appall even pro-choice advocates
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Carl Campanile / New York Post:
Anthony Weiner got a job fixing PR messes — seriously — If you find yourself in a p.r. nightmare, there's a swashbuckling new hero you can turn to — Carlos Danger. — A top “crisis” public-relations firm with ties to Hillary Rodham Clinton has hired the last person in the world …
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CNN:
Video of Sandra Bland's arrest ignites firestorm of reactions — Story highlights — Video shows trooper trying to pull Sandra Bland out of car after she refuses to put out cigarette — (CNN)Anger over Sandra Bland's death in a Texas jail has boiled over after newly released video showed …
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St. John Barned-Smith / Houston Chronicle:
Officials: Sandra Bland spoke of previous suicide attempt
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Joe Dinkin / The Nation:
Bernie Sanders Blew a Huge Opportunity at Netroots Nation — He still has a chance to convince voters of color that he cares deeply about racial justice—but time is running out. — By — Last weekend at Netroots Nation, a group of Black Lives Matter protesters disrupted a presidential candidates' town-hall meeting.
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Kaitlyn Schallhorn / TheBlaze.com:
Ashton Kutcher Unloads on NYC Mayor in Facebook Post: ‘Destroying Innovation’ — Taking to Facebook, actor Ashton Kutcher blasted New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio's stance on the car service Uber, calling de Blasio's opinion “corrupt shortsighted politics.”
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Matt Flegenheimer / New York Times:
De Blasio Administration Dropping Plan for Uber Cap, for Now
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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,” …
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Kate Aurthur / BuzzFeed:
Love Is Love For Julianne Moore And Ellen Page In The First “Freeheld” Trailer — Moore and Page play a couple fighting for equal rights in this new movie, and BuzzFeed has the exclusive trailer. — The breakneck pace of the same-sex marriage movement reached its legal conclusion in late June …
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Kevin Cirilli / The Hill:
Trump: Stewart is ‘begging’ me to appear on his final show — Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said that Jon Stewart is “begging” him to appear on the final episode of Comedy Central's “The Daily Show.” — “They have invited me,” Trump told The Hill in an interview.
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.
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NBC News:
Two Teens Detained After 5 Relatives Stabbed to Death — Two teens were taken into custody after five relatives were found stabbed to death at the Oklahoma home where they all lived, police told NBC News early Thursday. — The suspects, aged 18 and 16, allegedly ran out the back door …
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Brooke Carlucci / Townhall.com:
Witness: “Hardest Part” of Testifying at Illegal Alien Hearing Was Watching Congress “Asleep” — On Tuesday, the Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing that gave a voice to the family members of victims who were murdered by illegal aliens. But did members of Congress take the concerns of those who testified to heart?
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Washington Post:
John Kerry and Ernest Moniz: The case for the nuclear deal with Iran — John F. Kerry is U.S. secretary of state. Ernest Moniz is U.S. energy secretary. — When President Obama took office, he faced an Iran that had mastered the nuclear fuel cycle, had constructed a covert uranium …
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Senator Tom Cotton / Facebook:
On Friday, I had a meeting in Vienna with the International …
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CBS New York:
Thousands Of Protesters Rally In Times Square Against Iran Nuclear Deal — NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — Thousands of demonstrators gathered in Times Square Wednesday evening in protest over the recent landmark nuclear deal with Iran. — As CBS2's Jessica Schneider reported …
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Chelsea Rarrick / WTVR-TV:
‘Just stay behind me’ Construction worker helps teen escape I-95 abduction — HENRICO COUNTY, Va — Kevin Huntington knows things can get hectic along Interstate 95, especially in Northern Virginia. The construction worker said what he saw last week, was like nothing he's ever experienced.
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Daily Mail:
Don't play the race or skinny cards, Ms Minaj - you're just a stroppy little piece of work whose video wasn't as good as Taylor Swift's — Superstar rapper Nicki Minaj once worked at a Red Lobster restaurant in the Bronx. — She was fired for ‘discourtesy to customers’.
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