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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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Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly:
Trump Card — When I opened my favorite news aggregator this morning, nine of the top ten items were about Donald Trump. That's right: 90% of the top stories involved the bloviating real estate tycoon and reality TV star. — No, I'm not going to write 90% of my 12 posts today on The Donald …
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Mediaite, Lawyers, Guns & Money and Balloon Juice
Jesse Byrnes / The Hill:
Poll shows Trump with slim lead, Walker in second — Businessman Donald Trump holds a slim two-point lead over Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker in a 2016 Republican presidential primary poll released Wednesday by the left-leaning Public Policy Polling (PPP). — Trump takes 19 percent support in the poll, with Walker at 17 percent.
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Democratic Strategist, Washington Post and Eschaton
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.
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Mediaite
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Trump Still Leads GOP Field But Descent May Be Beginning
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Talking Points Memo, SaintPetersBlog, The Hill, Politico, Hot Air, Daily Kos and New York Times
Joe Concha / Mediaite:
Exclusive: More MSNBC Changes Coming with Three Shows Out, Hard News and Chuck Todd Back — A well-placed source tells me MSNBC will announce today major changes to its afternoon lineup...arguably the most significant revamp the network has made at one time in its 19-year history.
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PoliticusUSA, Taylor Marsh, Hot Air, The Daily Caller, Balloon Juice and Washington Free Beacon
Steve Benen / msnbc.com:
Jeb Bush pushes to ‘phase out’ Medicare — Republican presidential hopeful Jeb Bush appeared at a New Hampshire event last night sponsored by the Koch brothers' Americans for Prosperity, and the former governor raised a few eyebrows with his comments on the future of Medicare.
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Talking Points Memo, cbpp.org, ThinkProgress, AMERICAblog News, Daily Kos and The Week
Hector Garza / PO Box 2363 Laredo, TX 78044:
National Border Patrol Council Local 2455 statement — After careful consideration of all the factors involved in this event and communicating with members of the National Border Patrol Council (NBPC) at the National level, it has been decided by Local 2455 to pull out of all events involving Donald Trump.
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Talking Points Memo, Washington Post and OnPolitics
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Michael Barone / Washington Examiner:
Increasingly divided Democrats causing problems for their party — Share Tweet Reddit Digg Mail Print SMS More — America's two major political parties have a difficult task: amassing a 51 percent coalition in a nation that has always been — not just now, but from the beginning …
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Moe Lane
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Joe Dinkin / The Nation:
Bernie Sanders Blew a Huge Opportunity at Netroots Nation
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Eclectablog
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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The Daily Caller, Mediaite, Daily Mail and Fox News Insider
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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Shakesville and WNEP-TV
David / Crooks and Liars:
Ex-cop Tells CNN: Sandra Bland Would Be Alive If She Wasn't ‘Arrogant From The Very Beginning’ — CNN contributor and former NYPD detective Harry Houck argued on Tuesday that a Texas woman would not have died in police custody if she had not been “arrogant from the very beginning.”
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Washington Post, Atlanta Daily World and Addicting Info
Victor Davis Hanson / National Review:
Appeasing Iran Ignores the Lessons of History — The now-concluded Iran nuclear negotiations predictably reflect ancient truths of appeasement. — While members of the Obama administration are high-fiving each other over a deal with the Iranian theocracy, they should remember unchanging laws …
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Lawyers, Guns & Money and The American Conservative
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Daily Breeze:
Reality show star Loredana Nesci found slain in Redondo Beach home, boyfriend arrested — Reality show star Loredana Nesci, an LAPD officer turned attorney, was found slain today at the Redondo Beach home she shared with her boyfriend, who called police to report the death and was arrested when officers arrived.
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Hollywood Life and KTLA
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Matt Hamilton / Los Angeles Times:
Reality TV star found dead in Redondo Beach home; boyfriend arrested
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The Huffington Post, Daily Mail and KTLA
Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
NASA May Have Discovered An Earth-Like Planet — NASA announced this week that it will shares news on Thursday from the Kepler Space Telescope project hinting that NASA may have found an earth-like planet. — “The first exoplanet orbiting another star like our sun was discovered in 1995.
J. Christian Adams / Rule of Law:
Illegal Alien Crime Wave in Texas: 611,234 Crimes, 2,993 Murders — The murder of Kathryn Steinle on the Embarcadero in San Francisco by an illegal alien is the most familiar example of a crime committed by an alien. But an unreleased internal report by the Texas Department of Public Safety reveals …
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Power Line and John Hawkins' Right Wing News
Nick Gass / Politico:
Tom Cotton compares John Kerry to Pontius Pilate — Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton blasted the White House on Thursday for its failure to immediately disclose so-called side deals between Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency as part of the negotiations of the nuclear deal reached last week …
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Daily Kos
Daniel Nussbaum / BREITBART.COM:
Transgender Reporter Zoey Tur Triples Down on Threats Against Ben Shapiro — Transgender Inside Edition reporter Zoey Tur tripled down Tuesday on threats he made against Breitbart Senior Editor-at-Large Ben Shapiro during a Dr. Drew-hosted panel on HLN last week, when the reporter said he would send Shapiro “home in an ambulance.”
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Fox News Insider and Raw Story
NBC News:
Silent 911 Call Leads to Gruesome Quintuple Homicide — A wordless 911 call led police to a gruesome discovery in an Oklahoma home — five people stabbed to death, a wounded 13-year-old girl, a toddler who had escaped harm. — Two teens were taken into custody, police told NBC News early Thursday.
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ABC News, Washington Post, KXAN-TV and KFOR-TV
Sulaiman Abdur-Rahman / The Trentonian:
Hamilton Councilman Ed Gore explains his ‘Muslim scum’ comment — HAMILTON >> When gunman Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez shot and killed five U.S. military service members July 16 in Chattanooga, Tenn., a Hamilton councilman went to Facebook to voice his sentiments. — “Murdering bastard.
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Raw Story
Marc R. Rosenblum / migrationpolicy.org:
Understanding the Potential Impact of Executive Action on Immigration Enforcement — While much of the attention to the Obama administration's announcement of executive actions on immigration in November 2014 has focused on key deferred action programs, two changes that have not faced legal challenge …
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New York Times, Guardian and The Daily Caller
Jeb Bush / Des Moines Register:
My goal is to change the culture in Washington — Every time I come to Iowa, I'm struck by how Iowans view Washington, D.C. They see it as the remote and gleaming city of marble and glass I like to call Mount Washington. — There's a lot of frustration with Mount Washington right now — and I agree.
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