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10:40 AM ET, July 27, 2015

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Manu Raju / Politico:
Marco Rubio, absentee senator  —  The Florida senator leads the 2016 pack — in playing hooky from his day job to campaign.  —  At last week's Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing, Marco Rubio attacked the Obama administration for failing to secure the release of American hostages in Iran.
Discussion: Taylor Marsh and BuzzFeed
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Politico:
Senate smackdown: Ted Cruz, Mike Lee efforts squelched by leaders  —  The rift between Mitch McConnell and Ted Cruz widens.  —  Ted Cruz arrives for the Sunday Senate session on Capitol Hill.  Ted Cruz just wanted a roll call vote on Sunday.  Instead, he got a smackdown.
Politico:
House Democrats whip for Iran deal  —  The nuclear agreement faces a make-or-break vote this September.  —  Peter Welch, left, is one of the deal backers.  He is pictured here with Elijah Cummings.  AP Photo  —  Three days before world leaders formally unveiled an interim deal in early 2014 …
Discussion: Washington Post
Jennifer Haberkorn / Politico:
Obamacare repeal vote fails in Senate
Jonathan Weisman / New York Times:
Senate Resurrection of Export-Import Bank Goes to Divided House
Discussion: The Week
New York Magazine:
'I'm No Longer Afraid': 35 Women Tell Their Stories About Being Assaulted by Bill Cosby, and the Culture That Wouldn't Listen … More has changed in the past few years for women who allege rape than in all the decades since the women's movement began.  Consider the evidence of October 2014 …
Mark Niquette / Bloomberg Business:
Governors Who Would Be President Have Mixed Records on Miracles  —  Miracles are regular occurrences for governors who want to be president of the U.S.  —  Rick Perry's supporters have talked about the “Texas Miracle” of job growth.  Post-recession recoveries under John Kasich …
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Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Two weeks to go: Republicans scramble to make debate stage  —  The race is on for the final spots on stage for the first Republican debate.  —  With the highly-anticipated showdown less than two weeks away, candidates with low polling numbers are in a high-stakes scramble to qualify …
William Turton / The Daily Dot:
Anti-NYC hacker takes New York Magazine offline  —  On Sunday night, New York Magazine released a groundbreaking new cover featuring 35 victims of alleged assault from Bill Cosby.  —  But you can't see it. … A self-described hacker called ThreatKing, who says he hates New York City …
TMZ.com:
Bobbi Kristina Dead — Whitney Houston's Daughter Dies at 22  —  Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown's daughter Bobbi Kristina has died at the age of 22.  —  She passed away outside Atlanta in the hospice care facility where she's been since June 24 ... when her family decided to take her off all meds.
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Entertainment Tonight:
EXCLUSIVE: Bobbi Kristina Brown Dies at 22
Nick Gass / Politico:
Reince Priebus: GOP candidates should pledge not to make third-party bids  —  Republican candidates for president should pledge not to run as a third-party candidate, Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus said Monday.  —  The remarks come days after current GOP frontrunner Donald Trump hinted …
Discussion: Political Wire
Chicago Tribune:
Chief Keef's hologram concert shut down by police in Hammond  —  Rapper Chief Keef appeared — via hologram — at a Hammond music festival Saturday night, but his performance was shut down by police within minutes.  —  The concert, planned as a benefit for a toddler and a friend of the rapper's …
Discussion: Washington Post and Hit & Run
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Joe Coscarelli / New York Times:
Hologram Performance by Chief Keef Is Shut Down by Police
Discussion: The Verge
New York Times:
Turkey and U.S. Plan to Create Syria ‘Safe Zone’ Free of ISIS  —  BAGHDAD — Turkey and the United States have agreed in general terms on a plan that envisions American warplanes, Syrian insurgents and Turkish forces working together to sweep Islamic State militants from a 60-mile-long strip …
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Washington Post:
U.S.-Turkey deal aims to create de facto ‘safe zone’ in northwest Syria
Discussion: Guardian and The Week
Julia Hahn / BREITBART.COM:
New California: Mass Immigration Turning Virginia Blue  —  A remarkable transformation is underway in the Commonwealth of Virginia.  —  The birthplace and final resting place of George Washington, James Madison, Thomas Jefferson—and once one of the most reliably-red of red states …
Joseph E. Stiglitz / New York Times:
Greece, the Sacrificial Lamb  —  ATHENS — AS the Greek crisis proceeds to its next stage, Germany, Greece and the triumvirate of the International Monetary Fund, the European Central Bank and the European Commission (now better known as the troika) have all faced serious criticism.
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
Arlette Saenz / ABC News:
President Obama: Mike Huckabee's Iran Comments an Attempt to ‘Push Mr. Trump Out of the Headlines’  —  On his first day in Ethiopia, President Obama waded into the 2016 presidential campaign, criticizing Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee for suggesting the president is trying …
Discussion: Political Wire and abc7chicago.com
Jennifer Epstein / Bloomberg Business:
Hillary Clinton Outlines Climate Change Proposals  —  Hillary Clinton on Sunday set two “bold national goals” to combat climate change, promising that if she's elected president, she would set the United States on a path toward producing enough clean renewable to power every home in America within a decade.
 
 
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The television election  —  Despite all the hype about tools …
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Jay Solomon / Wall Street Journal:
Lawmakers Say Iran Unlikely to Address Suspicions of Secret Weapons Program
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Will the real Donald Trump please stand up?
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