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4:50 PM ET, July 27, 2015

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Scott Wong / The Hill:
House GOP to Senate: We're not taking up your highway bill  —  The House will not vote on a Senate bill that funds highway construction for six years and revives the now-expired Export-Import Bank, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said Monday.
Discussion: Hot Air
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Jake Sherman / Politico:
Rep. Kevin McCarthy rules out passing Senate's highway bill  —  This much is clear: The House will completely ignore the Senate-passed highway bill.  —  “We're not taking up the Senate bill,” House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy vowed Monday afternoon.  —  Story Continued Below
Keith Laing / The Hill:
McConnell on roads bill: ‘We can get there’  —  Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said Monday that he is confident his chamber can pass a multi-year transportation bill before a Friday deadline for extending the funding.  —  “We've had to navigate especially difficult political terrain …
Discussion: Daily Kos
Sarah Ferris / The Hill:
Senate blocks Lee's vote to defund Planned Parenthood
Discussion: PoliticusUSA
Manu Raju / Politico:
Marco Rubio, absentee senator
Discussion: BuzzFeed and Taylor Marsh
Margaret Sullivan / New York Times:
A Clinton Story Fraught With Inaccuracies: How It Happened and What Next?  —  The story certainly seemed like a blockbuster: A criminal investigation of Hillary Rodham Clinton by the Justice Department was being sought by two federal inspectors general over her email practices while secretary of state.
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Ron Fournier / National Journal:
Parsing Clinton: What Is She Hiding?
Discussion: Hot Air, TheBlaze.com and abc13.com
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 …
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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 …
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Cory Bennett / The Hill:
Anti-abortion hackers claim to have breached Planned Parenthood
Discussion: LifeNews.com
Mollie Hemingway / The Federalist:
The 4 Most Embarrassing Things Cecile Richards Said In Defense Of Planned Parenthood
BostonGlobe.com:
Walsh pushes back against USOC pressure  —  Just hours before officials said Boston's bid for the 2024 Olympics was over, Mayor Martin J. Walsh said he was not ready to sign an Olympic host city contract that would make taxpayers the final source for Olympic cost overruns.
Discussion: Mediaite, The Week and Mashable
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Mark Arsenault / BostonGlobe.com:
Boston 2024 Olympic bid is ‘over’  —  There will be no Boston Olympics in 2024, according to two officials close to the discussions.  —  “It's over,” said one official with knowledge of the decision.  —  Negotiations continue over a statement that would explain the rationale for why it has ended.
Discussion: Politico, NPR and Guardian
Katharine Q. Seelye / New York Times:
Boston's Bid for Summer Olympics Is Terminated
Discussion: Forbes
WATE-TV:
Florida dad killed in front of family after road rage fight  —  FLORIDA (CNN) — A Florida man is in jail, charged with second degree murder after a road rage altercation ended in gunfire.  It was captured on two separate 911 calls.  —  Citrus County deputies say Robert Doyle shot …
Discussion: WQAD-TV and KTLA
Mark Halperin / Bloomberg Business:
Hillary Clinton's Bernie Sanders Problem Is Bigger Than Anyone Realizes  —  Let's all please stop asserting that Bernie Sanders can't beat Hillary Clinton in the Democratic nomination race.  Pundits and journalists galore have been declaring (alleged margin of error: zero) that the Vermont senator will lose to his party's front-runner.
Discussion: Political Wire
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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 …
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Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Two weeks to go: Republicans scramble to make debate stage
Discussion: The Moderate Voice and ABC News
Des Bieler / Washington Post:
‘Hibachi’ lives!  Gilbert Arenas revives catchphrase while winning prizes at a county fair  —  When Gilbert Arenas was traded away from the Wizards in 2010, he left behind one of the most up-and-down legacies in local sports history.  Among the fonder memories Wizards fans have of the guard was his schtick of crying “Hibachi!”
Discussion: FOX31 Denver
Nate Cohn / New York Times:
Don't Be Misled by the New Poll Results for Donald Trump  —  It has been more than a week since Donald Trump's remarks about whether Senator John McCain should be considered a war hero, and many journalists and commentators have reached a conclusion: Mr. Trump has emerged unscathed.
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Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Chris Christie Says He Won't Comment On Donald Trump Anymore
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Mediaite
Facebook:
It is time for Mitch McConnell and John Boehner to resign  —  It is time for Mitch McConnell and John Boehner to resign for the good of the nation and the Republican Party.  The nation and GOP are both suffering as a result of the unwillingness or inability of McConnell and Boehner to effectively defend either.
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 …
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Anna Brand / NBC News:
Mike Huckabee: Iran Nuclear Deal Will Lead Israelis to ‘Door of the Oven’
Juan Williams / The Hill:
The GOP's judicial logjam  —  As the hot Washington summer approaches August, the Senate's Republican majority is already on vacation from the work of confirming judges.  At the current torpid pace, they will put the lowest number of judges on the federal bench in any year since 1969.
Kurt Schlichter / Townhall.com:
The Coming (And Hilarious) Democrat Implosion  —  Republicans fear a repeat of 1992, with a squishy Bush at the head of the ticket watching helplessly as some populist businessman/novelty act hands the election to a Clinton.  But Democrats should fear the far more likely repeat of 1968.
 
 
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