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Tim Mak / The Daily Beast:
Ex-Wife: Donald Trump Made Me Feel ‘Violated’ During Sex — Ivana Trump once accused the real estate tycoon of ‘rape,’ although she later clarified: not in the ‘criminal sense.’ — Donald Trump introduced his presidential campaign to the world with a slur against Mexican immigrants …
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.
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Politico, Roll Call, PoliticusUSA and Hot Air
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Jake Sherman / Politico:
Rep. Kevin McCarthy rules out passing Senate's highway bill
Rep. Kevin McCarthy rules out passing Senate's highway bill
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Sarah Ferris / The Hill:
Senate blocks Lee's vote to defund Planned Parenthood
Senate blocks Lee's vote to defund Planned Parenthood
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PoliticusUSA, Taylor Marsh and Politico
William Turton / The Daily Dot:
Anti-abortion hackers attack Planned Parenthood, release databases, employee data … One of the hackers, who goes by the pseudonym “E,” told the Daily Dot that the cyberattack was politically motivated.
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Steven Ertelt / LifeNews.com:
Cecile Richards Defends Planned Parenthood Selling Aborted Baby Body Parts, Calls Pro-Lifers Killers
Cecile Richards Defends Planned Parenthood Selling Aborted Baby Body Parts, Calls Pro-Lifers Killers
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RedState and Fellowship of the Minds
Mollie Hemingway / The Federalist:
The 4 Most Embarrassing Things Cecile Richards Said In Defense Of Planned Parenthood
The 4 Most Embarrassing Things Cecile Richards Said In Defense Of Planned Parenthood
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Scouting Newsroom:
Boy Scouts of America Amends Adult Leadership Policy — On Monday, July 27, the National Executive Board ratified a resolution that removes the national restriction on openly gay adult leaders and employees. Of those present and voting, 79 percent voted in favor of the resolution.
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Pete Williams / NBC News:
Boy Scouts of America Votes to Allow Gay Scout Leaders
Boy Scouts of America Votes to Allow Gay Scout Leaders
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The Week
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.
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Kathleen Willey / WND:
‘Have you been sexually harassed by Bill Clinton?’
‘Have you been sexually harassed by Bill Clinton?’
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Katharine Q. Seelye / New York Times:
Boston's Bid for Summer Olympics Is Terminated — BOSTON — After a tortuous seven-month public process, the United States Olympic Committee on Monday acknowledged that it had failed to win over the people of Boston to host the 2024 Summer Games and it officially pulled the plug on its bid to put forth Boston as America's host city.
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Mark Arsenault / BostonGlobe.com:
Boston 2024 Olympic bid is ‘over’
Boston 2024 Olympic bid is ‘over’
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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.
Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Watch heated confrontation over Confederate flags in Douglasville — The incident reportedly happened near Chapel Hill Road's intersection with I-20. — Police confirmed there was an argument between a convoy of trucks and members of a birthday party. — Douglasville police are investigating …
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Frank Shyong / Los Angeles Times:
In Alhambra, demographic shift reaches the grocery store — As classic diners and soda fountains gave way to double-decker strip malls packed with Chinese restaurants, Margie Myers, a resident of Alhambra for 64 years, didn't say much. — She weathered friends and neighbors moving away …
Fox News:
Cincinnati man shoots at 1-year-old boy, is shot by man with concealed carry permit — Thomas McCary, 62, allegedly shot at four people, including a one-year-old boy. (Hamilton County Jail) — A 62-year-old man with a gun in each hand fired at four people - including a 1-year-old boy …
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IC ON THE RECORD:
Statement by the ODNI on Retention of Data Collected Under Section 215 of the USA PATRIOT Act — July 27, 2015 — On June 29, 2015, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court approved the Government's application to resume the Section 215 bulk telephony metadata program pursuant …
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The Hill, New York Times, The Verge and Engadget
Kenneth P. Vogel / Politico:
Koch brothers summon Bush, Cruz, Walker, Rubio to SoCal confab — The crowded field of GOP contenders is competing aggressively for the support of uncommitted mega-donors. — Four leading GOP presidential candidates - Jeb Bush, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio and Scott Walker …
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Patrick Ruffini / Medium:
Trumped Up Polls — Or, why the media needs to learn to stop worrying and love analytics. — People think that the problem with media polling in the Republican primary is that we're deciding who participates in debates based on surveys with 200 to 300 respondents that carry an extremely high margin of error.
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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 …
New York Post:
Dad controls daughters' $20M inheritance from grave — Victoria (from left) and Marlena Laboz, with mom Ewa. — A wealthy Manhattan landlord left $20 million to his two daughters — but they can collect only on his strict terms. — Daddy Dearest real estate millionaire Maurice Laboz …
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Zachary Mider / Bloomberg Business:
Jeb Bush Snares a Democratic Moneyman on Hamptons Tour — Behind a garden modeled on Monet's, Jeb Bush addressed a lawn-full of chief executives and hedge-fund managers at an East Hampton, New York, estate Saturday morning. While the candidate is no stranger to courting wealthy donors …
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Leon Wieseltier / The Atlantic:
The Iran Deal and the Rut of History — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry speaks with Hossein Fereydoun and Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif. (Reuters) — “The president said many times he's willing to step out of the rut of history.” In this way Ben Rhodes of the White House …
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CNN:
Safari tourist suspected in killing of Cecil the lion in Zimbabwe — Story highlights — (CNN)Cecil the lion is dead, killed illegally in Zimbabwe, authorities allege, by a foreign hunter or hunters who paid about $55,000 for the privilege. — Cecil was part of an Oxford University research project and wore a GPS collar.
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Andrew Rafferty / NBC News:
Jeb Bush Says He Was Hurt by Trump Remarks About Mexicans — Jeb Bush told MSNBC's Jose Diaz-Balart that he was “herido,” Spanish for “hurt,” by Donald Trump's comments about undocumented Mexican immigrants during an interview conducted entirely in Spanish on Monday.
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Marc A. Thiessen / Washington Post:
Obama's secret Iran deals exposed — President Obama promised that his nuclear deal with Iran would not be “based on trust” but rather “unprecedented verification.” Now it turns out Obama's verification regime is based on trust after all — trust in two secret side agreements negotiated …
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