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12:05 PM ET, July 28, 2015

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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 …
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Jeremy Diamond / CNN:
Trump adviser Michael Cohen apologizes for rape comment  —  Story highlights  —  Washington (CNN)A top adviser to Donald Trump apologized Tuesday for comments he made in an explosive interview while defending the Republican presidential candidate from a decades-old rape accusation.
Roger Simon / Politico:
Donald Trump and the high priests of the press  —  Having decided that Donald Trump is unworthy of his popularity, the grandees of journalism are hard-pressed to explain why he is so popular.  —  “It came slightly ahead of schedule,” The Wall Street Journal gleefully wrote last week …
Discussion: Instapundit
Michael Falcone / ABC News:
The Note: Mike Huckabee Steals The Spotlight From Trump  —  NOTABLES  —WHAT HUCKABEE IS SAYING: Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee evoked imagery of Nazi death camps when discussing the deal over Iran's nuclear program over the weekend, saying President Barack Obama …
Discussion: New York Times and Political Wire
Ben Jacobs / Guardian:
Donald Trump's lawyer threatens reporter over ex-wife's claim: ‘You cannot rape your spouse’
Discussion: Mediaite
Darren Samuelsohn / Politico:
Jon Stewart's secret White House visits  —  Obama, aides took unusual steps to cultivate ‘Daily Show’ comic  —  Jon Stewart slipped unnoticed into the White House in the midst of the October 2011 budget fight, summoned to an Oval Office coffee with President Barack Obama that he jokingly told …
Susan Page / USA Today:
Israeli envoy: Huckabee words on Iran deal inappropriate  —  WASHINGTON — The Israeli ambassador to the U.S., now lobbying intensively against the Iran nuclear accord, on Monday rejected as inappropriate the harsh language that Republican presidential contender Mike Huckabee used likening it to the Holocaust.
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Edward-Isaac Dovere / Politico:
Barack Obama: ‘I think if I ran, I would win’  —  ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia - Four more years?  —  President Barack Obama said Tuesday that he's confident he could win a third term, if only the Constitution would let him run.  —  Story Continued Below  —  “I actually think I'm a pretty good president.
Discussion: ABC News, Shakesville and Mediaite
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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Obama: I could win a third term
Discussion: Prairie Weather
Catherine Thompson / Talking Points Memo:
NYT Publishes A Lengthy Editors' Note About Its Mistaken Clinton Email Story  —  The New York Times published a lengthy editor's note late Monday that went a step further toward owning up to its mistaken story about a criminal probe into Hillary Clinton's use of a private email account.
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New York Times:
Editors' Note: Clinton Email Coverage  —  The Times's coverage last week of Hillary Rodham Clinton's use of a personal email account as secretary of state involved several corrections and changes that may have left readers with a confused picture.  —  The Times reported online Thursday night …
John Podhoretz / Commentary Magazine:
Trump: The Case for Despairing — About America  —  No sense pretending: Donald Trump is the only news of the 2016 race, and this fact says something very troubling about the Republican party, the conservative electorate, the mass media culture, and the United States in general.
Discussion: Power Line, Twitchy and Progress Pond
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Sarah Ferris / The Hill:
Lee drops ObamaCare push in highway bill
Ben Domenech / The Federalist:
Why does the Republican Party exist?  What is its purpose …
Discussion: The Week and Washington Examiner
Erik Eckholm / New York Times:
Boy Scouts End Ban on Gay Leaders, Over Protests by Mormon Church  —  The Boy Scouts of America on Monday ended its nationwide ban on openly gay adult leaders.  But despite a compromise allowing conservative church-sponsored units to pick their own volunteer leaders, the Mormon Church …
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Lydia O'Connor / The Huffington Post:
Boy Scouts End Ban On Gay Adults
Scouting Newsroom:
Boy Scouts of America Amends Adult Leadership Policy
Discussion: Mashable, NPR, Mediaite, Slantpoint and NBC News
Harriet Alexander / Telegraph:
Cecil the lion's killer revealed as American dentist  —  EXCLUSIVE: A Minnesota father of two is discovered to be the hunter who shot dead Cecil - one of Zimbabwe's most loved lions  —  Cecil the lion - the most famous creature in one of Zimbabwe's national parks - was killed by an American hunter …
CNN:
CNN/ORC poll: Majority wants Congress to reject Iran deal  —  Story highlights  —  Washington (CNN)A majority of Americans want Congress to reject the recently-negotiated nuclear deal with Iran, even as President Barack Obama's approval rating continues to stand in net-positive territory …
Caleb Melby / Bloomberg Business:
Here's Our Tally of Donald Trump's Wealth  —  The latest math on Donald Trump: $2.9 billion.  —  An analysis by the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, based in part on a 92-page personal financial disclosure form made public last week, revealed a portfolio dominated by skyscrapers and golf courses.
Daily Mail:
Hillary boards private jet in Iowa after launching climate push  —  PLANETARY EMERGENCY: Clinton said reversing climate change ‘is one of the most urgent threats of our time, and we have no choice but to rise and meet it’ - and then was driven to her private jet in Des Moines, Iowa
Wall Street Journal:
The Stonewall at the Top of the IRS  —  If the president doesn't tell Commissioner Koskinen to go, then we in Congress should impeach him.  —  Internal Revenue Service Commissioner John Koskinen needs to go.  —  When it was revealed in 2013 that the IRS had targeted conservative groups …
David French / National Review:
Are Encounters with the Police Really More Dangerous for Black Men?
Discussion: alicublog
ABC News:
Thousands of Students Perform Haka Dance for Beloved Teacher  —  Thousands of high school students in New Zealand performed a traditional haka dance as a send-off for a beloved teacher who died.  —  Video shows at least 1,700 students from Palmerston North Boys' High School …
Discussion: WTVR-TV and FOX2now.com
Elana Schor / Politico:
The holes in Hillary Clinton's climate plan  —  She has avoided taking stands on Keystone XL, fracking, oil exports and Arctic offshore drilling.  —  Getty  —  Hillary Clinton's newly unveiled climate vision sounds ambitious on its face: 500 million new solar panels from coast to coast …
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New York Times:
Hillary Clinton Lays Out Climate Change Plan
 
 
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Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Trump Campaign Manager Thinks The Huffington Post Is A Print Newspaper With Subscriptions
Discussion: Mediaite
Robert Gavin / Albany Times Union:
Watervliet schools cop faces sodomy charges
Discussion: Daily Mail and Raw Story
Cody Derespina / Fox News:
Satanic Temple unveils goat-headed statue in Detroit
Discussion: BarbWire.com and CBS Detroit
Taegan Goddard / Political Wire:
Trump Holds Big Lead in New Hampshire
Discussion: Progress Pond
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard / Telegraph:
China losing control as stocks crash despite emergency measures
Brendan Williams / The Hill:
ObamaCare's revolving door
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Chad Terhune / Los Angeles Times:
Obamacare rates to rise 4% in California for 2016
Discussion: FOX5 San Diego and KTLA
BBC:
Libya trial: Gaddafi son sentenced to death over war crimes
Discussion: The Week and NPR
Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
Drinking Highest Among Educated, Upper-Income Americans
Discussion: Forbes and Guardian
East Oregonian:
Suspicious mail mostly empty; hazardous substance in one
Discussion: KGW-TV and NBC News
Frank Shyong / Los Angeles Times:
In Alhambra, demographic shift reaches the grocery store
 

 
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Max Tani / @maxwelltani:
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Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
A deep dive into Paramount's sale to Skydance; sources: Skydance may integrate Pluto into Paramount+, and CBS head George Cheeks is expected to be head of TV

Jack Dunn / Variety:
Trump appoints Mark Burnett, the British TV executive who created and produced the reality show The Apprentice, as a special envoy to the UK
 
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