memeorandum: Today's Exhausted Superkids (Frank Bruni/New York Times)

12:20 AM ET, July 30, 2015

Top Items:

Court bars anti-abortion group from releasing new videos of Calif. company officials — LOS ANGELES - A temporary restraining order has been issued preventing an anti-abortion group from releasing any video of leaders of a California company that provides fetal tissue to researchers.

Discussion: The Gateway Pundit, Mediaite, The Center for Medical …, The Federalist, RedState, The Daily Signal, ABC News and Politico

Katie Yoder / NewsBusters:
Nets Covered Cecil the Lion More in 1 Day Than Abortion Videos in 2 Weeks

Discussion: Weekly Standard, LifeNews.com, The Gateway Pundit, WBAY-TV, Wizbang, abc13.com, Washington Free Beacon, Mediaite, John Hawkins' Right Wing News and Guardian

Dan Tuohy / UnionLeader.com:
In one-on-one interview, Clinton talks issues, calls Planned Parenthood videos ‘disturbing’

Liz Kreutz / ABC News:
Hillary Clinton Calls Planned Parenthood Videos ???Disturbing???

Discussion: Liberal Values, Associated Press, Power Line, Business Insider, National Review and Washington Post

Emma Ockerman / The Columbus Dispatch:
Rep. Bill Patmon introduces bill to strip state funding from Planned Parenthood

Discussion: Moe Lane

CNN:

American dentist says he regrets role in death of Cecil the lion — Story highlights — (CNN)Two Zimbabwean men were expected to appear in court Wednesday over the killing of Cecil the lion, one of Africa's best known big cats. But most of the attention — and the anger …

Discussion: TIME, National Geographic, Raw Story, WREG-TV, The Stranger …, FOX5 San Diego, Salon, WQAD-TV, Fox News, KTLA, fox8.com, Slantpoint, The Daily Caller and Guardian

Kevin Cirilli / The Hill:

Cecil the lion's killer donated to Romney — The Minnesota dentist who authorities say killed a beloved Zimbabwe lion named Cecil donated to Mitt Romney's 2012 presidential campaign. — Federal Elections Commission (FEC) forms show Walter James Palmer, a dentist in Eden Prairie, Minn., donated $5,000 to the Romney campaign in 2012.

Discussion: USA Today, Ultimate Classic Rock, CBS News, TPNN, Twitchy, The PJ Tatler, Joe. My. God., CNN and PoliticusUSA

Dylan StablefordSenior / Yahoo Politics:
Marco Rubio: ‘All this outrage over a dead lion, but where is all the outrage over the planned parenthood dead babies’

Discussion: Politico, Washington Post and Business Insider

Ryan Broderick / BuzzFeed:
People Are Flooding This Dentist's Facebook After He Was Named As The Hunter Who Killed Cecil The Lion

Discussion: Mediaite, Raw Story, The Daily Banter, Pharyngula, ThinkProgress, The Mahablog, Guardian, Common Dreams, Vox, Heavy.com, Mashable, Addicting Info and Star Tribune

Richard Pérez-Peña / New York Times:

University of Cincinnati Officer Indicted in Shooting Death of Samuel Dubose — A University of Cincinnati police officer was indicted Wednesday on a murder charge in what a prosecutor called “a senseless, asinine shooting” of an unarmed man during a minor traffic stop.

Discussion: Washington Post, Raw Story, ThinkProgress, The Stranger …, Firedoglake, Outside the Beltway and Balloon Juice

Cincinnati.com:

Deters: UC officer ‘purposefully killed’ DuBose — Provided/Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters — University of Cincinnati Police Officer Ray Tensing was indicted Wednesday on a murder charge for fatally shooting Samuel DuBose during a traffic stop July 19.

Discussion: Salon, Common Dreams, Vocativ and Refinery29

CNN:
University cop indicted for murder in shooting of Samuel DuBose

Discussion: WLWT-TV, The Gateway Pundit, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion and Hot Air

Judicial Watch:

Federal Judge Threatens To Hold IRS Commissioner, DOJ Lawyers in Contempt of Court over Lerner — (Washington, DC) - Judicial Watch announced that U.S District Court Judge Emmet Sullivan today threatened to hold the Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service and Justice Department attorneys …

Discussion: Power Line, “The Lid”, National Review, The Daily Caller, Instapundit and The PJ Tatler

Stephen Dinan / Washington Times:
Newly recovered Lois Lerner email shows IRS tried to cover up tea party targeting

Discussion: Fox News and Rush Limbaugh

Chris Stigall / CBS Philly:

Author Ronald Kessler On Bill Clinton: ‘He Has A Blonde, Busty Mistress’ — PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — Author Ronald Kessler defends secret service agents and makes some sensational claims about former Presidents in his new book, The First Family Detail: Secret Service Agents Reveal the Hidden Lives of the Presidents.

Discussion: TheBlaze.com and The Gateway Pundit

Daily Mail:
Linda Tripp reveals why ‘Hillary Clinton must never be President’

Discussion: Red Alert Politics, BizPac Review and The Right Scoop

U.S. Department of Justice:

Congressman Chaka Fattah and Associates Charged with Participating in Racketeering Conspiracy — A member of Congress and four of his associates were indicted today for their roles in a racketeering conspiracy involving several schemes that were intended to further the political …

Discussion: ABC News, The Daily Caller, Daily Kos, Sun-Times National, Hot Air and Washington Free Beacon

Politico:
Longtime congressman Chaka Fattah indicted

Discussion: The PJ Tatler

Matt Dinger / Daily Oklahoman:

Former Valley Brook police officer arrested on sex crimes complaints — Former Valley Brook police officer Courtney Breanne Schlinke, 21, was arrested on 33 complaints, including 16 counts of rape by instrumentation, nine counts of lewd acts with a child under 16 and eight counts of oral sodomy, records show.

Discussion: Raw Story and Daily Mail

Rachael Bade / Politico:

Hillary Clinton's former spokesman turns over 20 boxes of emails — Long-time Hillary Clinton spokesman Philippe Reines handed the State Department 20 boxes of work-related emails taken in part from a personal email account, State officials said Wednesday, calling into question the extent …

David Daley / Salon:

Camille Paglia takes on Jon Stewart, Trump, Sanders: “Liberals think of themselves as very open-minded, but that's simply not true!” — Trump's a carnival barker, but funnier than Stewart. Richard Dawkins is a joke. Sanders and Drudge earn approval — In part one of our three …

Discussion: Washington Monthly, Daily Mail, The Daily Caller, New York Post, National Review, BREITBART.COM, Flavorwire, Philebrity.com, Maggie's Farm and The Federalist

New York Post:

‘Law & Order’ director busted on child porn charges — TV director Jason “Jace” Alexander was busted on child-porn charges for allegedly promoting a video showing a girl stripping and masturbating, according to the Westchester County DA's office. — Alexander, 50, of Dobbs Ferry …

Discussion: EW.com and Daily Mail

Robert Schmidt / Bloomberg Business:

Wall Street Money Dries Up for Lawmaker After Anti-Gay Remarks — Representative Scott Garrett, who heads an influential House subcommittee overseeing the U.S. capital markets, is facing a revolt by corporate and Wall Street donors after he reportedly made anti-gay remarks at a private meeting of Republican lawmakers.

Discussion: New Jersey News …

Billings Gazette:

Couple shot to death near Pryor; daughter survives shooting — A Pryor couple was shot to death and their daughter wounded at about 10:30 a.m. Wednesday when they stopped to help a man who had run out of gas on the Crow Reservation. — A suspect, identified by a Wyoming Highway Patrol dispatcher …

Discussion: Slantpoint

Frank Bruni / New York Times:

Today's Exhausted Superkids — There are several passages in the new book “Overloaded and Underprepared” that fill me with sadness for American high school students, the most driven of whom are forever in search of a competitive edge. Some use stimulants like Adderall. Some cheat.

Discussion: Balloon Juice

CNN:

Debris in Indian Ocean checked for MH370 ties — (CNN)Apparent airplane debris found off the coast of Reunion island, a French department in the western Indian Ocean, is being examined to see if it is connected to the 2014 disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, a member of the French Air Force in Reunion said Wednesday.

Discussion: The Week, New York Times, Daily Mail, Mashable, Metro.co.uk, The Gateway Pundit, Refinery29, Talking Points Memo and Mediaite

France 24:

France deploys riot police to stem flow of migrants from Calais — France deployed 120 riot police to Calais on Wednesday to bolster security after thousands of migrants tried to enter Britain through the Channel Tunnel in recent days, with the resulting chaos leading to at least one death.

Discussion: Moe Lane and NPR

T. Rees Shapiro / Washington Post:

Phi Kappa Psi fraternity members sue Rolling Stone over retracted U-Va. rape story — Three Phi Kappa Psi fraternity brothers are suing Rolling Stone magazine in New York federal court for defamation, alleging that a now-retracted December 2014 article on rape at the University of Virginia identified …

Discussion: New York Times, The Week, Hit & Run, Twitchy and Mediaite, more at Mediagazer »

Edmund DeMarche / Fox News:

Illegal immigrant ordered freed by feds now suspected of murder in Ohio — An illegal immigrant suspected of murdering one woman, wounding another and attempting to rape a 14-year-old girl was released earlier this month by Ohio sheriff's deputies after U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents told …

Discussion: WKYC-TV, The Daily Caller, Hot Air, Daily Mail and Fox News Insider

Eliza Collins / Politico:

Ted Cruz stands by calling President Obama a sponsor of terrorism — According to Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, President Barack Obama's nuclear deal with Iran is essentially financing terrorism. And he's not backing down after the president called his comments “outrageous.”

Discussion: Bloomberg Business, Polygon, Washington Post, Hot Air, The PJ Tatler, LifeNews.com and Slantpoint

Greg Hinz / Chicago Business:

Top GOP fundraiser calls on Sen. Mark Kirk to step down. Then takes it back. … One of the Illinois GOP's premiere fundraisers has called on U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk, R-Ill., to abandon his re-election race, saying it likely is unwinnable. The statement is spurring a flurry of phone calls and activity among worried Republicans.

Discussion: PoliticusUSA

Richard Fry / Pew Research Center's Social …:

More Millennials Living With Family Despite Improved Job Market — Five years into the economic recovery, things are looking up for young adults in the U.S. labor market. Unemployment is down, full-time work is up and wages have modestly rebounded. But, according to a new Pew Research Center analysis …

Discussion: New York Times, US News and Wall Street Journal