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9:40 PM ET, July 29, 2015

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In one-on-one interview, Clinton talks issues, calls Planned Parenthood videos ‘disturbing’ — New Hampshire Union Leader — Calling them “disturbing,” Hillary Clinton said undercover videos showing Planned Parenthood officials discussing the sale of aborted fetal tissue raise questions about the process nationwide.

Greg Sargent / Washington Post:

Morning Plum: The GOP Congress is set to run off the rails. That could help Hillary Clinton. — Hillary Clinton has signaled that she hopes to run for president in part by painting the GOP-controlled Congress — and, by extension, the Republican Party — as a divisive, destructive, hidebound, reactionary force.

Discussion: Politico, Washington Examiner and Fox News

Associated Press:

Court bars anti-abortion group from releasing new videos — 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: RedState, Associated Press, The Center for Medical … and ABC News

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

Discussion: LifeNews.com, The Gateway Pundit, ThinkProgress, Wizbang, abc13.com, WBAY-TV, Mediaite, John Hawkins' Right Wing News, Washington Free Beacon, Guardian and Refinery29

CNN:
Third Planned Parenthood video released as Senate Republicans seek to end funding

Discussion: Refinery29, Common Dreams, John Hawkins' Right Wing News, Washington Free Beacon and Politico

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

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

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 and Washington Post

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

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: CNN, TPNN, CBS News, Twitchy, Joe. My. God., The PJ Tatler and PoliticusUSA

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, Heavy.com, The Daily Banter, Pharyngula, ThinkProgress, The Mahablog, Vox, Common Dreams, Guardian, Mashable, Addicting Info and Telegraph

Richard Pérez-Peña / New York Times:

University of Cincinnati Officer Indicted in Fatal Shooting of Driver — A University of Cincinnati police officer was indicted Wednesday on a murder charge in what a prosecutor called “a senseless, asinine shooting” during a minor traffic stop. It was the first time such a charge had been leveled against an officer in the city.

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

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, Vocativ, Common Dreams, Refinery29 and Raw Story

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

Discussion: Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion and Hot Air

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, Hot Air, Daily Kos, Sun-Times National and Washington Free Beacon

Politico:
Longtime congressman Chaka Fattah indicted

Discussion: The PJ Tatler

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

Judy Kurtz / The Hill:
Hillary's haircut: $600? — Hillary Clinton reportedly went …

Discussion: Page Six, Daily Kos and Washington Free Beacon

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: “The Lid”, The Daily Caller, National Review, The PJ Tatler, Instapundit and The Iowa Republican

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

Discussion: Rush Limbaugh

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

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 …

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

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

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 …

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

Tom Brady / Facebook:

I am very disappointed by the NFL's decision to uphold the 4 game suspension against me. I did nothing wrong, and no one in the Patriots organization did either. — Despite submitting to hours of testimony over the past 6 months, it is disappointing that the Commissioner upheld …

Discussion: JustOneMinute, New York Times, Guardian, ABC News, CBS Boston, Mediaite, Bloomberg View, NBC News, WBUR, Mashable, Taylor Marsh, USA Today, The Right Scoop, abc13.com, The Daily Caller, ESPN, ProFootballTalk, Associated Press and Slantpoint

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

Politico:

The Kochs freeze out Donald Trump — Continued stiff-arming by the powerful Koch network could limit Trump's ability to build a professional campaign operation. — The Koch brothers are freezing out Donald Trump from their influential political operation — denying him access to their state …

Discussion: The Right Scoop, Daily Kos and Hullabaloo

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: Daily Mail and Hot Air

Washington Post:

State Department official charged with spying on D.C. women in their homes — A senior State Department official facing charges of soliciting a juvenile for sex in Fairfax County was arrested in the District on Sunday and charged with taking videos of women through the windows of their homes, according to authorities.

Discussion: abc13.com