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12:50 PM ET, July 30, 2015

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Quinnipiac University:
Release Detail  —  July 30, 2015 - Trump Tops Republican Pack By Wide Margin, Quinnipiac University National Poll Finds; But Dems Trump Trump In General Election  —  With 20 percent of Republican voters, Donald Trump is the clear leader in the crowded Republican presidential primary field …
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Niall Stanage / The Hill:
Clinton's habit of dodging key issues draws Democrats' fire  —  Could an excess of caution hurt Hillary Clinton?  —  This query is coming to the fore again after she dodged a question on Tuesday over whether she supports or opposes building the Keystone XL Pipeline.
Michael C. Bender / Bloomberg Business:
Former Marco Rubio Donors Turning to Others in Presidential Race  —  After U.S. Senator Marco Rubio decided to run for president, he asked donors to transfer their contributions from his aborted re-election campaign to his bid for the White House.  More than 260 didn't.
Discussion: Taylor Marsh
Daniel Strauss / Politico:
Kasich super PAC raises more than $11 million
Discussion: OnPolitics
Associated Press:
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.
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The Daily Beast:
Why Dems Don't Want to Talk About Planned Parenthood  —  While Republicans are celebrating Planned Parenthood's PR disaster, Hillary Clinton and the other Democratic hopefuls are scrambling to respond.  —  Over the last three weeks, Planned Parenthood has been the subject of three sting videos …
David Daleiden / The Center for Medical Progress:
Planned Parenthood VP Says Fetuses May Come Out Intact, Agrees Payments Specific to the Specimen
McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Facts in Clinton's ‘secret’ emails came from five intelligence agencies  —  Revelations put Clinton in the cross-hairs of a broadening inquiry into whether she mishandled classified information  —  Officials reviewed five classified emails and determined that they included information from five intelligence agencies
Discussion: Power Line and Hot Air
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Rachael Bade / Politico:
Judge explodes over Hillary email delays
Rachael Bade / Politico:   Hillary Clinton's former spokesman turns over 20 boxes of emails
A.B. Stoddard / The Hill:
Clinton must be joking  —  Those Clinton campaign strategists are so clever: trying to just lighten up this whole process, appeal to the young, show they get the joke and turn Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign into a late-night comedy punch line.  —  In just days, Clinton …
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Wall Street Journal:
UBS Deal Shows Clinton's Complicated Ties  —  Donations to family foundation increased after secretary of state's involvement in tax case  —  A few weeks after Hillary Clinton was sworn in as secretary of state in early 2009, she was summoned to Geneva by her Swiss counterpart to discuss an urgent matter.
Discussion: The Week, Fox News and Washington Post
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Nicholas Kristof / New York Times:
Why the Naysayers Are Wrong About the Iran Deal  —  Mike Huckabee says President Obama is using his nuclear deal to “take the Israelis and march them to the door of the oven.”  Mitt Romney describes it as a “generational calamity.”  And while polls diverge, one recently taken by CNN suggests …
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Katie Pavlich / Townhall.com:
Israel: U.S. Officials Are Withholding Major Parts And Details Of Iran Deal From Us
David Knowles / Bloomberg Business:
New Hampshire Voters Explain the Appeal of Donald Trump  —  A Bloomberg Politics focus group of Donald Trump supporters in the Granite State helps illuminate the billionaire's rise in the polls.  —  t writerknowles  —  Donald Trump is a brand, and his New Hampshire supporters are itching to buy it.
Ken Goldstein / Bloomberg Business:
Many Republican Polls Are Measuring a Unicorn Electorate  —  Recent elections around the world have not been kind to pollsters.  In contests in Israel and Britain, and in a referendum in Scotland, pre-election polls all showed tight races that ended up being, well, not so tight.
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
Yahoo Politics:
Donald Trump amuses us to death  —  All right then, let's do this.  If we have to talk about Donald Trump, because apparently the subject will not just go away on its own, then let's talk about him, even if it means going back on a vow I made 16 years ago.  —  This was back in 1999 …
Sam Fragoso / Movie Interviews : NPR:
At 79, Woody Allen Says There's Still Time To Do His Best Work  —  Woody Allen is a prolific filmmaker — he's been releasing films pretty much every year since the mid-1960s.  (His latest, Irrational Man, is now in theaters.)  But Allen isn't exactly prolific as an interview subject.
Discussion: Daily Mail and Just Jared
Cincinnati.com:
John Kasich vs. pop culture  —  Ohio Gov. John Kasich's past scrapes with pop culture are starting to resurface now that he's announced for president.  —  Among his targets: The 1996 Coen brothers movie “Fargo,” and hip-hop band “The Roots.”  In both cases, the stories were told by Kasich himself …
Discussion: Booman Tribune and Political Wire
Andy Greenberg / Wired:
Hackers Can Disable a Sniper Rifle—Or Change Its Target  —  Put a computer on a sniper rifle, and it can turn the most amateur shooter into a world-class marksman.  But add a wireless connection to that computer-aided weapon, and you may find that your smart gun suddenly seems to have a mind of its own …
Associated Press:
AP Investigation: Olympic teams to swim, boat in Rio's filth  —  24 photos  —  RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Athletes in next year's Summer Olympics here will be swimming and boating in waters so contaminated with human feces that they risk becoming violently ill and unable to compete in the games …
Alana Semuels / The Atlantic:
White Flight Never Ended  —  Nearly 50 years ago, after a string of race-related riots in cities across America, President Lyndon B. Johnson commissioned a panel of civic leaders to investigate the underlying causes of racial tension in the country.  —  The result was the Kerner Report …
 
 
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Marc Malkin / E! Online:
Salma Hayek Blasts Donald Trump For Immigration Comments: I Won't Even Say His Name
Discussion: Slantpoint and Just Jared
Forbes:
The Colossal Hoax Of Organic Agriculture
Discussion: Moonbattery and Rush Limbaugh
Jeremy Diamond / CNN:
Trump's immigration plan: Deport the undocumented, ‘legal status’ for some
David Brooks / New York Times:
The Structure of Gratitude  —  I'm sometimes grumpier when I stay at a nice hotel.
Discussion: The Atlantic
Bernie Becker / The Hill:
Citing IRS targeting, Cruz compares Obama to Nixon
Drew Altman / Wall Street Journal:
How to Think About Higher Growth in Health-Care Spending
Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
Jindal: Gun rights extend to movie theaters
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Barnett Rubin / New Yorker:
What Could Mullah Mohammad Omar's Death Mean for the Taliban Talks?
Tarini Parti / Politico:
‘Dark money’: ALEC wants image makeover
Washington Post:
Trump's presence in first GOP debate makes prep challenging for candidates
Discussion: alicublog and Bloomberg Business
Jeet Heer / The New Republic:
National Review's Bad Conscience
Olivia / Right Wing Watch:
Louie Gohmert: Gay Islanders Would Die Out, Proving Gay Marriage Is Wrong
Discussion: Towleroad
New York Post:
‘Law & Order’ director busted on child porn charges
Discussion: EW.com and Daily Mail
 

 
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Lachlan Cartwright / The Ankler:
Sources: MSNBC renewed Rachel Maddow's contract early this fall, but with a pay cut; MSNBC bosses' plan to shake up daytime and weekend programming

Caitlin Huston / The Hollywood Reporter:
Internal memo: Hearst Magazines president announces layoffs as part of a decision to “reallocate resources” to “continue our focus on digital innovation”

Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel announced she will leave the agency on January 20; she was the first woman to be confirmed to lead the agency

 
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