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Steven Shepard / Politico:
New polls suggest Rick Perry out of debate  —  It appears increasingly unlikely that Rick Perry will get a chance to atone for his disastrous 2012 debate performance — or attack his 2016 nemesis, Donald Trump — when Republicans spar for the first time Thursday in Cleveland.
Discussion: Fox News and Talking Points Memo
Dana Blanton / Fox News:
Fox News Poll: New high for Trump, new low for Clinton
Steven Shepard / Politico:
With debate looming, Trump has huge lead in new poll
Brian Beutler / The New Republic:
The Campaign Against Planned Parenthood Is Causing a Headache for Republicans  —  For two weeks now, an anti-abortion advocacy group has been disclosing footage of Planned Parenthood officials breezily discussing the medical and bureaucratic processes by which they provide aborted fetal tissue to biomedical researchers.
Discussion: Daily Kos, Slate, Hullabaloo and Forbes
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Mike DeBonis / Washington Post:
Republican effort to strip Planned Parenthood funding stalls in Senate
Tierney Sneed / Talking Points Memo:
Bobby Jindal Cuts Off Medicaid Funding to Planned Parenthoods In Louisiana
Neetzan Zimmerman / The Hill:
Harvard Lampoon tricks Trump with fake endorsement  —  Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump appears to be the latest victim in the longstanding rivalry between storied humor publication The Harvard Lampoon and its more staid alter ego, The Harvard Crimson.
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Mariel A. Klein / Harvard News:
'Poonsters Prank the Crimson—and Dupe Donald Trump
Discussion: The Week
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
The Declining Marginal Value of Crazy  —  Several days ago, perennial presidential candidate Mike Huckabee charged that President Obama was ready to lead Israeli Jews “to the ovens.”  A few days later, he said he might use not only the FBI but even the US military to prevent abortions.
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Sam Biddle / Gawker:
Call Donald Trump's Cell Phone and Ask Him About His Important Ideas  —  Last month, American reality show entertainer turned American political system entertainer Donald Trump publicized presidential rival Sen. Lindsey Graham's cell number, urging his supporters to “try it.”
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Thomas Beaumont / Associated Press:
Hackers Hit Trump Website To Post Tribute To Jon Stewart
Discussion: Mediaite
KC Downey / WMUR:
2 killed in tent collapse at Lancaster fairgrounds, initial reports say  —  Approximately 15 people injured in accident  —  Initial reports said two people were killed when a circus tent collapsed at the Lancaster fairgrounds as severe weather moved through the area Monday evening.
Discussion: Associated Press and WREG-TV
Delta News Hub:
Delta bans shipment of lion, leopard, elephant, rhino, buffalo trophies  —  Delta issued the following statement today:  —  Effective immediately, Delta will officially ban shipment of all lion, leopard, elephant, rhinoceros and buffalo trophies worldwide as freight.
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Adam H. Graham / New York Times:
After Killing of Cecil the Lion, Delta Joins Airline Ban on Game Trophies
TMZ.com:
Gwen Stefani Files For Divorce from Gavin Rossdale  —  FILES FOR DIVORCE  —  From Gavin Rossdale  —  EXCLUSIVE  —  Gwen Stefani has filed for divorce from her husband Gavin Rossdale, TMZ has learned.  —  Gwen cites irreconcilable differences in her divorce petition, which seeks to end their 13-year-marriage.
ACLU:
S.R. v. Kenton County Sheriff's Office  —  UNPUBLISHED  —  The children, an 8-year-old boy and a 9-year-old girl, were so small that the school resource officer, Kenton County Deputy Sheriff Kevin Sumner in Covington, Kentucky, locked the handcuffs around the children's biceps and forced …
David Edwards / Raw Story:
Indiana public school punishes 7-year-old with ‘banishment’ for not believing in God: lawsuit  —  DON'T MISS STORIES.  FOLLOW RAW STORY!  —  A lawsuit recently filed against a teacher at Forest Park Elementary School in Indiana alleged that a 7-year-old student was “banished” …
Shane Goldmacher / National Journal:
Scott Walker Is Paying 27.24 Percent Interest on $10,000-Plus in Credit-Card Debt  —  Newly published financial disclosures show that the presidential hopeful has some major debt.  —  Gov. Scott Walker has two credit-card debts of more than $10,000 apiece on separate cards and is paying …
Discussion: Business Insider
Philip Eliott / TIME:
Charles Koch Mocks Common Measure of Prosperity  —  Calls “monstrous” the notion that GDP values bombs as much as medicine  —  Conservative billionaire Charles Koch is predicting average American incomes of $100,000 annually in roughly a decade if government is scaled back and regulations are scrapped.
Discussion: Hit & Run and Hot Air
Coral Davenport / New York Times:
5 Questions About Obama's Climate Change Plan  —  President Obama on Monday unveiled the final version of his Clean Power Plan, a set of Environmental Protection Agency regulations that, if implemented, would represent the strongest action ever taken by the United States to combat climate change.
Discussion: The Hill, Slantpoint and New York Times
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Judy Kurtz / The Hill:
Obama planning post-presidential snoozefest  —  President Obama is revealing his first priority when he leaves the White House: sleep.  —  The commander in chief said Monday that he intends to log some major zzz's when his term ends.  —  “The first thing I'm probably going to do is catch up on my sleep …
Discussion: Political Wire
Reuters:
Special Report: State Department watered down human trafficking report  —  In the weeks leading up to a critical annual U.S. report on human trafficking that publicly shames the world's worst offenders, human rights experts at the State Department concluded that trafficking conditions hadn't improved in Malaysia and Cuba.
Discussion: Daily Kos and Slantpoint
John Cassidy / New Yorker:
Why Biden Would Be a Serious Contender  —  The Times report that Vice-President Joe Biden is seriously considering entering the 2016 Presidential race isn't exactly news.  He's been mulling such a move for at least a couple of years.  “It's as likely I run as I don't run,” Biden said on the talk show “The View” in February, 2014.
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Joanna Chadwick / Wichita Eagle:
NBC World Series suspends use of bat boys after death of Kaiser Carlile … Following the death of Kaiser Carlile, the Liberal Bee Jays' 9-year-old bat boy, the National Baseball Congress will not have bat boys or ball boys during the remainder of World Series games at Lawrence-Dumont Stadium.
Debbie Meron / CBS Los Angeles:
Huntington Park Councilman To Appoint 2 Undocumented Immigrants As Commissioners  —  HUNTINGTON PARK (CBSLA.com) — Huntington Park may become the first city in California to appoint two undocumented immigrants as commissioners on city advisory boards, a lawmaker confirms.
 
 
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