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7:25 PM ET, August 10, 2015

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Reid Wilson / Morning Consult:
Trump's Lead Grows After Debate, Controversy  —  Real estate magnate Donald Trump's lead over the Republican field grew in the several days after his performance at the first GOP presidential debate, according to a new Morning Consult survey, even after he invited a new round of scorn …
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Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Trump and Fox said to be in talks over Monday interview  —  Donald Trump and the Fox News Channel are in talks about Trump possibly appearing on Fox on Monday night, according to a source with knowledge of the talks.  —  Trump has been lambasting Fox for days, ever since he was challenged in last week's GOP debate.
Andy Sullivan / Reuters:
Exclusive: Trump's Republican support holds strong post-debate - Reuters/Ipsos poll  —  Republican support for real estate mogul Donald Trump held firm after a televised presidential debate last week in which he feuded with rivals and moderators, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Monday.
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Trump holds post-debate lead in Iowa  —  Donald Trump has a healthy lead over the field of Republican presidential candidates in Iowa, according to the first poll of voters in the Hawkeye State since the GOP debate last week.  —  A new poll from the Democratic firm Public Policy Polling …
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
Larry Page / Official Google Blog:
G is for Google  —  As Sergey and I wrote in the original founders letter 11 years ago, “Google is not a conventional company.  We do not intend to become one.”  As part of that, we also said that you could expect us to make “smaller bets in areas that might seem very speculative or even strange …
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Brian Womack / Bloomberg Business:
Google Creates New Company Called Alphabet, Restructures Stock
Discussion: Bloomberg View
Mark Berman / Washington Post:
Washington Post reporter charged with trespassing, interfering with a police officer  —  A Washington Post reporter who was arrested at a restaurant last year while reporting on protests in Ferguson, Mo., has been charged in St. Louis County with trespassing and interfering with a police officer and ordered to appear in court.
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USA Today:
Gunfire erupts in Ferguson a year after Michael Brown died
Discussion: BizPac Review and The Daily Caller
CNN:
Gunfire erupts in Ferguson on anniversary of Michael Brown's killing
Politico:
Hillary Clinton: Donald Trump's Megyn Kelly comments ‘outrageous’ — but so are GOP policies  —  Hillary Clinton thinks that Donald Trump's comments about Fox host Megyn Kelly were “outrageous” but so are Republican policies about women.  —  “I'm just going to leave my comments where they are …
Discussion: Political Wire
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John Fund / National Review:
Trump the Teenage Bully  —  He's no P. T. Barnum, he's Neidermeyer from Animal House.  —  As much as I've slammed The Donald for his inconsistent and incoherent policy views, I've always praised Trump's intelligence: “He is the P. T. Barnum of American politics, a brilliant self-promoter …
Discussion: Salon and Poynter.
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Mytheos Holt / The Federalist:
Donald Trump Was Inevitable
Discussion: Vox Popoli
Senator Rand Paul / Independent Journal Review:
Don't Fall for a Fake Conservative
Rebecca Traister / New York Magazine:
The Big Secret of Abortion: Women Already Know How It Works  —  Planned Parenthood and the truth about women’s bodies.  —  10.2k  —  Shares  —  9.9k  —  Pin It … “I gave birth to two premature kids,” said California's Barbara Boxer on the Senate floor last week …
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
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Ruben Navarrette Jr / The Daily Beast:
I Don't Know If I'm Pro-Choice Anymore After Planned Parenthood Videos  —  For the last 30 years, I've supported abortion rights.  This year may be different.  —  The only thing I hate more than talking about abortion is writing about it.  It's no accident that, in 2000 columns over a quarter century …
Discussion: LifeNews.com
Wall Street Journal:
Hillary Clinton Proposes Debt-Free Tuition at Public Colleges  —  Plan, which would cost $350 billion over 10 years, is way for Democratic front-runner to woo young voters and provides ammunition against surging Bernie Sanders  —  WASHINGTON— Hillary Clinton is proposing an expansive program aimed …
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New York Post:
Fed-up cops post pictures of vagrants online  —  A picture of a vagrant submitted to the Sergeants Benevolent Association's Flickr account.  —  NYPD cops fed up with vagrants making life miserable in the city are taking matters into their own hands — by snapping photos of quality-of-life scofflaws and posting them online.
Discussion: Daily Mail
Muna Ahmed / Emirates 24|7:
Dad lets daughter die, rather than be touched by ‘strange’ rescuer  —  Asian father stopped rescue team from saving his drowning daughter  —  A father of a 20-year-old girl let his daughter drown, stopping life guards from rescuing her.  —  He preferred that his daughter die rather …
Todd Spangler / Detroit Free Press:
Melissa Gilbert running for Congress  —  WASHINGTON - Actress Melissa Gilbert, best known for her portrayal as Laura Ingalls Wilder on NBC's “Little House on the Prairie” in the 1970s and '80s, has announced her intentions of running for Congress in Michigan's 8th District.
Discussion: OnPolitics and Eclectablog
John K. Wilson / The Academe Blog:
The Revelations in Phyllis Wise's Emails  —  What are the most important revelations in Phyllis Wise's secret personal emails that were uncovered on Friday?  —  Perhaps the key fact is that these emails existed at all.  Using a personal email address to evade FOIA requests is clearly unethical and possibly illegal.
Shane Goldmacher / National Journal:
Rick Perry Stops Paying South Carolina Staff  —  The decision suggests the former Texas governor's campaign is facing serious financial woes.  —  Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry's campaign team in South Carolina is no longer being paid by his presidential campaign, National Journal has learned.
Discussion: Political Wire and Oliver Willis
New York Times:
The Meeropol Brothers: Exonerate Our Mother, Ethel Rosenberg  —  OUR parents, Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, were executed on June 19, 1953, after being convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage.  That was the formal legal charge, but in the public's mind they were executed for providing our archenemy …
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
Bradford Richardson / The Hill:
Over 160,000 sign petition criticizing Schumer over Iran  —  Over 160,000 people have signed a petition from a progressive organization denouncing Sen. Charles Schumer's (D-N.Y.) opposition to the Iran nuclear agreement.  —  “New York Senator Chuck Schumer just publicly declared that he will vote …
 
 
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Jeff Mapes / Oregonian:
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