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6:35 AM ET, August 11, 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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Joan Walsh / Salon:
So now they care about sexism?  The ugly hypocrisy of the right's reaction to Trump's Kelly slur  —  I've had righties bray I'm not marriageable and that it's my “time of the month.”  Why the Kelly mess is different  —  Congratulations, Donald Trump.  You made sure that throughout …
Discussion: Daily Kos, Hullabaloo and msnbc.com
Gabriel Sherman / New York Magazine:
Donald Trump and Roger Ailes Make Up — For Now  —  A truce to prevent Trump from potentially damaging the Fox News brand.  —  Shares  —  Until Thursday's GOP debate, Fox News Chairman Roger Ailes and Donald Trump had been executing one of the most successful examples of media synergy in recent memory.
Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Trump and Fox said to be in talks over Monday interview
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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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.
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Washington Post:
Rick Perry stops paying all of his staff as fundraising dries up  —  This post has been updated.  —  Rick Perry's presidential campaign has stopped paying all of its staff as the Republican former Texas governor's fundraising has dried up, campaign officials and other Republicans familiar with the operation said late Monday.
Discussion: Raw Story and The Week
Mytheos Holt / The Federalist:
Donald Trump Was Inevitable  —  Trumpmentum appears to be a thing.  And no one understands why.  —  I don't blame them.  On paper, Donald Trump's candidacy looks like it should be a laughingstock in any Republican primary, let alone one in a party where ideological purity still means a great deal.
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Politico:   Hillary Clinton: Donald Trump's Megyn Kelly comments ‘outrageous’ — but so are GOP policies
Matt Vespa / Townhall.com:
Liberals Are Not Happy About Schumer's Defection On Iran Deal  —  Literally, as the 2016 Republican candidates arrived on the debate stage on August 6, news broke that the presumptive successor to Sen. Harry Reid's (D-NV) leadership position in the Senate-Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY)-would be voting against the nuclear deal with Iran.
Discussion: Salon and Common Dreams
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Bradford Richardson / The Hill:
Over 160,000 sign petition criticizing Schumer over Iran
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.
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 …
Jamil Smith / The New Republic:
BlackLivesMatter Protesters Are Not the Problem  —  One year after Michael Brown's death, both liberals and conservatives are still getting it wrong  —  The activist group #BlackLivesMatter emerged out of the rage and mourning that accompanied George Zimmerman's acquittal for the murder of Trayvon Martin more than three years ago.
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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
Discussion: LifeNews.com
Politico:
Donald Trump prepares to bolster depleted staff  —  Donald Trump is ready to move on.  —  After a weekend of controversy and campaign infighting, Trump embarked on an effort to bulk up a depleted staff and to flesh out specific policy proposals.  But questions remained about how far …
Peter Whoriskey / Washington Post:
The science of skipping breakfast: How government nutritionists may have gotten it wrong  —  Researchers at a New York City hospital several years ago conducted a test of the widely accepted notion that skipping breakfast can make you fat.  —  For some nutritionists, this idea is an article of faith.
Discussion: Hot Air
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.
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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Paul Mirengoff / Power Line:
Rapist-murderer of California woman was here illegally and had recently been arrested  —  64-year-old Marilyn Pharis was sleeping in her home in Santa Maria, California on July 24 when 29-year-old Victor Aureliano Martinez Ramirez and 20-year-old Jose Villagomez broke in.
 
 
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Sarah Knapton / Telegraph:
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Eliza Collins / Politico:
Report: W.H. staffer threatens Capitol Police boyfriend with gun
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