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12:45 PM ET, August 18, 2015

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CNN:
Post-debate, Trump pulls clear of competition  —  Washington (CNN)Donald Trump has won his party's trust on top issues more than any other Republican presidential candidate, and now stands as the clear leader in the race for the GOP nomination, according to a new CNN/ORC poll.
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New York Times:
I Am Republican, Hear Me Roar  —  To hear most of the Republican candidates tell it, all an American president has to do is talk tough, make demands, send more troops overseas, pour billions more dollars into the Pentagon and the world will fall in line.  The notion they're peddling boils down to this …
Ed O'Keefe / Washington Post:
Jeb Bush on Donald Trump's immigration ideas: ‘A plan needs to be grounded in reality’  —  COLUMBIA, S.C. — Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush on Monday night dismissed as impractical Donald Trump's proposals to erect a U.S.-Mexico border wall, use remittances to pay for its construction and to revoke birthright citizenship.
Matt Latimer / Politico:
Hillary Clinton is rooting for Jeb Bush
Discussion: Political Wire, Salon and Fox News
Daily Mail:
Hillary Clinton's email firm Platte River Networks was run from a loft in Denver  — Democrat White House front runner used Platte River Networks of Denver, Colorado, to maintain her controversial ‘home brew’ server  — Up to 60 emails with classified material have been found in a sample …
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John Hinderaker / Power Line:
CNN Forgets to Mention Op-Ed Writer Is a Million Dollar Bundler For Hillary
Discussion: CNN
Sen. Marco Rubio / Politico:
My plan to fix health care  —  To help more of our people achieve the American Dream, we need to make affordable, quality healthcare accessible in the 21st century.  Unfortunately, President Barack Obama's one-size-fits-all, big government approach has failed to achieve this goal.
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Politico:
Scott Walker gets out front with Obamacare replacement plan  —  He is seeking to differentiate himself from rivals on the subject.  —  The Republican presidential contenders all claim they want to repeal Obamacare, but later Tuesday, Scott Walker will become the first top-tier candidate …
magazine.good.is:
Hillary Clinton to #BlackLivesMatter in Video, “I Don't Believe You Change Hearts...”  —  “...you change laws, you change allocation of resources, you change the way systems operate.”  by Gabriel Reilich  —  As recently reported by various news outlets, Hillary Clinton held a closed-door session …
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Jim Swift / Weekly Standard:
Hillary Rolls Eyes, Lectures #BlackLivesMatter Activists  —  Hillary Clinton, who is routinely criticized for her lack of public availability, granted a private meeting on August 11 to activists from the group #BlackLivesMatter — a movement across the country well-known for its controversial methods of generating publicity.
Discussion: Power Line
Emily Smith / Page Six:
Chris Cuomo saves drowning man in Hamptons  —  CNN anchor Chris Cuomo rescued a drowning man who had been swept away by a fierce rip current while boating in the Hamptons.  —  The “New Day” anchor and brother of New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo spotted the older man being carried …
Politico:
Fox's Luntz blasted Trump at Koch seminar  —  In a fresh exchange of accusations, Donald Trump says Fox should fire its focus-group moderator.  —  Donald Trump's feud with GOP pollster Frank Luntz escalated Monday - with Trump calling on Fox News to fire Luntz from overseeing its post-debate focus groups …
Gabrielle Russon / Orlando Sentinel:
UCF fraternity member who chants ‘rape’ in video is suspect in sex assault  —  A UCF fraternity brother identified as chanting “rape” in a video recorded in June is the same man accused of sexual assaulting a woman at the fraternity's off-campus apartments last year, according to the victim's complaint released by the university.
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Hillary Clinton's Inevitable Problems  —  With so many candidates and so long to go until next November, we're going to make plenty of bad predictions over the course of the 2016 campaign.  But one of our very first predictions about 2016, one we made almost three years ago, has already proven true.
Andrew Ross Sorkin / New York Times:
Carly Fiorina's Business Record: Not So Sterling  —  “I come from a world outside of politics, where track records and accomplishments count.”  —  Those were the words of Carly Fiorina, a Republican candidate for president, earlier this year.  Readers of the business pages know her as the former chief executive of Hewlett-Packard.
Oliver Darcy / TheBlaze.com:
Congress Sends Letter Requesting These Seven Things From Planned Parenthood — Make Note of Last One  —  The House Oversight Committee on Friday penned a letter to Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards requesting seven documents or pieces of information be handed over by next week.
David A. Fahrenthold / Washington Post:
20 times Donald Trump has changed his mind since June  —  Donald Trump, the Republican presidential front-runner, has done a lot of things no other GOP candidate this year would dare try: pick a fight with Fox News.  Bad-mouth prisoners of war.  Wear Palm Beach casual-wear to the Iowa State Fair.
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Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
Donald Trump on ‘Meet the Press,’ annotated
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon / Foreign Policy:
Meet the First Class of Women to Graduate From Army Ranger School  —  Two women have crossed rivers, scaled walls, and jumped over a gender barrier to make it through the U.S. Army's toughest training program.  —  EGLIN AIR FORCE BASE — Under the baking hot early August sun …
Discussion: The Atlantic and Politico
Elana Schor / Politico:
Greens decry Obama's Shell game  —  “The president cannot have it both ways,” Greenpeace says after the company wins an Arctic drilling permit.  —  President Barack Obama crushed greens' hearts Monday by giving Shell the final go-ahead to drill for oil in Alaska's Arctic waters …
Discussion: ABC News and Washington Post
New York Times:
Inmate's Death Follows Reports of Abuse at a New York State Prison  —  On the evening of April 21 in Building 21 at the Fishkill Correctional Facility, Samuel Harrell, an inmate with a history of erratic behavior linked to bipolar disorder, packed his bags and announced he was going home …
Discussion: Raw Story and The Week
KBSL-TV:
Wichita Police respond to explosive device at South Wind Women's Clinic  —  John Boyd, Web Content Producer, jboyd@kwch.com  —  Wichita Police are investigating after a report of an improvised explosive device at a woman's clinic.  —  Police were called to the South Wind Women's Center on E. Kellogg at around 3:30 Monday afternoon.
Discussion: CBS News, KSNG-TV and Raw Story
 
 
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