memeorandum: Poll: Clinton losing ground to Sanders (Nick Gass/Politico)

4:30 PM ET, August 19, 2015

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Cory Bennett / The Hill:

15,000 government emails revealed in Ashley Madison leak — Thousands of clients using the affair-oriented Ashley Madison website listed email addresses registered to the White House, top federal agencies and military branches, a data dump by hackers revealed.

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John Herrman / The Awl:

Early Notes on the Ashley Madison Hack — 1. A data dump, which allegedly contains over 35 million email addresses, 33 million accounts with more detailed information (names and addresses), and every credit card transaction from the last seven years, is reported to have been posted online.

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Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security:
Was the Ashley Madison Database Leaked?

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Lahav Harkov / Jerusalem Post:
Polygamist MK Abu Arrar found on hacked infidelity website Ashley Madison's membership roll

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Steve Ragan / CSO:
Ashley Madison hackers publish compromised records

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Anthony Macri / Ashley Madison Media: Statement from Avid Life Media Inc. - August 18, 2015

CNN:

CNN/ORC Poll: Donald Trump now competitive in general election — Washington (CNN)Since announcing his campaign in late June, Donald Trump has quickly leapt to the top of the Republican field, leading recent polls nationally, in Iowa and in New Hampshire. And now, for the first time in CNN/ORC polling …

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Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly:

There Goes the Electability Argument! — Gage Skidmore/Wikimedia Commons (right) — One of my working hypotheses this year is the possibility that partisan polarization has made a hash of traditional “electability” arguments for this or that “moderate” presidential candidate for the simple reason …

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Nick Gass / Politico:
Poll: Clinton losing ground to Sanders

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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:

Act Two of the Trump Epic — We've gone far enough now with the Trump political phenomenon to know that it is no mere or momentary matter of name recognition which has placed him as the top contender for the Republican nomination, as bizarre an eventuality as that might appear.

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Edward J. Erler / National Review:

Trump's Critics Are Wrong about the Fourteenth Amendment and Birthright Citizenship — Donald Trump continues to bewilder political experts. He unabashedly wades into politically dangerous territory and yet continues to be rewarded by favorable poll results.

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Nick Gass / Politico:
Trump to O'Reilly: The 14th Amendment is unconstitutional

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Janice Min / Hollywood Reporter:

The Donald Trump Conversation: Murdoch, Ailes, NBC and the Rush of Being TV's “Ratings Machine” — In his first magazine cover interview and photo shoot as the leading Republican, the reality TV presidential candidate lets loose on Hillary's email scandal ("Watergate on steroids"), Bill Cosby …

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Catherine Herridge / Fox News:

Classified emails from Clinton aides kick-started FBI probe, candidate downplays controversy — EXCLUSIVE: An email from a top Clinton adviser containing classified military intelligence information, and one from a top aide containing classified information about the Benghazi terror attack …

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Annie Karni / Politico:

Allies fault Hillary Clinton's response on emails — She's too legalistic and fails to grasp the need for a broader political strategy, they say. — LAS VEGAS — As Hillary Clinton faces a new round of questions about her email use as secretary of state, some longtime allies …

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Jeffrey Toobin / New Yorker:
Hillary's Problem: The Government Classifies Everything

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George Jahn / Associated Press:

AP Exclusive: UN to let Iran inspect alleged nuke work site — 1 photo — VIENNA (AP) — Iran, in an unusual arrangement, will be allowed to use its own experts to inspect a site it allegedly used to develop nuclear arms under a secret agreement with the U.N. agency that normally carries out such work …

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Robert Menendez / New York Post:
My proposal for a better Iran deal

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Steven Ertelt / LifeNews.com:

7th Shocking Video Catches Planned Parenthood Harvesting Brain of Aborted Baby Who Was Still Alive — The organization that has released six videos exposing the scandal of Planned Parenthood selling aborted babies and their body parts has released a new undercover video today with another shocking discovery.

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David Daleiden / The Center for Medical Progress:
Human Capital - Episode 3: Planned Parenthood's Custom Abortions for Superior Product

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Emily Stephenson / Reuters:
Americans back federal funds to Planned Parenthood for health services: poll

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Peter Beaumont / Guardian:

Mike Huckabee blunders his way through Israel press conference — Republican presidential candidate calls Russia ‘the Soviet Union’ and implies that the West Bank borders a hostile state rather than Jordan — Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee delivered a confused …

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Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Hillary Clinton Takes On Civil Rights Generation Gap

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Eric Bradner / CNN:
Huckabee: MLK would be ‘appalled’ by Black Lives Matter movement

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Yvonne Craig News:

A Word from Yvonne Craig's Family — For those who have known her personally, you already know what a down to earth, most exceptional person she was, so I'm sure you can understand this loss has touched all of our lives. — Yvonne was a very private person, so from the onset of her battle with cancer …

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Yvonne Craig News:
YVONNE CRAIG'S OFFICIAL OBITUARY

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Milo Yiannopoulos / BREITBART.COM:

Did Black Lives Matter Organizer Shaun King Mislead Oprah Winfrey By Pretending To Be Biracial? — An investigative blogger has accused Shaun King, a key figure in the Black Lives Matter movement, of misleading media icon Oprah Winfrey by pretending to be biracial in order to qualify for an …

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Jamie Blynn / Us Weekly:

Megan Fox and Brian Austin Green Split: Couple Has Separated After 11 Years Together — Megan Fox and Brian Austin Green are going forward as solo acts. After 11 years together, five of them as a married couple, “Megan has separated from Brian,” an insider reveals exclusively in the new issue of Us Weekly.

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Tony Raap / Greensburg Tribune-Review:

Fayette County house from ‘The Silence of the Lambs’ up for sale — Home for sale, dungeon not included. — The owners of a Fayette County house that appeared in the 1991 thriller “The Silence of the Lambs” are looking to sell. — Scott and Barbara Lloyd's three-story Victorian near Perryopolis …

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Leon H. Wolf / Washington Post:

BlackLivesMatter is wasting its time with Democrats — The movement would be better off if it engaged with Republican candidates. — As a conservative who has advocated for criminal justice reform, I have a lot of admiration for the #BlackLivesMatter movement, which has been remarkably effective …

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Access Hollywood:

Heidi Klum On Trump Comment: ‘In My Book, Every Woman Is A 10’ — Heidi Klum isn't clear about why Presidential candidate Donald Trump chose to mention her in a recent interview. — “Personally, I have no idea what I have to do with the election,” Heidi told Access Hollywood guest …