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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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Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Cruz ‘absolutely’ backs ending birthright citizenship
Cruz ‘absolutely’ backs ending birthright citizenship
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Ashley Feinberg / Gawker:
Family Values Activist Josh Duggar Had a Paid Ashley Madison Account — In 2013, conservative reality TV star Josh Duggar—of TLC's 19 Kids and Counting fame—was named the executive director of the Family Research Council, a conservative lobbying group in D.C. which seeks …
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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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Candace Amos / New York Daily News:
Rachel Dolezal 2.0? Shaun King, activist for the Black Lives Matter movement, outed as a white man — It's the second coming of Rachel Dolezal. — Shaun King, a prominent leader in the Black Lives Matter movement, may have just been outed as a white man.
George Joseph / The Intercept:
Undercover Police Have Regularly Spied On Black Lives Matter Activists in New York
Undercover Police Have Regularly Spied On Black Lives Matter Activists in New York
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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
Early Notes on the Ashley Madison Hack
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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!
There Goes the Electability Argument!
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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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Kendall Breitman / Bloomberg Business:
Hillary Clinton Aide Palmieri on E-Mail: 'She Didn't Really Think It Through' — “I've encountered this a lot in politics where people think that the answer is a lot more complicated than it really is,” the Democratic front-runner's spokeswoman says. — Hillary Clinton's communications director …
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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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Jeffrey Toobin / New Yorker:
Hillary's Problem: The Government Classifies Everything
Hillary's Problem: The Government Classifies Everything
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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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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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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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Julian Hattem / The Hill:
Clinton aides' BlackBerrys likely destroyed — State Department BlackBerry devices issued to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's aides Cheryl Mills and Huma Abedin have likely been destroyed or sold off, the department said in a court filing on Wednesday.
Peter Gosselin / Bloomberg Business:
Donald Trump Has Republican ‘Reformicons’ Worried — A group of conservative policy wonks does not like the way the GOP primary is shaping up. — As the curtain rose on this presidential election cycle, Republicans promised a deep bench of candidates and a new generation of policy proposals.
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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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LEX18.com:
Man Caught Digging Up Grave Arrested — A man admits he tried to dig up his late father's body in a Lincoln County cemetery. — Michael May is charged with violating a grave, possession of marijuana, and public intoxication. — On Monday night, Lincoln County Constable …
Mackenzie Ryan / Des Moines Register:
Iowa kid nailed by Rubio's football speaks out — The four-year-old Iowa boy in a viral video who gets bopped in the head by a football thrown by GOP presidential hopeful Marco Rubio has something to say. — “Hey Rubio,” Brody Dill says in a fresh video posted online Wednesday afternoon.
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Mark Mueller / New Jersey Online:
EXCLUSIVE: Priest admits sex with minor, says teen ‘wanted’ it — In an extraordinary admission of wrongdoing, a priest sought by authorities in New Jersey has acknowledged engaging in a sexual encounter with a 15-year-old boy, but he deflected blame for the incident by saying the teen “wanted” it and had “evil in his mind.”
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Jonathan Flipollard / The Times of Israel:
Hamas claims to nab Israeli spy dolphin — Islamist group's naval unit says it captured mammal equipped with espionage equipment, including cameras — Hamas claims to have captured a dolphin that was spying for Israel, Army Radio reported Wednesday. — The dolphin was said to have been equipped …
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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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