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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 — Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) said Wednesday that he “absolutely” supports ending birthright citizenship, suggesting that has been his position for years. — “Absolutely. We should end granting automatic birthright citizenship to the children …
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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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Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security:
Was the Ashley Madison Database Leaked?
Was the Ashley Madison Database Leaked?
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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! — 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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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.
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Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Hillary Clinton Takes On Civil Rights Generation Gap
Hillary Clinton Takes On Civil Rights Generation Gap
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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 …
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
Allies fault Hillary Clinton's response on emails
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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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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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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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Emily Stephenson / Reuters:
Americans back federal funds to Planned Parenthood for health services: poll
Americans back federal funds to Planned Parenthood for health services: poll
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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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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
YVONNE CRAIG'S OFFICIAL OBITUARY
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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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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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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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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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