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Jonathan Allen / Reuters:
Exclusive: Dozens of Clinton emails were classified from the start, U.S. rules suggest — For months, the U.S. State Department has stood behind its former boss Hillary Clinton as she has repeatedly said she did not send or receive classified information on her unsecured, private email account, a practice the government forbids.
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
A View From the Clinton Scandal Nonsense Mill — There's no question that the Clinton email ‘scandal’ has become a major issue for Hillary Clinton's campaign. Not that it should necessarily but it has. It's the focus of negative press stories that appear clearly to have at least helped pull down her favorability numbers nationwide.
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New York Times and The Daily Caller
Katie Glueck / Politico:
GOP insiders to Trump: Enough already — Seven out of 10 early-state Republicans want the Donald to move on from his immigration plan and his tough talk about ending birthright citizenship. — Politico Illustration—Getty — Donald Trump may have the whole Republican field talking about immigration …
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Jay Bookman and Daily Kos
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John Harwood / CNBC:
Scott Walker talks birthright citizenship — Walker: ‘no position’ on birthright citizenship — Gov. Scott Walker ducks on Trump's call for ending birthright citizenship — MANCHESTER, N.H.—Days after seeming to echo Donald Trump's call for ending birthright citizenship …
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Talking Points Memo, Daily Kos, AMERICAblog News and ThinkProgress
Washington Post:
Inside the GOP field's new strategies to ride out the Trump tornado … The 2016 Republican primary has turned into a puzzle about how to deal with Donald Trump. — The new dynamic has come into focus this week as Trump's opponents debut strategies for engaging the white-hot front-runner whom they believe …
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National Review, Daily Kos, Booman Tribune, Politico and Los Angeles Times
Nick Gass / Politico:
Trump calls O'Malley a ‘disgusting, little, weak, pathetic baby’
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Business Insider
ABC News:
Ellen Page Confronts Ted Cruz on Gay Rights at Iowa State Fair — While Sen. Ted Cruz was grilling pork chops at the Iowa State Fair today, actress Ellen Page, wearing a hat and sunglasses, snuck her way up to the grill and asked the GOP presidential candidate about “the persecution of gays in the workplace and LGBT rights.”
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OnPolitics, Business Insider and The Week
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Katie Glueck / Politico:
Cruz: Jeb is ‘confused’ about my citizenship
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ABC News and PoliticusUSA
Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
Trump Goes Off At ABC Reporter Over Questions On Term ‘Anchor Babies’ — Donald Trump lashed out at ABC reporter Tom Llamas on Thursday after the network aired segments critical of the presidential candidate's use of the term “anchor babies” to describe the children of undocumented immigrants.
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Outside the Beltway, Hot Air, The Hill and ABC News
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Gwyneth Kelly / New Republic:
Why “Anchor Baby” Is Offensive—and a Distortion of Truth
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ThinkProgress, Guardian, Washington Monthly, Talking Points Memo, CBS News, BREITBART.COM and Washington Post
Congressman Jerrold Nadler / Medium:
P5+1 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action — This September, we will face one of the most serious global security decisions in our history. It is a decision that I have taken my time to consider, knowing the stakes are too high to allow for anything but clear-headed and thoughtful analysis …
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Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Daily Kos, CBS New York and Jewish Telegraphic Agency
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Jesse Byrnes / The Hill:
Poll: Majority want Congress to reject Iran nuclear deal
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JustOneMinute, The Week, Outside the Beltway and The Daily Signal
Jonathan Weisman / New York Times:
In Letter, Obama Tells Congress U.S. Will Still Press Iran
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Reuters, The Atlantic, Washington Post, Defense One, Jewish Telegraphic Agency and The Week
Christine Byers / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Man killed by St. Louis police died from gunshot in the back — ST. LOUIS • An autopsy on Mansur Ball-Bey, whose death from police gunfire this week stirred protests, showed that he died from a single wound in the back, police officials said. — Chief Sam Dotson said the wound's …
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Guardian, Daily Mail, Slantpoint and FOX2now.com
Cory Bennett / The Hill:
Hundreds of feds paid for Ashley Madison memberships at work — Hundreds of government workers accessed and paid membership fees for the affair-focused website Ashley Madison using their federal Internet connection, The Associated Press reports. — The officials included several assistant U.S. attorneys …
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Krebs on Security, Balloon Juice, Associated Press and BizPac Review
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Caitlin Cruz / Talking Points Memo:
Louisiana GOPer: I Used Ashley Madison For ‘Opposition Research’
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AMERICAblog News, Washington Post, Politico and The Week
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Debt Is Good — Rand Paul said something funny the other day. No, really — although of course it wasn't intentional. On his Twitter account he decried the irresponsibility of American fiscal policy, declaring, “The last time the United States was debt free was 1835.”
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Washington Monthly and The Mahablog
Joe Coscarelli / New York Times:
Dr. Dre Apologizes to the 'Women I've Hurt' — For Dr. Dre, the self-proclaimed “first billionaire in hip-hop,” the movie “Straight Outta Compton” and its quasi-soundtrack, “Compton,” his first album in 16 years, were meant to be a victory lap. That biopic, about his hip-hop group, N.W.A. …
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The Verge, Washington Post, Mashable, Medium, TMZ.com, Daily Mail, UPROXX, LAist and Guardian
Faith Karimi / CNN:
Search warrant served at home of Kiss bassist Gene Simmons — (CNN)A search warrant was served at the Los Angeles home of Kiss bassist Gene Simmons, but the rocker and his family are not considered suspects, authorities said. — The division that handles online crimes against children executed …
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NBC News, LAist, Mediaite, BizPac Review and UPROXX
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David Roberts / Vox:
Carly Fiorina did a 4-minute riff on climate change. Everything she said was wrong. — Katie Couric recently interviewed Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina, and the subject of climate change came up. They discussed it for over four minutes, likely marking the longest …
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Washington Monthly
Billy Hallowell / TheBlaze.com:
Bakers Who Were Fined $135,000 for Gay Wedding Cake Refusal Deliver a Major Surprise — and a Powerful Message — to 10 Gay Rights Groups — Aaron and Melissa Klein, the owners of Sweetcakes by Melissa, were ordered by Oregon state officials last month to pay $135,000 in damages after they declined …
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John Hawkins' Right Wing News and Red Alert Politics
Ben Domenech / The Federalist:
Are Republicans For Freedom Or White Identity Politics? — Now that we have had time to observe the Donald Trump phenomenon, there is enough evidence to make a clear assessment of what it represents. The rise of Trump is an epic expression of frustration with the American political system …
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Boston Magazine, Hit & Run and Fox News
Matthew Holehouse / Telegraph:
Slovakia refuses to accept Muslim migrants — Country will refuse entry to Muslims among quota of 200 migrants, on grounds that country has “no mosques”, as German mayor threatens to seize private homes to house asylum seekers — Slovakia has said it will not accept any Muslims under …
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Vox Popoli
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