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Sara Jerde / Talking Points Memo:
GOP Chair Repeatedly Interrupts Planned Parenthood Head At Hearing (VIDEO) — Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) repeatedly interrupted Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards as she tried to answer his questions Tuesday in front of the House Oversight Committee.
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Christine Hauser / New York Times:
Missouri Finds Planned Parenthood Didn't Mishandle Fetal Tissue
Missouri Finds Planned Parenthood Didn't Mishandle Fetal Tissue
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Sara Jerde / Talking Points Memo:
Planned Parenthood Head Shuts Down GOP Chair Over Abortion Chart (VIDEO)
Planned Parenthood Head Shuts Down GOP Chair Over Abortion Chart (VIDEO)
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Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
Planned Parenthood Chief Takes On G.O.P. Critics at Congressional Hearing
Planned Parenthood Chief Takes On G.O.P. Critics at Congressional Hearing
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Heather / Crooks and Liars:
Carly Fiorina Doubles Down On Planned Parenthood Lies
Carly Fiorina Doubles Down On Planned Parenthood Lies
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
Cruz sternly rebuked by GOP — <p>Ted Cruz can't even get a protest vote in the Senate anymore. </p><p>On Monday night, Cruz's colleagues ignored his attempt to disrupt Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's efforts to fund the government without attacking Planned Parenthood.
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Stan Collender / Politico:
We'll Still Have a Shutdown — The speaker's resignation has merely delayed it.
We'll Still Have a Shutdown — The speaker's resignation has merely delayed it.
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Politico:
Republicans try to draft Trey Gowdy for majority leader
Republicans try to draft Trey Gowdy for majority leader
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Rachael Bade / Politico:
Chaffetz: Trey Gowdy could be next majority leader
Chaffetz: Trey Gowdy could be next majority leader
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TMZ.com:
Jim Carrey — Girlfriend Cathriona White Commits Suicide — GIRLFRIEND COMMITS SUICIDE — EXCLUSIVE — 9:43 AM PT — Jim Carrey released a statement — “I am shocked and deeply saddened by the passing of my sweet Cathriona. She was a truly kind and delicate Irish flower …
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John Santucci / ABC News:
Trump Says He's Been ‘Childish,’ Raises Possibility of Dropping Out — With summer over, so might be the “Summer of Trump” — and now the man himself appears to be accepting it might not be a kind Fall. — “This is going to be an ebb and flow, how can I continue to lead by such wide margins? …
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Mark Leibovich / New York Times:
Donald Trump Is Not Going Anywhere … don't worry about anything," Donald J. Trump told me aboard his 757 as we were flying to the recent Republican debate at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, Calif. He was dividing his attention between the brick-size slice of red-velvet cake …
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Ashley Parker / New York Times:
Donald Trump Will Appear on Fox Again After All
Donald Trump Will Appear on Fox Again After All
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Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Rand Paul super PAC goes dark — One of the three super PACs supporting the Kentucky senator's presidential bid has stopped raising money. — One of the three super PACs supporting Rand Paul's presidential campaign has stopped raising money, dealing a damaging blow to an already cash-starved campaign.
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Eliza Collins / Politico:
Sanders: I won't be as naïve as Obama was with Congress — If Bernie Sanders were president, he wouldn't be as naïve about compromise as President Barack Obama. — At least that's what the Vermont senator told David Axelrod on the former Obama adviser's first episode of his podcast “The Axe Files with David Axelrod.”
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Kurt Wagner / Re/code:
Twitter Plans to Go Beyond Its 140-Character Limit — Twitter is building a new product that will allow users to share tweets that are longer than the company's 140-character limit, according to multiple people familiar with the company's plans. — It's unclear what the product will look like …
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Mark Hemingway / Weekly Standard:
You Can't Handle the Trump! — Vox's Ezra Klein wrote a good piece of analysis Monday about how unpredictable politics has become. He notes that the four surprising political developments we've seen in the last few months—Speaker of the House John Boehner resigning from Congress …
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Eli Stokols / Politico:
Bush camp moves to ease donor angst
Bush camp moves to ease donor angst
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Ashley Parker / New York Times:
Big Donors Seek Larger Roles in Presidential Campaigns
Big Donors Seek Larger Roles in Presidential Campaigns
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Chris Tye / WKYC-TV:
Stepdad's Surprise: Stunning invite down wedding aisle — LaGrange, Ohio — Planning for wedding day joy often comes with pain, when you're the step-father of the bride. — “Every time we tried on tuxes — or did some planning — it crossed my mind that I'd be sitting in the crowd …
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The Intercept:
Edward Snowden Is On Twitter: @Snowden — Edward Snowden isn't just a hashtag anymore. The NSA whistleblower joined Twitter on Tuesday, using the @snowden Twitter handle. — Snowden, who has lived in Russia since turning over a trove of top secret documents to reporters more than two years ago …
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Alan Cole / Tax Foundation:
Details and Analysis of Donald Trump's Tax Plan — By — Key Findings: — Mr. Trump's tax plan would substantially lower individual income taxes and the corporate income tax and eliminate a number of complex features in the current tax code. — Mr. Trump's plan would cut taxes …
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Jeffrey Toobin / New Yorker:
The Pointless Cowardice of John Boehner — The mainstream reaction to the forced resignation of John Boehner as the Speaker of the House has been a kind of weary admiration. He fought the good fight against the extremists in his Republican caucus, the narrative goes, but his solid Midwestern virtues …
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Laura Wagner / NPR:
Journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates Among 2015 MacArthur ‘Genius’ Award Winners — Journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates, puppetry artist Basil Twist and neuroscientist Beth Stevens work in wholly unrelated fields, but they do have at least one thing in common. — Along with 21 others, they are winners of the 2015 …
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Maura Judkis / Washington Post:
The 2015 MacArthur ‘genius grants’ honor — and surprise — 24 fellows
The 2015 MacArthur ‘genius grants’ honor — and surprise — 24 fellows
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L. Todd Wood / Washington Times:
ISIS planning ‘nuclear tsunami’ — Nuclear annihilation across the globe. This is what a German reporter who successfully embedded with the Islamic State says the terror group is planning. Jurgen Todenhofer released his findings in a book titled “Inside IS - Ten Days in the Islamic State,” reports the UK's Daily Express.
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Randall Lane / Forbes:
Inside The Epic Fantasy That's Driven Donald Trump For 33 Years — FOR A MAN WHO HAS DRIVEN the national news cycle pretty much every day for the past four months with his disruptive presidential campaign, Donald Trump works out of an office suite that is shockingly calm.
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Jane J. Lee / National Geographic:
Exclusive Video: First “Glowing” Sea Turtle Found — Scientists diving recently near the Solomon Islands made an illuminating discovery: The first biofluorescent reptile ever recorded. — Yes, this sea turtle is glowing neon green and red. No, it's not radioactive.
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