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11:35 AM ET, July 26, 2016

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Louis Nelson / Politico:

Booker responds to Trump: ‘I love you’ — Sen. Cory Booker has a message for Donald Trump: “I love you, I just don't want you to be my president.” — The New Jersey senator delivered an energetic, well-received speech Monday on the opening night of the Democratic National Convention …

Discussion: ABC News and Outside the Beltway

Politico:

Full text: Bernie Sanders' DNC speech — Remarks as prepared for delivery: — Good evening. — How great it is to be with you tonight. — Let me begin by thanking the hundreds of thousands of Americans who actively participated in our campaign as volunteers.

Discussion: Vox, RedState, Washington Post, USA Today, TheStreet.com, Shadowproof, Politicus USA, Hot Air, Guardian, Campaign for America's Future, The Stranger …, ABC News, Washington Free Beacon, Billy Penn, New York Times and The Week

Ron Fournier / The Atlantic:

All Hell Breaks Loose at the Democratic Convention — Hillary Clinton, her advisers, and their allies at the Democratic National Committee watched Donald Trump's nominating convention in Cleveland with smug satisfaction. — Team Trump had insulted Ohio's governor …

Discussion: JustOneMinute and The Daily Caller

Oliver Darcy / Business Insider:

‘We trusted you!’: Elizabeth Warren repeatedly heckled, booed during DNC speech — Sen. Elizabeth Warren was repeatedly heckled Monday night as she delivered a speech endorsing Hillary Clinton at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia. — “We trusted you!

Bernie Sanders / Politifact.com Truth-O-Meter rulings …:

Republican National Committee - RNC is right that no Democratic speaker mentioned ISIS on convention's first night — RNC is right that no Democratic speaker mentioned ISIS on convention's first night — Night one of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia had barely ended …

Discussion: Washington Post, The Week, The Daily Caller, Daily Wire and Fox News

Tyler Pager / Politico:
Politifact: Democrats never mentioned terrorism on Day One of DNC

Discussion: Jihad Watch

Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
It looks like a mess, but the Democratic Party is more unified than it seems

Discussion: No More Mister Nice Blog, New York Magazine, National Review, The Stranger …, Politicus USA and Pew Research Center

Arit John / Bloomberg:
Sanders Outlines a Plan to Help Clinton, Fundraising Not Included

Discussion: Talking Points Memo

Ines de la Cuetara / ABC News:
Mike Pence Criticizes Democrats for Not Naming ISIS at the Democratic National Convention

Discussion: Politico and Associated Press

Ed O'Keefe / Washington Post: Democratic National Convention: Supporters hope to reintroduce Clinton to skeptical voters

Associated Press:
AP EXPLAINS: Is Trump's Convention Polling Bump for Real?

Discussion: ABC News and Politico

Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
The neat political trick that Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders played on Monday night

Discussion: Daily Kos, The Mahablog and Power Line

Dana Houle / New Republic:
No, the DNC Didn't Rig the Primary in Favor of Hillary

Discussion: TIME, The Daily Caller, Washington Post, Daily Kos, Hot Air, War on the Rocks, Christian Science Monitor, Your News Wire, Salon, The San Diego Union …, Vox and Lawyers, Guns & Money, more at Mediagazer »

Michael Goodwin / New York Post:
DNC disarray is the foreshadowing of a Clinton administration

Discussion: Guardian, Democracy Now, Common Dreams, ABC News and Sun-Sentinel

Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Clinton leaves Democrats' liberal wing high and dry

Discussion: Power Line and Booman Tribune

Tom Hamburger / Washington Post:
The anxiety for Democrats: Are more leaks to come?

Discussion: The Crime Report, Talking Points Memo, Politico, Associated Press, Business Insider, Common Dreams, John Hawkins' Right Wing News and The Verge

Alana Abramson / ABC News:
The 4 Most Damaging Emails From the DNC WikiLeaks Dump

Discussion: Politico, Associated Press, Media Matters for America, The Crime Report, VDARE, Slate, Hit & Run, rubber hose, Guardian and Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion

David Weigel / Washington Post:
Sanders struggles to hand his ‘revolution’ to Clinton

Discussion: Politico, ABC News, RedState and Rewire

Julia Ioffe / Politico:
Why Putin hates Hillary

Discussion: Politicus USA

BBC:

France church attack: Priest killed in hostage-taking near Rouen — A priest has been killed in an attack by two armed men at his church in a suburb of Rouen in northern France. — The attackers entered the church in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray during Mass, taking the priest, Fr Jacques Hamel, 84, and four other people hostage.

Discussion: The Atlantic, alan.com, Hot Air, The Week, Independent Journal Review and The American Spectator

Daily Mail:

KILLING IS LATEST IN SPATE OF BLOODY ATTACKS ACROSS EUROPE … A number of shots were heard over a period of around 15 seconds as the incident came to an end. — Eulalie Garcia, who works in a beauty parlour, is on the same road as the church, and told reporters that she knew the priest …

Discussion: Pamela Geller, Jihad Watch, The Resurgent, CatholicHerald.co.uk, neo-neocon, The Gateway Pundit, DennisMichaelLynch.com, New York Times and Jammie Wearing Fools

Daily Mail:

Revealed: ISIS butcher, 19, who murdered a priest was a convicted French terrorist who had an electronic tag - but it let him roam FREE in the mornings — One of the two ISIS knifemen who stormed a church to behead a French priest was a convicted terrorist and was meant to be living with his parents with an electronic tag.

Discussion: The Jawa Report

CNN:
Priest killed and hostage seriously wounded in attack on church in France

Discussion: Guardian, The Local, Fox News, Reuters, Pamela Geller, John Hawkins' Right Wing News and Moonbattery

David Chazan / Telegraph:
Live Normandy siege: knifemen 'shouted Daesh and slit 86-year-old priest's throat' after taking …

Discussion: Walid Shoebat and Jihad Watch

New York Times:
Attack on Church in France Kills Priest, and ISIS Is Blamed

Discussion: Defense One, Religion News Service, Instapundit and NBC News

Tom Batchelor / Daily Express: Normandy church terror: ISIS knifemen slit throat of priest, 84, and take nuns hostage

DennisMichaelLynch.com:

DNC BREAKS FEDERAL LAW AT CONVENTION: VIOLATION OF SECTION 8 U.S. Code § 1324 — The DNC aided and abetted two illegal aliens on Monday night during the nationally televised DNC Convention 2016 in Philadelphia. Thus, according to the law, the DNC twice violated Section 8 U.S. Code 1324.

Discussion: Liberty Unyielding, Hot Air and Silence is Consent

Michelle Garcia / Vox:
Michelle Obama DNC speech transcript: read the speech Democrats loved so much

Discussion: Washington Monthly, The Atlantic, TIME, Vanity Fair and Grist

Yoni Appelbaum / The Atlantic:
Michelle Obama's Speech for the Ages

Discussion: ABC News

John Amato / Latest from Crooks and Liars:

Sarah Silverman Brings Down The House! ' You're Being Ridiculous' — So far the star of the first night of the 2016 DNC Convention in Philly is comedian Sarah Silverman. — As a Bernie supporter, Sarah Silverman said she “felt the Bern” and had a powerful message about the inspiration Sanders brought …

Discussion: alan.com

Dan Spinelli / Politico:
Sarah Silverman heckles Sanders supporters: 'You're being ridiculous'

Discussion: Taylor Marsh, ABC News and Washington Post

Allegra Kirkland / Talking Points Memo:

Utah Pol Bolts GOP After RNC: Party's Direction ‘Makes Me Want To Cry’ — A Utah state senator announced that he was leaving the GOP in despair after attending the Republican National Committee last week. — Sen. Mark Madsen (R-UT) said Monday that his experience as a Utah delegate confirmed …

The Salt Lake / Salt Lake Tribune:
Utah state senator bolts Republican Party for Libertarian camp

Discussion: The Week and Raw Story

Megan McArdle / Bloomberg:

Democratic Machine Chose Clinton Long Ago. But Why? — “If Trump wins (or comes close),” writes my friend Tim Lee, “liberals are going to need a better answer than writing half the electorate off as racist.” — As the Democratic National Convention lurches off to a chaotic start …

Discussion: Power Line, Salon and FiveThirtyEight

Philip Bump / Washington Post:

The creator of the viral pro-Trump act ‘USA Freedom Kids’ now plans to sue the campaign — Within hours of their performance at a Donald Trump rally in Pensacola, Fla. Last January, the U.S.A. Freedom Kids were a sensation. — You remember the video: Three pre-teen girls …

Discussion: Raw Story and Guardian

Shawn McCoy / InsideSources:

Ayotte Leads Hassan in InsideSources/NH Journal Poll — Trump Takes 9-Point Lead Over Clinton in Granite State — An InsideSources/NH Journal poll finds that incumbent U.S. Sen. Kelly Ayotte is gaining momentum in her race against New Hampshire Gov. Maggie Hassan.

Discussion: The Gateway Pundit

Brett T. / twitchy.com:

Media too burned out on Nazi salutes to notice Elizabeth Warren's at DNC — Radio host and cable news commentator Laura Ingraham spoke at the Republican National Convention, but no one's sure what she said, since most people were too busy forwarding a still frame in which she appeared to be giving a Nazi salute.

Jake Sherman / Politico:

Grayson's ex-wife claimed domestic abuse over two decades — Rep. Alan Grayson's ex-wife repeatedly went to police with accusations of domestic abuse over a two-decade period, according to documents she has provided to POLITICO, revelations that come as the Florida congressman enters …

Discussion: The Daily Caller

Alexander Bolton / The Hill:

Dem Senate nominee calls Toomey an ‘a—hole’ — Democratic Senate nominee Katie McGinty got into some hot water Monday when she called her rival, Sen. Pat Toomey, an “a**hole.” — It was a shocking comment given the decorous attitude Senate candidates usually try to adopt.

Discussion: Philly.com and alan.com