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11:50 AM ET, July 27, 2016

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Peter Beinart / The Atlantic:
Bill Clinton's Lapse Into Trumpism  —  I love Bill Clinton.  But I didn't love his speech Tuesday night in Philadelphia.  Given the job of humanizing his wife, he came across as genuinely smitten.  But he failed to do what he's done in every convention speech he's delivered since 1992 …
Discussion: JustOneMinute
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Annie Karni / Politico:
Clinton friend McAuliffe says Clinton will flip on TPP, then walks it back  —  PHILADELPHIA — Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe, longtime best friend to the Clintons, said Tuesday that he believes Hillary Clinton will support the TPP trade deal if elected president, with some tweaks.
Ron Fournier / The Atlantic:
Bill Clinton Gets It Right  —  Just before Bill Clinton strode onstage to be his wife's character witness, his wife's convention planners played a video tribute to him.  “When he said stuff, you believed it,” a man dressed in union gear said of Bill Clinton, “because you lived it.”
Michael Goodwin / New York Post:
Bill's desperate bid to humanize Hillary shows fear she might lose
Dominic Holden / BuzzFeed:
Spokesperson For Pro-Sanders Walkout Group Compares Protest To March On Washington
Discussion: The Week
Anne Gearan / Washington Post:
Clinton friend McAuliffe suggests she could flip back to supporting TPP; Clinton friend Podesta says he's wrong
Discussion: Politico
ABC News:
Meet the New Hillary Clinton, Different From the Old One?
Discussion: Politico and Associated Press
Associated Press:
The Latest: Clinton Worked on Kids' Issues Before Law Firm
Discussion: Politico, ABC News and Washington Post
CBS Miami:
CBS4 News Exclusive: Trump Denies Ties To Russia  —  DORAL - In his most extensive remarks on allegations that Russia is attempting to influence the presidential election in his favor, Republican nominee Donald Trump flatly denied any ties to the Russian government or Russian investors.
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Jesse Byrnes / The Hill:
Aide: Trump ‘will not be releasing’ taxes  —  said Wednesday that the Republican presidential nominee “will not be releasing” his taxes.  —  “Mr. Trump has said that his taxes are under audit and he will not be releasing them,” Trump campaign chief Paul Manafort told “CBS This Morning.”
Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
Manafort: Trump Still Not Going To Release His Tax Returns
Discussion: Warren Throckmorton
Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Assange Timed WikiLeaks Release of Democratic Emails to Harm Hillary Clinton  —  WASHINGTON — Six weeks before the anti-secrecy organization WikiLeaks published an archive of hacked Democratic National Committee emails ahead of the Democratic convention, the organization's founder …
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New York Times:
Spy Agency Consensus Grows That Russia Hacked D.N.C.  —  WASHINGTON — American intelligence agencies have told the White House they now have “high confidence” that the Russian government was behind the theft of emails and documents from the Democratic National Committee …
Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
US has ‘high confidence’ Russia behind DNC hack: report
Discussion: New York Times
Matthew Chance / CNN:
Julian Assange: ‘A lot more material’ coming on US elections
Baltimore Sun:
Freddie Gray case: Charges against three remaining officers dropped  —  Photos from the trial for Officer Garrett Miller, one of six Baltimore police officers charged in the arrest and death of Freddie Gray.  Photos also include images of Miller attending hearings and trials of other officers in the case.
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Spencer S. Hsu / Washington Post:
Would-be Reagan assassin John Hinckley Jr. to be freed after 35 years  —  John W. Hinckley, Jr., will be released from a government psychiatric hospital more than 35 years after he attempted to assassinate president Ronald Reagan and shot three others outside the Washington Hilton on March 30, 1981, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.
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Carrie Johnson / NPR:
John Hinckley, Who Tried To Kill A President, Wins His Freedom  —  Thirty-five years after he tried to kill a president, John Hinckley has won his freedom.  —  A federal judge in Washington, D.C., has granted a request for Hinckley to leave the mental hospital where he's lived for decades …
Eun Kyung Kim / TODAY.com:
Can Donald Trump win?  ‘Anything is possible,’ Obama tells Savannah Guthrie  —  Just six months after telling Matt Lauer he couldn't imagine Donald Trump giving a State of the Union address — except in a “Saturday Night Live” skit — President Barack Obama now says “anything is possible” in November.
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Tom Kludt / CNN:
Donald Trump says he'd support $10 minimum wage
Discussion: National Review, Rewire and Guardian
Michael Edison Hayden / ABC News:
Elizabeth Banks Parodies Donald Trump's RNC Entrance During Her DNC Appearance
Discussion: LGBTQ Nation and Mashable
Nick Gass / Politico:
Lena Dunham: Trump would say my body ‘probably like a 2’
Discussion: ABC News
Richard Pollock / The Daily Caller:
EXCLUSIVE: IRS Launches Investigation Of Clinton Foundation  —  Emails: DNC Staffers Annoyed At Having To Commemorate Holocaust  —  This White Hillary Voter HATES That This Black Bernie Supporter Is Blaming Democrats  —  Is Joe Biden In Denial?  —  POLITICS |  ALEX PAPPAS  —  ‘Come on man’
Media Matters for America:
O'Reilly: Slaves Who Built White House Were “Well-Fed And Had Decent Lodgings Provided By The Government”  —  BILL O'REILLY (HOST): Finally tonight, Factor Tip of The Day.  As we mentioned, Talking Points Memo, Michelle Obama referenced slaves building the White House in referring to the evolution of America in a positive way.
David Segal / New York Times:
Confessor.  Feminist.  Adult.  What the Hell Happened to Howard Stern?  —  Scattered among the gleefully vulgar mainstays are now intimate exchanges that have made Mr. Stern one of the most deft interviewers in the business.  —  Near the end of his interview with Bill Murray …
Discussion: Althouse
Brian Ross / ABC News:
In Leaked Recordings, DNC Shown Controlling Donor Access  —  The release of a trove of “embarrassing” hacked internal emails and private voicemail recordings reveal not only the unseemly deal-making involved in recruiting high-dollar donations for political campaigns, but the role fundraising officials play …
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Alec Goodwin / OpenSecrets.org:
Leaks show DNC asked White House to reward donors with slots on boards and commissions
Fusion:
So we counted all the women and people of color at the DNC and the RNC...  The Democratic National Convention is mimicking last week's Republican National Convention in certain ways.  Like the schedule: speech, speech, speech, performance, speech speech.  And also the sartorial choices …
Mark Molloy / Telegraph:
‘Someday a woman will be president’: Why a T-shirt controversy from 1995 has gone viral  —  In just a few months, the United States could have its first female president in Hillary Clinton- but an archive news article widely shared online this week suggests attitudes were very different back in 1995.
Discussion: The Week and Jezebel
Miriam Wasser / Phoenix New Times:
Meet Jerry Emmett, Arizona's 102-Year-Old Honorary Delegate to the Democratic National Convention  —  From outside, Geraldine “Jerry” Johnson Emmett's house looks like any other quaint single-family home on her suburban street in Prescott, Arizona.  But step inside and it's a different story.
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Joel Ebert / Tennessean.com:
Tennessee Clinton delegate booted from convention after skirmish with Sanders supporter
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and WATE-TV
 
 
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Sahil Kapur / Bloomberg:
Clinton Running Mate Kaine Endorses Repeal of Hyde Amendment on Abortion
Discussion: LifeNews.com and Rewire
Ramesh Ponnuru / National Review:
Clinton's Only Consistency: Ghastliness on Abortion
Discussion: LifeNews.com
The Hill:
Democrats: We can win on guns
Discussion: Hot Air
Tor.com:
Tor Books Announces New Associate Publishers
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Uniformed Alexandria officer denied service at Noodles & Company
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Chris Tomlinson / Breitbart:
Young Muslims Threaten Nudist Bathers With ‘Extermination’
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Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
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Ashley Carman / Bloomberg:
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