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5:15 AM ET, July 17, 2012

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Amanda Terkel / The Huffington Post:
Mitt Romney Ad Taken Down Over Copyright Claim … REACT:  —  FOLLOW:  —  Elections 2012, Mitt Romney, Elections 2012, Video, Election 2012, Romney Campaign, Mitt Romney 2012, Mitt Romney Ad, Mitt Romney Singing Ad, Mitt Romney Web Ad, Obama Singing, Politics News
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Hillary Clinton / CNN:
TRENDING: Hillary Clinton: Romney ads featuring her a ‘waste of money’  —  (CNN) - She's been featured in two negative television ads from Mitt Romney's presidential campaign, but Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Monday the spots would have little effect on voters who already know the story of the 2008 Democratic primaries.
Washington Examiner:
Romney's new foe: Batman's ‘Bane’ … This summer's much-anticipated Hollywood blockbuster, “The Dark Knight Rises,” is getting an unusual boost from Democrats and other foes of Mitt Romney who are eager to tie the Gotham crushing villain to the GOP presidential candidate.
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David Frum / CNN:
Mitt Romney's painfully bad week  —  Editor's note: David Frum is a contributing editor at Newsweek and The Daily Beast and a CNN contributor.  He is the author of seven books, including a new novel, “Patriots.”  —  (CNN) — By any measure, the Mitt Romney for president campaign has had a painfully bad week.
Matt Negrin / ABCNEWS:   Dems Keep Up Romney Bain Attacks
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Politifact: Mitt Romney's companies sent jobs overseas
Associated Press:   Romney says Obama attacking him because he prefers not to defend his own record
DealBook:
A Yahoo Search Calls Up a Chief From Google  —  Updated  —  Marissa Mayer, one of the top executives at Google, will be the next chief of Yahoo, making her one of the most prominent women in Silicon Valley and corporate America.  —  The appointment of Ms. Mayer is consider a coup for Yahoo …
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Patricia Sellers / Fortune:
New Yahoo CEO Mayer is pregnant  —  She told Fortune exclusively that her first child is due in October.  —  FORTUNE —Marissa Mayer, the Google (GOOG) executive who today was named Yahoo's (YHOO) new chief executive, is pregnant.  —  Mayer told Fortune exclusively that her first child is due October 7.
Kevin Robillard / Politico:
Rush Limbaugh: Obama ‘hates this country’  —  President Barack Obama “hates this country,” and his philosophy appeals to “people with miserable, meaningless lives” and “people who don't count,” Rush Limbaugh said Monday.  —  “I think it can now be said, without equivocation …
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Dylan Byers / Politico:
CNN's Burnett: Release tax returns, Romney  —  In a move that departed from CNN's traditional brand of journalism, host Erin Burnett called on Mitt Romney to release more of his tax returns tonight.  —  “It's time, Mitt.  Time to put them on the table,” she said during tonight's edition of OutFront.
Discussion: Taylor Marsh
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Frank Newport / Gallup:
Republicans Turn Against John Roberts, U.S. Supreme Court  —  Democrats now positive about both  —  PRINCETON, NJ — Americans' opinions of U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts are now much more negative than they were seven years ago, with the most recent reading coming soon …
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Jake Sherman / Politico:
Dick Cheney to talk sequester with House GOP  —  Former Vice President Dick Cheney is flying to Washington from Wyoming to talk to top House Republicans about automatic cuts to defense spending, according to senior GOP sources.  —  Cheney will speak to Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy's (Calif.) …
Discussion: CNN
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Humberto Sanchez / Roll Call:
Democrats Want Leverage From Sequester
PBS:
His Man in Macau: Inside the Investigation Into Sheldon Adelson's Empire  —  A decade ago gambling magnate and leading Republican donor Sheldon Adelson looked at a desolate spit of land in Macau and imagined a glittering strip of casinos, hotels and malls.  —  Where competitors saw obstacles …
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Bill Friskics-Warren / New York Times:
Kitty Wells, Trailblazing Country Singer, Dies at 92  —  The cause was complications of a stroke, said her grandson John Sturdivant Jr.  —  Ms. Wells was an unlikely and unassuming pioneer.  When she recorded “It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels,” she was a 33-year-old wife …
Discussion: Gawker
Andy Campbell / The Huffington Post:
Jonah Falcon, Man With World's Largest Penis, Frisked By TSA At California Airport … REACT:  —  FOLLOW:  —  Anatomical Wonders, TSA, Video, 13.5 Inches, Jonah Falcon, San Francisco International Airport, Stop And Frisk, X-Ray Body Scanners, Airport Screening, Largest Penis …
Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
Obama Cites Campaign Donor as ‘Non-Partisan Economist’  —  At a speech earlier today in Cincinnati, Ohio, President Obama cited economic analysis conducted by one of his campaign donors, Kimberly Clausing, and called her a “non-partisan economist.”  Clausing, a college professor from Reed College …
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James Hohmann / Politico:
Bain not going away—Kucinich launching PAC—Bush 43 unveiling book tomorrow—Gillespie …
Bloomberg:
Hardheaded Socialism Makes Canada Richer Than U.S.  —  On July 1, Canada Day, Canadians awoke to a startling, if pleasant, piece of news: For the first time in recent history, the average Canadian is richer than the average American.  —  According to data from Environics Analytics WealthScapes published …
Discussion: CANNONFIRE and AEIdeas
 
 
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Aaron Carroll / The Incidental Economist:
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BuzzFeed:
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New York Times:
U.S. Priorities in Drug War Debated as Pill Abuse Rises
Xinhua News Agency:
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Alex Carp / News Desk:
Writing With Antonin Scalia, Grammar Nerd
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Erik Wasson / The Hill:
Obama misses new budget deadline
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US Navy ship fires on boat in Gulf
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Conyers gets an awkward endorsement
Wall Street Journal:
It's True: Corporations Are People
Discussion: Rush Limbaugh
James Pethokoukis / AEIdeas:
JPMorgan just gave a calamitous economic forecast for Obama
Orlando Sentinel:
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Tammie Fields / Tampa Bay Fl News:
Lt. Governor speaks out about sex scandal accusations
Alex Pappas / The Daily Caller:
Employees of NY Times, HuffPo, other news outlets dish out money to re-elect Obama
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