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2:30 PM ET, July 10, 2013

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Corrie MacLaggan / Reuters:
Texas House approves sweeping abortion restrictions  —  (Reuters) - The Texas House of Representatives approved sweeping abortion restrictions on Tuesday, including a ban after 20 weeks of pregnancy and tougher standards for clinics that perform the procedure.
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Tara Culp-Ressler / ThinkProgress:
Texans Call Out Rick Perry: If You Want To Reduce Abortions, Then Back Sex Ed
Discussion: Unfair Park and The Raw Story
Politico:
Immigration reform heads for slow death  —  Republicans walked away from their 2012 debacle hell-bent on fixing their problems with Hispanics.  Now, they appear hell-bent on making them worse.  —  In private conversations, top Republicans on Capitol Hill now predict comprehensive immigration reform …
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Michael O'Brien / NBC Politics:
Bush urges ‘positive resolution’ for ‘broken’ immigration system  —  Former President George W. Bush waded ever so gently into the fierce debate in Washington over immigration reform, urging lawmakers to reach a “positive resolution” on the issue, and warning against disparaging immigrants.
TMZ.com:
Justin Bieber Pisses Into Restaurant Mop Bucket — ‘F*** Bill Clinton!’  [VIDEO]  —  PISSES INTO RESTAURANT MOP BUCKET  —  ‘F*** Bill Clinton!’  —  EXCLUSIVE  —  Justin Bieber is an oblivious, self-important little twit who goes out of his way to make the working man's life miserable …
Emad Mekay / Al Jazeera English:
Exclusive: US bankrolled anti-Morsi activists  —  Berkeley, United States - President Barack Obama recently stated the United States was not taking sides as Egypt's crisis came to a head with the military overthrow of the democratically elected president.  —  But a review of dozens …
Discussion: BuzzFeed and Business Insider
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Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:
Egypt at the Edge  —  In every civil war there is a moment …
Discussion: The Week and msnbc.com
Julian Pecquet / The Hill:
Public documents reveal US bankrolled Morsi opponents
Discussion: Jammie Wearing Fools
Russell Simmons / The Huffington Post:
Just in Case George Zimmerman Walks Free...  Like so many people across the country, I have followed the murder trial of George Zimmerman very closely.  As we enter what is probably the last week of the trial, I am sure that everyone is anxious about the outcome.
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Lizette Alvarez / New York Times:
Martin Was Shot as He Leaned Over Zimmerman, Court Is Told
Discussion: Hit & Run
Steve Benen / msnbc.com:
ENDA advances with bipartisan backing  —  Following up on an item from late yesterday, the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, & Pensions (better known as the HELP Committee) easily approved the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (better known as ENDA) this morning.
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Chris Geidner / BuzzFeed:   Senate Committee Votes To Send LGBT Job-Bias Bill To The Floor
Mike DeBonis / Washington Post:
Wal-Mart says it will pull out of D.C. plans should city mandate ‘living wage’  —  The world's largest retailer delivered an ultimatum to District lawmakers Tuesday, telling them less than 24 hours before a decisive vote that at least three planned Wal-Marts will not open in the city if a super-minimum-wage proposal becomes law.
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Alex Barron / Washington Post:
Wal-Mart: The D.C. Council has forced our hand
New York Times:
The Decline of North Carolina  —  Every Monday since April, thousands of North Carolina residents have gathered at the State Capitol to protest the grotesque damage that a new Republican majority has been doing to a tradition of caring for the least fortunate.
Discussion: @NCCapitol and Hullabaloo
Vicki Needham / The Hill:
Kerry chokes back tears in first comments on wife's health scare  —  Secretary of State John Kerry choked up on Wednesday while thanking well-wishers for their support after his wife fell ill earlier this week.  —  Kerry said his wife, Teresa Heinz Kerry, is “doing better” and “improving” …
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Associated Press:
John Kerry: Wife's condition improving
Discussion: Associated Press
Lori Mitchell / WKRN-TV:
Naked wife distracts victim while husband burglarizes home  —  A woman distracted a man by skinny dipping in his pool while her husband burglarized the man's home.  —  The incident occurred on the afternoon of June 27 at the victim's home on Canterbury Lane in the Camelot subdivision in Crossville, about 100 miles east of Nashville.
Discussion: CNN, KDVR.com and The Daily Caller
Rosalind S. Helderman / Washington Post:
McDonnell's corporation, wife allegedly benefited from $120,000 more from donor  —  RICHMOND — A prominent political donor gave $70,000 to a corporation owned by Virginia Gov. Robert F. McDonnell and his sister last year, and the governor did not disclose the money as a gift or loan, according to people with knowledge of the payments.
WMUR:
Romney to headline NHGOP fundraiser next month  —  Mitt Romney will headline a fundraiser for the New Hampshire Republican Party next month, in what is believe to be his first political fundraiser since last year's presidential campaign, WMUR Political Scoop has learned.
James Hohmann / Reuters:
Sarah Palin considering 2014 Senate bid  —  Sarah Palin opened the door Tuesday to running for Senate next year in Alaska.  —  “I've considered it because people have requested me considering it, but I'm still waiting to see what the lineup will be and hoping that ... there will be some new blood …
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John O'Connor / Associated Press:
Illinois enacts nation's final concealed-gun law  —  SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Illinois became the last state in the nation to allow public possession of concealed guns as lawmakers rushed Tuesday to finalize a proposal ahead of a federal court's deadline.  —  Both chambers of the Legislature voted …
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Talking Points Memo:
Mike Lee Slams Obama For Trying To Fill Judicial Vacancies  —  Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) attacked President Obama on Wednesday for seeking to fill three judicial vacancies on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, arguing that those seats need not be filled before the court can function without them.
Trishula Patel / Washington Post:
Adam Kokesh charged with possessing hallucinogenic mushrooms  —  Police searched the Northern Virginia home of activist Adam Kokesh Tuesday evening and took him into custody on a charge of being in possession of hallucinogenic mushrooms while also having a gun, authorities said.
Lee Drutman / Sunlight Foundation:
Why the 2012 election was unusual — and why it wasn't  —  Back in the days after the 2012 election, when it became clear that despite losing the popular House vote, Republicans had actually won a sizeable majority in the House, plenty of speculation set in as to why: Was it gerrymandering?
Rajiv Chandrasekaran / Washington Post:
A brand-new U.S. military headquarters in Afghanistan.  And nobody to use it.  —  The U.S. military has erected a 64,000-square-foot headquarters building on the dusty moonscape of southwestern Afghanistan that comes with all the tools to wage a modern war.  A vast operations center with tiered seating.
 
 
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BBC:
China Sichuan landslide ‘buries up to 40 people’
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Yahoo! News:
America no longer world's fattest developed nation, UN report says
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John Podhoretz / New York Post:
Explaining Eliot  —  He's bonkers — and always was
Discussion: Politicker
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