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6:05 PM ET, July 24, 2013

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Daily Mail:
REVEALED: The Obama election campaigner, 23, who ‘received illicit messages and had phone sex with Anthony Weiner’ a year after humiliated wife forgave him  — Sydney Leathers, a liberal activist from Illinois, is allegedly the woman who revealed explicit images she received from Weiner
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New York Times:
Mr. Weiner and the Elusive Truth  —  At some point, the full story of Anthony Weiner and his sexual relationships and texting habits will finally be told.  In the meantime, the serially evasive Mr. Weiner should take his marital troubles and personal compulsions out of the public eye …
New York Times:
Account of Weiner's Conversation Fits Pattern of Online Exchanges  —  The racy online conversations now convulsing Anthony D. Weiner's campaign for mayor began with an angry Facebook message, according to the editor of a blog that has communicated with the young woman involved.
Andrew Kaczynski:
Here Is The Woman Linked To Anthony Weiner In Sex Chats
Amanda Cochran / CBS News:
CBS News poll finds more Americans than ever want Obamacare repealed  —  (CBS News) A new CBS News poll finds more Americans than ever want the Affordable Care Act repealed.  —  According to the poll, 36 percent of Americans want Congress to expand or keep the health care law while 39 percent …
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Jonathan Weisman / New York Times:
House G.O.P. Sets New Offensive on Obama Goals  —  WASHINGTON — Congressional Republicans are moving to gut many of President Obama's top priorities with the sharpest spending cuts in a generation and a new push to hold government financing hostage unless the president's signature health care law is stripped of money this fall.
Justin Sink / The Hill:
Obama hits GOP for ‘phony scandals’
Discussion: E2-Wire and Red Alert Politics
Tal Kopan / Politico:
Jay Carney: Get past ‘phony scandals’
Discussion: The Daily Caller and CNN
Tom Kludt / Talking Points Memo:
READ: Obama's Economic Speech In Illinois As Prepared For Delivery  —  Eight years ago, I came here to deliver the commencement address for the class of 2005.  Things were a little different back then.  I didn't have any gray hair, for example.  Or a motorcade.  I didn't even have a teleprompter.
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Washington Wire:
Transcript: Obama's Remarks on Middle-Class Prosperity  —  President Barack Obama returned to Knox College in Galesburg, Ill., Wednesday to discuss his plans for boosting the middle class.  Here are Mr. Obama's remarks, as prepared for delivery:  —  Eight years ago, I came here to deliver …
New York Times:
Obama Focuses on Economy, Vowing to Help Middle Class
Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
Obama: 'We've Come a Long Way Since I First Took Office.  As a Country, We're Older and We're Wiser.'
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
Meet President Obama's new economic message.  Same as his old economic message.  —  You could be forgiven if you thought you had heard President Obama's speech on the economy today before.  Because you have.  For most of the 2012 campaign.  (Don't trust us, read Obama's 2012 acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention.)
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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
A warmed-over jobs message  —  “I don't normally do this,” President Obama's senior adviser Dan Pfeiffer wrote in the subject line of an e-mail blast to reporters Sunday night.  —  This was tantalizing.  What would this top White House official be doing?  Singing karaoke on the North Lawn?
Fred Barnes / Weekly Standard:
Older, But Not Wiser  —  “As a country, we're older and we're wiser …
Dahlia Lithwick / Slate:
What's the Matter With North Carolina?  —  The state went from beacon of tolerance to bastion of voter suppression in a month.  —  North Carolina is proving itself to be the poster child for all that is wrong with modern American democracy and—with thanks to Moral Mondays—also highlighting all that may someday save it.
Aaron Blake / Post Politics:
Americans turn against Edward Snowden  —  The American people, who once defended Edward Snowden's leaks of sensitive intelligence information gathered by the U.S. government, are starting to turn against him.  —  A new Washington Post-ABC News poll shows that a majority of Americans …
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Associated Press:
Lawyer: Snowden to stay in Moscow airport for now
Discussion: CNN
Sahil Kapur / Talking Points Memo:
Conservatives Desperately Move To Shut Down Government Over Obamacare  —  Running out of time and options, conservatives are exploring new ways to corner Congress into shutting down the government this fall unless Obamacare is defunded.  But they aren't likely to achieve much more than giving Republican leaders heartburn.
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Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
GOP senator: Don't hold debt limit ‘hostage’ over ObamaCare funds
Discussion: Politico
Eric W. Dolan / The Raw Story:
Pennsylvania police chief: F*ck all you libtards out there, you take it in the a**  —  The mayor of Gilberton, Pennsylvania is standing by her city's police chief despite a series of profanity-laced and threatening videos.  —  In a video that has received wide attention …
Marist Poll:
7/24: A Look at the 2016 Presidential Contest  —  If former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton were to announce a candidacy for the Presidency, she would be the clear frontrunner for the Democratic nomination.  Clinton outdistances her closest potential opponent, Vice President Joe Biden …
Nate Cohn / New Republic:
Obama Is Losing the White Working Class  —  One of the funny things about electoral politics is that you can't always have the coalition you want, or even the coalition you think you'll get.  When the Democratic Leadership Council was thinking about how to rebrand the party in the late '80s …
Discussion: Washington Monthly
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Meghashyam Mali / The Hill:
Poll: Obama approval nears record low
Discussion: Politico, Scared Monkeys and CNN
Geetika Rudra / Yahoo! Good Morning America:
Judge Orders $1 Million Returned to Exotic Dancer  —  A federal judge has ruled that Nebraska cops must return over $1 million confiscated at a traffic stop from a woman who saved the money $1 at a time during her 15 year career as an exotic dancer.  —  The money belongs to Tara Mishra …
Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
Book: Jimmy Carter targeted by US and foreign assassins  —  Potential assassins have threatened the life of Jimmy Carter multiple times since he left the White House in 1981, making the one-term Georgian the most threatened former president in history, according to a new book about John F. Kennedy and his assassination 50 years ago.
Discussion: PoliticusUSA
Jennifer Liberto / CNNMoney.com:
Postal Service looks to end at-your-door mail  —  If you're moving to a newly built house, say goodbye to mail delivery at your door.  —  And if some House Republicans get their way, all door-to-door mail delivery will go away.  —  The U.S. Postal Service is marching towards a more …
Jessica Yellin / CNN:
Obama to nominate Caroline Kennedy as ambassador to Japan  —  (CNN) - Caroline Kennedy, the daughter of former President John F. Kennedy and a prominent Democratic backer, was nominated by President Barack Obama Wednesday to serve as U.S. ambassador to Japan.
 
 
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Michael McAuliff / The Huffington Post:
Black Congressmen Discuss Their Daily Struggle With Discrimination In America (VIDEO)
New York Times:
U.S. Halts Delivery of F-16 Fighters to Egypt, in Sign of Disapproval
David Glovin / Bloomberg:
Mother of Golf Prodigy in Hazing Death Defied by FratPAC
Ben Goad / The Hill:
Home care workers press administration for minimum wage
Discussion: ThinkProgress and Shakesville
Brian Tashman / Right Wing Watch:
Alabama Government Agency Prays Against Gay Marriage
Discussion: Mediaite and Truth Wins Out
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Richard Florida / The Atlantic Cities:
Don't Let Bankruptcy Fool You: Detroit's Not Dead
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Sy Mukherjee / ThinkProgress:
Missouri Lawmaker: Abortions To Save A Mother's Life Are ‘A Matter Of Convenience’
Discussion: The Huffington Post
Henrick Karoliszyn / Metropolis:
Amid New Weiner Revelations, Spitzer Focuses on Campaigning
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Kurt Badenhausen / Forbes:
Phil Mickelson Wins Historic British Open And Incurs 61% Tax Rate
Tyler Kingkade / The Huffington Post:
USC Student: Police Said I Wasn't Raped Because He Didn't Orgasm
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