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12:45 PM ET, July 27, 2013

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New York Times:
Scores of Demonstrators Killed in Egypt  —  CAIRO — The police and armed civilians opened fire Saturday with live ammunition on protesters against Egypt's new military government, witnesses said, killing scores of people as hopes faded that the Egyptian military would reach any political accommodation …
Steve Liesman / CNBC:
Wall Street wants Yellen, not Summers, as next Fed chief  —  Wall Street overwhelmingly believes President Obama will and should pick Janet Yellen to be the next chairman of the Federal Reserve, according to a survey.  —  Preliminary results of the CNBC Fed Survey for July show 70 percent …
Discussion: Prairie Weather
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John Bresnahan / Politico:   Obama to visit Hill Democrats next week
Andrew Taylor / Associated Press:
Tricky Obstacles Ahead to Averting Shutdown
Discussion: Liberal Values
James Taranto / Wall Street Journal:
She did the right thing despite her prejudices.  —  Sometimes life imitates the Onion.  Last week the satirical newspaper ran an “op-ed” by “Juror E6,” a fictitious member of the panel that acquitted George Zimmerman.  Here's the nut, and pardon our F—ch: “Now, I realize …
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Wayne Slater / Trail Blazers Blog:
Greg Abbott's pledge to fight Obama on voting rights a political win with Texas GOP primary voters
Discussion: New Republic
Ben Goad / The Hill:
FDA set to overhaul food safety rules for imported fruits, veggies  —  The Food and Drug Administration on Friday unveiled new rules to combat safety threats in imported foods - an overhaul that represents a sea change in U.S. treatment of food shipped from other countries.
Matthias Gafni / Contra Costa Times:
Concord: Half of Affordable Care Act call center jobs will be part-time  —  CONCORD — Earlier this year, Contra Costa County won the right to run a health care call center, where workers will answer questions to help implement the president's Affordable Care Act.
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Tom Coburn: Campaign to defund Obamacare ‘dishonest,’ ‘hype’  —  ANALYSIS CONGRESS BELTWAY CONFIDENTIAL  —  Tensions inside the Republican Party about a proposal to defund Obamacare reached a new level Friday when Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., a lawmaker with unsurpassed credibility in the field …
Chris Isidore / CNNMoney.com:
New $444 million hockey arena is still a go in Detroit  —  Detroit's financial crisis hasn't derailed the city's plans to spend more than $400 million in Michigan taxpayer funds on a new hockey arena for the Red Wings.  —  Advocates of the arena say it's the kind of economic development needed …
Jeane MacIntosh / New York Post:
Weiner girl confidant: Pol's brother grilled sext partner ‘to see if she was going to be a problem’ 2 days after comeback interview published  —  Anthony Weiner's chef brother turned up the heat on the mayoral wannabe's secret online paramour just weeks before the sexting pol announced his mayoral bid …
Discussion: Weasel Zippers and Politicker
Scott Lemieux / Lawyers, Guns & Money:
Assuming the Distance Learning Can Opener  —  While conceding that Johnathan Rees's argument against MOOC's focuses too much on the self-interest of faculty members and not enough on the massive problems of distance learning, Jon Chait's touting of the promise of MOOCs is suffers from two major flaws.
Joel Gehrke / Washington Examiner:
IRS employee union: We don't want Obamacare  —  IRS employees have a prominent role in Obamacare, but their union wants no part of the law.  —  National Treasury Employees Union officials are urging members to write their congressional representatives in opposition to receiving coverage through President Obama's health care law.
Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Slain Youth's Mother Criticizes Defense Law  —  PHILADELPHIA — The mother of Trayvon Martin, the unarmed Florida teenager whose fatal shooting by a neighborhood watch volunteer has provoked a national debate over racial profiling and gun laws, appealed to a crowd of African-American advocates here Friday to …
Discussion: Prairie Weather and Althouse
Reuters:
Ex-IMF chief Strauss-Kahn to be tried for pimping  —  (Reuters) - Former IMF head Dominique Strauss-Kahn will be tried in France on pimping charges, prosecutors said on Friday, after a long inquiry into sex parties attended by the man whose presidential hopes were dashed by a separate 2011 U.S. sex scandal.
Discussion: The Week and Taylor Marsh
Washington Times:
Rand Paul to Chris Christie: You need to talk to more real Americans  —  Paul aide calls Christie ‘esoteric’ and ‘out of touch’ in gov't overreach in drone use  —  Republican rivals Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey and Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky are escalating their feud over national security policy and liberty.
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Alec MacGillis / The New Republic:
What the Chris Christie-Rand Paul Ruckus Really Means
 
 
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BBC:
Archbishop Tutu ‘would not worship a homophobic God’
Zachary Karabell / The Edgy Optimist:
A new American dream for a new American century
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The Daily Show with Jon Stewart:
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Regina Garcia Cano / Associated Press:
Ohio Group Raises $12K To Buy Zimmerman Guns
Bill Glauber / JSOnline:
Paul Ryan lays out immigration proposals in Racine town hall meeting
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Lauren-Brooke Eisen / Judicial:
Overcriminalization Task Force should focus on reducing prison populations
CNN:
Scarlett Johansson, Lena Dunham to help out Spitzer's opponent
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Bryce Covert / ThinkProgress:
Bank Reposseses Wrong House, Refuses To Compensate Victim
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