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4:00 PM ET, July 8, 2015

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Hamilton Nolan / Gawker:
Ladies and Gentlemen, It's Time to Panic  —  Have you noticed anything odd going on this morning?  Oh yes.  Let us be the first to tell you that the time to panic is upon us.  —  ITEM: The New York City subway system suffered an atrocious commute today, with some trains being inexplicably stranded …
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CNNMoney:
New York Stock Exchange suspends trading  —  The New York Stock Exchange suspended trading at 11:32 a.m ET Wednesday.  It's been down for over an hour.  —  In a brief announcement, the exchange said it was experiencing a “internal technical issue.”  The NYSE said later in a tweet that it's “not the result of a cyber breach.”
Hadas Gold / Politico:
Wall Street Journal website down amid NYSE, United tech problems  —  The Wall Street Journal's homepage experienced an outage on Wednesday amid similar troubles at the New York Stock Exchange and United Airlines.  —  The newspaper's homepage displayed a 504 outage, though other sections …
Nathaniel Popper / New York Times:
New York Stock Exchange Resumes Trading
Discussion: Slate, USA Today and The Week
Lloyd Grove / The Daily Beast:
Hillary Plays the Victim in CNN Interview  —  She may be the frontrunner in the presidential race, but Clinton still comes across as guarded, quibbling, and poker-faced under the TV lights.  —  Any Clinton supporters who hoped that a New Hillary would emerge from Tuesday's televised grilling …
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Byron Tau / Wall Street Journal:
A Fact-Check of Hillary Clinton's CNN Interview on Her Personal Email  —  In an interview with CNN on Tuesday, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton defended her use of a personal email server and her larger record on transparency while running the department between 2009 and 2013.
Discussion: Hit & Run
NBC News:
Donald Trump: ‘I Will Win the Latino Vote’  —  Donald Trump said Wednesday that he believes he will win the Latino vote, slamming Hillary Clinton for promoting what he called an immigration policy that would “let everybody come in... killers, criminals, drug dealers.”  —  “I have a great relationship with the Mexican people.
Matt Hamilton / Los Angeles Times:
Tom Selleck ‘drought shamed,’ accused of using hydrant water  —  Actor Tom Selleck had truckloads of water from a public hydrant delivered to his sprawling Hidden Valley ranch, according to court documents filed against the veteran actor by a Ventura County water district.
Ian Shapira / Washington Post:
Federal judge orders cancellation of Redskins' trademark registrations  —  The Washington Redskins lost their biggest legal and public relations battle yet in the war over its mascot after a federal judge in Northern Virginia on Wednesday ordered the cancellation of the NFL team's federal …
Daniel Strauss / Politico:
Donald Trump declines to rule out third-party bid  —  Donald Trump is almost completely shutting the door on the possibility of switching to a third-party presidential bid in the 2016 presidential cycle — almost.  —  “I've had many, many people ask me about running as an independent,” …
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Daily Mail:
'It's time people listened to Donald Trump,' says Jamiel Shaw's mother
MJ Lee / CNN:
How much money will running for president cost Donald Trump?
Discussion: The Hill
Emily Badger / Washington Post:
Obama administration to unveil major new rules targeting segregation across U.S.  —  Administration calls move “historic,” while conservatives decry it as “social engineering”  —  CHICAGO — When the Fair Housing Act was passed in 1968, it barred the outright racial discrimination that was then routine.
Cristina Marcos / The Hill:
House votes to ban Confederate flags at federal cemeteries  —  After just two minutes of floor debate late Tuesday evening, the House passed a measure to prohibit the display of Confederate flags on graves in federal cemeteries.  —  Despite the lack of fanfare, the vote marked the House's …
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Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
Democrats' Views on Confederate Flag Increasingly Negative
Judicial Watch:
Judicial Watch: New Documents Reveal DOJ, IRS, and FBI Plan to Seek Criminal Charges of Obama Opponents  —  (Washington, DC) - Judicial Watch today released new Department of Justice (DOJ) and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) documents that include an official “DOJ Recap” report detailing …
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New York Post:   The IRS scandal just got even worse
Reuters:
China stocks tumble as regulator warns of ‘panic’  —  Chinese stocks dived on Wednesday after the securities regulator said the tumbling stock market in the world's second-biggest economy was in the grip of “panic sentiment” as investors ignored a battery of support measures from Beijing.
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David Barboza / New York Times:
Stock Sell-Off Is Unabated in China
Hadas Gold / Politico:
Dave Weigel returns to The Washington Post  —  Less than a year after joining Bloomberg Politics, Dave Weigel is making a surprise return to The Washington Post.  —  Weigel will cover national politics with a focus on grass-roots movements, traveling the country on the campaign trail …
Discussion: FishbowlDC
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Washpostpr / Washington Post:
Dave Weigel joins The Post's Politics team
The Nation:
Austerity Has Failed: An Open Letter From Thomas Piketty to Angela Merkel  —  Five leading economists warn the German chancellor, “History will remember you for your actions this week.”  —  The never-ending austerity that Europe is force-feeding the Greek people is simply not working.
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Jake Pearson / Associated Press:
APNewsBreak: NYC to offer non-bail option for some suspects  —  4 photos  —  NEW YORK (AP) — Thousands of New Yorkers accused of low-level or non-violent crimes won't face the prospect of raising cash for bail under a plan that seeks to keep such suspects out of the troubled Rikers Island jail complex.
Discussion: VICE, Fusion and The Week
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Carimah Townes / ThinkProgress:
New York City To Stop Jailing Some Nonviolent Offenders For Being Poor
Discussion: Hullabaloo
Sarah Ferris / The Hill:
GOP blames ObamaCare for health insurance merger-mania  —  A frenzy of healthcare mergers has given Republicans' a new line of attack against ObamaCare, which they say is boosting profits for insurance giants at a cost to consumers.  —  The merger mania — evidenced most recently …
Discussion: Daily Kos and Bloomberg View
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Tierney Sneed / Talking Points Memo:
Chaos In Maine: Gov. LePage Botches Veto Of 19 Bills He Opposed  —  The office of Maine Gov. Paul LePage (R) and the clerk in the Maine House are in disagreement over the fate of 19 bills that the governor apparently did not veto in time to prevent them from becoming law.
Caitlin Winner / Medium:
How We Changed the Facebook  —  Friends Icon  —  Facebook headquarters is an amazing place.  The snacks are free, the sun always shines and everyone is full of the best intentions.  During my first week I encountered hundreds of people earnestly trying to to make the world a better place.
Microsoft:
Satya Nadella email to employees on sharpening business focus  —  Over the past few weeks, I've shared with you our mission, strategy, structure and culture.  Today, I want to discuss our plans to focus our talent and investments in areas where we have differentiation and potential for growth …
 
 
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Emily E. Smith / Oregonian:
Priest pretended to notify police after teen found camera in church bathroom, records say
Discussion: Raw Story and Friendly Atheist
Andrew Kirell / Mediaite:
Trump Steamrolls NBC Reporter, Takes Shots at Krauthammer and Jonah Goldberg
Discussion: Business Insider
Javier Panzar / Los Angeles Times:
It's official: Latinos now outnumber whites in California
Discussion: Washington Post and Liberaland
Katherine Timpf / National Review:
Students Told to Take Photos With a ‘Consent Contract’ Before They Have Sex
Michael Kruse / Politico:
On talk circuit, George W. Bush makes millions but few waves
Discussion: ABC News
Flynn Murphy / Telegraph:
New Zealand makes internet ‘trolling’ illegal
Discussion: Washington Times
Isabel Kershner / New York Times:
Israeli Minister Says Reform Jews Are Not Really Jewish
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Mondoweiss
Patrick Non-White / Popehat:
Do Judges Have Inherent Dignity?
Discussion: Florida Times Union and Techdirt
 Earlier Items: 
David Hume Kennerly / Politico:
The (Real) Bank of America
Discussion: The Daily Signal
Kipp Jones / BREITBART.COM:
Civil Rights Group Demands Kid Rock Denounce Confederate Flag... or Else
Alison Elkin / Bloomberg Business:
Former Virginia Governor Jim Gilmore Says He's Running For President, Too
Chuck Ross / The Daily Caller:
Judge Says Federal Officials Must Personally Appear In Court For Violating Amnesty Injunction
Kevin Cirilli / The Hill:
Warren bill could create headache for Hillary
Discussion: Common Dreams
 

 
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Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land:
Google plans to roll out AI Overviews in Search to all US users by next week, and to more countries soon; they will be available to 1B+ users by the end of 2024

CNBC:
Ilya Sutskever says he will leave OpenAI to work on a “personally meaningful” project; Director of Research Jakub Pachocki will become OpenAI's chief scientist

Emma Roth / The Verge:
Google announces AI-powered scam call detection on Android, a chatty new voice mode with its Gemini Live feature, and voice and video search with Google Lens
 
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