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10:10 AM ET, July 10, 2015

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Dylan Byers / Politico:
N.Y. Times keeps Cruz off bestseller list  —  The New York Times informed HarperCollins this week that it will not include Ted Cruz's new biography on its forthcoming bestsellers list, despite the fact that the book has sold more copies in its first week than all but two of the Times' bestselling titles, the On Media blog has learned.
Michael Falcone / ABC News:
The Note: Jeb Bush, The $114 Million Man  —  NOTABLES  —IN THE MONEY: Jeb Bush's super PAC, Right to Rise, will report having raised $103 million over the first half of the year.  His campaign took in $11.4 million in just two weeks, ABC's CHRIS GOOD notes.
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Neetzan Zimmerman / The Hill:
Trump leads GOP presidential field in new national poll
Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Trump In 2000: Jeb Bush Is “Bright, Tough, And Principled,” May Be President Someday
Discussion: CNN, The Week and Washington Post
Nicholas Confessore / New York Times:
Bush Outstrips Rivals in Fund-Raising as ‘Super PACs’ Swell Candidates' Coffers
Discussion: Towleroad
Alana Wise / Reuters:
Over 60 percent of Republicans oppose court on gay marriage: Reuters/Ipsos poll
Discussion: Daily Kos
Shane Goldmacher / National Journal:
Jeb Bush's Money Juggernaut: $114 Million and Counting
Discussion: Hot Air and Politico
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Greece's Economy Is a Lesson for Republicans in the U.S.  —  Greece is a faraway country with an economy roughly the size of greater Miami, so America has very little direct stake in its ongoing disaster.  To the extent that Greece matters to us, it's mainly about geopolitics …
Discussion: Washington Post and Salon
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Joseph E. Stiglitz / TIME:   The U.S. Must Save Greece
Guardian:
Go Set A Watchman: read the first chapter - interactive  —  An exclusive extract from the new novel by Harper Lee, the author of To Kill A Mockingbird, published on 14 July  —  Since Atlanta, she had looked out the dining-car window with a delight almost physical.
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Wall Street Journal:
Harper Lee's ‘Go Set a Watchman’: Read the First Chapter  —  Read the first chapter of Harper Lee's ‘Go Set a Watchman,’ which will be published July 14.  —  In 1957, when she was 31 years old, Harper Lee submitted her first attempt at a novel to the publisher J.B. Lippincott.
Discussion: New York Times and The Verge
Jesse Byrnes / The Hill:
Trump: RNC chairman ‘probably’ leaked call  —  Donald Trump said in an interview airing late Thursday that Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus “probably” leaked details of a call between the pair this week.  —  “I just don't know how the story got out,” Trump …
Discussion: Daily Kos and Political Wire
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Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Sen. Flake: Local GOP should not host Trump's Arizona event
Washington Post:
Trump vows long campaign, won't commit to backing GOP nominee
Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Hillary Clinton's push on gun control marks a shift in presidential politics  —  In her standard stump speech, Hillary Rodham Clinton talks about fighting income inequality, celebrating court rulings on gay marriage and health care and, since the Emanuel AME church massacre, toughening the nation's gun laws.
Discussion: Reuters, Hot Air and Bloomberg Business
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Stuart Stevens / The Daily Beast:
This Is How Hillary Loses the Primary
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
Bill Laitner / Detroit Free Press:
Judge jails kids for refusing lunch with dad  —  The children were sent to a juvenile detention facility for defying her orders — while in court — that they go to lunch with their father.  —  CONNECT  —  Three Oakland County children who refused to go to lunch with their father …
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Radley Balko / Washington Post:
Michigan judge bullies children in open court for refusing to see their dad
Discussion: The Daily Tribune and Raw Story
Noah Phillips / Washington Post:
I tried to escape my privilege with low-wage work.  Instead I came face to face with it.  —  The advantages of race and class are not easily shed, even in a falafel shop.  —  I attended the Edmund Burke School, one of Northwest Washington's small private prep schools …
Discussion: Althouse
U.S. Office of Personnel Management:
OPM Announces Steps to Protect Federal Workers and Others From Cyber Threats  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) announced the results of the interagency forensics investigation into a recent cyber incident involving Federal background investigation data …
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Stephanie Kafka / Gallup:
U.S. Uninsured Rate at 11.4% in Second Quarter  —  Story Highlights  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — The uninsured rate among U.S. adults aged 18 and older was 11.4% in the second quarter of 2015, down from 11.9% in the first quarter.  The uninsured rate has dropped nearly six percentage points since …
Discussion: Business Insider
Wall Street Journal:
Wisconsin's Friend at the IRS  —  Emails show a common cause in restricting political speech.  —  Wisconsin's campaign to investigate conservative tax-exempt groups has always seemed like an echo of the IRS's scrutiny of conservative groups applying for tax-exempt status.
Gertrude Himmelfarb / Weekly Standard:
Into the Abyss  —  From the halls of academia to the cover of Vanity Fair.  —  The Caitlyn (née Bruce) Jenner case has engendered if not a new subject at least a newly publicized and sensationalized one.  For an old-timer like myself, transgenderism is reminiscent of the postmodernism …
New York Times:
The Practical Matter of Removing South Carolina's Confederate Flag  —  COLUMBIA, S.C — In a historic moment for South Carolina, the Confederate battle flag is set to be removed from a 30-foot pole on the grounds of the State House on Friday morning.  —  But how?
Discussion: Guardian, NPR, The Week and The Atlantic
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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Obama's immigration orders face dim outlook at federal court  —  The Obama administration faces an uphill battle on Friday when it seeks to convince a panel of federal judges to let the president's executive actions on immigration take effect.  —  The same two Republican-appointed judges …
Discussion: ImmigrationProf Blog
Chris Megerian / Los Angeles Times:
World is on a collision course with fossil fuels, Gov. Jerry Brown says  —  After two days of rubbing shoulders with an international collection of politicians, Gov. Jerry Brown emerged from a climate-change conference here with new partnerships in the fight against global warming.
Discussion: BarbWire.com
 
 
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Alex Jaffe / NBC News:
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Jason Cherkis / The Huffington Post:
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