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2:00 PM ET, July 12, 2015

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Eric Bradner / CNN:
Graham on Trump: He came in like a ‘wrecking ball’  —  (CNN)Sen. Lindsey Graham says Donald Trump is a “wrecking ball” who has put the Republican Party's future on the line with his controversial remarks about Mexican immigrants.  —  “I think he's hijacked the debate.
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Maxwell Tani / Business Insider:
Donald Trump just gave an amazingly surreal speech in Las Vegas  —  Donald Trump just gave one of the most bizarrely captivating speeches of his several-weeks-old campaign.  —  Standing in front of an animated screen in Las Vegas on Saturday, Trump spoke passionately for almost a half an hour …
Discussion: FreakOutNation, CANNONFIRE and Althouse
Jordain Carney / The Hill:
McCain: ‘Circus’ around immigration debate hurting GOP  —  Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) took a veiled shot at Donald Trump on Friday, saying that the “circus” surrounding Republican infighting on illegal immigration is hurting the party.  —  “The circus currently surrounding the debate …
Washington Post:
Donald Trump: ‘We have to take back the heart of our country’
Discussion: Daily Kos and ThinkProgress
Rick Klein / ABC News:   5 Stories You'll Care About in Politics This Week
Mark Hensch / The Hill:
Poll: Jeb, Trump in virtual tie
Howell Raines / New York Times:
The Dream World of the Southern Republicans  —  UNLIKE previous Alabama governors, Robert J. Bentley is not a fount of oratory.  Nor is he a champion of “kinder and gentler.”  His dyspeptic refusal to accept federal funds for Medicaid expansion, in a state where more than one million …
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
Associated Press:
APNewsBreak: Diplomats: Iran announcement planned Monday  —  2 photos  —  VIENNA (AP) — Negotiators at the Iran nuclear talks plan to announce on Monday that they have reached agreement on a historic deal capping nearly a decade of diplomacy that would curb the country's atomic program …
Stacy Brown / New York Post:
Bill Cosby's wife says accusers ‘consented’ to drugs and sex  —  Bill Cosby's wife knows her husband is a serial philanderer, but believes his scores of accusers consented to drugs and sex, two confidants of the couple say.  —  Last week's revelation that Cosby admitted during a deposition …
Discussion: theGrio and Mediaite
Matt O'Brien / Washington Post:
Germany doesn't want to save Greece.  It seems to want to humiliate Greece.  —  Angela, what's the German word for getting kicked out of the euro?  (Tobias Schwartz/AFP/Getty Images)  —  Greece has offered an almost unconditional surrender on its bailout, but Germany might not accept anything less than a Carthaginian peace.
Discussion: Wall Street Journal and Reuters
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Mehreen Khan / Telegraph:
24 hours to save the euro: Germany prepares for a ‘temporary’ Greek exit as euro project on the brink of collapse
Discussion: Reuters and Forbes
Rocco Parascandola / New York Daily News:
Daniel Pantaleo, the NYPD officer who put Eric Garner in a fatal chokehold, is loathed, threatened and an outcast, but still can't wait to get back on job  —  The most infamous cop in the city — parked in a desk job amid probes into Eric Garner's death — can't wait to get back on the job.
Discussion: Raw Story, Gothamist and Daily Mail
D.R. Tucker / Washington Monthly:
All the Views Unfit to Print … I'm sure the late, great Ms. Ivins would be shaking her head at a bizarre controversy involving a New England newspaper that has been humiliated because of its nonsensical 2013 decision to provide a forum to far-right views.  Hopefully, as a result of this controversy …
Todd Gitlin / New York Times:
The Bernie Sanders Moment  —  THE white-haired politician stands before 10,000 cheering supporters in Madison, Wis., and calls for “political revolution,” denouncing a “rigged economy” that produces “a grotesque level of inequality,” returning to a theme that '60s radicals have long been trumpeting.
Discussion: Hullabaloo and Daily Kos
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Andrew Gilligan / Telegraph:
By day, at heart of counter-terror policing.  And by night, preacher of extremism  —  Government watchdog, which inspects police forces' readiness for terrorism, employed preacher of extremism  —  The Government watchdog which inspects police forces' readiness for terrorism admitted …
Discussion: Forbes and Jihad Watch
providencejournal.com:
DEM: ‘Something happened,’ but no evidence of device after ‘ground disturbance’ at Salty Brine beach  —  PROVIDENCE, R.I. — The Salty Brine beach was evacuated Saturday morning while the state bomb squad investigates reports of a possible explosion near the rocks, according to a spokeswoman …
Discussion: Raw Story and WCTX-TV
ABC News:
???This Week???  Transcript: Carly Fiorina  —  THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT FOR “THIS WEEK” ON JULY 12, 2015.  —  STEPHANOPOULOS: That's going to bring us to a senior Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Bob Menendez.  —  Thank you for joining us.  —  You just saw that optimism in Iran.
Discussion: Associated Press and Politico
 
 
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