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8:00 AM ET, July 27, 2015

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Senate smackdown: Ted Cruz, Mike Lee efforts squelched by leaders — The rift between Mitch McConnell and Ted Cruz widens. — Ted Cruz arrives for the Sunday Senate session on Capitol Hill. Ted Cruz just wanted a roll call vote on Sunday. Instead, he got a smackdown.

Discussion: RedState, The Daily Signal and The PJ Tatler

Jennifer Haberkorn / Politico:

Obamacare repeal vote fails in Senate — The Senate on Sunday voted down a Republican effort to repeal Obamacare, the GOP's first attempt to get rid of the president's health law since the party took control of the chamber in January. — The effort fell 49-43, exactly along party lines …

Discussion: Talking Points Memo

Manu Raju / Politico:

Marco Rubio, absentee senator — The Florida senator leads the 2016 pack — in playing hooky from his day job to campaign. — At last week's Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing, Marco Rubio attacked the Obama administration for failing to secure the release of American hostages in Iran.

Discussion: BuzzFeed

Jonathan Weisman / New York Times:

Senate Resurrection of Export-Import Bank Goes to Divided House — WASHINGTON — In a rare and fiery weekend session, the Senate voted on Sunday to resurrect the federal Export-Import Bank, handing the Republican Party's most conservative wing a major defeat and setting up a showdown this week …

Discussion: The Week

New York Magazine:

'I'm No Longer Afraid': 35 Women Tell Their Stories About Being Assaulted by Bill Cosby, and the Culture That Wouldn't Listen … More has changed in the past few years for women who allege rape than in all the decades since the women's movement began. Consider the evidence of October 2014 …

Discussion: New York Daily News, New York Times, Telegraph, Daily Mail, WISH-TV, Mashable, The Week, Raw Story, Guardian, WHNT-TV and Just Jared

TMZ.com:

Bobbi Kristina Dead — Whitney Houston's Daughter Dies at 22 — Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown's daughter Bobbi Kristina has died at the age of 22. — She passed away outside Atlanta in the hospice care facility where she's been since June 24 ... when her family decided to take her off all meds.

Discussion: WQAD-TV, People.com and The Daily Caller

Entertainment Tonight:

EXCLUSIVE: Bobbi Kristina Brown Dies at 22 — Bobbi Kristina Brown, the daughter of late music legend Whitney Houston and R&B singer Bobby Brown, died on July 26, surrounded by her family, at Peachtree Christian Hospice in Duluth, Georgia. She was 22. — “She is finally at peace in the arms of God …

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Chicago Tribune:

Chief Keef's hologram concert shut down by police in Hammond — Rapper Chief Keef appeared — via hologram — at a Hammond music festival Saturday night, but his performance was shut down by police within minutes. — The concert, planned as a benefit for a toddler and a friend of the rapper's …

Discussion: Washington Post and Hit & Run

Joe Coscarelli / New York Times:
Hologram Performance by Chief Keef Is Shut Down by Police

Discussion: The Verge

Jonathan Easley / The Hill:

Two weeks to go: Republicans scramble to make debate stage — The race is on for the final spots on stage for the first Republican debate. — With the highly-anticipated showdown less than two weeks away, candidates with low polling numbers are in a high-stakes scramble to qualify …

Adam Sneed / Politico:
Lindsey Graham dumps his flip phone after Donald Trump flap

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Nick Gass / Politico:

Reince Priebus: GOP candidates should pledge not to make third-party bids — Republican candidates for president should pledge not to run as a third-party candidate, Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus said Monday. — The remarks come days after current GOP frontrunner Donald Trump hinted …

Discussion: Political Wire

Jennifer Epstein / Bloomberg Business:

Hillary Clinton Outlines Climate Change Proposals — Hillary Clinton on Sunday set two “bold national goals” to combat climate change, promising that if she's elected president, she would set the United States on a path toward producing enough clean renewable to power every home in America within a decade.

Discussion: ABC News

CBS Baltimore:

2 Stabbed, 1 Fatally, At Frederick Co. Prayer Counseling Center — FREDERICK, Md. (WJZ)—Authorities in Frederick County are investigating after a man was stabbed to death at a prayer counseling center on Sunday night. — The Frederick County Sheriff's Office described a gruesome scene …

Discussion: Sputnik International

Robert Wilde / BREITBART.COM:

Huckabee: Obama Marching Israelis to ‘Door of Oven’ — Presidential aspirant and former governor of Arkansas Mike Huckabee joined Breitbart's editor-in-chief Alexander Marlow in an interview on Saturday. — Appearing on Breitbart News Saturday, the governor demonstrated his keen ability …