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9:15 AM ET, July 27, 2015

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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: Taylor Marsh and BuzzFeed
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Politico:
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.
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
Jonathan Weisman / New York Times:
Senate Resurrection of Export-Import Bank Goes to Divided House
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 …
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.
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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 …
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 …
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New York Times:
Turkey and U.S. Agree on Plan to Clear ISIS From Strip of Syria's North  —  BAGHDAD — Turkey and the United States have agreed in general terms on a plan that envisions American warplanes, Syrian insurgents and Turkish forces working together to sweep Islamic State militants from a 60-mile-long strip …
Discussion: Guardian and Jihad Watch
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Washington Post:
U.S.-Turkey deal aims to create de facto ‘safe zone’ in northwest Syria
Discussion: Guardian and The Week
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
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Joe Coscarelli / New York Times:
Hologram Performance by Chief Keef Is Shut Down by Police
Discussion: The Verge
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.
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
Steven Shepard / Politico:
The television election  —  Despite all the hype about tools like Snapchat and Meerkat, the 2016 campaign will be dominated by a technology that's been around for decades: TV.  —  Getty  —  This was supposed to be the presidential campaign that ends the dominance of TV ads — the snapchat election, the livestreaming election.
Discussion: TVNewser
Jay Solomon / Wall Street Journal:
Lawmakers Say Iran Unlikely to Address Suspicions of Secret Weapons Program  —  U.S. administration says full disclosure about program's history isn't critical to verify future commitments  —  An Obama administration assessment of the Iran nuclear deal provided to Congress has led a number …
Discussion: Power Line and Algemeiner.com
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 …
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Timothy Noah / Politico:
Will the real Donald Trump please stand up?
Discussion: Associated Press and Power Line
Arthur C. Brooks / New York Times:
We Need Optimists  —  MY wife, Ester, and I had just endured …
Eric Owens / The Daily Caller:
At Anti-Bullying Conference, Middle Schoolers Learn About Lesbian Strap-On Anal Sex, Fake Testicles
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and Instapundit
Michael Slezak / TVLine:
Hannibal's Richard Armitage on the Tooth Fairy's Wordless Introduction and ‘Tragic Love Story’
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
ABC News:
Planned Parenthood President Says Organization Has Broken No Laws
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Pat Barton / KSAT-TV:
Suspects arrested 19 years after Rock­springs murder
Nolan Finley / Detroit News:
Democrats' handout strategy is failing
Discussion: Instapundit
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Smoking Gun: MPAA Emails Reveal Plan To Run Anti-Google Smear Campaign Via Today Show And WSJ
Discussion: Vox Popoli
William F. B. O'Reilly / Newsday:
Democrats tiptoe into dangerous territory
Discussion: Moe Lane
Eugene Scott / CNN:
Rick Perry: Let us take our guns to the movies
Peter Holley / Washington Post:
Woman who shot alleged attacker may have slain a serial killer, police say
Discussion: Twitchy
 

 
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