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11:10 AM ET, August 2, 2015

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Carrie Dann / NBC News:
Donald Trump Surges in New NBC News/WSJ Poll  —  Days before the first Republican debate, Donald Trump has surged into the national lead in the GOP primary race, with Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush following, a new NBC News/ Wall Street Journal poll shows.
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Kevin Cirilli / The Hill:
Trump builds his political machine  —  Donald Trump is assembling a team of political strategists and campaign staffers charged with sustaining his lead in the Republican presidential polls.  —  While strategists say Trump still got a ways to go to catch up to his rivals for the White House …
Amy Chozick / New York Times:
Joe Biden Said to Be Taking New Look at Presidential Run  —  Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and his associates have begun to actively explore a possible presidential campaign, an entry that would upend the Democratic field and deliver a direct threat to Hillary Rodham Clinton …
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William Kristol / Weekly Standard:   Who Was Maureen Dowd's Source?
Associated Press:
Biden Associates Resume Discussion About Presidential Run
Discussion: Politico
Kenneth P. Vogel / Politico:
Charles Koch: ‘Life or death struggle for our country’  —  Kicking off a donor seminar, the billionaire casts reckless foreign policy and overspending as bipartisan problems.  —  DANA POINT, Calif. - Charles Koch, in a Saturday evening speech welcoming major donors and leading Republicans …
Discussion: Washington Post and Slantpoint
Politico:
Congress balks at lifeline for Puerto Rico  —  Puerto Rico is suffocating under a mountain of $73 billion in debt — and everyone from Jeb Bush to Hillary Clinton to Barack Obama is urging Congress to throw the U.S. territory a bankruptcy lifeline.  —  Capitol Hill's response?  A slow shrug.
Discussion: ThinkProgress and Associated Press
WFAA-TV:
Sources: Grand jury indicts Attorney General Ken Paxton  —  McKINNEY — A grand jury has indicted Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on multiple felony charges, according to several sources who are familiar with the complaints.  —  The charges will be unsealed in McKinney on Monday about noon …
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New York Post:
Crime wave grips Central Park  —  A violent beggar choked a West Side man into unconsciousness in Central Park's Ramble in a hellish mugging that underscores the famed park's skyrocketing robbery stats.  —  “If you scream I'll kill you,” were the last words the 53-year-old victim heard Thursday night …
Discussion: Daily Mail
Richard A. Serrano / Chicago Tribune:
Assailant in Garland, Texas, attack bought gun in 2010 under Fast and Furious operation  —  Five years before he was shot to death in the failed terrorist attack in Garland, Texas, Nadir Soofi walked into a suburban Phoenix gun shop to buy a 9-millimeter pistol.
Macdonald Dzirutwe / Reuters:
Brother of Zimbabwe's lion Cecil appears alive and well: researcher  —  The brother of Cecil, the lion killed in Zimbabwe by an American hunter last month, is not dead, a researcher monitoring the pride told Reuters, contradicting media reports that Jericho had been killed.
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New York Times:
Obama to Unveil Tougher Climate Plan With His Legacy in Mind  —  WASHINGTON — In the strongest action ever taken in the United States to combat climate change, President Obama will unveil on Monday a set of environmental regulations devised to sharply cut planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions …
P. J. O'Rourke / The Daily Beast:
The Unbearable Nuttiness of Mike Huckabee  —  Oh go home, you old fundamentalist fool, before you embarrass the Republicans any more.  —  “Playing the Hitler card” is an infallible sign that a politician has run out of intelligent, substantive and plausible ways to criticize an opponent.
Sebastian Robertson / WFAA-TV:
Man dies after Dallas jail scuffle  —  Witnesses of the incident say a deputy used excessive force on a man who ran into the jail.  Sebastian Robertson reports.  —  CONNECT  —  DALLAS — Dallas County officials said a man died after a Saturday morning scuffle with a deputy at the county jail.
Tom Boggioni / Raw Story:
Texas sheriff refuses to turn over jailhouse video after 32-year-old gay man dies of ‘natural causes’  —  DON'T MISS STORIES.  FOLLOW RAW STORY!  —  The family of a 32-year-old gay man who died in a Texas jail want more answers as to why he was denied his medication that led to the seizures that killed him, reports KTRK.
Discussion: theGrio and LiberalAmerica.org
Ali Weinberg / ABC News:
Texas Already Defunded Planned Parenthood — Here's What Congress Can Learn From It  —  As Congress seeks to end all taxpayer funding for Planned Parenthood, lawmakers and health care professionals in the state of Texas, who took similar action in recent years, have some advice on how to make that transition …
Discussion: Associated Press
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Peter Sullivan / The Hill:
Questions raised about Planned Parenthood cuts
Discussion: Hot Air
 
 
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Judge wants Clinton certification on emails
Discussion: Power Line, Hot Air and Reuters
Richard N. Haass / Wall Street Journal:
Desert Storm, the Last Classic War
Discussion: CFR.org
Kristen Green / The Atlantic:
Prince Edward County's Long Shadow of Segregation
ABC News:
Watch Military Dad Surprise Son at Baseball Game After 6 Months in Kuwait
Discussion: fox8.com
Jenise Fernandez / WPLG-TV:
South Florida woman first to receive bionic eye in Florida
Discussion: Slantpoint, ABC News and abc13.com
 Earlier Items: 
Mark Hensch / The Hill:
Christie: Elizabeth Warren is ‘taking over’ Democratic Party
Brendan James / International Business Times:
Salon.com Recognizes Union, Ending Monthlong Standoff With Editorial Staff
Jessica McMaster / KSHB-TV:
Video of Lenexa PD arrest goes viral, sparks concerns
Discussion: BizPac Review, Mediaite and Raw Story
William Saletan / Slate:
The Iran hearings have shown how the Republican Party can no longer be trusted with the presidency.