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3:40 PM ET, August 19, 2015

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Cory Bennett / The Hill:
15,000 government emails revealed in Ashley Madison leak  —  Thousands of clients using the affair-oriented Ashley Madison website listed email addresses registered to the White House, top federal agencies and military branches, a data dump by hackers revealed.
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John Herrman / The Awl:
Early Notes on the Ashley Madison Hack  —  1. A data dump, which allegedly contains over 35 million email addresses, 33 million accounts with more detailed information (names and addresses), and every credit card transaction from the last seven years, is reported to have been posted online.
Kim Zetter / Wired:
Hackers Finally Post Stolen Ashley Madison Data
Lahav Harkov / Jerusalem Post:
Polygamist MK Abu Arrar found on hacked infidelity website Ashley Madison's membership roll
Anthony Macri / Ashley Madison Media:   Statement from Avid Life Media Inc. - August 18, 2015
Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:
Data from hack of Ashley Madison cheater site purportedly dumped online [Updated]
Discussion: Washington Post, Moe Lane and Mashable
CNN:
CNN/ORC Poll: Donald Trump now competitive in general election  —  Washington (CNN)Since announcing his campaign in late June, Donald Trump has quickly leapt to the top of the Republican field, leading recent polls nationally, in Iowa and in New Hampshire.  And now, for the first time in CNN/ORC polling …
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Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly:
There Goes the Electability Argument!  —  Gage Skidmore/Wikimedia Commons (right)  —  One of my working hypotheses this year is the possibility that partisan polarization has made a hash of traditional “electability” arguments for this or that “moderate” presidential candidate for the simple reason …
Nick Gass / Politico:
Poll: Clinton losing ground to Sanders
Discussion: Common Dreams and The Week
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Act Two of the Trump Epic  —  We've gone far enough now with the Trump political phenomenon to know that it is no mere or momentary matter of name recognition which has placed him as the top contender for the Republican nomination, as bizarre an eventuality as that might appear.
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Nick Gass / Politico:
Trump to O'Reilly: The 14th Amendment is unconstitutional  —  Donald Trump clashed with Bill O'Reilly on Tuesday night over the part of his immigration plan that would take away citizenship from the children who were born in the United States but whose parents came to the country illegally.
Discussion: Mediaite, Hot Air and CNN
Edward J. Erler / National Review:
Trump's Critics Are Wrong about the Fourteenth Amendment and Birthright Citizenship
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Hot Air
Annie Karni / Politico:
Allies fault Hillary Clinton's response on emails  —  She's too legalistic and fails to grasp the need for a broader political strategy, they say.  —  LAS VEGAS — As Hillary Clinton faces a new round of questions about her email use as secretary of state, some longtime allies …
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Jeffrey Toobin / New Yorker:
Hillary's Problem: The Government Classifies Everything
Discussion: Hot Air and Viking Pundit
George Jahn / Associated Press:
AP Exclusive: UN to let Iran inspect alleged nuke work site  —  1 photo  —  VIENNA (AP) — Iran, in an unusual arrangement, will be allowed to use its own experts to inspect a site it allegedly used to develop nuclear arms under a secret agreement with the U.N. agency that normally carries out such work …
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Steven Ertelt / LifeNews.com:
7th Shocking Video Catches Planned Parenthood Harvesting Brain of Aborted Baby Who Was Still Alive  —  The organization that has released six videos exposing the scandal of Planned Parenthood selling aborted babies and their body parts has released a new undercover video today with another shocking discovery.
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Yvonne Craig News:
A Word from Yvonne Craig's Family  —  For those who have known her personally, you already know what a down to earth, most exceptional person she was, so I'm sure you can understand this loss has touched all of our lives.  —  Yvonne was a very private person, so from the onset of her battle with cancer …
Discussion: NPR, New York Times, NBC News and UPROXX
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Yvonne Craig News:
YVONNE CRAIG'S OFFICIAL OBITUARY  —  Yvonne Craig passed away at her home in Pacific Palisades, surrounded by her immediate family and comforted by Hospice yesterday night.  She died from complications brought about from breast cancer that had metastasized to her liver.
Milo Yiannopoulos / BREITBART.COM:
Did Black Lives Matter Organizer Shaun King Mislead Oprah Winfrey By Pretending To Be Biracial?  —  An investigative blogger has accused Shaun King, a key figure in the Black Lives Matter movement, of misleading media icon Oprah Winfrey by pretending to be biracial in order to qualify for an …
Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Hillary Clinton Takes On Civil Rights Generation Gap  —  The video is visceral and raw: Hillary Rodham Clinton — the presidential candidate so often faulted for insulating herself from voters and critics alike — in a tense, awkward, unscripted moment.  —  A Black Lives Matter activist demands …
Discussion: naked capitalism
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Jamie Blynn / Us Weekly:
Megan Fox and Brian Austin Green Split: Couple Has Separated After 11 Years Together  —  Megan Fox and Brian Austin Green are going forward as solo acts.  After 11 years together, five of them as a married couple, “Megan has separated from Brian,” an insider reveals exclusively in the new issue of Us Weekly.
Tony Raap / Greensburg Tribune-Review:
Fayette County house from ‘The Silence of the Lambs’ up for sale  —  Home for sale, dungeon not included.  —  The owners of a Fayette County house that appeared in the 1991 thriller “The Silence of the Lambs” are looking to sell.  —  Scott and Barbara Lloyd's three-story Victorian near Perryopolis …
Discussion: Mashable, Guardian and fox8.com
Access Hollywood:
Heidi Klum On Trump Comment: ‘In My Book, Every Woman Is A 10’  —  Heidi Klum isn't clear about why Presidential candidate Donald Trump chose to mention her in a recent interview.  —  “Personally, I have no idea what I have to do with the election,” Heidi told Access Hollywood guest …
 
 
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Josh Kraushaar / National Journal:
Obama's Nuclear Deal Tests Lawmakers' Loyalty
Discussion: Hot Air and American Thinker
Leon H. Wolf / Washington Post:
BlackLivesMatter is wasting its time with Democrats
Isaac Avilucea / The Trentonian:
Weapon charge dismissed for man with no muscle control in arms
Discussion: Raw Story
Julie Bykowicz / Associated Press:
Bush Family Donors Gave Half of Jeb Bush's Presidential Cash
Discussion: Daily Kos
Sarah Solemani / The Independent:
Voting for Jeremy Corbyn is deluded. For the love of Labour, pick Yvette Cooper
Discussion: Guardian and Telegraph
Pew Research Center / Pew Internet:
Mobile Messaging and Social Media 2015
Discussion: The Hill and CNNMoney
Sam Youngman / Lexington Herald-Leader:
Rand Paul makes $250,000 down payment for GOP presidential caucus in Kentucky
 Earlier Items: 
PaulCraigRoberts.org:
FBI Evidence Proves Innocence of Accused Boston Marathon Bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev
Discussion: CANNONFIRE and Vox Popoli
The Hill:
Walker shakes up GOP field with plan to replace ObamaCare