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2:15 PM ET, August 19, 2015

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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.
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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.
Discussion: American Spectator
Kim Zetter / Wired:
Hackers Finally Post Stolen Ashley Madison Data  —  Hackers who stole sensitive customer information from the cheating site AshleyMadison.com appear to have made good on their threat to post the data online.  —  A data dump 9.7 gigabytes in size was posted on Tuesday to the dark web using …
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
Steve Ragan / CSO:
Ashley Madison hackers publish compromised records
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!
Nick Gass / Politico:
Poll: Clinton losing ground to Sanders
Discussion: Common Dreams and The Week
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.
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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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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 …
Discussion: The Daily Caller and TheBlaze.com
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Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Hillary Clinton Takes On Civil Rights Generation Gap
Discussion: naked capitalism
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.
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Yvonne Craig News:
A Word from Yvonne Craig's Family
Discussion: NPR, New York Times, NBC News and UPROXX
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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Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
Clinton pulls plug on testy presser over server questions
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 …
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: Daily Mail, Mashable, Guardian and fox8.com
The Hill:
Walker shakes up GOP field with plan to replace ObamaCare  —  Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is jump-starting a debate on ObamaCare with the hope of getting out in front of his GOP rivals on one of the party's toughest topics.  —  Walker on Tuesday became the first leading presidential candidate …
Liz Robbins / New York Times:
In Video, Immigrant Worker at Trump Hotel Criticizes Donald Trump's Views  —  Ricardo Aca knew he could be fired.  But he wanted the camera to roll anyway.  —  Mr. Aca is shown holding his cellphone watching Donald J. Trump call Mexicans who enter the United States rapists, criminals and drug dealers.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Daily Kos
PaulCraigRoberts.org:
FBI Evidence Proves Innocence of Accused Boston Marathon Bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev  —  I have been contacted by attorney John Remington Graham, a member in good standing of the bar of the Minnesota Supreme Court and the United States Supreme Court.  He informs me that acting in behalf of Maret Tsanaeva …
Discussion: CANNONFIRE and Vox Popoli
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 …
George Joseph / The Intercept:
Undercover Police Have Regularly Spied On Black Lives Matter Activists in New York  —  Documents obtained by The Intercept confirm that undercover police officers attended numerous Black Lives Matter protests in New York City between December 2014 and February 2015.
 
 
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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:
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Sam Youngman / Lexington Herald-Leader:
Rand Paul makes $250,000 down payment for GOP presidential caucus in Kentucky
Discussion: Political Wire and The Atlantic
 Earlier Items: 
Robert Menendez / New York Post:
My proposal for a better Iran deal
Discussion: CNN, Washington Post and Instapundit
Ken Meyer / Mediaite:
Sarah Palin to Greta: I'm ‘So Happy’ with Trump
Discussion: Raw Story
Joe Schiavoni / USA Today:
Column: Myth of the ‘moderate’ John Kasich
Discussion: Wall Street Journal