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3:35 PM ET, July 17, 2015

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Ryan Grim / The Huffington Post:
A Note About Our Coverage Of Donald Trump's ‘Campaign’  —  Washington bureau chief for The Huffington Post  —  Editorial Director, The Huffington Post  —  After watching and listening to Donald Trump since he announced his candidacy for president, we have decided we won't report …
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Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
Wanna bet?  Trump makes wager after MSNBC host calls him liar  —  Donald Trump called into MSNBC's “Morning Joe” on Thursday to wager a year of Lawrence O'Donnell's network salary after the MSNBC host accused Trump of lying on his financial disclosure forms.
Mark Hensch / The Hill:
Trump: McCain will lose his primary  —  GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump on Friday defended his supporters from Sen. John McCain (Ariz.), saying his attacks on the right will cost him in his campaign for reelection next year.  —  McCain said in an interview published Thursday …
Discussion: Political Wire
David Brooks / New York Times:
Listening to Ta-Nehisi Coates While White  —  The last year has been an education for white people.  There has been a depth, power and richness to the African-American conversation about Ferguson, Baltimore, Charleston and the other killings that has been humbling and instructive.
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Scott Eric Kaufman / Salon:
David Brooks scolds Ta-Nehisi Coates: “I think you distort history”  —  The Times columnist displays more white privilege in one column than some white people experience in a lifetime  —  The New York Times' moral scold David Brook took time out from his career as a professional taxi cab passenger …
Discussion: Shakesville
Wall Street Journal:
Chattanooga Shooting Suspect's Trip to Jordan Scrutinized by Authorities  —  Officials looking at whether he had contact with extremists or traveled to other countries  —  Counterterrorism investigators are looking closely at a monthslong trip the Chattanooga shooting suspect took to Jordan …
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Matthew Balan / NewsBusters:
CNN Analyst Unsure If Mass Shooter Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez's Name is Muslim  —  Share it Tweet it  —  On Thursday's The Lead, CNN analyst Tom Fuentes was unwilling to conclude that the perpetrator of a mass shooting against servicemen in Chattanooga, Tennessee was Muslim.
Katie Zavadski / The Daily Beast:
Read Chattanooga Shooter's Blog
Jordan Sargent / Gawker:
Condé Nast's CFO Tried To Pay $2,500 for a Night With a Gay Porn Star  —  David Geithner, brother of ex-Obama Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, is currently the chief financial officer of Condé Nast.  This past weekend, he'd planned to go to Chicago—where he planned to meet …
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Nick Denton:
Taking a post down  —  Yesterday evening, Gawker.com published a story about the CFO of Conde Nast texting an escort.  It was an editorial call, a close call around which there were more internal disagreements than usual.  And it is a decision I regret.  —  The story involves extortion …
Jennifer Palmieri / Medium:
Hillary Clinton's No Good, (Record-Breaking, Poll-Winning), Very Bad Week  —  If you believe the mood and headlines from some of the press, it's been a pretty rough week for Hillary Clinton.  While there was widespread and substantive coverage of the rollout of her economic agenda, politically, it's a different story.
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Ben Brody / Bloomberg Business:
Lobbyists for Monsanto, ExxonMobil Raise Money for Hillary Clinton
Washington Post:
Clinton burns through millions as she assembles a political battleship
Niall Stanage / The Hill:
Sanders makes play for black vote
Discussion: Politico, ABC News and Prairie Weather
Nick Gass / Politico:
Hillary Clinton sounds the alarm on meteorites
Discussion: Washington Free Beacon and Hot Air
Katie Glueck / Politico:
Insiders: Ted Cruz hurt most by Trump candidacy  —  Insiders say Donald Trump is a candidate who is as uncompromising as Cruz on hot-button issues like immigration — and can deliver the message with even more fiery rhetoric.  —  Donald Trump's turn in the national spotlight is mainly taking …
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Politico:
The mystery of the Trump coalition  —  Pollsters can't get a read on his supporters.  —  Last weekend, Donald Trump added to his long list of bold claims by declaring himself the champion of a new “silent majority” of Americans.  —  While 17 percent of Republican voters isn't a majority …
Glenn Thrush / Politico:
Exclusive: Hillary's first ad buy  —  Hillary Clinton is reserving time for her first major ad buys of the 2016 campaign — shelling out $7.7 million of TV spots in Iowa and New Hampshire for the fall, a campaign official told POLITICO.  —  The ad buys would allow Clinton to go on the air …
Fox News:
Fox News Poll: Most voters don't trust Iran, many agree with Trump on immigration  — Home - Video - Politics - U.S. - Opinion - Entertainment - Tech - Science - Health - Travel - Lifestyle - World - Sports - On Air  —  ©2015 FOX News Network, LLC.  All rights reserved.
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Dana Blanton / Fox News:
Fox News Poll: Reshuffling of GOP field, many agree with Trump on immigration
Bloomberg Business:
Lloyd Blankfein Is Now a Billionaire … Goldman Sachs Group Inc. made hundreds of partners rich when it went public in 1999.  Its performance since then has turned Lloyd Blankfein into a billionaire.  —  The chief executive officer of the Wall Street bank for the past nine years …
Discussion: ValueWalk
Scott Wong / The Hill:
Republicans criticize Confederate flags at Obama visit  —  Two Oklahoma Republican congressmen ripped protesters in their state who greeted President Obama in Oklahoma City by waving Confederate flags, calling their actions “disrespectful,” “embarrassing” and “inappropriate.”
Discussion: Political Wire
Harold Meyerson / American Prospect:
How the American South Drives the Low-Wage Economy  —  Just as in the 1850s (with the Dred Scott decision and the Fugitive Slave Act), the Southern labor system (with low pay and no unions) is wending its way north.  —  Santayana had it wrong: Even if we remember the past, we may be condemned to repeat it.
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Angela Greiling Keane / Bloomberg Business:
Obama to Send Off Stewart in Seventh Daily Show Appearance  —  President Barack Obama and Jon Stewart will share one last moment of zen.  —  Obama will appear for the seventh time on the “Daily Show” on July 21, three weeks before Stewart hands off hosting duties to Trevor Noah, White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said.
Discussion: FishbowlDC
CNN:
Washington plane crash survivor desperately tried to save grandparents  —  Story highlights  —  Bellingham, Washington (CNN)A 16-year-old girl agonizingly tried to save her step-grandparents after a fiery small plane crash into a Washington mountain last weekend, she told CNN.
Oliver Lane / BREITBART.COM:
There Was a Significant Terrorist Attack in France This Week and the Mainstream Media Hasn't Even Bothered Telling You  —  Three deliberate, simultaneous explosions rocked a major petrochemical plant in France on Bastille Day, but as usual it is still ‘too early to talk about terrorism’.
Discussion: Belmont Club and The Daily Caller
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Liberals and Wages  —  Hillary Clinton gave her first big economic speech on Monday, and progressives were by and large gratified.  For Mrs. Clinton's core message was that the federal government can and should use its influence to push for higher wages.  —  Conservatives, however — at least those who could stop chanting “Benghazi!
Discussion: Washington Post
 
 
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I have my doubts Bill Cosby's a rapist
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Tom Hays / Yahoo Politics:
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Theodore Schleifer / CNN:
First on CNN: Cruz super PAC's plan to win presidency
Howard Mintz / Mercury News:
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Mike Lillis / The Hill:
Dems float compromise linking Confederate flag to voting rights
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Chattanooga shooting: Springfield native Thomas Sullivan among Marines killed
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Variety:
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Jim Milliot / Publishers Weekly:
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Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
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