Hillary Clinton strongly backs public option, wins praise from Bernie Sanders VOX

Hillary Clinton released this morning revisions in her health plan, pledges that aren't new to her platform. Hillary ran on the public option for healthcare in 2008 and she has long supported community health care centers, as VOX reminds reads.

What is a key point is that with the nomination in hand, Hillary is emphasizing progressive ideas that are important to most Democrats, not only Sanders supporters.

Besides a pledge to include a public option health insurance plan for Americans in every state, and doubling funding for primary care services in community health center, Clinton pledged to let Americans as young as 55 to opt into Medicare.

" Indeed, in a press call after Clinton’s announcement, Sanders described her health care proposal as an "extremely important initiative" and "an important step forward" — and emphasized that it was made "after discussions with our campaign."'

Bernie Sanders Allies Lose a Fight Over Democrats' Stance on Trade New York Times

The Democratic Platform Committee refused to adopt the Sanders language promising to never bring TPP to a vote. As we've written all week, such language would be a rebuke to President Obama and a largely symbolic move since the platform committee doesn't dictate the Congressional legislative agenda.

The Sanders team sent boos into the room, arguing that if Clinton really opposed TPP, she should sign on to the Sanders amendment.

One Down, Will We Have Another? Ladies Set to Lead in Britain

Angela Eagle to announce Labour party leadership bid on Monday The Guardian

We already know that Britain will have a woman Prime Minister, now Home Secretary Theresa May set to replace David Cameron.

Now Jeremy Corbyn has a challenger for head of the Labour opposition party. He will face a challenge by fellow MP Angela Eagle after talks between the party’s parliamentary wing and its labour union backers collapsed today, Saturday.

Eagle, who served as shadow business secretary until resigning her position in late June in protest to Corbyn's lukewarm efforts to remain in the EU, said she would announce her bid on Monday, with a pledge to “explain my vision for the country and the difference a strong Labour Party can make.”

With German Chancellor Angela Merkel's popularity dropping as a result of the refugee crisis, it's unclear if she can win another term in 2017. As a result of Brexit, however, Europe may need Merkel more than ever. Previously, Merkel had said that she would not run again, but a Google search says she probably will.

With Hillary as president of the US, women leaders would have a very strong presence in global politics.

Hillary Clinton Headlines July 11, 2016

Lt. Gen. Flynn: U.S. won't 'collapse' because of same-sex marriage, abortion Politico

Good news for Hillary Clinton: June's job report was the strongest of 2016 VOX

Jill Stein Says Bernie Sanders Can Have the Green Party's Nomination The Fiscal Times

Clinton calls for national use of force standards for police PBS

Sanders claims victory as Dems approve $15 minimum wage in party platform Politico

Trump, Clinton run on opposite sides of a fractured America Politico

Star Jones Co-Hosts Hillary Clinton Fundraiser in New York on Dec. 10, 2015

Next month on Dec. 10, Star Jones, former co-host of 'The View' and president of the Professional Diversity Network and National Association of Professional Women; Cora Masters Barry, widow of former D.C. Mayor Marion Barry; Yolanda Caraway, president and CEO of the Caraway Group; and Minyon Moore, principal of Dewey Square Group and head of state and local affairs and multicultural strategies practices for the Clinton campaign are hosting an exclusive private reception and fundraiser called 'African-American Women For Hillary Clinton.'

Donations begin at $1000.

Hillary Clinton's Nov. 19 Speech At Council for Foreign Relations

Transcript: Read Hillary Clinton's Speech on Fighting ISIS TIME

Clinton offers her plan for defeating Islamic State Politico

Clinton also challenged Turkey to step up and become full partners in combating ISIL. “This is their fight, and they need to act like it,” she said. “So far, however, Turkey has been more focused on the Kurds than on countering ISIS.”

And she specified how she would run a no-fly zone in Syria, saying it would be “principally over northern Syria close to the border, cutting off the supply lines, trying to provide some safe refuges for refugees ... creating a safe space away from the barrel bombs. I would certainly expect to work with the Russians to be able to do that.

“This is a time for American leadership. No other country can rally the world to defeat ISIS. Only the United States can mobilize common action on a global scale,” she said. “The entire world must be part of this fight, but we must lead it.”

The balancing act for Clinton remains how to position herself in relation to Obama, who last week, just hours before the coordinated attacks across the City of Light, said the Islamic State in Iraq had been geographically “contained.” Clinton is seen as the most hawkish Democrat in the 2016 race but also the only candidate who can be directly connected with helping put together Obama’s ISIL containment strategy as secretary of state.

“We have to look at ISIS as the leading threat of an international terror network,” Clinton said at the second Democratic debate last Saturday. “It cannot be contained; it must be defeated.”

In a Q&A following her speech, journalist Fareed Zakaria pushed Clinton to draw contrasts with her foreign policy vision and that of Obama, but she did not take the bait. She called her proposals “in many ways an intensification and acceleration” of Obama’s current strategy to defeat ISIL.

Hillary Clinton Takes On ISIS David Brooks @New York Times

Hillary Clinton Headlines November 22, 2015

Clinton moves to end the primary quickly Politico

Wall St. Ties Linger as Image Issue for Hillary Clinton New York Times

Clinton Opens 25-Point Lead on Sanders in Bloomberg Politics National Poll Bloomberg News

Hillary Clinton Calls for Middle Class Tax Cuts TIME

Hillary Clinton Remembers When She Was Once Told That Women's Rights Were Not Important Vogue

Bernie Sanders backed by $570,000 from union super PAC CNN

Hillary Clinton Urges No-Fly Zone and More Airstrikes To Defeat ISIS New York Times