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McKay Coppins / BuzzFeed:
Breitbart Staffers Believe Trump Has Given Money To Site For Favorable Coverage — As Donald Trump faces a growing backlash from conservative media over his recent attacks on a Fox News host, one prominent right-wing outlet remains firmly in his corner: Breitbart News, which has set itself apart …
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NBC News:
New NBC News/Survey Monkey Poll: Donald Trump Still in the Lead After Debates — If Donald Trump's comments about Fox News Anchor Megyn Kelly are hurting his standing in the Republican primary, it's not showing in the numbers. — According to the latest NBC News Online Poll conducted by SurveyMonkey …
Mark Hensch / The Hill:
Trump: Listening to Fiorina causes headaches — Donald Trump on Sunday took a shot at fellow 2016 GOP presidential candidate Carly Fiorina, saying you “develop a massive headache” if you listen to the former Hewlett-Packard CEO. — “I just realized that if you listen to Carly Fiorina …
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Politico, Washington Post and John Hawkins' Right Wing News
Erick Erickson / RedState:
The August Doldrums and Donald Trump — August is the doldrums of political season. The winds stop and one story can stick around and take up attention. August is the season of Monica Lewinsky, Chandra Levy, Cindy Sheehan, the Obamacare protests, the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, etc., etc., etc.
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John Kass / Chicago Tribune:
Death blow from Fox News' Megyn Kelly already taking effect on Trump
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Eric Bradner / CNN:
Carly Fiorina on Donald Trump: ‘Women understood that comment’
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Jon Karl / ABC News:
Donald Trump Considering Taking Pledge Not to Run as Third-Party Candidate — Donald Trump may soon do what Republican leaders have been asking the billionaire candidate to do — pledge not to run as an independent candidate for president, a senior Trump adviser told ABC News.
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Washington Post:
Donald Trump struggles to turn political fling into a durable campaign
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Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
It's Not the First Time Donald Trump Has Flirted With a Third-Party Run
Nicholas Confessore / New York Times:
Donald Trump Remains Defiant on News Programs Amid G.O.P. Backlash
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Charles M. Blow / New York Times:
‘Black Lives Matter’ and the G.O.P. — Only one candidate in last week's Republican presidential debate was asked to directly address the Black Lives Matter movement and that candidate was Gov. Scott Walker. — Moderator Megyn Kelly asked Walker: — “Governor Walker …
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Mark Hensch / The Hill:
Booker: Sanders has ‘long record of civil rights’ — Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) said on Sunday that 2016 Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) is a life-long defender of minorities. — Booker added that his Senate colleague's record is one of deep respect for civil rights.
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Lauren Haviland / WJHL:
“I really hope racism stops,” 9-year-old at “Black Lives Matter” march in JC
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Raw Story and Addicting Info
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
G.O.P. Candidates and Obama's Failure to Fail — What did the men who would be president talk about during last week's prime-time Republican debate? Well, there were 19 references to God, while the economy rated only 10 mentions. Republicans in Congress have voted dozens of times to repeal …
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Lisa Brown / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
1 person shot during protests late Sunday in Ferguson — Updated at 3:10 a.m. with father identifying shooting victim. — FERGUSON • A peaceful day of protest and remembrance dissolved into chaos late Sunday when a man fired multiple shots at four St. Louis County plainclothes detectives in an SUV.
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Nick Gutteridge / Daily Express:
Hero SAS sniper saves father and eight-year-old son from being beheaded by ISIS maniac — A HERO SAS sniper gunned down a knife-wielding Islamic State (ISIS) maniac just as he was trying to brutally behead a father and his young son. — ALAMY — An SAS sniper took out the ISIS executioner just in time
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The Jawa Report and The Daily Caller
Bradford Richardson / The Hill:
Ex-NATO supreme commander rips Obama over military cuts — Former NATO Supreme Commander James Stavridis criticized President Obama, his former boss, for recent cuts to military spending while U.S. troops are still engaged on multiple fronts around the world.
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Washington Free Beacon
Tim Carpenter / Topeka Capital-Journal:
Sam Brownback's brother accused of terrorizing rural neighbors — Joann Peine, social worker by profession and farm wife by marriage, ended a period of soul-searching by asking a Linn County District Court judge to issue protection orders for stalking against Jim Brownback and his stepdaughter.
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Dan Witters / Gallup:
In U.S., Uninsured Rates Continue to Drop in Most States — Story Highlights — WASHINGTON, D.C. — Arkansas and Kentucky continue to have the sharpest reductions in their uninsured rates since the healthcare law took effect at the beginning of 2014. Oregon, Rhode Island and Washington join …
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Washington Times and The Huffington Post
John Wagner / Washington Post:
Bernie Sanders draws 28,000 people in Portland, his campaign says — largest 2016 contender crowd by far — Presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders, who has been drawing eye-poppingly large crowds on the campaign trail, on Sunday night attracted his largest audience yet: about 28,000 people in Portland, Ore., according to his campaign.
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