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Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Trump and Fox said to be in talks over Monday interview — Donald Trump and the Fox News Channel are in talks about Trump possibly appearing on Fox on Monday night, according to a source with knowledge of the talks. — Trump has been lambasting Fox for days, ever since he was challenged in last week's GOP debate.
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Reid Wilson / Morning Consult:
Trump's Lead Grows After Debate, Controversy — Real estate magnate Donald Trump's lead over the Republican field grew in the several days after his performance at the first GOP presidential debate, according to a new Morning Consult survey, even after he invited a new round of scorn …
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Hot Air, Business Insider, The Daily Liberal Blast, Hullabaloo, Political Wire and John Hawkins' Right Wing News
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Trump holds post-debate lead in Iowa — Donald Trump has a healthy lead over the field of Republican presidential candidates in Iowa, according to the first poll of voters in the Hawkeye State since the GOP debate last week. — A new poll from the Democratic firm Public Policy Polling …
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Nick Gass / Politico:
Trump: Megyn Kelly should apologize to me
Trump: Megyn Kelly should apologize to me
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Max Fisher / Vox:
This chart shows sexist tweets to Megyn Kelly exploding since she questioned Donald Trump
This chart shows sexist tweets to Megyn Kelly exploding since she questioned Donald Trump
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Washington Post, The National Memo, Slantpoint, BizPac Review and Mashable
Erick Erickson / RedState:
The August Doldrums and Donald Trump
The August Doldrums and Donald Trump
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McKay Coppins / BuzzFeed:
Breitbart Staffers Believe Trump Has Given Money To Site For Favorable Coverage
Breitbart Staffers Believe Trump Has Given Money To Site For Favorable Coverage
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David Ferguson / Raw Story:
Donald Trump is buying positive coverage from Breitbart.com — and editorial staffers are outraged
Donald Trump is buying positive coverage from Breitbart.com — and editorial staffers are outraged
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Addicting Info and Mediaite
Patrick Healy / New York Times:
Hillary Clinton to Offer Plan on Paying College Tuition Without Needing Loans — With Americans shouldering $1.2 trillion in student loan debt, and about eight million of them in default, Hillary Rodham Clinton on Monday will propose major new spending by the federal government …
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Wall Street Journal:
Hillary Clinton Proposes Debt-Free Tuition at Public Colleges
Hillary Clinton Proposes Debt-Free Tuition at Public Colleges
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Washington Monthly, Kelchen on Education, The Huffington Post, American Spectator and Instapundit
Politico:
Hillary Clinton's $350 billion plan to kill college debt
Hillary Clinton's $350 billion plan to kill college debt
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Yahoo Politics, Kelchen on Education, Contemptor, The Federalist and Washington Post
Danielle Douglas-Gabriel / Washington Post:
Clinton proposes a $350 billion plan to make college affordable
Clinton proposes a $350 billion plan to make college affordable
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Medium, Bloomberg Business, Taylor Marsh, Hit & Run and The Week
Larry Page / Official Google Blog:
G is for Google — As Sergey and I wrote in the original founders letter 11 years ago, “Google is not a conventional company. We do not intend to become one.” As part of that, we also said that you could expect us to make “smaller bets in areas that might seem very speculative or even strange …
Washington Post:
State of emergency declared in Ferguson after police shoot and critically injure man during protests — FERGUSON, Mo. — A man who was shot and critically injured by police here after authorities said he opened fire at officers was in critical condition Monday, his father said …
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Carey Gillam / Reuters:
Gunshots heard as Ferguson protests turn violent a year after Brown shooting
Gunshots heard as Ferguson protests turn violent a year after Brown shooting
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The PJ Tatler and Hot Air
Rebecca Traister / New York Magazine:
The Big Secret of Abortion: Women Already Know How It Works — Planned Parenthood and the truth about women’s bodies. — 10.2k — Shares — 9.9k — Pin It … “I gave birth to two premature kids,” said California's Barbara Boxer on the Senate floor last week …
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Ruben Navarrette Jr / The Daily Beast:
I Don't Know If I'm Pro-Choice Anymore After Planned Parenthood Videos
I Don't Know If I'm Pro-Choice Anymore After Planned Parenthood Videos
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New York Post:
Fed-up cops post pictures of vagrants online — A picture of a vagrant submitted to the Sergeants Benevolent Association's Flickr account. — NYPD cops fed up with vagrants making life miserable in the city are taking matters into their own hands — by snapping photos of quality-of-life scofflaws and posting them online.
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Daily Mail
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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Townhall.com, Hot Air, Talking Points Memo and Washington Monthly
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Andy Sullivan / Reuters:
Exclusive: Trump's Republican support holds strong post-debate - Reuters/Ipsos poll
Exclusive: Trump's Republican support holds strong post-debate - Reuters/Ipsos poll
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Talking Points Memo, Washington Post and Daily Kos
The Daily Beast:
The Pentagon Is Keeping Half of Gitmo Locked Up—Against The White House's Wishes — Half of the Gitmo detainees have been cleared to leave—if the defense secretary signs the papers to actually let them go. — The White House wants to quickly cut the number of detainees at Guantánamo Bay.
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Business Insider, The Daily Caller, Hot Air, Defense One and New York Times
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Kristina Wong / The Hill:
Pentagon: Plan to close Guantánamo coming after August recess
John K. Wilson / The Academe Blog:
The Revelations in Phyllis Wise's Emails — What are the most important revelations in Phyllis Wise's secret personal emails that were uncovered on Friday? — Perhaps the key fact is that these emails existed at all. Using a personal email address to evade FOIA requests is clearly unethical and possibly illegal.
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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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Campaign for America's Future, Washington Monthly and JustOneMinute
John Fund / National Review:
Trump the Teenage Bully — He's no P. T. Barnum, he's Neidermeyer from Animal House. — As much as I've slammed The Donald for his inconsistent and incoherent policy views, I've always praised Trump's intelligence: “He is the P. T. Barnum of American politics, a brilliant self-promoter …
Tyler Kingkade / The Huffington Post:
Virginia Wesleyan College Demands Rape Victim's Entire Sexual History — The school says these details will help establish Jane Doe's credibility. — Senior Editor/Reporter, The Huffington Post — Virginia Wesleyan College is asking a woman who reported being sexually assaulted …
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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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Addicting Info, The Huffington Post and Washington Times
New York Times:
The Meeropol Brothers: Exonerate Our Mother, Ethel Rosenberg — OUR parents, Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, were executed on June 19, 1953, after being convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage. That was the formal legal charge, but in the public's mind they were executed for providing our archenemy …
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