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Mark Hensch / The Hill:
Sanders rips Trump: ‘We left the helicopter at home’ — Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) mocked GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump on Saturday for offering rides in his helicopter outside of the Iowa State Fair. — “Oh look, what can you do? It's Donald Trump,” he quipped during the event …
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Jesse Byrnes / The Hill:
Trump gives kids helicopter rides at Iowa State Fair — Billionaire businessman Donald Trump offered kids helicopter rides in a show of wealth as he bragged Saturday that he is willing to spend $1 billion on his presidential campaign. — “I'm turning down so much money,” …
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ABC News, CNN, Business Insider and Hullabaloo
Eli Stokols / Politico:
Trump Force One lands at the Iowa State Fair — Donald Trump vowed to spend as much as $1 billion to defeat Hillary Clinton as he brought his unique brand of pandemonium to Des Moines. — DES MOINES — There in the center of the sweaty, frothing mob of bodies and cameras and microphones …
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New York Times, Washington Post and NPR
Robert Costa / Washington Post:
Trump to reveal immigration, tax policy plans next month
Trump to reveal immigration, tax policy plans next month
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Business Insider and Power Line
New York Times:
AT&T Helped U.S. Spy on Internet on a Vast Scale — The National Security Agency's ability to spy on vast quantities of Internet traffic passing through the United States has relied on its extraordinary, decades-long partnership with a single company: the telecom giant AT&T.
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Liberaland and Reuters
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ProPublica:
NSA Spying Relies on AT&T's ‘Extreme Willingness to Help’ — by Julia Angwin and Jeff Larson, ProPublica; Charlie Savage and James Risen, The New York Times; and Henrik Moltke and Laura Poitras, special to ProPublica
New York Times:
Inside Amazon: Wrestling Big Ideas in a Bruising Workplace — SEATTLE — On Monday mornings, fresh recruits line up for an orientation intended to catapult them into Amazon's singular way of working. — They are told to forget the “poor habits” they learned at previous jobs, one employee recalled.
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The Week, The Verge, Gothamist and Unfogged, more at Mediagazer »
Daniel Strauss / Politico:
Donald Trump bad-mouths his rivals — The billionaire real estate mogul attacks Bush, and Paul, and Walker, and Graham, and Fiorina. — HAMPTON, N.H. — Donald Trump, doing a giddy victory lap after surviving another seemingly campaign-sinking controversy, went on a tear on Friday night, delivering take-downs of many of his rivals.
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Political Wire and The Gateway Pundit
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Jesse Byrnes / The Hill:
Jeff Flake comes out against Iran deal — Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.), one of the few potential GOP supporters of the international accord over Iran's nuclear program, announced Saturday he would oppose the deal, dealing a blow to the White House. — Flake said in a lengthy statement …
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The PJ Tatler
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Vicki Needham / The Hill:
Democrat to block Obama trade nominee
Steven W Thrasher / Guardian:
Missouri police officer brags about spending ‘annual Michael Brown bonus’ — Patrolman investigated over Facebook post in which he shows off about extra cash made working during protests in Ferguson this week — St Louis County police are investigating a Facebook comment …
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Associated Press, Mediaite, The Gateway Pundit, Fusion, ThinkProgress, CBS St. Louis, Reuters and NPR
Politico:
Joe Biden strategy for White House run taking shape — 'I think he's getting closer to saying yes,' one Biden ally says. — CHICAGO — With his blessing, confidants to Vice President Joe Biden have begun strategizing about travel to early primary states and identified potential donors …
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Slate, Political Wire and Balloon Juice
Ezra Klein / Vox:
Donald Trump is the perfect “moderate” — At the New York Times, Josh Barro argues that Donald Trump is a moderate Republican. — Here's the argument: Trump's affect is much more confrontational than his (occasionally self-contradictory) policy pronouncements.
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Christian Science Monitor, New York Times and Democratic Strategist
Lexington Herald-Leader:
Time for Davis to do her job or resign — Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis has chosen to prolong her moment in the limelight by defying a federal judge's order to issue marriage licenses to legally qualifed people who apply for them. — U.S. District Judge David Bunning kindly …
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Friendly Atheist and Joe.My.God.