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CNN:
Post-debate, Trump pulls clear of competition — Washington (CNN)Donald Trump has won his party's trust on top issues more than any other Republican presidential candidate, and now stands as the clear leader in the race for the GOP nomination, according to a new CNN/ORC poll.
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I Am Republican, Hear Me Roar — To hear most of the Republican candidates tell it, all an American president has to do is talk tough, make demands, send more troops overseas, pour billions more dollars into the Pentagon and the world will fall in line. The notion they're peddling boils down to this …
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Andrew Ross Sorkin / New York Times:
Carly Fiorina's Business Record: Not So Sterling — “I come from a world outside of politics, where track records and accomplishments count.” — Those were the words of Carly Fiorina, a Republican candidate for president, earlier this year. Readers of the business pages know her as the former chief executive of Hewlett-Packard.
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Matt Latimer / Politico:
Hillary Clinton is rooting for Jeb Bush — The Clintons want Bush to win the nomination—because he's easy to beat. — Getty. — SHARES — There is an obvious subtext to the panicked effort to purge the GOP of Donald Trump: to allow the party's true hero to emerge to vanquish Hillary Clinton …
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Seema Mehta / Los Angeles Times:
Jeb Bush, seemingly perfect on paper, just hasn't caught on with GOP voters
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Emily Smith / Page Six:
Chris Cuomo saves drowning man in Hamptons — CNN anchor Chris Cuomo rescued a drowning man who had been swept away by a fierce rip current while boating in the Hamptons. — The “New Day” anchor and brother of New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo spotted the older man being carried …
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Hillary Clinton to #BlackLivesMatter in Video, “I Don't Believe You Change Hearts...” — “...you change laws, you change allocation of resources, you change the way systems operate.” by Gabriel Reilich — As recently reported by various news outlets, Hillary Clinton held a closed-door session …
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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Hillary Clinton's Inevitable Problems — With so many candidates and so long to go until next November, we're going to make plenty of bad predictions over the course of the 2016 campaign. But one of our very first predictions about 2016, one we made almost three years ago, has already proven true.
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Politico:
Fox's Luntz blasted Trump at Koch seminar — In a fresh exchange of accusations, Donald Trump says Fox should fire its focus-group moderator. — Donald Trump's feud with GOP pollster Frank Luntz escalated Monday - with Trump calling on Fox News to fire Luntz from overseeing its post-debate focus groups …
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Ed O'Keefe / Washington Post:
Jeb Bush on Donald Trump's immigration ideas: ‘A plan needs to be grounded in reality’ — COLUMBIA, S.C. — Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush on Monday night dismissed as impractical Donald Trump's proposals to erect a U.S.-Mexico border wall, use remittances to pay for its construction and to revoke birthright citizenship.
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Ariane de Vogue / CNN:
305 documents from Clinton server referred for further review — Washington (CNN)Intelligence officials assigned to review emails from Hillary Clinton's server for classified information have so far recommended that 305 documents be referred to agencies for further consultation, according to a report filed with a federal judge Monday.
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Gayle Tzemach Lemmon / Foreign Policy:
Meet the First Class of Women to Graduate From Army Ranger School — Two women have crossed rivers, scaled walls, and jumped over a gender barrier to make it through the U.S. Army's toughest training program. — EGLIN AIR FORCE BASE — Under the baking hot early August sun …
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New York Times:
Inmate's Death Follows Reports of Abuse at a New York State Prison — On the evening of April 21 in Building 21 at the Fishkill Correctional Facility, Samuel Harrell, an inmate with a history of erratic behavior linked to bipolar disorder, packed his bags and announced he was going home …
Jonah Spangenthal-Lee / SPD Blotter:
Officers Pull Over Speeding Car, End Up Delivering Baby — A routine traffic stop on a South Seattle street early Sunday put officers right in the midst of the miracle of childbirth. — Around 3:45 AM, Officer Anthony Reynolds saw a car running red lights and speeding down Martin Luther King Jr …
Chris Smith / FOX2now.com:
Elderly Tuskegee Airman has car and cash stolen while lost in St. Louis — ST. LOUIS (KTVI) - A 93-year-old Tuskegee Airman had his car stolen and was robbed in two separate incidents on Sunday night. The robbery happened Sunday at McPherson and Sarah in North St. Louis
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John Hinderaker / Power Line:
CNN Forgets to Mention Op-Ed Writer Is a Million Dollar Bundler For Hillary — CNN carried an op-ed today in its Opinion section titled, “Hillary Clinton revived America's reputation in world.” The piece, by Eleni Kounalakis, was a paean to Hillary's wonderfulness as Secretary of State.
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Sen. Marco Rubio / Politico:
My plan to fix health care — To help more of our people achieve the American Dream, we need to make affordable, quality healthcare accessible in the 21st century. Unfortunately, President Barack Obama's one-size-fits-all, big government approach has failed to achieve this goal.
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Peter Dukes / Customer:
Big News for the Beloved Pumpkin Spice Latte — We have been trying to keep a lid on some big news for the beloved Pumpkin Spice Latte, but with recipes and ingredients starting to ship to our stores, the buzz is building. — What's the big deal? — After hearing from customers …
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Elana Schor / Politico:
Greens decry Obama's Shell game — “The president cannot have it both ways,” Greenpeace says after the company wins an Arctic drilling permit. — President Barack Obama crushed greens' hearts Monday by giving Shell the final go-ahead to drill for oil in Alaska's Arctic waters …
Chaédria LaBouvier / Matter:
I Watched 14 Police Officers Take Down a One-Legged Homeless Black Man Outside Twitter HQ — And nobody could stop them. — Last week I was on my way to visit Medium's headquarters in San Francisco to discuss a project that I'm working on, mainly focused around police brutality.
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Theodoric Meyer / Politico:
Group targets Democrats on Iran deal — Mowrer to run in IA-03 — Redistricting updates — The following newsletter is an abridged version of Campaign Pro's Morning Score. For an earlier morning read on exponentially more races - and for a more comprehensive aggregation of the day's …
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John McCormick / Bloomberg Business:
Scott Walker Being Trumped by The Donald in Crucial State of Iowa
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