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Bill Clinton Sought State Department OK For Paid Speeches Related to North Korea, Congo, New E-mails Show — ABC News has obtained State Department e-mails that shed light on Bill Clinton's lucrative speaking engagements and show he and the Clinton Foundation tried to get approval …
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Daily Mail, Business Insider, Mediaite, Hot Air, America Rising, Washington Free Beacon and The Mahablog
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Clinton Camp Claims It's Already Secured One-Fifth the Delegates Needed for Nomination — As Hillary Clinton's campaign seeks to project dominance in a field that could soon include Vice President Joe Biden, her top advisers are touting a decisive edge on a little-discussed metric: superdelegate commitments.
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The Gateway Pundit, America Rising and Politico
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Clinton quietly trying to discourage Biden from a 2016 bid — WASHINGTON (AP) — In ways both subtle and blunt, Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign is sending a message to Vice President Joe Biden about his potential presidential campaign: This won't be easy.
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Weekly Standard and Daily Mail
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How Huma Abedin operated at the center of the Clinton universe
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Fox News, Hot Air, Weasel Zippers, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, ABC News and America Rising
Ryan Lizza / New Yorker:
Biden Can't Beat Clinton, But He Can Be the Party's Backup
Biden Can't Beat Clinton, But He Can Be the Party's Backup
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Wall Street Journal, National Journal, Moe Lane and Prairie Weather
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Reporter's everyday comments deemed racist by on-air killer — Innocent comments made by slain reporter Alison Parker (left) incited Vester Lee Flanagon's racism fueled shooting. — ROANOKE, Va. — The words are a part of everyday conversation — “swinging” by an address and going out in the “field.”
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TheBlaze.com, Telegraph, National Review, No More Mister Nice Blog, Weasel Zippers, KFOR-TV, Daily Mail and BizPac Review
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John Nolte / BREITBART.COM:
Report: LGBT Rainbow Hate-Flag Found In WDBJ Killer's Virginia Apartment
Report: LGBT Rainbow Hate-Flag Found In WDBJ Killer's Virginia Apartment
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Addicting Info, The Daily Caller, Raw Story and CofCC
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Donald Trump: 'I'm The King Of The Tax Code!' (VIDEO) — Republican presidential candidate and real estate mogul Donald Trump reminded us of his business prowess, calling himself “king of the tax code” during a Friday morning interview with MSNBC's “Morning Joe.”
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Trump explains why he's hitting Jeb harder than other rivals — <p>Donald Trump explained his attacks toward Jeb Bush on Friday, saying that he had taken for granted that the former governor of Florida was going to be his chief rival.</p><p>Asked to answer why he has continually referred …
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Political Wire
Jason Horowitz / New York Times:
Donald Trump Weighing Whether to Sign Pledge to Back Republicans' Eventual Nominee
Donald Trump Weighing Whether to Sign Pledge to Back Republicans' Eventual Nominee
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Political Wire and ABC News
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Donald Trump Brings His Insult Show to South Carolina
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The Week, Political Wire, New York Times and Bloomberg View
Charles M. Blow / New York Times:
Enough Is Enough — When Donald Trump's security escorted …
Enough Is Enough — When Donald Trump's security escorted …
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Slantpoint
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UT Knoxville encourages students to use gender-neutral pronouns — KNOXVILLE (WATE) - The University of Tennessee is asking students to use “ze, hir, hirs, and xe, xem, xyr.” — No, those words are not another language. They're actually the gender-neutral singular versions of pronouns.
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FOX31 Denver and WREG-TV
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Lake Elsinore Man Bitten While Taking Selfie With Rattlesnake — A Lake Elsinore man could lose his hand after being bitten by a rattlesnake he was holding and taking pictures with, family members said Thursday. — Alex Gomez found the 4 foot long snake behind his home on Monday and decided to pick it up.
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Weasel Zippers, FOX31 Denver and WTVR-TV
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RIP GOP — In 1854, confronted by the moral evil of slavery and the inability of the Whigs to provide clarity against it, the Republican Party formed. Whig Party leaders either shifted their party allegiances or quit politics altogether. Even Abraham Lincoln got out of politics for a time.
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Bearing Drift
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Peggy Noonan's Dominican Friend, Cesar, Works at the Deli Counter — If there is anyone able to understand the vast and ever-changing cultural diversity of this sprawling nation of ours, it is elderly white Reaganite Peggy Noonan, who once met a Mexican. Now, mi amigos, she has met a Dominican as well.
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The Invincible Trump — As the controversies pile up, Trump's favorability soars. — What hasn't killed Donald Trump has only made him stronger. — Right off the bat, there was the shocking statement about the Mexican government sending over immigrant “rapists.”
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Washington Post and Daily Kos
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Many Psychology Findings Not as Strong as Claimed, Study Says — The past several years have been bruising ones for the credibility of the social sciences. A star social psychologist was caught fabricating data, leading to more than 50 retracted papers. A top journal published a study supporting the existence of ESP.
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Carson: There's a war on 'what's inside of women' — Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson is dismissing the notion that there is a “war on women,” saying the real war is on “what's inside of women.” — “They tell you that there's a war on women,” Carson said at a rally in Little Rock, Ark. on Thursday.
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Political Wire
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Pentagon teams up with Apple, Boeing to develop wearable tech — The Pentagon is teaming up with Apple, Boeing, Harvard and others to develop high-tech sensory gear flexible enough to be worn by people or molded onto the outside of a jet. — The rapid development of new technologies …
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Black Lives Matter activists disrupt Bowser speech on how to stop killings — Anger over a rising murder rate and the District's response to it boiled over into a shouting match Thursday as Mayor Muriel E. Bowser struggled to tell a crowd about a new initiative to fight crime while being shouted down by protesters.
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Power Line, Crime and Consequences Blog, Fusion, US News and Weasel Zippers
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Appeals Court Allows NSA Data Collection Program To Continue Unimpeded — The three-judge panel, each writing a separate opinion, all agree that the 2013 trial court decision finding the post-9/11 program likely to be unconstitutional went too far. — Christof Stache / AFP / Getty Images
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Hit & Run
Sarah Palin / Facebook:
ESPN IS A JOURNALISTIC EMBARRASSMENT — ESPN - what happened to you? Your intolerant PC police are running amok and making a joke out of you! — By picking and choosing who they'll tolerate and who they'll try to destroy, ESPN has zero credibility as a sound and reasonable media outlet.
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Mediaite and Talking Points Memo
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Hungarian police arrest driver of lorry that had 71 dead migrants inside — Four detained after death toll in Austrian motorway tragedy is raised from initial estimate of about 50 victims — Hungarian police have arrested the driver of a lorry found on an Austrian motorway with the decomposing bodies …
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RedState
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The Ninth Circuit Hearts John Oliver — It was only earlier this week that I was thanking the heavens for John Oliver's unique brand of humor and ability to brighten the dog days of summer. Apparently I'm not the only one that appreciates his work. — Judging by her recent decision …
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Talking Points Memo, Raw Story and Business Insider
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Virginia On-Air Shooting: Survivor's Harrowing Tale of Facing Down Gunman — The woman who survived the horrific on-air shooting that left two journalists dead in Virginia earlier this week gave her husband a harrowing account of the fusillade. — Tim Gardner told ABC News that his wife …
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Guardian and Talking Points Memo
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Donald Trump Wants to Raise His Own Taxes, But Would He Kill the 1031 Real Estate Break? — Billionaire Donald Trump, who built his fortune in real estate, told Bloomberg Politics this week that he wants to raise his own taxes. One way to do it is a bipartisan proposal that would blow …
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Washington Post