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Jonathan Karl / ABC News:
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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Mark Halperin / Bloomberg Business:
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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CBS Minnesota, Washington Post, Bloomberg View, The Gateway Pundit, America Rising, Politico and CNN
Associated Press:
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.
New York Post:
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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Ruth Sherlock / Telegraph:
Vester Lee Flanagan: Inside the home of gunman Bryce Williams where he prepared for murder
Vester Lee Flanagan: Inside the home of gunman Bryce Williams where he prepared for murder
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protein wisdom, Slate, Daily Mail, The Daily Caller, Weasel Zippers and The Gateway Pundit
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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John Hawkins' Right Wing News, Addicting Info, Raw Story and CofCC
Caitlin Cruz / Talking Points Memo:
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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Nick Gass / Politico:
Trump explains why he's hitting Jeb harder than other rivals
Trump explains why he's hitting Jeb harder than other rivals
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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
Reid J. Epstein / Wall Street Journal:
Donald Trump Brings His Insult Show to South Carolina
Donald Trump Brings His Insult Show to South Carolina
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The Week, Political Wire, New York Times, Bloomberg View and National Journal
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
Peggy Noonan / Wall Street Journal:
America Is So in Play — In The Wall Street Journal, columnist Peggy Noonan says America is so in play—Donald Trump's staying power in the polls reflects a change in the electorate only now coming into focus.
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Hamilton Nolan / Gawker:
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.
Shawnmcginnis / KTLA:
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
Erick Erickson / Townhall.com:
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
WATE-TV:
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 WTKR-TV
Bradford Richardson / The Hill:
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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David Edwards / Raw Story:
Ben Carson: There's a 'war on what's inside of women, but not a war on women'
Ben Carson: There's a 'war on what's inside of women, but not a war on women'
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Talking Points Memo and Addicting Info
Benedict Carey / New York Times:
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.
Lydia Wheeler / The Hill:
Petition urges retailer to pull ‘Lion-Killer Dentist’ costumes — Halloween costumes are already creating controversies, more than two months before Oct. 31. — A petition currently circulating the web is calling for an online retailer to remove a costume that critics say mocks and profits …
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John Hawkins' Right Wing News, Hot Air and CNN
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
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Crash-Test Dummies as Republican Candidates for President — Will China's stock crash trigger another global financial crisis? Probably not. Still, the big market swings of the past week have been a reminder that the next president may well have to deal with some of the same problems that faced George W. Bush and Barack Obama.
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Washington Post and Democratic Strategist
Kathryn Rubino / Above the Law:
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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Addicting Info, Talking Points Memo, Mediaite, Raw Story and Business Insider
Digital / Bridge Project:
NEW REPORT: Ten Years Later: A Look Back On The Koch Brothers & Hurricane Katrina — As the country marks the ten-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina and the devastation that came with it, Bridge Project is releasing a report that delves into Koch Industries' role in the most expensive natural disaster in American history.
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PoliticusUSA and Daily Kos
Washington Post:
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
ABC News:
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
Chris Geidner / BuzzFeed:
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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