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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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Business Insider, The Daily Caller, Daily Mail, Mediaite, Outside the Beltway, Hot Air, America Rising, Washington Free Beacon and The Mahablog
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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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Mediaite, Washington Post, Hot Air, Political Wire, Bloomberg View, CBS Minnesota, The Gateway Pundit, CNN, Politico and America Rising
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, The Daily Caller, Daily Mail, 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
Hadas Gold / Politico:
Sarah Palin to interview Donald Trump, Jeb Bush — <p>Sarah Palin will interview Donald Trump and Jeb Bush on Friday night on the One America News Network, the former Alaska governor announced on her Facebook page. </p><p>Palin, who is serving as a guest host for the channel's "On Point" program …
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Liberal Values and TheBlaze.com
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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.
Erik Ortiz / NBC News:
Owen Labrie, Former Student at Elite Prep School, Acquitted of Felony Sexual Assault — A former New Hampshire prep school student accused of raping a freshman girl as part of a campus tradition was acquitted Friday of the most serious charges against him. — Owen Labrie, now 19 …
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Talking Points Memo
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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 and FOX31 Denver
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
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
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, Balloon Juice and Addicting Info
Philip Messing / New York Post:
Student ‘molested’ by TSA agent in LaGuardia bathroom — A college student was sexually molested at LaGuardia Airport by a uniformed TSA agent who demanded she go into a bathroom with him after she got off a flight so she could be searched for a weapon, sources told The Post.
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Daily Mail and Washington Free Beacon
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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Washington Times, John Hawkins' Right Wing News, Talking Points Memo and Mediaite
Sarah Palin / Facebook:
WTH, LAMESTREAM MEDIA! STAY OUT OF MY BIBLE — WTH? Lamestream media asks GOP personal, spiritual “gotchas” that they'd NEVER ask Hillary, or they'd feed the question to her and/or liberal cohorts before they asked it on-air (we know how these things work, lapdog media... the public's on to you) …
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Mediaite, Political Wire, Raw Story and Business Insider
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
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
Jon Swaine / Guardian:
Young black man jailed since April for alleged $5 theft found dead in cell — Jamycheal Mitchell, 24, had been held in Virginia jail without bail for nearly four months, accused of stealing a Mountain Dew, Snickers bar and a Zebra Cake — A young black man arrested by police in Portsmouth …
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Mashable, Outside the Beltway and Shakesville
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, Raw Story, Mediaite and Business Insider
Janet Van Huysse / The Twitter Blog:
We're committing to a more diverse Twitter — We want the makeup of our company to reflect the vast range of people who use Twitter. Doing so will help us build a product to better serve people around the world. While we've already been working towards internal diversity goals …
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Wall Street Journal, Business Insider, Fusion and The Verge
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