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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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Politico, Daily Mail, Weasel Zippers, Political Wire, Washington Post, CBS Minnesota, The Gateway Pundit, Bloomberg View, America Rising and CNN
Jonathan Swan / The Hill:
Hillary: ‘Party of Lincoln has become the party of Trump’
Hillary: ‘Party of Lincoln has become the party of Trump’
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JustOneMinute
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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Washington Monthly, CNN, No More Mister Nice Blog, alicublog, FishbowlDC, Mediaite, Chicago Boyz and Althouse
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Hamilton Nolan / Gawker:
Peggy Noonan's Dominican Friend, Cesar, Works at the Deli Counter
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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Catherine Herridge / Fox News:
Source: FBI ‘A-team’ leading ‘serious’ Clinton server probe, focusing on defense info — An FBI “A-team” is leading the “extremely serious” investigation into Hillary Clinton's server and the focus includes a provision of the law pertaining to “gathering, transmitting or losing defense information …
Hadas Gold / Politico:
Sarah Palin to interview Donald Trump, Jeb Bush — <p>Sarah Palin will interview Donald Trump, Jeb Bush and Ted Cruz on Friday for 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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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, Scared Monkeys and Althouse
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Jason Howerton / TheBlaze.com:
MSNBC Panel Excoriates Hillary Over ‘Absolutely Disgusting’ Remarks: ‘If a Republican Did This, the World Would Come to a Halt’ — MSNBC's “Morning Joe” panel strongly criticized Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's comments comparing Republicans to terrorist groups over their views on women.
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Bradford Richardson / The Hill:
GOP rips Clinton over ‘terrorist’ comparison
GOP rips Clinton over ‘terrorist’ comparison
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Moe Lane, Wall Street Journal, TheBlaze.com, BizPac Review and LifeNews.com
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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Common Dreams, Mashable, Outside the Beltway and Shakesville
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, WTVR-TV and Fox 59
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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Washington Monthly and Bearing Drift
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, Business Insider and Raw Story
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, Fox 59 and WTKR-TV
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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Gothamist, 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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Talking Points Memo, Washington Times, John Hawkins' Right Wing News and Mediaite
Nita Bhalla / Reuters:
Medical charity MSF takes legal action against makers of Bollywood film “Phantom” — NEW DELHI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - International charity Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is taking legal action against the producers of Bollywood film “Phantom”, saying its misrepresentation …
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India Insight and NPR
Alex Griswold / Mediaite:
Clinton: Republicans Want to Round Up Illegal Immigrants, Shove Them in Boxcars — Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton once again took aim at her Republican rivals Friday afternoon, accusing them during a press conference of wanting to round up illegal immigrants and throw them in trains.
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Hot Air, American Spectator and Instapundit
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
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
New Hot Air-Townhall/Survey Monkey poll: Trump way up in GOP race, but Hillary struggles for lead in Dem field — Hot Air and Townhall Media Group commissioned their first-ever scientific poll this month, partnering with Survey Monkey on the 2016 primary races.
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Townhall.com, RedState and The Federalist
Donald Devine / The American Conservative:
Donald Trump's Napoleon Moment — How America's “fatalists” drive the billionaire's seemingly unstoppable momentum. — Patrick Buchanan gets right to the core of the phenomenon called Donald Trump with his headline, “The Rebirth of Nationalism.” — Because of America's two-party system …
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The Gateway Pundit
Los Angeles Times:
Bison attack: Man ‘played dead’ to escape after being gored — Bleeding and flat on the ground, Chris Baker tried to play dead in hopes the huge bison that had just gored him would lose interest and wander off. — The animal sniffed, snorted and stood over Baker before finally trotting off.
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Daily Mail and CBS Los Angeles
Catherine Thompson / Talking Points Memo:
‘Creeping Sharia’ Conspiracy Group Set To Sponsor Joint Cruz-Trump Rally In DC — A think tank founded by a notorious anti-Muslim activist is planning to co-sponsor an upcoming rally against the Iran deal headlined by Republican presidential candidates Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Donald Trump.
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Washington Monthly, Politichicks.com and Business Insider