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Church says Donald Trump is not an ‘active member’ — Trump on Charleston forgiveness: ‘an incredible moment’ — Washington (CNN)Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump told reporters Thursday that he attends a church in Manhattan, but the church released a statement saying the real estate developer is not an “active member.”
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Mother Jones, Salon, Talking Points Memo, Raw Story and Mediaite
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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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CNN, FishbowlDC, alicublog, Washington Monthly, Chicago Boyz, No More Mister Nice Blog, Althouse and Mediaite

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 …


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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ThinkProgress, WMUR, Boston Globe, Scared Monkeys, Associated Press, Talking Points Memo and Althouse
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Owen Labrie of St. Paul's School Is Found Not Guilty of Main Rape Charge — CONCORD, N.H. — The prep school graduate accused of raping a younger student at the elite St. Paul's School dropped his head and sobbed for the first time since the start of his trial: He had been found not guilty …
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The Reality-Based Community and Fusion


A misleading story about Justice Thomas — The home page of the New York Times has this provocative link: — The story begins by presenting Justice Thomas as a real outlier: … It continues: … Sounds significant, right? The implication is that Justice Thomas is not doing his job.
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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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WAVY-TV, Common Dreams, Daily Mail, Mashable, Outside the Beltway and Shakesville


Hillary: ‘Party of Lincoln has become the party of Trump’ — Hillary Clinton is taking aim at the Republican presidential front-runner, proclaiming Friday that “the party of Lincoln has become the party of Trump.” — In a fiery speech to the Democratic National Committee's (DNC) …
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ABC News and JustOneMinute
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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, Hot Air, Daily Kos, Political Wire, Raw Story and Business Insider


THE WALKING DEAD TO SHOW AIRLINE ZOMBIE ATTACK IN STAND-ALONE SPECIAL — Exclusive: Mysterious new character to be introduced via stand-alone content — What if an episode of The Walking Dead was set on a passenger airliner before civilization had fallen?
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The Verge, Mashable and Wall Street Journal


The Prophetic President — How Jimmy Carter's 1977 voting reform proposals revealed the dark Id of conservative Republicanism — James Earl Carter is nearing the end. In an extraordinary press conference last week, the 39th president discussed his impending death from metastasizing liver cancer …
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Democratic Strategist and Hullabaloo
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Jimmy Carter: Prophetic President
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Washington Monthly


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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The Hill
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GOP rips Clinton over ‘terrorist’ comparison
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Moe Lane, Wall Street Journal, BizPac Review, FOX31 Denver and TheBlaze.com

The Republicans' Red Scare — <p>GOP presidential candidates have a new country to bash: the People's Republic of China. </p> <p>This week's Chinese stock market crash — and the resulting turmoil in U.S. markets — prompted Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker to demand the White House cancel next month's state visit by China's president.
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Addicting Info, The Diplomat and Daily Kos
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Crash-Test Dummies as Republican Candidates for President
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Washington Post and Democratic Strategist

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


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


U.S. court hands win to NSA over metadata collection challenge — A U.S. appeals court on Friday threw out a judge's ruling that would have blocked the National Security Agency from collecting phone metadata under a controversial program that has raised privacy concerns.
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Daily Kos and ThinkProgress
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A D.C. appeals court has lifted an injunction against the NSA phone call records program
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Bloomberg Business, NPR.org, Gizmodo, Common Dreams and Hot Air


Lawyers plan challenge to arrests based on secret cellphone tracking — Defense lawyers in Baltimore are examining nearly 2,000 cases in which the police secretly used powerful cellphone tracking devices, and they plan to ask judges to throw out “a large number” of criminal convictions as a result.
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Daily Mail, Daily Kos and Business Insider


‘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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No More Mister Nice Blog, Washington Monthly and Politichicks.com