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Aaron MaK / Politico:
Obama vs. McKinley — <p>Republicans are criticizing President Barack Obama's decision to rename the tallest mountain in the United States to Denali, after the peak bore the name of Republican President William McKinley for more than a century.</p><p>The outcry was particularly strong in Ohio …
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Sara Jerde / Talking Points Memo:
Karl Rove: Obama Wouldn't Be President If McKinley Hadn't Annexed Hawaii
Karl Rove: Obama Wouldn't Be President If McKinley Hadn't Annexed Hawaii
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Jesse Byrnes / The Hill:
Ohioans fuming over Mt. McKinley name change
Ohioans fuming over Mt. McKinley name change
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Senator Rob Portman, The Moderate Voice, Cincinnati.com, Business Insider, Hot Air, RedState and Washington Free Beacon
Nick Gass / Politico:
Steve Schmidt: Donald Trump ‘emasculating’ Jeb Bush
Steve Schmidt: Donald Trump ‘emasculating’ Jeb Bush
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ABC News, Horizons, Taylor Marsh, Political Wire, Booman Tribune and Althouse
Timothy Cama / The Hill:
Obama renames nation's highest mountain
Obama renames nation's highest mountain
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Shark Tank, Facebook and Mashable
Tessa Berenson / TIME:
Karl Rove Thinks Obama Needs a New Way to Honor McKinley
Karl Rove Thinks Obama Needs a New Way to Honor McKinley
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Slantpoint
Julie Hirschfeld Davis / New York Times:
Mount McKinley Will Again Be Called Denali
Mount McKinley Will Again Be Called Denali
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Malia Zimmerman / Fox News:
Mystery deepens into how classified emails got onto Clinton's unclassified server — The daily revelations over classified information finding its way onto Hillary Clinton's personal email server are raising perplexing questions for former government officials who wonder how classified information …
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Daily Mail, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion and “The Lid”
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Anne M. Tompkins / USA Today:
Petraeus prosecutor: Clinton has committed no crime — Unlike Petraeus, Clinton did not “knowingly” store or share classified information in violation of the law. — Former attorney general Michael Mukasey recently compared the inquiry into Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server …
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Fox News, Politico, CANNONFIRE, Hit & Run, RedState and The Daily Caller
Patrick Howley / BREITBART.COM:
EXCLUSIVE: Hillary Shared An Email Network With The Clinton Foundation
EXCLUSIVE: Hillary Shared An Email Network With The Clinton Foundation
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Weasel Zippers and Fire Andrea Mitchell!
Kimberly Hefling / Politico:
Columbia University president causes stir with Obama announcement — <p>Columbia University President Lee Bollinger caused a stir Monday by reportedly announcing that President Barack Obama will be coming to the New York-based campus in 2017.</p><p>The Columbia Daily Spectator student newspaper <a href="http …
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Columbia Daily Spectator:
Obama's coming back to town in 2017, and more highlights from convocation — COLUMBIA OFFICE OF STUDENT LIFE INSTAGRAM — Updated, Aug. 31 at 7:27 p.m.: The University just dropped a statement regarding Bollinger's remarks — and the University says it has no formal association with the president, yet.
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Political Wire and CBS Chicago
Shannon Pettypiece / Bloomberg Business:
Wal-Mart Cuts Some Workers' Hours After Pay Raise Boosts Costs — Wal-Mart Stores Inc., in the midst of spending $1 billion to raise employees' wages and give them extra training, has been cutting the number of hours some of them work in a bid to keep costs in check.
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Bryce Covert / ThinkProgress:
Bowing To Demands Of Wall Street, Walmart Cuts Hours To Trim Costs
Bowing To Demands Of Wall Street, Walmart Cuts Hours To Trim Costs
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Daily Kos
Amanda Terkel / The Huffington Post:
Black Lives Matter Disavows Democratic Party's Show Of Support — Activists are not returning the DNC's love. — Senior Political Reporter, The Huffington Post — Activists with the Black Lives Matter movement rejected the Democratic Party's recent statement of support …
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Jeff Wald / CBS Minnesota:
Black Lives Matter Chant Called ‘Disgusting’ By Police Leader
Black Lives Matter Chant Called ‘Disgusting’ By Police Leader
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CNN, Mediaite, Power Line, Liberaland and The PJ Tatler
Associate / Associated Press:
Obama: Attacking Jews Over Iran Deal Like Saying He's ‘Not Black Enough’ — WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama said people who attack Jews who support the Iran nuclear deal are like African-Americans who differ with him on policy and then conclude he's “not black enough.”
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Jane Eisner / The Forward:
The Full Transcript of Forward Editor-in-Chief's Interview With Obama
The Full Transcript of Forward Editor-in-Chief's Interview With Obama
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Religion News Service, Slantpoint, Washington Free Beacon and Gothamist
Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Obama: 'There's not a smidgen of evidence' that I'm anti-semitic
Obama: 'There's not a smidgen of evidence' that I'm anti-semitic
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Politico, Weasel Zippers and Algemeiner.com
KPHO-TV:
Matt Salmon facing parents' anger over civics presentation to young kids — Several parents are demanding answers from Congressman Matt Salmon, saying they cannot believe what the lawmaker said to young school children during a visit to a Gilbert school. — “It should have probably …
Michael Seewald / The Seewald Family:
Grief, Shame, And Taking The LORD's Name In Vain — The recent hack into the adultery website Ashley Madison, and subsequent release to the internet the information of millions of users, turned up some interesting names. None of these names was more attention grabbing than Josh Duggar of 19 Kids and Counting fame.
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Raw Story, Mediaite, Daily Mail, In Touch Weekly and Full Feed
David Weigel / Washington Post:
A 24-year-old black Republican has launched a ‘Ready for Kanye’ PAC — On Sunday night, Kanye West got a five-year jump on the next presidential election. “I have decided in 2020 to run for president,” he said, after accepting a lifetime achievement prize at the MTV Video Music Awards.
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Ali Elkin / Bloomberg Business:
Next Stop for Kanye West: FEC Paperwork?
Next Stop for Kanye West: FEC Paperwork?
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Politico, Talking Points Memo, Mediaite and MTV
Brian Beutler / New Republic:
The Rehabilitationists … IN NOVEMBER 2013, a who's who of America's conservative legal establishment descended on the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, D.C., for an annual meeting of the Federalist Society, the most influential conservative legal organization in the country.
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Hit & Run, Washington Monthly and Instapundit
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Carson catches Trump in Iowa — Donald Trump and Ben Carson are tied for the lead of Republican presidential candidates in the first-in-the-nation caucus state of Iowa, according to a Monmouth University poll released on Monday. — The survey found Trump and Carson taking 23 percent support each.
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Nick Gass / Politico:
Carson ties Trump at the top in Iowa poll
Carson ties Trump at the top in Iowa poll
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No More Mister Nice Blog, ABC News, Outside the Beltway and Washington Post
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Judge Allows Moral, Not Just Religious, Contraception Exemptions — WASHINGTON — Employers do not need to provide insurance coverage for contraception even if their objections are moral rather than religious, a federal judge here ruled on Monday. — The case concerned a group called March for Life …
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Hot Air
Mark Potok / Southern Poverty Law Center:
Group Attacking Planned Parenthood Linked to Extremists — The founder of the Center for Medical Progress (CMP), which disingenuously describes itself as a “group of citizen journalists,” is David Daleiden, who was previously the director of research for Live Action News …
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Raw Story, The Daily Caller, Daily Kos, CofCC and The Daily Signal
Chris Geidner / BuzzFeed:
Supreme Court Denies Kentucky Clerk's Request To Halt Same-Sex Marriage Order — Justice Elena Kagan referred the request from Rowan County Clerk Kimberly Davis to the full court, which denied the request on Monday evening. — Rowan County Kentucky Clerk Kim Davis — Timothy D. Easley / AP
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Talking Points Memo, Mediaite, Associated Press and Towleroad
Agency / Telegraph:
Jeremy Corbyn calls death of Osama bin Laden a ‘tragedy’ — Would-be Labour leader under fire for criticising US killing of Al-Qaeda leader, as George Osborne warns he poses a ‘threat to national security’ — Jeremy Corbyn has come under fire for saying it was a “tragedy” …
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Weasel Zippers, The Daily Caller, Guardian, Washington Free Beacon and Press Association
Michael Isikoff / Yahoo:
How Trump could turn the presidency into a ‘litigation circus’ — Yahoo illustration (Photos by AP, Getty) — Kathleen Meese, an upstate New York schoolteacher, plunked down $25,000 five years ago for “Gold Elite” courses at Trump University — a for-profit educational outfit owned …
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