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Ben Terris / Washington Post:
Does Donald Trump cheat at golf? A Washington Post investigation. — One morning in the mid-1990s, Mark Mulvoy was on the sixth hole of Long Island's Garden City Golf Club with Donald Trump when the skies opened, and they ducked for cover under a nearby awning.
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Nick Gass / Politico:
The Jeb-Trump feud gets even nastier — <p>Donald Trump used those words again — "low energy."</p><p> The surging Republican presidential candidate on Wednesday morning uttered what has proven to be his most effective barb against Jeb Bush, the one-time GOP frontrunner who has begun …
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Washington Post:
Hillary Clinton's image continues to decline — It's been a bad summer for Hillary Rodham Clinton's polling numbers, and a new Washington Post-ABC News poll brings additional bad news for her brand. — But it also shows something else: She continues to be popular among a broad coalition of Democrats …
Matthew Boyle / BREITBART.COM:
Exclusive — Donald Trump Fires Back at Jeb Bush: He Should Lead by ‘Speaking English’ While in the United States' — 2016 Republican frontrunner Donald Trump told Breitbart News that former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush should be speaking English—not the Spanish he spoke to attack Trump in Miami this week—on the campaign trail.
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Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
A Once-Sunny Jeb Bush Appears Irked in Donald Trump's Shadow — WESTHAMPTON BEACH, N.Y. — When Jeb Bush stopped by the Hampton Synagogue here on Saturday, he was expected to offer a critique of the Iran deal and a short version of his stump speech to the Orthodox congregation.
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ABC News:
Donald Trump on Jeb Bush Attacks: ‘I Think He Had No Choice’
Donald Trump on Jeb Bush Attacks: ‘I Think He Had No Choice’
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Gabriel Sherman / New York Magazine:
Romney Is Horrified by Trump — and That's Restarting ‘Mitt 2016’ Talk
Romney Is Horrified by Trump — and That's Restarting ‘Mitt 2016’ Talk
Patricia Mazzei / Tampa Bay Times:
In Miami — and en Español — Jeb Bush punches back at Donald Trump's ‘blah blah blah’
In Miami — and en Español — Jeb Bush punches back at Donald Trump's ‘blah blah blah’
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Cathy Hernandez / Click2Houston.com:
HPD: Man fatally shot while taking selfies with gun — HOUSTON - — A man posing with a gun and taking selfies was killed when the gun went off and struck him in southwest Houston, police said. — Family members said the victim is 19-year-old Deleon Alonso Smith.
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Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Mikulski pushes Obama's Iran nuke deal over the top in Senate — Sen. Barbara Mikulski said on Wednesday that she will support President Obama's nuclear deal with Iran, all but ensuring the agreement will survive an attack in the Senate. — “No deal is perfect, especially one negotiated …
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Seung Min Kim / Politico:
Obama prevails on Iran deal — <p>Sen. Barbara Mikulski's announcement Wednesday that she'll be the decisive 34th vote for President Barack Obama's nuclear deal with Iran shifts the battle to the next major front: Whether the president will need to wield his veto pen in the first place. </p><p …
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Jonathan Weisman / New York Times:
Obama Clinches Vote to Secure Iran Nuclear Deal
Obama Clinches Vote to Secure Iran Nuclear Deal
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Jeffrey Toobin / New Yorker:
The Coming Liberal Disaster at the Supreme Court — The beleaguered liberals on the Supreme Court had a great deal to celebrate in the term that ended in June. Two epic cases, and even some lesser ones, went their way. In Obergefell v. Hodges, the Justices ruled, five to four …
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Casey Toner / al.com:
Alabama's gay marriage loss could cost taxpayers $200,000
Alabama's gay marriage loss could cost taxpayers $200,000
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Washington Post:
Clinton, using private server, wrote and sent e-mails now deemed classified — While she was secretary of state, Hillary Rodham Clinton wrote and sent at least six e-mails using her private server that contained what government officials now say is classified information …
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John Solomon / Washington Times:
Clinton emails contained spy satellite data on North Korean nukes
Clinton emails contained spy satellite data on North Korean nukes
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Baltimore Sun:
Son of Baltimore police commander charged in killing — The son of a high-ranking Baltimore police commander has been charged with murder in the stabbing death of his roommate Monday in Southwest Baltimore, police said. — Melvin Russell, 28, the son of Lt. Col. Melvin Russell …
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Ariel Edwards-Levy / The Huffington Post:
Republicans Like Obama's Ideas Better When They Think They're Donald Trump's — A new poll shows how much Americans' policy opinions depend on the politician endorsing them.
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WXIA-TV:
School district investigating mass baptism at football practice — VILLA RICA, Ga. — A Georgia school district is investigating after video of a mass baptism was posted on YouTube. — The video, posted by First Baptist Villa Rica, was shot on school grounds just before football practice.
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Jennifer Jacobs / Des Moines Register:
Iowa Poll: Nearly half want to round up immigrants — Round them up, nearly half of likely Iowa Republican caucusgoers say. — Forty-seven percent say it's a good idea to gather up an estimated 11 million immigrants who are in the United States illegally and send them to their home country.
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Christine Sexton / Politico:
Scott's office scrubbed release that cleared Planned Parenthood — TALLAHASSEE — Gov. Rick Scott's office scrubbed a press release written by his own regulators that found there was no “mishandling of fetal remains” at clinics run by Planned Parenthood and, at the same time …
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Viviane Rutabingwa / NPR:
Taylor Swift Is Dreaming Of A Very White Africa — The video for American singer Taylor Swift's new song “Wildest Dreams” has been viewed more than ten million times in the two days since it debuted. — The video was shot in Africa and California. — In it, we see two beautiful white people falling …
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Katie Pavlich / Townhall.com:
Exposing The Black Lives Matter Movement For What It Is: Promotion of Cop Killing — It's time to expose the Black Lives Matter [BLM] movement for what it is: a racist, violent hate group that promotes the execution of police officers. The evidence is in their rhetoric and written on their shirts.
Daily Mail:
'That one has big breasts. But I want a Yazidi with blue eyes and pale skin. I am willing to pay the price': Escaped girl, 18, tells of the day she was sold as a sex slave — A Yazidi teenager has told of the day she was abducted by ISIS thugs who tortured her, abused her …
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Ken Belson / New York Times:
Sony Altered ‘Concussion’ Film to Prevent N.F.L. Protests, Emails Show — When Sony Pictures Entertainment decided to make a movie focusing on the death and dementia professional football players have endured from repeated hits to the head — and the N.F.L.'s efforts toward a cover-up …
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Dominic Patten / Deadline:
Fox News' Harris Faulkner Sues Hasbro For $5M Over Harris Faulkner Hamster — The 6-time Emmy winner is not happy at all about the “demeaning and insulting” Hasbro toy hamster that has both her name and, she claims, her look. In fact, Fox News Channel's Harris Faulkner is taking …
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Danny Vinik / Politico:
A $60 million pork kickback? — Unhappy small farmers detect a racket in a pork branding deal—and the USDA signed off on it. — Pork hasn't been “the other white meat” for years—after a 24-year run as the centerpiece of billboards and the butt of jokes, the slogan was retired in 2011 and replaced with …
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Alan Gomez / USA Today:
Report: More than half of immigrants on welfare — More than half of the nation's immigrants receive some kind of government welfare, a figure that's far higher than the native-born population, according to a report to be released Wednesday. — About 51% of immigrant-led households receive …
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Perry Chiaramonte / Fox News:
Gun control groups accused of ‘swatting’ open-carry permit holders, putting lives at risk — Rick Ector, of Detroit, recently told FoxNews.com that people carrying guns, whether openly or concealed, lowers crime. — Second Amendment groups are accusing the gun control lobby …
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Lauren Kelley / Rolling Stone:
Donald Trump on Why He Hopes Kanye Runs for President — I hope to run against him someday," the GOP frontrunner says of his hypothetical 2020 opponent — Kanye West made waves during Sunday night's MTV Video Music Awards when he capped off his 13-minute acceptance speech by announcing …
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Trevor J. Mitchell / Springfield News-Leader:
Police: Man went door-to-door with rifle, American flag — Police say a man stole a rifle and an American flag from a Springfield home, and then — holding both — went door-to-door screaming that he was looking for his wife and child. — Vernon Jordan, 49, was charged Tuesday with burglary …
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Kim Masters / Hollywood Reporter:
Steven Spielberg's DreamWorks to Split From Disney, in Talks With Universal (Exclusive) — The director, whose rich deal will make him tens of millions of dollars from ‘Jurassic World,’ will part with Disney after the release of next summer's ‘The BFG.’
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