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Mark Hensch / The Hill:
Trump blasts Hugh Hewitt as ‘a third-rate radio announcer’ — Donald Trump is blasting Hugh Hewitt after stumbling over foreign policy questions in an interview with the conservative radio host. — “[He is] a third-rate radio announcer,” Trump told hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski on MSNBC's “Morning Joe” on Friday morning.
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Morning Plum: Trump has a better answer on Iran than his GOP rivals do. Seriously. — On Morning Joe today, Donald Trump staked out another position that could — or at least should — force a real debate among Republicans that previously might have remained mostly walled off from discussion by GOP orthodoxy.
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Nick Gass / Politico:
Trump rips into Hugh Hewitt after terror gaffe — <p>Donald Trump tore into radio host Hugh Hewitt as a "third-rate radio announcer" on Friday after the Republican presidential candidate struggled to answer a question about the leaders of major terrorist groups the <a href="http …
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Frank Newport / Gallup:
Trump's Image Up Sharply Among Republicans
Trump's Image Up Sharply Among Republicans
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Michael Barbaro / New York Times:
Donald Trump Stumbles and Bristles During Foreign Policy Interview
Donald Trump Stumbles and Bristles During Foreign Policy Interview
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Talking Points Memo, Taylor Marsh, Fox News Insider, The Last Refuge and The Hugh Hewitt Show
Bradford Richardson / The Hill:
Trump hits radio host Hugh Hewitt for ‘gotcha questions’
Trump hits radio host Hugh Hewitt for ‘gotcha questions’
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Nick Gass / Politico:
Trump warns Carson
Adam B. Schiff / New York Times:
Disband the Benghazi Committee — Washington — NOT long after it was formed last year, members of the Select Committee on Benghazi gathered to meet privately with family members of the four Americans killed on that dreadful night in Libya in 2012. The meetings were emotional …
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PoliticusUSA, Talking Points Memo, The Daily Caller, Progress Pond and The PJ Tatler
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Gallup:
Hillary Clinton's Favorable Rating One of Her Worst — Story Highlights — WASHINGTON, D.C. — Dogged by continued scrutiny of her email practices as secretary of state, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's favorability with the American public has sunk to one of its lowest levels in Gallup's 23-year trend.
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Washington Free Beacon, Washington Times, America Rising and The Daily Caller
Alex Seitz-Wald / NBC News:
Hillary Clinton Tells NBC News She Is ‘Sorry’ for Email Confusion — In an exclusive interview with NBC News/MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell on Friday, Hillary Clinton said she's “sorry” there's been so much controversy over her private email server, but declined to apologize for the decision to use it.
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Alex Seitz-Wald / msnbc.com:
Exclusive: Hillary Clinton ‘sorry’ about email confusion
Exclusive: Hillary Clinton ‘sorry’ about email confusion
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Nick Gass / Politico:
Clinton: I'm ‘sorry’ the email scandal is confusing to people
Clinton: I'm ‘sorry’ the email scandal is confusing to people
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Heidi Przybyla / USA Today:
Hillary Clinton to take women's issues out of silo
Hillary Clinton to take women's issues out of silo
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Shannen W. Coffin / National Review:
What Will the Public Make of Hillary's Former IT Staffer's Decision to Take the Fifth?
What Will the Public Make of Hillary's Former IT Staffer's Decision to Take the Fifth?
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Courier-Journal:
Kim Davis' husband: 'She won't resign' … CONNECT — MOREHEAD, Ky. The husband of Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis said early Friday that Kim remains in good spirits and is prepared to remain in jail for months. — Joe Davis appeared outside the Rowan County Courthouse …
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Kerry Eleveld / Daily Kos:
Same-sex marriage still confounding the Republican field
Same-sex marriage still confounding the Republican field
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Renée Graham / BostonGlobe.com:
Kim Davis follows the footsteps of George Wallace
Kim Davis follows the footsteps of George Wallace
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Daily Kos
John Cheves / Lexington Herald-Leader:
First gay couples obtain marriage licenses in Rowan County
First gay couples obtain marriage licenses in Rowan County
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Weekly Standard:
The Next Justices — A guide for GOP candidates on how to fill Court vacancies — When Chief Justice John Roberts administers the oath of office to the next president, he will be flanked by three, and almost four, octogenarians: Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg (83), Antonin Scalia (80), Anthony Kennedy (80), and Stephen Breyer (77).
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Geoffrey Sant / Slate:
Why drivers in China intentionally kill the pedestrians they hit. — In April a BMW racing through a fruit market in Foshan in China's Guangdong province knocked down a 2-year-old girl and rolled over her head. As the girl's grandmother shouted, “Stop! You've hit a child!” …
John Tierney / KGW-TV:
Marion County judge refuses to perform same-sex marriages — Oregon Judge refuses to do same-sex marriages — PORTLAND, Ore. - A Marion County judge has refused to perform same-sex marriages and has asked his clerks to refer couples seeking same-sex marriages to other county judges.
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Steven W Thrasher / Guardian:
Burning Man founder: 'Black folks don't like to camp as much as white folks' — Larry Harvey discusses lack of racial diversity and the allegation that Silicon Valley bosses in luxury camps are destroying the festival's egalitarian ethos — urning Man founder Larry Harvey has countered criticism …
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Ben Cardin / Washington Post:
Sen. Ben Cardin: I will vote against the Iran deal — The writer represents Maryland in the U.S. Senate, where he is the ranking Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. — Throughout the process of evaluating the Iran nuclear agreement, I continuously returned to two fundamental questions …
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Anne Barnard / New York Times:
Exodus of Syrians Highlights Political Failure of the West — BEIRUT, Lebanon — Arresting images of desperation on the West's doorstep have brought Syria, for the moment, back to worldwide attention: refugees cramming into train stations and climbing border fences; drowned Syrian toddlers washing …
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Michael Gerson / Washington Post:
The horrific results of Obama's failure in Syria
The horrific results of Obama's failure in Syria
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Israel Matzav, JustOneMinute and Questions and Observations
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Other People's Dollars, and Their Place in Global Economics — Sydney, Australia — Soon after arriving here, I stopped at an A.T.M.; I needed some dollars, and all I had were dollars. — O.K., weak joke. What I needed were Australian dollars — Aussies — not U.S. greenbacks.
Katie Glueck / Politico:
Insiders: Scott Walker the biggest loser of the summer — <p>It's been a cruel summer for Scott Walker and Martin O'Malley.</p><p> That's the assessment of this week's POLITICO Caucus, our weekly bipartisan survey of the top activists, operatives and strategists in Iowa and New Hampshire.
New York Times:
The Truth of ‘Black Lives Matter’ — The Republican Party and its acolytes in the news media are trying to demonize the protest movement that has sprung up in response to the all-too-common police killings of unarmed African-Americans across the country. The intent of the campaign …
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