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Elliot Smilowitz / The Hill:
Poll: Trump beats Hillary head-to-head — Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump leads Democrat Hillary Clinton head-to-head, according to a new poll released Friday. — The poll by SurveyUSA finds that matched up directly, Trump garners 45 percent to Clinton's 40 percent.
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New York Times:
The Minimum Wage: Getting to $15 — The debate over the federal minimum wage in the nascent presidential campaign is really two debates: one among Democrats and one among Republicans. — Democrats are divided on how much to raise the minimum, currently $7.25 an hour.
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JustOneMinute
Josh Robin / NY1 News:
Scuffle Between Trump Staffers, Protesters Dims Anticipated Campaign Announcement — After hedging on the issue for weeks, Donald Trump is pledging he won't run as an independent candidate should he lose the Republican nomination for President. The announcement may have been overshadowed by what happened outside, however.
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No More Mister Nice Blog, Washington Post, New York Post, Daily Mail, Hollywood Life and The Daily Caller
Washington Post:
Clintons personally paid State Department staffer to maintain server — Hillary Rodham Clinton and her family personally paid a State Department staffer to maintain the private e-mail server she used while heading the agency, according to an official from Clinton's presidential campaign.
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Daily Mail, Hot Air, John Hawkins' Right Wing News, The Last Refuge, Fox News, Political Wire and The Hugh Hewitt Show
Dave Philipps / New York Times:
At West Point, Annual Pillow Fight Becomes Weaponized — For generations, freshmen cadets at the United States Military Academy have marked the end of a grueling summer of training with a huge nighttime pillow fight that is billed as a harmless way to blow off steam and build class spirit.
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Fusion, Associated Press and Mashable
Elisha Anderson / Detroit Free Press:
White Boy Rick to be resentenced; prosecutors appeal — Richard Wershe Jr., who gained notoriety in the 1980s as a drug dealer in Detroit, won his bid for resentencing. Known as “White Boy Rick”, Wershe was sentenced to life in prison in 1988 when he was 18. — CONNECT
George F. Will / Washington Post:
Out with ‘Redskins’ — and everything else! — Autumn, season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, also is the time for The Post and other sensitivity auditors to get back on — if they will pardon the expression — the warpath against the name of the Washington Redskins.
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New York Times:
Hillary Clinton Relying on Southern Primaries to Fend Off Rivals — Hillary Rodham Clinton's presidential campaign is methodically building a political firewall across the South in hopes of effectively locking up the Democratic nomination in March regardless of any early setbacks in the Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire primary.
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Political Wire
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!” …
Nicholas Kristof / New York Times:
Refugees Who Could Be Us — WATCHING the horrific images of Syrian refugees struggling toward safety — or in the case of Aylan Kurdi, 3, drowning on that journey — I think of other refugees. Albert Einstein. Madeleine Albright. The Dalai Lama. — And my dad.
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Mashable and Hullabaloo
Heidi Przybyla / USA Today:
Hillary Clinton to take women's issues out of silo — Hillary Clinton plans to launch a new initiative this weekend as she seeks to weave women's issues into every facet of her campaign instead of using them in a separate silo as she did in her unsuccessful 2008 presidential bid.
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Alex Seitz-Wald / NBC News:
Hillary Clinton Tells NBC News She Is ‘Sorry’ for Email Confusion
Hillary Clinton Tells NBC News She Is ‘Sorry’ for Email Confusion
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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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Daily Kos, Wall Street Journal and Guardian
Eugene Volokh / Washington Post:
When does your religion legally excuse you from doing part of your job? — This Thursday, Aug. 3, 2015 photo made available by the Carter County Detention Center shows Kim Davis. The Rowan County, Ky. clerk went to jail Thursday for refusing to issue marriage licenses to gay couples …
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Wall Street Journal and Chicago Tribune
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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Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, The World's Greatest … and Washington Free Beacon
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.
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Nick Gass / Politico:
Trump rips into Hugh Hewitt after terror gaffe
Trump rips into Hugh Hewitt after terror gaffe
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