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Carly Fiorina will appear in top-tier CNN Reagan Library debate — Thursday marked the close of the two-month window for determining eligibility based on averages of national polls — 11 candidates will appear in the 8 p.m. debate, and five candidates will appear at the 6 p.m. event
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Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly:
Gilmore Winnowed; Fiorina Promoted — So after much back and forth over the impending exclusion of Carly Fiorina, which upset not just Carly but all those GOP image-makers concerned with an all-male cast of a thousand candidates, the stage has been set for the second Republican presidential …
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Heather Haddon / Wall Street Journal:
Donald Trump Says Immigrant Deportations Done in Two Years — Donald Trump estimated that it will take 18 months to two years to get the roughly 11 million immigrants living in the U.S. illegally to leave the country, and that he would then build a wall running along the border with Mexico.
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Eliza Collins / Politico:
Trump on Fiorina's face: I made those comments as an entertainer
Trump on Fiorina's face: I made those comments as an entertainer
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Edward-Isaac Dovere / Politico:
Joe Biden insiders see a campaign taking shape — Donor meetings, adviser sessions, staff lists — everyday looks more like a campaign. — NEW YORK — People around Joe Biden are increasingly convinced he'll run for president — and Thursday, he took the next step forward …
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Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
Joe Biden, in Colbert Interview, Expresses Doubts About Bid for President
Joe Biden, in Colbert Interview, Expresses Doubts About Bid for President
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Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
The amazing honesty of Joe Biden
The amazing honesty of Joe Biden
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Nick Gass / Politico:
Trump's ‘haters and losers’ Sept. 11 tweet vanishes — A 2-year-old tweet from Donald Trump's Twitter account vanished Friday morning, one in which the current Republican presidential candidate commemorated the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks by offering “best wishes to all, even the haters and losers.”
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New York Times:
Hillary Clinton's Long Road to ‘Sorry’ Over Email Use — Hillary Rodham Clinton did not want to apologize. — For months, when advisers or friends gently suggested she say she was sorry for using a private email address and server while at the State Department, Mrs. Clinton would reply …
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John Nolte / BREITBART.COM:
O'KEEFE STRIKES AGAIN: Undercover Video Purports to Show Hillary Campaign Violating Election Law
O'KEEFE STRIKES AGAIN: Undercover Video Purports to Show Hillary Campaign Violating Election Law
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Katie Bo Williams / The Hill:
Pro-Clinton group: Maybe private server was actually safer
Pro-Clinton group: Maybe private server was actually safer
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Kristina Wong / The Hill:
Navy chief rejects report showing female Marines less capable — Navy Secretary Ray Mabus on Friday criticized a Marine Corps study that showed that female Marines in a mixed unit did not perform as well as men in several key areas. — “They started out with a fairly largely component …
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Rebecca Kheel / The Hill:
Study: All-male Marine units outperform squads with women
Study: All-male Marine units outperform squads with women
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Jim O'Sullivan GLOBE / BostonGlobe.com:
New mission for Team Romney: Stop Trump — Some of them go back to 2002, the win. Others slogged through Iowa, twice, and rode aboard the Mitt Mobile. In 2012, they were so close to the White House they could taste it. — Now, the Mitt Romney diaspora — an army of former aides …
Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Here Are The Jokes From A 1994 “Suggested HRC Humor Material” Memo — Hillarious. — The New York Times reported earlier this week that Hillary Clinton plans to “show more humor and heart” while campaigning for president, writing, “There will be new efforts to bring spontaneity to a candidacy …
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Carol Brown / American Thinker:
The world just changed forever, but you'd hardly know it from the media — It is now official. On Thursday the Senate let the Iran deal go through - a deal that will forever change the landscape of the world in terrifying and unthinkable ways. I need not enumerate how this collaboration with Iran …
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Kevin Sullivan / Washington Post:
A new 9/11 memorial to Flight 93: ‘Our loved ones left a legacy for all of us’ … SHANKSVILLE, Pa.—Debby Borza stood before a wall of photos of 40 people who died here Sept. 11, 2001, and gently tapped her daughter's face on a computer touch screen, not knowing exactly what to expect.
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Yvonne Wenger / Baltimore Sun:
Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake to announce she won't seek re-election — Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, beleaguered by the death of Freddie Gray and the protests and rioting that followed, will announce at 10 a.m. Friday that she won't seek re-election, her spokesman confirmed.
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Patrick McGreevy / Los Angeles Times:
California Senate OKs automatic voter registration plan — In response to the record-low turnout in the last election, the state Senate on Thursday approved a bill that would automatically register to vote any eligible Californian who gets a driver's license unless they opt out.
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Daily Mail:
Charlotte Proudman in LinkedIn sexism storm and the men SHE ogled online — The barrister who accused a male solicitor of sexism after he described her photograph on a business website as ‘stunning’ has previously told men online they were ‘hot stuff’. — Charlotte Proudman, 27 …
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Henry Barnes / Guardian:
Where to Invade Next review - Michael Moore gets happy with a sugar-binge idea-stealing session — The Fahrenheit 9/11 director goes a bit gooey as he goes in search of lessons for America - from school lunches to prison systems - in the way other countries do things
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Chris Geidner / BuzzFeed:
Kentucky Clerk Asks For Order Allowing All Couples To Marry To Be Put On Hold — On Sept. 3, Judge David Bunning expanded his order that Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis end her “no marriage licenses” policy to cover all couples — not just the plaintiffs in the case.
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CNN:
Clinton's lead over Sanders shrinks as her edge over GOP vanishes — Poll: Sanders closes the gap with Clinton — Clinton trails Ben Carson in a hypothetical general election match-up and runs about even with Jeb Bush and Donald Trump — Washington (CNN)Hillary Clinton's lead in the race …
Catherine Thompson / Talking Points Memo:
Donald Trump Says He ‘Now Owns 100%’ Of The Miss Universe Pageant — Donald Trump said Friday that he'd bought out NBC Universal's share of their joint venture, the Miss Universe Organization, and settled lawsuits he'd threatened the company with after it severed their business ties …
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