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Ben White / Politico:
Wall Street's latest panic: Trump could win — With Bush and Clinton taking their lumps, financial executives face populist critics in both parties. — NEW YORK — Wall Street is growing increasingly terrified that Donald Trump — once viewed as an amusing summertime distraction …
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Mark Halperin / Bloomberg Business:
Can Donald Trump Be Stopped? — Like almost everyone I know who is working on, covering, or closely following the presidential election, I spend about 60 percent of my waking hours talking about Donald Trump. People want to know if he can win, if he will win, and what might possibly derail his candidacy.
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Daily Kos, The Gateway Pundit, Wall Street Journal and Poynter.
Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
Why is the media more interested in Hillary's email than in Jeb's profoundly dishonest tax pitch? — The formative experience of my political life was the 2000 presidential campaign, in which the media mercilessly persecuted Al Gore over a series of trivial exaggerations and now-forgotten pseudo-scandals …
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Mother Jones, Washington Post, Washington Monthly, New York Times and FiveThirtyEight
CBS News:
New poll: Donald Trump still leads, but Ben Carson makes strong gains — Shares - — At 27 percent nationally, Donald Trump maintains his frontrunner status among Republican primary voters, but Ben Carson is now close behind him, a new CBS News/New York Times poll finds.
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Political Wire and Washington Times
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CNNMoney:
Mark Cuban says he could ‘crush’ Donald Trump
Mark Cuban says he could ‘crush’ Donald Trump
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Washington Post, The Daily Caller, USA Today and Mediaite
Nick Gass / Politico:
Ben Carson explains why he apologized to Donald Trump
Ben Carson explains why he apologized to Donald Trump
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Wall Street Journal
Eamon Javers / CNBC:
Mark Cuban: I could beat Trump AND Clinton
Mark Cuban: I could beat Trump AND Clinton
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Tech Times, Hot Air, The Hill, OnPolitics and Business Insider
Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Debt-Ridden Donald Trump Lost His “Ship Of Jewels” To A Saudi Prince
TMZ.com:
Devo Co-Founder — 9/11 Themed Wedding ... Box Cutters Anyone? — 9/11 THEMED WEDDING — ... Box Cutters Anyone? — 9/14/2015 8:16 AM PDT BY TMZ STAFF — EXCLUSIVE — The co-founder of Devo and his bride hung their faces off a Twin Towers cake to celebrate their marriage with the most bizarre …
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Ashley Collman For / Daily Mail:
Devo band-member Jerry Casale sparks outrage for his Twin Towers-themed wedding cake
Devo band-member Jerry Casale sparks outrage for his Twin Towers-themed wedding cake
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Laura Meckler / Wall Street Journal:
Price Tag of Bernie Sanders's Proposals: $18 Trillion — Democratic presidential candidate's agenda would greatly expand government — WASHINGTON—Sen. Bernie Sanders, whose liberal call to action has propelled his long-shot presidential campaign, is proposing an array of new programs …
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Politico, No More Mister Nice Blog and Fox News Insider
David Kamp / Vanity Fair:
Why Late-Night Television Is Better than Ever — Late-night comedy has seen a disorienting—some feared fragmenting—shuffle over the last two years as Jay Leno, David Letterman, and Jon Stewart gave up their chairs. But, writes David Kamp, a mix of new faces, shows, and platforms has only revitalized the format.
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Deadline, Jezebel, Talking Points Memo, Mediaite and Addicting Info
Nick Corasaniti / New York Times:
Bernie Sanders Makes Rare Appeal to Evangelicals at Liberty University — LYNCHBURG, Va. - Senator Bernie Sanders on Monday took the lectern at Liberty University, an evangelical Christian college, and repeatedly sought to build what he called “common ground” with students …
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John Hinderaker / Power Line:
Bulls**t From Bernie — Bernie Sanders, the front-runner …
Bulls**t From Bernie — Bernie Sanders, the front-runner …
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Washington Post, Daily Mail and The Daily Banter
Carl Campanile / New York Post:
Anthony Weiner's so gross even PR flacks are disgusted by him — Anthony Weiner is so toxic that the powerhouse public-relations firm that hired him is losing top-flight talent, sources tell The Post. — Arthur Schwartz, one of the top executives at MWW, quit after the p.r. firm put …
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Mediaite, Daily Mail and Washington Free Beacon
Feeds:
America's Voting Machines at Risk … Technology has changed dramatically in the last decade, but America's voting machines are rapidly aging out. In 2016, for example, 43 states will use electronic voting machines that are at least 10 years old, perilously close to the end of most systems' expected lifespan.
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The Atlantic, Raw Story, Slantpoint, Guardian and NPR
Ashley Lee / Hollywood Reporter:
Donald Trump for President? Matt Damon, Josh Brolin, Sandra Bullock Sound Off at TIFF — Bryan Cranston, Naomi Watts, Ellen Page, Geoffrey Rush and Davis Guggenheim assess the starry political scene, while suggesting who from Hollywood should jump to the Hill.
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Talking Points Memo, Addicting Info and The Daily Caller
Peter Sullivan / The Hill:
Poll: Public wants to avoid shutdown over Planned Parenthood — A huge majority wants Congress to keep the government open, regardless of whether that means providing funding to Planned Parenthood, according to a CNN/ORC poll released Monday. — The poll finds that 71 percent of adults …
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Hullabaloo, Daily Kos and Addicting Info
Rebecca Jeschke / Electronic Frontier Foundation:
Important Win for Fair Use in ‘Dancing Baby’ Lawsuit — Appeals Court Affirms That Copyright Owners Must Consider Fair Use in Online Takedowns — San Francisco - A federal appeals court in San Francisco today affirmed that copyright holders must consider whether a use of material is fair before sending a takedown notice.
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Scott Wong / The Hill:
Dems: Goodlatte is GOP's new guardian of gridlock — The House Judiciary Committee is bottling up the top Democratic priorities of immigration reform, gun control and voting rights under Chairman Bob Goodlatte. — Tackling a complete overhaul of the broken immigration system would result in …
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Sean McElwee / The Atlantic:
Why Non-Voters Matter — In 2014, just 41.9 percent of the voting-age citizen population of the United States voted. But the people who voted are not only in the minority, they form an unrepresentative minority. Millions of Americans are too young to vote.
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Labour's Dead Center — Jeremy Corbyn, a long-time leftist dissident, has won a stunning victory in the contest for leadership of Britain's Labour Party. Political pundits say that this means doom for Labour's electoral prospects; they could be right, although I'm not the only person wondering …
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James Hibberd / EW.com:
ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER TO REPLACE DONALD TRUMP AS CELEBRITY APPRENTICE HOST — NBC has landed a huge name to replace Donald Trump as host of Celebrity Apprentice. — Former California governor and international movie star Arnold Schwarzenegger will take over the reality franchise, NBC announced Monday.
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Amanda May Metzger / Glens Falls Post-Star:
After missing for nearly four decades, wedding ring comes full circle — • AMANDA MAY METZGER ametzger@poststar.com — The couple honeymooned at Lake George after their 1960 wedding and Jim grew up summering in a rented cabin in Cleverdale. As they were starting their family …
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Daily Mail
Judicial Watch:
Judicial Watch: New State Department Documents Reveal Hillary Clinton Email Gap — (Washington, DC) - Judicial Watch today released newly obtained Department of State documents showing a nearly five-month total gap in the emails former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton decided to return to the State Department late last year.
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Power Line, Daily Mail and Hot Air
Edward Taylor / Reuters:
Mercedes eyes driverless on-demand limousine service as potential market — German carmaker Mercedes-Benz sees business potential in offering on-demand limousine services using driverless cars, Daimler Chief Executive Dieter Zetsche said, in what amounts to a direct challenge to Uber [UBER.UL].