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Des Moines Register:
Last Slide — Another apparent discrepancy has arisen in what Hillary Clinton has said about her emails. — When The Des Moines Register asked her about the latest twist in the private server saga on Tuesday, she said she had no new answers. — Just before Clinton sat down for a 105-minute meeting …
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Weekly Standard and Washington Free Beacon
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Del Quentin Wilber / Bloomberg Business:
FBI Said to Recover Personal E-Mails From Hillary Clinton Server — The FBI has recovered personal and work-related e-mails from the private computer server used by Hillary Clinton during her time as secretary of state, according to a person familiar with the investigation.
Carol D. Leonnig / Washington Post:
State Department's account of e-mail request differs from Clinton's — Throughout the controversy over her use of a private e-mail system while she was secretary of state, Hillary Rodham Clinton has described her decision last year to turn over thousands of work-related e-mails as a response to a routine-sounding records request.
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Mediaite, Washington Free Beacon, Politico, Fox News and RedState
Stephen Dinan / Washington Times:
FBI refuses to cooperate in Hillary Clinton email server probe
FBI refuses to cooperate in Hillary Clinton email server probe
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Hot Air, John Hawkins' Right Wing News, The PJ Tatler, Daily Mail and Politico
Margaret Talev / Bloomberg Business:
Bloomberg Poll: Joe Biden Now Top Presidential Choice for 1 in 4 Democrats — As Hillary Clinton's ratings tumble, nearly half of those surveyed say they want the vice president in the race. — One quarter of Americans who are registered Democrats or lean that way say Vice President Joe Biden is now their top choice for president.
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Political Wire, Politico, Business Insider and Washington Free Beacon
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Margaret Talev / Bloomberg Business:
America Loves Pope Francis, But Not His Stance on Climate Change: Bloomberg Poll
America Loves Pope Francis, But Not His Stance on Climate Change: Bloomberg Poll
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Politico, Consortiumnews.com, The Daily Caller, Aleteia.org, Pew Research Center and The Great Debate
Annie Karni / Politico:
Top unions put brakes on Clinton endorsement
Top unions put brakes on Clinton endorsement
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The Daily Caller, Talking Points Memo, Hit & Run and Washington Free Beacon
Elana Schor / Politico:
Hillary's Keystone pivot draws greens' cheers
Hillary's Keystone pivot draws greens' cheers
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Hot Air and Bloomberg Business
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Walker's campaign manager unloads — <p>Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker pulled the plug on a bloated campaign that was headed into debt and was being undermined by furious donors, a warring staff and — at the root of it all — a candidate who was badly out of his league. </p><p>Prior …
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Washington Monthly, Talking Points Memo and Political Wire
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Matea Gold / Washington Post:
Inside the collapse of Scott Walker's presidential bid … Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker was getting an in-depth debriefing about his campaign's finances, and the situation was grim. — In a little more than two months, his presidential bid had amassed a debt of roughly $700,000 …
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Des Moines Register, OnPolitics and JSOnline
Christine Mai-Duc / Los Angeles Times:
‘Happy Birthday’ song copyright is not valid, judge rules — In a stunning reversal of decades of copyright claims, a federal judge in Los Angeles has ruled that Warner/Chappell Music does not hold a valid copyright claim to the “Happy Birthday To You” song.
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Wall Street Journal, Boing Boing, The Digital Reader, KTLA, The Verge, UPROXX and NPR, more at Mediagazer »
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Bruce Weber / New York Times:
Yogi Berra, Master Catcher With a Goofy Wit, Dies at 90 — Yogi Berra, one of baseball's greatest catchers and characters, who as a player was a mainstay of 10 Yankee championship teams and as a manager led both the Yankees and Mets to the World Series — but who may be more widely known …
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Scared Monkeys, USA Today, Outside the Beltway, Lawyers, Guns & Money and Scripting News
Phil Helsel / CNBC:
Turing to roll back pricing for Daraprim amid controversy — Turing CEO: Will lower drug price ... eventually — NBC News' Andrea Mitchell reports Turing Pharmaceuticals CEO Martin Shkreli will lower the price of Daraprim, which was raised 5,000 percent over the weekend.
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Frontiers Media, all, New York Times, Raw Story, NBC News, Towleroad, Guardian and Slantpoint
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NBC News:
Drug CEO Responds to Outrage Over 5,000% Hike
Drug CEO Responds to Outrage Over 5,000% Hike
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Vox, New York Times, UPROXX, Forbes, HIVPlusMag.com, RT, CNBC, Boing Boing, NPR and ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES
Jeremy Stahl / Slate:
That Guy Who Is Price-Gouging AIDS Patients Also Did It to Kids with Kidney Disease
That Guy Who Is Price-Gouging AIDS Patients Also Did It to Kids with Kidney Disease
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ThinkProgress, ABC News, CNBC, Salon, The Huffington Post, In the Pipeline, The Daily Banter, USA Today, Raw Story, Gawker, Vocativ, Hullabaloo, Common Dreams, Joe.My.God., The Atlantic and Forbes
Noah Rothman / Commentary Magazine:
The Poisonous Obama Years — For millions of Americans, Barack Obama's ascension to the presidency absolved the United States of myriad sins. His rise to the presidency was a redemption tale for an America that had lost its way in the immediate post-9/11 years.
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Allen B. West, BarbWire.com, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion and Washington Free Beacon
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Ilan Ben-Meir / BuzzFeed:
Trump Campaign Manager: President Trump Would Admit Zero Syrian Refugees
Trump Campaign Manager: President Trump Would Admit Zero Syrian Refugees
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Hullabaloo
Bernie Becker / The Hill:
Hatch wonders about IRS discipline over political scrutiny — The Senate's top tax writer asked Tuesday why the IRS has cleared most employees referred for potential improper political scrutiny since the agency's Tea Party controversy erupted in 2013. — Finance Chairman Orrin Hatch …
Scott Wong / The Hill:
Boehner coup talk puts House GOP on edge — Growing chatter about a possible coup against Speaker John Boehner has set Capitol Hill on edge. — Talk that conservatives might use a government-funding showdown to overthrow the powerful Ohio Republican has triggered a flurry of behind …
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CNN
Ben Schreckinger / Politico:
Colbert bests Trump — <p>Donald Trump was in no fighting mood on Tuesday night.</p><p>Rather than come out swinging, as he did at the outset of last week's Republican debate, a subdued front-runner came out nodding in his “Late Show” interview with Stephen Colbert. </p><p>Rather than engage …
Ashe Schow / Washington Examiner:
College's hypocrisy on standard of evidence when it comes to accused students — Share Tweet Reddit Digg Mail Print SMS More — A Vermont college was ordered to halt the expulsion of a student who was expelled for sexual assault without being given a hearing. But what the college argued in its defense was rather interesting.
Maev Kennedy / Guardian:
Westminster Abbey lavatory block gives way to medieval burial find — Remains of at least 50 people, all believed to date from 11th and early 12th century, discovered during demolition work to make space for new tower — The bones of men who may have witnessed the tumultuous events of 1066 …
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Mashable and Daily Mail
Paul Colford / The Definitive Source:
An addition to AP Stylebook entry on global warming — The AP Stylebook editors today informed AP staff about a change to the entry on global warming. In addition, they described what goes into keeping the Stylebook up-to-date, including their outreach to experts.
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Washington Post, ThinkProgress, Slantpoint, Talking Points Memo, Twitchy, Climate Depot, Poynter. and Mediaite
Emma Green / The Atlantic:
Pope Francis's Visit to the U.S. — For the first time in his papacy—and his life—Pope Francis is visiting the U.S. at the end of September. He's coming for the World Meeting of the Families in Philadelphia but will also make stops in Cuba, D.C., and New York. Scroll down to see our coverage.
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Washington Post, USA Today, Hot Air, The Daily Caller, Daily Mail, TPNN, Associated Press, Independent Journal Review, Washington Monthly, Taylor Marsh and NPR
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Jonathan V. Last / Weekly Standard:
Would a Muslim President Be Good on Gay Marriage? — Because presidential politics are as much about in-group signaling as actual policy, Ben Carson is locked in a media-generated controversy about whether or not he'd be down with having a Muslim president. Carson was asked about this deeply-important question on Meet the Press.
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Betsy's Page, Spectator, Quartz and Hot Air
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Sara Jerde / Talking Points Memo:
Rand Paul: I Would Support A Muslim For Prez, But I Would Have Questions
Rand Paul: I Would Support A Muslim For Prez, But I Would Have Questions
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Mediaite