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Annie Karni / Politico:
A ‘Cancer’ on the Clinton Candidacy — <p>Halfway through her long and humbling summer, Hillary Clinton ran into an old friend who wanted to know how she was bearing up under the pressure of near-daily revelations about the use of her private email server during her time in the State Department.
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Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly:
Gut Test For Sanders — Most of the talk about tonight's first Democratic debate has revolved around Hillary Clinton and her need to be “likable” or “personable” or “authentic” or what have you, and the “also run” candidates like O'Malley and Webb who have an opportunity for massive publicity …
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David Freedlander / Bloomberg Business:
Bernie Sanders Isn't Socialist Enough for Many Socialists — The organized left is atwitter with talk of the Vermont senator's candidacy. Much of it is negative. — How to define the political philosophy Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders? — On Meet the Press on Sunday …
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Gabriel Debenedetti / Politico:
What a win looks like — <p>LAS VEGAS — If the Republican …
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Michael Falcone / ABC News:
The Note: Debate Expectations: Democratic Edition
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Arlette Saenz / ABC News:
Draft Biden Releases New TV Ad to Air Before Democratic Debate
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NBC News:
A Viewer's Guide to Tonight's First Democratic Debate
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Eliza Collins / Politico:
Gillibrand: I bet Biden will run for president
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Annie Karni / Politico:
Hillary donors worry: ‘All the energy is with Bernie’
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Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
Democratic Debate Will Reveal Subtle Divides, if Not Wide Gaps
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David Weigel / Washington Post:
Sidelined by Democrats, Larry Lessig considers running against them
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Ravi Somaiya / New York Times:
Nudes Are Old News at Playboy — Last month, Cory Jones, a top editor at Playboy, went to see its founder Hugh Hefner at the Playboy Mansion. — In a wood-paneled dining room, with Picasso and de Kooning prints on the walls, Mr. Jones nervously presented a radical suggestion: the magazine …
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Tierney Sneed / Talking Points Memo:
What The Big GOP Meltdown Reveals From A Guy Who Saw It All Coming — The epic GOP meltdown of 2015 should not come as a surprise. — The modern Republican Party had been careening toward this kind of wheels-off-the-track moment for a long time. Its knee-jerk rejectionism …
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Jamelle Bouie / Slate:
The House Benghazi investigation is now thoroughly discredited as a partisan sham. — Democrats have never trusted the House investigation of Benghazi. “It's a tremendous red herring and a waste of taxpayer resources,” said House Intelligence Committee member Adam Schiff …
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Manu Raju / CNN:
Sources: McConnell floats entitlement changes in high-stakes fiscal talks
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David Brooks / New York Times:
The Republicans' Incompetence Caucus — The House Republican caucus is close to ungovernable these days. How did this situation come about? — This was not just the work of the Freedom Caucus or Ted Cruz or one month's activity. The Republican Party's capacity for effective self …
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Kyle Olson / The American Mirror:
EXCLUSIVE: Records show Ben Carson became Republican less than one year ago
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Brian Beutler / New Republic:
The Adults Take the Stage in the Democratic Debate
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Sundance / The Last Refuge:
Busted ! CNN Uses Jeb Bush Staffer Planted In Audience To Frame Donald Trump Narrative/Hit Job.... During an appearance at a Jon Huntsman “No Labels” event, a female audience member named Lauren Batchelder played the role of a female antagonist toward candidate Donald Trump.
Benjamin Markovits / Esquire:
The Gorgeous Balance of Emilia Clarke, Sexiest Woman Alive 2015 — Friendly and fierce. Kid sister and killer. Movie star and girl next door. — VINCENT PETERS + ESQUIRE — Years ago, when I was a grad student, I worked at an ice cream shop in Oxford called George & Davis'.
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Associated Press:
AP Exclusive: Clinton server's software had hacking risk — 1 photo — WASHINGTON (AP) — The private email server running in Hillary Rodham Clinton's home basement when she was secretary of state was connected to the Internet in ways that made it more vulnerable to hackers …
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Stephanie Armour / Wall Street Journal:
Planned Parenthood Stops Taking Reimbursements for Fetal Tissue — Affiliates will no longer accept any reimbursements for costs associated with procuring tissue from abortions — Planned Parenthood Federation of America said it is immediately stopping taking reimbursements …
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Jason Millman / Politico:
Planned Parenthood ends reimbursement for tissue donations
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WTVT:
Police: Lakeland woman live streams herself driving drunk — Video courtesy Lakeland Police Department — LAKELAND (FOX 13) - A Lakeland woman was not only Periscoping while driving, police say she was live-streaming herself driving drunk and telling the world how drunk she was.
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Ambert Rodriguez / Jeb 2016:
Backgrounder: Health Care Plan — America's health care system has long been an anachronism. It works by payment rules, regulations and tax policies that date back to the 1940s and 1960s and have made little sense for decades. No wonder it is expensive, complex and inaccessible.
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Philip Klein / Washington Examiner:
Here's how Jeb Bush would repeal and replace Obamacare
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Jennifer Steinhauer / New York Times:
Latest Unease on Right: Ryan Is Too Far Left — WASHINGTON — Far-right media figures, relatively small in number but potent in their influence, have embarked on a furious Internet expedition to cover Representative Paul D. Ryan in political silt. — In 2012 when Mitt Romney picked Mr. Ryan …
Julie Jordan / People.com:
Julianne Moore Launches Gun Safety Campaign: ‘This Is My Responsibility As a Parent’ — Like many parents, Oscar-winner Julianne Moore was deeply affected by the horrific shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., in December 2012. — “I remember my daughter [Liv, 12] came to work with me that day.
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Michael Crowley / Politico:
Rift in Obama administration over Putin — <p>Vladimir Putin's intervention in Syria is creating new rifts inside an exhausted and in some cases demoralized Obama national security team, where officials pushing for bolder action see the president as stubbornly unwilling to assume new risk …
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WCNC-TV:
Gun owner speaks out after toddler shoots grandmother — ROCK HILL, S.C. — The woman who owned the gun that a local toddler got his hands on and was able to fire and hit his grandmother, is speaking out, calling the storage of the weapon inside her vehicle a mistake.
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