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Dylan Matthews / Vox:
The media has no idea how to deal with Donald Trump's constant lying — Donald Trump's interview with George Stephanopoulos on ABC's This Week (above) is a great distillation of why covering the Republican frontrunner is proving so difficult for mainstream press outlets. — On the one hand, he demands coverage.
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Liberaland, CNN, Daily Kos, The Daily Caller, PunditFact and Lawyers, Guns & Money
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Peter Kinder / Politifact.com Truth-O-Meter rulings …:
Donald Trump: “I watched in Jersey City, N.J., where thousands and thousands of people were cheering" as the World Trade Center collapsed. — “I watched in Jersey City, N.J., where thousands and thousands of people were cheering” as the World Trade Center collapsed.
Tal Kopan / CNN:
Donald Trump's 9/11 celebration claim widely disputed — Trump: Muslim-Americans cheered after 9/11 attacks — Washington (CNN)Donald Trump twice repeated over the weekend that he saw people cheering in New Jersey after the September 11 attacks — but his claims are being widely disputed as false.
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ABC News, Talking Points Memo, Washington Post, Little Green Footballs, Right Wing Watch, Hot Air and Slantpoint
Mark Niquette / Bloomberg Business:
Trump Heads to Ohio as Rivals Sharpen Attacks After Wild Week
Trump Heads to Ohio as Rivals Sharpen Attacks After Wild Week
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Vox, Washington Monthly, Business Insider and The Last Refuge
Emily Flitter / Reuters:
Donors line up behind Kasich Super PAC planning Trump attack
Donors line up behind Kasich Super PAC planning Trump attack
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The Last Refuge and Washington Post
Daniel Strauss / Politico:
Kasich super PAC rolls out first direct Trump attack ad
Kasich super PAC rolls out first direct Trump attack ad
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Talking Points Memo
Numbers / Pew Research Center for the People …:
Beyond Distrust: How Americans View Their Government — Broad criticism, but positive performance ratings in many areas — Overview — A year ahead of the presidential election, the American public is deeply cynical about government, politics and the nation's elected leaders in a way that has become quite familiar.
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The Independent:
This TV presenter's life was saved by a viewer who spotted a cancerous lump in his neck — A TV presenter who was diagnosed with cancer after a viewer spotted a lump in his neck has described how his life has changed since his cancer went into remission. Tarek El Moussa co-hosts HGTV's …
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WGN-TV and Independent Journal
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Emily Strohm / People.com:
Flip or Flop's Tarek El Moussa After Thyroid Cancer Battle: ‘I Have Slowed Down Quite a Bit’
Flip or Flop's Tarek El Moussa After Thyroid Cancer Battle: ‘I Have Slowed Down Quite a Bit’
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Slantpoint and Fox News
Cory Bennett / The Hill:
Trump takes heat for tweet about black murder rates — Donald Trump is taking heat on social media for a Sunday afternoon tweet of statistics purporting to show that the vast majority of murdered black people in the U.S. are killed by other black people. — The tweet was apparently Trump's response …
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Jeremy Diamond / CNN:
Black Lives Matter protester describes violent confrontation at Trump event
Black Lives Matter protester describes violent confrontation at Trump event
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Washington Post, Daily Kos, American Spectator, Mediaite and The Montgomery Advertiser
Avi Selk / Irving Blog:
Letters demand $15 million, say Irving officials worked to smear Ahmed Mohamed after clock arrest — Former Irving MacArthur High School student Ahmed Mohamed, 14, was arrested and interrogated by Irving Police officers after bringing a homemade clock to school. (Vernon Bryant/The Dallas Morning News)
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Talking Points Memo, BizPac Review, Mashable, Mediaite, The Week and Pamela Geller
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Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
TV networks unite to fight Trump's restriction on journalists' access — Network TV news representatives will confer Monday to hash out demands about access to Donald Trump's presidential campaign after Trump officials last week threatened to “blacklist” reporters who left a designated media …
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Mediaite, Business Insider and TVNewser
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Hadas Gold / Politico:
TV networks hold conference call to discuss Trump treatment — Representatives from several television networks held a conference call on Monday to discuss Donald Trump's campaign treatment of the press, but no immediate action is expected to come from the first call, sources familiar with the call told POLITICO.
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FishbowlDC, more at Mediagazer »
Vindicator:
UPDATE | YSU students meeting now to repaint iconic rock — YOUNGSTOWN — Youngstown State University students are working now to repaint the rock outside of Kilcawley Center with the American flag. — YSU senior Jordan Wolfe organized the Facebook page to repaint the rock with an American flag …
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Kaitlyn Schallhorn / TheBlaze.com:
‘We Are Coming’: Threatening Pro-Islamic State Messages on U.S. College Campus
‘We Are Coming’: Threatening Pro-Islamic State Messages on U.S. College Campus
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WKBN-TV, John Hawkins' Right Wing News and Mediaite
Nick Gass / Politico:
Pew: White Christians no longer a majority — White Christians now make up less than half of the U.S. population, largely receding from the majorities of most demographic groups, with one notable exception: the Republican Party. — According to the latest results from Pew Research Center's …
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Sarah Karlin / Politico:
Clinton criticizes Pfizer-Allergan merger, calls for inversions crackdown — Hillary Clinton said she has “deep concerns” with the $160 billion Pfizer and Allergan merger announced this morning and called on Congress to take quick action to prevent large corporations from shifting …
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Bloomberg Business and Bloomberg.com news
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David Remnick / New Yorker:
Telling the Truth About ISIS and Raqqa — On Saturday night, five young Syrians slouched into a dive bar in New York and ordered drinks. When the bartender asked if off-brand vodka was O.K., they had to smile. They were all exiles from Raqqa, the provincial city in northern Syria that ISIS …
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BillMoyers.com and National Review
Tammy Mutasa / WLWT-TV:
Muslim UC student says she was attacked because of her religion — 'I'm terrified to cross the street now,' woman says — A Muslim woman is speaking out after she says she was called a terrorist and almost run over by an angry man in Clifton Monday night.
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Raw Story and LiberalAmerica.org
Christopher Massie / BuzzFeed:
Rand Paul: Boston Bombers Were “Coddled,” Given “Free Stuff” As Refugees — Rand Paul said on Friday that the Boston bombers came to America as refugees and were “coddled” and given “free stuff,” before they “decided to attack us.” — “The Boston bombers came here and as refugees …
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Mediaite
Catherine Herridge / Fox News:
Emails show DOD analysts told to ‘cut it out’ on ISIS warnings; IG probe expands — Analysts at U.S. Central Command were pressured to ease off negative assessments about the Islamic State threat and were even told in an email to “cut it out,” Fox News has learned - as an investigation expands …
Ari Melber / MSNBC:
Ex-Benghazi investigator sues Trey Gowdy for discrimination and defamation — A former investigator for the House Benghazi Committee filed a federal lawsuit against the committee Monday, opening a new chapter in legal skirmishes over the Benghazi attacks and subsequent investigations.
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Mediaite, Talking Points Memo, Liberaland and The Week
Evan Osnos / New Yorker:
The Opportunist — On the morning of October 10th, Marco Rubio, Florida's junior senator, mounted a small stage at the Elks Lodge in Boulder City, Nevada, a popular retirement spot near Las Vegas. In his twenties, as an obscure Republican state legislator, Rubio exhibited such innate political skill …
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The American Conservative