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Michael Wolff / Hollywood Reporter:
The Donald Trump Conversation: Politics' “Dark Heart” Is Having the Best Time Anyone's Ever Had — At home in Beverly Hills, the candidate talks Murdoch, what he's reading, how he'll redo electoral math and Ari Emanuel's offer to script his convention. — The long day is ending for Donald Trump …
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Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
Donald Trump Appears Unfamiliar With Term ‘Brexit’ — During a discussion on pockets of anti-immigrant beliefs in Europe, interviewer Michael Wolff asked Trump, “And Brexit? Your position?” — “Huh?” Trump asked in response, according to the Hollywood Reporter. — “Brexit,” Wolff then repeated.
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Charlie Spiering / Breitbart:
Records: Hillary Clinton Has Donated $70,000 To Veterans — Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and her husband Bill Clinton have donated $70,000 to veterans and military groups from their personal Clinton Family Foundation in recent years, according to public records.
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Rachel Stockman / LawNewz:
Guess Who Else Paid Out Big Bucks For Clinton Speeches?
Guess Who Else Paid Out Big Bucks For Clinton Speeches?
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BizPac Review, The Last Refuge and The American Spectator
Noah Bierman / Los Angeles Times:
A testy Donald Trump lashes out at news media and says 'I'm not changing'
A testy Donald Trump lashes out at news media and says 'I'm not changing'
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Washington Post, Mashable, Associated Press, Media Matters for America, Slantpoint and RedState
Jeremy Diamond / CNN:
First on CNN: Clinton campaign's plans to subvert Trump's veterans press conference
First on CNN: Clinton campaign's plans to subvert Trump's veterans press conference
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Nonprofit Quarterly, The Gateway Pundit, RedState, The Atlantic, Mediaite and Washington Free Beacon
New York Times:
Former Trump University Workers Call the School a ‘Lie’ and a ‘Scheme’ in Testimony — In blunt testimony revealed on Tuesday, former managers of Trump University, the for-profit school started by Donald J. Trump, portray it as an unscrupulous business that relied on high-pressure sales tactics …
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Christina Wilkie / The Huffington Post:
Inside The Trump University ‘Playbook’
Inside The Trump University ‘Playbook’
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Anne Gearan / Washington Post:
Clinton launching national security case against Trump in California speech — Retired Army Col. Peter Mansoor plans to vote for Hillary Clinton for president this year, but not because the longtime Republican and former top aide to then-Gen. David Petraeus has had a political conversion.
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Todd S. Purdum / Politico:
Whither Jerry Brown Goes, So Will Many Democrats — When an endorsement is as tepid as Jerry Brown's—call it a non-endorsement endorsement—does it really make any difference at all? Perhaps not—except as a bellwether. The California governor's eleventh-hour announcement on Tuesday …
Douglas E. Schoen / Wall Street Journal:
Clinton Might Not Be the Nominee
Harper Neidig / The Hill:
Half of voters think Clinton's private email server use was illegal — Half of all voters think that Hillary Clinton — 's use of a private email server during her time as secretary of State was illegal, according to a new Morning Consult poll released Wednesday.
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Bloomberg:
Kristol Eyes Conservative Lawyer for Independent Presidential Run — Bill Kristol is considering recruiting David French to run against Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, two Republicans tell Bloomberg Politics. — MarkHalperin — jheil — Two Republicans intimately familiar …
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London Evening Standard:
A group of asylum seekers sexually assaulted women at a music concert in the German city of Darmstadt, said police. — Three Pakistani men are already under arrest after 18 women filed complaints that they had been improperly touched, fondled and groped during the festival in the city of Darmstadt.
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Jesse Byrnes / The Hill:
MSNBC interrupts Libertarian candidate to talk to Clinton — MSNBC interrupted an interview with Libertarian Party presidential nominee Gary Johnson and running mate William Weld on Tuesday evening for a phone interview with Hillary Clinton — “Governors, I want to pause here for a second …
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Jonathan Swan / The Hill:
Million-dollar super-PAC donation coming for Libertarian ticket
Million-dollar super-PAC donation coming for Libertarian ticket
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Katy O'Donnell / Politico:
How the GOP effort to oust IRS chief could backfire — For over a year, House conservatives have been clamoring to remove IRS Commissioner John Koskinen. But now that the impeachment process is moving forward, they face a delicate decision: Are they willing to toss 200-plus years of precedent to bring him down?
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Politicus USA
Media Matters for America:
Rush Limbaugh Baffled By Evolution — RUSH LIMBAUGH (HOST): This woman obviously has not read Genesis, and even if she did it wouldn't have any impact on her. But human beings travel all over the world to gawk at animals precisely because they're unusual, they're interesting, some are cute, some are deadly.
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Agence France-Presse:
Dalai Lama says ‘too many’ refugees in Europe — BERLIN: Tibetan Spiritual leader Dalai Lama said in an interview published that Europe has accepted “too many” refugees, and that they should eventually return to help rebuild their home countries. — “When we look into the face of every single refugee …
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Thomas Erdbrink / New York Times:
Suspected Tattoo on Iranian Actress Creates a Commotion — TEHRAN — A popular Iranian actress whose latest movie won two awards at the recent Cannes Film Festival threw her native country into an uproar on Tuesday after images emerged suggesting that she had a feminist tattoo on her arm.
Ed O'Keefe / Washington Post:
Inside Democrats' Trump-fueled scramble to take back the House — Vice President Biden stood on a stage at a Democratic retreat in Baltimore in late January and made a bold prediction: Democrats could win back control of the House of Representatives this year. — “It's been a tough last couple of cycles,” he said.
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Craig Bannister / mrctv.org/videos:
Obama: Prepare to Flee Climate-Caused Hurricane Devastation — Pres. Obama called for every American to put together a disaster supply kit and evacuation plan because climate change is bringing “more powerful and more devastating” hurricanes to the U.S. - even though the U.S. hasn't been hit …
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Matthew Herper / Forbes:
From $4.5 Billion To Nothing: Forbes Revises Estimated Net Worth Of Theranos Founder Elizabeth Holmes — Last year, Elizabeth Holmes topped the FORBES list of America's Richest Self-Made Women with a net worth of $4.5 billion. Today, FORBES is lowering our estimate of her net worth to nothing.
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Mary Hansen / Daily Herald:
Illinois could become the fifth state with automatic voter registration — Illinois residents are now one step closer to being able to automatically register to vote when they renew their driver's license. — mhansen@dailyherald.com — Illinoisans moved one step closer to being able …
Miranda Blue / Right Wing Watch:
Larry Pratt: If Conservatives Lose The Supreme Court, We May ‘Have To Resort To The Bullet Box’ — Larry Pratt, the executive director emeritus of Gun Owners of America, said on his “Gun Owners News Hour” radio program this weekend that if a Democrat wins the White House …
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CNNMoney:
Donald Trump's ‘sleaze’ attack on reporter hits new level of media animosity — Donald Trump's criticism of the media has reached Nixonian levels — only Trump isn't doing the name-calling in private. He's doing it right to reporters' faces. — On Tuesday, Trump pointed out ABC News reporter Tom Llamas and called him “a sleaze.”
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No More Mister Nice Blog, NPR, Patterico's Pontifications, New York Times and Media Matters for America
Charles D. Ellison / The Hill:
How Clinton can own her email scandal — Somehow, somewhere along the campaigning way, badly placed emails became a political “thing.” — Without belaboring how we got to that point and altogether glossing over the boring details of the FBI's ongoing digital probe, what once seemed …
Steven Musil / CNET:
Jeff Bezos slams Peter Thiel's funding lawsuit against Gawker — Amazon CEO says at Code Conference that the billionaire shouldn't be using his fortune “to fund a lawsuit to kill Gawker.” — by , Steven Musil — Jeff Bezos believes that billionaire investor and PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel …
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