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Rep. Paul Ryan / GazetteXtra:
Paul Ryan: Donald Trump can help make reality of bold House policy agenda — When Donald Trump became the Republican Party's presumptive nominee for president one month ago, many Republicans like me faced a big question. — Six months earlier, in October, as I was taking the job as House speaker …
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Frank Schultz / GazetteXtra:
Paul Ryan says he will vote for Donald Trump — The speaker of the House of Representatives says he will vote for Donald Trump. — Rep. Paul Ryan made that statement in a column submitted Thursday for publication in The Gazette, his hometown newspaper. — The statement at least partially answers …
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Katie Reilly / TIME:
Read Hillary Clinton's Speech on Donald Trump and National Security — “Donald Trump's ideas aren't just different - they are dangerously incoherent” — Hillary Clinton tore into presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump during a speech on national security Thursday, casting him as …
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Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
CNN has finally figured out how to cover Donald Trump's constant lying — Covering Donald Trump is great for ratings, and Trump is unusually willing to appear on cable television at basically all times, which is convenient for the cable networks. But cable news has often struggled …
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Zack Beauchamp / Vox:
Hillary Clinton just made her best case against Donald Trump — Hillary Clinton just took her biggest shot yet at the idea of President Donald Trump. — Thursday afternoon, Clinton gave a speech that was billed as a major foreign address. Indeed, the speech was structured …
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Dan Merica / CNN:
Hillary Clinton: Trump is ‘temperamentally unfit’ to be president
Hillary Clinton: Trump is ‘temperamentally unfit’ to be president
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Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
Clinton warns electing Trump would be ‘historic mistake’
Clinton warns electing Trump would be ‘historic mistake’
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Brent Kendall / Wall Street Journal:
Donald Trump Keeps Up Attacks on Judge Gonzalo Curiel — The Republican's charge of a ‘conflict’ in case over his university draws criticism from some legal observers — Donald Trump on Thursday escalated his attacks on the federal judge presiding over civil fraud lawsuits against Trump University …
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Tennessean.com:
Fire chief: 1 dead after Navy Blue Angel jet crash in Smyrna … This photo was taken moments after the crash of a Blue Angel jet outside the Smyrna Airport on Thursday afternoon. Becca Cullison-Burgess / FOR THE TENNESSEAN — 1 of 4 — Last Slide — Next Slide
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Wkrn Web / WKRN-TV:
Pilot killed after U.S. Navy Blue Angels jet crashes in Smyrna — SMYRNA, Tenn. - A pilot was killed after a U.S. Navy Blue Angels jet crashed Thursday afternoon in Smyrna ahead of the Great Tennessee Airshow this weekend. — The F/A-18 Hornet crashed at 3 p.m. behind the Sam Davis Home …
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Pilot killed after US Navy Blue Angels jet crashes in Tennessee
Pilot killed after US Navy Blue Angels jet crashes in Tennessee
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Louis Nelson / Politico:
Holder on Joe Wilson's outburst: They should have told him to ‘sit the f— down’ — Recalling Rep. Joe Wilson's 2009 outburst during President Barack Obama's address to a joint session of Congress, former Attorney General Eric Holder didn't mince words regarding the South Carolina congressman.
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Michael A. Fletcher / The Undefeated:
A Question of Racism — What's behind the vitriol in the opposition to Obama?
A Question of Racism — What's behind the vitriol in the opposition to Obama?
Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Mark Cuban: Trump “Appears To Never To Have Met A Lie He Didn't Love” — “From what I see today, I think he would be a puppet president.” — Billionaire businessman and investor Mark Cuban, who earlier this week questioned Donald Trump's billionaire status, told BuzzFeed News …
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Jacob Pramuk / CNBC:
Mark Cuban: We don't really know if Trump's a billionaire
Mark Cuban: We don't really know if Trump's a billionaire
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Ken Shepherd / Washington Times:
Journalists need to denounce State Department ‘censorship’: CNN's Jake Tapper — Asked for his thoughts about the State Department's admission on Wednesday that it edited a 2013 press briefing to remove comments by a spokeswoman — Foggy Bottom initially passed off the omission as a technical glitch …
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Paulina Firozi / The Hill:
Jake Tapper goes off on State Dept. over edited video
Sheboygan Press Media:
Party leads to alleged sexual assault — SHEBOYGAN - A 19-year-old Grafton man is facing first degree sexual assault charges after drinking at a party and allegedly threatening to cut a woman if she didn't have sex with him. — Anthony J. Zingale, who was also charged with carrying a concealed weapon …
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Andrew Biggs / Forbes:
President Obama Throws In The Towel On Social Security Reform — Since President Obama took office in 2009, the Social Security program's long-term funding shortfall has risen from $5.3 trillion to $10.7 trillion - not what you'd call progress. I had once hoped that, in the waning days …
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Los Angeles Times:
UCLA gunman had accused slain professor of stealing his computer code, sources say — Police respond to the UCLA campus after a shooting Wednesday. (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times) — The gunman who shot and killed a UCLA professor Wednesday has been identified as Mainak Sarkar …
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Seanna Adcox / Associated Press:
Haley talks of Trump, Confederate flag ahead of anniversary — COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley said Thursday she wishes Donald Trump communicated differently because bad things result from divisive rhetoric, as evidenced by last June's massacre in Charleston.
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Ronald Kessler For / Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE: Hillary ‘triggered’ suicide of President Bill Clinton's counsel Vince Foster when she attacked and humiliated him in front of White House staff one week before his death, FBI agents claim — Deputy White House Counsel Vince Foster shot himself with a .38 caliber revolver …
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F.H. Buckley / Real Clear Politics:
Trump's Authentic Republicanism — A stray comment by Donald Trump is being taken as his campaign's lodestone, the key to all his beliefs. Asked what the Republican Party would become under him, he told Bloomberg Businessweek, “You're going to have a worker's party.
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Valerie Richardson / Washington Times:
Landmark California bill would allow prosecution of climate-change skeptics — A landmark California bill gaining steam would make it illegal to engage in climate-change dissent, clearing the way for lawsuits against fossil-fuel companies, think-tanks and others that have “deceived or misled the public on the risks of climate change.”
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Claire Landsbaum / New York Magazine:
Why Hillary Clinton Is Avoiding Press Conferences — She's playing to her strengths, as any politician would. — Pin It — Hillary Clinton hasn't held a press conference in 180 days. That fact hasn't been lost on reporters who cover her, nor has it escaped the notice of her Republican opponent.
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Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Former Mexican President Vicente Fox Challenges Trump To Debate — “I'm willing to come here, to come here, to the States, if it's for a debate.” — w.soundcloud.com — Former Mexican President and noted Trump dogger Vicente Fox challenged Donald Trump to a debate on Thursday.
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Adrian Carrasquillo / BuzzFeed:
The RNC's New Hispanic Media Director Bashed Trump Nonstop For Months — After the Republican National Committee Hispanic Media Director left Wednesday because of discomfort with working to elect Donald Trump, the RNC moved quickly to announce a replacement: commentator and journalist Helen Aguirre Ferré.
Aungelique Proctor / WAGA-TV:
Police: Woman in Burka attacks Lawrenceville family with American flag — LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. - A family in Lawrenceville said they were attacked by a total stranger just because they were flying an American Flag. — Amina Ahra, 30, was arrested on two counts of simple battery after being accused …
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Ezra Klein / Vox:
Elon Musk believes we are probably characters in some advanced civilization's video game — By far the best moment of Recode's annual Code Conference was when Elon Musk took the stage and explained that though we think we're flesh-and-blood participants in a physical world …
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Philip Klinkner / Vox:
The easiest way to guess if someone supports Trump? Ask if Obama is a Muslim. — You can ask just one simple question to find out whether someone likes Donald Trump more than Hillary Clinton: Is Barack Obama a Muslim? If they are white and the answer is yes, 89 percent of the time that person …
Mark Hosenball / Reuters:
Some officials worry about briefing Trump, fearing spilled secrets — Some U.S. intelligence officials are concerned that Donald Trump's “shoot from the hip” style could pose national security risks as they prepare to give him a routine pre-election briefing once he is formally anointed as the Republican presidential nominee.