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Rick Wilson / Heat Street:
After Judge Curiel, What Will Endorsing Donald Trump do To GOP Candidates? — Dear Republicans: — Imagine it's the Fall of this year and you're a U.S. House or Senate candidate in a swing district or state. Your Democratic opponent is running a low-risk campaign, having pivoted to the slightly-center-left with aplomb.
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Louis Nelson / Politico:
Warren pulls no punches in latest Trump attack — Donald Trump is an “insecure moneygrubber,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren told the assembled Democrats of Massachusetts at the state's party convention Saturday. — He is also, according to Warren's prepared remarks: Scary, loud, outrageous …
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Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Pushing racial boundaries, Trump draws rebuke from a fretful GOP — Donald Trump, whose campaign for president has crashed through one barrier after another, has again moved his candidacy into highly questionable territory, threatening to stir more racial animosity in an already divided country …
CNN:
Ryan, Clinton slam Trump over racial criticism of judge — (CNN)House Speaker Paul Ryan and Hillary Clinton on Friday condemned Donald Trump's racially tinged attacks on a judge overseeing a lawsuit against Trump University. — The comments come as Trump has escalated his attacks …
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Mark Hensch / The Hill:
Former attorney general: Trump right to question judge's fairness — Former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales says Donald Trump — is right to challenge the fairness a judge overseeing lawsuits against him. — “An independent judiciary is extremely important.
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Paul Waldman / Washington Post:
The media have reached a turning point in covering Donald Trump. He may not survive it.
The media have reached a turning point in covering Donald Trump. He may not survive it.
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Andreas Fuhrmann / redding.com:
Cheadle: I'm Trump's ‘African-American’
Cheadle: I'm Trump's ‘African-American’
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Alberto R. Gonzales / Washington Post:
Alberto R. Gonzales: Trump has a right to ask if Judge Gonzalo Curiel is fair
Alberto R. Gonzales: Trump has a right to ask if Judge Gonzalo Curiel is fair
David Mack / BuzzFeed:
We Spoke To The Family In This Trump Tweet And They're Not Happy — The picture was not taken at a Trump rally, but rather at a black family reunion in Cincinnati last year. — On Saturday morning, Donald Trump shared a tweet from a supporter that purported to show a black family on the “Trump Train.”
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Oliver Willis / Addicting Info:
Trump Tweets FAKE Photo Of Black Supporters After Racist Meltdown — The morning after getting pounded for several racial outbursts he made on Friday, Donald Trump retweeted an image of a black family with the caption “American Families for Trump.” — The problem is, the photo of the family …
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Dave Zirin / Los Angeles Times:
Op-Ed Don't remember Muhammad Ali as a sanctified sports hero. He was a powerful, dangerous political force — Muhammad Ali with his chief attorney Hayden Covington, right, on June 19, 1967 in Houston, Tex., as Ali goes to trial on charges of refusing to be inducted into the armed services.
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The White House:
Statement from President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama on the Passing of Muhammad Ali — Muhammad Ali was The Greatest. Period. If you just asked him, he'd tell you. He'd tell you he was the double greatest; that he'd “handcuffed lightning, thrown thunder into jail.”
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Michael Falcone / ABC News:
What Muhammad Ali Once Said About Donald Trump's Muslim Ban Proposal
What Muhammad Ali Once Said About Donald Trump's Muslim Ban Proposal
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Ali Breland / Politico:
Obamas, Clintons and Trump pay tribute to Muhammad Ali
Obamas, Clintons and Trump pay tribute to Muhammad Ali
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Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
That time Donald Trump said there were no Muslim American sports heroes
That time Donald Trump said there were no Muslim American sports heroes
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David Remnick / New Yorker:
The Outsized Life of Muhammad Ali
The Outsized Life of Muhammad Ali
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Lauren Dezenski / Politico:
Warren: 'I don't believe in superdelegates' — LOWELL — Sen. Elizabeth Warren said on Saturday that she doesn't believe in her party's superdelegate process. — “I'm a superdelegate, and I don't believe in superdelegates,” Warren told reporters following the Massachusetts State Democratic Convention.
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Bob Fredericks / New York Post:
Trump: Hillary hates Obama but sucks up to him to avoid jail — More On: — Donald Trump came up with a new insult for Hillary Clinton on Friday, calling her a “thief” and charging that she sucks up to President Obama so he will keep her out of jail over her email scandal. — “Hillary hates Obama.
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VICE News:
Exclusive: Snowden Tried to Tell NSA About Surveillance Concerns, Documents Reveal — On the morning of May 29, 2014, an overcast Thursday in Washington, DC, the general counsel of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), Robert Litt, wrote an email to high-level officials …
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Nancy French / The French Revolution:
Thanks for the marriage counseling, Politico — “I want to join the Army.” — It was around five o'clock in the afternoon, and the sun was pouring through the windows that overlooked the Philadelphia Eagles stadium on the horizon. Cars buzzed eighteen stories below us, but I couldn't hear them.
Campbell Brown / New York Post:
No, Mr. Mayor — we won't shut up about your misrule of the schools — ‘They need to figure out when to give it a rest. So declared Mayor de Blasio on Thursday in response to a question about Success Academy Charter Schools’ decision to close its pre-K program rather than run it under city oversight.