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Ashley Feinberg / Gawker:
Trump Campaign Blames Anti-Semitic Tweet on “Microsoft's Shapes” — Just when you think the saga of Donald Trump's not-so-subtle, likely accidental white supremacist dog whistle can't get any more exciting, Trump's Director of Social Media Dan Scavino proves us wrong. Dan—take it away.
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Donald J Trump for President:
DONALD J. TRUMP STATEMENT ON FALSE ACCUSATION FROM HILLARY CLINTON — These false attacks by Hillary Clinton trying to link the Star of David with a basic star, often used by sheriffs who deal with criminals and criminal behavior, (showing an inscription that says “Crooked Hillary …
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The Atlantic, Washington Post, Talking Points Memo, Guardian, Jezebel, The Hill, Mediaite and Little Green Footballs
Katherine Krueger / Talking Points Memo:
Ex-KKK Leader David Duke Loved Trump's Star Of David Tweet
Ex-KKK Leader David Duke Loved Trump's Star Of David Tweet
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Salon and Little Green Footballs
Jeremy Diamond / CNN:
Donald Trump's ‘Star of David’ tweet controversy, explained
Donald Trump's ‘Star of David’ tweet controversy, explained
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Media Matters for America, RedState and Associated Press
Emily Flitter / Reuters:
Trump defends ‘star’ tweet; Clinton says it's anti-Semitic
Trump defends ‘star’ tweet; Clinton says it's anti-Semitic
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National Review and Media Matters for America
Jeff Mason / Reuters:
Coming full circle, Obama hits the campaign trail for Clinton
Coming full circle, Obama hits the campaign trail for Clinton
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Katie Rogers / New York Times:
Hillary Clinton's Campaign Calls Donald Trump's Star of David Tweet Anti-Semitic
Hillary Clinton's Campaign Calls Donald Trump's Star of David Tweet Anti-Semitic
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Politico, American Prospect, The Gateway Pundit, Daily Kos, Taylor Marsh, Dallas Morning News, Mediaite, AOL, Israel Matzav and CNN
Glenn Thrush / Politico:
Nate Silver is happy to be wrong — Nate Silver is giving Donald Trump a 19 percent chance of becoming president - and that makes him a little nervous, as well it should. — No, it's not because he failed to predict Trump's albino-swan victory in the Republican primaries …
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Washington Post and Political Wire
Allegra Kirkland / Talking Points Memo:
Fla. Dad Accidentally Shoots 14-Year-Old Son: 'The Gun Didn't Kill My Boy. I Did' — A Florida father blamed himself for the “operating error” that resulted in him killing his 14-year-old son in an accidental shooting at a Sarasota gun range on Sunday afternoon. — “The gun didn't kill my boy.
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Emanuella Grinberg / CNN:
'The gun didn't kill my boy. I did': Father grieves son he accidentally shot
'The gun didn't kill my boy. I did': Father grieves son he accidentally shot
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Katie Pavlich / Townhall.com:
BREAKING: After Hillary Interview, FBI Director to Make a Statement Tuesday — FBI Director James Comey will make a statement Tuesday at 11 am eastern from headquarters in Washington D.C. He will also take questions from reporters. Over the weekend the FBI interviewed former Secretary …
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JP Carroll / The Daily Caller:
EXCLUSIVE: This Is Trump's Foreign Policy, A Conversation With Top Trump Adviser Dr. Walid Phares — Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump “will not ask Japan or South Korea to invest in building nuclear weapons but he will speak with their leaders about how to create a safer …
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Mark Hensch / The Hill:
Adviser: Trump ‘not going to get rid of’ Iran deal
Adviser: Trump ‘not going to get rid of’ Iran deal
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Petula Dvorak / Washington Post:
A home that looks perfect, until bigotry rears its ugly head — Over a long weekend of fireworks, face paint and flags, Fernando Herboso couldn't stop thinking about the new America he encountered last week. — Herboso, 58, and his brother Carlos have their own real estate agency …
Selim Algar / New York Post:
Trump supporter: ‘Mexican restaurant refused to serve me’ — An Orange County woman claims she was tossed from a Mexican restaurant Sunday, not for too much tequila — but for too much Trump. — Esther Levy, 61, of Warwick, said an employee at the popular Cancun Inn eatery in Sugar Loaf chucked …
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Tracy Crane / News-Gazette:
Flag burning leads to Urbana man's arrest — What's your opinion? Submit a Letter to the Editor here — URBANA — Within hours of a Fourth of July Facebook post showing him burning an American flag, a 22-year-old Urbana man found himself under arrest and under fire — from all corners of the Internet.
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Raw Story, BizPac Review and Fox 59
Daniel W. Drezner / Washington Post:
The truth of cosmopolitanism — Ross Douthat suggests that cosmopolitans are their own tribe. Let's break down that argument, shall we? — Ross Douthat is an excellent columnist, not in the sense that you always agree with his arguments so much as because disagreeing with him helps one refine one's own counterarguments.
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George Saunders / New Yorker:
Who Are All These Trump Supporters? — At the candidate's rallies, a new understanding of America emerges. — HE APPEARS — Trump is wearing the red baseball cap, or not. From this distance, he is strangely handsome, well proportioned, puts you in mind of a sea captain: Alan Hale from …
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Hullabaloo and Lawyers, Guns & Money
Peter Wehner / New York Times:
The Theology of Donald Trump — SINCE Donald Trump assures us that the Bible is his favorite book, it's worth asking: Just what is his theology? — After Mr. Trump met with hundreds of evangelical Christians a couple of weeks ago, James Dobson, who is among the most influential leaders …
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Boing Boing, Althouse and Politicus USA
Emily Yahr / Washington Post:
PBS used some stock footage for its fireworks show, and people were not happy — If you were watching Washington's Fourth of July fireworks outside on Monday night and also happened to catch PBS's broadcast of “A Capitol Fourth,” you might have noticed something looked...a little off.
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The Daily Caller, NBC News and Eschaton
Haroon Moghul / CNN:
Medina bombing is an assault on Islam itself — Haroon Moghul is a senior fellow and director of development at the Center for Global Policy. His next book, “How to be a Muslim,” will be out in 2017. The opinions expressed in this commentary are his. — (CNN)Medina is a city eclipsed …
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Common Dreams, Allen B. West and Al Jazeera English
Tim Devaney / The Hill:
Wikileaks publishes Clinton war emails — WikiLeaks on Monday published more than 1,000 emails from Hillary Clinton — 's private server during her time as secretary of State about the Iraq War. — The website tweeted a link to 1,258 emails that Clinton, now the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee sent and received.
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