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Jane Mayer / New Yorker:
Donald Trump's Ghostwriter Tells All — “The Art of the Deal” made America see Trump as a charmer with an unfailing knack for business. Tony Schwartz helped create that myth—and regrets it. — Last June, as dusk fell outside Tony Schwartz's sprawling house, on a leafy back road in Riverdale …
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Kira Lerner / ThinkProgress:
Trump Campaign Weighs In On Open Carry At The Republican Convention — CLEVELAND, OHIO — Hours after the head of Cleveland's police union pleaded with the governor to suspend Ohio's open-carry laws during the Republican National Convention, Donald Trump's spokesperson told ThinkProgress she is …
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2016 GOP Convention Program Announced — CLEVELAND, Ohio - Jeff Larson, CEO of the 2016 Republican National Convention, today released an updated program for the “Make America Great Again” convention, July 18-21, in Cleveland. — Veterans, political outsiders, faith leaders …
New York Times:
Scrambling, Planners of the Republican Convention Put ‘Showbiz’ Off to the Wings — CLEVELAND — Donald J. Trump was told, no, it was not sensible to have Don King, the flamboyant boxing promoter, address the Republican convention. But Mr. Trump, who has repeatedly boasted of having Mr. King's support, kept pressing the matter.
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Niall Stanage / The Hill:
Curtain goes up on Trump show — The curtain is about to rise on the most extraordinary political convention of modern times. — , a man who has never run for political office before, is about to become the Republican presidential nominee. — Trump has flouted every rule of campaigning known …
Louis Nelson / Politico:
Trump may speak at convention tonight
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Lesley Stahl / CBS News:
The Republican Ticket: Trump and Pence — Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and his running mate, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, speak to Lesley Stahl in their first joint interview — The following is a script from “The Republican Ticket” which aired on July 17, 2016.
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Donald Trump's answer on Mike Pence's Iraq vote is really something
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Trump campaign: Kasich is embarrassing his state
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Jennifer Jacobs / Bloomberg:
Convention Protests Will Probably Help Trump, Top Aide Says
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Chuck Ross / The Daily Caller:
Baton Rouge Shooter Gavin Eugene Long Was Nation Of Islam Member, Railed Against ‘Crackers’ On YouTube Channel [VIDEO] — A Youtube account operated by Gavin Eugene Long and discovered by The Daily Caller reveals key insight into what might have motivated the 29-year-old black man …
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NBC News:
Gavin or ‘Cosmo’? Baton Rouge Shooter Left Long, Twisted Digital Footprint — The suspect in the fatal shooting of three Baton Rouge cops maintained a robust social media presence and a website called Convos With Cosmo in which he describes himself as a “freedom strategist, mental game coach …
The Advocate:
‘Humble, kind, sweet,’ new dad Montrell Jackson one of Baton Rouge officers killed in attack
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Andrew Holleran / College Spun:
Facebook Post From Baton Rouge Police Officer Killed Today Is Going Viral
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Allegra Kirkland / Talking Points Memo:
In Heated Interview, Sheriff Blames Black Lives Matter For Police Shootings — Invited on air to discuss a gunman's shooting of three police officers in Baton Rouge, Louisiana on Sunday, a controversial Wisconsin sheriff spent over ten minutes railing against Black Lives Matter as a “hateful ideology.”
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Heather Mac Donald / City Journal:
The Fire Spreads — Three cops dead in Baton Rouge …
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John Eligon / New York Times:
Black Lives Matter Leader Calls for End to Violence
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Kevin Rector / Baltimore Sun:
Freddie Gray case: Judge acquits Lt. Brian Rice of all charges … Prosecutors in Baltimore have failed for the fourth time to secure a conviction in the Freddie Gray case, with Circuit Judge Barry Williams acquitting Lt. Brian Rice of all charges related to Gray's arrest and death.
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Nate Cohn / New York Times:
Confused by Contradictory Polls? Take a Step Back — It has been a rocky few weeks all over the world. Only a few surprising presidential poll results have broken through in a news cycle dominated by shootings by and of the police, the F.B.I.'s decision not to indict Hillary Clinton …
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Bloomberg:
United Suspends Pilot Who Called for Hanging Hillary Clinton — Airline is investigating Folk, who began at United in 2008 — Tweet said Clinton should be ‘hung on the mall’ in D.C. — United Airlines suspended pilot and Republican West Virginia lawmaker Michael Folk from flying pending …
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Louis Nelson / Politico:
Trump on Obama's police shooting response: 'Look at the body language. There's something going on' — When it comes to violence against law enforcement, Donald Trump says there is “something going on” with President Barack Obama's response. — The president was forced to address …
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McKay Coppins / BuzzFeed:
Donald Trump stood on a — debate stage in downtown Detroit, surrounded by haters he was determined to dispatch: Liddle Marco to his right, Lyin' Ted to his left, Megyn Kelly at the moderator's table straight ahead, and — somewhere out there, in a darkened living room 1,500 miles away — me.
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Marc Fisher / Washington Post:
Donald Trump doesn't read much. Being president probably wouldn't change that. — NEW YORK — As he has prepared to be named the Republican nominee for president, Donald Trump has not read any biographies of presidents. He said he would like to someday. — He has no time to read, he said: “I never have.
Dinesh D'Souza / National Review:
How the Clinton Foundation Got Rich off Poor Haitians — It filtered money through Haiti and back to itself. — EDITOR'S NOTE: — The following article is excerpted from Dinesh D'Souza's new book, Hillary's America: The Secret History of the Democratic Party.
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