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Sam Frizell / TIME:
GOP Shows White Supremacist's Tweet During Trump's Speech — The Republican National Convention displayed a tweet by a white-supremacist account during Donald Trump's nomination acceptance speech on Thursday night. — The tweet, written by the account @Western_Triumph …
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Alexa Corse / The Daily Beast:
Vice Chair of D.C. GOP to Resign Over Trump Nomination — The vice chairman of the Washington, D.C., GOP party plans to resign from his post and vote for libertarian candidate Gary Johnson in November, the longtime Republican operative told The Daily Beast.
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RedState and The PolitiStick
Michael Goodwin / New York Post:
Donald Trump's RNC address could mark the start of an American revival
Donald Trump's RNC address could mark the start of an American revival
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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
In Cleveland, the GOP's ‘come-to-Trump moment’
In Cleveland, the GOP's ‘come-to-Trump moment’
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The Atlantic, New York Times and Vox
Peter Suderman / Hit & Run:
Donald Trump's RNC Speech Was a Terrifying Display of Nightmarish Authoritarianism
Donald Trump's RNC Speech Was a Terrifying Display of Nightmarish Authoritarianism
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Yahoo! Finance:
INSTANT POLL: Trump's speech was a hit with voters
INSTANT POLL: Trump's speech was a hit with voters
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Business Insider, The Gateway Pundit, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion and Allen B. West
Jamelle Bouie / Slate:
Donald Trump's Speech Was Just Another Scam
Donald Trump's Speech Was Just Another Scam
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Daily Mail:
BREAKING NEWS: ‘Several dead’ and 10 injured in shooting rampage inside a Munich shopping centre as police hunt gunman — At least one person has died and another 10 people are injured after a lone gunman went on a shooting spree in a German shopping centre.
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CNN:
Report: Several killed in shooting at Munich shopping mall — (CNN)Gunfire rang out at a shopping mall in the German city of Munich on Friday evening, leaving several people dead and others wounded, CNN affiliate NTV reported. — The shooting, which started at about 6 p.m. local …
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Harriet Alexander / Telegraph:
Watch live: Munich shooting latest — Play! — Live — Munich police are hunting for three gunmen who they believe have carried out attacks at three locations in the city. — On Twitter, the local forces said shootings had taken place at Hanauer Straße, then the Riesstraße, and also at theOlympia shopping center.
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BBC:
Munich shooting: Police hunt ‘attackers’
Munich shooting: Police hunt ‘attackers’
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The Intercept:
New Leak: Top DNC Official Wanted to Use Bernie Sanders's Religious Beliefs Against Him — Among the nearly 20,000 internal emails from the Democratic National Committee, released Friday by Wikileaks and presumably provided by the hacker “Guccifer 2.0,” is a May 2016 message from DNC CFO Brad Marshall.
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The Hill:
Leaked DNC emails reveal secret plans to take on Sanders — Top officials at the Democratic National Committee (DNC) privately planned how to undermine Bernie Sanders — 's presidential campaign, according to a trove of emails released by WikiLeaks on Friday.
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Sam Reisman / Mediaite:
Leaked DNC Emails Reveal Discussions About Attacking Bernie Sanders' Religion
Leaked DNC Emails Reveal Discussions About Attacking Bernie Sanders' Religion
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Courthouse News Service and Slate
Amy Chozick / New York Times:
Tim Kaine Seems Likely for Hillary Clinton's No. 2, but Liberals Balk — Democrats close to Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign signaled strongly Thursday that she would choose Senator Tim Kaine of Virginia as her running mate, rounding out the ticket with a popular politician from a battleground state.
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Annie Karni / Politico:
Vanilla nice: Signs point to Kaine as Clinton's VP choice
Vanilla nice: Signs point to Kaine as Clinton's VP choice
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Washington Post:
Donald Trump is a unique threat to American democracy — DONALD J. TRUMP, until now a Republican problem, this week became a challenge the nation must confront and overcome. The real estate tycoon is uniquely unqualified to serve as president, in experience and temperament.
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alan.com, Media Matters for America, Guardian, The Week and The Atlantic
David Brooks / New York Times:
The Death of the Republican Party — CLEVELAND — On the surface, this seems like a normal Republican convention. There are balloon drops, banal but peppy music from the mid-1970s and polite white people not dancing in their seats. — But this is not a normal convention.
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Washington Free Beacon
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Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Five ways Trump's convention was a success
Five ways Trump's convention was a success
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Timothy Egan / New York Times:
Make America Hate Again
Make America Hate Again
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Associated Press:
Ex-KKK Leader David Duke Says He Plans to Run for US Senate — Former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke announced Friday on his website that he plans to run for U.S. Senate in Louisiana. — A registered Republican, he would be seeking an open seat vacated by Republican David Vitter.
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Elise Viebeck / Washington Post:
Former KKK leader David Duke, citing Trump, announces Senate bid
Former KKK leader David Duke, citing Trump, announces Senate bid
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Dan Spinelli / Politico:
Trump revives rumor linking Cruz's father to JFK assassination — A day after accepting the Republican Party's nomination for president, Donald Trump rehashed a conspiracy theory that claims the man who killed President John F. Kennedy once cavorted with Ted Cruz's father. — “I don't know his father.
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Susan Wright / RedState:
Rush Limbaugh Shreds Last Bits of Dignity to Idolize Trump and Trash Ted Cruz
Rush Limbaugh Shreds Last Bits of Dignity to Idolize Trump and Trash Ted Cruz
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Mark Halperin / Bloomberg.com:
Trump Would Fund Super-PACs Aimed at Taking Down Cruz, Kasich — Donald Trump plans to create and fund super-PACs specifically aimed at ending the political careers of Ted Cruz and John Kasich should either run for office again, after both snubbed the Republican nominee during his party's convention …
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GOPLifer:
Resignation letter — Yesterday I resigned my position in the York Township Republican Committeemen's Organization. Below is the letter I sent to the chairman explaining my decision. — Chairman Cuzzone: — We come together in political parties to magnify our influence.
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Raw Story
Cincinnati.com:
Cincinnati cop's alarming post on Facebook — The Cincinnati Police Department is reviewing a Facebook post by a black officer that referenced white officers “looking for a reason to kill a black man.” — Cincinnati Police Chief Eliot Isaac said in a Thursday statement the post …
John Siciliano / Washington Examiner:
Kerry: Refrigerator chemicals are just as bad as ISIS — Air conditioners and refrigerators pose as big a threat to “life on the planet” as the threat of terrorism, Secretary of State John Kerry said Friday. — Kerry was in Vienna negotiating a global climate deal to phase out chemicals used …
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Alyssa Canobbio / Washington Free Beacon:
Kerry: Air Conditioners as Big a Threat as ISIS
Kerry: Air Conditioners as Big a Threat as ISIS
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Jihad Watch
Jason Samenow / Washington Post:
Two Middle East locations hit 129 degrees, hottest ever in Eastern Hemisphere, maybe the world — The temperature in Mitribah, Kuwait, surged Thursday to a blistering 129.2 degrees (54 Celsius). And on Friday in Basra, Iraq, the mercury soared to 129.0 degrees (53.9 Celsius).
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Tony Plohetski / Austin Investigative News …:
Violent arrest of teacher caught on video; officers face investigation — Officials are investigating an Austin police officer's violent arrest of an African-American elementary school teacher who was twice thrown to the ground during a traffic stop for speeding and comments by a second officer …
Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Fact-checking Donald Trump's acceptance speech at the 2016 RNC — The dark portrait of America that Donald J. Trump sketched in his acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention is a compendium of doomsday stats that fall apart upon close scrutiny.
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