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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
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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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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USA Today, New York Times, Liberal Values, NPR, Washington Monthly and Outside the Beltway
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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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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Sky News and Bearing Arms
BBC:
Munich shooting: Police hunt ‘attackers’
Munich shooting: Police hunt ‘attackers’
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RT, Raw Story, Mashable and The Daily Caller
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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Slate
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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Dan Spinelli / Politico:
Trump revives rumor linking Cruz's father to JFK assassination
Trump revives rumor linking Cruz's father to JFK assassination
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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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Nick Gass / Politico:
Trump: I wouldn't accept Cruz endorsement
Trump: I wouldn't accept Cruz endorsement
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ABC News, Hot Air and No More Mister Nice Blog
Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Scott Walker: Cruz Wrong To Say “Vote Your Conscience”
Scott Walker: Cruz Wrong To Say “Vote Your Conscience”
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National Review
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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The Hill, Power Line, National Review and neo-neocon
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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Washington Monthly, Eclectablog and Media Matters for America
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 …
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Tegna / KVUE-TV:
APD investigating officers' actions in teacher's 2015 arrest
APD investigating officers' actions in teacher's 2015 arrest
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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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Media Matters for America, The Week, Guardian and The Atlantic
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 …
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
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
CNN:
Obama: Trump's doom-and-gloom doesn't match reality — Washington (CNN)The deeply pessimistic outlook that Donald Trump offered at this week's Republican National Convention doesn't match reality, President Barack Obama insisted on Friday. — Noting he didn't watch Trump's prime …
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Rush Limbaugh, The Gateway Pundit and The Week
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Nick Gass / Politico:
Obama unloads on Trump, promises to protect Mexico relationship
Obama unloads on Trump, promises to protect Mexico relationship
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ABC News
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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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 …