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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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Media Matters for America and RedState
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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
In Cleveland, the GOP's ‘come-to-Trump moment’ — CLEVELAND — There's always been a disconnect between what pundits and political insiders hear when Donald Trump speaks and what rank-and-file Republicans hear. But when Trump gave his acceptance address on the last night of the GOP convention …
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The Atlantic, New York Times, FOX News Radio, Vox and Washington Post
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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Alexa Corse / The Daily Beast:
Vice Chair of D.C. GOP to Resign Over Trump Nomination
Vice Chair of D.C. GOP to Resign Over Trump Nomination
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RedState
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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Common Dreams, Campaign for America's Future, Mediaite, ThinkProgress, BizPac Review and Associated Press
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
Fox News Insider:
See Which Moment From Trump's Speech This Focus Group REALLY Liked
See Which Moment From Trump's Speech This Focus Group REALLY Liked
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BizPac Review
Allegra Kirkland / Talking Points Memo:
RNC Displays Tweet From White Supremacist As Trump Accepts Nom
RNC Displays Tweet From White Supremacist As Trump Accepts Nom
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Little Green Footballs, Mediaite, The Week and Daily Kos
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
Kevin Rawlinson / Guardian:
Munich shooting: police hunt continues as death toll rises to nine - live
Munich shooting: police hunt continues as death toll rises to nine - live
Joern Poltz / Reuters:
Multiple deaths at shooting rampage in German shopping mall: police
Multiple deaths at shooting rampage in German shopping mall: police
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The Last Refuge and The Other McCain
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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Mediaite, Washington Post, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion and The Daily Caller
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
Annie Karni / Politico:
Vanilla nice: Signs point to Kaine as Clinton's VP choice — Hillary Clinton's veepstakes is ending the way it began: with the humble-but-sturdy Tim Kaine sitting at the top of her list. — After an extensive, months-long process during which the campaign considered a host of different options …
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The Hill, Power Line, National Review and neo-neocon
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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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ABC News, Washington Post and Liberty Unyielding
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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Nick Gass / Politico:
Trump: I wouldn't accept Cruz endorsement
Trump: I wouldn't accept Cruz endorsement
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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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Washington Monthly, Eclectablog and Media Matters for America
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
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
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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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 …
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
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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