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Politico:
Trump campaign hits ‘Corrupt Kaine’ right out of the gate — Donald Trump's campaign wasted little time depicting Hillary Clinton's new running mate as a continuation of the “rigged system,” casting Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine as “Corrupt Tim” and attacking him for supporting President Barack Obama's policies.
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Talking Points Memo, Washington Post, RedState and Fox News Insider
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Slate:
WHAT WOMEN REALLY THINK — After months of speculation that Hillary Clinton might select Sen. Elizabeth Warren as her running mate, creating the first-ever two-woman ticket, or perhaps Labor Secretary Tom Perez, a civil rights lawyer who would've been the first Latino VP …
Mike Lillis / The Hill:
Clinton VP pick could face liberal ire
Clinton VP pick could face liberal ire
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Politico, Washington Post, Instapundit and Clayton Cramer
Amy Chozick / New York Times:
Hillary Clinton Selects Tim Kaine, a Popular Senator From a Swing State, as Running Mate
Hillary Clinton Selects Tim Kaine, a Popular Senator From a Swing State, as Running Mate
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Liberal Values, Legal Planet, Vox, Outside the Beltway, No More Mister Nice Blog, JustOneMinute, Washington Blade, Immigration Impact, Media Matters for America, Washington Post, Washington Monthly, The Week, Deadspin, MSNBC, Take Town, ImmigrationProf Blog, field negro, RedState, Washingtonian, ThinkProgress, Jezebel, BuzzFeed, Hot Air, Ohio Politics, USA Today, Boing Boing, The Moderate Voice, Washington Free Beacon, Daily Kos, Taylor Marsh and Vocativ
Joel B. Pollak / Breitbart:
Tim Kaine Boycotted Netanyahu Speech, Backed Iran Deal
Tim Kaine Boycotted Netanyahu Speech, Backed Iran Deal
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BizPac Review and Politico
New York Times:
The Swing-State Appeal of Mr. Kaine
The Swing-State Appeal of Mr. Kaine
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Media Matters for America, Politico, NPR and Washington Post
Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Tim Kaine: A Self-Effacing Senator in a Sharp-Elbows Era
Tim Kaine: A Self-Effacing Senator in a Sharp-Elbows Era
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Vox, Washington Post, Raw Story and Religion News Service
Dylan Matthews / Vox:
Tim Kaine is Hillary Clinton's VP pick, a mostly safe choice that will piss off pro-choice activists
Tim Kaine is Hillary Clinton's VP pick, a mostly safe choice that will piss off pro-choice activists
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BuzzFeed, The Nation, whorunsGov, USA Today and The Root
Elizabeth Dexheimer / Bloomberg:
Kaine Pick Won't Help Clinton Win Over Anti-Wall Street Critics
Alex Swoyer / Breitbart:
Donald Trump Compares ‘Ethically Challenged’ Tim Kaine to Bob McDonnell
Donald Trump Compares ‘Ethically Challenged’ Tim Kaine to Bob McDonnell
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BizPac Review
Rosalind S. Helderman / Washington Post:
Kaine's acceptance of gifts in Virginia could create opening for Republicans
Kaine's acceptance of gifts in Virginia could create opening for Republicans
Caleb Howe / RedState:
BUSTED: 19,252 Emails from DNC Leaked by Wikileaks, and Oh MAN Are They Great! — On Friday, website Wikileaks posted over 19,000 emails that were taken from the Democratic National Committee that show story manipulation and collusion with the MSM, internal attempts to sabotage Bernie Sanders during the primary, and a whole lot more.
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Rudy Takala / Washington Examiner:
Twitter accused of suppressing DNC Wikileaks story — Twitter lit up Friday night with allegations that it tried to suppress news that secret-leaking website Wikileaks exposed thousands of emails obtained from the servers of the Democratic National Committee.
Mike Cernovich / Mike Cernovich Presents Danger & Play:
5 Biggest Scoops from the #DNCLeaks WikiLeak — “There's what you know and there's what you can prove,” is a line lawyers and fans of the Wire are familiar with. We've all known the media conspired with Democrats to rig news coverage. With the Wikileaks documents, we can prove it.
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The Gateway Pundit
BBC:
Munich gunman ‘obsessed with mass shootings’ — The 18-year-old gunman who killed nine people in Munich was obsessed with mass shootings but had no known links to the Islamic State group, German police say. — Written material on such attacks was found in his room.
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Breitbart, ThinkProgress, Hullabaloo and Joe.My.God.
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Kate Connolly / Guardian:
Munich gunman lured victims on Facebook with 'free McDonald's food'
Munich gunman lured victims on Facebook with 'free McDonald's food'
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Observer, AOL, neo-neocon, Bearing Arms, Common Dreams and Washington Post
The Hill:
Outcry from Sanders supporters after leaked DNC ‘atheism’ emails — supporters Friday tore into the Democratic National Committee (DNC) on social media after a leaked email appeared to show a DNC official plotting to question Sanders's religion. — The email, written by Chief Financial …
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Instapundit, New York Magazine, Techdirt and Hot Air
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Michael Sainato / The New York Observer:
Wikileaks Proves Primary Was Rigged: DNC Undermined Democracy
Wikileaks Proves Primary Was Rigged: DNC Undermined Democracy
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Mediaite, New Urban Legends, BizPac Review, Liberty Unyielding, Red Alert Politics, Clayton Cramer, Washington Post and RT
Stephen F. Hayes / Weekly Standard:
Donald Trump Is Crazy, and So Is the GOP for Embracing Him — The Republican nominee opens his mouth and removes all doubt. — Trump's foreign policy speech, at Washington's Mayflower Hotel — Cleveland — Yes, Donald Trump is crazy. And, yes, the Republican party owns his insanity.
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The Atlantic, Power Line and New York Times
Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
Wow! Did Hillary Clinton Just Suffer a Seizure on Camera? — Wow! — The poor woman is in worse shape than we thought. — Hillary Clinton has seizure on camera. — Or maybe it was something else? — WARNING: DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME! … Satan? … The post Wow!
Harper Neidig / The Hill:
Va. Supreme Court strikes down restored voting rights for felons — The Virginia Supreme Court struck down Gov. Terry McAuliffe's (D) move to restore voting rights for over 200,000 convicted felons on Friday. — The 4-3 ruling came a month after Republicans in the state sued McAuliffe …
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governor.virginia.gov:
Governor McAuliffe Statement on the Virginia Supreme Court Decision on the Restoration of Civil Rights
Governor McAuliffe Statement on the Virginia Supreme Court Decision on the Restoration of Civil Rights
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CNN, LawNewz, ThinkProgress, Mother Jones and BuzzFeed
Fenit Nirappil / Washington Post:
Virginia court invalidates Gov. Terry McAuliffe's order restoring felon voting rights
Virginia court invalidates Gov. Terry McAuliffe's order restoring felon voting rights
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Hot Air, NPR, The Crime Report, RedState and Daily Kos
New York Times:
At Fox News, Kisses, Innuendo, Propositions and Fears of Reprisal — In 2006, after nearly a decade at CNN, Rudi Bakhtiar came to the Fox News Channel's headquarters in New York with a command of foreign policy, an appealing personality and a delivery that easily switched between light and serious.
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Media Matters for America, Praxis and 89.3 KPCC, more at Mediagazer »
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Amanda Smith / WKBN-TV:
Atty. refuses to remove Black Lives Matter pin, taken into custody — A Youngstown Municipal Court judge sentenced Atty. Andrea Burton to 5 days in jail, but the decision is being appealed — YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (WKBN) - An attorney was removed from court and taken into custody after a judge declared …
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Liberty Unyielding, John Hawkins' Right Wing News, Raw Story and The Root
Tom Cruise / TMZ.com:
‘Allah Akbar, Tom’ — Tom Cruise has been pulled into the middle of a police investigation surrounding a potential suicide bomber who made alarming threats to the Church of Scientology. — Cops say the man called the Church back in April asking, “Are there any bombings I can do?”
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Jihad Watch
Kenneth R. Timmerman / The Hill:
Trump awakens the sleeping giant of America — The liberal media has got its knickers in a twist. In fact-checking Donald Trump — 's moving appeal to ordinary Americans who have been burned by what he calls a “rigged system,” they've had to defend NAFTA, pretend that 2015 was a banner year …
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Media Matters for America
Gregory Korte / USA Today:
Obama vetoes cuts to former presidents' expense accounts — WASHINGTON — President Obama took steps to preserve the office allowances given to former presidents Friday, by vetoing a measure that would have capped those expenses at $200,000 a year. — The veto comes less than six months …
Robin Abcarian / Los Angeles Times:
In the Trump family tradition, Ivanka uses her moment in the spotlight to hawk her wares — Ivanka Trump takes the stage during the final day of the 2016 Republican National Convention at Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)