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Alex Pfeiffer / The Daily Caller:
Leaked Emails Show DNC Officials Planned Anti-Trump Protests — The release of Democratic National Committee emails by Wikileaks Friday reveals that DNC officials planned anti-Donald Trump protests. — In multiple emails DNC officials sign off and acknowledge the existence …
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Eric Bradner / CNN:
Clinton's campaign manager: Russia helping Trump — Philadelphia (CNN)Hillary Clinton's campaign manager is alleging that Russian hackers are leaking Democratic National Committee emails critical of Bernie Sanders in an effort to help Donald Trump win the election in November.
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Eric Bradner / CNN:
Sanders: ‘Awful’ DNC emails should cost party chair her job — Philadelphia (CNN)Bernie Sanders says the release of Democratic National Committee emails that show its staffers working against him underscore the position he's held for months: Party Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz needs to go.
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David Weigel / Washington Post:
Democrats grapple with intraparty divisions two days before convention opens — PHILADELPHIA — The Democratic Party arrived here still divided over the results of its presidential primary season, with anger at the nominating process, the Clinton-Kaine ticket and hacked emails …
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Fox News:
Wasserman Schultz ousted from convention role amid email leak — PHILADELPHIA - Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz has been ousted from her convention role, Fox News confirmed Sunday, after leaked emails indicating an anti-Bernie Sanders bias in her operation inflamed the left flank of the party.
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Paulina Firozi / The Hill:
Green candidate: Sanders should leave party that ‘betrayed’ him — Green Party candidate Jill Stein once again welcomed Bernie Sanders — into her party, suggesting in a series of tweets that he could leave the Democratic Party that “betrayed” him. — “If @BernieSanders repudiates …
Jessie Hellmann / The Hill:
Sanders calls on Dem party boss to step down following email leaks … Sunday called on Democratic National Committee (DNC) Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz to resign following email leaks from within the party that showed officials tried to undermine his campaign.
Kyle Balluck / The Hill:
Sanders: ‘I am not an atheist’ — (I-Vt.) on Sunday called leaked Democratic National Committee (DNC) emails “outrageous.” — “First of all, I am not an atheist,” Sanders said on CNN's “State of the Union.” — The emails showed top party officials tried to undermine Sanders's presidential campaign.
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MaryAlice Parks / ABC News:
Bernie Sanders Campaign Chief Says Someone Must Be ‘Accountable’ for What DNC Emails Show
Bernie Sanders Campaign Chief Says Someone Must Be ‘Accountable’ for What DNC Emails Show
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Kristen East / Politico:
Top DNC staffer apologizes for email on Sanders' religion
Top DNC staffer apologizes for email on Sanders' religion
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Isabel Vincent / New York Post:
Why Obama's half-brother says he'll be voting for Donald Trump — President Obama's Kenyan half-brother wants to make America great again — so he's voting for Donald Trump. — “I like Donald Trump because he speaks from the heart,” Malik Obama told The Post from his home in the rural village of Kogelo.
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Kristen East / Politico:
Trump on Ailes: 'A lot of people are thinking he's going to run my campaign' — In his first public comments on Roger Ailes' departure from Fox News following an investigation into alleged sexual harassment, Donald Trump declined to say whether the media mogul is helping his campaign.
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Gabriel Sherman / New York Magazine:
How Fox News Fired and Silenced a Female Reporter Who Alleged Sexual Harassment
How Fox News Fired and Silenced a Female Reporter Who Alleged Sexual Harassment
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Harper Neidig / The Hill:
Trump: Cruz is ‘lucky’ that I walked in on his speech
Kevin Cirilli / Bloomberg:
Trump Says He Prevented Cruz Being ‘Ripped’ Off Stage in Cleveland
Trump Says He Prevented Cruz Being ‘Ripped’ Off Stage in Cleveland
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Todd S. Purdum / Politico:
Why Can't Hillary Stop Fudging the Truth? — What is it with Hillary Clinton? What is it about this brilliant and accomplished woman-described by Barack Obama as possibly “more qualified” to be president than anyone in history-that makes so many people certain she is an incurable liar?
Ed O'Keefe / Washington Post:
Tim Kaine can speak Spanish. But most Hispanics don't care. — The Debrief: An occasional series offering a reporter's insights — This year's fight to become vice president included talk in both parties about the age, gender, height, weight and marital history of various contenders.
Darren Samuelsohn / Politico:
Tim Kaine's Republican fan club — MIAMI — Tim Kaine is not going to be an easy target for Republicans. After all, they all but love the guy. — As a rank-and-file Democratic senator, Kaine has shown deal-making tendencies with top GOP lawmakers and an affinity for breaking …
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Casey Quinlan / ThinkProgress:
Trump Doesn't Totally Rule Out Supporting A David Duke Candidacy — Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump didn't completely rule out the possibility that he would support a Democrat running against David Duke, former Ku Klux Klan grand wizard, who announced he is running as a Republican for U.S. Senate seat in Louisiana.
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Jonathan Mcevoy / Daily Mail:
ENTIRE Russian team of 387 athletes will be banned from competing at the Rio Olympics as punishment for their country's state-sponsored doping programme — The entire Russian Olympic team will today be banned from competing at the Rio Games next month, The Mail on Sunday understands.
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Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
Democrats, Looking Past Obama, Are a Party Without a Cause — PHILADELPHIA — When President Obama takes the stage here this week to begin his monthslong political farewell, it will mark a bittersweet moment for Democrats. — Mr. Obama is not going to be missed only because he is beloved by the faithful.
BBC:
Munich shooting: David Sonboly ‘planned attack for year’ — The teenage gunman who killed nine people in Munich on Friday had been planning his attack for a year, German authorities say. — David Ali Sonboly, 18, who had a Glock pistol and more than 300 bullets, killed himself after the attack.
New York Times:
Trumpworld vs. Clintonworld — The next American president will inherit a world of complex and growing challenges, including terrorism, an increasingly aggressive Russia and a Europe fracturing under economic and security stresses. — How might American national security …
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Ryan Mauro / Breitbart:
Clinton VP Pick Tim Kaine's Islamist Ties — Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton's newly-announced running mate, Virginia Senator Tim Kaine, has a history of embracing Islamists. He appointed a Hamas supporter to a state immigration commission; spoke at a dinner honoring …
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