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Ed O'Keefe / Washington Post:
Democratic National Convention: Clinton, Sanders camps in talks about giving senator larger role tonight — PHILADELPHIA —Hillary Clinton's campaign is in talks with Bernie Sanders about giving the Vermont senator a larger role at the Democratic National Convention Tuesday night in a bid …
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Tyler Pager / Politico:
Texas delegation breakfast descends into screaming match — A Texas delegation breakfast Tuesday morning broke out in a screaming match as a Bernie Sanders delegate told the crowd he was “condemning our presumptive nominee.” — The comment came during a unity effort, during which the delegate …
Tyler Pager / Politico:
PolitiFact: Democrats never mentioned terrorism on Day One of DNC — Republicans' claim that Democrats did not mention terrorism or ISIL on the first night of the Democratic National Convention is correct, PolitiFact said Tuesday morning. — Following Monday night's speeches …
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Bernie Sanders / Politifact.com Truth-O-Meter rulings …:
Republican National Committee - RNC is right that no Democratic speaker mentioned ISIS on convention's first night — RNC is right that no Democratic speaker mentioned ISIS on convention's first night — Night one of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia had barely ended …
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
The neat political trick that Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders played on Monday night — At last week's Republican National Convention, Ted Cruz caused a ruckus by declining to endorse Donald Trump. The crowd erupted in boos, and the narrative centered around a divided party.
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Oliver Darcy / Business Insider:
‘We trusted you!’: Elizabeth Warren repeatedly heckled, booed during DNC speech
‘We trusted you!’: Elizabeth Warren repeatedly heckled, booed during DNC speech
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Jordyn Phelps / ABC News:
‘Deli-gates’: The ‘Bern’ Continues as DNC Delegates Struggle to Find Unity
‘Deli-gates’: The ‘Bern’ Continues as DNC Delegates Struggle to Find Unity
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Associated Press, Politico and The Huffington Post
Isaac Arnsdorf / Politico:
DNC sought to hide details of Clinton funding deal
DNC sought to hide details of Clinton funding deal
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Common Dreams, Daily Kos and Slate
Louis Nelson / Politico:
Booker responds to Trump: ‘I love you’
Booker responds to Trump: ‘I love you’
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Outside the Beltway and ABC News
Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
Sanders To California Delegates: ‘Easy To Boo’ But Harder To Have Prez Trump
Sanders To California Delegates: ‘Easy To Boo’ But Harder To Have Prez Trump
Peter Beinart / The Atlantic:
A Party at War With Itself
A Party at War With Itself
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Mother Jones, The Moderate Voice, FiveThirtyEight and Vox
Louis Jacobson / Politifact.com Truth-O-Meter rulings …:
Michelle Obama correct that the White House was built by slaves
Michelle Obama correct that the White House was built by slaves
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Jake Sherman / Politico:
Grayson's ex-wife claimed domestic abuse over two decades — Rep. Alan Grayson's ex-wife repeatedly went to police with accusations of domestic abuse over a two-decade period, according to documents she has provided to POLITICO, revelations that come as the Florida congressman enters …
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Louis Nelson / Politico:
Video: Grayson threatens to have POLITICO reporter arrested — Rep. Alan Grayson threatened to have a POLITICO reporter arrested Tuesday, alleging that the reporter assaulted him as he attempted to question the congressman about allegations of domestic abuse.
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The Week, The Right Scoop and Hot Air
Jason Zengerle / New York Magazine:
And it's taking place in Florida, of course.
BBC:
France church attack: Priest killed in hostage-taking near Rouen — A priest has been killed in an attack by two armed men at his church in a suburb of Rouen in northern France. — The attackers entered the church in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray during Mass, taking the priest, Fr Jacques Hamel, 84, and four other people hostage.
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Daily Mail:
Revealed: ISIS butcher, 19, who murdered a priest was a convicted French terrorist who had an …
Revealed: ISIS butcher, 19, who murdered a priest was a convicted French terrorist who had an …
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Julian Borger / Guardian:
Isis attackers forced French priest to kneel before he was murdered, hostage says
Isis attackers forced French priest to kneel before he was murdered, hostage says
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The Daily Beast:
‘DNC Hacker’ Unmasked: He Really Works for Russia, Researchers Say — The hacker who claimed to compromise the DNC swore he was Romanian. But new research shows he worked directly for the Vladimir Putin government in Moscow. — The hacker who claims to have stolen emails …
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BuzzFeed:
What If The DNC Leak Was Just The Beginning? — DNC staffers and cybersecurity experts face the prospect that more emails may be to come. — As journalists and political operators pored over the 20,000 emails leaked from the servers of the Democratic National Convention, one Democratic staffer frantically searched for his name.
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Washington Monthly, Slate, Business Insider and Politico
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
The creator of the viral pro-Trump act ‘USA Freedom Kids’ now plans to sue the campaign — Within hours of their performance at a Donald Trump rally in Pensacola, Fla. Last January, the U.S.A. Freedom Kids were a sensation. — You remember the video: Three pre-teen girls …
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Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
David Duke's Remarks on Senate Backing Put Donald Trump's Camp on the Defensive — PHILADELPHIA — Donald J. Trump's campaign is dismissing questions about the white supremacist David Duke, after the former Ku Klux Klan leader said on his radio program that the Republican presidential nominee left open …
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Mother Jones, Talking Points Memo, Political Wire and BuzzFeed
Brian Rogers / Houston Chronicle:
Charges dismissed against Planned Parenthood videographers — The Harris County District Attorney's office on Tuesday dismissed all charges against anti-abortion activists who secretly videotaped Planned Parenthood officials in Houston. — David Robert Daleiden and Sandra Merritt were charged …
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Steven Ertelt / LifeNews.com:
D.A. Dismisses All Bogus Charges Against David Daleiden for Exposing Planned Parenthood
D.A. Dismisses All Bogus Charges Against David Daleiden for Exposing Planned Parenthood
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RedState and National Review
Joe Concha / The Hill:
George Will raises possible Trump link to Russian oligarchs — Fox News contributor George Will says GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump — will not release his tax returns because they may show “he is deeply involved in dealing with Russia oligarchs.”
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Dem Senate nominee calls Toomey an ‘a—hole’ — Democratic Senate nominee Katie McGinty got into some hot water Monday when she called her rival, Sen. Pat Toomey, an “a**hole.” — It was a shocking comment given the decorous attitude Senate candidates usually try to adopt.
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Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
GOP hammers Dem Senate nominee on foul language
Miss Cleo / TMZ.com:
Dead at 53 — There won't be any more calls to Miss Cleo ... the iconic TV psychic is dead after battling cancer ... TMZ has learned. — A rep for Miss Cleo — whose real name was Youree Harris — tells us she died Tuesday morning in Palm Beach County, FL.
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NBC News:
Poll: No Post-Convention Bounce for Donald Trump — Donald Trump received no significant bounce following the Republican National Convention, according to the latest NBC News| SurveyMonkey Weekly Election Tracking Poll. Hillary Clinton still leads Trump by a single point: 46 percent to 45 percent.
WDBJ-TV:
Hotel Roanoke responds to Donald Trump's criticism — ROANOKE, Va. (WDBJ7) The Hotel Roanoke has released a statement about Donald Trump's criticism. — During a town hall on Monday in the Hotel Roanoke's ballroom, Trump complained that the air conditioning was not working.
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Washington Post and Raw Story
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Trump under oath: New testimony says he planned early anti-immigrant rant — When Donald Trump used his presidential campaign announcement speech to rail against Mexican immigrants as rapists and sources of other crimes, he'd planned the verbal fusillade in advance but hadn't discussed it with anyone …
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Talking Points Memo and Mediaite