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Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Assange Timed WikiLeaks Release of Democratic Emails to Harm Hillary Clinton — WASHINGTON — Six weeks before the anti-secrecy organization WikiLeaks published an archive of hacked Democratic National Committee emails ahead of the Democratic convention, the organization's founder …
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Latino Rebels, Hit & Run and BuzzFeed
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CBS Miami:
CBS4 News Exclusive: Trump Denies Ties To Russia — DORAL - In his most extensive remarks on allegations that Russia is attempting to influence the presidential election in his favor, Republican nominee Donald Trump flatly denied any ties to the Russian government or Russian investors.
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Talking Points Memo, Politico, Raw Story, The Hill, Mediaite and Naked Politics
Matthew Chance / CNN:
Julian Assange: ‘A lot more material’ coming on US elections — Wikileaks founder: We create maximum ambiguity for sources — (CNN)Wikileaks founder Julian Assange said Tuesday his whistleblowing website might release “a lot more material” relevant to the US electoral campaign.
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Business Insider
New York Times:
Spy Agency Consensus Grows That Russia Hacked D.N.C. — WASHINGTON — American intelligence agencies have told the White House they now have “high confidence” that the Russian government was behind the theft of emails and documents from the Democratic National Committee …
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Washington Post, Towleroad, AMERICAblog NewsAMERICAblog …, New York Magazine, Guardian, Medium, Talking Points Memo, ABC News and CNBC
Alec Goodwin / OpenSecrets.org:
Leaks show DNC asked White House to reward donors with slots on boards and commissions
Leaks show DNC asked White House to reward donors with slots on boards and commissions
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The Daily Caller and Courthouse News Service
New York Times:
This Is What Democracy Looks Like — The jeers and boos …
This Is What Democracy Looks Like — The jeers and boos …
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Los Angeles Times and NPR
Associated Press:
The Latest: Clinton Worked on Kids' Issues Before Law Firm
The Latest: Clinton Worked on Kids' Issues Before Law Firm
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Politico, ABC News and Washington Post
Robert Webster / Mediaite:
George Will Thinks That Trump Won't Release Tax Returns Because of Link to Russians
George Will Thinks That Trump Won't Release Tax Returns Because of Link to Russians
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The American Conservative
David Dayen / New Republic:
The Democrats Aren't in Disarray. They're Practicing Democracy.
The Democrats Aren't in Disarray. They're Practicing Democracy.
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Washington Post, Daily Kos, Hit & Run, The Nation, ABC News, Vox, Billy Penn and ThinkProgress
Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Obama: ‘Possible’ Russia interfering in US election
Obama: ‘Possible’ Russia interfering in US election
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Newsweek and Mother Jones
Annie Karni / Politico:
Clinton friend McAuliffe says Clinton will flip on TPP, then walks it back — PHILADELPHIA — Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe, longtime best friend to the Clintons, said Tuesday that he believes Hillary Clinton will support the TPP trade deal if elected president, with some tweaks.
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Washington Times, Washington Post, Washington Free Beacon, Vox, ABC News, The Week, Liberal Values, Hot Air and Washington Monthly
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Dominic Holden / BuzzFeed:
Spokesperson For Pro-Sanders Walkout Group Compares Protest To March On Washington — PHILADELPHIA — A spokesperson for a contingent of the Bernie Sanders supporters who stormed out of the Democratic convention on Tuesday compared their walkout to the March on Washington of 1963 …
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The Week
Joel Ebert / Tennessean.com:
Tennessee Clinton delegate booted from convention after skirmish with Sanders supporter
Tennessee Clinton delegate booted from convention after skirmish with Sanders supporter
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The Gateway Pundit and WATE-TV
Tom Kludt / CNN:
Donald Trump says he'd support $10 minimum wage — Sanders: Trump will bring a starvation wage — (CNN)Donald Trump said Tuesday that he would support raising the federal minimum wage to $10 an hour, a departure from his previous assertion that wages are “too high.”
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National Review, Rewire and Guardian
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Michael Edison Hayden / ABC News:
Elizabeth Banks Parodies Donald Trump's RNC Entrance During Her DNC Appearance — At the Democratic National Convention tonight, actress Elizabeth Banks spoofed the WWE-style entrance Donald Trump made at the RNC last week in Cleveland — and compared the RNC to the “Hunger Games” film franchise in which she starred.
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LGBTQ Nation and Infowars
Ron Fournier / The Atlantic:
Bill Clinton Gets It Right — Just before Bill Clinton strode onstage to be his wife's character witness, his wife's convention planners played a video tribute to him. “When he said stuff, you believed it,” a man dressed in union gear said of Bill Clinton, “because you lived it.”
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CNN and Taylor Marsh
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Michael Goodwin / New York Post:
Bill's desperate bid to humanize Hillary shows fear she might lose — MORE FROM: — Here's a fact to chew on: Much of Day Two at the convention was spent trying to humanize Hillary Clinton. After 25 years in public life, she feels the need to tell us she cares.
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USA Today and John Hawkins' Right Wing News
Media Matters for America:
O'Reilly: Slaves Who Built White House Were “Well-Fed And Had Decent Lodgings Provided By The Government” — BILL O'REILLY (HOST): Finally tonight, Factor Tip of The Day. As we mentioned, Talking Points Memo, Michelle Obama referenced slaves building the White House in referring to the evolution of America in a positive way.
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Raw Story
Richard Pollock / The Daily Caller:
EXCLUSIVE: IRS Launches Investigation Of Clinton Foundation — Emails: DNC Staffers Annoyed At Having To Commemorate Holocaust — This White Hillary Voter HATES That This Black Bernie Supporter Is Blaming Democrats — Is Joe Biden In Denial? — POLITICS | ALEX PAPPAS — ‘Come on man’
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BizPac Review and The Hill
Fusion:
So we counted all the women and people of color at the DNC and the RNC... The Democratic National Convention is mimicking last week's Republican National Convention in certain ways. Like the schedule: speech, speech, speech, performance, speech speech. And also the sartorial choices …
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The Week
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Manny Fernandez / New York Times:
Last Charges Dropped Against Abortion Foes in Making of Planned Parenthood Video — HOUSTON — A judge dismissed Tuesday the last of the charges against two anti-abortion activists who covertly recorded a video of themselves meeting with Planned Parenthood officials, effectively ending a case …
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The Atlantic and Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion
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Hannah Levintova / Mother Jones:
The DNC Will Address the War on Women With a Speech by Planned Parenthood's President
The DNC Will Address the War on Women With a Speech by Planned Parenthood's President
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Raw Story
WTTG-TV:
Uniformed Alexandria officer denied service at Noodles & Company — ALEXANDRIA, Va. - An Alexandria police officer was denied service after a chef refused to cook for an officer in uniform. — At around 6:30 p.m. Monday evening, a female officer in full uniform walked into the Noodles & Company …
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The Root and Heat Street
Bloomberg:
Obama's Economy Left Behind the Voter Coalition Clinton Covets — Clinton counts on youth, minorities behind Democrats' 2008 win — Trump still seen as alienating to disaffected Obama backers — The young people and minorities who propelled President Barack Obama into office …
Jon Henley / Guardian:
Father Jacques Hamel: ‘A good priest ... who did his job to the very end’ — Fellow clergy and parishioners pay tribute to the 84-year-old murdered in his church in Normandy — Described as modest, dedicated and always available for his parishioners, Father Jacques Hamel, 84 …
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The American Conservative, Fox News, CatholicHerald.co.uk, New York Magazine, NPR and USA Today
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Leah Barkoukis / Townhall.com:
‘Horror’: ISIS Terrorists Slit Elderly Priest's Throat in Attack on French Church
‘Horror’: ISIS Terrorists Slit Elderly Priest's Throat in Attack on French Church
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France 24, Liberty Unyielding, Scared Monkeys and The Gateway Pundit