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Jesse Byrnes / The Hill:
Aide: Trump ‘will not be releasing’ taxes — said Wednesday that the Republican presidential nominee “will not be releasing” his taxes. — “Mr. Trump has said that his taxes are under audit and he will not be releasing them,” Trump campaign chief Paul Manafort told “CBS This Morning.”
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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, CBS News, The Hill, Mediaite, Politicus USA, Politico, Raw Story and Naked Politics
Ashley Parker / New York Times:
Donald Trump Encourages Russia to Find Hillary Clinton's Missing Emails — DORAL, Fla. — Donald J. Trump said Wednesday that he hoped Russia had hacked Hillary Clinton's email, essentially encouraging a foreign power's cyberspying of a secretary of state's correspondence.
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 …
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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Politico, Mediaite, Business Insider, Daily Wire, Washington Post, Liberty Unyielding, Vox, Latino Rebels and Hit & Run
Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
Manafort: Trump Still Not Going To Release His Tax Returns — Paul Manafort, chair of the Donald Trump campaign, said on Wednesday morning that Trump still has no plans to release his tax returns despite questions about potential business dealings with Russian interests.
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Warren Throckmorton
Morgan Winsor / ABC News:
Trump Says He Hopes Russia Finds Clinton's Deleted Emails
Trump Says He Hopes Russia Finds Clinton's Deleted Emails
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Lawyers, Guns & Money, Associated Press and Washington Post
Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
US has ‘high confidence’ Russia behind DNC hack: report
US has ‘high confidence’ Russia behind DNC hack: report
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BuzzFeed, AMERICAblog NewsAMERICAblog …, New York Times and Guardian
Matthew Chance / CNN:
Julian Assange: ‘A lot more material’ coming on US elections
Julian Assange: ‘A lot more material’ coming on US elections
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Business Insider and Scared Monkeys
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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Victor Davis Hanson / National Review:
How the Clintons Got Rich Selling Influence While Decrying Greed
Dahlia Lithwick / Slate:
Bill Clinton's Love Song
Bill Clinton's Love Song
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CNN:
Bill Clinton embraces role of political spouse
Bill Clinton embraces role of political spouse
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Baltimore Sun:
Freddie Gray case: Charges against three remaining officers dropped — Photos from the trial for Officer Garrett Miller, one of six Baltimore police officers charged in the arrest and death of Freddie Gray. Photos also include images of Miller attending hearings and trials of other officers in the case.
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Spencer S. Hsu / Washington Post:
Would-be Reagan assassin John Hinckley Jr. to be freed after 35 years — John W. Hinckley, Jr., will be released from a government psychiatric hospital more than 35 years after he attempted to assassinate president Ronald Reagan and shot three others outside the Washington Hilton on March 30, 1981, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.
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Carrie Johnson / NPR:
John Hinckley, Who Tried To Kill A President, Wins His Freedom — Thirty-five years after he tried to kill a president, John Hinckley has won his freedom. — A federal judge in Washington, D.C., has granted a request for Hinckley to leave the mental hospital where he's lived for decades …
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Peter Beinart / The Atlantic:
Bill Clinton's Lapse Into Trumpism — I love Bill Clinton. But I didn't love his speech Tuesday night in Philadelphia. Given the job of humanizing his wife, he came across as genuinely smitten. But he failed to do what he's done in every convention speech he's delivered since 1992 …
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JustOneMinute and Common Dreams
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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Dominic Holden / BuzzFeed:
Spokesperson For Pro-Sanders Walkout Group Compares Protest To March On Washington
Spokesperson For Pro-Sanders Walkout Group Compares Protest To March On Washington
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The Week
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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Scared Monkeys, BizPac Review, Independent Journal Review, Hot Air, Front Page Magazine and The Hill
Eun Kyung Kim / TODAY.com:
Can Donald Trump win? ‘Anything is possible,’ Obama tells Savannah Guthrie — Just six months after telling Matt Lauer he couldn't imagine Donald Trump giving a State of the Union address — except in a “Saturday Night Live” skit — President Barack Obama now says “anything is possible” in November.
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Tom Kludt / CNN:
Donald Trump says he'd support $10 minimum wage
Donald Trump says he'd support $10 minimum wage
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National Review, Rewire and Guardian
Michael Edison Hayden / ABC News:
Elizabeth Banks Parodies Donald Trump's RNC Entrance During Her DNC Appearance
Elizabeth Banks Parodies Donald Trump's RNC Entrance During Her DNC Appearance
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Politico, LGBTQ Nation and Mashable
David Segal / New York Times:
Confessor. Feminist. Adult. What the Hell Happened to Howard Stern? — Scattered among the gleefully vulgar mainstays are now intimate exchanges that have made Mr. Stern one of the most deft interviewers in the business. — Near the end of his interview with Bill Murray …
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Althouse
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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Washington Monthly, Latest from Crooks and Liars, Raw Story and TIME
Brian Ross / ABC News:
In Leaked Recordings, DNC Shown Controlling Donor Access — The release of a trove of “embarrassing” hacked internal emails and private voicemail recordings reveal not only the unseemly deal-making involved in recruiting high-dollar donations for political campaigns, but the role fundraising officials play …
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Threat Geek, The Daily Caller and Real Clear Politics
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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
Mark Molloy / Telegraph:
‘Someday a woman will be president’: Why a T-shirt controversy from 1995 has gone viral — In just a few months, the United States could have its first female president in Hillary Clinton- but an archive news article widely shared online this week suggests attitudes were very different back in 1995.