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Ashley Parker / New York Times:
Donald Trump Calls on 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 an adversarial foreign power's cyberspying on a secretary of state's correspondence.
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Donald Trump's falsehood-laden press conference, annotated — On Wednesday, Donald Trump held a press conference in Florida, focused largely on questions about his possible relationships with Russian business interests. True to form, the conversation ranged much more widely than that …
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Mark Hensch / The Hill:
Carl Bernstein: Trump's Russia talk ‘disqualifying’ … Famed reporter Carl Bernstein says Donald Trump — 's controversial comments Wednesday on Russia should end his presidential run. — “Today, we have reached a tipping point in this election,” Bernstein said Wednesday on CNN.
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Nancy A. Youssef / The Daily Beast:
Donald Trump's Call for Russia to Hack the U.S. Might Be a Felony — Donald Trump says all kinds of crazy things on the campaign trail. But this one could open him up to prosecution—if the Department of Justice was really willing to go there. — Did Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump …
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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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Tyler Pager / Politico:
Trump to look at recognizing Crimea as Russian territory, lifting sanctions — Donald Trump said Wednesday that, if he is elected president, he would consider recognizing Crimea as Russian territory and lifting the sanctions against Russia. — At a wide-ranging news conference, Trump said he …
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Sean Davis / The Federalist:
Donald Trump Just Got Hillary Clinton To Admit Her E-mails Are A ‘National Security Issue’ — After taunting Hillary Clinton by asking Russian hackers to release 30,000 e-mails she deleted, Donald Trump finally forced Clinton's campaign to admit that her unsanctioned e-mail server scheme was a “national security issue.”
Hadas Gold / Politico:
Donald Trump to NBC's Katy Tur: ‘Be quiet’ — Donald Trump once again targeted NBC News correspondent Katy Tur during a Wednesday news conference, telling the reporter to “be quiet.” — Tur asked Trump whether he has “any qualms about asking a foreign government ... to hack into a system …
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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.
Tyler Pager / Politico:
Trump urges Russia to hack Clinton's email — Donald Trump invited Russia to hack Hillary Clinton's emails on Wednesday, asking one of America's longstanding geopolitical adversaries to find “the 30,000 emails that are missing” from the personal server she used during her time as secretary of state.
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Sara Jerde / Talking Points Memo:
Trump Now Says He Never Met Putin After Bragging About Chats With Him — Donald Trump said Wednesday that he has never actually met Russian President Vladimir Putin despite bragging multiple times recently about conversations he has had with him. — “He said one nice thing about me.
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Jeanne Sahadi / CNNMoney:
What Trump's tax returns could reveal about Russia
What Trump's tax returns could reveal about Russia
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Seung Min Kim / Politico:
‘Treason’? Critics savage Trump over Russia hack comments
‘Treason’? Critics savage Trump over Russia hack comments
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David Mack / BuzzFeed:
Trump Expressly Asks Russia To Hack Clinton's Emails
Trump Expressly Asks Russia To Hack Clinton's Emails
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New York Times:
Spy Agency Consensus Grows That Russia Hacked D.N.C.
Spy Agency Consensus Grows That Russia Hacked D.N.C.
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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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Dahlia Lithwick / Slate:
Bill Clinton's Love Song — His speech was long, beautiful, and finally gave Hillary the credit she deserves. — It was, to be sure, a very long speech. Maybe not as long as the last very long speech, but it felt even longer because it was a speech styled not as a rip-snorting political message …
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Matthew Cooper / Newsweek:
Bill Clinton's elegant love letter to Hillary was sly and effective
Colleen McCain Nelson / Wall Street Journal:
Clinton Aide Robby Mook Needles Trump on Battlegrounds Plan — PHILADELPHIA - Hillary Clinton's campaign manager on Wednesday challenged Donald Trump's claim that he could be competitive in Democratic strongholds, urging the Republican nominee to stump in traditionally blue states.
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Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
Trump set to break GOP's record in winning LGBTQ vote
Trump set to break GOP's record in winning LGBTQ vote
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Ezra Klein / Vox:
Have we stopped to appreciate how crazy Donald Trump has gotten recently? — Last Thursday, Donald Trump gave a pretty normal convention speech. It was darker, grimmer, and more pessimistic than most, but it was free of Trump's odder tics — he stayed on teleprompter, he bit back his riffs …
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
John Hinckley, Who Tried To Kill A President, Wins His Freedom
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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’
Mollie Hemingway / The Federalist:
4 Ways Donald Trump Is Living Rent-Free In The DNC's Head — In the 1980s, Dry Idea anti-perspirant had a series of commercials where celebrities gave advice, always culminating with “Never let them see you sweat.” Here's one featuring fashion designer Donna Karan: — She ends with, “Feeling tense is understandable.
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New York Times:
Obama, at Convention, to Lay Out Stakes for a Divided Nation — PHILADELPHIA — This is not about me, President Obama kept telling his closest advisers in recent weeks as he labored over one of the last major addresses of his presidency. — But he could not avoid the subject.
David A. Graham / The Atlantic:
How Abigail Adams Proves Bill O'Reilly Wrong About Slavery — In her widely lauded speech at the Democratic National Convention on Monday, Michelle Obama reflected on the remarkable fact of her African American family living in the executive mansion. “I wake up every morning in a house that was built by slaves.
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Gareth Davies / Daily Mail:
Gang of Muslims storm nudist pool in Germany yelling ‘Allahu Akbar’ and threatening to ‘exterminate’ women for being ‘sluts’ — Nudists were told they would be ‘exterminated’ after a gang of Muslims who stormed into a German swimming pool yelling ‘Allahu Akbar’.
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Kathy Bergen / Chicago Tribune:
Obama chooses historic Jackson Park as library site — Woodlawn residents talk about the Obama presidential library coming to Jackson Park. (Zbigniew Bzdak/Chicago Tribune) — Cityscapes — President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama have selected historic Jackson Park …
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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.
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Claude Brodesser-Akner / New Jersey Online:
Trump adviser calls for electronic ‘tagging’ of U.S. Muslims on fed terror watch list — PHILADELPHIA — Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani on Wednesday said he would be in favor of forcing Muslims on the federal government's terrorism watch list to wear electronic monitoring tags …
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Alfredo Alcantara / CNN:
Milo Yiannopoulos: I will continue to be as offensive as possible — Breitbart tech editor Milo Yiannopoulos was permanently removed from Twitter after starting a barrage of hateful Tweets directed at Ghostbusters star Leslie Jones. He sits down with CNNMoney's Alison Kosik. … Paid Partner
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Nicola Agius / mirror:
Barack Obama's brother Malik slates him in bizarre interview and reveals he's voting for Donald Trump — Apparently, the US leader has attitude issues — President Barack Obama has been slated by his own brother - and revealed he will back Republican Donald Trump in the Presidential race.
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