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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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Michael Edison Hayden / ABC News:
Trump Answers Fans' Questions in Reddit AMA — Republican nominee Donald Trump visited Reddit tonight as part of an Ask Me Anything (AMA) session, and fielded questions from his most ardent supporters on the web. — Trump has been an Internet phenomenon since announcing his candidacy in 2015 …
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Jake Novak / CNBC:
The Democrats just fell for Trump's Russian email-hack bait — Trump: I hope Russia finds ‘the 30,000 emails that are missing’ — Grand Theft Convention. — No, that's not a new video game. But it is what we just saw Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump do to the Democrats …
Nick Gass / Politico:
Biden tweets for first time in 492 days — Vice President Joe Biden dusted off an old Twitter account Wednesday night to prep for his speech boosting Hillary Clinton at the Democratic National Committee. — “It's good to be back, folks. We've got less than 4 months until Election Day, and I need you with me.
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Simon Maloy / Salon:
Donald Trump vs. America: The GOP presidential nominee explicitly asks Russia to violate our national security — Trump's call for Russia to hack Hillary Clinton's email is insane, and Republicans have to answer for it — It's not often you see a major-party presidential candidate invite …
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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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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Jeanne Sahadi / CNNMoney:
What Trump's tax returns could reveal about Russia — Could Donald Trump's tax returns reveal the Republican presidential nominee has ties to Russia? — Conservative columnist George Will said on Fox News earlier this week that one of the reasons Trump may be refusing to release his tax returns …
Rick Klein / ABC News:
ANALYSIS: Hope Is Handed Off, as Obama Makes Way for Hillary Clinton — The Democratic Party's Obama era morphed into another Clinton one on Wednesday night with a series of roars, a warm embrace, and a brash show of teamwork, with the outgoing and would-be incoming president again looking to capture some hope.
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Katie Hicks / Vox:
Read Vice President Joe Biden's DNC speech transcript
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Mollie Hemingway / The Federalist:
4 Ways Donald Trump Is Living Rent-Free In The DNC's Head
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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
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Seung Min Kim / Politico:
‘Treason’? Critics savage Trump over Russia hack comments
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Devin Dwyer / ABC News:
President Obama Tells DNC ‘America is Already Great’ and 'We Don't Look to Be Ruled'
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Tyler Pager / Politico:
Trump to look at recognizing Crimea as Russian territory, lifting sanctions
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Sean Davis / The Federalist:
Donald Trump Just Got Hillary Clinton To Admit Her E-mails Are A ‘National Security Issue’
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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
At the Democratic convention, women seize their moment — and momentum
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Meghan Keneally / ABC News:
Tim Kaine Says He ‘Never Expected to Be Here’ in Accepting VP Role
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Victor Morton / Washington Times:
WikiLeaks releases hacked DNC voicemails — Another shoe has been dropped by Wikileaks. — On the night President Obama and Vice Presidential nominee Tim Kaine were scheduled to speak to the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, the anti-secrecy whistle-blower group released hacked voicemails of top Democratic officials.
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Harper Neidig / The Hill:
WikiLeaks releases hacked DNC voicemails — WikiLeaks on Wednesday released a number of voicemail message recordings that were purportedly stolen from the Democratic National Committee (DNC). — The voicemails come a week after the site published a trove of emails from the DNC that many believe were stolen by Russian hackers.
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Marc A. Thiessen / Washington Post:
The Democrats' well-deserved WikiLeaks blowback
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Christina Wilkie / The Huffington Post:
Melania Trump's Website, Biography Have Disappeared From The Internet — The apparent scrubbing job comes after speculation over whether she earned an undergraduate degree, as previously claimed. — National Political Reporter, The Huffington Post — The professional website of Melania Trump …
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Caitlin Yilek / The Hill:
Melania Trump website scrubbed from internet — Melania Trump's professional website was recently deleted from the internet, according to The Huffington Post. — The deletion comes amid questions from the media about her degree in architecture from the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia.
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Louis Jacobson / PolitiFact:
Some readers unconvinced by our True rating for White House slave claim — On the first night of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, we rated Michelle Obama's statement that the White House “was built by slaves” as True. — As we wrote in our fact-check, “Strictly speaking …
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David A. Graham / The Atlantic:
How Abigail Adams Proves Bill O'Reilly Wrong About Slavery
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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
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Kerry Lester / Daily Herald:
Exclusive: Women reject settlement in Duckworth workplace retaliation lawsuit … The day before congresswoman Tammy Duckworth is scheduled to deliver a major speech on the main stage at the Democratic National Convention, two women who filed a workplace retaliation suit against her have …
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