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Reuters:
Exclusive: Clinton campaign also hacked in attacks on Democrats - sources — The computer network used by Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's campaign was hacked as part of a broad cyber attack on Democratic political organizations, people familiar with the matter told Reuters.
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Grant Smith / Reuters:
Clinton leads Trump by 6 points after Democratic confab: Reuters/Ipsos poll — Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton held a 6- percentage-point lead over Republican rival Donald Trump, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll with new wording that was released on Friday …
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Political Wire
Mark Hensch / The Hill:
RNC official accuses Clinton of plagiarism — The chief strategist of the Republican National Committee (RNC) accused Hillary Clinton — of plagiarism in her speech accepting the Democratic presidential nomination. … Spicer's tweet references a portion of Clinton's Thursday night address …
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Politico, Mashable, AOL, Vocativ, Little Green Footballs, Breitbart, Hullabaloo, Raw Story, Independent Journal Review, ABC News, WISH-TV, Warren Throckmorton, Heat Street and Townhall.com
Alex Griswold / Mediaite:
Donald Trump Distances Himself From GOP Convention: ‘I Just Showed Up’
Donald Trump Distances Himself From GOP Convention: ‘I Just Showed Up’
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Mother Jones, Talking Points Memo, Politicus USA, Raw Story, Daily Kos, Vocativ, Washington Post and CNNMoney, more at Mediagazer »
John Kruzel / ABC News:
Donald Trump Says Hillary Clinton 'Doesn't Know How to Win'
Donald Trump Says Hillary Clinton 'Doesn't Know How to Win'
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Associated Press and Political Wire
Eric Lichtblau / New York Times:
Clinton Campaign Is Said to Be Hacked, Apparently by Russians
Clinton Campaign Is Said to Be Hacked, Apparently by Russians
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Gizmodo and Refinery29
Eli Stokols / Politico:
Trump's Bernie gambit
Trump's Bernie gambit
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ABC News, Politicus USA, Washington Free Beacon and Pew Research Center
NBC News:
First Read: An OK Speech, But a Powerful Convention
First Read: An OK Speech, But a Powerful Convention
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Patterico's Pontifications, NBC News and Political Wire
Dominic Patten / Deadline:
Donald Trump & RNC Top Hillary Clinton & Final Night Of DNC In Viewers
Donald Trump & RNC Top Hillary Clinton & Final Night Of DNC In Viewers
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Right and The Gateway Pundit
Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
Trump blames GOP as Dems top RNC ratings
Trump blames GOP as Dems top RNC ratings
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RedState, Los Angeles Times, Joe.My.God., Washington Free Beacon and BillMoyers.com
Gabriel Sherman / New York Magazine:
Former Fox News Booker Says She Was Sexually Harassed and ‘Psychologically Tortured’ by Roger Ailes for More Than 20 Years — The morning after Fox News chief Roger Ailes resigned, the cable network's former director of booking placed a call to the New York law firm hired by 21st Century Fox …
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TVNewser, Raw Story, Mediaite, Jezebel, The Week, AOL and Media Matters for America, more at Mediagazer »
Nabi Dressler / Right Wing Watch:
Sandy Rios Questions Khizr Khan's Patriotism: 'We're Not Even Sure About You, Sir' — On her radio show today, Sandy Rios of the American Family Association (AFA) questioned the patriotism of Khizr Khan, the father of U.S. Army Capt. Humayun Khan, who died while serving in Iraq.
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Media Matters for America, Washington Post, Raw Story, Jihad Watch, Outside the Beltway, War in Context and ThinkProgress
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Josh Barro / Business Insider:
I rewatched Khizr Khan's speech — and it made me weep for our country — If you haven't yet seen it, you really need to watch Thursday night's Democratic convention speech by Khizr Khan, the father of Army Cpt. Humayun Khan, a Muslim immigrant who was killed in action in Iraq in 2004 while protecting his unit from a car bomb.
Ann E. Marimow / Washington Post:
Appeals court strikes down North Carolina's voter-ID law — A federal appeals court on Friday struck down North Carolina's requirement that voters show identification before casting ballots and reinstated an additional week of early voting. — The decision by a three-judge panel …
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abc11.com, madison.com, Washington Monthly, The Root, John Hawkins' Right Wing News, Vox and RedState
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Court strikes down North Carolina voter ID law
Court strikes down North Carolina voter ID law
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ABC News, Talking Points Memo, CityLab, Daily Kos, The Right Scoop and The Week
Hugh Hewitt / The Hugh Hewitt Show:
Indiana Governor Mike Pence Responds To Secretary Clinton, President Obama, Kareem Abdul Jabaar … Indiana Governor Mike Pence joined me this morning in a wide ranging interview responding to many of the proceedings in Philly: — 07-29hhs-pence — Transcript:
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David Mastio / USA Today:
Election 2016 is over. Trump won: David Mastio — With no standards and no principles, Clinton and her allies are now just a punchline. — With the possible exception of Jefferson Davis, Donald Trump will be the worst president in American history. I know that sounds extreme.
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Instapundit
Justin Bieber / TMZ.com:
I'm Not for Sale — Justin Bieber got a $5 million offer to perform at a Republican event during the GOP Convention, but turned it down after his manager considered quitting and LeBron James urged him to reject it ... sources tell TMZ. — Sources connected with CAA …
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NBCSports.com, Vocativ, Independent Journal Review, Guardian, Heat Street, Mediaite, LGBTQ Nation, AOL, Jezebel, The Daily Caller, Business Insider and Joe.My.God.
Jason P. Steed / forma legalis:
How Garland Gets Confirmed Before the Election — I haven't checked the transcripts or anything, but I'm pretty sure President Obama's pending Supreme Court nominee, Merrick Garland, was never mentioned at this week's Democratic National Convention. Garland's nomination has now been pending 135 days …
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Los Angeles Times, Forbes, Lawyers, Guns & Money, SCOTUSblog, The Daily Beast, electionlawblog.org and Vox
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Jesse Byrnes / The Hill:
Trump: Republicans ‘have no choice’ but to vote for me
Trump: Republicans ‘have no choice’ but to vote for me
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RedState, The Stranger … and Washington Monthly
Alan Hernández / VICE News:
Venezuela has a new ‘forced labor’ law that can require people to work in fields — International human rights activists are complaining that new laws have introduced forced labour in Venezuela. — “A new decree establishing that any employee in Venezuela can be effectively made to work …
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CNNMoney, The Daily Caller, Daily Wire, Forbes, The Gateway Pundit and Hot Air
Kenneth P. Vogel / Politico:
Kochs reject push to meet with Trump — Top Donald Trump donors tried to set up a meeting between the GOP presidential nominee and Charles Koch in Colorado Springs on Friday, but Koch aides rejected the entreaties, according to two Republicans with knowledge of the outreach.
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The Right Scoop, Political Wire and Reuters
Jeff Asher / FiveThirtyEight:
Baton Rouge Drug Enforcement Has Plummeted Since Police Killed Alton Sterling — Much of what followed the fatal police shooting of Alton Sterling, a black man in Baton Rouge, on July 5 has been well-chronicled. Philando Castile, also a black man, was killed a day later by a police officer in Minnesota.
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The Crime Report
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Zack Kopplin / The Daily Beast:
Cousin of Slain Baton Rouge Cop Was Wrongly Arrested for the Massacre
Cousin of Slain Baton Rouge Cop Was Wrongly Arrested for the Massacre
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The Root and NOLA River
David Brooks / New York Times:
The Democrats Win the Summer — PHILADELPHIA — Donald Trump has found an ingenious way to save the Democratic Party. Basically, he's abandoned the great patriotic themes that used to fire up the G.O.P. and he's allowed the Democrats to seize that ground.
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The Atlantic, No More Mister Nice Blog, Hullabaloo and Vox
Ilya Shapiro / Cato Institute:
Is Johnson-Weld a Libertarian Ticket? — Plenty of libertarians were wary of seeing former Massachusetts governor Bill Weld as the Libertarian Party's nominee for vice president. Even those of us who haven't had anything to do with the LP would like to see the party represented by, you know, libertarians.
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Washington Examiner, Hot Air, The Daily Caller, RedState and Hit & Run
Robert Allen / Detroit Free Press:
6 state employees criminally charged in Flint water crisis — FLINT — Six state employees were criminally charged this morning in district court in connection with the Flint water crisis. — Charged are Michigan Department of Health and Human Services workers Nancy Peeler …
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Associated Press, Refinery29, NPR, The Week, The Root and The Crime Report
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Michael O'Connell / Hollywood Reporter:
TV Ratings: Hillary Clinton's DNC Speech Falls Just Shy of Trump's With 33 Million Viewers — With nearly all ratings in across networks, the DNC finale comes in short of the RNC — though averages a much stronger showing over four days. — Two solid-ish weeks of political conventions culminated …
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NO QUARTER USA NET, Bloomberg and Rush Limbaugh, more at Mediagazer »
David Weigel / Washington Post:
Jill Stein on vaccines: People have ‘real questions’ — PHILADELPHIA — For a week, Jill Stein was everywhere that the Democratic National Convention was not. The Green Party's likely candidate for president made drop-ins to a four-day Socialist Convergence at the Quaker meeting hall …
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New York Magazine, Jezebel, Mediaite and New Urban Legends
Emily Satchell / WAVY-TV:
Teen driver eluding police kills man mowing lawn in Newport News — NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (WAVY) — Police say a 17-year-old girl struck and killed a man mowing grass Friday afternoon in Newport News. — Officer Brandon Maynard with Newport News Police says at 3:22 p.m. …
Olaf Ekberg / The American Mirror:
VIDEO: CNN Wolf Blitzer drinks wine, dances to celebrate Hillary's nomination — Maybe they were happy it was over, or maybe they were celebrating “history” being made — as they repeated all week — by their preferred candidate. — Regardless, cameras captured CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer …
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