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Steve Turnham / ABC News:
Donald Trump to Father of Fallen Soldier: 'I've Made a Lot of Sacrifices' — In his first response to a searing charge from bereaved Army father Khizr Khan that he'd “sacrificed nothing” for his country, Donald Trump claimed that he had in fact sacrificed by employing “thousands and thousands of people.”
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Muslim Family of Fallen Army Captain Responds to Trump: ‘Shame on Him’ — The grieving Khan family reacted tonight to Donald Trump's latest comments, telling ABC News in an emotional interview that “running for president is not an entitlement to disrespect Gold Star families and [a] Gold Star mother.”
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Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Trump's Thunderbolts — Donald Trump is mad at me. He thinks I've treated him “very badly.” But he returned my call on Friday night on his way to a rally in Colorado and agreed to do a lightning round on the Democratic convention. He began, naturally, by bragging about his convention ratings …
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Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Donald Trump Suggests Khizr Khan's Wife Wasn't ‘Allowed’ to Speak — Donald J. Trump suggested in an interview with ABC News that the Muslim mother of a United States soldier killed in Iraq had let her husband do all the talking at the Democratic National Convention because she was not “allowed” to speak.
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James Fallows / The Atlantic:
Trump Time Capsule #65: 'I'd Like to Hear His Wife Say Something' — The most personally moving, and most fundamentally patriotic, moment of the Democratic National Convention was the appearance by the bereaved parents of Army Captain Humayun Khan, and the statement about the meaning …
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Ezra Klein / Vox:
Donald Trump's slander of Captain Humayun Khan's family is horrifying, even for Trump
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New York Magazine and Politico
Mark Joseph Stern / Slate:
Islam, Equality, and Pocket Constitutions: How the DNC Did Religious Liberty Right
Katie Pelton / KKTV-TV:
Fire marshal responds after being called out by Trump at UCCS rally — COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KKTV) There wasn't enough room for all the ticket holders at Friday's rally for Donald Trump at UCCS, who called out the fire marshal several times during his speech.
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Matea Gold / Washington Post:
As Trump lavishes Colorado with attention, he faces resistance in GOP enclave
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Anne Gearan / Washington Post:
On three-day bus tour, Clinton hopes to woo blue-collar voters away from Trump
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Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Clinton Image Improves Following Conventions; Leads Trump by 5 — PPP's new national poll, taken completely after both party's conventions, finds that Hillary Clinton emerged with a much more positive image than she had a month ago. Donald Trump meanwhile is just as unpopular as he was before the conventions.
Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Donald Trump and RNC attack presidential debate schedule — Donald Trump says the fall debate schedule is “unacceptable,” raising the specter that he may try to skip them. — In a tweet on Friday night, Trump incorrectly said that Hillary Clinton and the Democrats are “trying to rig the debates.”
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New York Times:
Electoral Map Gives Donald Trump Few Places to Go — Donald J. Trump, confronting a daunting electoral map and a significant financial disadvantage, is preparing to fall back from an expansive national campaign and concentrate the bulk of his time and money on just three or four states …
CNN:
Mark Cuban endorses Hillary Clinton, calls Donald Trump ‘bats— crazy’ — Cuban: Trump has ‘no choice’ but to ask for cash — Pittsburgh (CNN)Billionaire entrepreneur Mark Cuban endorsed Hillary Clinton on Saturday during a campaign event in Pittsburgh, telling CNN that he had decided Donald Trump had gone “bats— crazy.”
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Yahoo:
Swimsuit mural of Hillary Clinton creates a stir in Australia — Melbourne (AFP) - An Australian mural of US presidential nominee Hillary Clinton in a revealing, stars and stripes swimsuit may be taken down, after it has reportedly been deemed offensive. — The creator of the painting …
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Houston Chronicle:
These are unsettling times that require a steady hand: That's not Donald Trump. — Houston Chronicle Editorial Board endorses Hillary Clinton — On Nov. 8, 2016, the American people will decide between two presidential contenders who represent the starkest political choice in living memory.
Katherine Stewart / Washington Post:
An After School Satan Club could be coming to your kid's elementary school — SALEM, Mass. —It's a hot summer night, and leaders of the Satanic Temple have gathered in the crimson-walled living room of a Victorian manse in this city renowned for its witch trials in the 17th century.
James Dunn / Daily Mail:
German protesters prepare for Angela ‘Merkel Must Go’ demonstration — Merkel's premiership is hanging by a thread today as thousands gathered to call for her resignation while a key political ally dramatically withdrew his support over immigration policy. — More than 5,000 protested …
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Christopher Ingraham / Washington Post:
The ‘smoking gun’ proving North Carolina Republicans tried to disenfranchise black voters — Today, a federal court struck down North Carolina's voter-ID law, one of the strictest in the nation. In addition to requiring residents to show identification before they can cast a ballot …
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Ari Berman / The Nation:
The Country's Worst Anti-Voting Law Was Just Struck Down in North Carolina
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