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Mother of service member booed over Khan question at Pence rally — CARSON CITY, Nevada — The woman, in a quiet voice, stood before the crowd of hundreds at a town hall-style event here with Indiana Gov. Mike Pence and announced that her son serves in the Air Force. The crowd applauded.
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Trump: My Position On Keeping Terrorists Out Is What Bothered Khizr Khan — In an interview with a local Ohio television station on Monday, Donald Trump said that Khizr Khan was really bothered by his position on border security — specifically his promise to keep radical Islamic terrorists from entering the country.
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Donald Trump attacks CNN in tweetstorm — By the looks of Donald Trump's Twitter feed, you might think he is running against CNN, not Hillary Clinton. — On Monday afternoon Trump fired off six tweets in a row attacking CNN's news coverage and accusing the network of being the “press shop for Hillary Clinton.”
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The risk of bloody-shirt politics: Khizr Khan, Ghazala Khan, Patricia Smith, Cindy Sheehan and our politics — On the first night of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, I cringed when Patricia Smith, the grief-stricken mother of Sean Smith, an information officer killed during …
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Trump campaign asks Capitol Hill to back him in Khan controversy
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Mr. Trump and Spineless Republicans
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To the Go-Along Republicans — Memo to Paul Ryan …
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GOP Criticism Mounts As Trump Continues Attacks On Khan Family
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Poll: Clinton Support Spikes Following Democratic Convention — Following the Democratic National Convention, Hillary Clinton now leads Donald Trump by 8 points — 50 percent to 42 percent — up from a single-point difference last week, according to the latest NBC News| SurveyMonkey poll.
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EXCLUSIVE POLL: Trump holds narrow lead over Clinton in Georgia
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Gallup Poll Finds Trump's Convention Is A Historic Dud
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Utah could vote Democrat for president for first time in 5 decades — (KUTV) The Republican and Democrat national conventions are over and as the dust starts to settle, it looks like Hillary Clinton has a chance to carry Utah in the U.S. presidential election.
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Political Wire


Donald Trump Avoided Draft With a Heel Problem, but the Details Are Murky — Back in 1968, at the age of 22, Donald J. Trump seemed the picture of health. — He stood 6 feet 2 inches with an athletic build; had played intramural football, tennis and squash; and was taking up golf.
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GOP Rep. Richard Hanna: I'll vote for Clinton; first House member to cross party line — U.S. Rep. Richard Hanna, R-Barneveld, says he will vote for Democrat Hillary Clinton for president. Hanna said the GOP nominee, Donald Trump, is unfit to serve. The three-term congressman is shown speaking July 18 …
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Feel The State Tremble — It may not seem terribly important right now with all the stories roiling the campaign. But I think there's a good chance it's the most important. Over the last 48 hours Trump's allies, surrogates and now Trump himself have forcibly injected the topic of voter fraud or ‘election rigging’ into the election.
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Donald Trump: 'I'm Afraid the Election Is Going to Be Rigged'
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Trump: 'I'm Afraid' The General Election's ‘Gonna Be Rigged’
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Doubts Start Creeping In for Democrats — For four days in Philadelphia, almost every comment I heard from Democratic operatives, pollsters and policy wonks reminded me of an old Jackie Mason line about married couples. — “Ask them if they're happy, you get a number. ‘Are you happy?...’ ‘Thirty-one years ... ’”
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Paul Ryan Gets Standing Ovation at Koch Donors Retreat After Repudiating Trump's Trade Policies — JANESVILLE, WI — House Speaker Paul Ryan received a standing ovation from wealthy donors after denouncing the views of Republican voters, who are skeptical of so-called “free trade” deals.
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Paul Ryan AGAIN Misrepresents Trump Position, This Time on “Religious Test” Brouhaha
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Report: Leaked text messages demonstrate Mosby's bad faith — Carly Hoilman of the Blaze says Fox News' Trace Gallagher is reporting that leaked text messages between one of Marilyn Mosby's deputies and the lead investigator in the Freddie Gray case raise new concerns about Mosby's honesty …
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Law professor goes after Maryland prosecutor for Freddie Gray case
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Former Ivy League athlete suspended for alleged sexual assault wins important — and surprising — court victory — Can a male student held responsible by a university for an alleged sexual assault successfully make the case that his fate was the result of sex discrimination against him?


Trump and feminists should quit blaming Roger Ailes' victims: Kirsten Powers — No, the short-skirted, ‘leggy’ women of Fox News aren't to blame for sexual harassment and they shouldn't have to quit their jobs. — Donald Trump thinks it's “very sad” that women at Fox News are “complaining” …
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Trump blasts New York Times: 'They don't write good' — Donald Trump took aim at yet another venerable news outlet Monday night, saying that The New York Times “is just absolutely a disaster” and “so unfair” to his campaign. — “The media is very unfair.
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Facebook blocks Michael Savage for posting news on Islamic crime — Says Mark Zuckerberg ‘stabs America in the back’ — Facebook has temporarily blocked talk-radio host Michael Savage from posting stories to his page after he put up a link to a story about a Muslim migrant killing a pregnant woman in Germany.
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Black Lives Matter Coalition Makes Demands as Campaign Heats Up — More than 60 organizations associated with the Black Lives Matter movement have released a series of demands on Monday, including for reparations. — The list of six platform demands is aimed at furthering their goals …
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Student body vice president writes a ‘forget Black Lives Matter’ post, and a university erupts
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EU is at ‘END of existence’ Polish experts blast Merkel & claim ‘Germans have had enough’ — EUROPE is “at the end of its existence” following a summer of terror and the EU's free movement policy, an ex-Polish counter-terror officer has warned. — Former Central Bureau …
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