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9:15 AM ET, August 3, 2016

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Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Trump refuses to endorse Paul Ryan in GOP primary: 'I'm just not quite there yet'  —  Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump escalated his war with his own party's leadership Tuesday by refusing to endorse House Speaker Paul D. Ryan or Sen. John McCain, two of the GOP's highest-ranking elected officials …
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Washington Post:
Donald Trump transcript: The Republican nominee in his own words  —  Republican nominee Donald Trump sat down with The Post's Philip Rucker for an interview at Trump National Golf Club on Aug. 2 following a rally at a nearby high school.  This is a lightly edited transcript of the 50-minute interview.
Discussion: Political Wire and Daily Wire
Alexander Burns / New York Times:
Ignoring Advice, Donald Trump Presses Attack on Khan Family and G.O.P. Leaders  —  Donald J. Trump's unabashed and continuing hostility toward the parents of a slain Muslim American soldier, and his attacks on Republican leaders who have rebuked him for it, threaten to shatter his uneasy alliance …
David Weigel / Washington Post:
For Trump, a new ‘rigged’ system: The election itself  —  Donald Trump, trailing narrowly in presidential polls, has issued a warning to worried Republican voters: The election will be “rigged” against him — and he could lose as a result.  —  Trump pointed to several court cases nationwide …
Discussion: Daily Kos and Balkinization
CNN:
Sources: Trump-world frustrated by their candidate
Discussion: Political Wire
Elena Schneider / Politico:
Huelskamp loses GOP primary after ideological battle
Discussion: RedState, New York Times and The Week
Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
Meg Whitman, Calling Donald Trump a ‘Demagogue,’ Will Support Hillary Clinton for President  —  Meg Whitman, a Hewlett Packard executive and Republican fund-raiser, said Tuesday that she would support Hillary Clinton for president and give a “substantial” contribution to her campaign in order …
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Eric Bradner / CNN:
First on CNN: Ex-top Christie aide backs Clinton over Trump
Noah Bierman / Los Angeles Times:
Child yells profanity directed at Hillary Clinton during Donald Trump rally
Nick Gass / Politico:
Trump insists ‘great unity’ in campaign  —  Donald Trump's campaign has perhaps never been as unified as it is now, the Republican nominee tweeted Wednesday, amid a cascade of recent reports suggesting anything but internal harmony.  —  “There is great unity in my campaign …
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Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
Lewandowski Revives Birther Conspiracy Theory About Obama  —  Former Donald Trump campaign manager and CNN contributor Corey Lewandowski on Tuesday night suggested that President Obama did not release his Harvard transcripts in order to hide that he was not born in the United States.
Discussion: The Week
Nick Gass / Politico:
CNN contributor Corey Lewandowski: Was Obama a citizen when he went to Harvard?  —  During an animated discussion about his former boss Tuesday night on CNN, former Donald Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski suggested that President Barack Obama might be concealing his true birthplace …
Discussion: Business Insider and Mediaite
Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Sent Cash to Iran as Americans Were Freed  —  Obama administration insists there was no quid pro quo, but critics charge payment amounted to ransom  —  WASHINGTON—The Obama administration secretly organized an airlift of $400 million worth of cash to Iran that coincided with the January release …
Zach Montellaro / Politico:
Trump spokeswoman blames Obama for 2004 death of Captain Khan  —  Donald Trump's spokeswoman blamed the policies of President Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton for the death of Army Capt. Humayun Khan, despite the fact that Khan died in 2004.  —  “It was under Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton …
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Josh Feldman / Mediaite:
Katrina Pierson Implies Obama, Clinton Are to Blame for Humayan Khan's Death in 2004
Discussion: Breitbart
Scott Wong / The Hill:
Trump memo calls for ‘urgent pivot’ from Khan controversy
Discussion: Hot Air, RedState, twitchy.com and WTVR-TV
Wall Street Journal:
George W. Bush Delivers Critique of Donald Trump's Policies  —  Former president stops short of putting his remarks in the context of the 2016 presidential campaign  —  Without naming Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, former President George W. Bush delivered an incisive critique …
Discussion: RedState
Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
BREAKING: Muslims Firebomb Bus in Paris (VIDEO)  —  According to reports, a gang of Muslim migrants in Paris allegedly ambushed and burned down a passenger bus in the Saint-Denis district around 1 AM on the night of Thursday, the 28th of July 2016.  —  The masked men set up a road block …
Eli Lake / Bloomberg:
Obama's CIA Director Wants to Stick Around for Clinton  —  If Hillary Clinton wins the U.S. presidential election in November, John Brennan would like to continue his post as director of the Central Intelligence Agency.  —  Current and former U.S. intelligence officials tell me Brennan …
Paul Mirengoff / Power Line:
Black Lives Matter: from a lie to a revolution  —  The Black Lives Matter movement emerged as a force just about a year ago, following the killing of Ferguson, Missouri thug Michael Brown by a white police officer who was defending himself.  The movement was predicated on a lie …
Reuters:
Trump loses bid to end Trump University lawsuit before trial  —  A U.S. judge on Tuesday rejected Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's pretrial bid to throw out a lawsuit brought by Trump University students who said they were defrauded by its real-estate seminars.
Discussion: The Week
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Judge won't release Trump U. deposition videos
Discussion: Washington Post
John Hinderaker / Power Line:
Immigration: The Issue that Got Away?  —  America's political, business, media and academic elites have forced on the rest of us a radical mass immigration regime that we neither wanted nor voted for.  When our immigration laws were rewritten in 1965, at the height of the Democratic Party's power …
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Gravis:   Gravis Marketing and Breitbart News Network Partner for 2016 General Election Polling
WJLA-TV:
Donald Trump on Obama: 'He's concerned I'm going to win'  —  WASHINGTON (Sinclair Broadcast Group) - Senior political correspondent Scott Thuman sat down with presidential nominee Donald Trump Tuesday, speaking about several subjects.  —  Here's what the GOP nominee had to say.
David Remnick / New Yorker:
Trump and Putin: A Love Story  —  The attraction is mutual, but history shows who's really using whom.  —  Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin and Donald J. Trump are locked in a humid political embrace, which seems, at first glance, unlikely.  Putin grew up in postwar Leningrad.
Niall Ferguson / BostonGlobe.com:
Fishtown vs. Belmont, 2016  —  In his brilliant and prophetic 2011 book, “Coming Apart,” my friend Charles Murray identified the stark social division that is defining this year's presidential election.  —  Murray's book was unabashedly about “the state of white America.”
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
Justin Raimondo / Los Angeles Times:
Op-Ed To fight Trump, journalists have dispensed with objectivity  —  Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump discusses U.S.-Russia relations at a news conference in Doral, Fla. on July 27.  (Evan Vucci / Associated Press)  —  Why are the rules of journalism being rewritten this election year?
Tara Bahrampour / Washington Post:
'There isn't really anything magical about it': Why more millennials are avoiding sex  —  Sam Wei, a 26-year-old financial analyst in Chicago, has not had sex since her last relationship ended eighteen months ago.  She makes out with guys sometimes, and she likes to cuddle.
Brian Barrett / Wired:
AMERICA'S ELECTRONIC VOTING MACHINES ARE SCARILY EASY TARGETS  —  This week, GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump openly speculated that this election would be “rigged.”  Last month, Russia decided to take an active role in our election.  There's no basis for questioning the results of a vote that's still months away.
Discussion: Hot Air, LawNewz, CANNONFIRE and NPR
Ian Schwartz / RealClearPolitics:
Obama: Trump “Unfit,” “Woefully Unprepared” For Presidency, Has To Be A Point Where Republicans Say “Enough”  —  President Obama slams Republican nominee for president Donald Trump at a joint press conference with the prime minister of Singapore at the White House Tuesday morning.
Discussion: WND and Western Free Press
Nate Thayer / Politico:
Documents Show Trump Officials Agreed to Limit Rally Size, Contradicting the Candidate  —  Oh, and that Colorado fire marshal Trump accused of being a Democrat?  He's a Republican.  —  When Donald Trump puts his foot into something, he just can't seem to get it out.
Karen Zraick / New York Times:
Ivanka Trump Stays Mostly Mum on Being Dragged Into Debate on Sexual Harassment  —  Ivanka Trump, 34, is many things: a mother, an executive and an entrepreneur who has a prominent role in the Republican presidential campaign of her father, Donald J. Trump.  —  Now, because of comments …
Walter Russell Mead / The American Interest:
The Soul-Sick Leadership Elite in America  —  The New York Times digs into the DNC email dump: … Too bad that we now have to depend on leaks from Putin moles to know what's going on in our country, but the donor stroking industry revealed in these emails is anything but secret.
 
 
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Theodoric Meyer / Politico:
Democrats make a play to turn Arizona blue
Discussion: Hot Air
Ben Brody / Bloomberg:
Clinton Raised Almost $90 Million in July, Campaign Says
Discussion: Drudge Retort
Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Trump Defends His “Rigged” Election Claim: “I Just Hear Things, And I Just Feel It”
Discussion: Balloon Juice
Patrick Lion / Daily Mail:
‘My friend Donald Trump’: Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe tells visiting US politicians …
Discussion: RedState
Olivia Nuzzi / The Daily Beast:
15 Hours of Donald Trump's Lies
Discussion: twitchy.com
 Earlier Items: 
Kurt Eichenwald / Newsweek:
DONALD TRUMP'S MANY BUSINESS FAILURES, EXPLAINED
Discussion: Mediaite
Andrea Waguespack / Houston Chronicle:
New York Times uncovers Donald Trump's draft deferments
Eric Lieberman / The Daily Caller:
The ATF Is Illegally Hoarding American Gun Owners' Personal Information
Discussion: Infowars
Gabriel Debenedetti / Politico:
Heads roll at the DNC
 

 
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is working on a smart doorbell system with advanced facial recognition that can wirelessly connect and unlock third-party smart locks

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Donald Trump announces that Sriram Krishnan, until recently a general partner at a16z, will serve as senior policy advisor for AI at the White House OSTP

Financial Times:
Sources: Palantir and Anduril are in talks with OpenAI, SpaceX, and more to form a consortium to bid for US defense contracts and plan to announce it in January

 
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