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WBUR Poll: After Conventions, Clinton Up 15 Points Over Trump In New Hampshire 06:31 — Play — According to a new WBUR poll of New Hampshire voters, Hillary Clinton is enjoying a dramatic post-convention bump and now leads Donald Trump by 15 points. Our poll also shows Democrat Maggie Hassan …
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Nikita Vladimirov / The Hill:
Ex-GOP senator: Trump's a sociopath — Former Sen. Gordon Humphrey (R-N.H.) says he is considering voting for Hillary Clinton — Humphrey, who served in Congress from the '70s to 1990, told NBC News on Thursday he is confident that Trump has major psychological issues …
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Detroit News:
Clinton jumps to a big lead over Trump in Michigan poll
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Alex Seitz-Wald / NBC News:
Former GOP Senator Might Vote for Clinton
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Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Pennsylvania poll: Clinton has double-digit lead over Trump
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Cristiano Lima / Politico:
Trump: 'I don't know why we're not leading by a lot'
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Amber Phillips / Washington Post:
Paul Ryan just summed up Republicans' Donald Trump problem in three lines — If the top priority for politicians was simply to dominate news coverage through sheer volume, there's no question Donald Trump has succeeded like no other. Between the slights and non-endorsements …
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Jonathan Swan / The Hill:
Donors losing patience with Trump — 's campaign could cost him money — potentially a lot of it. — Trump fundraisers say that large donors are holding back checks because they can't trust that the businessman will stay disciplined enough to run a serious campaign.
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Howard Kurtz / Fox News:
Media trumpeting Trump implosion, but is it real? — This is what a full-fledged feeding frenzy looks like. — With Donald Trump facing the roughest stretch of his candidacy, the media have moved from questioning his sanity to depicting a campaign in disarray and top Republicans still wondering whether they can dump the nominee.
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Morgan Winsor / ABC News:
Paul Manafort Acknowledges ‘Conflict’ Within the Trump Campaign Over Paul Ryan Endorsement — Donald Trump's campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, acknowledged that “there's a conflict within the Trump campaign” over the Republican presidential nominee's hesitation to endorse House Speaker Paul Ryan of Wisconsin for re-election.
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The Sean Hannity Show:
LISTEN: Sean Explains Why Republican Insiders Will Be To Blame If Trump Is Defeated In November
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Gabriel Debenedetti / Politico:
Gaps in Melania Trump's immigration story raise questions — Nude photographs published this week are raising fresh questions about the accuracy of a key aspect of Melania Trump's biography: her immigration status when she first came to the United States to work as a model.
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Francis Wilkinson / Bloomberg:
Melania Trump, Lucky Immigrant
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Patrick Caldwell / Mother Jones:
Melania Trump Could Clear Up Her New Immigration Controversy by Releasing Her Visa Records
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Glamour:
President Barack Obama on Feminism, Michelle, and His Daughters — There are a lot of tough aspects to being President. But there are some perks too. Meeting extraordinary people across the country. Holding an office where you get to make a difference in the life of our nation. Air Force One.
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Foursquare Direct:
How the Trump Presidential Campaign is Affecting Trump Businesses — At Foursquare, our data scientists are often called upon to analyze real world trends; we use Big Data to determine how commercial fortunes are rising or falling. This year, politics and business are intersecting …
Indianapolis Star:
A blind eye to sex abuse: How USA Gymnastics failed to report cases — THE PROMINENT OLYMPIC ORGANIZATION FAILED TO ALERT AUTHORITIES TO MANY ALLEGATIONS OF SEXUAL ABUSE BY COACHES. — Top executives at one of America's most prominent Olympic organizations failed to alert authorities …
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Justin Fishel / ABC News:
Donald Trump Never Saw ‘Top Secret’ Iran Video: Campaign — Donald Trump's campaign is admitting the Republican presidential nominee never saw a video of the U.S. offloading wooden pallets of euros, Swiss francs and other currencies in Tehran, despite the fact that he described such a video in full detail yesterday.
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Jenna Johnson / Washington Post:
Donald Trump did not actually watch an Iranian recording of that controversial money transfer
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Josh Feldman / Mediaite:
Erickson Angrily Tears Into Trump Boosters: You ‘Reflect the Evil Character of Your God’ — Erick Erickson has been a #NeverTrump conservative for a while now, but something Trump said today finally pushed him to a place of extreme anger at his boosters. — Erickson was set off …
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Erick Erickson / The Resurgent:
That is Donald Trump asking if NATO countries “have paid” …
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Brandon J. Dixon / Harvard News:
Harvard Republican Club Will Not Support Party Nominee Donald Trump — The Harvard Republican Club announced it would not support Republican presidential nominee Donald J. Trump, and called for Republican leaders to withdraw their support of the candidate they called a “threat to the survival …
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Gayle Fee / Boston Herald:
Sasha Obama lands summer job at Vineyard seafood joint — Sasha Obama, who has lived eight of her 15 years in the luxurious confines of the White House, is learning how the other half lives this summer. The First Daughter is working the takeout window at Nancy's, a seafood restaurant on Martha's Vineyard.
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David Wasserman / FiveThirtyEight:
The Political Process Isn't Rigged — It Has Much Bigger Problems — All right, I need to vent. For months, I've watched Donald Trump decry as “rigged” everything from the Democratic primaries, the Republican primary rules (that's right, the same rules that helped him win the nomination) and the fall debate schedule.
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Kristen Taketa / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Missouri's head public defender assigns case to Gov. Nixon, cites overburdened staff — Fed up with what he says is the governor's failure to properly fund his overwhelmed office, the state's lead public defender ordered Gov. Jay Nixon this week to represent a poor person in Cole County this month.
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Katherine Krueger / Talking Points Memo:
Megyn Kelly Loses It Over Trump Rehashing Old Dirt: ‘What Is He Doing?!’ (VIDEO) — Fox News' Megyn Kelly couldn't conceal how baffled she was by Donald Trump's choosing to remind voters about his oldest campaign controversies on the trail this week. — After Trump tried to rehash …
Larry J. Sabato / Sabato's Crystal Ball:
Hanging Tough — Why we've made only minor changes to our Electoral College ratings since March — On March 31, we released our first general election map of the Electoral College. With our self-imposed rule of permitting no cop-out “toss-ups” — a rule we'll try to hold to as we handicap …
Michael Kunzelman / Associated Press:
Black Lives Matter activist sues Baton Rouge over arrest — BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - Black Lives Matter activist DeRay Mckesson sued the city of Baton Rouge on Thursday over his arrest last month at a protest of a black man fatally shot during a struggle with two white police officers.
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Eugene Volokh / Washington Post:
Wearing 'Don't Tread on Me' insignia could be punishable racial harassment — The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, among its other functions, decides “hostile work environment” harassment claims brought against federal agencies. In doing so, it applies the same legal rules …
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Nature:
A Hidden Portrait by Edgar Degas — Abstract — The preservation and understanding of cultural heritage depends increasingly on in-depth chemical studies. Rapid technological advances are forging connections between scientists and arts communities, enabling revolutionary new techniques …
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Guardian and Washington Post
Clint Eastwood / TMZ.com:
DEMS EXPLOITED KHAN FAMILY — Clint Eastwood says the Democrats used the Gold Star family as pawns at the convention. — We got Clint leaving Craig's in WeHo Wednesday night, and he had criticism for both parties. He clearly thinks Trump crossed the line in his now-famous feud with the Khan family …
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