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5:25 PM ET, August 4, 2016

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WBUR:
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 …
McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Clinton surges to big lead in McClatchy-Marist poll
Discussion: Mother Jones and Vox
Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Pennsylvania poll: Clinton has double-digit lead over Trump
Cristiano Lima / Politico:
Trump: 'I don't know why we're not leading by a lot'
Discussion: Washington Post, Hot Air and The Week
Nick Gass / Politico:
Poll: Clinton leads Trump by 6 in Florida
Discussion: Joe.My.God.
James Hohmann / Washington Post:
The Daily 202: Why is progressive frustration with Hillary Clinton not boosting the Green Party?
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.
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.
Discussion: Vox Popoli and Instapundit
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.
Nick Gass / Politico:
Giuliani blames Gingrich for Trump ‘intervention’ reports
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
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.
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 …
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.
Discussion: The Right Scoop
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Jenna Johnson / Washington Post:
Donald Trump did not actually watch an Iranian recording of that controversial money transfer
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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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.
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 …
Discussion: Washington Post and Mediaite
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.
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.
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 …
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 …
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 …
Discussion: Politico and AOL
Kristin Salaky / Talking Points Memo:
Clinton To Animal Rights Protestors: Trump's Kids ‘Killed A Lot Of Animals!’  (VIDEO)  —  Animal rights protestors appeared at a Hillary Clinton rally Thursday in Las Vegas, to which she quipped that they should be protesting Donald Trump since “his kids have killed a lot of animals.”
Discussion: Raw Story and Joe.My.God.
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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Robert Mendick / Telegraph:
Top lawyer facing criminal inquiry over ‘bribes’ paid to Iraqis bringing abuse claims against British troops
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Tierney Sneed / Talking Points Memo:
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Trump Proves Republican Obama Hate Was Never About Obama's Ideas
Discussion: Mother Jones
Bloomberg:
Elizabeth Warren on Donald Trump and TPP
Discussion: The Atlantic
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Brandon Rittiman's Hillary Clinton interview transcript
Michael Kunzelman / Associated Press:
Black Lives Matter activist sues Baton Rouge over arrest
Discussion: The Root
Samtata / New York's PIX11:
46 alleged members of infamous NYC crime families arrested: FBI
Discussion: Fox News and Gothamist
Matt Hamilton / Los Angeles Times:
LAPD officers who fatally shot Ezell Ford sue city, alleging racial discrimination
Discussion: LawNewz, LAist and The Daily Caller
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Chicago Fire soccer team shuts down anti-gay chant
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Nancy Fischer / Buffalo News:
North Tonawanda's only black firefighter targeted by racist letter at his home
Discussion: WGRZ-TV, NBC News and The Root
Nicole Santa Cruz / Los Angeles Times:
After 16 years, a call out of the blue leads to the LAPD capturing a ‘most wanted’ murder suspect
Discussion: LAist and Associated Press
Maria Cardona / The Hill:
The ‘Trump Train’ flies off the rails, again
Discussion: Raw Story
Ian M. Smith / The Hill:
Bill Clinton's call for mass voter fraud should be condemned
 

 
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Max Tani / @maxwelltani:
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Liz Pelly / Harper's:
How Spotify used its Perfect Fit Content program to rig its system against musicians, filling popular playlists with “ghost artists” to cut its royalty payouts

Jack Dunn / Variety:
Trump appoints Mark Burnett, the British TV executive who created and produced the reality show The Apprentice, as a special envoy to the UK
 
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