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Susan Collins / Washington Post:
GOP senator Susan Collins: Why I cannot support Trump — The writer, a Republican, represents Maine in the Senate. — I will not be voting for Donald Trump for president. This is not a decision I make lightly, for I am a lifelong Republican. But Donald Trump does not reflect historical …
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Why Donald Trump might not debate Hillary Clinton — Hillary Clinton's campaign just threw down the gauntlet, challenging Donald Trump to accept the three presidential debates that have been scheduled. — In a statement Monday night, Clinton's campaign chairman, John Podesta …
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Alex Altman / TIME:
Donald Trump Says ‘I Want to Debate Very Badly.’ But He Has Conditions — ‘I renegotiated the debates in the primaries, remember?’ he tells TIME — Donald Trump said Tuesday that he will commit to three debates this fall with Democratic rival Hillary Clinton, but may try to re-negotiate …
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Hadas Gold / Politico:
Clinton-Trump debate sites plan for a third podium — The venues that will host the presidential debates are drawing up plans for a three-person forum that would provide a lectern for a third-party candidate to stand on stage next to Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.
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John Wagner / Washington Post:
Clinton expands battleground state map with push into Arizona, Georgia
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Brian McBride / ABC News:
Clinton Accepts Fall Debate Schedule, Challenges Trump
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Lisa Hagen / The Hill:
Clinton accepts three debate invitations
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Tory Dunnan / WPTV:
Orlando shooter's father attends Hillary Clinton rally in Kissimmee — Seddique Mateen seen sitting right behind Clinton — KISSIMMEE, Fla. - Hillary Clinton spoke to a crowd in Kissimmee, just south of Orlando. She was supposed to be talking jobs, but started the speech off paying tribute …
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Matt Flegenheimer / New York Times:
Campaign Plays Down Appearance at Clinton Rally by Orlando Nightclub Shooter's Father
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Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Clinton leads in NC for first time since March — PPP's newest North Carolina poll finds Hillary Clinton leading in the state, albeit by a narrow margin, for the first time since March. She's at 43% to 41% for Donald Trump, 7% for Gary Johnson, and 2% for Jill Stein.
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NBC News:
Poll: Clinton Opens Up Double-Digit Lead Over Trump — Hillary Clinton now holds a 10-point lead over Donald Trump, 51 percent to 41 percent, according to results from the latest NBC News| SurveyMonkey Weekly Election Tracking poll — Clinton's double-digit lead is up from an 8-point gap last week.
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Stuart Rothenberg / Washington Post:
Donald Trump needs a miracle to win
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Mark Murray / NBC News:
Clinton Campaign Now Outspending Trump on Ads — $52 Million to 0
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Lloyd Grove / The Daily Beast:
Why Did Fox News Welcome Date Rape Apologist Mike Cernovich? — As Roger Ailes's sexual harassment scandal continues to unfold, Fox News is being forced to answer why Mike Cernovich was invited to be a guest on ‘Red Eye.’ — At the Fox News Channel, when it rains, it pours.
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Sarah Ellison / Vanity Fair:
Exclusive: Inside the Fox News Bunker — In the subterranean newsroom, fear is everywhere. “Hacking was bad,” says one person familiar with the internal investigation. “This is arguably worse.” — Few people in the news business have valued secrecy quite like Roger Ailes, the former C.E.O. of Fox News.
Louis Nelson / Politico:
Trump strikes back against GOP critics — A day after Donald Trump faced a wave of criticism from members of the Republican Party, the GOP presidential nominee took to Twitter and the airwaves to hit back against his detractors. — “I am running against the Washington insiders …
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Louis Nelson / Politico:
Giuliani slams GOP national security officials against Trump
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Esme Cribb / Talking Points Memo:
Trump To GOP National Security Experts: I Wasn't Going To Hire You Anyway
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Harry Enten / FiveThirtyEight:
The Polls Aren't Skewed: Trump Really Is Losing Badly — We've reached that stage of the campaign. The back-to-school commercials are on the air, and the “unskewing” of polls has begun — the quadrennial exercise in which partisans simply adjust the polls to get results more to their liking …
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Ben Leubsdorf / Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Productivity Fell for Third Straight Quarter — Stalling labor productivity could curb worker pay and economic growth — The longest stretch of productivity declines since the end of the 1970s is threatening to restrain U.S. worker pay and broader economic growth in the years ahead.
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Sasha Goldstein / News + Opinion, Seven Days:
Bernie Sanders Buys a Summer Home in North Hero — Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) is the proud new owner of a summer home on the Champlain Islands, Seven Days has confirmed. — The Burlington resident last week plopped down nearly $600,000 on a camp in North Hero.
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Fox News:
Parents of 2 Benghazi victims sue Hillary Clinton for wrongful death, defamation — The parents of two of the four Americans who died in the Benghazi attack in 2012 filed a lawsuit Monday against Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, alleging her “reckless handling” of classified information contributed to their deaths.
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Pete Williams / NBC News:
Two Benghazi Parents Sue Hillary Clinton for Wrongful Death, Defamation
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Michael Tomasky / The Daily Beast:
Is Florida Even a Swing State Anymore? — Republicans' electoral map may have ceded Virginia, but Florida is a must-win for them. Demographics and Trump's trouble with college-educated whites make that increasingly unlikely. — Remember a couple months ago when Reince Priebus tweeted …
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Michael Kinsley / Vanity Fair:
Donald Trump and the Limits of Data Journalism — As the Internet changes journalism, one clear trend is a focus on data, championed by the likes of Vox's Ezra Klein and The New York Times's Nate Cohn. But not every Venn diagram contains something worth reporting.
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Roger Kimball / Wall Street Journal:
The College Formerly Known as Yale — Any renaming push on the Ivy campus should start at the top—with Elihu Yale, slave trader extraordinaire. — By — The English novelist Kingsley Amis once observed that much that was wrong with the 20th century could be summed up in the word “workshop.”
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Media Matters for America:
Roger Stone Confirms That He's In Communication With Julian Assange — QUESTIONER: With regard to the October surprise, what would be your forecast on that given what Julian Assange has intimated he's going to do? — ROGER STONE: Well, it could be any number of things. I actually have communicated with Assange.
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James Hohmann / Washington Post:
The Daily 202: Why some Republican politicians are really coming out against Trump — THE BIG IDEA: — The most important storyline of August is how many Republicans come out against their party's nominee. If the base fractures, Donald Trump is doomed.
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Andrew Bosworth / Facebook:
A New Way to Control the Ads You See on Facebook, and an Update on Ad Blocking — As more and more content has shifted to the internet, online experiences have improved dramatically, becoming more immersive and intuitive. But many digital ads haven't kept up.
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