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New York Times:
Inside the Failing Mission to Save Donald Trump From Himself — Donald J. Trump was in a state of shock: He had just fired his campaign manager and was watching the man discuss his dismissal at length on CNN. The rattled candidate's advisers and family seized the moment for an intervention.
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New Century Times, alan.com, Politicus USA, Outside the Beltway, Liberal Values, Mediaite and Balloon Juice
Josh Feldman / Mediaite:
Trump Spox Katrina Pierson: We Weren't in Afghanistan Until Obama Decided to Go In — Donald Trump spokeswoman Katrina Pierson has once again blamed President Obama for something that happened years before he took office. — Remember how Pierson blamed Obama for Captain Humayun Khan's death in 2004?
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Little Green Footballs, ThinkProgress, CANNONFIRE, The Atlantic and Joe.My.God.
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Sam Stein / The Huffington Post:
Trump Spokesperson Says Obama Invaded Afghanistan. He Didn't. — He was a state senator at the time. — A spokesperson for Donald Trump's presidential campaign has blamed President Barack Obama for invading Afghanistan a foreign policy decision he never made.
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The New Civil Rights Movement
BBC:
Switzerland Salez attack: Knifeman sets fire to Swiss train — A knifeman has set fire to a train in north-eastern Switzerland, leaving six people in hospital with stab wounds and burns, police say. — The suspect, described as a Swiss man aged 27, was also taken to hospital …
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Zoie O'Brien / Daily Express:
BREAKING: Horror as seven stabbed in fire and knife attack on train in Switzerland
BREAKING: Horror as seven stabbed in fire and knife attack on train in Switzerland
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Pamela Geller and RT
Rebecca Morin / Politico:
Trump campaign launches drive to recruit ‘election observers’ — Donald Trump's campaign is seeking to recruit “election observers” following the Republican nominee's repeated claims that the general election is “rigged.” — In a move that's unprecedented in a presidential election …
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RedState, Outside the Beltway, The Gateway Pundit, Joe.My.God., ABC News and The Hill
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Rachel Chason / CNN:
Trump: If Clinton wins Pennsylvania, she cheated
Trump: If Clinton wins Pennsylvania, she cheated
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New York Magazine, Independent Journal Review, BizPac Review, The Daily Beast and Mediaite
Jonah Goldberg / National Review:
Does Sean Hannity Want Hillary to Win? — Rather than hold Trump to his promise to pivot, Hannity is defending Trump's shtick. … Dear Reader (including Vanilla Ice, because we now live in a world where that's possible), — This is an honest question: Does Sean Hannity want Hillary Clinton to be president?
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Mediaite and Townhall.com
Associated Press:
Frustration abundant, GOP could be near breaking point Trump — ALTOONA, Pa. (AP) — The Republican Party could be nearing a breaking point with Donald Trump. — As he skips from one gaffe to the next, GOP leaders in Washington and in the most competitive states have begun openly contemplating turning …
CNN:
Republicans question Trump's travel choices, tight purse strings — Washington (CNN)The last time Connecticut voted for a Republican presidential candidate, Americans were listening to music on cassette tapes and most cell phones were the size of shoe boxes.
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Nicola Slawson / Guardian:
Kenny Baker, actor behind R2-D2, dies — The 3ft 8in actor, who starred in six Star Wars films as well as Time Bandits and Flash Gordon, was 83 — The British actor who played R2-D2 in the Star Wars films has died at the age of 83 after a long illness. — Kenny Baker, who was 3ft 8in tall …
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Daniel Halper / New York Post:
SEE ALL 223 STORIES — Bill Clinton is accusing the FBI director of serving up “the biggest load of bull I've ever heard” — marking the first significant public comments from the husband of the Democratic nominee on the scandal that's plagued his wife's campaign for over a year.
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Washington Free Beacon
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Joe Cunningham / RedState:
Finally SOMEONE Who Agrees With Trump Claim That Obama Founded ISIS — Donald Trump has been taking a lot of flak for his claim that Barack Obama is the “founder of ISIS,” a claim he later doubled-down on (before later insisting it was sarcasm). It's led to another string of bad media …
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Associated Press, No More Mister Nice Blog and Mediaite
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Feds debate releasing Clinton's FBI interview — The Obama administration is urgently debating how to respond to congressional demands for the official report on Hillary Clinton's three-and-a-half-hour interview at FBI headquarters, as some inside and outside government raise concerns …
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Hot Air and BizPac Review
Katherine Miller / BuzzFeed:
After Mexican “Rapists” Comment, Ivanka Trump Wrote An Unused Clarification — In a deposition earlier this summer, Ivanka Trump said she drafted a statement last summer in the wake of her father's comments about the “rapists” that Mexico sends to the United States — though she denied …
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Politico, Raw Story, Talking Points Memo and Booman Tribune
Evelyn Rupert / The Hill:
Hacker publishes House Dems' cell phone numbers — The hacker known as Guccifer 2.0 dumped the personal contact info of House Democrats on his website Friday, part of the latest batch of documents from a widespread breach of Democratic groups. — The document was obtained from the cyberattack …
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Damian Paletta / Wall Street Journal:
Hacker Reveals Personal Information for Almost 200 Democrats
Hacker Reveals Personal Information for Almost 200 Democrats
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twitchy.com, The Daily Caller, Fox News, Common Dreams, RedState, AFF, NBC News, Guardian and Business Insider
Rick Hasen / electionlawblog.org:
Donald Trump May Be Violating RNC Consent Decree Aimed at Voter Intimidation — With Trump's dangerous and irresponsible hyperventilating about voter fraud and cheating in Pennsylvania potentially costing him the election, it is probably no surprise, as reported by the Weekly Standard …
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Los Angeles Times, BuzzFeed, Guardian, Talking Points Memo, Washington Post, NPR, ThinkProgress, Daily Kos, twitchy.com and Weekly Standard
New York Daily News:
EXCLUSIVE: Staten Island boy, 13, kills self after Holy Angels Catholic Academy staff 'didn't do anything' to stop bullying — Before he took his own life, Daniel Fitzpatrick, taunted and bullied, wrote a final, heartbreaking letter lamenting that nearly no one tried to help him.
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Gothamist and New York's PIX11