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8:30 AM ET, August 14, 2016

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Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
“Always Correct” Election Predictor Has Donald Trump Defeating Sickly Hillary 51% to 48%  —  Alan Abramowitz's “Crystal Ball” model has Trump defeating sickly Hillary Clinton 51% to 48%.  —  The model gives Trump a 66% chance of winning the election this year.  —  The Examiner reported:
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Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
Always correct election forecast model predicts Trump win, 51%-48%  —  Republican Donald Trump should win the presidency by a slim margin according to a model that has accurately predicted the popular vote since 1988.  —  Using several standards to make his prediction, Alan Abramowitz's …
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
Violence erupts after officer-involved shooting  —  A standoff between police and an angry crowd turned violent Saturday night in the hours after a Milwaukee police officer shot and killed an armed suspect during a foot chase on the city's north side.  —  After an hours-long confrontation with officers …
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CNN:
Milwaukee violence: Protests break out after officer-involved shooting  —  (CNN)Angry crowds took to the streets in Milwaukee on Saturday night, hours after a police officer fatally shot an armed man during a foot chase, authorities said.  —  The incident started in the afternoon …
Jefferson Graham / USA Today:
App maker: Trump will win election  —  LOS ANGELES — Despite a majority of opinion polls showing the 2016 presidential election going to Democrat Hillary Clinton, a smartphone app developer says his data suggests challenger Donald Trump will be the victor.  —  “Based on the stats we see …
New York Daily News:
Queens imam shot in the head, another man blasted in the chest in fatal attack near Ozone Park mosque  —  A lone gunman opened fire on a Queens imam walking home from Saturday afternoon prayers and a second man, leaving one of the pair dead and the other critically wounded.
Discussion: BizPac Review, Mediaite and Raw Story
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New York Post:
Imam killed execution-style walking from Queens mosque
Discussion: New York Magazine
Joe Concha / The Hill:
NBC News covers Trump with ‘sarcastic’ tweet  —  NBC Nightly News took a snarky approach to covering Donald Trump  —  's proclamation Friday that he can only lose Pennsylvania “if cheating goes on.”  —  The show's Twitter account tweeted: “NEW: Donald Trump says only way Hillary Clinton
Discussion: FOX40, BizPac Review and Mediaite
James Delingpole / Breitbart:
‘Winter Is Coming’ Warns The Solar Physicist The Alarmists Tried To Silence  —  Make the most of this summer because it could be your last decent one: winter is coming as the planet enters the most devastating cooling period since the 65-year Maunder Minimum of the 17th and early 18th centuries.
Daily Mail:
Nancy Pelosi is flooded with ‘sick and obscene’ phone calls after ‘Russian’ hacker posted House Democrats' private numbers  — House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi warned fellow Democrats on Saturday to change their cellphone numbers and not let family members read their text messages
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New York Times:
Inside the Failing Mission to Tame Trump's Tongue  —  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.
Harper Neidig / The Hill:
Trump: I'm running against media, not Clinton  —  said Saturday that his true opponent in the general election is the media.  —  “I'm not running against crooked Hillary, I'm running against the crooked media,” Trump said at a rally in Fairfield, Conn. “That's what I'm running against, I'm not running against crooked Hillary.”
Discussion: twitchy.com and Raw Story
Tarini Parti / BuzzFeed:
How Trump And Pence Are Doing Their Rallies Is “Totally Unprecedented”  —  CAMBRIDGE, Ohio — In the middle of Mike Pence's stump speech attacking Hillary Clinton and highlighting party unity, a woman near the front of the crowd inside the local civic center repeatedly yelled, “The polls are rigged.
Discussion: alan.com
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
The Perfect G.O.P. Nominee  —  WASHINGTON — SPEAKING of crazy ...  All these woebegone Republicans whining that they can't rally behind their flawed candidate is crazy.  The G.O.P. angst, the gnashing and wailing and searching for last-minute substitutes and exit strategies, is getting old.
Discussion: twitchy.com and BNR
Nikita Vladimirov / The Hill:
De Niro compares Trump to his ‘Taxi Driver’ character  —  Award winning actor Robert De Niro on Saturday compared Donald Trump  —  to his mentally unstable character Travis Bickle in the 1976 movie “Taxi Driver,” calling the Republican nominee “totally nuts.”
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Aida Cerkez / Associated Press:   Robert De Niro compares Trump with “Taxi Driver” character
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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Sam Stein / The Huffington Post:
Trump Spokesperson Says Obama Invaded Afghanistan. He Didn't.
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 …
Discussion: Mediaite
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CBS North Carolina / WNCN:
No gunshots confirmed inside Crabtree Valley Mall, police say
Davida / Washington Monthly:
The Garland Pre-Compromise Is Already Sabotaging Clinton's First 100 Days
Discussion: Mother Jones and Politico
Benjamin Wallace-Wells / New Yorker:
The Real Scandal of Hillary Clinton's E-Mails
Bob Cesca / Salon:
Trump and the exploitation of right rage: It's not the economy, stupid, that's attracting angry white men to him
Joe Cunningham / RedState:
Finally SOMEONE Who Agrees With Trump Claim That Obama Founded ISIS
New York Daily News:
EXCLUSIVE: Staten Island boy, 13, kills self after Holy Angels Catholic Academy staff …
Discussion: Raw Story
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Sarah Knapton / Telegraph:
Rise of the micro-dog: as British homes get smaller so do our pets
Jonah Goldberg / National Review:
Does Sean Hannity Want Hillary to Win?
Discussion: Mediaite and Townhall.com
The Hill:
‘Expedited Removal’ process as cold as ICE: Response to Jeh Johnson
Discussion: ImmigrationProf Blog and Rewire
CBS News:
​Stores to customers: “Cash not welcome here”
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Feds debate releasing Clinton's FBI interview
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