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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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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 …
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.
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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
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Rebecca Morin / Politico:
Trump campaign launches drive to recruit ‘election observers’
Trump campaign launches drive to recruit ‘election observers’
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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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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.
Trump Spokesperson Says Obama Invaded Afghanistan. He Didn't.
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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.
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 …
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The Last Refuge
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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Evelyn Rupert / The Hill:
Hacker publishes House Dems' cell phone numbers
Hacker publishes House Dems' cell phone numbers
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Alexander Mallin / ABC News:
Hackers Claim to Have Released House Democrats' Personal Information
Hackers Claim to Have Released House Democrats' Personal Information
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Politico, Mediaite and BizPac Review
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.
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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
Robert De Niro compares Trump with “Taxi Driver” character
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Davida / Washington Monthly:
The Garland Pre-Compromise Is Already Sabotaging Clinton's First 100 Days — As confidence grows that Trump will lose in November, speculation is already beginning about the first 100 days of a new hypothetical Clinton administration. Top of the list is filling the Supreme Court vacancy left by the passing of justice Antonin Scalia.
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
Dem senators to Clinton: Stick with Garland
Dem senators to Clinton: Stick with Garland
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Empirical SCOTUS
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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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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Benjamin Wallace-Wells / New Yorker:
The Real Scandal of Hillary Clinton's E-Mails — On Wednesday, the conservative group Judicial Watch released two hundred and ninety-six pages of e-mails that Hillary Clinton and her aides at the State Department had exchanged. Judicial Watch's president has said that they came …
Bob Cesca / Salon:
Trump and the exploitation of right rage: It's not the economy, stupid, that's attracting angry white men to him — The brainwashing of Trump loyalists by right wing media is on display every day — and it's disturbing VIDEO — We've all seen the videos replayed over and over again on social media and cable news.
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