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10:55 AM ET, August 14, 2016

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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
Discussion: WayneDupree.com
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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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:
Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:   Always correct election forecast model predicts Trump win, 51%-48%
Jeffrey H. Anderson / Weekly Standard:
All the Issues Favor Trump  —  Of course, he doesn't like to talk issues.  —  The Weekly Standard / Gary Locke  —  In the wake of the Democratic convention, some foot-in-mouth comments by Donald Trump, and a poll bounce for Hillary Clinton, much of the political class has decided that the presidential race is all but over.
Robert P. Jones / The Atlantic:
How Trump Remixed the Republican ‘Southern Strategy’  —  Earlier this week, the Republican National Committee hired three new staffers to assist with African American outreach.  They will have their work cut out for them.  Donald Trump's average level of black support from four recent national polls …
Colin Wilhelm / Politico:
Pence urges investigation into Clinton ‘pay-to-play’  —  Republican vice presidential nominee Mike Pence is calling for an investigation into whether contributions to the Clinton Global Initiative influenced Hillary Clinton's decisions as secretary of state.
Discussion: ABC News
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Tarini Parti / BuzzFeed:
How Trump And Pence Are Doing Their Rallies Is “Totally Unprecedented”
Discussion: alan.com
Sarah Westwood / Washington Examiner:   Bill Clinton netted $1.6 million from for-profit colleges
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.”
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David Ferguson / Raw Story:
Journalists report increased threats and harassment at rallies as Trump declares war on ‘the media’
Discussion: Politico and AOL
Kenneth P. Vogel / Politico:
RNC considers cutting cash to Trump  —  Publicly, Republican Party officials continue to stand by Donald Trump.  Privately, at the highest levels, party leaders have started talking about cutting off support to Trump in October and redirecting cash to saving endangered congressional majorities.
Discussion: Political Wire
Ross Douthat / New York Times:
A Playboy for President  —  IN a different campaign or era, it would have been a race-altering moment; in this one, it was barely a scandal.  There was Melania Trump, the potential first lady of the United States, posing stark naked in '90s-era photos published by the New York Post …
Discussion: Hullabaloo
Jessie Hellmann / The Hill:
Hezbollah leader backs Trump's claim that Obama started ISIS  —  The leader of Lebanon's militant Hezbollah group agreed with Donald Trump  —  when he said President Obama founded ISIS.  —  “This is an American presidential candidate who is saying this.  What he says is based on facts and documents …
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
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Joe Cunningham / RedState:
Finally SOMEONE Who Agrees With Trump Claim That Obama Founded ISIS
Carey Purcell / Politico:
I Survived ‘Trump’ Magazine—Barely.  —  I had been at Trump magazine for only four months when my first paycheck bounced.  —  We'd heard rumors of the company's financial troubles, but I had no idea how bad it really was until my landlord called me one afternoon to tell me that my rent check hadn't cleared.
Discussion: Raw Story and alan.com
Jessie Hellmann / The Hill:
Former Bush official: Clinton would make a ‘darn good’ president … would make a “darn good president” while Donald Trump  —  would take the U.S. back 50 years, a former George W. Bush administration official said Sunday.  —  Former U.S. Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez became …
Discussion: Politico
Jessie Hellmann / The Hill:
Giuliani: Trump makes ‘insensitive’ remarks because he's not a politician  —  Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani prefers an “unscripted” Donald Trump  —  , whom he called a crook.  —  “It may be that he may make more insensitive statements because he's not a polished politician,” …
Discussion: Political Wire
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.
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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New York Post:
Imam killed execution-style walking from Queens mosque
Discussion: New York Magazine
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
Discussion: Wall Street Journal
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Alexander Mallin / ABC News:
Hackers Claim to Have Released House Democrats' Personal Information
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
 
 
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Eric H. Holder Jr / New York Times:
Eric Holder: We Can Have Shorter Sentences and Less Crime
CBS North Carolina / WNCN:
No gunshots confirmed inside Crabtree Valley Mall, police say
Joe Concha / The Hill:
NBC News covers Trump with ‘sarcastic’ tweet
Discussion: FOX40, BizPac Review and Mediaite
Davida / Washington Monthly:
The Garland Pre-Compromise Is Already Sabotaging Clinton's First 100 Days
Discussion: Mother Jones
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Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
The Perfect G.O.P. Nominee
Discussion: alan.com, twitchy.com and BNR
Bob Cesca / Salon:
Trump and the exploitation of right rage: It's not the economy, stupid, that's attracting angry white men to him
New York Daily News:
EXCLUSIVE: Staten Island boy, 13, kills self after Holy Angels Catholic Academy staff …
Discussion: Raw Story
 

 
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