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10:25 AM ET, August 14, 2016

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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%
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
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 …
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
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.
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: Raw Story, Hot Air and twitchy.com
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.
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
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
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.
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
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.
 
 
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Eric H. Holder Jr / New York Times:
Eric Holder: We Can Have Shorter Sentences and Less Crime
Sarah Westwood / Washington Examiner:
Bill Clinton netted $1.6 million from for-profit colleges
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
Tarini Parti / BuzzFeed:
How Trump And Pence Are Doing Their Rallies Is “Totally Unprecedented”
Discussion: alan.com
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
The Perfect G.O.P. Nominee
Discussion: alan.com, twitchy.com and BNR
 Earlier Items: 
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
BBC:
Switzerland Salez attack: Knifeman sets fire to Swiss train
Discussion: Mediaite
New York Daily News:
EXCLUSIVE: Staten Island boy, 13, kills self after Holy Angels Catholic Academy staff …
Discussion: Raw Story
Jonah Goldberg / National Review:
Does Sean Hannity Want Hillary to Win?
Discussion: Mediaite and Townhall.com
 

 
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Anja Karadeglija / The Canadian Press:
Meta clashes with Canada's CRTC over the Online News Act by declining to publicly release information about its measures to block news content on its platforms

Ashley Carman / Bloomberg:
A growing number of podcasters, including Tim Ferriss, are moving away from interviews to monologues or co-hosts, as some well-known guests can be overexposed

Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
A New York judge finds Sirius XM liable for a difficult subscription cancellation process; Sirius says it will appeal but abide by a new “click-to-cancel” rule

 
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