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1:45 PM ET, August 15, 2016

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New York Times:
Secret Ledger in Ukraine Lists Cash for Donald Trump's Campaign Chief  —  KIEV, Ukraine — On a leafy side street off Independence Square in Kiev is an office used for years by Donald J. Trump's campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, when he consulted for Ukraine's ruling political party.
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Politico:
Manafort blasts NYT, denies he accepted Ukraine cash payments  —  Donald Trump's campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, slammed the New York Times Monday morning after the newspaper published a story reporting that secret ledgers in Ukraine show more than $12 million in cash earmarked for him.
Clinton Surges / NBC News:
Clinton Surges Past 270 Electoral Votes in NBC News Battleground Map  —  Wall Street Journal to GOP: Dump Donald Trump if he doesn't change (which he says he won't) 2:50  —  First Read is a morning briefing from Meet the Press and the NBC Political Unit on the day's most important political stories and why they matter.
Lesley Goldberg / Hollywood Reporter:
‘Nightly Show’ Canceled; Larry Wilmore “Saddened” By “Unblackening” at Comedy Central  —  The late-night talk show will end its run Thursday, with Chris Hardwick's ‘@Midnight’ serving as its temporary replacement.  —  It's the end of the road for Larry Wilmore's Comedy Central series The Nightly Show.
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Cynthia Littleton / Variety:
Larry Wilmore's ‘Nightly Show’ Cancelled at Comedy Central … “The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore” will call it a day after Thursday's episode.  —  Comedy Central has canceled the half-hour series that replaced “The Colbert Report” on Jan. 19, 2015, making “Nightly” the first of the recent wave of late-night newcomers to shutter.
Jill Colvin / Associated Press:
Trump looking to institute political tests for immigrants  —  JERSEY CITY, N.J. (AP) — Donald Trump will declare an end to nation building if elected president, replacing it with what aides described as “foreign policy realism” focused on destroying the Islamic State group and other extremist organizations.
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Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
Trump to urge ideological test for immigrants
Abby Livingston / The Texas Tribune:
Trump Spokeswoman Katrina Pierson: We All Make Mistakes … WASHINGTON — Just about the only person on Donald Trump's presidential campaign who can overshadow the boss and keep her job is Katrina Pierson — the Texan and Trump spokeswoman who has made waves over a pair of embarrassing on-air flubs.
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Michael A. Memoli / Los Angeles Times:
Joe Biden to campaign with Hillary Clinton, making the case for her to working-class voters
Discussion: AOL
Daniel Lippman / Politico:
Ukrainian CASH for Manafort — What BIDEN will say today with CLINTON — New jobs for Lis Smith …
Discussion: Mediaite
Allegra Kirkland / Talking Points Memo:
Clinton Leads In Breitbart Poll Conducted As Rebuke To MSM Surveys  —  Aiming to address a recent slew of “mainstream media” polls showing Hillary Clinton holding a decisive lead over of Donald Trump, Breitbart News conducted its own survey.  But the conservative news site came up with similar results.
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Bill Mahoney / Politico:
Poll shows Trump losing support among home-state Republicans
Discussion: RedState
Pritha Sarkar / Reuters:
Gymnastics: Bullies are tormenting Douglas, says mother  —  Bullies are ruining U.S. gymnast Gabby Douglas's Olympic adventure by attacking her appearance, accusing her of being unpatriotic, and by mocking her with a mean-spirited nickname, “Crabby Gabby”, on social media, her mother told Reuters.
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Liz Clarke / Washington Post:
Gabby Douglas, her Olympics over, tearfully responds to social media critics
Discussion: KFOR-TV and Refinery29
Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Trump In 2008 Interview: “I Support Hillary, I Think She's Fantastic”  —  In a previously unreported exchange from 2008, Donald Trump threw his support behind then-Senator Hillary Clinton's bid for the Democratic nomination, calling her “fantastic.”  —  BuzzFeed News found a transcript …
Discussion: alan.com and Political Wire
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Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
CNN anchor to Manafort: 'These things, just because you say them, they're not true'  —  CNN's Jake Tapper on Sunday got into a heated exchange with Donald Trump  —  's campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, after Manafort continued to criticize the media for not focusing on the Republican presidential nominee's message.
Discussion: The Daily Caller, CNN and Hot Air
Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
Why I don't think it makes sense to attribute Trump's support to economic anxiety  —  One of the most popular ideas about Donald Trump this election cycle is that he has awakened a deep sense of “economic anxiety” from the white working class.  This idea is often said to be supported by his poll numbers …
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Tara Golshan / Vox:   The 40 top Republicans (and counting) who won't support Donald Trump for president
New York Daily News:
Suspected shooter in Queens slaying of Imam and friend taken into police custody, may have been settling score in Muslim-Hispanic feud  —  The killer who crept up behind an imam and his friend near a Queens mosque and shot both men in the head may have been settling a score in a feud between Muslims …
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Stephanie Petit / People.com:
Pals Ivanka Trump and Wendi Deng Murdoch Go Sightseeing in Croatia  —  Ivanka Trump is taking a break from the campaign trail to vacation with friends.  —  The daughter of GOP nominee Donald Trump shared a scenic snap with Wendi Deng Murdoch, the ex-wife of billionaire media mogul Rupert Murdoch, from Dubrovnik, Croatia.
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Ivanka Trump / New York Daily News:   Ivanka Trump spends day during Croatia family vacation with rumored Putin love interest Wendi Deng Murdoch
Wall Street Journal:
Trump's Self-Reckoning  —  The GOP nominee and his supporters face a moment of truth.  —  Donald Trump lashed out at the media on Sunday after more stories describing dysfunction inside his presidential campaign.  “If the disgusting and corrupt media covered me honestly and didn't put false meaning …
Hugh Hewitt / Washington Examiner:
Once more into the Supreme Court breach  —  Third time's a charm.  —  Or not.  —  Over the last two weeks I have tried to use this space to persuade #NeverTrumpers that their opposition to Donald Trump, no matter how deeply principled on their part, should yield to the manifest damage …
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Gary May / The Daily Beast:
The Presidential Debates Will Almost Surely Decide the Election
Mike Isaac / New York Times:
With N.F.L. Deal, Twitter Live-Streams Its Ambitions
Sheriff David Clarke / The Hill:
Liberal politics and media fueled Milwaukee riots
Discussion: BizPac Review and Hot Air
John Hiscock / Telegraph:
Michelle Dockery interview: ‘Downton may not be over quite yet’
Discussion: AOL and The Daily Caller
John Sides / Washington Post:
Why Donald Trump's ‘rigged elections’ warning could actually make his supporters less likely to vote
Grist / Raw Story:
Chief NC scientist resigns, accuses GOP administration of misleading the public about water quality
Charlie Cook / The Cook Political Report:
New August Electoral College Ratings
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
 Earlier Items: 
Katie Glueck / Politico:
Trump hires the B team
Discussion: Washington Post
Manu Raju / CNN:
Records contradict Bayh's assertion over staying in Indiana
Eric Thayer / National Review:
How Donald Trump Brought House Conservatives to Heel
Niall Stanage / The Hill:
Five things that could still go wrong for Hillary Clinton
Damian Paletta / Wall Street Journal:
Democrats Brace for More Leaks From Hackers
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Common Dreams
NBC News:
Olympic Cheers May Have Triggered JFK Emergency Response
USA Today:
Young voters flee Donald Trump in what may be historic trouncing, poll shows
 

 
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Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
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Bloomberg:
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