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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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NBC News:
Clinton Surges Past 270 Electoral Votes in NBC News Battleground Map — Biden: Clinton ‘Knows What It Means’ to Be First Woman President 0:43 — 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.
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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
Trump to urge ideological test for immigrants
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Jeremy Diamond / CNN:
Trump to lay out plan for combating radical Islamic terrorism
Trump to lay out plan for combating radical Islamic terrorism
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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.
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John Koblin / New York Times:
Comedy Central Cancels Larry Wilmore's Late-Night Show
Comedy Central Cancels Larry Wilmore's Late-Night Show
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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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Lizzie Widdicombe / New Yorker:
Ivanka and Jared's Power Play — How the patrician couple came to have an outsized influence on a populist Presidential campaign. — The modern Presidential campaign may be the world's most sophisticated pop-up operation, a billion-dollar multilayered organization that, if it hopes to succeed …
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Talking Points Memo
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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Neil W. McCabe / Breitbart:
Breitbart/Gravis Poll: Hillary Clinton Leads Donald Trump 42% to 37% Nationally in 4-Way with Johnson 9%, Stein 3%
Breitbart/Gravis Poll: Hillary Clinton Leads Donald Trump 42% to 37% Nationally in 4-Way with Johnson 9%, Stein 3%
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Bill Mahoney / Politico:
Poll shows Trump losing support among home-state Republicans
Poll shows Trump losing support among home-state Republicans
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Liz Clarke / Washington Post:
Gabby Douglas, her Olympics over, tearfully responds to social media critics — RIO DE JANEIRO — As younger U.S. teammates added to their medal haul Sunday, Gabby Douglas, the Virginia Beach native who captivated the gymnastics world in winning all-around gold at the 2012 Olympics …
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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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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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Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
Katrina Pierson claims reporters ‘literally beat’ Trump's supporters
Katrina Pierson claims reporters ‘literally beat’ Trump's supporters
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RedState, Talking Points Memo and ABC News
Louis Nelson / Politico:
Biden on Trump: ‘He would have loved Stalin’ — Vice President Joe Biden on Monday ripped into Donald Trump for his overtures to Russian President Vladimir Putin, declaring that the Republican nominee “would have loved Stalin.” — At a rally in his hometown of Scranton, Pennsylvania …
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Daniel Lippman / Politico:
Ukrainian CASH for Manafort — What BIDEN will say today with CLINTON — New jobs for Lis Smith …
Ukrainian CASH for Manafort — What BIDEN will say today with CLINTON — New jobs for Lis Smith …
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Simon Maloy / Salon:
The Trump vote: New data reveals hints as to who is most likely to pull the lever for Trump — A new Gallup analysis undermines some assumptions about Trump voters, and confirms that race plays a huge role — “Who are Donald Trump's supporters?” It's a question that pundits …
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Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
Why I don't think it makes sense to attribute Trump's support to economic anxiety
Why I don't think it makes sense to attribute Trump's support to economic anxiety
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Mother Jones, bradford-delong.com and New York Times
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 …
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Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
CNN anchor to Manafort: 'These things, just because you say them, they're not true'
CNN anchor to Manafort: 'These things, just because you say them, they're not true'
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CNN, Hot Air and The Daily Caller
Andrew Prokop / Vox:
Right now polls show Donald Trump losing every single swing state — Donald Trump's post-convention collapse has hurt him in the polls across the country. But it's really hurt his numbers in some crucial swing states in particular — states that would be enough to give Hillary Clinton an Electoral College majority.
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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 …
Heat Street:
HEALTH WATCH: Hillary Clinton's ‘Erratic’ Behavior Raises Eyebrows — EXCLUSIVE: Heat Street has compiled evidence of the media's growing willingness to touch the forbidden question of the Democratic nominee's health. Does she need to release those medical records to be straight with the public?
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Katherine Krueger / Talking Points Memo:
Giuliani Claims There Were No Terror Attacks On US Soil Before Obama (VIDEO) — Speaking in Youngstown, Ohio ahead of Donald Trump, Rudy Giuliani, who was the mayor of New York City on 9/11, declared that Islamic extremists hadn't carried out any terror attacks on American soil before Barack Obama's presidency.
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Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Reince Priebus mulling RNC re-election bid — Reince Priebus may not have had enough. — The longest-serving chairman of the Republican National Committee in history is weighing a return engagement as head of the GOP, POLITICO has learned. — It's a move that would come as a surprise to many.
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