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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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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.
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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
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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
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John Santucci / ABC News:
Trump Forges Ahead After Difficult Week
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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
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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
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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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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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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%
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Bill Mahoney / Politico:
Poll shows Trump losing support among home-state Republicans
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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'
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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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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 …
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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Daniel Libit / CNBC:
Transcribers' agony: Frustrated not by what Trump says but how he says it — Few conventions in political campaign coverage are as straightforward and unassailable as quoting a public figure verbatim. After all, how can there be any doubt when you are putting down the exact words someone says?
Charlie Cook / The Cook Political Report:
New August Electoral College Ratings — The two major party conventions are now behind us and the consequent bounces have had time to settle giving us a presidential race that isn't over, but one that is fully developed. Many observers have noted that in the last six decades of modern presidential polling …
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