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Washington Post:
Trump unpopularity fuels wide lead for Clinton in new Virginia poll — Hillary Clinton holds a commanding lead over Donald Trump in Virginia, with disdain for the Republican presidential nominee helping Clinton overcome her own vulnerabilities, a new Washington Post poll finds.
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Politico, Washington Times and twitchy.com
Philly.com:
Jury: A.G. Kane guilty of perjury, obstruction, all other charges — Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane was convicted Monday of perjury, obstruction and other crimes after squandering her once bright political future on an illegal vendetta against an enemy. — KATHLEEN KANE TRIAL
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WayneDupree.com, New York Magazine and AOL
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Jess Bidgood / New York Times:
Pennsylvania's Attorney General Is Convicted on All Counts — NORRISTOWN, Pa. — Kathleen G. Kane, the attorney general of Pennsylvania, was convicted Monday night of nine criminal charges, including perjury and criminal conspiracy. — It was a stunning end to the political career of Ms. Kane …
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CBS Philly, FiveThirtyEight, Independent Journal Review, The Last Refuge, RedState and Instapundit
NBC News:
Poll: Clinton Maintains Big Lead as Voters Doubt Trump's Temperament — The numbers were virtually unchanged since last week's poll. Generally low favorability and negative attitudes among voters plague both candidates, however, as they make appeals to voters in key swing states in the weeks ahead.
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Talking Points Memo and The New Civil Rights Movement
Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
Third-party candidates on outside as debate criteria released — The Commission on Presidential Debates has released the polls it will use to decide the participants of September's first presidential debate as third-party candidates struggle to make the stage.
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Julian Hattem / The Hill:
Green Party candidate slams Clinton on email — Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein on Monday ramped up her attacks on Hillary Clinton — for using a private email system while serving as the nation's top diplomat and maintaining a fuzzy boundary between her official and private duties.
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CNN
Alexander Mallin / ABC News:
President Obama ‘Tired’ of Talking About Donald Trump — President Obama took a brief break from his 16-day vacation on Martha's Vineyard to attend a Democratic National Committee fundraiser on the island, where he made a strong case for Hillary Clinton as he seemed to brush off Donald Trump.
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Politico, Talking Points Memo, Mediaite and Associated Press
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Lisa Hagen / The Hill:
Obama: I'm tired of talking about Trump — President Obama on Monday evening urged supporters to aggressively campaign for the remainder of the presidential election in order to get Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton — to the White House. — At a fundraiser in Martha's Vineyard …
New York Times:
Mr. Trump's Foreign Policy Confusions — Donald Trump's speech on Monday was advertised as an attempt to redirect his campaign from a series of blunders to a more serious discussion of foreign policy, starting with combating global terrorism. As such, it marked another test of his readiness to lead.
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Foreign Policy, Daily Kos and Guardian
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Karen DeYoung / Washington Post:
Trump proposes ideological test for Muslim immigrants and visitors to the U.S.
Trump proposes ideological test for Muslim immigrants and visitors to the U.S.
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Jihad Watch and The Atlantic
Peter Thiel / New York Times:
The Online Privacy Debate Won't End With Gawker
The Online Privacy Debate Won't End With Gawker
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The Hill, Hot Air, Towleroad, Mediaite, New York Magazine, Talking Points Memo and Politico, more at Mediagazer »
Brendan Morrow / Heavy.com:
READ: Full Transcript of Donald Trump Foreign Policy Speech — Email Follow — Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump delivered a speech from Youngstown, Ohio this afternoon, during which he discussed his plan for defeating ISIS. — During his remarks, Trump declared …
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The Federalist, Religion News Service, The American Conservative and Hit & Run
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Austin Wright / Politico:
Trump's Islamic State address: Fact or fiction?
Trump's Islamic State address: Fact or fiction?
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NBC News, Washington Post and Politicus USA
Politico:
Full text: Donald Trump's speech on fighting terrorism
Full text: Donald Trump's speech on fighting terrorism
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The Hill, BizPac Review, New York Magazine, Electoral-vote.com, Washington Post and Daily Kos
Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Donald Trump's Terrorism Plan Mixes Cold War Concepts and Limits on Immigrants
Donald Trump's Terrorism Plan Mixes Cold War Concepts and Limits on Immigrants
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Boing Boing, Washington Post, Reuters, Hot Air and Mediaite
Michael Gerson / Washington Post:
Trump may cost the GOP a generation of voters — People always remember their first presidential vote — their first participation in the largest decision of American democracy. — In high school, I was a rather awkward, nerdish history buff. (My wife would dispute the verb tense.)
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No More Mister Nice Blog, Daily Kos, New York Magazine and Hot Air
Kevin Fallon / The Daily Beast:
Larry Wilmore's ‘Nightly Show’ Cancellation And Late Night's ‘Unblackening’ — What Comedy Central's cancellation of ‘The Nightly Show With Larry Wilmore’ could mean for the future of diversity in late night. (Hint: It's certainly not good!) — Late-night TV is experiencing, in Larry Wilmore's own words, an Unblackening.
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twitchy.com, Daily Kos, ThinkProgress and Suburban Guerrilla …
Julian Hattem / The Hill:
GOP lays out case for charging Clinton with perjury — A pair of leading House Republicans on Monday laid out detailed instructions for the Justice Department to file perjury charges against Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton — More than a month after first requesting …
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Politicus USA, Hot Air, Liberal Values and Joe.My.God.
Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
Trump Adviser Says Nominee ‘Operates Now Almost Like A President’ — Walid Phares, a foreign policy adviser to Donald Trump, said on Tuesday morning that the Republican nominee now acts more like a president, claiming that Trump listens to his advisers. — Phares comment came …
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Politico
Jesse Byrnes / The Hill:
Gingrich: Clinton ‘lies about lying’ … backer and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) on Monday questioned how much information could be gleaned from notes from Hillary Clinton — 's FBI interview. — “This is a person who has lied repeatedly.
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Political Wire, Hot Air and twitchy.com
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Rudy Giuliani didn't forget about 9/11 today. He conveniently omitted it. — There was a time in his political career when Rudy Giuliani talked about 9/11 so much that Joe Biden famously said of him that there were “only three things he mentions in a sentence: A noun, a verb and 9/11.”
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Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Giuliani: No successful terrorist attacks in US in 8 years before Obama
Giuliani: No successful terrorist attacks in US in 8 years before Obama
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Gothamist, ABC News, Joe.My.God. and Mediaite
Jesse Byrnes / The Hill:
Clinton tops 270 electoral votes in NBC map — tops the 270 electoral votes needed to win the presidency in an NBC News battleground map projection updated Monday. — then gets 174 votes, with another 76 considered toss-ups. — The map is based on states leaning or likely …
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BizPac Review and Crooks and Liars
Matthew Boyle / Breitbart:
House Committee Chairmen Lay Out Case For Perjury Against Hillary Rodham Clinton To U.S. Attorney — Hillary Rodham Clinton, the Democratic nominee for president of the United States, may have committed perjury in testimony before Congress, two separate U.S. House committee chairmen detailed late Monday.
Patrick Healy / New York Times:
Early Voting Limits Donald Trump's Time to Turn Campaign Around — Advisers to Donald J. Trump keep reassuring Republicans that there is still plenty of time to rescue his candidacy — nearly three months to counter Hillary Clinton's vast operation in swing states and get Mr. Trump on message.
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John Hawkins' Right Wing News
Peter Sullivan / The Hill:
Aetna pulling back from ObamaCare in blow to health law — In a blow to the health care law, Aetna — one of the largest health insurers in the country — announced Monday that it will significantly scale back its presence on the ObamaCare marketplaces next year.
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CNNMoney, Bloomberg, John Hawkins' Right Wing News and ACASignups.net
Kimiko De Freytas-Tamura / New York Times:
Upset by Brexit, Some British Jews Look to Germany — LONDON — Until Britain voted to leave the European Union, Philip Levine never thought deeply about his Jewish heritage. — But looking for a way to ensure that he could still work and live in Europe once Britain leaves the bloc …
Christopher Ingraham / Washington Post:
Today's men are not nearly as strong as their dads were, researchers say — A man's hands say a lot about him. My own father, at 66, still has the calloused, gnarled hands of a guy who did competitive weightlifting in college and spent much of his career grappling with 1,500-pound dairy cattle as a large animal veterinarian.
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Shakesville
Lori Chung / NY1 News:
Funeral Held for Queens Imam and His Assistant; Police Question Man Over Shooting — Police are questioning someone in connection with this weekend's deadly shooting of an imam and his assistant in Queens. — This, as family and friends said goodbye to the victims at their funeral today.
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