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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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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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Zachary Tracer / Bloomberg:
Aetna to Quit Most Obamacare Markets, Joining Major Rivals
Aetna to Quit Most Obamacare Markets, Joining Major Rivals
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Nathan Bomey / USA Today:
Aetna to exit nearly 7 in 10 Obamacare plans
Aetna to exit nearly 7 in 10 Obamacare plans
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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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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 …
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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Esme Cribb / Talking Points Memo:
READ: GOPers Urge RNC To Cut Off Funding To Trump In Open Letter — More than 100 Republicans have signed the final draft of a letter to be sent Tuesday urging Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus to shift resources away from Donald Trump. — Among the letter's 123 signees …
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Allegra Kirkland / Talking Points Memo:
Rubio Stands By Claim That Trump Is A ‘Con Man’, Still Supports Him — In the final weeks of his 2016 presidential run, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) threw every insult in the book at Donald Trump, calling him a litigious, “orange” “con man.” The Florida senator said Monday that he will not retract …
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Patricia Mazzei / miamiherald:
Rubio stands by calling Trump ‘con man,’ but still backs him
Rubio stands by calling Trump ‘con man,’ but still backs him
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New York Times:
Rogers Ailes to Advise Donald Trump Ahead of Presidential Debates — Roger Ailes, the former Fox News chairman ousted last month over charges of sexual harassment, is advising Donald J. Trump as he begins to prepare for the all-important presidential debates this fall.
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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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New York Times:
Brooklyn Man Charged With Killing Imam and Assistant Near Mosque — Two days after an imam and his assistant were gunned down after afternoon prayers in Queens, the police said late Monday that a man they had in custody had been charged in the killings. — The man, Oscar Morel of Brooklyn …
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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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Fox News:
Italian restaurant under fire for selling ‘Black Olives Matter’ merchandise — An Italian restaurant in New Mexico is under fire after making merchandise with a slogan that mimics the Black Lives Matters Movement. — KOAT-TV reported Monday that Paisano's in Albuquerque is selling …
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AOL, BizPac Review, The Root and CBS Baltimore
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Valerie Edwards / Associated Press:
Outrage as controversial New Mexico restaurant now sells ‘black olives matter’ shirts and hats
Outrage as controversial New Mexico restaurant now sells ‘black olives matter’ shirts and hats
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Eater
Manu Raju / CNN:
Ayotte: I will stand up to Trump but will vote for him — Manchester, New Hampshire (CNN)Sen. Kelly Ayotte has often found herself in a familiar spot with Donald Trump: Keeping her distance. — But in this fiercely independent state, Ayotte is gambling that voters might reward her for rebuking her own party's nominee.
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New York Post:
Akai Gurley's family to receive $4 million settlement from city — More On: — The city has agreed to pay the family of Akai Gurley more than $4 million to settle a wrongful- death lawsuit over his fatal 2012 shooting by a cop in the dark stairwell of a Brooklyn building.
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Roger Stone / The Hill:
Can the 2016 election be rigged? You bet — has said publicly that he fears the next election will be rigged. Based both on technical capability and recent history, Trump's concerns are not unfounded. — A recent study by Stanford University proved that Hillary Clinton
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Mediaite and ThinkProgress
Peter Hasson / The Daily Caller:
Leaked Soros Memo: Refugee Crisis ‘New Normal,’ Gives ‘New Opportunities’ For Global Influence — A leaked memo from left-wing financier George Soros's Open Society Foundations argues that Europe's refugee crisis should be accepted as a “new normal,” and that the refugee crisis means …
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Investor's Business Daily, The Hill and Jihad Watch
Milo / Breitbart:
Donald Trump Just Overtook The Democrats On Gay Rights — The madman has actually done it. God-Emperor Daddy — known to the rest of you as Republican presidential candidate Donald J Trump — has just outflanked Hillary Clinton on the Left and announced what can only be described as an ultra-progressive immigration policy.
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Washington Post
Harry Enten / FiveThirtyEight:
The GOP's Chances Of Holding The Senate Are Following Trump Downhill — Donald Trump's post-conventions polling slump seems to be having an effect on the Republican Party's U.S. Senate candidates. We thought this might happen: There's been an increasingly strong relationship between …
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Politicus USA
Brad Reed / Raw Story:
Trump-loving ex-cop: Milwaukee BLM ‘looters’ should be ‘shot on sight’ — even women and children — DON'T MISS STORIES. FOLLOW RAW STORY! — Former police officer and notoriously belligerent Trump supporter Jim Stachowiak has in the past fantasized about terrorists murdering his political enemies …
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NBC News:
First Read: Clinton Has Owned the Airwaves in the General Election — Donald Trump calls for ‘extreme vetting’ of immigrants to the US 1:53 — 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.
John Myers / Los Angeles Times:
Donald Trump will be the nominee of two parties on California's November ballot — Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has been selected by California's American Independent Party to appear on the statewide Nov. 8 ballot as its nominee. (Gerald Herbert / Associated Press)
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New York Daily News:
Rudy Giuliani forgets about 9/11 and claims that 'before Obama came along, we didn't have any successful radical Islamic terrorist attack inside the' U.S. — You might want to get that bump on your head checked, Rudy. — Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani on Monday appeared to forget …
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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, Daily Wire and New York Magazine
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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Kendall Breitman / Bloomberg:
Clinton Super-PAC Going Dark in Colorado and Pennsylvania — The group's chief strategist Guy Cecil said it would divert resources “to other states but also into other activities.” — The pro-Clinton super-PAC Priorities USA is suspending TV advertising in Virginia, Colorado and Pennsylvania until …
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The Hill