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Probe Deepens Into U.S. Swimmers' Rio Robbery Story — Ryan Lochte to Matt Lauer on alleged robbery: 'We wouldn't make this up' 1:50 — Two U.S. Olympic swimmers who say they were with Ryan Lochte when they were robbed in Rio de Janeiro were removed from a plane by Brazilian authorities late Wednesday.
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Daily Mail:
What robbery? Brazilian police say Ryan Lochte's wallet was detected in X-ray scan AFTER he claims it was seized at gunpoint as officers launch probe into star's dramatic hold-up story — Police arrived to the Olympic Village on Wednesday to seize the passports of Ryan Lochte and Jimmy Feigen
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New York Times:
American Swimmers Pulled Off Plane in Rio — RIO DE JANEIRO — Two American swimmers were pulled off their flight to the United States by the Brazilian authorities, Olympic officials said Wednesday night, the latest indication that the police were skeptical of the swimmers' claims …
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Joshua Green / Bloomberg:
Steve Bannon's Plan to Free Donald Trump and Save His Campaign — Along with campaign manager Kellyanne Conway, Bannon will encourage Trump to cast aside political niceties and aggressively go with his gut. — JoshuaGreen — “I am who I am,” Donald Trump declared …
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Ken Stern / Vanity Fair:
Exclusive: Stephen Bannon, Trump's New C.E.O., Hints at His Master Plan — Can the man behind Breitbart—a Harvard M.B.A. who worked at Goldman Sachs and made a killing off of Seinfeld—save Trump? And at what cost? — Even for a campaign creating regular media tremors …
Bloomberg:
Uber's First Self-Driving Fleet Arrives in Pittsburgh This Month — Near the end of 2014, Uber co-founder and Chief Executive Officer Travis Kalanick flew to Pittsburgh on a mission: to hire dozens of the world's experts in autonomous vehicles. The city is home to Carnegie Mellon University's …
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Matt Zapotosky / Washington Post:
Justice Department says it will end use of private prisons — The Justice Department plans to end its use of private prisons after officials concluded the facilities are both less safe and less effective at providing correctional services than those run by the government.
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Justice Department Plans to Stop Using Private Prisons
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Sabato's Crystal Ball:
Clinton Rises to 348 Electoral Votes, Trump Drops to 190 — Clinton now above 270 Safe or Likely Democratic electoral votes for the first time — New Hampshire may just have four electoral votes, but it's important. If you doubt it, just ask any Granite State citizens, and they'll tell you about their first-in-the-nation primary.
Reuters:
Clinton Foundation hired cyber firm after suspected hacking: sources — Bill and Hillary Clinton's charitable foundation hired the security firm FireEye to examine its data systems after seeing indications they might have been hacked, according to two sources familiar with the matter.
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Ryan Lovelace / Washington Examiner:
Trump on the Clinton Foundation: 'Let's give them the benefit of the doubt'
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Jesse Byrnes / The Hill:
Trump on Clinton campaign: 'She doesn't really do that much'
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Elle Hunt / Guardian:
Boy in the ambulance: shocking image emerges of Syrian child pulled from Aleppo rubble — Boy shown covered head to toe with dust was injured in airstrike on rebel-held district on Wednesday — Warning: this article contains images that readers may find distressing
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Anne Barnard / New York Times:
How Omran Daqneesh, 5, Became a Symbol of Aleppo's Suffering
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David A. Graham / The Atlantic:
Have North Carolina Republicans Found a Way to Reinstate Discriminatory Voting Rules? — DURHAM, N.C.—Bill Brien Jr. already sounded weary, and the meeting hadn't even started. It was 5 p.m. Wednesday at the county office-building, and a typically sleepy meeting of the county board of elections had turned into a marquee event.
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First Read: The One Way Trump's Shake-Up Makes Sense — Donald Trump's new campaign manager: There's still time to turn polls around 1:00 — 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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Hunter Walker / Yahoo:
Donald Trump aide on awkward exchange with CNN anchor: ‘I think I unraveled her’ — An interview between a CNN anchor and a top aide to Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump devolved into a palpably uncomfortable debate over polls on Wednesday evening.
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Andrew Prokop / Vox:
Van Jones on the staggering political challenges Hillary Clinton would face as president — Van Jones is keenly aware of the political pressure that a new president can face. He joined up with the Obama White House in its first year to be its “green jobs” czar.
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Our Views: Vacation or not, a hurting Louisiana needs you now, President Obama … Homes are surrounded by water in the Manchac Harbor subdivision off LA-42. Aerials of severe weather flooding in Ascension Parish on Monday August 15, 2016. — President Barack Obama speaks during the third …
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Scott Dadich / Wired:
WIRED Endorses Optimism — BEEN NEUTRAL. — For nearly a quarter of a century, this organization has championed a specific way of thinking about tomorrow. If it's true, as the writer William Gibson once had it, that the future is already here, just unevenly distributed …
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Harry Enten / FiveThirtyEight:
Election Update: Why Clinton Doesn't Have This Race Locked Up — Want these election updates emailed to you right when they're published? Sign up here. — Hillary Clinton's chances of winning the presidency have held fairly steady in the FiveThirtyEight models over the past 10 days.
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Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
Donald Trump's Crucial Pillar of Support, White Men, Shows Weakness — Donald J. Trump's support among white men, the linchpin of his presidential campaign, is showing surprising signs of weakness that could foreclose his only remaining path to victory in November.
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Kevin Cole / Omaha World-Herald:
Omaha dad finds pot brownies, eats 4 of them, says mean things to cat — An Omaha dad who mistakenly ate some marijuana brownies didn't enjoy the experience. — Omaha police officers were called to a house near 90th and Maple Streets about 9:45 p.m. Tuesday to investigate an accidental overdose.
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Charles M. Blow / New York Times:
Why Blacks Loathe Trump — So now Donald Trump is campaigning for the black vote. (Long, awkward pause.) — Like so much of what Trump has said and done, this new outreach forces writers like me to conduct scatological studies, framing Trump's actions in their historical and intellectual absurdity.
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Alex Swoyer / Breitbart:
Dr. Drew: ‘Gravely Concerned’ about Hillary Clinton's Health Care — KABC's Dr. Drew Pinsky said he's “gravely concerned” about the health care Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton is receiving during a radio interview with Doug McIntyre on Tuesday. — “I'm very concerned about people …
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Dave Levinthal / NBC News:
How Bernie Sanders Avoided Disclosing His Personal Finances — Hillary Clinton Thanks Bernie Sanders 1:37 — This story was originally published by The Center for Public Integrity, a nonprofit, nonpartisan investigative news organization in Washington, D.C.
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Nancyl / Washington Monthly:
How Will the Media Handle the “Trump-light Zone”? — Robert Schlesinger writes that we have now entered the “Trump-light Zone.” … What struck me is that we have reached an interesting point in this 2016 presidential race. Trump's hiring of Bannon and Conway isn't just a signal to Republicans …
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Jonathan Swan / The Hill:
Billionaire father and daughter linked to Trump shake-up — 's dramatic staff shake-up on Wednesday revealed the growing influence wielded on his campaign by a Republican mega-donor duo. — The fingerprints of Robert Mercer, a New York hedge fund billionaire, and his middle daughter …
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