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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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Sean Ingle / Guardian:
Exclusive: Team GB member held up at gunpoint at Rio Olympics — A member of the British Olympic team in Rio has been held up at gunpoint while enjoying a night on the town. — The news has caused deep shock among British athletes and officials - many of whom were looking forward …
Phil Helsel / NBC News:
Two U.S. Swimmers Pulled Off Plane in Rio Amid Robbery Probe
Two U.S. Swimmers Pulled Off Plane in Rio Amid Robbery Probe
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The Atlantic, USA Today, New York Magazine, BizPac Review and Towleroad
The Daily Beast:
Alt Right Rejoices At Trump's Steve Bannon Hire — As Breitbart's chief Steve Bannon did a lot to normalize the racist, anti-semitic world of the Alt-Right, they couldn't be happier he has now joined the campaign of their king, Donald Trump. — Donald Trump's campaign is under new management …
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Ken Stern / Vanity Fair:
Exclusive: Stephen Bannon, Trump's New C.E.O., Hints at His Master Plan
Exclusive: Stephen Bannon, Trump's New C.E.O., Hints at His Master Plan
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Robert Costa / Washington Post:
Campaign shake-up signals that Trump will finish race on his own terms
Campaign shake-up signals that Trump will finish race on his own terms
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Media Matters for America, LifeNews.com and Gothamist
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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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
What it's like to report on 2016, in 26 torturous, hilarious seconds
What it's like to report on 2016, in 26 torturous, hilarious seconds
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Washington Monthly, Associated Press, CNN, Townhall.com, New York Magazine, Hot Air, ABC News, Mashable, Mother Jones, Washington Examiner and RedState
Tierney Sneed / Talking Points Memo:
That Awkward Moment When CNN Reminds Trump's Lawyer He's Losing (VIDEO)
Louis Nelson / Politico:
Trump lawyer on polls showing him losing: ‘Says who?’
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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Associated Press, The Atlantic, The Verge, The Next Web, The Week, Mashable, Instapundit and Eschaton
Jesse Byrnes / The Hill:
Trump on Clinton campaign: 'She doesn't really do that much' — is questioning the amount of work Hillary Clinton — is putting into her campaign and said that her schedule is unfair. — “She doesn't really do that much. She'll give a speech on teleprompter, and then she'll disappear.
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Cristiano Lima / Politico:
Trump: Clinton ‘takes a lot of weekends off’ campaign trail — Donald Trump stepped up his effort to sow doubts about Hillary Clinton's physical capacity to be president, questioning her work ethic on the campaign trail during an interview recorded Tuesday and aired on Wednesday.
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The Hill, John Hawkins' Right Wing News, Political Wire and Infowars
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.
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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Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Ed Rendell: Clinton Foundation should be disbanded if Clinton wins — Former Gov. Ed Rendell (D-Pa.) says the Clinton Foundation should be disbanded if Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton — is elected to the White House. — “I definitely think if she wins the presidency they have to disband it.
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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.
Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Jan Brewer Clarifies Clinton “Lying Killer” Remark: It Was A “Stumble Of The Tongue” — Former Arizona Governor Jan Brewer says she suffered a “stumble of the tongue” on Tuesday when she seemed to call Hillary Clinton a “lying killer” during a radio interview. — “People want a fighter.
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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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Vox, FiveThirtyEight, Refinery29, WDTN-TV, The Cannabist and The Week
Harper Neidig / The Hill:
Fox News postpones Trump town hall — Fox News announced Tuesday night that it was postponing the airing of a town hall interview with Donald Trump — that was recored earlier in the evening. — Network anchor Sean Hannity was scheduled to moderate the event in Milwaukee …
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Talking Points Memo and Little Green Footballs
Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Held Cash Until Iran Freed Prisoners — An Iranian cargo plane left Geneva with $400 million in cash after a flight with Americans aboard took off from Tehran in January — WASHINGTON—New details of the $400 million U.S. payment to Iran earlier this year depict a tightly scripted …
Sasha Issenberg / Bloomberg:
Early Voting Dictates a New Clinton Campaign Structure — Campaigns in the past were structured around the map, but Clinton's campaign is built around the calendar. — For years, presidential campaigns seeking to divide the country into manageable chunks have turned to geography.
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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 …
Gabriel Debenedetti / Politico:
Clinton sends Kaine into red territory — When Tim Kaine lands in Jackson for a pair of closed-door fundraisers on Thursday, it won't be because Hillary Clinton's running mate is desperate for Wyoming's three electoral votes. — The vice presidential contender's trip west to raise cash …
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Political Insider blog and The Week
Heather Hogan / Autostraddle:
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