memeorandum: Hackers targeted Trump campaign, Republican Party groups: sources (Reuters)

11:25 AM ET, August 19, 2016

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Cristiano Lima / Politico:

Regretful Trump pivots 107 days late — Three and a half months after sealing the Republican nomination, Donald Trump pivoted to contest the general election on Thursday night, expressing regret for his past failures to “choose the right words” and delivering one of the most comprehensive …

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Thomas Kaplan / New York Times:

Donald Trump Steps Out of Character to Voice Unexplained Regrets — CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Donald J. Trump on Thursday expressed regret for making statements that have “caused personal pain,” a rare display of contrition that followed the shake-up of his campaign's leadership this week.

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Nick Gass / Politico:

Trump blasts ‘rigged’ Clinton system in first general election TV ad — Donald Trump's campaign rolled out its first general election ad Friday, part of a buy totaling nearly $5 million in battleground states where he is currently trailing Hillary Clinton. Its message: Trump will keep …

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Tim Hains / RealClearPolitics:
Full Replay/Transcript: Donald Trump Gives First Campaign Speech Since Hiring Bannon & Conway

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Jeremy Diamond / CNN:
Trump: Sometimes you say the wrong thing

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Mark Murray / NBC News:
Trump Places First TV Ads With $4 Million Buy

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Jose A. DelReal / Washington Post:
Trump, speaking after campaign shake-up, expresses regret over causing ‘personal pain’

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Amy Chozick / New York Times:

Hillary Clinton Told F.B.I. Colin Powell Advised Her to Use Private Email — Pressed by the F.B.I. about her email practices at the State Department, Hillary Clinton told investigators that former Secretary of State Colin L. Powell had advised her to use a personal email account

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Jane Onyanga-Omara / USA Today:
Report: Clinton told FBI Colin Powell advised her to use personal email

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Ken Thomas / Associated Press:
Clinton's foundation to alter donations policy if elected

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Mark Hensch / The Hill: Clinton to FBI: Powell said to use private email

Robert Costa / Washington Post:

Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort resigns — Trump campaign chairman and chief strategist Paul Manafort resigned on Friday, following a staff shake-up this week that reduced his role in the campaign. — GOP nominee Donald Trump confirmed the resignation in a statement Friday morning …

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Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:

Paul Manafort resigns from Trump campaign — Paul Manafort on Friday resigned as Donald Trump's campaign chairman, after the Republican presidential nominee earlier this week announced a new leadership structure for his campaign. — “This morning Paul Manafort offered, and I accepted, his resignation from the campaign.

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CNN:
Donald Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort resigns

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ABC News:

Former Breitbart Staffer to Powerhouse Politics: Bannon Ran Meetings That Sounded Like White Supremacists Talking — A former Breitbart News spokesman slammed Donald Trump's new campaign chief executive, Stephen Bannon, for allegedly using racist rhetoric during editorial meetings at Breitbart …

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Hunter Walker / Yahoo:
Breitbart editor planned secret anti-Trump campaign to take down reporter

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Nicholas Confessore / New York Times:
How One Family's Deep Pockets Helped Reshape Donald Trump's Campaign

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Associated Press:

Trump advisers waged covert influence campaign — WASHINGTON (AP) — A firm run by Donald Trump's campaign chairman directly orchestrated a covert Washington lobbying operation on behalf of Ukraine's ruling political party, attempting to sway American public opinion in favor …

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Sam Biddle / The Intercept:

The NSA Leak Is Real, Snowden Documents Confirm — On Monday, a hacking group calling itself the “ShadowBrokers” announced an auction for what it claimed were “cyber weapons” made by the NSA. Based on never-before-published documents provided by the whistleblower Edward Snowden …

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Mike Vaccaro / New York Post:

Ryan Lochte is everything the world hates about Americans — MORE FROM: — This was late one night — actually, early one morning — in the summer of 2004, at a bustling tavern in Plaka, the social heart of Athens during the Olympics. We could see the Parthenon from our table …

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Simon Romero / New York Times:
U.S. Swimmers' Disputed Robbery Claim Fuels Tension in Brazil

Nikita Vladimirov / The Hill:

Naked Donald Trump statues pop up in several cities — Naked, life-size statues of Donald Trump — are being unveiled Thursday in several U.S. cities. — The statues were erected by the anarchist collective Indecline and are set to appear in New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Cleveland and Seattle.

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TheDustyRebel / Gothamist:
Here's How NYers React To A Life-Size Naked Donald Trump Statue In Union Square

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Daniel Halper / New York Post:

State Dept.: $400M to Iran was contingent on US prisoners' release — The State Department admitted Thursday that the US would not hand over $400 million in cash to Iran until it released four American hostages — two weeks after President Obama insisted the payment was not a “ransom.”

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Louis Nelson / Politico:
State Dept. confirms $400 million Iran payment conditioned on hostage release

David E. Sanger / New York Times:
U.S. Concedes $400 Million Payment to Iran Was Delayed as Prisoner ‘Leverage’

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Reuters:

Hackers targeted Trump campaign, Republican Party groups: sources — Hackers targeted the computer systems of presidential candidate Donald Trump and Republican Party organizations as well as Democratic Party networks, sources familiar with investigations into the attacks said.

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Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
Cruz's Image Among Republicans Tanks After GOP Convention

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Julian Hattem / The Hill:

GOP preps tough perjury case against Clinton — House Republicans are doubling down in their effort to bring perjury charges against Hillary Clinton — over her testimony last year to the House Select Committee on Benghazi. — GOP lawmakers have claimed that the Democratic presidential nominee broke …

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Jonathan Martin / New York Times:

Republicans Worry a Falling Donald Trump Tide Will Lower All Boats — Donald J. Trump's struggling candidacy has now become a direct threat to Republican control of Congress, significantly increasing the likelihood that Democrats will take control of the Senate and cut substantially into the House Republican majority next year.

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Peter D. Hart / Wall Street Journal:

Behind the Polls: The Message in a Longtime Conservative Tilting Away From Trump, Toward Clinton — Peter D. Hart, founder of Peter D. Hart Research Associates, helps conduct the Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll. — In this election cycle, polls have been the least reliable guide …

Tierney Sneed / Talking Points Memo:

Smoking Gun Memo Could Bolster Voting Rights Case Against North Carolina — North Carolina's Republican Party has had an interesting response to a recent appeals court ruling that said a number of voting restrictions passed by the state's GOP legislature were enacted with the intent …

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Colin Campbell / Raleigh News & Observer:
NCGOP leader's brother calls his actions ‘racist’ on Twitter

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Kai Reed / WBALTV:

Dog dies after shielding infant from fire — Firefighters rescue child from second floor of home — An 8-month-old infant is in serious condition after a fire late Sunday in Baltimore. — The girl is alive today thanks to an act of heroism and a heart-breaking loss for her family.

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U.S. Federal Election Commission:

FEC Adopts Interim Verification Procedure for Filings Containing Possibly False or Fictitious Information — WASHINGTON - The Federal Election Commission today announced an interim procedure staff will follow to verify information in filings from the 2016 election cycle that appear to be unlawfully false or fictitious.

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