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12:40 PM ET, August 24, 2016

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Alex Griswold / Mediaite:
Trump Campaign Manager: We're Actually Winning Right Now, Because of ‘Undercover Trump Voters’  —  Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway told the UK's Channel 4 that Donald Trump is actually winning the election, but every poll is wrong because Trump voters are undercover.
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
There's Just One Flaw in Donald Trump's New Plan to Show He's Not Racist  —  Two weeks ago, the New York Times reported that Donald Trump's focus groups found voters frequently use two words to describe their candidate: “unqualified” and “racist.”  This assessment, while encouragingly on-point …
Discussion: alan.com and Washington Post
Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Inside Donald Trump's new strategy to counter the view of many that he is ‘racist’  —  Donald Trump is rapidly trying to turn around his presidential campaign with a vigorous and at times strained effort to shed a label applied to him by a substantial portion of the electorate: racist.
Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
RNC chief: Trump could lead Clinton by Labor Day  —  Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairman Reince Priebus predicted on Tuesday that Donald Trump  —  in the polls by Labor Day.  —  “I think what you are seeing on the campaign is a continuation of a good couple of weeks that Donald Trump has had …
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
What ‘regret’? Donald Trump just proved he still doesn't get it on Judge Curiel and Khizr Khan
Discussion: Daily Kos
Annie Karni / Politico:
Hillary Clinton's run-out-the-clock strategy  —  She is not planning on sitting for another televised armchair confessional to rehash regrets about a private email server.  Nor is the campaign setting up the kind of war room employed last year to discredit a book that aimed to expose …
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Associated Press:
MANY DONORS TO CLINTON FOUNDATION MET WITH HER AT STATE  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — More than half the people outside the government who met with Hillary Clinton while she was secretary of state gave money - either personally or through companies or groups - to the Clinton Foundation.
Christian Datoc / The Daily Caller:
Emails Show Huma Used To Put Hillary Down For Nap Time
Katie Bo Williams / The Hill:
Emails threaten to shadow Clinton through Election Day
Discussion: Politico
The Daily Beast:
Donald Trump Used Campaign Donations to Buy $55,000 of His Own Book  —  Donald Trump used his campaign funds to buy thousands of copies of his own book at retail cost, simultaneously diverting donor money back into his pockets while artificially boosting his sales figures.
New York Times:
Bernie Sanders's New Political Group Is Met by Staff Revolt  —  Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, his presidential campaign now behind him, will look to advance the movement he built during the Democratic primary race, with the public unveiling on Wednesday of a political organization focused …
Daily Mail:
Get 'em off!  Armed police order Muslim woman to remove her burkini on packed Nice beach - as mother, 34, wearing Islamic headscarf is threatened with pepper spray and fined in Cannes  —  The French ban on the burkini is threatening to turn into a farce as police officers armed with pepper spray …
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Media Matters for America:
Citing InfoWars, Fox News Complains Google Is Covering Up “Clinton Body Count” Stories  —  HEATHER CHILDERS (CO-HOST): Is the internet's number one search engine trying to sway the presidential election?  —  ABBY HUNTSMAN (CO-HOST): Cheryl Casone from our sister network, Fox Business, here with what Google is now being accused of.
New York Times:
6.2-Magnitude Earthquake Shakes Italy, Killing at Least 10  —  ROME — Strong earthquakes struck central Italy early Wednesday, killing at least 10 people, trapping many others under debris and setting off tremors that awakened residents in Rome nearly 100 miles to the southwest.
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New York Times:
More Attacks on Transgender Rights  —  Just days after the federal Department of Education in May issued sensible antidiscrimination guidelines for accommodating transgender students, Texas' attorney general, Ken Paxton, set out to challenge them.  —  His team reached out to tiny school districts …
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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton:
Attorney General Paxton Files Suit to Protect Texans and Physicians from New Obamacare Mandate
Discussion: Joe.My.God. and LawNewz
Tarini Parti / BuzzFeed:
In North Carolina, Republicans Try To Fend Off Political “Tsunami”  —  RALEIGH, N.C. — Republicans in North Carolina, once a solidly red state in presidential elections, are gearing up to avoid what they believe could be their worst election year in decades.
Bloomberg:
At Fox News, Election Year's Big Ratings Mask Many Wrinkles  —  Network needs to lure younger viewers, analysts, ad execs says  —  Presidential race has fueled gains for Fox, CNN and MSNBC  —  21st Century Fox Inc. has a problem at its news channel that isn't Roger Ailes: the network's aging audience.
Esther Yu Hsi Lee / ThinkProgress:
NYPD Routinely Investigated Muslims Between 2010 and 2015  —  The New York Police Department (NYPD) routinely monitored Muslims and extended investigations into political groups without permission, according to an Office of the Inspector General for the New York Police Department report released Tuesday.
Discussion: New York Times
Foreign Policy:
U.S. and Europe Say Assad May Have Kept Some Chemical Weapons  —  Damascus promised to destroy its entire arsenal, but the world's chemical weapons watchdog suggests Assad may have squirreled some away.  —  The world's chemical weapons watchdog has repeatedly found traces of deadly nerve agents …
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Julian Routh / Wall Street Journal:
Eric Trump: It Would Be ‘Foolish’ for Donald Trump to Release Tax Returns  —  Candidate's son warns ‘people who know nothing about taxes’ would scrutinize them  —  Eric Trump said Wednesday it would be “foolish” for his father to release his tax returns and subject them to scrutiny by people who don't know what they are looking at.
Discussion: Political Wire
Alice Ollstein / ThinkProgress:
A Judge Blocked North Carolina's Plan To Suppress Black Voters.  The GOP Found A Way To Do It Anyway.  —  A federal court recently struck down North Carolina's attempt to “target African Americans with almost surgical precision” by eliminating a full week of early voting, among other changes.
Alexa Ashwell / WSOC-TV:
Vigil held for deaf driver killed in trooper-involved shooting  —  CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Friends and neighbors gathered Monday evening with the family of a deaf man who was killed last week in a trooper-involved shooting.  —  Daniel Harris, 29, was shot and killed by a Highway Patrol trooper …
Josh Lederman / Associated Press:
Horrified by Trump, Democrats getting nostalgic about Romney  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — When President Barack Obama ran for re-election, Democrats made no secret of their disdain for Mitt Romney.  That was all before Donald Trump.  —  Horrified by the prospect of Trump in the White House …
Tegna / WWL-TV:
Lawmaker: Licensing for Cajun Navy not meant to limit, but empower  —  Meg Farris talks about members of the Cajun Navy being regulated the next time it floods. … NEW ORLEANS - The Good Samaritan who rescued hundreds, maybe thousands, of people during the 'Great Flood of 2016 …
John Sides / Washington Post:
Republicans currently have just a 38% chance of keeping their Senate majority  —  Every day seems to bring another story about nervous Republican House and Senate candidates, wondering if Donald Trump is going to cost them their seats.  Here's the interesting thing: Yes …
 
 
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Trump says he's open to ‘softening’ immigration laws in ‘Hannity’ town hall
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Inside the exclusive events helping to fund Clinton and the Democratic Party
 Earlier Items: 
Melissa Hogenboom / BBC:
Why bullying is such a successful evolutionary strategy
Discussion: The Atlantic and Instapundit
Rod Dreher / The American Conservative:
We Have Been Warned  —  Here in the flood zone of south Louisiana …
Jill Lawrence / USA Today:
Change is not your friend this year: Jill Lawrence
Joshua Robertson / Guardian:
French man allegedly shouted ‘Allahu Akbar’ in fatal stabbing of British woman at Australian hostel
Discussion: Pamela Geller
Burgess Everett / Politico:
The return of ‘Straight Talk’ McCain
Emma Dumain / Post and Courier:
S.C. Democrats tout new poll showing Clinton, Trump in dead heat
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Mass Lesbian Farm Infiltration Is Obama's Best Scheme Yet
 

 
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John Hendel / Politico:
Trump names FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr to chair the agency; Carr can immediately assume control once Trump is inaugurated as he is already on the commission

Pew Research Center:
News influencers survey: 20% of US adults say they get news from social media influencers, 85% of influencers are on X and 27% identify as right-wing, and more

Joe Flint / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: WBD and the NBA settle a lawsuit, giving WBD access to NBA content and rights in parts of N. Europe and LatAm; TNT will license Inside the NBA to ESPN

 
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