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3:35 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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Fredric U. Dicker / New York Post:
Trump's staff says it's ‘full steam ahead’ in New York  —  MORE FROM:  —  Donald Trump's newly reorganized campaign team has notified its rattled New York operatives that despite a massive gap in the polls, it's “full steam ahead” in Trump's effort to carry the heavily Democratic Empire State.
Discussion: Daily Kos
Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
RNC chief: Trump could lead Clinton by Labor Day
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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Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
The AP's big exposé on Hillary meeting with Clinton Foundation donors is a mess
Katie Bo Williams / The Hill:
Emails threaten to shadow Clinton through Election Day
Discussion: Politico
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 …
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Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Inside Donald Trump's new strategy to counter the view of many that he is ‘racist’
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
Nick Gass / Politico:
Carson calls on ‘elderly’ Trump, Clinton to release new medical records
Discussion: The Week and Joe.My.God.
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.
Ben Quinn / Guardian:
French police make woman remove clothing on Nice beach following burkini ban  —  Authorities in 15 towns have banned burkinis, citing public concern following recent terrorist attacks in the country  —  Photographs have emerged of armed French police confronting a woman on a beach and making …
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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 …
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.
Discussion: Raw Story
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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
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Matthew J. Belvedere / CNBC:
Eric Trump: My dad's not flip-flopping on immigration
Sarah Kliff / Vox:
Is Obamacare failing?  —  Three years ago, health economists believed Obamacare's soon-to-launch marketplaces would grow to replace much of America's fractured, complex, employer-based health insurance system.  —  Predictions for the employer-sponsored insurance system's collapse ran rampant.
New York Times:
Hackers Publish Nude Pictures on Leslie Jones's Website  —  Leslie Jones, a co-star of this year's “Ghostbusters” movie who has been besieged in the past month by online abusers who have targeted her appearance and her race, was victimized again on Wednesday when her personal website appeared to have been hacked.
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 …
Eli Lake / Bloomberg:
Why Obama Let Iran's Green Revolution Fail  —  One of the great hypotheticals of Barack Obama's presidency involves the Iranian uprising that began on June 12, 2009, after Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was announced the winner of contested presidential elections.  What if the president had done …
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.
Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Trump Super PAC Chair: Trump Would “Lose Badly” If Election Was Today  —  Ed Rollins, chairman of a pro-Donald Trump super PAC, says the Republican nominee would lose badly if the election was held today.  —  “If we're sitting here three weeks from now after Labor Day and it's in the same position …
Discussion: Politico
Brad Esposito / BuzzFeed:
People Are Pissed With This Dad Who Let His Daughter Bite The “Warm, Quivering Heart” Of A Deer  —  A New Zealand hunter has come under fire after submitting photos to a hunting community of his 8-year-old daughter eating the heart of her first kill.  —  WARNING  —  This image is graphic
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 …
Daily Mail:
Terror attack on American University in Kabul leaves ‘at least one dead’ and 14 injured as gunmen wearing suicide vests storm campus - leaving trapped students pleading for help on social media  — Ambulances seen ferrying away the wounded from the assault on the school which is in a western suburb
Leonor Vivanco / Chicago Tribune:
Trump suggests Chicago could solve crime problem ‘in a week’ if cops got tougher  —  Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump addresses supporters at the James A. Rhodes Arena on August 22, 2016 in Akron, Ohio.  —  Presidential candidate Donald Trump said Chicago's crime problem …
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.
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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Matthew Artz / Mercury News:
Apple's Tim Cook hosting Silicon Valley fundraiser for Clinton
David Weigel / Washington Post:
With an ally closing its doors, Evan McMullin has no clear path to ballot access
Tegna / WWL-TV:
Lawmaker: Licensing for Cajun Navy not meant to limit, but empower
Foreign Policy:
U.S. and Europe Say Assad May Have Kept Some Chemical Weapons
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CALL 6: Man shot by police thought responding officer was suspected carjacker
 Earlier Items: 
Alice Ollstein / ThinkProgress:
A Judge Blocked North Carolina's Plan To Suppress Black Voters.  The GOP Found A Way To Do It Anyway.
John Sides / Washington Post:
Republicans currently have just a 38% chance of keeping their Senate majority
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Burgess Everett / Politico:
The return of ‘Straight Talk’ McCain
 

 
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Max Tani / @maxwelltani:
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Jack Dunn / Variety:
Trump appoints Mark Burnett, the British TV executive who created and produced the reality show The Apprentice, as a special envoy to the UK

Liz Pelly / Harper's:
How Spotify used its Perfect Fit Content program to rig its system against musicians, filling popular playlists with “ghost artists” to cut its royalty payouts
 
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