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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.
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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 …
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Politico, Fox News and Talking Points Memo
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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Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
Now Hillary has a big Clinton Foundation problem, too
Now Hillary has a big Clinton Foundation problem, too
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Washington Monthly, Scared Monkeys, Daily Kos, Power Line, Taylor Marsh, Hot Air, New York Magazine and National Review
Nick Gass / Politico:
Carson calls on ‘elderly’ Trump, Clinton to release new medical records
Carson calls on ‘elderly’ Trump, Clinton to release new medical records
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Katie Bo Williams / The Hill:
Emails threaten to shadow Clinton through Election Day
Emails threaten to shadow Clinton through Election Day
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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.
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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 …
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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 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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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.
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Matthew J. Belvedere / CNBC:
Eric Trump: My dad's not flip-flopping on immigration
Eric Trump: My dad's not flip-flopping on immigration
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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 …
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Daily Wire and The American Conservative
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 …
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The Hill, Washington Monthly, New York Daily News, Mother Jones, Burlington Free Press, Booman Tribune, VTDigger and The Week
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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Elisabetta Povoledo / New York Times:
Powerful Earthquake in Italy Kills at Least 120 and Shatters Towns
Powerful Earthquake in Italy Kills at Least 120 and Shatters Towns
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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.
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No More Mister Nice Blog
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 …
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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.
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 …
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.
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 …
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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 …
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Washington Free Beacon and The Daily Caller
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.
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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 …
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Fox News:
Trump says he's open to ‘softening’ immigration laws in ‘Hannity’ town hall — Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump said Tuesday he is open to “softening” laws dealing with illegal immigrants in a “Hannity” town hall with Fox News' Sean Hannity. — His remarks were the latest sign …
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neo-neocon, Talking Points Memo, Joe.My.God. and Here & Now
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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Media Matters for America, Texas Attorney General …, Pirate's Cove and Simple Justice