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Dyno Rush / dailyrushbo.com:
Limbaugh CRACKS UP! Who Knew It Would Be Trump That Converts GOP Base On Amnesty! — RUSH: Could you imagine what it's like to be Jeb Bush today? Who knew — (laughing) I'm sorry, folks. “She's a bigot!” Who knew. First they tried Marco Rubio. They tried the Gang of Eight.
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Taylor Marsh, The American Spectator and Business Insider
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Nick Gass / Politico:
Coulter mocks Trump's immigration muddle — Ann Coulter revealed her sense of disgust with Donald Trump's latest comments on immigration in which he suggested an openness to changing his hard-line stance on illegal immigration. — Speaking to Fox News' Sean Hannity in a town hall event …
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BuzzFeed, Talking Points Memo, The Atlantic, No More Mister Nice Blog, Slate, alan.com, Hot Air, Daily Kos, RedState and Fox News Insider
Sarah K. Burris / Raw Story:
CNN erupts in laughter as Katrina Pierson pushes a bizarre defense of Trump's immigration flip-flop — DON'T MISS STORIES. FOLLOW RAW STORY! — Donald Trump campaign spokesperson Katrina Pierson hasn't been on television since her nightmare week of catastrophic appearances.
Discussion:
Daily Wire and portal.liberalamerica.org
Ali Vitali / NBC News:
Trump: ‘Hillary Clinton Is a Bigot’ — JACKSON, Miss. — Donald Trump has spent the week calling for African-Americans to uproot voter trends, reject “the bigotry” of Hillary Clinton, and vote for him in November. But Wednesday night, Trump escalated the line of attack and labeled Clinton herself a “bigot.”
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Breitbart, Guardian, CNBC, Talking Points Memo, CNN, John Hawkins' Right Wing News, AOL, Boing Boing, Daily Wire, ABC News, The Week, NBC News and twitchy.com
Jonathan Swan / The Hill:
Coulter: Trump's ‘softening’ on immigration remark a panic move — “panicked” when he said he was open to softening his immigration policies, according to conservative pundit and Trump ally Ann Coulter. — “It's just rhetoric but it's still annoying,” Coulter told The Hill Wednesday night.
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Breitbart, Daily Wire, twitchy.com, BizPac Review, New York Magazine, Politico, Washington Post, New Century Times and The Atlantic
Benjy Sarlin / NBC News:
Donald Trump Openly Weighs a Massive Immigration Reversal — Trump Reaches Out to Black, Latino Voters as Poll Numbers Show Numbers Falling 2:03 — In what would be a stunning reversal on an issue central to his candidacy, Donald Trump floated a possible process to allow undocumented immigrants …
Eddie Scarry / Washington Examiner:
Ann Coulter: Maybe it's ‘in our interest’ to let some illegal immigrants stay — Conservative author and Donald Trump supporter Ann Coulter isn't giving up on her candidate yet, even as he appears to be shifting on an issue most dear to her. — Trump is now open to possibly “softening” …
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RedState, Mediaite and The Right Scoop
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Coulter Goes to War with Trump And It Is Glorious — Liberals may die tonight because there are limited supplies of those injections they give you for acute schadenfreude toxicity. Ann Coulter has been Donald Trump's biggest New York City white nationalist supporter. She's transformed toadying into a militant act.
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Raw Story, NBC News, Washington Monthly, RedState, Daily Wire, No More Mister Nice Blog, Mother Jones, Joe.My.God. and Mediaite
Sam Reisman / Mediaite:
He Actually Wrote It Down: ‘Hillary Clinton Is a Bigot,’ Says Donald Trump
He Actually Wrote It Down: ‘Hillary Clinton Is a Bigot,’ Says Donald Trump
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Media Matters for America
Tegna / KARE-TV:
Trump, Pence not yet on MN ballot … ST. PAUL, Minn. - Don't plan to vote for Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump? You'll have options on the Minnesota ballot this November. — Tuesday was the deadline for non-major party candidates for President and Vice President to file the necessary paperwork to be on the ballot in Minnesota.
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National Review, sos.state.mn.us, Raw Story, Mediaite, Politicus USA and Instapundit
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Katherine Krueger / Talking Points Memo:
Trump Isn't On The Ballot In MN Yet, But Anti-Trump Indy Candidate Is
Trump Isn't On The Ballot In MN Yet, But Anti-Trump Indy Candidate Is
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Daily News Bin
Daniel Strauss / Politico:
Trump temporarily missing from Minnesota ballot
Trump temporarily missing from Minnesota ballot
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Hot Air, Capitol View and The Week
Kristinn Taylor / The Gateway Pundit:
GOP FAIL: Donald Trump Not Listed on Minnesota Ballot
GOP FAIL: Donald Trump Not Listed on Minnesota Ballot
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Washington Post, New Century Times and twitchy.com
Wall Street Journal:
Chelsea Clinton Plans to Stay on Board of Family Foundation — Clinton Health Access Initiative might also continue to accept foreign government and corporate funding — The Clinton Foundation is considering exceptions to its plan to stop accepting corporate and foreign donations …
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The Daily Caller, Washington Post, The Week, Washington Free Beacon, MichelleMalkin.com, CNN, AOL, The American Mirror, twitchy.com and Business Insider
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David A. Fahrenthold / Washington Post:
What we know about the charitable giving by Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump
What we know about the charitable giving by Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump
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Mother Jones and Guardian, more at Mediagazer »
Edward Morrissey / The Fiscal Times:
Hillary Lied, Withheld Evidence, Traded Power for Money, and Could Be President
Hillary Lied, Withheld Evidence, Traded Power for Money, and Could Be President
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Washington Monthly, NPR and Daily Wire
Katy O'Donnell / Politico:
Ethicists scoff at Clinton Foundation transition plan
Ethicists scoff at Clinton Foundation transition plan
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The Hill, Hot Air and Balloon Juice
Louis Nelson / Politico:
Clinton ad ties Trump to KKK, white supremacists — A video released Thursday by Hillary Clinton's campaign makes the case that Donald Trump is the candidate of racists, white supremacists and neo-Nazis. — “The reason a lot of Klan members like Donald Trump is because a lot of what he believes …
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alan.com and whorunsGov
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Gabriel Debenedetti / Politico:
Clinton aims to deny Trump's pass at normalcy — RENO, Nev. — For months, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton have aimed their pitches at distinct sets of voters, each candidate operating under the belief that a November win will be determined singularly by base turnout. — That changes Thursday.
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ABC News, The Week, New York Times, Washington Monthly, Daily Kos and TIME
Jon Miltimore / intellectualtakeout.org:
Univ. of Chicago pushes back on trigger warnings, safe spaces — Letters sent to the incoming class of 2020 make it clear the University of Chicago isn't a fan of trigger warnings or safe spaces. — Academics around the country are embracing the relatively new trend of using trigger warnings …
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Hit & Run, Slate, Zero Hedge, New Republic, Washington Post, AOL, Independent Journal Review, The Federalist, Simple Justice and Instapundit
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Pete Grieve / The Chicago Maroon:
University to Freshmen: Don't Expect Safe Spaces or Trigger Warnings
University to Freshmen: Don't Expect Safe Spaces or Trigger Warnings
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Inside Higher Ed, NBC News, NOLA River and Liberty Unyielding
Massimo Calabresi / TIME:
What Donald Trump Knew About Undocumented Workers at His Signature Tower — Massimo Calabresi joined the Washington bureau of TIME in 1999 and has covered the CIA, State, Justice, Treasury, Congress and the White House. He covered the wars in Bosnia, Croatia and Kosovo as TIME's Central Europe bureau chief …
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The Atlantic, Mediaite, alan.com and RedState
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Eric Newcomer / Bloomberg:
Uber Loses at Least $1.2 Billion in First Half of 2016 — After touting profitability in the U.S. early this year, the ride-hailing company is said to post second-quarter losses exceeding $100 million. — The ride-hailing giant Uber Technologies Inc. is not a public company …
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Motherboard, SFist, Boing Boing, Engadget, CBS Los Angeles and Eschaton
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Rachel Maddow's fascinating duel with Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway, annotated — Donald Trump only does Fox News these days, but on Wednesday night his new campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway, gamely ventured into the unfriendly confines of Rachel Maddow's MSNBC show.
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TVNewser
Orlando Sentinel:
Orlando Health, Florida Hospital won't bill Pulse shooting victims — Orlando Police officer Gerry Realin was part of the small hazmat team that was responsible for removing the bodies from Pulse nightclub. He now struggles with PTSD and blood pressure so high he was recently admitted to the hospital.
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Associated Press, ABC News, Mashable, The Atlantic, CNN, The Week, The Gay UK, Washington Post and myfox8.com
Lauren Fox / Talking Points Memo:
Senator's Outreach Ad To Black Voters Appears To Use Stock Video From Africa — A new ad highlighting Sen. Richard Burr's (R-NC) work in helping disadvantaged children in his state appears to feature black children from a school in Africa, not North Carolina.
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The Bob and Chez Show
John Sides / Washington Post:
How many votes will Trump give up by not running a professional campaign? A lot. — Stories about the ramshackle nature of the Trump campaign are abundant. A recent article called Donald Trump's organization “more concert tour than presidential campaign.”
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New York Magazine
Fox News:
Ryan Lochte to be summoned to testify in Brazil over robbery claim — Ryan Lochte will be summoned to give testimony in front of Brazil's Justice Department in Rio de Janeiro over his claim he and other U.S. Olympic swimmers were robbed at gunpoint, a police official told Fox News on Thursday.
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Mediaite, Swimming World News, LawNewz and The Daily Caller
Margaret Newkirk / Bloomberg:
Thanks to Trump, Georgia Could Be Ripe for a Clinton Win — Rising numbers of minority and young urban voters have helped put a longtime Southern Republican stronghold up for grabs. — On Sunday, Aug. 21, Hillary Clinton's campaign opened its Georgia headquarters in Atlanta.
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Daily Kos