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2:10 PM ET, August 27, 2016

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Lauren Fox / Talking Points Memo:
Trump After Dwyane Wade's Cousin Is Shot: ‘African Americans Will Vote Trump’  —  NBA star Dwyane Wade's cousin Nykea Aldridge was fatally shot Friday pushing a child in a stroller in a Chicago.  —  Less than 24 hours later, Donald Trump said her death was evidence that African-Americans will vote for him in November.
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Washington Post:
Republicans can't pretend not to know what fuels the Trump campaign  —  IN A major speech Thursday, Hillary Clinton linked Donald Trump to bigoted elements on the fringe of American politics.  But she got it wrong when she said, “Trump is reinforcing harmful stereotypes and offering a dog whistle to his most hateful supporters.”
Discussion: portal.liberalamerica.org and TIME
Grace Wong / Chicago Tribune:
Dwyane Wade's cousin shot dead while pushing her baby in stroller on South Side  —  Police investigate the scene where a 32-year-old woman was shot in the head while walking in the 6300 block of South Calumet Avenue near an elementary school on Aug. 26, 2016.
Casey Quinlan / ThinkProgress:
Governor Of Maine Says People Of Color Are ‘The Enemy,’ Implies They Should Be Shot  —  In a Friday press conference following his homophobic remarks about a state lawmaker, Maine Governor Paul LePage (R) called people of color and people of Hispanic origin “the enemy” and implied they should be shot.
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The Portland Press Herald:
Our View: Message to America: Sorry we gave you LePage  —  Our governor has sent a false message that people of color are not welcome in Maine.  —  BY THE EDITORIAL BOARD  —  Dear America: Maine here.  Please forgive us - we made a terrible mistake.  We managed to elect and re-elect a governor who is unfit for high office.
The Portland Press Herald:
LePage asked to resign over threatening voice mail to legislator
Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Inside debate prep: Clinton's careful case vs. Trump's ‘WrestleMania’  —  Hillary Clinton is methodically preparing for the presidential debates as a veteran lawyer would approach her biggest trial.  She pores over briefing books thick with policy arcana and opposition research.
Discussion: RedState
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Jenna Johnson / Washington Post:
Trump and advisers remain split on how far to move toward the middle
Discussion: Balloon Juice
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
The strange tale of Donald Trump's doctor letter just got stranger  —  Donald Trump's doctor finally spoke out in an interview that aired Friday night.  But his comments aren't likely to end the questions about the strange letter he drafted last year declaring Trump would be the healthiest president in history.
Discussion: Guardian, The Week and The Resurgent
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Chris Francescani / NBC News:
Trump Doctor Wrote Health Letter in Just 5 Minutes as Limo Waited  —  Donald Trump's personal physician said he wrote a letter declaring Trump would be the healthiest president in history in just five minutes while a limo sent by the candidate waited outside his Manhattan office.
Steve Wyche / NFL.com:
Colin Kaepernick explains why he sat during national anthem  —  SANTA CLARA, Calif. — San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick has willingly immersed himself into controversy by refusing to stand for the playing of the national anthem in protest of what he deems are wrongdoings …
Dustin Stockton / Breitbart:
Exclusive: ‘Black Men for Bernie’ Founder to End Democrat ‘Political Slavery’ of Minority Voters... by Campaigning for Trump  —  Black Men for Bernie founder Bruce Carter's mission to restore black communities didn't end when Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders lost to Hillary Clinton in the Democratic primary.
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
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Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
As Donald Trump Repels Minority Voters, G.O.P. Fears Its Future in the West
Discussion: Political Wire
Neil W. McCabe / Breitbart:
Exclusive - Breitbart/Gravis Poll: Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump Now Neck and Neck Ending August
Discussion: The Week
New York Times:
Breitbart Rises From Outlier to Potent Voice in Campaign  —  Breitbart News has arrived.  —  The opinion and news site, once a curiosity of the fringe right wing, is now an increasingly powerful voice, and virtual rallying spot, for millions of disaffected conservatives who propelled Donald J. Trump …
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New York Times:
‘No Vacancies’ for Blacks: How Donald Trump Got His Start, and Was First Accused of Bias  —  She seemed like the model tenant.  A 33-year-old nurse who was living at the Y.W.C.A. in Harlem, she had come to rent a one-bedroom at the still-unfinished Wilshire Apartments in the Jamaica Estates neighborhood of Queens.
New York Daily News:
Anti-Semitic Trump campaign CEO Stephen Bannon not a big fan of ‘whiny brat’ Jews, ex-wife says  —  Donald Trump's campaign CEO Stephen Bannon was branded an anti-Semite by the same ex-wife who claimed he choked her, court documents reveal.  —  Mary Louise Piccard said in a 2007 court declaration …
Steven Swinford / Telegraph:
Theresa May will trigger Brexit negotiations without Commons vote  —  Theresa May will not hold a parliamentary vote on Brexit before opening negotiations to formally trigger Britain's withdrawal from the European Union, The Telegraph has learned.  —  Opponents of Brexit claim …
Ted Bridis / Associated Press:
US: Clinton calendars won't be released until after election  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Seven months after a federal judge ordered the State Department to begin releasing monthly batches of the detailed daily schedules showing meetings by Hillary Clinton during her time as secretary of state …
Arizona Republic:
Donald Trump cancels Phoenix event … Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has canceled his visit to Phoenix next week, his campaign said Friday.  —  Trump was scheduled to deliver a speech at a downtown Phoenix hotel on Wednesday.  But Brian Seitchik, Trump's Arizona state director said …
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Mark Hensch / The Hill:
Trump says canceled Arizona event moving to larger venue
Discussion: Daily News Bin and The Right Scoop
Josh Haskell / ABC News:
Hillary Clinton Receives 1st Classified Briefing as Democratic Nominee  —  Hillary Clinton spent Saturday morning at an FBI facility near her New York home meeting with staffers from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence who briefed her on major threats and emerging concerns around the world.
Discussion: whorunsGov, Hot Air and The Week
Chris Graham / Telegraph:
Heartbreaking picture of dog who won't leave master's coffin after Italy earthquake  —  I  —  t is a sight reminiscent of the legend of Greyfriars Bobby.  —  Thirty-four caskets lie side by side in a gym in Ascoli Piceno, and beside one a small blond cocker spaniel sits, devoted to the end, unable to leave his master even in death.
Discussion: alan.com and Liberty Unyielding
Nick Bilton / Vanity Fair:
How the Clinton Campaign Is Foiling the Kremlin  —  Staffers are now using a “Snowden-approved” app to hide Trump-related e-mails from hackers, in Russia and elsewhere.  —  On May 17, as dusk was setting over Brooklyn, around a dozen employees from Hillary Clinton's campaign …
Discussion: Motherboard
 
 
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Tom C. Korologos / Washington Post:
Memo to GOP: Forget 2016. Start thinking 2018 and 2020.
Larry O'Connor / Hot Air:
This brilliant response to Obama's 'don't discriminate' warning to Louisiana is pure American gold
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Tim Murphy / Mother Jones:
Trump's Campaign CEO Ran a Secretive Sci-Fi Project in the Arizona Desert
Discussion: Daily Kos and Guardian
Sky News:
Bomb Disposal Team Called: Five Terror Arrests In West Midlands
Discussion: Jihad Watch
Walter Berry / Associated Press:
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT WILL PROBE METRO PHOENIX SHERIFF ARPAIO
Discussion: alan.com
John Lott / New York Post:
Sorry, Hillary: Trump's policies are clearly better for blacks
Louise Boyle / Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE: Bill Clinton bombed Saddam to distract from the Monica Lewinsky scandal …
Discussion: BizPac Review
 Earlier Items: 
John Hinderaker / Power Line:
Who Made America Hate Again?
Discussion: Rasmussen Reports
Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Revealed: Fox News' 400-page oppo file on Gabriel Sherman
CBS Boston:
McDonald's Worker With Down Syndrome Retiring After 32 Years
Discussion: UK, WGN-TV and KTLA
New York Daily News:
EXCLUSIVE: Black 15-year-old was unarmed and surrendering when cops shot at him 16 times in Brooklyn
Discussion: Raw Story and Bearing Arms
Olivia Nuzzi / The Daily Beast:
Donald Trump's ‘Apprentices’ Had to Agree to Go Nude
Discussion: Washington Times
Oliver Darcy / Business Insider:
Donald Trump broke the conservative media
 

 
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Max Tani / @maxwelltani:
Memo: WaPo's Matt Murray lays out plans for WP Ventures, the “third newsroom”; Krissah Thompson will be editor and Samantha Henig will be general manager

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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