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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 …
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Vox, USA Today, Power Line, ProFootballTalk, Occupy Democrats, alan.com, Independent Journal Review, Associated Press, The Last Tradition, The Right Scoop, Raw Story, ThinkProgress, CBS San Francisco, John Hawkins' Right Wing News, Mashable, Daily Wire, The Daily Caller, Instapundit, Fox News Insider, TheBlaze.com, BustedCoverage and WATE-TV
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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ABC News, The Atlantic, USA Today, Guardian, New Century Times, NBC News, New York Times, Lawyers, Guns & Money, alan.com and Joe.My.God.
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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.”
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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.
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The Gateway Pundit, New Urban Legends, Washington Post, Vox, ThinkProgress, BizPac Review, Mashable, The Daily Beast, ABC News, The Week and twitchy.com
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Anti-Trump Republicans to launch swing-state ad buy — Anti-Trump Republicans are preparing to launch a broadcast TV ad in a handful of swing-state suburbs urging Donald Trump to quit the presidential race so the party can replace him with a more electable nominee.
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Talking Points Memo and RedState
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Arizona Republic:
Donald Trump cancels Phoenix event
Donald Trump cancels Phoenix event
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Daily News Bin, Washington Monthly, Infowars and The Daily Beast
Mark Hensch / The Hill:
Trump says canceled Arizona event moving to larger venue
Trump says canceled Arizona event moving to larger venue
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Daily News Bin and The Right Scoop
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.
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RedState and Politicus USA
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Jenna Johnson / Washington Post:
Trump and advisers remain split on how far to move toward the middle
Trump and advisers remain split on how far to move toward the middle
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Balloon Juice
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.
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alan.com, Business Insider and New Century Times
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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RedState, The Hill and The Huffington Post
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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.
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alan.com and Liberty Unyielding
New York Post:
Viral subway cricket video was an elaborate prank — The woman who caused a massive panic on a crowded subway train by releasing a swarm of crickets admitted to The Post on Friday that she orchestrated the disgusting stunt in an attempt to go viral on social media. — SEE ALSO — :0
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Gothamist and New York's PIX11
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 …
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Washington Times and Motherboard
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 …
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RedState, Associated Press, The Right Scoop, BizPac Review, Independent Journal Review, CNN and twitchy.com
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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Althouse and Breitbart, more at Mediagazer »
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Simon Maloy / Salon:
Hillary and the alt-right: The toxic endurance of political extremism
Hillary and the alt-right: The toxic endurance of political extremism
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NPR, USA Today, The San Diego Union …, The Federalist, Slate, New York Magazine and RedState
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.
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.
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The Gateway Pundit
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Neil W. McCabe / Breitbart:
Exclusive - Breitbart/Gravis Poll: Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump Now Neck and Neck Ending August
Exclusive - Breitbart/Gravis Poll: Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump Now Neck and Neck Ending August
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The Week
Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
As Donald Trump Repels Minority Voters, G.O.P. Fears Its Future in the West
As Donald Trump Repels Minority Voters, G.O.P. Fears Its Future in the West
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The Hill