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Robert Costa / Washington Post:
Trump to meet in Mexico with the country's president — Donald Trump will travel to Mexico City on Wednesday for a meeting with Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto, just hours before he delivers a high-stakes speech in Arizona to clarify his views on immigration policy.
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Can Trump Be This Stupid? (Not a Trick Question) — We have news tonight that tomorrow, in advance of his big immigration speech in Arizona, Donald Trump will travel to Mexico City to meet with Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto. This is such an outlandish idea it is not easy to make sense of it or predict its outcome.
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Nick Gass / Politico:
Mexico rages against Trump visit — Donald Trump may have accepted the invitation of Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto for a Wednesday meeting in Mexico City, but the Republican presidential nominee is getting the cold shoulder in a country where public views of its own president are already abysmally low.
Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
Clinton camp blasts Trump's Mexico visit — Donald Trump's meeting in Mexico with President Enrique Peña Nieto ahead of his immigration speech Wednesday night in Phoenix will not change anything about what he has previously said about the country or its people, a top aide for Hillary Clinton's campaign said.
Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
Despite Death Threats Donald Trump will Fly to Mexico City to Meet with President Nieto — In July 2015 top Mexican drug lord, “Joaquin “El Chapo” (Shorty) Guzman, threatened US presidential hopeful Donald Trump. — Guzman took to his son's Twitter account to threaten the popular America-first candidate.
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Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
Vicente Fox Says Trump Not Welcome In Mexico: This Is A ‘Political Stunt’ — Former Mexican President Vicente Fox on Wednesday morning said that the Mexican people do not want Donald Trump to visit the country, despite Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto's invitation for the Republican nominee to attend a meeting.
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CNN:
Donald Trump mulling Mexico trip
Donald Trump mulling Mexico trip
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New York Times:
Donald Trump to Visit Mexico After More Than a Year of Mocking It
Donald Trump to Visit Mexico After More Than a Year of Mocking It
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Rebecca Berg / Real Clear Politics:
Trump Talk to Focus on Borders, Not Deportation
Jon Conradi / LifeZette:
EXCLUSIVE: Trump-Nieto Meeting Confirmed — It's On
EXCLUSIVE: Trump-Nieto Meeting Confirmed — It's On
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Gregory Holyk / ABC News:
Poll: Clinton Unpopularity at New High, on Par With Trump — Hillary Clinton's unpopularity reached a new high in the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll, putting her on par with Donald Trump among registered voters. — The latest findings solidify their positions as the two most unpopular …
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
A record number of Americans now dislike Hillary Clinton — Hillary Clinton hit her stride after the Democratic National Convention, riding to a double-digit lead over Donald Trump in some national and swing-state polls — her highest of the year. — As of today, though, Americans' views of her just hit a record low.
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Caren Bohan / Reuters:
Courting Republicans, Clinton to tout ‘American exceptionalism’
Courting Republicans, Clinton to tout ‘American exceptionalism’
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Gabriel Debenedetti / Politico:
Clinton camp thinks Trump fell for old trick — Hillary Clinton's campaign feels confident. So confident that behind closed doors her team is taking some credit for forcing Donald Trump to seemingly defend territory that Republicans almost never lose. — After weeks of Brooklyn telegraphing …
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Daniel Halper / New York Post:
'It's outrageous': Clinton's aides had concerns about email setup — Hillary Clinton continued sending classified information even after leaving the State Department, The Post has exclusively learned. — On May 28, 2013, months after stepping down as secretary of state …
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TIME:
FBI Recovers 30 Hillary Clinton Emails Involving Benghazi Attack
FBI Recovers 30 Hillary Clinton Emails Involving Benghazi Attack
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Daily Mail:
Now 30 BENGHAZI-related emails have been recovered from Hillary's server …
Now 30 BENGHAZI-related emails have been recovered from Hillary's server …
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Sarah Westwood / Washington Examiner:
State finds 30 deleted Clinton emails on Benghazi
State finds 30 deleted Clinton emails on Benghazi
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Clare Foran / The Atlantic:
How the Political Revolution Failed Tim Canova — The political revolution has let Tim Canova down. Bernie Sanders hasn't shown up to campaign for his chosen primary challenger to Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the former chair of the Democratic National Committee.
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South Florida / Sun-Sentinel:
Wasserman Schultz prevails, beats back primary challenge from Tim Canova — Sun Sentinel … U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz triumphed over her political critics on Tuesday, as she fended off a challenge from within her own party, defeating Tim Canova in Tuesday's Democratic congressional primary.
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Richard W. Painter / New York Times:
The Real Clinton Foundation Revelation — When I was the chief White House ethics lawyer for President George W. Bush, I asked many prospective administration officials if they would sell stock in companies, give up stock options, step down from nonprofit boards or make other painful choices to enter public service.
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Politico
Dan Nowicki / Arizona Republic:
John McCain defeats Kelli Ward in Republican Senate primary — Last Video — 'Until all the ballots are counted, it's not done' — Joe Arpaio talks about his primary election win. — Arpaio: “Those polls are pretty good” How to watch results from Arizona primary election
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Priscilla Alvarez / The Atlantic:
John McCain's Long Road Ahead
John McCain's Long Road Ahead
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John Kass / Chicago Tribune:
Chicago gangs no longer know or fear the police, and bodies pile up — Police officers emerge from the Robert Taylor Homes on Aug. 16, 1991, with weapons they confiscated while they searched for a sniper who shot and wounded a CHA officer. — The dead multiply in Chicago, the fruit of the gang wars ripening in August.
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Tal Kopan / CNN:
Conway: With equal strength, ‘rape would not exist’ — Donald Trump's new campaign manager said “rape would not exist” if women and men had equal physical capabilities in a television appearance that has been resurfaced by critics who say Trump has a problem with women.
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Kathleen Gray / Detroit Free Press:
Donald Trump to show up, but not speak out at Detroit church — Kimberly P. Mitchell, Detroit Free Press — When Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump comes to Detroit this weekend to try to strengthen his standing in the African-American community, he will be attending a service …
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SETI Institute:
A SETI Signal? — A star system 94 light-years away is in the spotlight as a possible candidate for intelligent inhabitants, thanks to the discovery of a radio signal by a group of Russian astronomers. — HD 164595, a solar system a few billion years older than the Sun but centered on a star …
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Eryn Rogers / WSPA-TV:
Greenville County student claims teacher trashed her shoes — SIMPSONVILLE, S.C. (WSPA) - Two Upstate parents are looking for answers after they said a teacher threw away their first-grader's shoes at Bryson Elementary in Simpsonville last week. — Six-year-old Taraji Edward's mother …
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Melissa Hogenboom / BBC:
A dog has given birth to the first identical twin puppies — Outside of humans and one species of armadillo, identical twins seem to be vanishingly rare. Now for the first time a dog has given birth to a pair — It seemed like a normal day for Kurt de Cramer, a vet in a busy veterinary practice …
Nikita Vladimirov / The Hill:
Michele Bachmann: God picked Trump to be the GOP nominee — 's evangelical adviser Michele Bachmann — said that Donald Trump was “raised up” by God to win in the general election. — “This is one thing I know from the Book of Daniel: the bottom line of the Book of Daniel is this …
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Stephen Dinan / Washington Times:
IRS doesn't tell 1 million taxpayers that illegals stole their Social Security numbers — The IRS has discovered more than 1 million Americans whose Social Security numbers were stolen by illegal immigrants, but officials never bothered to tell the taxpayers themselves …