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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Mexico gamble a huge win for Trump — About an hour before Donald Trump made his joint statement with Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto, a strategist in Trump's extended circle saw success on the horizon. — “I bet they have a nice meeting where they both explain their positions …
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Azam Ahmed / New York Times:
Mexicans Accuse President of ‘Historic Error’ in Welcoming Donald Trump — MEXICO CITY — If President Enrique Peña Nieto invited Donald J. Trump to visit Mexico for a dialogue in the interest of democracy, the message has fallen on deaf ears. — Instead, the predominant feeling here in the Mexican capital is one of betrayal.
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Alice Ollstein / ThinkProgress:
Mexican President Fact Checks Donald Trump To His Face, In Spanish — Following a controversial and hastily thrown together bilateral meeting behind closed doors on Wednesday, GOP nominee Donald Trump and Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto held a tense press conference …
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Vox, Wall Street Journal, Reuters, Yahoo and PolitiFact
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Donald Trump's Mexico visit ends with Mexico basically accusing him of lying — This post has been updated. — Over the past 14 months, Donald Trump has been telling anyone within shouting distance that he will not only build a big, beautiful border wall along the U.S.-Mexico border …
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Arturo Garcia / Raw Story:
Trump admits wimping out in Mexico: 'We didn't discuss payment of the wall' — DON'T MISS STORIES. FOLLOW RAW STORY! — Donald Trump admitted on Wednesday that he did not press Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto on paying for a wall between the US and Mexico — one of his signature campaign promises.
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Patrick Healy / New York Times:
Donald Trump and Mexican Leader Clash in Accounts of Meeting — Donald J. Trump swept into Mexico City on Wednesday on a politically perilous mission to prove his mettle as a negotiator by facing a nation that he has repeatedly denigrated and has promised to compel to pay for a border wall.
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New York Times:
Highlights From Donald Trump's Day: A Visit to Mexico Before an Immigration Speech
Highlights From Donald Trump's Day: A Visit to Mexico Before an Immigration Speech
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Candace Smith / ABC News:
Trump 'Didn't Discuss' Border Wall Payment With Mexican President
Trump 'Didn't Discuss' Border Wall Payment With Mexican President
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24Ahead, Associated Press and Joe.My.God.
Danielle Kantor / Hillary Clinton 2016:
Donald Trump is about to meet the president of Mexico. Which of these tweets might they discuss?
Donald Trump is about to meet the president of Mexico. Which of these tweets might they discuss?
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KXAN-TV:
Trump outlines 5 goals he wants to accomplish with Mexico
Trump outlines 5 goals he wants to accomplish with Mexico
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Washington Post, USA Today, CBS Chicago, France 24 and The Daily Caller
Erik Ortiz / NBC News:
Why Is Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto So Unpopular?
Why Is Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto So Unpopular?
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Liz Kreutz / ABC News:
Hillary Clinton Hits Trump for ‘Dropping In’ on Mexico
Hillary Clinton Hits Trump for ‘Dropping In’ on Mexico
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Nick Gass / Politico:
Mexico rages against Trump visit
Mexico rages against Trump visit
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Greg Stohr / Bloomberg:
U.S. High Court Won't Revive North Carolina Photo-ID Law — Supreme Court justices divide 4-4 on order in voting dispute — Action is win for Obama administration, civil rights groups — An evenly divided U.S. Supreme Court refused to reinstate North Carolina's Republican-backed voting restrictions …
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Daily Wire, CNN, Vox, New York Magazine and Joe.My.God.
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Associated Press:
U.S. high court refuses to reinstate North Carolina voter ID requirement
U.S. high court refuses to reinstate North Carolina voter ID requirement
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RedState, Associated Press and WSPA-TV
Michael Wines / New York Times:
Critics Say North Carolina Is Curbing Black Vote. Again.
Critics Say North Carolina Is Curbing Black Vote. Again.
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Southern Coalition …, electionlawblog.org, myfox8.com and Campaign for America's Future
Ari Berman / The Nation:
The Country's Worst Voting Restrictions Won't Be In Effect This November
The Country's Worst Voting Restrictions Won't Be In Effect This November
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New York Times and Common Dreams
Kate Hardiman / The College Fix:
Professors tell students: Drop class if you dispute man-made climate change — ‘We will not, at any time, debate the science of climate change’ — Three professors co-teaching an online course called “Medical Humanities in the Digital Age” at the University of Colorado-Colorado Springs recently told …
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Cristina Marcos / The Hill:
Kentucky Republican to resign from House — (R-Ky.) will resign from the House next week instead of serving out the rest of his term, which ends in January. — Whitfield's early departure will set in motion a special election for his successor to finish the remaining months of his term.
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Douglas Ernst / Washington Times:
WikiLeaks' Assange: Reporters ‘erecting a demon’ by protecting Hillary Clinton — Whistleblower says Democrat will 'put nooses around everyone's necks as soon as she wins' — WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Wednesday accused “the American liberal press” of “erecting a demon” by shielding Hillary Clinton from criticism.
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Mark Potok / Southern Poverty Law Center:
Revealed: Conway, Bannon Members of Secretive Group — The two political operatives chosen earlier this month to lead Donald Trump's presidential campaign after two former managers departed have been members of the secretive Council for National Policy (CNP), Hatewatch has learned
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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
A record number of Americans now dislike Hillary Clinton
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Mike Freeman / Bleacher Report - NFL:
1. 'I Can't Stand Him' — Across NFL front offices, there are team officials who are not offended, and even embrace, the controversial position of Colin Kaepernick. They are out there. Statistically, they have to be. But they are keeping a low profile.
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Christopher Ingraham / Washington Post:
Gallup: Life got better for pretty much everyone under Obama — How Americans feel about the state of their lives have improved markedly in the eight years since Barack Obama was elected president, according to Gallup data released Tuesday. — In 2008, fewer than half of Americans …
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Washington Monthly, Vox and Hullabaloo
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Dan Witters / Gallup:
Americans' Life Evaluations Improve During Obama Era
Brandon Morse / RedState:
That Lyft Driver Showed Us How Every Businesses Should Respond to SJW Bullies — For those of you haven't seen it yet, a social justice warrior (SJW) named Annaliese Nielsen got into a Lyft car, spotted a Hawaiian bobblehead doll on his dashboard, and began to berate and threaten the driver unless he took the bobblehead doll down.
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GUCCIFER 2.0:
DCCC Docs from Pelosi's PC — As you see I've been gradually posting DCCC docs on different states. — But besides that I have a folder from the Nancy Pelosi's PC and I'd like to share some docs from it with you. They are related to immigration, Hispanics, BLM, Islam and other issues.
Dana Blanton / Fox News:
Fox News Poll: Trump narrows Clinton's lead — The race for the White House has narrowed. A new Fox News Poll finds Donald Trump gaining ground in the head-to-head matchup, despite improvements from Hillary Clinton on top issues. — In addition, this is the first time the poll offers …
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Mediaite, Politicus USA, Political Wire, The Right Scoop, Business Insider, Washington Free Beacon and FOX News Radio
Florida Times Union:
Northeast Florida voters kick controversial State Attorney Angela Corey out of office — Melissa Nelson, an unknown corporate lawyer and former prosecutor three months ago, cleared her path to become one of the most powerful and influential figures in Northeast Florida on Tuesday night …
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Marwa Eltagouri / Chicago Tribune:
Woman sets self on fire in Rep. Danny Davis' West Side office — A 43-year-old woman walked into the lobby of U.S. Rep. Danny Davis' West Side office Tuesday afternoon, drank from a bottle of hand sanitizer, poured the sanitizer over herself and set herself on fire with a lighter, according to Davis and police.
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Pat Rynard / Iowa Starting Line:
Awkward: All GOP State Senate Candidates Have Same Kids In Ads — It seems all the targeted Republican state senate candidates had a big TV shoot recently, as they've all posted their first ads online in the past few weeks. The ads themselves are so-so at best, but you rarely see very creative TV spots at the statehouse level.
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 …