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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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Danielle Kantor / Hillary Clinton 2016:
Donald Trump is about to meet the president of Mexico. Which of these tweets might they discuss? — A big, beautiful list of tweets. — Donald Trump is headed to Mexico to meet with the country's president, Enrique Peña Nieto. If you're surprised by that news—well, you're not alone.
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Candace Smith / ABC News:
Trump 'Didn't Discuss' Border Wall Payment With Mexican President — Donald Trump said that while he had a “substantive, direct and constructive” meeting with Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto, they “didn't discuss” who would pay for the border wall that Trump has made a centerpiece of his presidential campaign.
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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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Robert Costa / Washington Post:
Trump to meet in Mexico with the country's president
Trump to meet in Mexico with the country's president
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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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Washington Post:
Mexicans are angry at their own president for meeting with Trump
Mexicans are angry at their own president for meeting with Trump
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Joshua Partlow / Washington Post:
Trump lands in Mexico for last-minute meeting with President Peña Nieto
Trump lands in Mexico for last-minute meeting with President Peña Nieto
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Hadas Gold / Politico:
Traveling media not accompanying Trump to Mexico
Traveling media not accompanying Trump to Mexico
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Morgan Winsor / ABC News:
Donald Trump and Mexico's Former President Vicente Fox Spar on Twitter Before Visit
Donald Trump and Mexico's Former President Vicente Fox Spar on Twitter Before Visit
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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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Annie Rees / Talking Points Memo:
In NYT's Hillary Clinton Coverage, An Obsession With ‘Clouds’ And ‘Shadows’ — Things are dark and stormy in The New York Times coverage of Hillary Clinton - or maybe The Gray Lady has merely misplaced her thesaurus. — TPM Reader AR wrote in after he noticed that in recent months …
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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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Politico and The Gateway Pundit
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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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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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.
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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 …
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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Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
LePage demands apology from reporter, vows to never speak to press again — Maine Gov. Paul LePage on Wednesday blamed a reporter in part for his fiery outburst to a state lawmaker last week and vowed never to speak with the press again. — LePage last Thursday left an obscenity-laced voicemail …
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Michael Levenson / BostonGlobe.com:
Paul LePage insists he's staying put
Paul LePage insists he's staying put
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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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Dan Witters / Gallup:
Americans' Life Evaluations Improve During Obama Era
Naomi Jagoda / The Hill:
Watchdog: IRS failed to notify over 1M people of identity theft — The Internal Revenue Service identified close to 1.1 million taxpayers who were victims of employment-related identity theft from 2011 through 2015, but almost none of the victims were informed, a Treasury Department watchdog found in a report made public this week.
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Stephen Dinan / Washington Times:
IRS doesn't tell 1 million taxpayers that illegals stole their Social Security numbers
IRS doesn't tell 1 million taxpayers that illegals stole their Social Security numbers
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The Point, Louder With Crowder, BizPac Review, Chicago Boyz and VDARE
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.
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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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.
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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Bruce Golding / New York Post:
Anthony Weiner bragged about using his kid as a ‘chick magnet’ — When Weiner's sext partner jokingly told him to put his kid to work, he replied, “Already at work. Being a chick magnet.” — Anthony Weiner didn't just send his latest sexting partner a crotch shot selfie with his young son curled …
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Justin Worland / TIME:
The Dark Side of Cheap Gas—More Road Deaths — More than 35,000 people died in traffic accidents in 2015 — Americans love the low gas prices that have made driving increasingly cheap in recent years, but cheap fuel has a nasty side effect: more driving that has helped lead to a spike in traffic deaths …
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