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2:25 PM ET, September 2, 2016

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Gabriel Sherman / New York Magazine:
The Revenge of Roger's Angels  —  How Fox News women took down the most powerful, and predatory, man in media.  —  It took 15 days to end the mighty 20-year reign of Roger Ailes at Fox News, one of the most storied runs in media and political history.  Ailes built not just a conservative …
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Media Matters for America:
Media Matters President Bradley Beychok Responds To Report That Fox Sought Our Reporter's Phone Records  —  Fox News sought the phone records of Media Matters senior reporter Joe Strupp through “legally questionable means” in order to identify his anonymous network sources, according to a new report.
Monica Langley / Wall Street Journal:
Donald Trump Revised Immigration Speech After Mexican Leader's Tweet  —  Republican added wording about border wall at last minute after President Enrique Peña Nieto said his nation wouldn't pay for it  —  As Donald Trump arrived in Phoenix late Wednesday, fresh from a visit …
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Nick Gass / Politico:
Eric Trump: ‘Pretty amazing’ that Hispanic surrogates withdrew support after speech  —  Eric Trump expressed incredulity Friday in reaction to the disavowal of two of the campaign's Hispanic surrogates in the wake of Donald Trump's immigration speech this week, suggesting that the campaign …
Discussion: Washington Post
Steven Shepard / Politico:
GOP insiders: Trump's trip was a hit
Discussion: Hullabaloo
Jessie Hellmann / The Hill:   Report: Trump edited speech after Mexican leader's wall tweet
Charles P. Pierce / Esquire:
The New York Times Screws Up Its Clinton Coverage, Part Infinity  —  Hey, look, there goes the plot.  —  Oh, for the love of god, mother Times.  Are you freaking kidding me?  —  It's long past the point where many of our major news publications be sent to the dogtrack with their names pinned …
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Eric Lichtblau / New York Times:
Emails Raise New Questions About Clinton Foundation Ties to State Dept.  —  WASHINGTON — A top aide to Hillary Clinton at the State Department agreed to try to obtain a special diplomatic passport for an adviser to former President Bill Clinton in 2009, according to emails released Thursday …
Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:
Hillary Clinton was right about the vast right-wing conspiracy.  Here's why it exists.  —  The epic battles between the Clintons and their tormentors on the right have shaped American politics for nearly a quarter century.  —  But there was a moment early on when the toxic course …
Discussion: Politico
Randy Ludlow / The Columbus Dispatch:
Green Party presidential candidate's Capital University speech delayed after she flies to wrong city  —  Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein was scheduled to speak at Capital University in Bexley at noon today but it looks like she's running a little late.
Meghan Keneally / ABC News:
Presidential Debate Moderators Announced  —  The Commission on Presidential Debates has announced the names of the moderators of the four showdowns that are scheduled in the coming weeks.  —  The first presidential debate will be moderated by NBC's “Nightly News” anchor Lester Holt.
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Commission on Presidential Debates:
Format  —  The format for the debates, announced on July 7, 2016, will be:  —  First presidential debate  —  The debate will be divided into six time segments of approximately 15 minutes each on major topics to be selected by the moderator and announced at least one week before the debate.
CNNMoney:
Presidential debate moderators announced
Federal Bureau of Investigation:
FBI Releases Documents in Hillary Clinton E-Mail Investigation  —  Today the FBI is releasing a summary of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's July 2, 2016 interview with the FBI concerning allegations that classified information was improperly stored or transmitted on a personal e-mail server she used during her tenure.
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Nick Gass / Politico:   Clinton told FBI she relied on others' judgment on classified material
William Wan / Washington Post:
Inside the Republican creation of the North Carolina voting bill dubbed the ‘monster’ law  —  RALEIGH, N.C. — The emails to the North Carolina election board seemed routine at the time.  —  “Is there any way to get a breakdown of the 2008 voter turnout, by race (white and black) …
Discussion: Mother Jones
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Tierney Sneed / Talking Points Memo:
North Carolina May End Up Back In Court Over Its Foot Dragging On Early Voting
Discussion: ThinkProgress and Off the Kuff
Zach Montellaro / Politico:
Latinos for Trump founder warns of ‘taco trucks on every corner’  —  A founder of the Latinos for Trump group on Thursday warned that without Donald Trump in the White House, there would be “taco trucks on every corner” in America.  —  “My culture is a very dominant culture,” …
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
The national economic implications of a taco truck on every corner
Annie Karni / Politico:
Clinton's advisers tell her to prep for a landslide  —  Advisers to Hillary Clinton's campaign have identified so many paths to an Election Day victory they are now focusing not only on the one or two battlegrounds that would ensure a win but on opening up the possibility of an Electoral College landslide.
Discussion: RedState, Daily Kos and Althouse
Bloomberg:
Putin Says DNC Hack Was Public Service, Russia Didn't Do It  —  Stepan Kravchenko John Micklethwait Jake Rudnitsky  —  ‘Listen, does it even matter who hacked this data?’  Putin says  —  Putin says he 'couldn't imagine' DNC bias was newsworthy  —  Vladimir Putin said the hacking …
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Bloomberg:
Putin Blasts Trump and Clinton for ‘Shock’ Campaign Tactics
Tessa Berenson / TIME:
Henry Kissinger and George Shultz Mull Hillary Clinton Endorsement  —  The two Republican former Secretaries of State disapprove of Donald Trump  —  Foreign policy gurus Henry Kissinger and George Shultz are considering a joint endorsement of Hillary Clinton.
Discussion: National Review
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Daniel Lippman / Politico:
Putin DENIES Russia involved in DNC hack …
NBC News:
Colin Kaepernick Pledges $1 Million to Charity as Anthem Protest Spreads  —  FROM AUG. 29: Kaepernick's Protest Sparks National Uproar 1:57  —  San Francisco 49ers star Colin Kaepernick is putting his money where his mouth is — pledging to donate $1 million to community organizations Thursday.
John Stanton / BuzzFeed:
GOP Senator: Trump May Not Be The Right Messenger For The Party  —  WASHINGTON — Louisiana Sen. Bill Cassidy Thursday acknowledged that Donald Trump may not be the best messenger for Republicans going into November's elections, and bluntly warned Republicans should be prepared to try …
New York Times:
This small Indiana county sends more people to prison than San Francisco and Durham, N.C., combined.  Why?  —  LAWRENCEBURG, Ind. — Donnie Gaddis picked the wrong county to sell 15 oxycodone pills to an undercover officer.  —  If Mr. Gaddis had been caught 20 miles to the east, in Cincinnati …
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Did Trump Happen Because Liberals Are Too Mean?  —  The leading theory of why Republicans nominated Donald Trump is that Republican voters like Donald Trump.  This theory has the virtues of simplicity and truth, but the handicaps of being boring and quite rude to nearly half the electorate.
Discussion: Hot Air, New York Times and Instapundit
Michael Gerson / Washington Post:
How Donald Trump has discredited much of conservative media  —  Of the 2016 election's lightning storm of shocks, few will have more lasting political consequence than the discrediting of the main media organs of movement conservatism.  —  Fox News — the “fair and balanced” …
Discussion: Booman Tribune and CNNMoney
Tré Goins-Phillips / TheBlaze.com:
Michele Bachmann: This Will Be the ‘Last Election’ if Hillary Clinton Wins the Presidency  —  If Hillary Clinton wins the presidency in November, the American way of life — at least politically speaking — is over.  That is, according to former Republican presidential candidate and Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann.
Reuters:
One secret of Trump's low-cost campaign: free labor  —  Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has run an unusually cheap campaign in part by not paying at least 10 top staffers, consultants and advisers, some of whom are no longer with the campaign, according to a review of federal campaign finance filings.
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
 
 
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Trump's Blood Libel & Press Failure
Sarah Karlin-Smith / Politico:
New Clinton drug plan targets price hikes, citing EpiPen
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Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Inside Trump Tower: Facing grim reality
Discussion: Washington Post and The Resurgent
John Merline / Investor's Business Daily:
Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump Are Tied In Latest IBD/TIPP Poll
ITV:
Jeremy Corbyn: After-work drinks discriminate against mothers
Edward Mejia Davis / CNN:
Hillary Clinton's new book underscores Democratic Party's leftward shift since 1992
 Earlier Items: 
Daily Mail:
Is THIS the real face of Banksy? …
Discussion: NOLA River
South Florida / Sun-Sentinel:
Gun-wielding homeowner confronts driver playing Pokemon Go on his property, police say
Discussion: CBS San Francisco and 6
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Russia's Supreme Court rules that the USSR did not invade Poland in 1939
Discussion: Instapundit
American Prospect:
The Unpopular, Successful Auto Bailout
Discussion: Raw Story
Caitlin Yilek / The Hill:
Garrison Keillor writes scathing letter to Trump
Yamiche Alcindor / New York Times:
Leaked Script Shows What Advisers Want Donald Trump to Say at Black Church
 

 
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Caitlin Huston / The Hollywood Reporter:
Internal memo: Hearst Magazines president announces layoffs as part of a decision to “reallocate resources” to “continue our focus on digital innovation”

Lachlan Cartwright / The Ankler:
Sources: MSNBC renewed Rachel Maddow's contract early this fall, but with a pay cut; MSNBC bosses' plan to shake up daytime and weekend programming

Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel announced she will leave the agency on January 20; she was the first woman to be confirmed to lead the agency

 
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