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Matthew Nussbaum / Politico:
Pence breaks with Trump, says Obama born in Hawaii — SAN DIEGO — Mike Pence on Wednesday declined to say whether Donald Trump should apologize for suggesting Barack Obama was born outside the U.S., but he did say Trump's stance wouldn't hurt him with minority voters.
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Nick Gass / Politico:
Trump's pay-for-play scandal intensifies — The swirl of scandal around Donald Trump's donation to Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi is intensifying, with the Republican nominee and his aides vigorously pushing back against the idea that he bought the decision by Bondi to not pursue an investigation into his Trump University.
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The Huffington Post:
Trump Held Fundraiser For Pam Bondi At Mar-a-Lago After She Dropped Investigation
Trump Held Fundraiser For Pam Bondi At Mar-a-Lago After She Dropped Investigation
Louis Nelson / Politico:
Bill Clinton accuses Trump of using charity money to ‘pay off’ Pam Bondi
Bill Clinton accuses Trump of using charity money to ‘pay off’ Pam Bondi
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miamiherald and Naked Politics
Dallas Morning News:
We recommend Hillary Clinton for U.S. president — There is only one serious candidate on the presidential ballot in November. We recommend Hillary Clinton. — We don't come to this decision easily. This newspaper has not recommended a Democrat for the nation's highest office since …
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Theodore Schleifer / CNN:
Trump, committees raise $90M in August, well short of Clinton's total — Washington (CNN)Donald Trump and his joint committees raised $90 million in August, a substantial haul for a candidate late to fundraising but one that still significantly trails Hillary Clinton's enormous summer totals.
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Taylor Gee / Politico:
Chelsea Clinton accuses Trump of ‘sad, misogynistic, sexist rhetoric’
Chelsea Clinton accuses Trump of ‘sad, misogynistic, sexist rhetoric’
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Fox News:
Assange says Clinton leaks might come as early as next week
Assange says Clinton leaks might come as early as next week
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James Hohmann / Washington Post:
The Daily 202: Trump making a play for Virginia, despite long odds
The Daily 202: Trump making a play for Virginia, despite long odds
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Daniel Strauss / Politico:
Whoops: Independent candidate appears to have accidentally picked a running mate — Evan McMullin is running as an independent conservative alternative to Donald Trump. Who McMullin is running with, however, is a bit of a mystery. — In all nine states where he has officially qualified …
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Joel Searby / From The Trail:
Politico gets it wrong on McMullin VP pick — In his article titled “Whoops: Independent candidate appears to have accidentally picked a running mate,” Daniel Strauss argues that Evan McMullin is “stuck” with “Nathan Johnson” as his vice presidential nominee - one of “thousands of people named Nathan Johnson.”
Evan Vucci / Talking Points Memo:
Trump Outlines Scattershot Plan For Yooooge Military Buildup — Donald Trump laid out a national security plan that would dramatically increase defense spending and troop levels during a Wednesday address at the Union League of Philadelphia. — Calling for a Middle East policy …
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Bre Payton / The Federalist:
In Laos, Obama Repeatedly Calls Americans ‘Lazy’ — During a townhall meeting in Laos, President Barack Obama called Americans “lazy” multiple times. — For one, Obama said Americans' reluctance to embrace his favored environmental policies is a sign of laziness.
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Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Presidential Race Up for Grabs in Florida — PPP's newest Florida poll finds a very tight race for President in the state. In the full field Donald Trump gets 44% to 43% for Hillary Clinton, with Gary Johnson at 5%, and Jill Stein and Evan McMullin each at 1%.
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Ross Douthat / New York Times:
The Gift of Clinton — If the Trump campaign weren't such an all-consuming piece of performance art, the big story of this election would be the sheer shambolic strangeness of Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign. — The Democratic candidate is the most disliked nominee of modern times — except, of course, for her opponent.
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Nick Gass / Politico:
Giuliani: Black parents should ‘teach children to be respectful of the police’
Giuliani: Black parents should ‘teach children to be respectful of the police’
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Washington Monthly
Blair Emerson / Bismarck Tribune:
Charges to be filed against presidential candidate — Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein, center, meets with Dakota Access Pipeline protesters on Tuesday in Morton County. — Buy Now — Morton County Sheriff Kyle Kirchmeier speaks at a press conference Tuesday afternoon …
Evan Perez / CNN:
First on CNN: FBI director defends Clinton email probe, document releases — Washington (CNN)FBI Director James Comey is defending the bureau's Friday afternoon release of documents from the Hillary Clinton email investigation, saying “we don't play games” and that the documents were put out when ready.
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Talking Points Memo, Washington Post and The Daily Caller
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
New trove of Clinton Benghazi emails proves thin — A set of about 30 Benghazi-related messages found by the FBI during their investigation into Hillary Clinton's private email system turns out to contain little fodder for critics or supporters of the Democratic presidential nominee.
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Mother Jones, Wall Street Journal, Daily Kos, Media Matters for America, CANNONFIRE, Mediaite and The Week
Marlon James / New York Times:
Five or Six Things I Didn't Know About Brad Pitt, by Marlon James — The worst kind, too. The kind who lets a plant starve to death. The evidence, at two opposing corners of his office in Beverly Hills; skeletal remnants that long gave up hope of ever being watered. He's been away for 10 months, he says.
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St. Louis American:
Ferguson activist Darren Seals dies at 29 — Darren Seals wearing his signature “Straight Outta Ferguson” t-shirt as he posed with fellow activists Rev. Osagyefo Sekou, Bree Newsome and Dr. Cornel West during the “Ferguson is Everywhere” hip-hop concert on August 9, 2015.
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Maxine Bernstein / Oregonian:
Ammon Bundy's lawyer argues for his client's right to wear cowboy boots at trial — “We would prefer our clients not look like disheveled slackers in front of the jury.” -Attorney J. Morgan Philpot — Before prospective jurors file into Courtroom 9A in the federal courthouse …
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Ben White / Politico:
63 days to freedom — 63 DAYS TO FREEDOM — Here we go folks. Just over two months and this entire, dismal, garbage fire campaign will come to a merciful end. The race tightened somewhat over the late summer with Donald Trump consolidating some of the GOP vote and Hillary Clinton largely …
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Hannah Parry / Daily Mail:
Yoga teacher, 34, who ‘flashed boys and performed sex act on 15-year-old at bar mitzvah’ claims in court she was ‘drugged and raped by teens’ — Lindsey Ann Radomski, 34, of Scottsdale, Arizona faces 18 charges including with sexual indecency with a child
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LawNewz and John Hawkins' Right Wing News
Washington Post:
Mexican finance minister steps down after helping arrange Trump visit … MEXICO CITY — President Enrique Peña Nieto on Wednesday replaced his finance minister, widely seen as the architect of Donald Trump's trip to Mexico, after the U.S. candidate's visit caused a firestorm of protest here.
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David Luhnow / Wall Street Journal:
Mexico's Finance Minister Resigns in Wake of Trump Visit
Mexico's Finance Minister Resigns in Wake of Trump Visit
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New York Times, Business Insider, Talking Points Memo and Politico
Nick Gass / Politico:
House Armed Services chairman: 'I've got concerns' about Trump — Hours before Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump were set to take the stage of the Commander in Chief Forum to answer questions about their national security bona fides, the Republican chairman of the House Armed Services Committee showed …
Marie Waxel / KSLA-TV:
Bakery refuses to write ‘Trump 2016’ on cake — A Facebook post shared by a Bossier Parish teen is getting a lot of attention. — It reads, “Just left Albertsons. The woman behind the cake counter just refused to make me a birthday cake because I wanted Trump 2016 on it. Did that really just happen.”
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Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Trump's Alias “John Baron” Threatened An Author Writing A Book On Him In The 1980s — One of the stranger stories about Donald Trump to emerge this election cycle is that, on occasions in the past, he posed as his own publicist using the alias “John Baron” when speaking with the press.
Sarah Frostenson / Vox:
America's uninsured rate just dropped to a new low — Fewer Americans are uninsured than ever before, new federal data shows. — Quarterly numbers from the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) show that the uninsured rate fell to 8.6 percent during the first three months of 2016.
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Shane Goldmacher / Politico:
Hillary Clinton's ‘Invisible Guiding Hand’ — BROOKLYN, N.Y. — There are only a handful of corner offices inside Hillary Clinton's campaign headquarters, and they are mostly occupied by familiar names: campaign manager Robby Mook, campaign chairman John Podesta, and Huma Abedin, her ubiquitous confidante.
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Rush Limbaugh:
The Shaming of the Never Trumpers — RUSH: He's using the name of a famous Roman, Publius Decius Mus, seeking to be anonymous here. This piece is a shaming of the conservative intellectuals that comprise the Never Trump movement. It is shot between the eyes of conservative intellectuals who say that Trump is beneath them.
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Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Donald Trump ending press ‘blacklist’ — Donald Trump is ending a practice most journalists think he never should have started: his “blacklisting” of news outlets. — Effective on Thursday, the Trump campaign says it will approve requests for press credentials from The Washington Post …