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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Matt Lauer's Pathetic Interview of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump Is the Scariest Thing I've Seen in This Campaign — I had not taken seriously the possibility that Donald Trump could win the presidency until I saw Matt Lauer host an hour-long interview with the two major party candidates.
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Meghan Keneally / ABC News:
Trump Says Putin Better Leader Than Obama in Military Town Hall
Trump Says Putin Better Leader Than Obama in Military Town Hall
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John Wagner / Washington Post:
Trump praises Putin at national security forum
Trump praises Putin at national security forum
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Gabriel Debenedetti / Politico:
Clinton, Trump on defensive in national security forum
Clinton, Trump on defensive in national security forum
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The Atlantic
Patrick Healy / New York Times:
Forum Offers Preview of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump Presidential Debate
Forum Offers Preview of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump Presidential Debate
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The Atlantic
Zack Beauchamp / Vox:
Donald Trump just lied about opposing the Iraq War before it started. Here's proof.
Donald Trump just lied about opposing the Iraq War before it started. Here's proof.
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BuzzFeed, The Atlantic, ThinkProgress, NBC News, New York Times, Peacock Panache and Refinery29
Jeremy Herb / Politico:
‘Embarrassing to our country’: Trump suggests he'll fire top generals — Donald Trump trod into uncharted territory Wednesday night when he suggested that if elected he might fire some of the top generals now running the military. — As the Republican presidential nominee slammed …
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Matt Flegenheimer / New York Times:
Here's What You Missed in the Presidential Forum — Hillary Clinton and Donald J. Trump squared off from the same stage Wednesday evening — if not exactly face to face — in a televised forum on national security and veterans issues. The candidates appeared and took questions separately …
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Althouse
NBC News:
Commander-In-Chief Forum — Who is better qualified to serve as America's next Commander in Chief? — NBC News and the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America present a historic event Wednesday: The Commander-in-Chief Forum live from New York City. — Democratic presidential nominee …
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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Brian Beutler / New Republic:
The Media Coverage of Hillary Clinton Is Out of Whack — The problem isn't the scrutiny of her emails or the Clinton Foundation, but treating such sins as comparable to Donald Trump's. — By the end of last week, high-profile liberals and members of the political press corps were battling …
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Washington Monthly and The Week
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.
Nick Gass / Politico:
Pence to Clinton, Kaine: ‘Insults are not a plan’
Pence to Clinton, Kaine: ‘Insults are not a plan’
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Daily Kos, Mother Jones and The Daily Caller
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Dems sound alarm on Senate majority — The campaign chairman for Senate Democrats on Wednesday warned his colleagues that if the elections were held today, the party would gain only three Senate seats, according to lawmakers who were in the room. — That outcome would leave Democrats …
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Political Wire
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Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Presidential Race Up for Grabs in Florida
Presidential Race Up for Grabs in Florida
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Hot Air, The Gateway Pundit, The Last Refuge, Daily Kos, Florida Politics and Naked Politics
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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Jessie Hellmann / The Hill:
Comey defends releasing FBI's Clinton report before holiday weekend
Comey defends releasing FBI's Clinton report before holiday weekend
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The Daily Caller
Connor O'Brien / Politico:
Trump turns defense hawk — For months, Donald Trump has blasted Congress for excessive defense spending, calling for buying fewer of the newest fighter jets and scaling back weapons purchases pushed by “special interests.” — But on Wednesday, he was singing from the traditional GOP …
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Donald J Trump for President, The Last Refuge and War on the Rocks
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Evan Vucci / Talking Points Memo:
Trump Outlines Scattershot Plan For Yooooge Military Buildup
Trump Outlines Scattershot Plan For Yooooge Military Buildup
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New York Times and Daily Kos
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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USA Today, The Daily Caller, AOL, Mediaite, New Century Times and New York Magazine
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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Byron Tau / Wall Street Journal:
Colin Powell Gave Hillary Clinton Tips on How to Avoid Email Scrutiny — Former secretary of state warned of danger in BlackBerry use — WASHINGTON—Former Secretary of State Colin Powell told Hillary Clinton at the start of her tenure at the State Department that he used a personal computer …
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The Right Scoop, Political Wire and twitchy.com
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 …
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Richard Winton / Los Angeles Times:
Cal Poly student Kristin Smart vanished 20 years ago. Now, authorities are digging the campus for her body — The cold case took a new twist Tuesday when the FBI and the San Luis Obispo County Sheriff's Department announced they were excavating at three sites
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Washington Post, AOL and Associated Press
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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The Gateway Pundit, Hot Air, Business Insider and Vox Popoli
TigerWoods.com:
Tiger to start 2016-17 season with three events — Woods hopes to make return to competitive golf at Safeway Open in October — Tiger plans on playing the Hero World Challenge, which is hosted by the Tiger Woods Foundation, Dec. 1-4 in the Bahamas. (Getty Images)
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New York Times, CBS Boston, Bleacher Report and The Big Lead
Nick Gass / Politico:
Giuliani: Black parents should ‘teach children to be respectful of the police’ — In order to solve the issue of racial bias in policing, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani said Sunday, the United States needs to “look differently at race if we're going to change it.”
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Washington Monthly
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Rachael Bade / Politico:
Freedom Caucus eyes biggest power grab since Boehner — The House Freedom Caucus is eyeing its biggest power play since it pushed out John Boehner as speaker last year. — Members of the group of far-right agitators are considering a plan to run one of their own as a candidate …
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.
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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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.
TMZ.com:
Ryan Lochte — Suspended for 10 Months — EXCLUSIVE — Ryan Lochte just got his punishment for his Rio gas station hijinks, and we're told the U.S. Olympic Committee was tough, but not career-ending. — USOC connected sources tell TMZ Sports ... Lochte has been suspended for 10 months.
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