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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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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.”
The Huffington Post:
Trump Held Fundraiser For Pam Bondi At Mar-a-Lago After She Dropped Investigation — The Republican Party of Florida paid much less for the venue than Trump's own campaign has paid. — National Political Reporter, The Huffington Post — WASHINGTON In March 2014, Donald Trump opened …
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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.
Louis Nelson / Politico:
Bill Clinton accuses Trump of using charity money to ‘pay off’ Pam Bondi
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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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Daily Kos, Florida Politics and Naked Politics
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New York Times:
Senate Democrats Block Zika Bill Over Planned Parenthood Provisions
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Mary Clare Jalonick / Associated Press:
GOP Congressman Brings Jar Of Mosquitoes To House Floor To Talk About Zika Bill
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Joe.My.God.
James Hohmann / Washington Post:
The Daily 202: Trump making a play for Virginia, despite long odds — THE BIG IDEA: Donald Trump will spend more money this week in Virginia than anywhere else. Of the $3.5 million in advertising time he's booked, $1.9 million will go into the commonwealth. More specifically, $1.4 million will be spent in the D.C. market.
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Joe.My.God.
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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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New York Times and Daily Kos
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Jose A. DelReal / Washington Post:
Trump says he would give generals 30 days to present plan to defeat Islamic State
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Bre Payton / The Federalist:
In Laos, Obama Repeatedly Calls Americans ‘Lazy’
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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’
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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 …
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
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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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 …
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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AOL, The Daily Caller, Mediaite and New York Magazine
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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The American Mirror, Peacock Panache, Raw Story, Mediaite, Infowars, WCMH-TV, National Review and The Daily Caller
Phil Shiver / Conservative Review:
Levin: I'm voting for Trump ... here's why — Mark Levin made the big announcement Tuesday night on his radio show after methodically walking listeners through his rationale. — At the beginning of the program, Levin made sure his real feelings were known.
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TheBlaze.com, Townhall.com, John Hawkins' Right Wing News, Hot Air, Mediaite, The Right Scoop and The Resurgent
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Joe Concha / The Hill:
Radio host Levin reverses: 'I'm gonna vote for Donald Trump'
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The Gateway Pundit, Western Journalism and The Last Tradition
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
Ariel Levy / New Yorker:
The Drug of Choice for the Age of Kale — How ayahuasca, an ancient Amazonian hallucinogenic brew, became the latest trend in Brooklyn and Silicon Valley. — The day after Apollo 14 landed on the moon, Dennis and Terence McKenna began a trek through the Amazon with four friends who considered themselves …
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Big Think and National Review
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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Washington Monthly, The Week and RedState
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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New York Magazine, Balloon Juice and Lawyers, Guns & Money
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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ThinkProgress, Business Insider, Mediaite and Washington Post
Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Transferred $1.3 Billion More in Cash to Iran After Initial Payment — First $400 million coincided with Iran's release of American prisoners and was used as leverage, officials have acknowledged — The Obama administration followed up a planeload of $400 million in cash sent to Iran …
Peter Thiel / Washington Post:
Trump has taught us this year's most important political lesson — The writer is an entrepreneur and investor. — Our government used to get things done. The Manhattan Project coordinated the work of more than 130,000 people in over a dozen states. It was difficult, unprecedented — and successful.
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Hit & Run
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 …
Byron Tau / Wall Street Journal:
Viral Sensation USA Freedom Kids Sues Trump Campaign — A musical group composed of three girls who performed at a Donald Trump rally in Florida earlier this year alleges in a new lawsuit that the Republican presidential nominee's campaign failed to fulfill its obligations.
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New Century Times and The Daily Beast
James West / Mother Jones:
Senator Calls for Homeland Security to Investigate Trump's Model Agency — Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) is calling on federal authorities to investigate Trump Model Management for alleged labor and immigration violations, in the wake of a Mother Jones investigation of the company.
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ThinkProgress, Barbara Boxer, Daily Kos, Talking Points Memo, Politico and Media Matters for America
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