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10:50 PM ET, September 7, 2016

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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.
Brian Beutler / New Republic:
The Media Coverage of Hillary Clinton Is Out of Whack
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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David Edwards / Raw Story:
Katrina Pierson vilifies Dallas Morning News as a ‘liberal paper’ for backing first Dem in 75 years  —  DON'T MISS STORIES.  FOLLOW RAW STORY!  —  Trump campaign national spokesperson Katrina Pierson blasted The Dallas Morning News after it endorsed the first Democratic candidate in more than 75 years instead of picking Donald Trump.
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 …
Discussion: New York Times and Daily Kos
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Nick Gass / Politico:   House Armed Services chairman: 'I've got concerns' about Trump
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  —  FBI Director James Comey responded Wednesday to accusations that the agency played politics with the timing of the release of a report detailing the Hillary Clinton  —  email investigation, saying he doesn't “play games.”
Discussion: The Daily Caller
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.
Discussion: Reuters, Daily Kos and Politico
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Taylor Gee / Politico:   Chelsea Clinton accuses Trump of ‘sad, misogynistic, sexist rhetoric’
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.
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
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 …
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 …
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.
Daily Mail:
Obama DID meet with foul-mouthed Filipino leader after he apologized for calling U.S. president a ‘son of a bitch’  — Duterte had earlier warned Obama not to ask about extrajudicial killings during a planned meeting in Laos or ‘I will swear at you’  — But Philippines officials confirmed …
Discussion: Mediaite and Associated Press
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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
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.”
Discussion: Washington Monthly
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Glenn Beck / New York Times:
Empathy for Black Lives Matter
Discussion: Western Journalism
Media Matters for America:
After Once Calling For “Arrest” Of Julian Assange, Now That He's Attacking Clinton, Hannity Hopes For His Release  —  Hannity Once Called For Assange's “Arrest,” Said Assange Was “Waging” A “War Against The US”  —  Blog ››› September 6, 2016 ››› NICK FERNANDEZ
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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.”
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.
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 …
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 …
Discussion: Althouse
Tony Rizzo / Kansas City Star:
Alleged KCK bank robber, 70, chooses prison over home and wife  —  A 70-year-old man charged with robbing a Kansas City, Kan., bank said he did it because he preferred a jail cell over living with his wife.  —  Lawrence John Ripple is charged in federal court with the Friday afternoon robbery of the Bank of Labor at 756 Minnesota Ave.
Discussion: alan.com
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.
Jason Nevel / State Journal Register:
600 District 186 children sent home for not getting required physicals, shots  —  Springfield School Board member Mike Zimmers had harsh words for the parents of the 600 children who were sent home Tuesday for not having their required physicals and immunizations.
Discussion: WQAD-TV and Associated Press
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
Associated Press:
Ginsburg: ‘Cooler Heads Will Prevail’ on High Court Nominee  —  Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said Wednesday that she thinks “cooler heads will prevail” in the Senate, where Republican leaders are refusing to consider President Barack Obama's high court nominee.
Discussion: Washington Post
 
 
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Ken Meyer / Mediaite:
French Police Foil Terror Plot After Finding Car Full of Gas Canisters Near Notre Dame
Jim Malewitz / The Texas Tribune:
Feds Accuse Texas of Misleading On Relaxed Voter ID Requirements
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Marnie O'Neill / NEWS.com.au:
US-trained police sniper Colonel Gulmurod Khalimov made ‘ISIS minister of war’
Ariel Levy / New Yorker:
The Drug of Choice for the Age of Kale
Discussion: Big Think and National Review
John Bresnahan / Politico:
House plans to vote to allow 9/11 lawsuits against Saudi Arabia
Andy Greene / Rolling Stone:
Bob Dylan to Unveil Enormous Iron Archway in Maryland
Discussion: Washingtonian and Althouse
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Christina Wilkie / The Huffington Post:
Behind Closed Doors, Donald Trump's Adviser Explains His Real Economic Plan
Discussion: Althouse and Instapundit
Burgess Everett / Politico:
Senate GOP plots way to dodge Koskinen impeachment
Discussion: The Daily Caller and The Hill
St. Louis American:
Ferguson activist Darren Seals dies at 29
 

 
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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”

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

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

 
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