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12:25 PM ET, September 13, 2016

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McKay Coppins / BuzzFeed:
Republicans Privately Panic At “Terrifying” Prospect Of Trump Win  —  The Clinton campaign's wobbly performance over the past 72 hours has set off a rash of behind-the-scenes handwringing among professional Republicans as they confront an unnerving new possibility: What if their nominee actually wins the White House?
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Cindy Boren / Washington Post:
The man who discovered CTE thinks Hillary Clinton may have been poisoned  —  Bennet Omalu, the forensic pathologist who has made the NFL so uncomfortable with his discovery of chronic traumatic encephalopathy in the brains of deceased players, suggests that Hillary Clinton's campaign be checked …
Robert Costa / Washington Post:
Donald Trump to unveil child-care policy influenced by Ivanka Trump  —  Donald Trump on Tuesday will unveil several policy proposals for lowering child-care costs that were crafted in part by his eldest daughter, Ivanka, including a plan to guarantee six weeks of paid maternity leave that marks …
David A. Fahrenthold / Washington Post:
Trump's campaign says he's given ‘tens of millions’ to charity, but offers no details and no proof  —  A spokeswoman for Donald Trump's presidential campaign, seeking to rebut criticism of the GOP nominee's history of charitable giving, said that Trump has given away “tens of millions of dollars” over his life.
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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Yes, half of Trump supporters are racist
Discussion: Hullabaloo and The Nation
Theodore Schleifer / CNN:
Pence declines to call David Duke ‘deplorable,’ disavows support
Rachael Bade / Politico:
Pence tries to douse David Duke fire
Discussion: ABC News
Brianna Ehley / Politico:
The inside story of Clinton's sick day  —  Hillary Clinton never lost consciousness, and never stopped talking on her phone — and never put anyone else in danger — after her near swoon at a Sept. 11 memorial on Sunday in New York, according to accounts offered by several people close to the candidate.
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Cristiano Lima / Politico:
Gingrich: Additional Clinton health reports won't count
Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Clinton's impulse to ‘power through’ with pneumonia set off cascade of problems
Daniel Desrochers / Lexington Herald-Leader:
Bevin says physical fight may be needed to preserve conservative values  —  Gov. Matt Bevin said Saturday that America is at a fork in the road and if something isn't done soon to protect religious and conservative values, people might have to physically fight for them.
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Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
Kentucky's governor said something really scary over the weekend  —  Speaking at the Values Voter Summit on Saturday, Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin alluded to Thomas Jefferson's famous aphorism about the need to periodically water the tree of liberty with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Taegan Goddard / Political Wire:   Bevin Says Clinton Election Might Require Shedding Blood
Stuart Rothenberg / Washington Post:
Why Clinton's narrow lead is bigger than it looks  —  Oddly, some journalists and Democrats seem confused about why the presidential race is so competitive at this point given Donald Trump's liabilities as a nominee.  —  Voters' antipathy to Hillary Clinton obviously is a good part of the answer …
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David Lightman / McClatchy Washington Bureau:   Why the election map has a built-in, and growing, Democratic bias
Bloomberg:
Tracing Donald Trump's Rust-Belt Route
Discussion: Washington Post
NCAA.org:
NCAA to relocate championships from North Carolina for 2016-17  —  Based on the NCAA's commitment to fairness and inclusion, the Association will relocate all seven previously awarded championship events from North Carolina during the 2016-17 academic year.  The NCAA Board of Governors …
archinte.jamanetwork.com:
Sugar Industry and Coronary Heart Disease Research  —  A Historical Analysis of Internal Industry Documents  —  FREE ONLINE FIRST  —  Cristin E. Kearns, DDS, MBA1,2; Laura A. Schmidt, PhD, MSW, MPH1,3,4; Stanton A. Glantz, PhD1,5,6,7,8  —  JAMA Intern Med.  —  ABSTRACT
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Deena Shanker / Bloomberg:
How Big Sugar Enlisted Harvard Scientists to Influence How We Eat—in 1965
Discussion: NPR
Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
Liberal groups frustrate Democrats with GOP endorsements  —  Two major liberal outside groups have endorsed Republicans in Senate races, frustrating Democrats who see the majority as within their grasp.  —  The Human Rights Campaign (HRC), which advocates for LGBT rights …
Discussion: Hot Air
NBC News:
Poll: Clinton's Lead Narrows Among Independents, Voters Nationally  —  Hillary Clinton's national lead over Donald Trump continues to narrow.  Clinton now leads Trump 48 percent to 44 percent, a decline of 2 points since last week, according to results from the latest NBC News|
Nick WagonerESPN / ESPN:
Colin Kaepernick continues anthem protest; other 49ers, Rams join  —  SANTA CLARA, Calif. — San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick's protest of racial oppression and inequality in the United States continued before Monday night's 28-0 win over the Los Angeles Rams.
Jim Tankersley / Washington Post:
Middle class incomes had their fastest growth on record last year  —  The incomes of typical Americans rose in 2015 by 5.2 percent, the first significant boost to middle-class pay since the end of the Great Recession and the fastest increase ever recorded by the federal government, the Census Bureau reported on Tuesday morning.
Discussion: ThinkProgress
Patricia Mazzei / Naked Politics:
In secret tape, Joe Garcia says Hillary Clinton ‘is under no illusions that you want to have sex with her’  —  Joe Garcia, the former Miami Democratic congressman running for his old seat, told supporters in a candid moment over the weekend that Hillary Clinton “is under no illusions …
Chris Strohm / Bloomberg:
House Republican Subpoenas FBI for Full Clinton Probe Files  —  ‘I get to see it all,’ Chaffetz tells FBI official at hearing  —  FBI witness cites ‘chilling effect’ on witness cooperation  —  The Republican chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee subpoenaed …
Discussion: Politico
Ethan Barton / The Daily Caller:
EXCLUSIVE: John Kerry's State Department Funneled MILLIONS To His Daughter's Nonprofit  —  More than $9 million of Department of State money has been funneled through the Peace Corps to a nonprofit foundation started and run by Secretary of State John Kerry's daughter, documents obtained by The Daily Caller News Foundation show.
 
 
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Ian Simpson / Reuters:
Trump luxury hotel opens just blocks from the White House
Discussion: True Pundit and alan.com
Elizabeth Chan / Hillary Clinton 2016:
Donald Trump, Pepe the frog, and white supremacists: an explainer
Discussion: RedState and Vanity Fair
Ewen MacAskill / Guardian:
Edward Snowden makes ‘moral’ case for presidential pardon
Discussion: Mediaite and Common Dreams
Jim Geraghty / National Review:
The Historical Amnesia about Hillary's Health
Discussion: Infowars, Mashable and Washington Post
Maj. Gen. Larry Stutzriem / The Hill:
Obama should not support Kaepernick's protest
Geoff Earle / Daily Mail:
Three blood clots, a concussion, deep vein thrombosis: Hillary's shielded medical history …
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Ann Coulter, doyenne of the deplorables
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Sean D. Hamill / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:
Weirton terminates officer who did not fire at man with gun
Niall Stanage / The Hill:
September disaster for Clinton campaign
Discussion: Instapundit
Edward L. Glaeser / City Journal:
If You Build It . . .  Myths and realities about America's infrastructure spending
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Former DNC chairman calls for Clinton contingency plan
 

 
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