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Tom Fontaine / Greensburg Tribune-Review:
Trump Jr. to Trib: Dad will ‘separate’ from business interests if elected — Donald Trump Jr. talks about his father's campaign with the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review at the Trib's office on the North Shore, Wednesday, September 14, 2016. — BY TOM FONTAINE — Donald Trump Jr. dismissed …
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Jesse Byrnes / The Hill:
Five dramatic revelations from Powell's leaked emails — Candid emails from former Secretary of State Colin Powell are causing a stir across the country with their blunt assessment of a host of Washington's stars. — The emails, released by hackers behind a WikiLeaks-type website believed …
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John Hawkins' Right Wing News
Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
Powell in leaked email slams Bill Clinton on continuing affairs with ‘bimbos’ — A website claiming to have hacked former Secretary of State Colin Powell's private emails has published correspondence that appears to show Powell accusing President Bill Clinton — of adultery.
Daniel Halper / New York Post:
Colin Powell: Bill Clinton ‘still d—ing bimbos (according to the NYP)’
Colin Powell: Bill Clinton ‘still d—ing bimbos (according to the NYP)’
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Mediaite, Talking Points Memo, Jon Rappoport's Blog and Guardian
Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Colin Powell Called The Cheneys Idiots
Colin Powell Called The Cheneys Idiots
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Mediaite, Guardian, Raw Story, Talking Points Memo, New York Magazine and Hot Air
Gabriel Debenedetti / Politico:
Bill's glitzy birthday bash raises money for Clinton Foundation
Bill's glitzy birthday bash raises money for Clinton Foundation
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The Week and The American Conservative
CBS News:
Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton locked in tight race nationally - CBS/NYT poll — With the first debate less than two weeks away, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are in a tight race for the presidency nationally. Clinton has just a 2-point edge in a two-way match-up among likely voters.
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Giovanni Russonello / New York Times:
Poll Shows Tight Race for Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton — With less than eight weeks before Election Day, Donald J. Trump and Hillary Clinton are locked in a tight contest, with both candidates still struggling to win the confidence of their respective bases, the latest New York Times/CBS News poll finds.
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Josh Barro / Business Insider:
My gut worry about the polling shift toward Donald Trump
My gut worry about the polling shift toward Donald Trump
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The Huffington Post:
Donald Trump Wants Peter Thiel On The Supreme Court, Sources Say — The eccentric billionaire endorsed Trump in a speech at the Republican National Convention this summer. — Washington bureau chief for The Huffington Post — Donald Trump has made it clear he will nominate Peter Thiel …
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RedState, TheStreet.com, Business Insider, BillMoyers.com, Lawyers, Guns & Money and Mediaite
Nick Gass / Politico:
Trump on Flint pastor: ‘She was like a nervous mess’ — The pastor in Flint, Michigan, who interrupted Donald Trump as he ripped into Hillary Clinton on Wednesday “was like a nervous mess” as she introduced him, the Republican nominee said Thursday, adding that he “figured something was up.”
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New York Times, Daily Kos, The Week, heave-ho.org and Washington Post
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Rich Lowry / Politico:
Time to Face It: Trump Really Could Win This — If Democrats are starting to panic, they should. What else do they have to throw at him? — If you aren't seriously contemplating the biggest black swan event in American electoral history, you aren't paying attention.
Washington Post:
Donald Trump, scam artist … THE TRUMP campaign believes this editorial is not journalism. It is “badgering.” That is how campaign manager Kellyanne Conway described on Tuesday some simple questions The Post and others have asked Mr. Trump and his circle over the past several months about his supposed philanthropic activities.
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David A. Fahrenthold / Washington Post:
Trump bought a 6-foot-tall portrait of himself with charity money. We may have found it.
Trump bought a 6-foot-tall portrait of himself with charity money. We may have found it.
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twitchy.com, The Week and New York Times
Jenna Johnson / Washington Post:
Despite gestures, Trump is still the least transparent U.S. presidential candidate in modern history
Despite gestures, Trump is still the least transparent U.S. presidential candidate in modern history
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Politico, NBC News, Los Angeles Times, Hullabaloo, Capitol View, The Week, CNBC, MSNBC, New York Times, Talking Points Memo, heave-ho.org, Vox and ImmigrationProf Blog
Joseph W. McQuaid / UnionLeader.com:
An Editorial — Joseph W. McQuaid, Publisher: A better choice for President (No need to hold your nose) — New Hampshire Union Leader Publisher … In 1972, Union Leader Publisher William Loeb found himself having to recommend either President Richard Nixon or challenger George McGovern.
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Allegra Kirkland / Talking Points Memo:
Trump Jr: My Dad's ‘12,000-Page’ Tax Return Would Prompt Too Many Queries — Donald Trump Jr. said that one reason his father has yet to receive his tax returns, in a break from four decades of precedent for presidential candidates, was that the complicated documents would provoke too many questions.
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David Corn / Mother Jones:
The Time Trump's Campaign Manager Called Americans “a Bunch of Pigs” — Immediately after the news broke that Hillary Clinton had said that half of Donald Trump's supporters were racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, or Islamophobic and belonged in a “basket of deplorables,” Kellyanne Conway …
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Raw Story
New York Times:
New Records Shed Light on Donald Trump's $25,000 Gift to Florida Official — TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — It was Aug. 29, 2013, an unremarkable day inside Florida's whitewashed Capitol, and a typically sweltering one outside among the moss-bearded oaks and sabal palms.
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New York Daily News, The Atlantic, The Week, JustOneMinute and Washington Post
Aaron Klein / Breitbart:
NEW YORK - Conspiracy theorists are going to have a field day with this one. — An email hacked from Colin Powell's Gmail account has him writing that he had just returned from the famed Bohemian Grove — a place the Washington Post once described as “where the rich and powerful go to misbehave” …
Associated Press:
Boy, 13, fatally shot by police after pulling out BB gun — COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A police officer responding to a reported armed robbery shot and killed a 13-year-old boy when the teen pulled a firearm from his waistband that was later determined to be a BB gun, police said Thursday.
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ThinkProgress, WCMH-TV, The Week and The Root
Rachael Bade / Politico:
GOP negotiators reach deal to postpone IRS impeachment vote — House Freedom Caucus Chairman Jim Jordan and Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte have reached a tentative compromise to postpone a vote to impeach the IRS commissioner, sources familiar with the talks told POLITICO.
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Jonathan Bernstein / Bloomberg:
House Republicans Face New Tests of Their Irrelevance
House Republicans Face New Tests of Their Irrelevance
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Mother Jones and Talking Points Memo
Prachi Gupta / Cosmopolitan:
Ivanka Trump on Her Father's New Child Care and Maternity Leave Policy — Cosmopolitan.com spoke to the 34-year-old Trump Organization executive about the plan she heavily influenced. — On Tuesday night, Donald Trump released a child care and maternity leave plan that offers new mothers six weeks …
Associated Press:
WITNESS SAYS PHILIPPINE PRESIDENT ORDERED KILLINGS OF 1,000 — MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A former Filipino militiaman testified before the country's Senate on Thursday that President Rodrigo Duterte, when he was still a city mayor, ordered him and other members of a liquidation squad …
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alan.com and Associated Press
Marc Caputo / Politico:
Why Florida is still in play for Trump — MIAMI — The nation's biggest battleground state should have buried Donald Trump's White House hopes. — With Florida's booming Hispanic population, Trump's harsh immigration rhetoric sounded like political suicide.
Art Swift / Gallup:
Americans' Trust in Mass Media Sinks to New Low — WASHINGTON, D.C. — Americans' trust and confidence in the mass media “to report the news fully, accurately and fairly” has dropped to its lowest level in Gallup polling history, with 32% saying they have a great deal or fair amount of trust in the media.
Calvin Tomkins / New Yorker:
Gold Toilet — Five years ago, the artist Maurizio Cattelan announced his retirement from art by hanging virtually everything he had done—a hundred and twenty-eight startling objects and images—from the skylight at the top of the Guggenheim Museum's spiral atrium.
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