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Robert Costa / Washington Post:
Trump defiant as polls rise, won't say Obama was born in United States — CANTON, Ohio — Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump said in an interview here that he remains unwilling to say that President Obama is born in the United States, that he is more bullish than ever on his chances …
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Donald J Trump for President:
TRUMP CAMPAIGN STATEMENT — “Hillary Clinton's campaign first raised this issue to smear then-candidate Barack Obama in her very nasty, failed 2008 campaign for President. This type of vicious and conniving behavior is straight from the Clinton Playbook. As usual, however, Hillary Clinton was too weak to get an answer.
Judd Legum / ThinkProgress:
Trump is trying to rewrite his history of birtherism. This is what really happened. — ‘We have to keep the suspense going’ — Since 2011, Donald Trump has been the most prominent spokesperson for birtherism—the racist conspiracy theory that Barack Obama is not a U.S. citizen.
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Talking Points Memo, Lawyers, Guns & Money and Media Matters for America
Nick Gass / Politico:
Trump on Obama's citizenship: ‘We have to keep the suspense going, OK?’ — Donald Trump passed up yet another opportunity to say he accepts the fact that President Barack Obama was born in the United States, promising to make a “major statement” on Friday morning in front of his latest hotel project …
Libby Nelson / Vox:
Donald Trump's birther speech is a commercial for his new hotel — It's already remarkable — in a bad way — that a nominee for president of the United States has to make a major speech to disavow the racist, baseless conspiracy theory he started about the president's birth certificate.
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Jake Sherman / Politico:
Exclusive: Reid hits back at Trump
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Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
Megyn Kelly Grills Trump Spox On Birtherism: 'That's A Dodge!'
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Daniella Diaz / CNN:
Trump campaign: Obama born in the US
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Liz Kreutz / ABC News:
Clinton: ‘There is no Erasing’ Trump's History of ‘Birther’ Attacks on President Obama
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NBC News:
First Read: Why Trump Can't Escape His ‘Birther’ Past
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Alana Abramson / ABC News:
Donald Trump Jr.: 'Doesn't Know' if Father Will Explicitly Say Obama Born in US
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Politico
New York Times:
Hillary Clinton Takes Aim at Voters Drifting Toward Third Party — WASHINGTON — Hillary Clinton and her Democratic allies, unnerved by the tightening presidential race, are making a major push to dissuade disaffected voters from backing third-party candidates, and pouring more energy into Rust Belt states …
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Gabriel Debenedetti / Politico:
Gary Johnson cuts into Clinton's lead
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Todd Spangler / Detroit Free Press:
Poll: Donald Trump gaining on Hillary Clinton in Michigan
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Jesse Byrnes / The Hill:
Kasich: ‘Very unlikely’ I'll vote for Trump … Ohio Gov. John Kasich isn't ruling out voting for Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump — , though he says it's “highly unlikely” he'll support his former GOP rival. — “I'll let everybody know when, but I think my actions have spoken very loudly …
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Eric Bradner / CNN:
Kasich to meet with Obama to discuss TPP
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Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:
Heinz Ketchup proves that Donald Trump is out of his mind — Trump wants to end food safety regulation. Seriously. — Food poisoning will make America great again! — Or, at least, that's what Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump appears to be banking on with a new proposal released on Thursday.
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Lydia Wheeler / The Hill:
Trump would roll back food safety regulations
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Todd S. Purdum / Politico:
What's Really Ailing Hillary — She wasn't always like this. She wasn't always a woman who could almost collapse in public, then emerge from seclusion a couple of hours later announcing, “I'm feeling great,” as if nothing had happened, as if she hadn't already known for two days that she had pneumonia.
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Independent Journal Review
Liz Crokin / The New York Observer:
Exclusive: Hillary Clinton Campaign Systematically Overcharging Poorest Donors — Wells Fargo fraud department inundated with calls from low-income Clinton supporters reporting repeated unauthorized charges — Hillary Clinton's campaign is stealing from her poorest supporters by purposefully …
Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Why the Senate Couldn't Pass a Crime Bill Both Parties Backed — WASHINGTON — A major criminal-justice overhaul bill seemed destined to be the bipartisan success story of the year, consensus legislation that showed lawmakers could still rise above politics and take on a serious societal problem.
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Political Wire
U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission:
Samsung Recalls Galaxy Note7 Smartphones Due to Serious Fire and Burn Hazards — Recall Summary — Name of product: — Samsung Galaxy Note7 smartphones sold prior to September 15, 2016 — Hazard: — The lithium-ion battery in the Galaxy Note7 smartphones can overheat and catch fire …
Scott Jaschik / Inside Higher Ed:
Chicago Professors Fire Back — More than 150 faculty members offer new students a different view on safe spaces, trigger warnings and diversity. — By — More than 150 faculty members at the University of Chicago on Tuesday published an open letter to freshmen in which they take a …
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National Review
Clare Foran / The Atlantic:
How Bernie Sanders Die-Hards Echo Clinton Conspiracy Theories — Some conservatives are hard at work spreading conspiracy theories about Hillary Clinton's health in an attempt to disqualify her from seeking higher office. Video footage of the Democratic nominee stumbling as she abruptly departed …
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Scared Monkeys and The Daily Caller
Dow Jones Newswires:
In Places With Fraying Social Fabric, a Political Backlash Rises (9/15/16) — Ruth Gonzalez, 44, is getting help from the Lions Club in trying to renegotiate the two mortgages on her house, which is facing foreclosure. She fell behind on her payments because of mounting medical bills …
Sputnik International:
With Hillary as President ‘We are Looking at Nuclear War With Russia or China’ — The US Democratic Party continues to play the “Russian scare card” as part of its election campaign, criticizing Republicans for merely making positive remarks about Russia and its leader …
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