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VICE News:
VICE News reporter arrested outside a Donald Trump campaign event — Alex Thompson, a reporter for VICE News, was arrested by Houston Police today while inquiring about press access to an event held for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump at the Omni Westside Hotel.
Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
Democrats Panic as Colorado Slips Away to Donald Trump... Democrats are beginning to panic as they watch Colorado slide away from Hillary Clinton. — Hillary was ahead by double digits in Colorado last month. — The latest polling has Trump up by four points.
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Elliot Smilowitz / The Hill:
Dem senator to Trump: ‘Blood will be on your hands’ if Clinton killed — of suggesting his supporters kill Hillary Clinton — , tweeting furiously that “blood will be on your hands.” — “Hey @realDonaldTrump, if you keep suggesting your supporters kill @HillaryClinton, someone will listen.
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Hillary Clinton Speeches, Joe.My.God., The New Civil Rights Movement, Mediaite, BizPac Review and heave-ho.org
Harper Neidig / The Hill:
Giffords calls on Trump to renounce gun comments — Former Rep. Gabby Giffords (D-Ariz.) and her husband Mark Kelly lashed out at Donald Trump — on Friday for saying that Hillary Clinton — 's bodyguards should be “disarmed.” — “Tonight we have even more evidence …
Kristin Salaky / Talking Points Memo:
Dem Senator To Trump: If Someone Kills Clinton The Blood Is ‘On Your Hands’
Dem Senator To Trump: If Someone Kills Clinton The Blood Is ‘On Your Hands’
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Hillary Clinton Speeches, Mike Cernovich Presents …, AOL, gopthedailydose.com, BizPac Review and alan.com
Sean Sullivan / Washington Post:
Trump: Clinton's bodyguards should ‘disarm immediately’ and ‘see what happens to her’
Trump: Clinton's bodyguards should ‘disarm immediately’ and ‘see what happens to her’
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Guardian, Jihad Watch and New York Magazine
Robert M. Gates / Wall Street Journal:
Sizing Up the Next Commander-in-Chief — Neither candidate has seriously addressed how he or she thinks about the military or the use of force. — You wouldn't know it from the presidential campaigns, but the first serious crisis to face our new president most likely will be international.
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Talking Points Memo, Business Insider, The Concourse, Fox News Insider and Politico, more at Mediagazer »
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Natasha Geiling / ThinkProgress:
Former Secretary of Defense: Trump ‘unqualified and unfit to be commander-in-chief’ — Robert Gates had strong words for both candidates in a Wall Street Journal op-ed. — Former Defense Secretary Bob Gates is not a big fan of either Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton's ideas about foreign policy.
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Hullabaloo
Taegan Goddard / Political Wire:
‘Mr. Trump Is Beyond Repair’
‘Mr. Trump Is Beyond Repair’
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Washington Post and Politicus USA
Robert Moran / Philly.com:
2 cops shot, suspect and bystander killed in West Philly rampage — A gunman ambushed a Philadelphia police sergeant late Friday night, firing more than a dozen rounds before taking off, and then shot four civilians and a University of Pennsylvania police officer during his flight before he was finally cornered and killed by police.
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USA Today, Washington Post, Billy Penn, Fox News Insider and The Week
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Associated Press:
Suspect in Philadelphia Shooting Rampage Left Note Showing Hatred Toward Police, Officers Say
Suspect in Philadelphia Shooting Rampage Left Note Showing Hatred Toward Police, Officers Say
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The Daily Caller, Mediaite, New York Times and heave-ho.org
Elliot Smilowitz / The Hill:
Police officers shot in Philly, Fort Worth
Police officers shot in Philly, Fort Worth
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Hot Air, The Gateway Pundit and AOL
Mike Allen / Politico:
Exclusive: Here's who's playing Tim Kaine in GOP debate prep — In Mike Pence's prep sessions for the vice-presidential debate, the role of Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) is being played by Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, a top GOP source told POLITICO on Saturday. — The first mock debate has already been held.
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alan.com, Talking Points Memo and Joe.My.God.
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Annie Karni / Politico:
Exclusive: Robert Barnett to play Mike Pence in Tim Kaine debate prep
Exclusive: Robert Barnett to play Mike Pence in Tim Kaine debate prep
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alan.com
The Hill:
Trump stumbles after surge in polls — After several weeks of positive news cycles and polling gains brought about by a more disciplined campaign, Donald Trump — has committed a series of stumbles in recent days that experts see as a return to “bad Trump.”
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Business Insider
New York Post:
Bill Clinton's birthday bash proves the Clintons just can't stop influence-peddling — For a giant, flashing sign that the Clintons' influence-peddling will never end, look no further than Bill's 70th birthday party Friday night at the Rainbow Room — which of course is a Clinton Foundation fundraising bash.
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Peggy Noonan / Wall Street Journal:
Travel Back to an Early Clinton Scandal
David Goldstein / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
2 Clinton supporters in '08 reportedly shared Obama ‘birther’ story
2 Clinton supporters in '08 reportedly shared Obama ‘birther’ story
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Logan Churchwell / Breitbart:
Black Dallas Cop Sues Black Lives Matter, Soros for Inciting Race War — The head of a Dallas police organization is suing a collection of Black Lives Matter figureheads and other prominent individuals for allegedly inciting racial violence against American police officers.
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John Hawkins' Right Wing News
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Charles V. Bagli / New York Times:
A Trump Empire Built on Inside Connections and $885 Million in Tax Breaks — In the mid-1970s, eager to make his mark in Manhattan, the 30-year-old Mr. Trump focused his attention on the failing Commodore Hotel on East 42nd Street, next to Grand Central Terminal. The owner, the bankrupt Penn Central Railroad, was keen to sell.
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New York Magazine, U.S. Uncut and heave-ho.org
Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
DSCC shifts dollars out of Florida and Ohio — The top group helping Democrats win Senate seats is canceling advertising in Florida and Ohio to invest more heavily in Missouri and North Carolina. — The financial rejiggering by the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee spells …
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Hot Air
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miamiherald:
Zika zone triples in Miami Beach after more cases found — The zone of active transmission of Zika virus in Miami Beach has tripled to now encompass two thirds of the seaside city. — Gov. Rick Scott announced the expansion late Friday evening in a news release.
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New York Magazine and Common Dreams
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New York Daily News:
Meat cleaver madman, a Palestinian, was in Midtown to appeal deportation order before he sliced cop — The meat cleaver maniac who hacked an off-duty cop is a Palestinian busted two months ago while screaming in Arabic outside a Brooklyn synagogue. — Suspect Akram Joudeh was only in New York …
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Power Line, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, Jihad Watch, Gothamist, twitchy.com, Independent Journal Review and The Daily Caller
Spencer Kent / New Jersey Online:
‘Pipe bomb-style device’ explodes along military 5K route in Seaside — SEASIDE PARK — An explosive device went off in a garbage pail Saturday morning along the route of a 5K run and walk to benefit military soldiers. — Multiple devices were also found “wired together” in the same garbage pail …
Chris Kahn / Yahoo:
Race tightens in projected U.S. Electoral College vote: Reuters/Ipsos — NEW YORK (Reuters) - An election analysis conducted in the Reuters/Ipsos States of the Nation project shows that the race has tightened considerably over the past few weeks, with Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump projected …
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RedState, Scared Monkeys and The Week
Nassim Nicholas Taleb:
The Intellectual Yet Idiot — What we have been seeing worldwide, from India to the UK to the US, is the rebellion against the inner circle of no-skin-in-the-game policymaking “clerks” and journalists-insiders, that class of paternalistic semi-intellectual experts with some Ivy league …
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