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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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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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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
New York Post:
Explosion rocks Chelsea in New York City … A dumpster blew up at 8:30 p.m. Saturday night in Chelsea, blowing out the lower windows of a 14-story residence for the blind. — At least 26 suffered minor injuries from what may have been an explosive device, police sources told The Post.
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Alyssa Zauderer / New York's PIX11:
25 injured in outdoor explosion in Chelsea — CHELSEA, Manhattan — The FDNY says 25 civilians were injured in an outdoor explosion in Chelsea Saturday night. — The explosion happened in a garbage can around 8:30 p.m. at 135 23rd St. between Sixth and Seventh avenues.
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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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Logan Churchwell / Breitbart:
Black Dallas Cop Sues Black Lives Matter, Soros for Inciting Race War
Black Dallas Cop Sues Black Lives Matter, Soros for Inciting Race War
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John Hawkins' Right Wing News
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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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
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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Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
As Trump rises in battleground states, Clinton moves to block his path to 270
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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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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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 …
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CNN:
Bomb explodes near Marine Corps race in New Jersey — Explosive goes off in trash can during charity run — (CNN)An explosion that went off in a garbage can Saturday morning in a New Jersey beach town likely was timed to disrupt a Marine Corps charity run, authorities said.
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Asbury Park Press, Pamela Geller, Washington Post, WHNT-TV and CANNONFIRE
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.”
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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Julia Hahn / Breitbart:
Trump to Victims of Illegal Alien Crime: You Have Been ‘Forced into the Shadows’ — On Saturday, Republican nominee Donald Trump addressed the American families victimized by open borders that have been “forced into the shadows” by both establishment politicians and media elites.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb / Medium:
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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AMERICAN DIGEST
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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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