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Joe Marusak / The Charlotte Observer:
Man shot by police at University City apartment complex — Police shot and killed a man in the parking lot of a University City apartment complex on Tuesday afternoon. — A large crowd of protesters gathered as word of the shooting spread and blocked off the road while chanting “Hands up …
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Kim Bellware / The Huffington Post:
Police In North Carolina Fatally Shoot Man Witnesses Say Was Disabled, Unarmed — Protests erupted after the sixth killing of a civilian by Charlotte-Mecklenburg police in the past year. — Police in Charlotte, North Carolina, on Tuesday fatally shot a black man they said was armed …
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Amanda Marcotte / Salon:
Pat McCrory's shifty gambit: N.C. governor tries to blame pro-gay laws for NCAA boycott — Governor blames boycotts on Charlotte's anti-discrimination ordinance, instead of the anti-LGBT law he supported — North Carolina's HB2, which became nationally known as the anti-trans “bathroom bill …
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Wbtv Web / WBTV-TV:
Charlotte faces unrest after deadly police shooting
Charlotte faces unrest after deadly police shooting
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Joe Bruno / WSOC-TV:
Protest erupts in northeast Charlotte after deadly officer-involved shooting
Protest erupts in northeast Charlotte after deadly officer-involved shooting
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Alan Blinder / New York Times:
Protests Erupt in Charlotte After Police Kill a Black Man
Protests Erupt in Charlotte After Police Kill a Black Man
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Derek Hawkins / Washington Post:
12 officers injured, fires set, as protests break out in Charlotte after police fatally shoot man
12 officers injured, fires set, as protests break out in Charlotte after police fatally shoot man
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J.D. Durkin / Mediaite:
BREAKING: Corey Lewandowski Pulled From Appearing on CNN Morning Show — Editor's Note: CNN has denied that Corey Lewandowski is suspended, and said that he will be on air later today. — Mediaite has learned that Corey Lewandowski, the former embattled campaign manager for the Trump campaign …
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Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
CNN commentator Lewandowski remained on Trump payroll in August — CNN commentator and former Donald Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski was paid $20,000 in August by the campaign for what it described as “strategy consulting,” raising anew the conflict of interest issue that has dogged the cable network's hiring of Lewandowski.
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J.J. Gallagher / ABC News:
Trump Still Paying Fmr. Campaign Manager Lewandowski as Consultant — Donald Trump's presidential campaign paid former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski's company $20,000 in consulting fees in August, campaign filings show. — Lewandowski was fired as Trump's campaign manager on June 20 …
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Hadas Gold / Politico:
Corey Lewandowski to be paid by Trump campaign through 2016
Corey Lewandowski to be paid by Trump campaign through 2016
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Jeremy Diamond / CNN:
Trump brags about using 'other people's money' amid questions over charity use — Kenansville, North Carolina (CNN)Donald Trump bragged Tuesday there's “nothing like” using other people's money, hours after a report said he used more than $250,000 from his charitable organization to litigate lawsuits against his business interests.
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New York Times:
Mr. Trump's Stupid Excuses on Taxes — All major party nominees for president going back nearly 40 years have released their tax returns except Donald Trump. That leads to a simple question: What is he hiding? — Mr. Trump's principal argument for why he should lead the country …
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Hillary Clinton / New York Times:
My Plan for Helping America's Poor
My Plan for Helping America's Poor
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Ross Douthat / New York Times:
Clinton's Samantha Bee Problem — When the histories of the Trump era are written from exile in Justin Trudeau's Canada, they will record that it was none other than Jimmy Fallon who brought down the republic. — Or so you might have thought, at least, listening the furious liberal reaction …
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Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
Sheriff Arpaio Still Insists Obama's Birth Certificate Was ‘Forged’ — Despite Donald Trump's admission that President Obama was born in the United States, Joe Arpaio, the sheriff of Maricopa County, Arizona, on Tuesday pledged to continue pushing birtherism.
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Siraj Datoo / Bloomberg:
Donald Trump Jr.'s Skittles Comparison Used to Be a Feminist Meme — The internet never forgets. It just remembers differently. — When Donald Trump Jr. compared refugees to a bowl of potentially poisonous Skittles, internet outrage ensued. Ben Grelle's anger was a little more personal.
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John Bacon / USA Today:
ACLU: Tulsa officer shot Terence Crutcher ‘in cold blood’ — The ACLU of Oklahoma on Tuesday demanded that criminal charges be filed against Tulsa police officers whose fatal shooting of an unarmed black man last week was caught on video. — But the lawyer for Officer Betty Shelby claims …
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Rick McCrabb / News & information for Hamilton …:
Middletown police chief ‘sick, tired’ of officer-involved shootings
Middletown police chief ‘sick, tired’ of officer-involved shootings
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John McCormick / Bloomberg:
Top Earners Back Clinton in Bloomberg Poll After Decades With GOP — In 2012, this group backed Romney over Obama by 10 percentage points, exit polls show. — McCormickJohn — Higher-income voters are narrowly supporting Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton in another sign …
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Sarah Westwood / Washington Examiner:
Clinton gave State Department appointments to 194 donors — Hillary Clinton placed dozens of her donors on State Department advisory boards between 2009 and 2012, federal records show. — The former secretary of state's agency appointed 194 donors who had given either to her family's foundation …
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Katy O'Donnell / Politico:
Clinton Foundation to lay off dozens of staff
Clinton Foundation to lay off dozens of staff
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Zeninjor Enwemeka / WBUR:
Mass. High Court Says Black Men May Have Legitimate Reason To Flee Police — Black men who try to avoid an encounter with Boston police by fleeing may have a legitimate reason to do so — and should not be deemed suspicious — according to a ruling by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court.
CNN:
Egyptian president responds to Trump's Muslim ban — CNN's Erin Burnett sat down with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, and ask him about his meeting with Republican Presidential nominee Donald Trump and how he feels about Trump's proposed ban on Muslims. Source: CNN
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Matt Latimer / Politico:
Trump's Guide to Winning Through Gaffes — That Donald Trump's campaign has had more returns from the dead than a soap opera villain is hardly a novel observation. What is noteworthy is the manner in which he's bounced back. Time and again, Trump has survived what only a few years ago …
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Presidential Race Tied, Cooper Up in NC — The Presidential race in North Carolina is about as tight as it can be, and it's also becoming increasingly clear who will end up deciding the winner in the state: voters who would like to continue the direction of President Obama's leadership, but who also strongly dislike Hillary Clinton.
Eli Lake / Bloomberg:
Preparing for North Korea's Inevitable Collapse — Let's be honest. The world would be a better place if a revolutionary tribunal in the near future sent North Korea's Kim Jong-un and his henchmen to the gallows. Kim's subjects are so malnourished that North Koreans are notably shorter than their South Korean cousins.
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