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Margaret Newkirk / Bloomberg:
Rioting May Tip Presidential Scales in Crucial North Carolina — Chaos after police killing culminate years of rising tension — 'You've got passions that are stirred up and running high' — Riots threaten to sway a deadlocked presidential race in race-riven North Carolina …
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New York Magazine, CNN and Politico
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Colin Campbell / Raleigh News & Observer:
Charlotte protesters ‘hate white people,’ NC Congressman Robert Pittenger says — U.S. Rep. Robert Pittenger says the violence in Charlotte stems from protesters who “hate white people because white people are successful and they're not.” — Pittenger is a Republican whose district includes parts …
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Ryan James / The Daily Beast:
Video: I Saw a Protester Get Shot Over Nothing in Charlotte
Video: I Saw a Protester Get Shot Over Nothing in Charlotte
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BizPac Review, RedState, twitchy.com, Mediaite, Infowars and Fox News
Jordyn Phelps / ABC News:
Exclusive: President Obama Urges ‘Peaceful’ Approach to Reforming Policing in Wake of Charlotte
Exclusive: President Obama Urges ‘Peaceful’ Approach to Reforming Policing in Wake of Charlotte
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Politico
Morgan Winsor / ABC News:
Police Say Video Shows Keith Lamont Scott Had Gun in Hand
Police Say Video Shows Keith Lamont Scott Had Gun in Hand
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Associated Press, The Verge, Hot Air, The Root and Independent Journal Review
Adam Kelsey / ABC News:
Donald Trump: Drugs a ‘Very, Very Big Factor’ in Charlotte Protests
Donald Trump: Drugs a ‘Very, Very Big Factor’ in Charlotte Protests
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Politico, AOL, New York Magazine and The Daily Signal, more at Mediagazer »
Kenneth P. Vogel / Politico:
Trump received $1.6 million from Secret Service — Donald Trump's campaign isn't alone in patronizing his own businesses: taxpayers are indirectly doing so, too. — Federal Election Commission records show that the U.S. Secret Service has paid the Trump campaign about $1.6 million to cover …
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The Hill, New York Magazine, CNBC, RedState, The Week, Occupy Democrats, New Century Times, Mediaite, Guardian and The New Civil Rights Movement
Business Wire:
An Important Message to Yahoo Users on Security — SUNNYVALE, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—A recent investigation by Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO) has confirmed that a copy of certain user account information was stolen from the company's network in late 2014 by what it believes is a state-sponsored actor.
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Bob Lord / Yahoo:
An Important Message About Yahoo User Security — A recent investigation by Yahoo has confirmed that a copy of certain user account information was stolen from the company's network in late 2014 by what it believes is a state-sponsored actor. The account information may have included names …
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Tulsa Police Officer Charged With Manslaughter In Terrence Crutcher Death — BY: NEWSON6.COM — The Tulsa County District Attorney Stephen Kunzweiler announced he charged Officer Betty Shelby with first-degree manslaughter in the death of Terence Crutcher.
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BuzzFeed, Business Insider, ThinkProgress and theGrio
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Michael Sainato / The Hill:
Past is prologue in police relations with people of color
Past is prologue in police relations with people of color
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch and The Root
Julia Jacobo / ABC News:
Tulsa Police Officer Shares Her Side of the Story in Terence Crutcher's Shooting
Tulsa Police Officer Shares Her Side of the Story in Terence Crutcher's Shooting
Arturo Garcia / Raw Story:
Tulsa cop Betty Shelby charged with manslaughter for killing Terence Crutcher
Tulsa cop Betty Shelby charged with manslaughter for killing Terence Crutcher
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alan.com and The New Civil Rights Movement
Glenn Harlan Reynolds / USA Today:
Statement from Glenn Reynolds — 'I didn't live up to my own standards, and I didn't meet USA TODAY's standards. For that I apologize.' — Wednesday night one of my 580,000 tweets blew up. I didn't live up to my own standards, and I didn't meet USA TODAY's standards.
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Glenn Reynolds / Instapundit:
OPENED UP TWITTER TO SEE THIS: — Can't imagine why they'd do that …
OPENED UP TWITTER TO SEE THIS: — Can't imagine why they'd do that …
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Guardian:
Ohio Trump campaign chair Kathy Miller says there was ‘no racism’ before Obama — Kathy Miller called the Black Lives Matter movement ‘a stupid waste of time’ and said low African American voter turnout could be due to 'the way they're raised' … Donald Trump's campaign chair …
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Raw Story, The Columbus Dispatch, WKBN-TV, RedState, Politicus USA, NBC News, The Right Scoop, BuzzFeed, Macleans.ca, Mashable, The Atlantic, USA Today, Talking Points Memo, The New Civil Rights Movement, Mediaite, Business Insider, Gothamist, Occupy Democrats, WDTN-TV, KXAN-TV, alan.com, Daily Kos, theGrio, The Resurgent, The Week and Vox
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Numbers / Pew Research Center:
More say press is too easy on Trump than said so of Romney, McCain
More say press is too easy on Trump than said so of Romney, McCain
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Hot Air and Politicus USA
Wall Street Journal:
Facebook Overestimated Key Video Metric For Two Years — Social network miscalculated the average time users spent watching videos on its platform — Big ad buyers and marketers are upset with Facebook Inc. after learning the tech giant vastly overestimated average viewing time for video ads …
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Bloomberg, SiliconBeat, Boing Boing, Mother Jones and Business Insider, more at Mediagazer »
Bill McKibben / New Republic:
Recalculating the Climate Math — The numbers on global warming are even scarier than we thought. — The future of humanity depends on math. And the numbers in a new study released Thursday are the most ominous yet. — Those numbers spell out, in simple arithmetic …
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Manhattan Contrarian and Common Dreams
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Jonathan Cohn / The Huffington Post:
THE FUTURE OF AMERICA IS BEING WRITTEN IN THIS TINY OFFICE — Back in the comparatively innocent days of 2015, before Donald Trump completed his hostile takeover of the Republican Party, before the Bernie Sanders juggernaut really got going, Hillary Clinton's campaign thought it could get ahead through well-crafted policy proposals.
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New York Magazine and Washington Monthly
Kelly Weill / The Daily Beast:
Cops Pepper-Spray Girl Who Fell Off Bike — When a teenage girl riding her bike collided with a car, cops didn't simply take her to the hospital but instead handcuffed her, pepper sprayed her, and threw her in the back of their squad car. — A bystander's cell phone footage shows …
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Boing Boing
Peter Montgomery / Right Wing Watch:
Trump Campaign's New Catholic Liaison Has Called Him ‘Manifestly Unfit’ To Be President — There's eating your words, and there's eating your words. Here are some words about Donald Trump that Joseph Cella, reportedly the new “chief liaison to the campaign for Catholic affairs,” has apparently decided he is willing to choke down:
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Philly.com, Raw Story and National Catholic Reporter
John R. Coppedge / The Hill:
Clinton's eyes — a window into her health issues — In 2014 Conan O'Brien did a spoof of Hillary Clinton — 's interview with Diane Sawyer about her lack of lingering health issues following her 2012 concussion. In an obviously photoshopped version Clinton's eyes are made to oscillate crazily.
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No More Mister Nice Blog and Truth Kings
The Daily Beast:
Palmer Luckey: The Facebook Fat Cat Secretly Funding Trump's Meme Machine — A Silicon Valley titan is putting money behind an unofficial Donald Trump group dedicated to “shitposting” and circulating Internet memes maligning Hillary Clinton. — Oculus founder Palmer Luckey financially backed …
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Business Insider, Mashable, The Verge and New York Magazine
CNN:
First on CNN: US attorney investigating Weiner sexting allegations — Washington (CNN)Prosecutors in the office of US Attorney Preet Bharara have issued a subpoena for Anthony Weiner's cell phone and other records, according to law enforcement officials. — The FBI and the New York Police Department …
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Washington Post, Hot Air, Mediaite, NY State of Politics, The Daily Caller, Talking Points Memo, Politico and Daily Mail
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Jennifer Gould / New York Post:
Clintons shell out $1.16M to buy house next door in Chappaqua — It's not quite the Kennedy compound in Hyannis Port, but Bill and Hillary Clinton are expanding their Westchester spread by buying the house next door, The Post has learned. — The Clintons shelled out $1.16 million for the three-bedroom …
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The Daily Caller
Jason Horowitz / New York Times:
Inside Hillary Clinton's Outrage Machine, Allies Push the Buttons — Just before 9:30 p.m. on Sept. 13, the first Twitter post appeared, directing users to an obscure article about a remark Donald J. Trump had made last year that 50 percent of the country did not want to work.
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Daily Kos, Shareblue, Hot Air and Shakesville, more at Mediagazer »
Ruby Cramer / BuzzFeed:
How A Decision In May Changed The General Election — Last summer, when Donald Trump began his rise to the nomination, Hillary Clinton responded by pointing a finger squarely and firmly at the Republican Party. — Trump might sound extreme, she said, “but if you look at everyone else's policies, they're pretty much the same.”