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ABC News:
‘This Week’ Transcript: Kellyanne Conway, Robby Mook, and Gary Johnson — THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT FOR ‘THIS WEEK’ on September 25, 2016 and it will be updated. — STEPHANOPOULOSTEPHANOPOULOS: And we are joined now by Hillary Clinton's campaign manager, Robby Mook. Robby, thanks for coming in —
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Fawn Johnson / Morning Consult:
Trump Edges Above Clinton Ahead of First Debate — Donald Trump leads Hillary Clinton by 1 percentage point among likely voters who were polled a few days ahead of the much-anticipated debate between the two presidential candidates. The debate will take place Monday evening.
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The Daily Caller, Hot Air and Guardian
Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Poll: Clinton, Trump in virtual dead heat on eve of first debate — Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump will meet Monday night for their first debate in a virtual dead heat in the race for the White House, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll, with the Democratic nominee's August advantage erased …
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Morning Call:
Trump makes big gains in latest Morning Call/Muhlenberg College poll of Pa. voters
Trump makes big gains in latest Morning Call/Muhlenberg College poll of Pa. voters
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Washington Post and Politico
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Conway calls Trump ‘the Babe Ruth of debating’
Conway calls Trump ‘the Babe Ruth of debating’
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The Hill, Instapundit and Weasel Zippers
Nicholas Kristof / New York Times:
How to Cover a Charlatan Like Trump — WITH presidential debates approaching, we in journalism are locked in a fierce dispute: How should we report on a duplicitous demagogue? — Traditionally, American reporters respond to a controversy by quoting people on each side and letting the public decide.
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Jill Disis / CNNMoney:
Debate commission chief: Candidates should fact-check each other — The head of the Commission on Presidential Debates has some advice for debate moderators this fall: leave the fact-checking to the candidates. — Janet Brown, executive director of the commission, told CNN's Brian Stelter …
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ABC News, Joe.My.God., New York Times and Balloon Juice
Samantha Page / ThinkProgress:
Trump campaign says media should not be ‘fact-checkers’
Trump campaign says media should not be ‘fact-checkers’
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ABC News, Politicus USA, New York Times, Media Matters for America, Daily Kos, Lawyers, Guns & Money, alan.com, twitchy.com and Mother Jones
Josh Feldman / Mediaite:
Debate Commission Official Wary of Moderators Fact-Checking: Shouldn't Be ‘Encyclopedia’
Debate Commission Official Wary of Moderators Fact-Checking: Shouldn't Be ‘Encyclopedia’
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Washington Monthly
Margaret Chadbourn / ABC News:
Trump Campaign in Change of Tone Calls Debate Moderator ‘Brilliant’
The Seattle Times:
Suspect in mall shooting arrested; community mourns victims — Families of five people killed during a shooting rampage at a Burlington mall Friday night were mourning Saturday, as police arrested a suspect in Oak Harbor. — BURLINGTON, Skagit County — Tips and surveillance video led …
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Lynn Jacobson / The Seattle Times:
Police mistakenly describe Cascade Mall shooting suspect as ‘Hispanic’; protests erupt on Twitter — A controversy began brewing Friday night when Mount Vernon police described the suspect in the Cascade Mall shooting as a Hispanic male in his late teens to mid-20s with a close-shaved haircut.
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Tegna / KING-TV:
Tips from public lead to arrest of Burlington mall shooting suspect
Tips from public lead to arrest of Burlington mall shooting suspect
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John R. Schindler / The New York Observer:
The FBI Investigation of EmailGate Was a Sham — NSA Analyst: We now have incontrovertible proof the Bureau never had any intention of prosecuting Hillary Clinton — From the moment the EmailGate scandal went public more than a year ago, it was obvious that the Federal Bureau …
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Weasel Zippers, Infowars and New York Post
Brent Griffiths / Politico:
Donald Trump's Week of Misrepresentations, Exaggerations and Half-Truths — As August ended, a new Donald Trump emerged. Coached by his third campaign management team, he stayed on message, read from a teleprompter and focused on policy. It lasted about a month.
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Daily Kos and New Century Times
Caitlin Yilek / The Hill:
Don King defends using N-word at Trump event — Boxing promoter Don King is defending his use of the N-word while introducing Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump — at a campaign event in Ohio last week. — King, an African-American, let the N-word slip when he argued why black people “cannot assimilate.”
Michael Finnegan / Los Angeles Times:
Scope of Trump's falsehoods unprecedented for a modern presidential candidate — Donald Trump speaks at a rally in Jackson, Miss. (Jonathan Bachman / Getty Images) — Donald Trump says that taxes in the United States are higher than almost anywhere else on earth. They're not.
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Mother Jones
ESPN:
Jose Fernandez dies in boating accident — Miami Marlins ace Jose Fernandez was killed in a boating accident in Florida early Sunday morning. — The U.S. Coast Guard said Fernandez was one of three people killed in a boat crash off Miami Beach. Fernandez was 24 years old.
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Independent Journal Review, ImmigrationProf Blog, New York Magazine, Lawyers, Guns & Money and Mediaite
Matthew Watkins / The Texas Tribune:
One Day After Endorsement, Cruz Refuses to Say Trump is Fit for the Presidency … Editor's note: This story has been updated throughout. — One day after endorsing Donald Trump for president, Texas U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz refused Saturday to say whether he thinks the Republican nominee is fit to lead the country.
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Independent Journal Review and RedState
Barak Ravid / Haaretz:
Trump Tells Netanyahu: If Elected, U.S. Would Recognize Undivided Jerusalem as Israel's Capital — Israel's Ambassador to the U.S. Ron Dermer and Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner attended the 80-minute meeting at Trump Tower in New York. Netanyahu to meet Hillary Clinton later Sunday.
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CBS News:
Poll: Clinton, Trump in tossup Colorado race; Clinton holds lead in Virginia — In Virginia, Hillary Clinton has an eight-point lead, though that's down from the sizable twelve points it was last month amid her post-convention bounce. Colorado is a tossup — Clinton holds a mere one-point lead over Trump.
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Bob Owens / Bearing Arms:
BREAKING: Ankle Holster Clearly Visible As Police Release Keith Scott Shooting Video — Charlotte police are releasing body camera and dash camera video of the shooting of Keith Lamont Scott, a convicted felon who was shot and killed by Officer Brentley Vinson after Scott was told by police to drop his handgun 11 times in 45 seconds.
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Hot Air, Townhall.com and The Charlotte Observer
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