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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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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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Arkansas Blog, Arkansas Times, Daily Kos and New Century Times
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, alan.com, Lawyers, Guns & Money, 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
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
Police mistakenly describe Cascade Mall shooting suspect as ‘Hispanic’; protests erupt on Twitter
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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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USA Today, RedState, Daily Mail, Breitbart, Guardian, THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS and NBC News
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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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
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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Kyle Olson / The American Mirror:
Juanita Broaddrick would confront Hillary if Trump invited her to debate — When Juanita Broaddrick heard Bill Clinton mistress Gennifer Flowers could be attending the first presidential debate as Donald Trump's guest, she says that might be an opportunity she would welcome, too.
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Conway calls Trump ‘the Babe Ruth of debating’
Conway calls Trump ‘the Babe Ruth of debating’
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Fred Barnes / Weekly Standard:
Virginia Slim: The Race Tightens — Trump on the rise in the Old Dominion. — Photo credit: Evan Vucci / AP — Stephen Farnsworth, a political science professor at the University of Mary Wash-ing-ton, addressed a local group in Fred-ericksburg, Virginia, last week and talked about Donald Trump's chances of winning the state.
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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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LawNewz, Weasel Zippers, Infowars and New York Post
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.”
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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CNN, The Daily Caller and Joe.My.God.
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
Roger Angell / New Yorker:
My Vote — I am late weighing in on this election—late in more ways than one. Monday brought my ninety-sixth birthday, and, come November, I will be casting my nineteenth ballot in a Presidential election. My first came in 1944, when I voted for a fourth term for Franklin Delano Roosevelt …
CNN:
Charlotte shooting: City considers releasing police videos Saturday — Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Chief Kerr Putney said at a news conference that the department will release video footage of the shooting of Keith Scott, an African-American man who was killed earlier this week by a black police officer.
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Common Dreams, Liberty Unyielding, The Root, The Week, Daily Kos, The Charlotte Observer and New York Times
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