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Report: Lester Holt May Pull a Candy Crowley at First Presidential Debate — CNN's Brian Stelter says Lester Holt is signaling to his NBC colleagues that he may enter the fray in Monday night's presidential debate as a participant rather than a moderator — thanks to intense left-wing backlash …
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Vox, CNNMoney, Mediaite and The American Spectator
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The Daily 202: Trump wins the debate expectations game — THE BIG IDEA: Many reporters have set the bar unfairly low for Donald Trump ahead of tonight's presidential debate, raising the specter that pundits will declare him “the winner” even if he makes a series of factually inaccurate statements …
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The Atlantic, Politico, TIME, The Huffington Post, New York Times, NPR and CNNMoney

Networks reject on-screen fact checking during debate
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Guardian, Politicus USA, Talking Points Memo and Media Matters for America, more at Mediagazer »

Bloomberg TV to fact check debate on-screen
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Mediaite, Politicus USA and Guardian, more at Mediagazer »

Lester Holt Is At The Center Of The Great Fact-Checking Debate Of 2016
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RedState, New York Times, New York Magazine and Media Matters for America


Where did all those ‘Trump Lies’ articles come from this weekend? The Clinton campaign, of course — Over the weekend, several major American newspapers printed a variation of the same article pointing out instances, in their view, when Donald Trump has lied to the American people during the 2016 presidential campaign.
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Raw Story, Daily Kos, Balloon Juice, Vox, Politicus USA, Shot in the Dark, Instapundit, alan.com and Arkansas Blog, Arkansas Times
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Asymmetry between the major parties fries the circuits of the mainstream press — And five other ideas I use to interpret campaign coverage this year. — On the eve of the first debate between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, I thought I would write down some of the precepts and maxims …
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Washington Monthly and The Week

The weekend America's newspapers called Donald Trump a liar
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ThinkProgress, Townhall.com, Raw Story, Washington Monthly, Talking Points Memo and The Daily Caller, more at Mediagazer »


The Note: Debate Expectations — Hofstra Edition
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Washington Post, Hit & Run and Politico


Glenn Beck Breaks Up With Ted Cruz Over His Donald Trump Endorsement — Glenn Beck nervously paced back and forth through his TV studio designed to look like the Oval Office. — “He's gonna call?” the conservative stalwart sheepishly asked. Beck was a lovesick puppy questioning whether …
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Mediaite, The Week and Business Insider
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Cruz profited off Trump well before endorsing him — It took Ted Cruz four months and three weeks of “careful consideration, of prayer and searching my own conscience” to declare publicly that he would vote for Donald Trump. — He made the decision to profit by selling his supporter list to Trump far faster than that.
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Business Insider, RedState, Talking Points Memo, Daily Kos, FiveThirtyEight, The Week and New Century Times


Silver: Trump Would Win If Election Were Held Today
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The Week and Morning Consult


Why Donald Trump Should Not Be President — Donald Trump is a man who dwells in bigotry, bluster and false promises. — When Donald Trump began his improbable run for president 15 months ago, he offered his wealth and television celebrity as credentials, then slyly added a twist …
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Washington Post, TheStreet.com, Shakesville, The Resurgent, Politico and The Week
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AHEAD OF DEBATE, AMERICA'S ICE OFFICERS ENDORSE DONALD J. TRUMP FOR PRESIDENT
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Politico, The Daily Caller and Front Page Magazine

Ahead of debate, Trump endorsed by U.S. immigration officers
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Hot Air, WayneDupree.com and ImmigrationProf Blog


Trump, Clinton Deadlocked in Bloomberg Poll Before Key Debate — The Republican nominee erased the Democrat's advantage in August's two-way contest. — McCormickJohn — Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are locked in a tied two-way race for the presidency as they head to Hofstra University …
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CNN/ORC polls: Trump, Clinton deadlocked in Colorado, Pennsylvania — Trump: If Clinton wins Pennsylvania, she cheated — (CNN)Just one point separates Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump in two states that are critical to both candidates' chances of becoming president, according to new CNN/ORC polls in Pennsylvania and Colorado.
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Vox, Washington Post, RedState, Hot Air, The Daily Caller, National Review, Washington Times, Morning Call, YouGov US Opinion Center News and CBS News

New poll has Clinton, Trump in virtual dead heat in Colorado, Pennsylvania
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Washington Free Beacon, Mediaite, ABC News and Hot Air


Mylan's EpiPen Profit 60% Higher Than Told to Congress — Company applied 37.5% tax rate onto the profits it revealed to a House committee hearing last week — When Mylan NV's chief executive testified before a congressional committee last week about steep price increases on its lifesaving EpiPen drug …
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Washington Post, Business Insider and NBC News


Besieged Globalists Ponder What Went Wrong — Until recently, you didn't hear people being referred to as “globalist” very often. But in a time of rising nationalism, those who see the upside of globalism have become a distinct — and often embattled — tribe. — Last week, the globalists had a big family reunion in New York.
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Occidental Dissent


Walmart apologizes for refusing to make police officer's cake — Walmart is apologizing for refusing to make a police officer's retirement cake last week after an employee told the cop's daughter that her “thin blue line” cake design might be considered racist.
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AOL, Mediaite, Liberty Unyielding, twitchy.com and Weasel Zippers

Clinton vs. Trump: The only 30 minutes that matter — Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump will debate for 90 minutes on Monday. But the winner likely will be determined in the first half-hour. — That's when Al Gore first sighed, Mitt Romney knocked President Obama on his heels …
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AOL, Daily Kos, John Hawkins' Right Wing News, NBC News and Guardian


Leaked FBI Data Reveal 7,700 Terrorist Encounters in USA in One Year; Border States Most Targeted — Leaked documents with sensitive FBI data exclusively obtained by Breitbart Texas reveal that 7,712 terrorist encounters occurred within the United States in one year and that many of those …
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RedState


Syria and Russia Appear Ready to Scorch Aleppo — BEIRUT, Lebanon — Make life intolerable and death likely. Open an escape route, or offer a deal to those who leave or surrender. Let people trickle out. Kill whoever stays. Repeat until a deserted cityscape is yours.
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