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7:05 AM ET, September 29, 2016

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Julie Miller / Vanity Fair:
Revisit the Time Donald Trump Said Kim Kardashian Had “Gotten a Bit Large” [Updated]  —  The presidential candidate has a history of body shaming women. … Just two days after Hillary Clinton called out Donald Trump for the reprehensible way he discusses women during their televised debate …
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CNN:
Trump campaign talking points: Bring up Monica  —  Trump polls audience of Christian conservatives  —  (CNN)Donald Trump's campaign is instructing its supporters to use figures like Monica Lewinsky and Gennifer Flowers to beat back concerns about how Trump described a former winner of …
Discussion: New York Magazine and Politico
BBC:
Obama: Congress veto override of 9/11 lawsuits bill ‘a mistake’  —  US President Barack Obama has said Congress made a “mistake” by overriding his veto and pushing through a bill that allows legal action against Saudi Arabia over the 9/11 attacks.  —  He said the bill would set a …
Discussion: CNN, ABC, CNNMoney and Clarion Project
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Republicans in Denial That the Debate Exposed Donald Trump As Unfit for Office  —  If you're a Republican who has been clinging to the wan hope that Donald Trump might somehow, in his eighth decade on Earth, develop into a plausibly competent president of the United States, the first debate should have been your moment to abandon ship.
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Jennifer Wang / Forbes:
Donald Trump's Fortune Falls $800 Million To $3.7 Billion  —  Despite decades of precedent among presidential candidates, Donald Trump has been steadfast in his refusal to release his tax returns.  “You don't learn that much from tax returns,” he said at the first presidential debate on Monday …
Discussion: Mediaite and Occupy Democrats
Raw Story:   Donald Trump's net worth fell $800 million over the past year: Forbes
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Trump Goes After Machado Again  —  In the situation Donald Trump is in with former Miss Universe Alicia Machado, any media professional or really anyone with a conscience would say this: “We quarreled many years ago.  It's in the past.  I truly wish her the best.”  Done and done.
Discussion: Associated Press
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Gabe Ortíz:
For All The “Miss Housekeepings”—Including My Mom
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Alex Griswold / Mediaite:
Fmr Miss Universe Machado on Allegation She Was a Murder Accomplice: 'I'm Not a Saint Girl'
Carla Field / WYFF-TV:
Child airlifted after shooting at Townville Elementary School  —  At least one child was injured and airlifted after a shooting at Townville Elementary School.  —  Anderson County Sheriff's Office Lt. Sheila Cole said the shooting shortly after 1 p.m. was at Townville Elementary School …
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J. Michael Diehl / Washington Post:
I sold Trump $100,000 worth of pianos.  Then he stiffed me.  —  The Republican nominee is a callous businessman.  —  At Monday night's debate, Donald Trump was called out for stiffing the people who work for him.  Trump has been accused of failing to pay hundreds of contractors.
Greg Jaffe / Washington Post:
Obama faces tough questions from military and veterans  —  FORT LEE, Va. — Military personnel and veterans challenged President Obama, often aggressively, on his refusal to use the phrase “Islamic terrorism,” his decision to open combat jobs up to women and the performance of the Department …
Discussion: Politico
New York Times:
California Suspends Ties With Wells Fargo  —  Citing Wells Fargo's “venal abuse of its customers,” the California treasurer took the unusual step on Wednesday of suspending many of its ties with the San Francisco bank as it continues to reel from the scandal over the creation …
Discussion: The Atlantic
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Margaret Talbot / New Yorker:
Trump and the Truth: The “Lying” Media  —  This essay is part of a series The New Yorker will be running through the election titled “Trump and the Truth.”  —  The irony of Donald Trump's relationship with the press is that, while he has spent his entire campaign complaining bitterly about it …
NBC News:
Poll: Majority of Voters Say Clinton Won First Presidential Debate  —  Trump Spins Debate as Win, But Polls Show Most Voters Think He Lost 1:33  —  A majority of likely voters (52 percent) who either watched the debate or said they followed debate coverage in the news said Hillary Clinton won …
Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
Wow!  Obama Administration Admits It Does Not Screen Refugees For Radical Views (VIDEO)  —  The Obama administration admitted today at the Senate Judiciary Committee they do not scree refugees for radical views.  —  Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL) grilled Principal Debuty Assistant Secretary of Population …
Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
OMG!!  LEFTIST MOB Beats, Kicks, Pummels TRUMP Supporter for Wearing #MAGA Hat - SAVED by Police -VIDEO  —  Author and conservative activist Mike Cernovich passed this along tonight....  A Trump supporter in El Cajon, California was attacked, beaten, thrown to the ground and kicked on live Periscope.
David Caplan / ABC News:
Gary Johnson Has Another ‘Aleppo Moment’ After Failing to Immediately Identity His Favorite World Leader  —  Gary Johnson has once again demonstrated that foreign policy may not be his strong point.  —  On Wednesday night — just three weeks after the Libertarian presidential candidate curiously asked …
Rachael Bade / Politico:
Paul Ryan's treacherous political future  —  Paul Ryan and those in his close-knit political orbit have long shunned prognosticating about the speaker's political ambitions.  Young kids.  Unpredictable political climate.  And the speakership is a tough job.
Los Angeles Times:
‘You killed my brother!’:  Unarmed man killed by El Cajon police was ‘mentally sick,’ sister says  —  An image from cellphone video of a deadly confrontation between two El Cajon police officers and a man whose sister says she told them he was mentally ill. (El Cajon Police Department)
Ian Hanchett / Breitbart:
FCC Commissioner on Internet Oversight Switch: ‘If You Cherish Free Expression,’ ‘You Should Be Worried,’ This Is ‘Irreversible’  —  On Wednesday's “Sean Hannity Show,” FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai (R) stated that the plan to “essentially give up the US oversight role...of the Internet” …
Patrick Gillespie / CNNMoney:
Venezuela crisis: I flew to U.S. to buy toilet paper  —  Carmen Mendoza came to New York to visit her daughter Anabella — and also to buy toilet paper, soap, toothpaste, beans, corn flour, tuna fish, mayonnaise and aspirin.  —  Mendoza, 66, can't find these basic goods in her home country: Venezuela.
Discussion: Hot Air and Power Line
Jill Disis / CNNMoney:
U.S. warns Samsung washing machine owners after explosion reports  —  Samsung, maker of the troubled Galaxy Note 7 smartphone, has another problem on its hands.  —  U.S. regulators on Wednesday warned owners of certain top-loading Samsung washing machines of “safety issues” following reports that some have exploded.
Discussion: ABC News, Gizmodo, WCMH-TV and Mashable
Wil S. Hylton / New York Times:
Baltimore vs. Marilyn Mosby  —  In the midst of a national crisis of police violence, Baltimore's state's attorney gambled that prosecuting six officers for the death of Freddie Gray would help heal her city.  She lost much more than just the case.  —  A little before 7 the other night …
True Pundit:
RIGGED: Damning Video Busts Hillary Using Hand Signals To Trigger Lester Holt  —  A comprehensive video has surfaced that rather convincingly shows Hillary Clinton using hand signals like a third base baseball coach to prompt moderator Lester Holt to quickly call on her to counter comments …
Michael Tomasky / The Daily Beast:
Hillary Clinton Saved the Bombshells for Round 2  —  Come along with me, people, because it's already time to look ahead to the second debate.  Consider this thought: Hillary Clinton took Donald Trump to the house Monday night without even playing some of the heaviest cards against him.
Discussion: The Week
Josh Rogin / Washington Post:
In debate, Trump's lack of nuclear knowledge on display  —  When nuclear weapons policy came up in Monday's presidential debate, Donald Trump showed once again that he doesn't have basic knowledge of the details and hasn't thought through how he would handle America's nuclear arsenal if elected.
Discussion: Daily Wire, Politico and Daily Kos
 
 
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Lachlan Markay / Washington Free Beacon:
Senate Dem Report Attacking EPA Critics Traced to Green Pressure Group
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Jason L. Riley / Wall Street Journal:
Trump's Losing Debate Strategy
Bloomberg:
The Clinton Campaign Has a Millennial Math Problem
Discussion: USA Today, Common Dreams and CNN
Mikaela Porter / Hartford Courant:
Nathan Carman: Grandfather Was “Like A Father to Me”
Discussion: NBC News and AOL
Matt Fuller / The Huffington Post:
House Sets Up Vote On Flint Funding In Bid To Avert Government Shutdown
Discussion: Vox and Daily Kos
Matt Shuham / Talking Points Memo:
Trump Keeps Citing Online Votes Even As Polls Show He Lost The Debate
 Earlier Items: 
Louis Nelson / Politico:
Trump polls supporters about bringing up Clinton scandals in next debate
Discussion: New York Magazine
AP Story / Associated Press:
Reason to cringe: Female voters react to Trump
Glenn Reynolds / Instapundit:
LIFE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE: So the whole “investigation” …
Discussion: National Review
Katie Bo Williams / The Hill:
FBI silent on pending Clinton perjury probe
Discussion: Hot Air and Wall Street Journal
Oliver Darcy / Business Insider:
Memo: Fox News VP reminds staff that online debate polls ‘do not meet our editorial standards’
 

 
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is working on a smart doorbell system with advanced facial recognition that can wirelessly connect and unlock third-party smart locks

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Donald Trump announces that Sriram Krishnan, until recently a general partner at a16z, will serve as senior policy advisor for AI at the White House OSTP

Financial Times:
Sources: Palantir and Anduril are in talks with OpenAI, SpaceX, and more to form a consortium to bid for US defense contracts and plan to announce it in January

 
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