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CNN:
Trump angry at allies conceding he lost debate — Washington (CNN)Donald Trump is angry that his aides and advisers have conceded to reporters — largely without attribution — that the Republican nominee struggled in his first presidential debate. — In a conference call …
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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 …
Shawn Boburg / Washington Post:
Enabler or family defender? How Hillary Clinton responded to husband's accusers — Hillary Clinton has wrestled with allegations surrounding her husband's infidelities for much of their 40-year marriage, including a sexual harassment lawsuit, a grand jury investigation and an impeachment vote centered …
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RedState and Betsy's Page
CBS New York:
At Least 1 Dead, Dozens Hurt After NJ TRANSIT Train Crashes At Station In Hoboken — HOBOKEN, N.J. — At least one person is dead and dozens were hurt when a NJ TRANSIT train crashed into the station in Hoboken, causing serious damage and disrupting train service during the Thursday morning rush.
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Fox News:
More than 100 reported hurt, passengers trapped after train crash at Hoboken, NJ station — DEVELOPING: More than 100 people were reported hurt, many critically, and others remained trapped after a train slammed into a busy station in Hoboken, N.J., during the Thursday morning commute as emergency workers rushed to the scene.
New York Daily News:
More than 100 injured, many critically, after major New Jersey Transit crash at Hoboken station
More than 100 injured, many critically, after major New Jersey Transit crash at Hoboken station
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NPR, CNN, The American Mirror, Daily Wire and The Week
Detroit News:
Endorsement: Libertarian Gary Johnson for president — Today this newspaper does something it has never done in its 143-year history: endorse someone other than the Republican candidate in a presidential contest. — Since its founding in 1873, The Detroit News has backed a Republican every …
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Ron Nielson / Facebook:
The Clinton and Trump supporters are at it again. This is gotcha-ism at its finest.
The Clinton and Trump supporters are at it again. This is gotcha-ism at its finest.
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True Pundit, New York Times, Bloomberg, Politico, The Daily Caller, ABC News and twitchy.com
Nikita Vladiirov / The Hill:
Johnson has an ‘Aleppo moment,’ can't name any foreign leader he admires
Johnson has an ‘Aleppo moment,’ can't name any foreign leader he admires
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ThinkProgress, New York Times, Mother Jones and New Urban Legends
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Donald Trump says Google proves he's winning — and is trying to make sure he loses — At the top of his rally in the critical Wisconsin county of Waukesha on Wednesday night, Donald Trump accused the search giant Google of both impeding and bolstering his candidacy.
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Jeremy Diamond / CNN:
Trump peddles Google conspiracy theory
Trump peddles Google conspiracy theory
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Daily Kos and Business Insider
Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
Trump Floats Conspiracy Theory That Google Suppresses ‘Bad’ Clinton News
Trump Floats Conspiracy Theory That Google Suppresses ‘Bad’ Clinton News
Nick Corasaniti / New York Times:
Donald Trump Pushes Debunked Theory That Google Suppressed Rival's Bad News
Donald Trump Pushes Debunked Theory That Google Suppressed Rival's Bad News
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ThinkProgress, Mashable and Media Matters for America
Kurt Eichenwald / Newsweek:
HOW DONALD TRUMP'S COMPANY VIOLATED THE UNITED STATES EMBARGO AGAINST CUBA — THE SCOOP DONALD TRUMP CUBA — A company controlled by Donald Trump, the Republican nominee for president, secretly conducted business in communist Cuba during Fidel Castro's presidency despite strict American trade bans …
Pamela Engel / Business Insider:
Obama had a tense exchange with CNN's Jake Tapper over why he won't say ‘radical Islamic terrorism’ — President Barack Obama sparred with CNN host Jake Tapper on Wednesday night in a tense exchange over Obama's refusal to use the phrase “radical Islamic terrorism.”
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Hot Air, USA Today, CNN, AOL, The Week, Scared Monkeys, twitchy.com and Front Page Magazine
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Greg Jaffe / Washington Post:
Obama faces tough questions from military and veterans
Obama faces tough questions from military and veterans
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CNN, The Daily Caller and Politico
Matt Pearce / Los Angeles Times:
Employees at Trump's California golf course say he wanted to fire women who weren't pretty enough — D — onald Trump wanted only the pretty ones, his employees said. — After the Trump National Golf Club in Rancho Palos Verdes opened for play in 2005, its world-famous owner didn't stop …
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Talking Points Memo, Jezebel, Daily Kos, Law News and The Week
Louis Nelson / Politico:
Gingrich on former Miss Universe: 'You're not supposed to gain 60 pounds' — Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich backed up Donald Trump's weight-based attacks against a former pageant winner, telling an audience Wednesday night that “you're not supposed to gain 60 pounds during the year that you're Miss Universe.”
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Françoise Mouly / New Yorker:
Cover Story: Donald Trump Is Barry Blitt's “Miss Congeniality” — “She was the worst we ever had, the worst, the absolute worst, she was impossible,” Donald Trump told Fox News the morning after his debate with Hillary Clinton, defending his treatment of Alicia Machado …
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Mother Jones, Talking Points Memo, Gothamist, Althouse and The Week
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Clinton Leads in Key Battlegrounds; Seen As Big Debate Winner — New Public Policy Polling surveys in Colorado, Florida, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Virginia, conducted on behalf of VoteVets Action Fund, find Hillary Clinton leading in each state. Voters in all five states see Clinton …
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Politicus USA
Ari Berman / The Nation:
Wisconsin Is Systematically Failing to Provide the Photo IDs Required to Vote in November — New recordings from the DMV show how the state is continuing to disenfranchise black voters. — By , — Madison, WI—Zack Moore, a 34-year-old African-American man, moved from Chicago to Madison last year.
Kevin Castle / WCYB:
ETSU student charged following gorilla mask incident at Black Lives Matter protest — ETSU: “Outraged” by Tristan Rettke's actions — An East Tennessee State University student was charged by police after he disrupted a Black Lives Matter event on campus by wearing a gorilla mask …
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USA Today, Telegraph, The Daily Caller and Jezebel
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Robert Draper / New York Times:
How Donald Trump Set Off a Civil War Within the Right-Wing Media — Since the candidate clinched the nomination, the green room has become a chilly place. — In recent years, one of the most important events on a prospective Republican presidential candidate's calendar was the RedState Gathering …
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The Resurgent, Media Matters for America and The Daily Caller
Lisa Mascaro / Los Angeles Times:
Trump's rise draws white supremacists into political mainstream: ‘I am winning,’ says David Duke — David Duke, Republican candidate for U.S. Senate, at home in Louisiana. (Lisa Mascaro / Los Angeles Times) — David Duke worked the Louisiana gun show like a preacher pursuing souls …
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Washington Monthly, theGrio, Raw Story and Media Matters for America
Massimo Calabresi / TIME:
How Russia Wants to Undermine the U.S. Election — What's behind Russia's effort to influence the U.S. election — The leaders of the U.S. government, including the President and his top national-security advisers, face an unprecedented dilemma. Since the spring, U.S. intelligence …
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The Week
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.
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The Week
Tierney Sneed / Talking Points Memo:
EXCLUSIVE: NY Attorney General's Probe Of Trump Foundation Appears To Widen — The New York attorney general's investigation of the Donald J. Trump Foundation appears to have broadened to include new allegations of self-dealing by Trump that surfaced after the probe began, TPM has learned.
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CNBC and American Prospect
Tyler Durden / zerohedge.com/fullrss2.xml/*:
How Reuters “Tweaked” Its Latest Poll (Again) To Show A Clinton Lead — Reuters has taken some heat in recent months for “tweaking” their polling methodology seemingly every time the data reveals “inconvenient” results for Hillary (see our previous posts on the topic here and here).
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The Gateway Pundit
Caleb Downs / Dallas Morning News:
Suspect in deadly crime spree in Dallas, Cedar Hill is three-time deportee — The suspect in a deadly crime spree in Cedar Hill and Dallas on Sunday was deported from the U.S. three times before his arrest outside Austin on Tuesday. — Silvestre Franco-Luviano, 40, was taken into custody …
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Infowars and The American Mirror