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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 …
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Ines de la Cuetara / ABC News:
Marco Rubio ‘Deeply Concerned’ About Possible Donald Trump Cuba Business — Florida Sen. Marco Rubio said Donald Trump will have to “answer some questions” about a Newsweek story reporting that a Trump-owned company allegedly violated the United States' trade embargo with Cuba in the late 1990s.
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ThinkProgress, Talking Points Memo, Politico and Guardian
Marc Caputo / Politico:
Report on Trump company's Cuba dealings could affect crucial Florida vote
Report on Trump company's Cuba dealings could affect crucial Florida vote
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Daily Wire, Politicus USA and Naked Politics
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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Vox, Townhall.com, RedState, FiveThirtyEight, Talking Points Memo, Mediaite, Washington Post, The Resurgent, Raw Story, Boing Boing, New York Times and Hot Air
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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 …
Adam Kelsey / ABC News:
Trump Campaign Manager on Bill Clinton's Past: 'I'm Not Advising Him to Go There'
Trump Campaign Manager on Bill Clinton's Past: 'I'm Not Advising Him to Go There'
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Politico
Shawn Boburg / Washington Post:
Enabler or family defender? How Hillary Clinton responded to husband's accusers
Enabler or family defender? How Hillary Clinton responded to husband's accusers
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RedState and Betsy's Page
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.
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CBS New York:
At Least 1 Dead, Dozens Hurt After NJ TRANSIT Train Crashes At Station In Hoboken
At Least 1 Dead, Dozens Hurt After NJ TRANSIT Train Crashes At Station In Hoboken
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Mashable, WRIC-TV, WJTV, WNEP-TV, Vox Popoli, Fox 59, FOX2now.com, Q13 FOX News, New York's PIX11, The Daily Caller, Liberty Unyielding, Associated Press, twitchy.com, ABC News, Joe.My.God., KFOR-TV, Gothamist, CBS Chicago and The Root
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, CNN, Independent Journal Review, USA Today, AOL, The Week, Scared Monkeys, twitchy.com and Front Page Magazine
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BBC:
Obama: Congress veto override of 9/11 lawsuits bill ‘a mistake’
Obama: Congress veto override of 9/11 lawsuits bill ‘a mistake’
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Hit & Run, CNN, ABC, CNNMoney, The Daily Caller and Clarion Project
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
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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The New Civil Rights Movement, Mashable, The Verge, NBC News and Politicus USA
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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
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ThinkProgress, New York Times, alan.com and Media Matters for America
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, Hullabaloo, New York Magazine, Daily Kos, Law News, Jezebel 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 …
Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Stein attempts to mock Johnson after foreign leader gaffe — Green Party presidential nominee Jill Stein on Thursday appeared to mock Libertarian nominee Gary Johnson — by naming in a series of tweets some of her own favorite leaders. — “Here are a few of my favorite leaders …
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Politico
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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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New York Times, Bloomberg, True Pundit, Politico, The Daily Caller, twitchy.com and ABC News
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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New York Times, New Urban Legends, ThinkProgress and Mother Jones
Matt Bai / Yahoo:
Why Clinton hasn't put Trump away — My first impression, after watching the opening chapter of the Trump-Clinton debate trilogy Monday, was that really not much would change as a result. Trump had been his rude, sputtering, substance-free self; Clinton had proved herself again …
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The Resurgent
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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Salon, Daily Mail, National Review, The Hill, Washington Times, Talking Points Memo and Lawyers, Guns & Money
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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
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
Lindsey Ellefson / Mediaite:
Megyn Kelly Tears Kellyanne Conway to Bits Over Trump's History of Misogyny — This is one interview that stands above the rest in a sea of truly intense Election 2016 interviews. — As you'll recall, Megyn Kelly was dragged through the mud by Donald Trump for well over a year because she asked …
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Independent Journal Review and New Century Times
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
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
Lisa Hagen / The Hill:
Trump slams media for dismissing online post-debate polls — on Wednesday criticized the media for saying online post-debate polls “don't mean anything,” as he continues to brag about winning the surveys many consider unscientific and unrepresentative. — At a rally in Council Bluffs …
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Mother Jones
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
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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Washington Post, The Daily Caller, Infowars, Associated Press and The American Mirror
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 and The Mahablog
Julia Carrie Wong / Guardian:
‘This is awful’: robot can keep children occupied for hours without supervision — A child-size robot designed to take on distinctly adult responsibilities takes the debate over the automation of human jobs to the next level — umanoid robots were out of fashion at this year's RoboBusiness …
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Mother Jones