memeorandum: The New York Times risked legal trouble to publish Donald Trump's tax return (Callum Borchers/Washington Post)

2:10 PM ET, October 2, 2016

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Donald Trump Tax Records Show He Could Have Avoided Taxes for Nearly Two Decades, The Times Found — Donald J. Trump declared a $916 million loss on his 1995 income tax returns, a tax deduction so substantial it could have allowed him to legally avoid paying any federal income taxes for up to 18 years …

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Jenna Johnson / Washington Post:

As news of Trump's taxes broke, he goes off script at a rally in Pennsylvania — MANHEIM, Pa. — Donald Trump's campaign announced Saturday evening that the candidate would soon deliver a nine-sentence critique of comments Hillary Clinton made months ago about many of the millennials supporting her primary rival, Bernie Sanders.

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Callum Borchers / Washington Post:

The New York Times risked legal trouble to publish Donald Trump's tax return — Dean Baquet wasn't bluffing. — The New York Times executive editor said during a visit to Harvard in September that he would risk jail to publish Donald Trump's tax returns.

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Judd Legum / ThinkProgress:

7 tweets by Trump about taxes that are very awkward now — Memories. — A blockbuster New York Times story revealed that Trump probably did not pay federal income taxes for two decades or longer. — Trump's lawyers threatened to sue the New York Times if they published the story.

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New York Times:

Pages From Donald Trump's 1995 Income Tax Records — The tax records obtained by The Times show that Donald J. Trump claimed a $916 million loss that could have allowed him to legally avoid paying federal income taxes for up to 18 years.

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NBC News:
Analysis: Trump May Have Had the Worst Week in Presidential Campaign History

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Philip Bump / Washington Post: What we know about Donald Trump's income tax history, by year

Dean Schabner / ABC News:
Donald Trump Tax Returns Reportedly Show $916 Million Loss in 1995

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Michael Coleman / Albuquerque Journal:

Clinton, Trump in tight race in New Mexico — WASHINGTON - Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton holds a slight lead over Republican Donald Trump among likely New Mexico voters in a four-way race, while Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson is pulling nearly a quarter of voter support in the state, according to a Journal poll.

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Gary Langer / ABC News:

Clinton Trounces in Debate Reactions; Trump's Unfavorability Edges Up (POLL) — Americans see Hillary Clinton as the winner of the first presidential debate by a near-record margin in ABC News/Washington Post post-debate polls, with nearly half saying Donald Trump got his facts wrong and one in three saying he outright lied.

Scott Clement / Washington Post:

51 percent of people in new WaPo-ABC poll say Hillary Clinton won the debate — Almost three times as many Americans say Hillary Clinton won last Monday's debate than Donald Trump, with the Democratic nominee regaining a clear favorability advantage over the Republican, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.

Stephanie McCrummen / Washington Post:

‘Finally. Someone who thinks like me.’ — In a living room in western Pennsylvania, the Republican National Convention was on TV, and Melanie Austin was getting impatient. — “Who's that guy?” she said, watching some billionaire talk about prosperity and tolerance. “Prosperity and tolerance?

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Ken Meyer / Mediaite:

Donald Trump Mocks Hillary Clinton's Pneumonia Stumbling Episode — Yup, 2016 presidential nominee Donald Trump went there all right. — The real estate mogul attacked Hillary Clinton again at a Saturday night rally, going into his stump speech about how he's been doing more traveling and campaign events than she has recently.

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Jenna Johnson / Washington Post:
Trump wonders if Clinton is ‘crazy,’ loyal to her husband or healthy

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Joe Concha / The Hill:
Onlooker repeatedly yells ‘Bill Clinton is a rapist’ live on Fox News

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BBC:

Brexit: PM to trigger Article 50 by end of March — The UK will formally begin the formal Brexit negotiation process by the end of March 2017, Theresa May has said. — The timing on triggering Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty means the UK looks set to leave the EU by summer 2019.

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Stephen Castle / New York Times:
‘Brexit’ Talks Will Start by End of March, Theresa May Says

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Daily Mail:

BBC sacked me for being a white man... even though I work in radio: The Now Show comic was told he was being axed to make way for more women and diversity — The BBC was at the centre of a damaging diversity row last night after one of its top radio stars was sacked for being ‘white and male’.

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Kate Mather / Los Angeles Times:

Officer-involved shooting in South L.A. that kills teen draws angry crowd — Monique Snell, the mother of an 18-year-old shot by the LAPD, pleads with police to see her son at the scene of the shooting in South L.A. — Los Angeles police fatally shot an 18-year-old man armed with a gun Saturday …