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Daily Mail:
Can Assange turn it around for Trump? Wikileaks boss WILL release ‘damaging information’ about Hillary tomorrow after initially cancelling ‘October Surprise’ speech from embassy balcony — Julian Assange had originally planned to address the world from the balcony of the Ecuadorian embassy in London on Monday
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Fox News:
‘Specific info’ forces WikiLeaks to move anticipated announcement to Berlin — Julian Assange canceled a dramatic London balcony address on Tuesday in favor of a video presentation in Berlin after WikiLeaks developed “specific information” regarding Assange's safety, the leaked emails clearinghouse tweeted on Monday afternoon.
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Daily Wire, Townhall.com, The Mahablog, The Point, FOX2now.com and Towleroad
True Pundit:
Under Intense Pressure to Silence Wikileaks, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Proposed Drone Strike on Julian Assange — Julian Assange and his free-speech brainchild Wikileaks were once lauded as global heroes of public service among United States politicians and policy makers.
Ryan Ellis / Forbes:
Trump Tax Return Story Exposes Policy Ignorance Of Political Reporters — What followed was a collective explosion of talking heads over the weekend, with the theatrics inversely proportional to the pundit's knowledge of tax policy. — To state the obvious, political reporters don't know a damned thing about taxes.
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Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
Trump boasts about ‘brilliantly’ using the tax laws — Donald Trump on Monday defended his aggressive use of tax laws that likely resulted in him not paying any personal income taxes for nearly two decades, crediting himself for “brilliantly” working the system.
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No More Mister Nice Blog and Washington Post
Josh Barro / Business Insider:
Donald Trump's leaked tax returns help explain why he wants to end the estate tax
Donald Trump's leaked tax returns help explain why he wants to end the estate tax
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Rush Limbaugh, Talking Points Memo, Washington Post, Daily Kos, Vox and The Week
Veronica Stracqualursi / ABC News:
Donald Trump Brags About Using Tax Laws ‘Brilliantly’
Donald Trump Brags About Using Tax Laws ‘Brilliantly’
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Politico and Associated Press
John Fund / National Review:
How Much Does Trump Really Want to Be President? — Maybe Americans don't want to elect a grown man who acts like a 13-year-old boy. — Donald Trump does know how to act in a serious, restrained way that impresses people. The fact that he isn't displaying those qualities …
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John Sides / Washington Post:
Poll: Many Americans do not think Donald Trump was born into wealth
Poll: Many Americans do not think Donald Trump was born into wealth
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CNN, Hot Air, The Week and The Atlantic
Ryan Struyk / ABC News:
Hillary Clinton Pulls Ahead of Donald Trump After First Debate, Poll Shows
Hillary Clinton Pulls Ahead of Donald Trump After First Debate, Poll Shows
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Politico
Tom LoBianco / CNN:
Donald Trump: Military suicides happen to servicemembers who 'can't handle it' — Washington (CNN)Donald Trump suggested Monday that American soldiers and veterans who commit suicide do so because they can't handle the post-traumatic stress of war. — “When you talk about the mental health problems …
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Ema O'Connor / BuzzFeed:
Trump Suggests That Soldiers Who Suffer From PTSD Aren't “Strong” — “When people come back from war and combat and they see maybe what the people in this room have seen many times over, and you're strong and you can handle it, but a lot of people can't handle it,” Trump told a room full of veterans.
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The Week, RedState, Hot Air and Hullabaloo
Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
Trump appears to suggest veterans with PTSD are not ‘strong’
Trump appears to suggest veterans with PTSD are not ‘strong’
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twitchy.com, Jezebel and Arkansas Blog, Arkansas Times
CNN:
Post-debate, Clinton takes the lead — (CNN)Hillary Clinton emerges from the first presidential debate with a five-point lead over Donald Trump in the race for the presidency, having narrowed the enthusiasm gap between her supporters and Trump's, and holding broad advantages over the Republican nominee …
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Hot Air, The Week, Politicus USA, Washington Post, Mediaite and National Review
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Dylan Byers / CNNMoney:
The Daily News also had Trump's tax return — they just couldn't verify it — The New York Times wasn't the only news outlet to receive documents from Donald Trump's tax returns. But they were the only ones to successfully vet them. — Around September 23, the day a manila envelope …
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Kurt Eichenwald / Newsweek:
How Donald Trump ditched U.S. steel workers in favor of China — U.S. DONALD TRUMP CHINA — Plenty of blue-collar workers believe that, as president, Donald Trump would be ready to fight off U.S. trade adversaries and reinvigorate the country's manufacturing industries through his commitment to the Rust Belt.
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Guardian
Fox News:
FBI agreed to destroy laptops of Clinton aides with immunity deal, sources say — Immunity deals for two top Hillary Clinton aides included a side arrangement obliging the FBI to destroy their laptops after reviewing the devices, House Judiciary Committee sources told Fox News on Monday.
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MichelleMalkin.com, Hot Air, The Daily Caller, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, Washington Free Beacon and Mediaite
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Guy Benson / Townhall.com:
BREAKING: FBI Made ‘Side Deals’ to Destroy Top Clinton Aides' Laptops
BREAKING: FBI Made ‘Side Deals’ to Destroy Top Clinton Aides' Laptops
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John Hawkins' Right Wing News, RedState, BizPac Review and American Thinker
David A. Fahrenthold / Washington Post:
Trump Foundation ordered to stop fundraising by N.Y. attorney general's office — The New York attorney general has notified Donald Trump that his charitable foundation is violating state law — by soliciting donations without proper certification — and ordered Trump's charity to stop …
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The Hill, ag.ny.gov, Politico, CANNONFIRE, ABC News, Guardian, The Daily Caller, Washington Monthly, New York Magazine, The Week, Boing Boing and Morning Consult
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Steve Eder / New York Times:
State Attorney General Orders Trump Foundation to Cease Raising Money in New York
State Attorney General Orders Trump Foundation to Cease Raising Money in New York
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Niels Lesniewski / Roll Call:
Exclusive: Republicans Launch Willie Horton-Style Attack on Kaine — RNC releases video ahead of Tuesday's vice presidential debate — Finance Committee Mourns Loss of Longtime Republican Staffer Republican Senator Seeks Radical Changes to Budget Process One Murphy's Gun Safety Group Backs Another Murphy
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
The GOP's chief strategist pitches the party's new ‘Willie Horton-style’ ad
The GOP's chief strategist pitches the party's new ‘Willie Horton-style’ ad
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The Atlantic, Raw Story and ThinkProgress
CNN:
Kanye West halts show after Kim Kardashian held at gunpoint in Paris — Photos: — The Kardashian clan — The most famous of the Kardashian clan is undoubtedly Kim, who has gained publicity for everything from “breaking the Internet” to bleaching her hair blonde to ... well, pretty much everything she does gains publicity.
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Harry Enten / FiveThirtyEight:
Trump Really, Really Needs To Win Florida — For politics fans, it's easy to get caught up in fun Electoral College scenarios — ones in which small states make a big difference or in which the House of Representatives has to decide the election. The alternative — endlessly repeating that …
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Business Insider
Michael R. Gordon / New York Times:
U.S. Suspends Talks With Russia on Syria — WASHINGTON — The United States followed through on Monday with its threat to formally suspend talks with Russia about Syria because of the Russian military's role in the assault on the besieged city of Aleppo. The United States also shelved plans …
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Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
Andrew Kaczynski's BuzzFeed Team Joins CNN — The cable network scores a major coup in hiring the political research unit known for 2016 scoops. — NEW YORK BuzzFeed's Andrew Kaczynski and his scoop-driven political research team are joining CNN during the final, frenetic stretch of the 2016 election and beyond.
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Politico, New York Times, Washington Post, The Daily Caller, Mediaite and Talking Points Memo, more at Mediagazer »
Sarah Ferris / The Hill:
Feds move to throw out ObamaCare lawsuits — The Obama administration is seeking to toss out a pair of high-profile healthcare lawsuits in which insurers claim they are owed millions of dollars under the Affordable Care Act. — The two insurers, Moda Healthcare and BlueCross BlueShield of North Carolina …
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Power Line, Hot Air and The Federalist
Garance Burke / Associated Press:
AP: How Trump's ‘Apprentice’ moved from capitalism to sexism — NEW YORK (AP) — In his years as a reality TV boss on “The Apprentice,” Donald Trump repeatedly demeaned women with sexist language, according to show insiders who said he rated female contestants by the size of their breasts …
Raffi Williams / Circa:
The new Smithsonian National Museum of African-American History and Culture treats conservative Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas like a mere footnote while heralding the woman who accused him of sexual harassment, Anita Hill. — Twenty-five years ago, Thomas became the second black Supreme Court Justice …