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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 …
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Sahil Kapur / Bloomberg:
Republicans Wonder If Trump Can Recover From ‘Worst Week’ — “The hole that Trump has dug for himself is very deep.” — The worst week of Donald Trump's presidential campaign began with a widely criticized debate performance and ended with a bombshell report that he could have avoided paying federal income taxes for 18 years.
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Five Days That Shaped a Presidency — Barack Obama shares with Jonathan Chait a very early draft of his memoirs. — On August 25, after a short trip to Baton Rouge to assess flooding in Louisiana and before what will likely be his last visit to China on Air Force One …
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Bloomberg:
Obama Says Obamacare Has ‘Real Problems’ Congress Refuses to Fix — Exodus of major insurers and spiraling prices hurt the law — Enrollment for 2017 begins a week before Election Day — President Barack Obama said his signature health-care law has “real problems” …
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Robert Pear / New York Times:
Ailing Obama Health Care Act May Have to Change to Survive
Ailing Obama Health Care Act May Have to Change to Survive
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Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
Obama Sees ‘Straight Line’ From Sarah Palin To Donald Trump
Obama Sees ‘Straight Line’ From Sarah Palin To Donald Trump
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Political Wire
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Hillary Clinton goes silent on Obamacare
Hillary Clinton goes silent on Obamacare
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Washington Free Beacon
LeBron James / Business Insider:
Why I'm endorsing Hillary Clinton — Cleveland Cavaliers star LeBron James is endorsing Hillary Clinton for president. Below is the op-ed he has written about his decision, which he has exclusively provided to Business Insider. The op-ed will also be published in the print edition of the Akron Beacon Journal on Monday.
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Eli Lake / Bloomberg:
Clinton's Former Prosecutor Endorses Her for President — Twenty years ago Michael Chertoff was near the top of the Clintons' enemy list. He was the lead Republican counsel on the Senate Whitewater Committee, one of the first of many Congressional investigations into Hillary Clinton.
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Alyson Shontell / Business Insider:
LeBron James, the most influential person in the major swing state of Ohio, endorses Hillary Clinton
LeBron James, the most influential person in the major swing state of Ohio, endorses Hillary Clinton
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Olivia Nuzzi / The Daily Beast:
Is a Cryptic Tweet by Marla Maples a Clue as to Source Behind Trump Tax Leak? — At 1:34 p.m. Sunday, Donald Trump's second ex-wife, Marla Maples, tweeted a photograph of a pumpkin patch. Does what happened next contain clues that confirm she anonymously mailed Trump's 1995 tax return to The New York Times?
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Richard Rubin / Wall Street Journal:
Donald Trump's Tax Numbers Sharpen Focus on Treatment of Losses
Donald Trump's Tax Numbers Sharpen Focus on Treatment of Losses
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Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
Who gave Trump's taxes to the New York Times? The mystery behind a bombshell story.
Who gave Trump's taxes to the New York Times? The mystery behind a bombshell story.
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Yashar:
Did Marla Maples Leak Her Own Tax Returns?
Did Marla Maples Leak Her Own Tax Returns?
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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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New York Times:
Kim Kardashian Robbed at Gunpoint in Paris, Spokeswoman Says — PARIS — Kim Kardashian West was robbed at gunpoint Sunday night inside a luxury Paris apartment by two masked men dressed as police officers, according to a spokeswoman. The mayor of Paris condemned the attack …
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Marlow Stern / The Daily Beast:
‘The Trump Rule’: Leaked Audio of Trump Ogling Miss USA Beauty Queens — During the first presidential debate, a record-breaking primetime television event viewed by over 84 million people worldwide, Hillary Clinton managed to get under Donald Trump's skin by invoking two of his favorite pastimes: beauty pageants and unbridled sexism.
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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.
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Anna Palmer / Politico:
Clinton up 6 in POLITICO/Morning Consult national poll — Hillary Clinton has opened up a six-point lead over Donald Trump, erasing the New York billionaire's slim national edge with five weeks until Election Day, according to a new POLITICO/Morning Consult poll of likely voters.
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Lawrence Hurley / Reuters:
Supreme Court denies Obama request to rehear major immigration case — The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to rehear a bid by President Barack Obama's administration to revive his plan to spare from deportation millions of immigrants in the country illegally, a case in which the justices split 4-4 in June.
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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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Eric Bradner / CNN:
Giuliani on facing accusations about infidelity: ‘Well, everybody does’ — Washington (CNN)Rudy Giuliani answered the charge that he faces accusations of infidelity on Sunday by saying it's not just him. — “Everybody does,” the former New York City mayor and Donald Trump supporter said.
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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.
Cyra Master / The Hill:
Clinton resets campaign schedule with Sanders — 's campaign announced Sunday night that it had canceled tentatively planned events with Sen. Bernie Sanders — for Monday. — Instead, her primary rival will now be on the campaign trail Wednesday in Iowa and Wisconsin instead.
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International Consortium of Investigative Journalists:
Trump's organization did business with Iranian bank later linked to terrorism — Donald Trump's real estate organization rented New York office space from 1998 to 2003 to an Iranian bank that U.S. authorities have linked to terrorist groups and Iran's nuclear program.
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