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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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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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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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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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Josh Barro / Business Insider:
Donald Trump's leaked tax returns help explain why he wants to end the estate tax — The $916 million loss that Donald Trump reported on his 1995 income taxes was extraordinary. As Alan Cole from the conservative Tax Foundation notes, total net operating losses claimed on all individual income tax returns …
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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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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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John Kirby / US Department of State:
Suspension of Participation in Bilateral Channels With Russia Established to Sustain the Cessation …
Suspension of Participation in Bilateral Channels With Russia Established to Sustain the Cessation …
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Dmitry Solovyov / Reuters:
Russia's Putin suspends plutonium cleanup accord with U.S. because of ‘unfriendly’ acts
Russia's Putin suspends plutonium cleanup accord with U.S. because of ‘unfriendly’ acts
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Daily Wire, Guardian, The Daily Caller and The Atlantic
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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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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Monmouth University:
Monmouth University Polling Institute
Monmouth University Polling Institute
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Anna Palmer / Politico:
Clinton up 6 in POLITICO/Morning Consult national poll
Clinton up 6 in POLITICO/Morning Consult national poll
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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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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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Betsy Woodruff / The Daily Beast:
Tim Kaine's Time With a Marxist Priest
Tim Kaine's Time With a Marxist Priest
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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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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’
Republicans Wonder If Trump Can Recover From ‘Worst Week’
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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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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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RedState, BizPac Review, American Thinker and Instapundit
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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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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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 …
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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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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