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9:30 PM ET, October 3, 2016

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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.
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.
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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Ryan Struyk / ABC News:
Hillary Clinton Pulls Ahead of Donald Trump After First Debate, Poll Shows
Discussion: Politico
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.
Veronica Stracqualursi / ABC News:
Donald Trump Brags About Using Tax Laws ‘Brilliantly’
Discussion: Politico and Associated Press
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.
Discussion: RedState, Hullabaloo, Hot Air and The Week
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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 …
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
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
Discussion: Hot Air, CNN, The Atlantic and The Week
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
Betsy Woodruff / The Daily Beast:
Tim Kaine's Time With a Marxist Priest
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
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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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 …
Barack Obama / New York Magazine:
8 Years in Obama's America, By Barack Obama and 60 Other Players and Witnesses  —  Obama signs the $787 billion stimulus bill into law despite Republican opposition — not just staving off a depression (in part thanks to the most significant tax cuts since Reagan), but also making massive investments …
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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.
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 …
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 …
Discussion: RedState and Althouse
 
 
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Harry Enten / FiveThirtyEight:
Trump Really, Really Needs To Win Florida
Discussion: Business Insider
Carl Hulse / New York Times:
McConnell and Ryan Are of Two Minds About Divided Government
Discussion: Daily Kos
Dave Collins / Associated Press:
Court Overturns $12M Sex Abuse Verdict Against Boy Scouts
Discussion: Associated Press and Jezebel
Larry Klayman / WND:
Hillary's biggest lie?
Discussion: Raw Story
Louis Nelson / Politico:
Biden mocks Trump for his feud with a beauty queen
Discussion: ABC News
Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
Clinton: ‘What kind of genius loses a billion dollars in a single year?’
Discussion: ABC News
Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Gingrich: Trump needs to be willing to make ‘real change’ to win election
Discussion: RedState and Washington Monthly
 Earlier Items: 
Kristine Guerra / Washington Post:
‘We run the streets’: Video shows angry mob attacking CHP patrol car with officer still inside
Carrie Wells / Baltimore Sun:
Man in critical condition after altercation with Raiders fans at Ravens game
Daily Mail:
Is this man Bill Clinton's love child? …
Discussion: Daily Wire
Media Matters for America:
Trump Adviser Roger Stone: Alicia Machado Is A “Ho Bag”
Marlow Stern / The Daily Beast:
‘The Trump Rule’: Leaked Audio of Trump Ogling Miss USA Beauty Queens
Discussion: Raw Story
International Consortium of Investigative Journalists:
Trump's organization did business with Iranian bank later linked to terrorism
 

 
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