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12:50 AM ET, October 4, 2016

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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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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.
Megan McArdle / Bloomberg:
Trump's 1995 Return Shows Good Tax Policy at Work  —  The big news this weekend was the leak of Donald Trump's 1995 tax returns to the New York Times.  The returns showed that in that year, Trump claimed $916 million worth of business losses; those losses, said the Times …
Dylan Byers / CNNMoney:
The Daily News also had Trump's tax return — they just couldn't verify it
Veronica Stracqualursi / ABC News:
Donald Trump Brags About Using Tax Laws ‘Brilliantly’
Discussion: Politico and Associated Press
Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
Clinton: ‘What kind of genius loses a billion dollars in a single year?’
Discussion: ABC News
Bloomberg:
Searching for the Truth in Trump's 1995 Tax Return
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
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: CNN, Hot Air and The Week
Ryan Struyk / ABC News:
Hillary Clinton Pulls Ahead of Donald Trump After First Debate, Poll Shows
Discussion: Politico
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.
Discussion: Guardian
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.
Discussion: The Week, Hot Air, RedState and Hullabaloo
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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New York Times:
Tension With Russia Rises as U.S. Halts Syria Negotiations  —  WASHINGTON — The United States on Monday suspended talks with Russia over the protracted conflict in Syria, accusing the Kremlin of joining with the Syrian Air Force in carrying out a brutal bombing campaign against the besieged city of Aleppo.
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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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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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Sophia Tesfaye / Salon:
President Obama draws “a straight line” from Sarah Palin to Donald Trump: The GOP “just seems to get worse”
Discussion: Daily Kos, Hot Air and Daily Wire
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
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 …
Discussion: Business Insider
John Daniel Davidson / The Federalist:
NPR Reporter Has No Idea What ‘Come And Take It’ Means  —  Sunday marked the 181st anniversary of the Battle of Gonzales, the first military engagement of the Texas Revolution, when Texian militiamen, responding to Mexican soldiers demanding the surrender of a small brass cannon, coined the now-famous battle cry, “Come and Take It!”
Discussion: Liberty Unyielding, Instapundit and NPR
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
Kevin Green / WAVY-TV:
Hampton teen arrested for soliciting clown to kill teacher  —  HAMPTON, Va. (WAVY) — A 13-year-old Hampton girl is in police custody for allegedly reaching out to a person on social media to kill one of her teachers.  —  Police say the person she contacted was using a clown image as their profile picture.
Discussion: RT
 
 
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Bloomberg:
Out of Prison, Out of Work  —  About 7 million American men …
Discussion: bradford-delong.com
Sarah Ferris / The Hill:
Feds move to throw out ObamaCare lawsuits
Discussion: Power Line, Hot Air and The Federalist
Max Blumenthal / Alternet:
Inside the Shadowy PR Firm That's Lobbying for Regime Change in Syria
Discussion: NO QUARTER USA NET
Raffi Williams / Circa:
The new Smithsonian National Museum of African-American History and Culture treats conservative …
Discussion: RedState and Althouse
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
 Earlier Items: 
Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Gingrich: Trump needs to be willing to make ‘real change’ to win election
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
David A. Fahrenthold / Washington Post:
Trump Foundation ordered to stop fundraising by N.Y. attorney general's office
Media Matters for America:
Trump Adviser Roger Stone: Alicia Machado Is A “Ho Bag”
 

 
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Matthew Keys / The Desk:
DirecTV terminates its Dish acquisition after a group of Dish creditors rejected a modified bond exchange offer

Ashley Carman / Bloomberg:
A growing number of podcasters, including Tim Ferriss, are moving away from interviews to monologues or co-hosts, as some well-known guests can be overexposed

Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
A New York judge finds Sirius XM liable for a difficult subscription cancellation process; Sirius says it will appeal but abide by a new “click-to-cancel” rule

 
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