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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.
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No More Mister Nice Blog and Washington Post
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 …
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CNN, New York Times, The Daily Beast, Daily Kos, JustOneMinute, Media Matters for America, BuzzFeed, Forbes, The Atlantic, ThinkProgress and The Daily Caller
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
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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Talking Points Memo, Rush Limbaugh, Washington Post, Daily Kos and Vox
Yashar:
Did Marla Maples Leak Her Own Tax Returns?
Did Marla Maples Leak Her Own Tax Returns?
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The Nation, Hot Air, Joe.My.God., Washington Post and New York Magazine, more at Mediagazer »
Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
Clinton: ‘What kind of genius loses a billion dollars in a single year?’
Clinton: ‘What kind of genius loses a billion dollars in a single year?’
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ABC News
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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True Pundit, Joe.My.God., Scared Monkeys, Washington Free Beacon, Heat Street, John Hawkins' Right Wing News and Infowars
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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
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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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
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
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, 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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Hot Air, The Week, Politicus USA, Washington Post, Mediaite and National Review
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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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Taylor Marsh, Washington Post, USA Today, RedState, VICE, Infowars, The Atlantic and NBC News
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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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The National Interest, The Atlantic, New York Magazine, ABC News, Washington Free Beacon and NPR
Ryan Browne / CNN:
US suspends talks with Russia over Syria
US suspends talks with Russia over Syria
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Military News, The Nation, Daily Wire, Hot Air, Reuters, The Atlantic and The Week
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 and BizPac Review
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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Bloomberg, Liberty Unyielding, Mother Jones, Business Insider, AOL, Politico and Washington Times
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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”
President Obama draws “a straight line” from Sarah Palin to Donald Trump: The GOP “just seems to get worse”
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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
The GOP's chief strategist pitches the party's new ‘Willie Horton-style’ ad
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The Atlantic, ThinkProgress and Raw Story
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
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!”
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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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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.
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