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Dominic Patten / Deadline:
Watch Donald Trump's Hollywood Walk Of Fame Star Get Destroyed — EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: Donald Trump's star on the iconic Hollywood Walk of Fame was destroyed early Wednesday morning by a man dressed as a city construction worker wielding a sledgehammer and pick-ax.
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Dominic Patten / Deadline:
Donald Trump's Hollywood Walk Of Fame Star Vandalized By Sledgehammer — EXCLUSIVE: Donald Trump took a lot of hits today and not just in the Presidential race. With less than two-weeks to go before America decides if the ex-Apprentice host will pull off a surprise victory over Hillary Clinton …
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Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:
Former congressman says he will literally engage in armed rebellion if Trump loses — He's suggesting actual treason. — Joe Walsh, who was a United States congressman from 2011 until 2013, declared on Wednesday afternoon that he will take up arms if Donald Trump is not elected to the presidency.
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Gary Johnson for President:
STATEMENT BY GOV. BILL WELD REGARDING THE FINAL WEEKS OF THIS ELECTION — Gov. Bill Weld delivered the following statement this afternoon at a press conference in Boston: — “It is a privilege and an honor to participate in this year's national election campaign.
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Washington Monthly, ThinkProgress, RT, Hot Air, Hit & Run and Mediaite
Allegra Kirkland / Talking Points Memo:
Libertarian VP Candidate Admits Defeat, Tells Voters To Pick Clinton Over Trump — Accepting that his presidential bid will fail, Libertarian vice presidential candidate Bill Weld on Tuesday obliquely urged voters to vote for Hillary Clinton. — In a Tuesday statement addressed …
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AOL and Occupy Democrats
Joe Concha / The Hill:
Clinton accusers slam Megyn Kelly after confrontation with Gingrich — Two of the women accusing former President Bill Clinton — of sexual misconduct ripped into Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly after an explosive interview in which Kelly faced off with Newt Gingrich. — Gingrich, a former House Speaker and Donald Trump
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Sean Sullivan / Washington Post:
Trump pledges ‘new deal for black America’ — CHARLOTTE — Donald Trump on Wednesday pledged what he called a “new deal for black America” as he attempted to make late inroads with a voting bloc that polling shows favors Democrat Hillary Clinton by a vast margin.
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Brian Naylor / NPR:
WATCH: Megyn Kelly And Newt Gingrich Spar Over ‘Sexual Predators’
WATCH: Megyn Kelly And Newt Gingrich Spar Over ‘Sexual Predators’
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Mother Jones and Blue Virginia
Louis Nelson / Politico:
Trump congratulates Gingrich on ‘amazing interview’ with Megyn Kelly
Trump congratulates Gingrich on ‘amazing interview’ with Megyn Kelly
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Washington Post, New York Times and ABC News
Josh Feldman / Mediaite:
Newt Gingrich Lost It and Blew Up at Megyn Kelly: ‘You Are Fascinated with Sex!’
Newt Gingrich Lost It and Blew Up at Megyn Kelly: ‘You Are Fascinated with Sex!’
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John McCormick / Bloomberg:
Trump Has 2-Point Edge in Bloomberg Politics Poll of Florida — In the U.S. Senate race, Republican incumbent Marco Rubio leads by 10 percentage points. — McCormickJohn — Donald Trump has a slim advantage in Florida as critical independent voters narrowly break his way in the must …
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Florida Atlantic University:
Polls — In Florida, Hillary Clinton has a three point lead …
Polls — In Florida, Hillary Clinton has a three point lead …
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Florida Politics and Mediaite
Rafael Bernal / The Hill:
Hispanic crowd boos Marco Rubio off stage
Hispanic crowd boos Marco Rubio off stage
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RedState, Daily Kos, NPR and The New Civil Rights Movement
David Weigel / Washington Post:
House Republicans are already preparing for ‘years’ of investigations of Clinton — SOUTH JORDAN, Utah — Jason Chaffetz, the Utah congressman wrapping up his first term atop the powerful House Oversight Committee, un-endorsed Donald Trump weeks ago. That freed up him to prepare for something else …
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Ilya Shapiro / The Federalist:
The Senate Should Refuse To Confirm All Of Hillary Clinton's Judicial Nominees — When Sen. John McCain said last week that he would work to block any Supreme Court nominee a president Hillary Clinton would name, it raised some eyebrows. Republican senators pledged not to take up any nominee …
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Washington Post, Washington Monthly and Booman Tribune
Meghan Keneally / ABC News:
Donald Trump Slams Hillary Clinton for Taking Time Off for Adele Concert — Donald Trump today blasted his critics for complaining that he is tending to business matters rather than his presidential campaign, arguing that Hillary Clinton takes time off the trail for less important matters.
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Gary Langer / ABC News:
A Dead Heat for Congress, Despite Clinton's Advantage (POLL)
A Dead Heat for Congress, Despite Clinton's Advantage (POLL)
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Washington Post, Daily Wire and Political Wire
Meghan Keneally / ABC News:
Donald Trump Plans to Spend More on His Campaign in Final 2 Weeks
Donald Trump Plans to Spend More on His Campaign in Final 2 Weeks
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Washington Post
Ross Douthat / New York Times:
What the Right's Intellectuals Did Wrong — Every political movement in a democracy is shaped like a pyramid — elite actors on the top, the masses underneath. But the pyramid that is modern American conservatism has always been misshapen, with a wide, squat base that tapers far too quickly at its peak.
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The Atlantic, bradford-delong.com and The Federalist
Zack Beauchamp / Vox:
Trump booster Alex Jones: I'm not anti-Semitic, but Jews run an evil conspiracy — Radio host Alex Jones is a big Trump fan — and Trump, for his part, has returned the favor. In December, he went on Jones's show, telling the host, “your reputation is amazing” and promising him that “I will not let you down.”
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Jewish Telegraphic Agency and Media Matters for America
CBS New York:
Protesters Disrupt Traffic On George Washington Bridge, Cause Major Delays — NEW YORK — Protesters chained themselves together across the George Washington Bridge, disrupting traffic during the height of the morning rush hour Wednesday. — The inbound upper level was closed for only 15 minutes, but the damage was done.
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Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, RT and New York Magazine
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Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
Feds: 275,000 born to illegals in one year, would fill city the size of Orlando — Moms in the United States illegally gave birth to 275,000 babies in 2014, enough birthright U.S. citizens to fill a city the size of Orlando, Florida, according to an analysis of data from the National Center for Health Statistics.
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Pew Research Center and WND
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Gretchen Livingston / Pew Research Center:
Births Outside of Marriage Decline for Immigrant Women
Births Outside of Marriage Decline for Immigrant Women
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Pew Research Center and ABC News
Julie Sedivy / Politico:
Donald Trump Talks Like a Woman — In the 2016 presidential contest, there has been one thing that supporters and detractors of Donald Trump have agreed on. The chest-pounding real estate mogul from New York has emerged as the quintessentially masculine candidate.
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Althouse, Mediaite and The Daily Caller
Matthew Sheffield / Salon:
Michael Moore: People will vote for Donald Trump as a giant “F**k you” — and he'll win — Forget the polls, boho-proletarian filmmaker tells movie audience: Trump's “legal terrorism” will win — Despite most indicators showing Donald Trump well behind his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton …
Fortune:
Fewer Than 1 in 4 Women Say They Would Buy Ivanka Trump's Clothes — #GrabYourWallets. #Ivankant. — You may have seen these hashtags trending on your Twitter feed recently, thanks to a now two-week long boycott of Ivanka Trump-branded clothing—and the retailers that carry it.
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Michael Barbaro / New York Times:
What We Learned From Five Hours of Trump on Tape — Michael D'Antonio never planned to release the recordings of his interviews with Donald J. Trump. The intimate conversations, which totaled five hours, were a research tool for his 2015 biography of the real estate mogul. — But something changed.
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McKay Coppins / BuzzFeed:
Evan McMullin Isn't Just Running For President — He's Literally Building A New Party — SALT LAKE CITY — Evan McMullin sat at a conference table in his modest campaign headquarters here one morning last week, struggling to pick which high-profile Republican had most disappointed him this year.
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Jesse Singal / New York Magazine:
The Internet's Fever Swamps Aren't Going Anywhere. We Need to Learn to Live With Them. — This week, two of the top papers in the country have run op-eds about the widespread problem of misinformation and rumor-mongering in online conservative media, and how to begin solving it.
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New York Times
Gerry Ricciutti / WKBN-TV:
Defendant says Jesus told him ‘to get the demons out’ of woman — AUSTINTOWN, Ohio (WKBN) - Things got heated in court Wednesday when a kidnapping and assault suspect started screaming about why he may have committed the crime he is accused of. — Christopher Hyler, 28, of Salem …
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NBC News:
Raqqa Offensive Against ISIS to Begin Within Weeks: Ash Carter — U.S. Won't Be Part of Mosul ‘Occupation,’ Ash Carter Says 1:04 — PARIS — The offensive to oust ISIS from its capital will get underway within weeks, Defense Secretary Ash Carter told NBC News in an exclusive interview Wednesday.
Sarah Dean / Daily Mail:
Does anyone object to this marriage... Migrant screaming ‘Allahu Akbar’ bursts into a wedding in a German church and tears down decorations — A newlywed couple have claimed their big day was ruined when a man burst inside the church shouting ‘Allahu Akbar’ and then started tearing down wedding decorations.
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Walid Shoebat and Jihad Watch
Reuters:
Britain, U.S. sending planes, troops to deter Russia in the east — Britain said on Wednesday it will send fighter jets to Romania next year and the United States promised troops, tanks and artillery to Poland in NATO's biggest military build-up on Russia's borders since the Cold War.
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Hot Air and The Daily Caller
Caleb Downs / Dallas Morning News:
Voters in Texas say machines changed Trump votes to Clinton, but officials call it user error — Early voters in Texas have claimed that voting machines in Dallas, Collin, Tarrant and other counties changed their presidential votes from Donald Trump to Hillary Clinton.
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