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Eli Watkins / CNN:
Pence leaves Colts game after protest during anthem — Washington (CNN)Vice President Mike Pence left a football game between the Indianapolis Colts and the San Francisco 49ers on Sunday after some players knelt during the National Anthem, saying he did not want to “dignify” the event.
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Josh Alper / ProFootballTalk:
Eric Reid: Vice President's visit was a P.R. Stunt — Vice President Mike Pence briefly stopped by the Colts game on Sunday, but left when 23 members of the 49ers took a knee during the national anthem. — Pence said, via Twitter, that he left because he will not “dignify any event …
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Cindy Boren / Washington Post:
Vice President Pence walks out of Colts game over 49ers' national anthem protests — The plan had been for Vice President Mike Pence to attend the Indianapolis Colts game at which Peyton Manning's number is to be retired, a gala celebration of the former Colts quarterback's contributions to Pence's home state.
Gregg Doyel / Indianapolis Star:
Vice President Mike Pence uses Colts for political purposes — INDIANAPOLIS - North Korea and its nukes can wait. The White House has declared war on the NFL. And on the First Amendment. — Two weeks after President Trump decreed that NFL players who kneel during the national anthem should be fired …
Brandon Carter / The Hill:
Sports reporter claims Kaepernick would now stand for anthem if signed to NFL team
Sports reporter claims Kaepernick would now stand for anthem if signed to NFL team
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Jacqueline Thomsen / The Hill:
Kaepernick suggests report he would stand during anthem is a lie
Kaepernick suggests report he would stand during anthem is a lie
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Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Corker calls White House ‘an adult day care center’ in response to Trump's latest Twitter tirade — Sen. Bob Corker, the Republican chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, on Sunday called the White House “an adult day care center” after President Trump attacked him in a morning Twitter tirade.
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CNN:
Trump's claim that Corker ‘begged’ for endorsement is false, sources say — STORY HIGHLIGHTS — Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump's tweets Sunday morning claiming he denied Sen. Bob Corker's request for an endorsement are false, two sources familiar with the discussions said.
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Karoun Demirjian / Washington Post:
Trump's tweetstorm against Corker may cost him a key policy ally — President Trump has his fair share of critics in Congress, but with one Sunday morning tweetstorm, he has risked making a policy rival out of someone who could have counted as an ally for his agenda.
New York Times:
Erik Prince, Blackwater Founder, Weighs Primary Challenge to Wyoming Republican — WASHINGTON — Erik Prince, the founder of the security contractor Blackwater, is seriously considering a Republican primary challenge for a Senate seat in Wyoming, potentially adding a high-profile contender …
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Susan Svrluga / Washington Post:
‘We will keep coming back:’ Richard Spencer leads another torchlight march in Charlottesville — Richard Spencer, who in August led white nationalists and white supremacists in a torchlight march across the University of Virginia campus that touched off a weekend of deadly clashes, returned Saturday night to Charlottesville.
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Tyler Hawn / WRIC-TV:
Group of white nationalists hold torch-lit rally in Charlottesville
Group of white nationalists hold torch-lit rally in Charlottesville
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Julia Manchester / The Hill:
NRA on bump stocks: 'We don't believe bans ever worked on anything' — The executive director of the National Rifle Association (NRA) said on Sunday that the organization is open to “regulating differently” bump stocks on guns but not necessarily to banning the devices.
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Kailani Koenig / NBC News:
After Being Shot, Rep. Steve Scalise Still Opposes More Gun Control
After Being Shot, Rep. Steve Scalise Still Opposes More Gun Control
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Rod Nordland / New York Times:
ISIS Fighters, Having Pledged to Fight or Die, Surrender en Masse — DIBIS, Iraq — The prisoners were taken to a waiting room in groups of four, and were told to stand facing the concrete wall, their noses almost touching it, their hands bound behind their backs.
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Salena Zito / Washington Examiner:
All news is local — WEST NEWTON, PA — There used to 324 newspapers in the state of Pennsylvania. — Today, there are about 60 - give or take a few. — The Pennsylvania Gazette is the first one on record not just in the colony of Pennsylvania but in all of the Crown's colonies …
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Dean Obeidallah / CNN:
Does Trump want a safe space from comedians? — Dean Obeidallah, a former attorney, is the host of SiriusXM radio's daily program “The Dean Obeidallah Show” and a columnist for The Daily Beast. Follow him @deanofcomedy. The opinions expressed in this commentary are his.
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