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Politico:
Rep. Chris Collins, fighting prosecution, seeks to end reelection bid — Rep. Chris Collins (R-N.Y.), who was charged this week as part of an insider trading scheme, is suspending his re-election campaign and will attempt to remove his name from the ballot.
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Javier E. David / CNBC:
NY GOP Congressman Chris Collins suspends campaign amid insider trading allegations — Chris Collins suspends campaign 180811 JDAVID EC — Rep. Chris Collins, one of President Donald Trump's earliest backers in Congress, suspended his campaign on Saturday, in the wake of insider trading allegations …
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CNN:
Chris Collins suspends re-election campaign following insider trading charges — Washington (CNN)New York Republican Rep. Chris Collins suspended his reelection campaign on Saturday after he was indicted earlier this week on charges related to insider trading.
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Jerry Zremski / The Buffalo News:
Days after indictment, Chris Collins suspends re-election campaign
Michael Scherer / Washington Post:
New York congressman facing insider trading charges suspends reelection bid
New York congressman facing insider trading charges suspends reelection bid
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Washington Monthly, USA Today and DCCC
Zac Anderson / Sarasota Herald:
Email indicates Florida House candidate may have staged college degree deception — Miami University says Melissa Howard never graduated, despite her posting images of a diploma. — Facing accusations that she lied about having a degree from Miami University in Ohio …
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David Bishop / FLA News Online:
EXCLUSIVE: Candidate Melissa Howard Faked Her Diploma, University Alleges — After FLA News exclusively reported Tuesday that Republican State House candidate Melissa Howard didn't have the college degree from Miami University in Ohio that she claimed to have earned, Mrs. Howard flew to Ohio Friday to prove our report wrong.
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Maggie Astor / New York Times:
Michael Avenatti Urges Democrats to Reject Michelle Obama's Advice on Trump — CLEAR LAKE, Iowa — Michael Avenatti, fresh off his declaration that he may run for president in 2020, used his first big speech as a prospective candidate to call on the Democratic Party to reject Michelle Obama's …
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Ben Jacobs / The Guardian:
Michael Avenatti says Democrats must ‘fight fire with fire’ as he eyes presidential run — Lawyer who rose to fame with the Stormy Daniels case creates scene in Iowa compared to Barack Obama's visit — Michael Avenatti could become the second person to go from cable news fixture to president.
Jonathan Freedland / The Guardian:
We like to mock Trump, but Britain's Russia stance is even worse — When it comes to evidence of Russian intervention in the 2016 referendum, Theresa May is unaccountably relaxed — There are not many laughs to be had from international diplomacy, but US foreign policy in the age …
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BuzzFeed News:
An Airline Employee Stole A Plane From Seattle Airport And Was Chased By Fighter Jets Before Crashing — “I'm just a broken guy. I've got a few screws loose I guess, I never really knew it until now,” the rogue pilot said to air traffic control. — An airline employee stole a plane …
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Oliver Darcy / CNNMoney:
Twitter admits InfoWars violated its rules, but says it will remain on the platform — Twitter said Friday that the accounts belonging to far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and his fringe media organization InfoWars would, for now, remain online, one day after a CNN investigation found …
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Michael Scherer / Washington Post:
Democrats seek stronger social media presence to guard against potential Russian interference in midterms
Democrats seek stronger social media presence to guard against potential Russian interference in midterms
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Anne Applebaum / Washington Post:
Are you still sure there's no need to worry? — “Don't worry, the institutions will stop him.” Or: “Don't worry, he hasn't done any real damage yet, the institutions have stopped him.” How many times have you heard some version of this analysis since the election of President Trump?
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Politico:
Trump pivots to border wall, China and ‘Manafort this, Manafort that’ — The president's trip to his Bedminster, N.J., country club was set up as a ‘working vacation’ ahead of the fall campaign season. — President Donald Trump has spent his week at his Bedminster retreat fine-tuning …
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Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:
Of Course There Is Such a Thing as a ‘Perjury Trap’ — And it's a legitimate reason for President Trump to decline to be interviewed. — Studies will someday be done on the deleterious effect Donald Trump has had on the brains of people who loathe him. It drives them to say things …
Chiara Giordano / The Independent:
Trump tariffs have forced us into bankruptcy and liquidation, says PC case maker CaseLabs — 'Our user community has been very devoted to us and it's awful to think that we have let any of you down' — POPULAR VIDEOS — A high-end PC case maker says it has been “forced into bankruptcy and liquidation” …
Montgomery Herald:
Woman killed by neighborhood dogs — Montgomery County Sheriff Chris Watkins released this statement Friday, August 10. — a resident of a Lake Tillery development on the western side of Montgomery County went missing while taking her daily walk. After several hours the 66 year old female did not return home.
Alan Feuer / New York Times:
A Lifelong Political Scrapper, Roger Stone Is Fighting for His Own Legal Future — As a flamboyant veteran of Washington and New York City politics, the campaign strategist Roger J. Stone Jr. has been in any number of knock-'em-down scrapes over the years, reaching back four decades …
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Gideon Resnick / The Daily Beast:
Omarosa's New Book Claims Trump Wanted To Be Sworn In With ‘Art of the Deal’ … Omarosa Manigault Newman, the former White House staffer and contestant on “The Apprentice,” claims in a new book set to be released on Tuesday that President Trump had an unprecedented idea for his inauguration.
Frances Robles / New York Times:
Containers of Hurricane Donations Found Rotting in Puerto Rico Parking Lot — SAN JUAN, P.R. — At least 10 trailers full of food, water and baby supplies donated for victims of Hurricane Maria were left to rot at a state elections office in Puerto Rico, where they broke open and became infested by rats.
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ThinkProgress, The Daily Caller and naked capitalism
John Cassidy / New Yorker:
Republicans Are Caught in a Trump Bind as the Midterms Approach — Congressional Republicans are whistling to keep their spirits up. After Tuesday's special election in Ohio's Twelfth Congressional District, where the Democrat, Danny O'Connor, came very close to carrying an area …
New York Times:
‘So, So Jaded’: The Campaign to Stop Brett Kavanaugh Struggles for Liftoff — PORTLAND, Maine — The two dozen or so liberal activists who had gathered in a darkened cafe on an unusually sticky evening recently were wrestling with a familiar challenge: how to persuade Susan Collins, Maine's moderate Republican senator, to vote no.
Brent D. Griffiths / Politico:
Trump calls for unity on anniversary of Charlottesville rally — President Donald Trump on Saturday called for the nation to “come together” ahead of the one-year anniversary of a violent white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. — “The riots in Charlottesville a year ago resulted …