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Josh Dawsey / Washington Post:
Trump rejected plans for a White House statement praising McCain — President Trump nixed issuing a statement that praised the heroism and life of Sen. John McCain, telling senior aides he preferred to issue a tweet before posting one Saturday night that did not include any kind words for the late Arizona Republican.
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Yvonne Wingett Sanchez / KARE-TV:
Arizona Senate candidate Kelli Ward suggests John McCain statement on ending treatment timed to hurt her campaign — Kelli Ward: McCain health statement timed to hurt her … Sen. John McCain poses at the Republic Media building in downtown Phoenix on Thursday, August 3, 2017. — Sen. John McCain.
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Eric Bradner / CNN:
How Arizona will fill John McCain's seat — and who might fill it — Programming note: For more on the late senator's legacy, tune in to “John McCain: For Whom the Bell Tolls” Sunday at 9 p.m. ET/PT. — Washington (CNN)As the nation mourns the death of John McCain, Arizona's Republican …
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Peter Nicholas / Wall Street Journal:
Rift Between Trump and McCain Reflects Split Within GOP
Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
Arizona Governor Faces a Tough Choice: A Senator Cut From McCain's Mold or Trump's
Arizona Governor Faces a Tough Choice: A Senator Cut From McCain's Mold or Trump's
Yvonne Wingett Sanchez / Arizona Republic:
John McCain's seat in Senate will stay empty until after burial, Gov. Doug Ducey says
John McCain's seat in Senate will stay empty until after burial, Gov. Doug Ducey says
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Karen Ruiz / Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: SARAH PALIN ON JOHN MCCAIN …
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: SARAH PALIN ON JOHN MCCAIN …
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Daniel Politi / Slate:
GOP Senate Candidate Kelli Ward Suggested McCain Timed Health Announcement to Hurt Her Campaign
GOP Senate Candidate Kelli Ward Suggested McCain Timed Health Announcement to Hurt Her Campaign
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Morgan Gstalter / The Hill:
GOP Arizona Senate candidate suggested McCain family statement on cancer treatment was meant to hurt her campaign
GOP Arizona Senate candidate suggested McCain family statement on cancer treatment was meant to hurt her campaign
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Russell Feingold / New York Times:
Russ Feingold: John McCain Was a Committed Leader. He Was Also Really Fun.
Russ Feingold: John McCain Was a Committed Leader. He Was Also Really Fun.
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Max Boot / Washington Post:
John McCain leaves the stage when we need him most
John McCain leaves the stage when we need him most
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Eliot A. Cohen / The Atlantic:
Great-Heart Is Gone — I was not an intimate of John McCain …
Martin Cizmar / Raw Story:
Arizona GOP Senate candidate Kelli Ward accuses John McCain of dying to push ‘negative narrative’ about her
Arizona GOP Senate candidate Kelli Ward accuses John McCain of dying to push ‘negative narrative’ about her
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Karoun Demirjian / Washington Post:
McCain's death marks a new era for congressional checks on Trump
John Bacon / USA Today:
‘Multiple fatalities’ after shooting rampage at Madden tourney at Jacksonville Landing — A gunman opened fire at a Madden video game tournament along Jacksonville's riverwalk Sunday, and Florida authorities reported multiple fatalities. — “Mass shooting at the Jacksonville Landing.
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Matt Pearce / Los Angeles Times:
Multiple fatalities reported, including a suspect, in mass shooting at Jacksonville, Fla., video game tournament — Multiple people were killed, including a suspect, after a shooter opened fire during a video game tournament in Jacksonville, Fla., according to witnesses and police.
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WJXT-TV:
Sources: Mass shooting at Jacksonville Landing leaves 4 dead, 11 wounded — Sources: 11 people shot, at least 4 dead in or near Chicago Pizza — By , Vic Micolucci - I-TEAM reporter, anchor, Roxy Tyler - Web producer, Steve Patrick - News4Jax digital managing editor
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The Daily Beast:
Mass Shooting at Madden NFL Tournament Qualifier in Jacksonville Reportedly Leaves Several Dead — Several people were reportedly killed and multiple other injured Sunday afternoon during a mass shooting at the Madden NFL Tournament Regional Qualifier in Jacksonville, Florida.
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Justin Fenton / Baltimore Sun:
Baltimore man identified as gunman in Jacksonville shooting — Federal authorities were at a home near in Baltimore's Inner Harbor on Sunday night as part of an investigation into the Jacksonville mass shooting. (Justin Fenton / Baltimore Sun) — A Baltimore man has been identified …
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Tom Hamburger / Washington Post:
Attorney for Michael Cohen backs away from confidence that Cohen has information about Trump's knowledge on Russian efforts — An attorney for Michael Cohen, President Trump's former lawyer, is backing away from confident assertions he made that Cohen has information to share with investigators …
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Eugene Kiely / FactCheck.org:
Video: Giuliani on Trump Tower Meeting
Michael Goodwin / New York Post:
How Trump can survive the onslaught against his presidency
How Trump can survive the onslaught against his presidency
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Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Scoop: Republicans secretly study their coming hell — Congressional Republicans are getting ready for hell. Axios has obtained a spreadsheet that's circulated through Republican circles on and off Capitol Hill — including at least one leadership office — that meticulously previews …
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Sharay Angulo / Reuters:
Mexico, U.S. likely ‘hours’ away from agreement on NAFTA: minister — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. and Mexican trade negotiators are “hours” away from squaring away bilateral differences on the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) but work with Canada is likely to stretch into September, a top Mexican official said on Sunday.
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NBC News:
NBC/WSJ poll: Trump approval ‘remarkably stable’ after a stormy week of bad news — But 56 percent of voters say Trump has not been honest and truthful about the Mueller probe. — WASHINGTON — After a week that saw President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman convicted on eight counts …
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Edward Pentin / National Catholic Register …:
Ex-Nuncio Accuses Pope Francis of Failing to Act on McCarrick's Abuse — In a written testimony, Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò claims Pope Francis withdrew sanctions against Archbishop Theodore McCarrick. — In an extraordinary 11-page written testament, a former apostolic nuncio …
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Ynetnews:
'If I hadn't intervened, they would've been murdered' — Yair Elalouf, who aided the three Arab men who were attacked by Jewish youth last week on a Haifa beach, says 70-80 people witnessed the beating and did nothing; 'Without him, we wouldn't have stayed alive,' the three men say …
Noah Feldman / Bloomberg:
The Prosecutors Who Have Declared War on the President — The Office of the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York isn't done digging into the Trump Organization. — In the span of one week, we learned that the Office of the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York …
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Felicia Sonmez / Washington Post:
Dershowitz says New York probe, not Mueller, is ‘greatest threat’ to Trump — President Trump should be more worried about prosecutors in New York than about the ongoing Russia probe led by special counsel Robert S. Mueller III, retired Harvard Law School professor Alan Dershowitz said Sunday.
Katherine Burgess / Wichita Eagle:
Kansans drank contaminated water for years. The state didn't tell them. — The state allowed hundreds of residents in two Wichita-area neighborhoods to drink contaminated water for years without telling them, despite warning signs of contamination close to water wells used for drinking, washing and bathing.