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5:30 PM ET, August 13, 2016

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New York Times:
Inside the Failing Mission to Save Donald Trump From Himself  —  Donald J. Trump was in a state of shock: He had just fired his campaign manager and was watching the man discuss his dismissal at length on CNN.  The rattled candidate's advisers and family seized the moment for an intervention.
Josh Feldman / Mediaite:
Trump Spox Katrina Pierson: We Weren't in Afghanistan Until Obama Decided to Go In  —  Donald Trump spokeswoman Katrina Pierson has once again blamed President Obama for something that happened years before he took office.  —  Remember how Pierson blamed Obama for Captain Humayun Khan's death in 2004?
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Sam Stein / The Huffington Post:
Trump Spokesperson Says Obama Invaded Afghanistan.  He Didn't.  —  He was a state senator at the time.  —  A spokesperson for Donald Trump's presidential campaign has blamed President Barack Obama for invading Afghanistan a foreign policy decision he never made.
Jonah Goldberg / National Review:
Does Sean Hannity Want Hillary to Win?  —  Rather than hold Trump to his promise to pivot, Hannity is defending Trump's shtick. … Dear Reader (including Vanilla Ice, because we now live in a world where that's possible),  —  This is an honest question: Does Sean Hannity want Hillary Clinton to be president?
Discussion: Mediaite and Townhall.com
BBC:
Switzerland Salez attack: Knifeman sets fire to Swiss train  —  A knifeman has set fire to a train in north-eastern Switzerland, leaving six people in hospital with stab wounds and burns, police say.  —  The suspect, described as a Swiss man aged 27, was also taken to hospital …
Discussion: Mediaite
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Rebecca Morin / Politico:
Trump campaign launches drive to recruit ‘election observers’  —  Donald Trump's campaign is seeking to recruit “election observers” following the Republican nominee's repeated claims that the general election is “rigged.”  —  In a move that's unprecedented in a presidential election …
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Alexander Mallin / ABC News:
Hackers Claim to Have Released House Democrats' Personal Information  —  Hackers are claiming to have released the personal information of nearly all Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives, including members' private cell phone numbers and email addresses.
Discussion: Politico, BizPac Review and Mediaite
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Associated Press:
Frustration abundant, GOP could be near breaking point Trump  —  ALTOONA, Pa. (AP) — The Republican Party could be nearing a breaking point with Donald Trump.  —  As he skips from one gaffe to the next, GOP leaders in Washington and in the most competitive states have begun openly contemplating turning …
Nicola Slawson / Guardian:
Kenny Baker, actor behind R2-D2, dies  —  The 3ft 8in actor, who starred in six Star Wars films as well as Time Bandits and Flash Gordon, was 83  —  The British actor who played R2-D2 in the Star Wars films has died at the age of 83 after a long illness.  —  Kenny Baker, who was 3ft 8in tall …
CNN:
Republicans question Trump's travel choices, tight purse strings  —  Washington (CNN)The last time Connecticut voted for a Republican presidential candidate, Americans were listening to music on cassette tapes and most cell phones were the size of shoe boxes.
Discussion: neo-neocon, Hullabaloo and twitchy.com
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Katie Glueck / Politico:   Trump's run at blue Connecticut
Joe Cunningham / RedState:
Finally SOMEONE Who Agrees With Trump Claim That Obama Founded ISIS  —  Donald Trump has been taking a lot of flak for his claim that Barack Obama is the “founder of ISIS,” a claim he later doubled-down on (before later insisting it was sarcasm).  It's led to another string of bad media …
Daniel Halper / New York Post:
SEE ALL 223 STORIES  —  Bill Clinton is accusing the FBI director of serving up “the biggest load of bull I've ever heard” — marking the first significant public comments from the husband of the Democratic nominee on the scandal that's plagued his wife's campaign for over a year.
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Chuck Ross / The Daily Caller:
Bill Clinton: Email Classification Issues Are ‘Too Complicated To Explain To People’ [VIDEO]
Discussion: Infowars and BizPac Review
MJ Lee / CNN:   Bill Clinton talks email controversy: ‘Biggest load of bull’
New York Daily News:
Queens imam shot in the head, another man blasted in the chest in fatal attack near Ozone Park mosque  —  A lone gunman opened fire on a Queens imam walking home from Saturday afternoon prayers and a second man, leaving one of the pair dead and the other critically wounded.
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Feds debate releasing Clinton's FBI interview  —  The Obama administration is urgently debating how to respond to congressional demands for the official report on Hillary Clinton's three-and-a-half-hour interview at FBI headquarters, as some inside and outside government raise concerns …
Discussion: Hot Air and BizPac Review
Katherine Miller / BuzzFeed:
After Mexican “Rapists” Comment, Ivanka Trump Wrote An Unused Clarification  —  In a deposition earlier this summer, Ivanka Trump said she drafted a statement last summer in the wake of her father's comments about the “rapists” that Mexico sends to the United States — though she denied …
New York Daily News:
EXCLUSIVE: Staten Island boy, 13, kills self after Holy Angels Catholic Academy staff 'didn't do anything' to stop bullying  —  Before he took his own life, Daniel Fitzpatrick, taunted and bullied, wrote a final, heartbreaking letter lamenting that nearly no one tried to help him.
Discussion: Gothamist and New York's PIX11
 
 
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Bob Cesca / Salon:
Trump and the exploitation of right rage: It's not the economy, stupid, that's attracting angry white men to him
J.W. Verret / The Hill:
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Sarah Knapton / Telegraph:
Rise of the micro-dog: as British homes get smaller so do our pets
Discussion: Infowars
The Hill:
‘Expedited Removal’ process as cold as ICE: Response to Jeh Johnson
Discussion: ImmigrationProf Blog and Rewire
CBS News:
​Stores to customers: “Cash not welcome here”
Mara Siegler / New York Post:
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 Earlier Items: 
New York Times:
Once Skeptical of Executive Power, Obama Has Come to Embrace It
Discussion: JustOneMinute
Sally Jenkins / Washington Post:
Hope Solo, tolerated and excused in victory, exposes herself in Olympic defeat
Discussion: New York Times and USA Today
Jesse Byrnes / The Hill:
Clinton gains big edge in swing-state polls
Discussion: Slate, AOL and Washington Post
Patrick Healy / New York Times:
Donald Trump's Missteps Risk Putting a Ceiling Over His Support in Swing States
Discussion: Althouse
Rick Hasen / electionlawblog.org:
Donald Trump May Be Violating RNC Consent Decree Aimed at Voter Intimidation
 

 
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