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12:15 PM ET, August 15, 2016

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New York Times:
Secret Ledger in Ukraine Lists Cash for Donald Trump's Campaign Chief  —  KIEV, Ukraine — On a leafy side street off Independence Square in Kiev is an office used for years by Donald J. Trump's campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, when he consulted for Ukraine's ruling political party.
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Politico:
Manafort blasts NYT, denies he accepted Ukraine cash payments  —  Donald Trump's campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, slammed the New York Times Monday morning after the newspaper published a story reporting that secret ledgers in Ukraine show more than $12 million in cash earmarked for him.
Clinton Surges / NBC News:
Clinton Surges Past 270 Electoral Votes in NBC News Battleground Map  —  Wall Street Journal to GOP: Dump Donald Trump if he doesn't change (which he says he won't) 2:50  —  First Read is a morning briefing from Meet the Press and the NBC Political Unit on the day's most important political stories and why they matter.
Jill Colvin / Associated Press:
Trump looking to institute political tests for immigrants  —  JERSEY CITY, N.J. (AP) — Donald Trump will declare an end to nation building if elected president, replacing it with what aides described as “foreign policy realism” focused on destroying the Islamic State group and other extremist organizations.
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Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
Trump to urge ideological test for immigrants
Cynthia Littleton / Variety:
Larry Wilmore's ‘Nightly Show’ Cancelled at Comedy Central … “The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore” will call it a day after Thursday's episode.  —  Comedy Central has canceled the half-hour series that replaced “The Colbert Report” on Jan. 19, 2015, making “Nightly” the first of the recent wave of late-night newcomers to shutter.
Discussion: IndieWire and Raw Story
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John Koblin / New York Times:
Comedy Central Cancels Larry Wilmore's Late-Night Show  —  In the midst of a wild and unpredictable presidential campaign, Comedy Central is upending its late-night lineup and canceling Larry Wilmore's show.  —  The final episode of Mr. Wilmore's 11:30 p.m. “The Nightly Show With Larry Wilmore” …
Allegra Kirkland / Talking Points Memo:
Clinton Leads In Breitbart Poll Conducted As Rebuke To MSM Surveys  —  Aiming to address a recent slew of “mainstream media” polls showing Hillary Clinton holding a decisive lead over of Donald Trump, Breitbart News conducted its own survey.  But the conservative news site came up with similar results.
Discussion: Breitbart and FiveThirtyEight
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Bill Mahoney / Politico:
Poll shows Trump losing support among home-state Republicans
Discussion: RedState
Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
Why I don't think it makes sense to attribute Trump's support to economic anxiety  —  One of the most popular ideas about Donald Trump this election cycle is that he has awakened a deep sense of “economic anxiety” from the white working class.  This idea is often said to be supported by his poll numbers …
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Tara Golshan / Vox:   The 40 top Republicans (and counting) who won't support Donald Trump for president
Wall Street Journal:
Trump's Self-Reckoning  —  The GOP nominee and his supporters face a moment of truth.  —  Donald Trump lashed out at the media on Sunday after more stories describing dysfunction inside his presidential campaign.  “If the disgusting and corrupt media covered me honestly and didn't put false meaning …
Hugh Hewitt / Washington Examiner:
Once more into the Supreme Court breach  —  Third time's a charm.  —  Or not.  —  Over the last two weeks I have tried to use this space to persuade #NeverTrumpers that their opposition to Donald Trump, no matter how deeply principled on their part, should yield to the manifest damage …
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Charlie Cook / The Cook Political Report:
New August Electoral College Ratings  —  The two major party conventions are now behind us and the consequent bounces have had time to settle giving us a presidential race that isn't over, but one that is fully developed.  Many observers have noted that in the last six decades of modern presidential polling …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Grist / Raw Story:
Chief NC scientist resigns, accuses GOP administration of misleading the public about water quality  —  DON'T MISS STORIES.  FOLLOW RAW STORY!  —  Megan Davies, North Carolina's chief epidemiologist, resigned this week in the latest bit of drama over drinking water safety …
NBC News:
Olympic Cheers May Have Triggered JFK Emergency Response  —  Multiple emergency agencies rushed to New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport in response to a report Sunday night that shots had been fired, but there was no gunfire, authorities said.  —  Police declared early Monday …
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Steven Shepard / Politico:
Pollsters: Trump approaching zero hour  —  No candidate in Donald Trump's position at this stage of the campaign has gone on to win the popular vote in November in the modern polling era.  —  That's the sobering news confronting the Trump campaign as it seeks to rebound from his recent slump.
Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Trump In 2008 Interview: “I Support Hillary, I Think She's Fantastic”  —  In a previously unreported exchange from 2008, Donald Trump threw his support behind then-Senator Hillary Clinton's bid for the Democratic nomination, calling her “fantastic.”  —  BuzzFeed News found a transcript …
Discussion: Political Wire
Stephanie Petit / People.com:
Pals Ivanka Trump and Wendi Deng Murdoch Go Sightseeing in Croatia  —  Ivanka Trump is taking a break from the campaign trail to vacation with friends.  —  The daughter of GOP nominee Donald Trump shared a scenic snap with Wendi Deng Murdoch, the ex-wife of billionaire media mogul Rupert Murdoch, from Dubrovnik, Croatia.
Eric Thayer / National Review:
How Donald Trump Brought House Conservatives to Heel  —  By winning over their constituents, he forced them to get in line.  —  When Representative Mark Meadows filed his motion to vacate the chair, effectively calling for the removal of John Boehner as speaker of the House …
Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
Hillary drafts illegal ‘Dreamers’ to get immigrants to vote  —  Hillary Clinton's campaign on Sunday announced a program to recruit undocumented “Dreamers” into a voter registration army even though they are not allowed to vote.  —  Celebrating the four-year anniversary of President Obama's Deferred Action …
John Sides / Washington Post:
Why Donald Trump's ‘rigged elections’ warning could actually make his supporters less likely to vote  —  If you were running for president, and you wanted to make sure that your supporters actually showed up and voted on Nov. 8, should you be warning of a “rigged election”?
Daniel Lippman / Politico:
Ukrainian CASH for Manafort — What BIDEN will say today with CLINTON — New jobs for Lis Smith, Tucker Martin — POLSON KANNETH wedding — B'DAY: Karen Finney  —  SNEAK PEEK — WHAT BIDEN WILL SAY TODAY WITH CLINTON — Vice President Joe Biden — who riled up the convention crowd in Philly …
Discussion: Mediaite
New York Times:
G.O.P. Urges Donald Trump to Broaden Outreach to Black Voters  —  When Donald J. Trump went to Detroit last week to deliver a speech on his economic proposals, he laid the chronic problems of the heavily black city at the feet of his opponents, saying Democrats had a stranglehold on power …
Discussion: Daily Kos and Washingtonian
 
 
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Adelle Nazarian / Breitbart:
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Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Trump's NY Co-Chair Doubles Down On Khizr Khan Attack: He Dishonored His Son's Memory
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Paul H. Jossey / Politico:
How We Killed the Tea Party
New York Daily News:
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Democrats Brace for More Leaks From Hackers
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Nikita Vladimirov / The Hill:
Former NY gov: Clinton shouldn't have taken ‘victory lap’ after email report
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Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
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Tim Cook, the interview: Running Apple ‘is sort of a lonely job’
Brian Snyder / National Review:
Never Trumpniks Pave Hillary's Path to Power