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9:15 AM ET, August 16, 2016

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Washington Post:
Trump unpopularity fuels wide lead for Clinton in new Virginia poll  —  Hillary Clinton holds a commanding lead over Donald Trump in Virginia, with disdain for the Republican presidential nominee helping Clinton overcome her own vulnerabilities, a new Washington Post poll finds.
Philly.com:
Jury: A.G. Kane guilty of perjury, obstruction, all other charges  —  Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane was convicted Monday of perjury, obstruction and other crimes after squandering her once bright political future on an illegal vendetta against an enemy.  —  KATHLEEN KANE TRIAL
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Jess Bidgood / New York Times:
Pennsylvania's Attorney General Is Convicted on All Counts  —  NORRISTOWN, Pa. — Kathleen G. Kane, the attorney general of Pennsylvania, was convicted Monday night of nine criminal charges, including perjury and criminal conspiracy.  —  It was a stunning end to the political career of Ms. Kane …
NBC News:
Poll: Clinton Maintains Big Lead as Voters Doubt Trump's Temperament  —  The numbers were virtually unchanged since last week's poll.  Generally low favorability and negative attitudes among voters plague both candidates, however, as they make appeals to voters in key swing states in the weeks ahead.
Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
Third-party candidates on outside as debate criteria released  —  The Commission on Presidential Debates has released the polls it will use to decide the participants of September's first presidential debate as third-party candidates struggle to make the stage.
Discussion: Common Dreams
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Julian Hattem / The Hill:
Green Party candidate slams Clinton on email  —  Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein on Monday ramped up her attacks on Hillary Clinton  —  for using a private email system while serving as the nation's top diplomat and maintaining a fuzzy boundary between her official and private duties.
Discussion: CNN
Commission on Presidential Debates:
Commission on Presidential Debates Announces Polls to be used in 2016 Candidate Selection Criteria
Alexander Mallin / ABC News:
President Obama ‘Tired’ of Talking About Donald Trump  —  President Obama took a brief break from his 16-day vacation on Martha's Vineyard to attend a Democratic National Committee fundraiser on the island, where he made a strong case for Hillary Clinton as he seemed to brush off Donald Trump.
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Lisa Hagen / The Hill:
Obama: I'm tired of talking about Trump  —  President Obama on Monday evening urged supporters to aggressively campaign for the remainder of the presidential election in order to get Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton  —  to the White House.  —  At a fundraiser in Martha's Vineyard …
New York Times:
Mr. Trump's Foreign Policy Confusions  —  Donald Trump's speech on Monday was advertised as an attempt to redirect his campaign from a series of blunders to a more serious discussion of foreign policy, starting with combating global terrorism.  As such, it marked another test of his readiness to lead.
Discussion: Foreign Policy, Daily Kos and Guardian
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Karen DeYoung / Washington Post:
Trump proposes ideological test for Muslim immigrants and visitors to the U.S.
Discussion: Jihad Watch and The Atlantic
Brendan Morrow / Heavy.com:
READ: Full Transcript of Donald Trump Foreign Policy Speech  —  Email Follow  —  Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump delivered a speech from Youngstown, Ohio this afternoon, during which he discussed his plan for defeating ISIS.  —  During his remarks, Trump declared …
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Austin Wright / Politico:
Trump's Islamic State address: Fact or fiction?
Michael Gerson / Washington Post:
Trump may cost the GOP a generation of voters  —  People always remember their first presidential vote — their first participation in the largest decision of American democracy.  —  In high school, I was a rather awkward, nerdish history buff.  (My wife would dispute the verb tense.)
Kevin Fallon / The Daily Beast:
Larry Wilmore's ‘Nightly Show’ Cancellation And Late Night's ‘Unblackening’  —  What Comedy Central's cancellation of ‘The Nightly Show With Larry Wilmore’ could mean for the future of diversity in late night.  (Hint: It's certainly not good!)  —  Late-night TV is experiencing, in Larry Wilmore's own words, an Unblackening.
Julian Hattem / The Hill:
GOP lays out case for charging Clinton with perjury  —  A pair of leading House Republicans on Monday laid out detailed instructions for the Justice Department to file perjury charges against Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton  —  More than a month after first requesting …
Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
Trump Adviser Says Nominee ‘Operates Now Almost Like A President’  —  Walid Phares, a foreign policy adviser to Donald Trump, said on Tuesday morning that the Republican nominee now acts more like a president, claiming that Trump listens to his advisers.  —  Phares comment came …
Discussion: Politico
Jesse Byrnes / The Hill:
Gingrich: Clinton ‘lies about lying’ … backer and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) on Monday questioned how much information could be gleaned from notes from Hillary Clinton  —  's FBI interview.  —  “This is a person who has lied repeatedly.
Discussion: Political Wire, Hot Air and twitchy.com
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Jesse Byrnes / The Hill:
Clinton tops 270 electoral votes in NBC map  —  tops the 270 electoral votes needed to win the presidency in an NBC News battleground map projection updated Monday.  —  then gets 174 votes, with another 76 considered toss-ups.  —  The map is based on states leaning or likely …
Discussion: BizPac Review and Crooks and Liars
Matthew Boyle / Breitbart:
House Committee Chairmen Lay Out Case For Perjury Against Hillary Rodham Clinton To U.S. Attorney  —  Hillary Rodham Clinton, the Democratic nominee for president of the United States, may have committed perjury in testimony before Congress, two separate U.S. House committee chairmen detailed late Monday.
Patrick Healy / New York Times:
Early Voting Limits Donald Trump's Time to Turn Campaign Around  —  Advisers to Donald J. Trump keep reassuring Republicans that there is still plenty of time to rescue his candidacy — nearly three months to counter Hillary Clinton's vast operation in swing states and get Mr. Trump on message.
Peter Sullivan / The Hill:
Aetna pulling back from ObamaCare in blow to health law  —  In a blow to the health care law, Aetna — one of the largest health insurers in the country — announced Monday that it will significantly scale back its presence on the ObamaCare marketplaces next year.
Kimiko De Freytas-Tamura / New York Times:
Upset by Brexit, Some British Jews Look to Germany  —  LONDON — Until Britain voted to leave the European Union, Philip Levine never thought deeply about his Jewish heritage.  —  But looking for a way to ensure that he could still work and live in Europe once Britain leaves the bloc …
Christopher Ingraham / Washington Post:
Today's men are not nearly as strong as their dads were, researchers say  —  A man's hands say a lot about him.  My own father, at 66, still has the calloused, gnarled hands of a guy who did competitive weightlifting in college and spent much of his career grappling with 1,500-pound dairy cattle as a large animal veterinarian.
Discussion: Shakesville
Lori Chung / NY1 News:
Funeral Held for Queens Imam and His Assistant; Police Question Man Over Shooting  —  Police are questioning someone in connection with this weekend's deadly shooting of an imam and his assistant in Queens.  —  This, as family and friends said goodbye to the victims at their funeral today.
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Edward-Isaac Dovere / Politico:
Biden rebaptizes Clinton in Scranton
Discussion: ABC News
Susan Svrluga / Washington Post:
A 12-year-old is off to the Ivy League. 'It's a challenge to keep him challenged,' his dad says.
Washington Post:
He was one of the most respected intel officers of his generation.  Now he's leading ‘Lock her up’ chants.
Brian Beutler / New Republic:
Conservatives' Laughable Effort to Blame Liberals for Trump
Jeremy Pelzer / Plain Dealer:
Libertarians can swap in Gary Johnson's name on Ohio ballot, Jon Husted rules
Discussion: Washington Post and Hit & Run
Heather Caygle / Politico:
Tim Kaine's Southern night: Barbecue, beer and bluegrass on the harmonica
Discussion: ABC News
Marc Caputo / Politico:
Increase in minority voters poses problem for Trump in Florida
Discussion: miamiherald and Washington Post
 Earlier Items: 
Donald Trump / Deseret News:
Exclusive: Donald Trump: Utah can help make America great again
Lauren Fox / Talking Points Memo:
Troll So Hard: Harry Reid Demands That Trump Take The Naturalization Test
Rachel Petty / New York Post:
New York is getting really trashy
Discussion: CBS New York and Instapundit