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9:30 AM ET, August 17, 2016

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Robert Costa / Washington Post:
Trump shakes up campaign, demotes top adviser  —  Donald Trump, following weeks of gnawing agitation over his advisers' attempts to temper his style, moved late Tuesday to overhaul his struggling campaign by rebuffing those efforts and elevating two longtime associates who have encouraged his combative populism.
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New York Times:
Donald Trump, in Shake-Up, Hires Breitbart Executive for Top Campaign Post  —  LAS VEGAS — Donald J. Trump has shaken up his presidential campaign for the second time in two months, hiring a top executive from the conservative news site Breitbart News and promoting a senior adviser to a key …
Monica Langley / Wall Street Journal:
Donald Trump Overhauls Campaign Team  —  Republican nominee adds two managers to help stem slide; Paul Manafort remains chairman  —  Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is bringing two new managers to the top of his campaign in a bid to recover ground he has lost in recent weeks.
Beth Reinhard / Wall Street Journal:
Trump to Air First TV Ads of General Election Campaign  —  As he continues to slip in the polls, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is poised to begin airing his first television ads of the general election starting Friday in Florida, Ohio, North Carolina and Pennsylvania, according to a campaign adviser.
Jeremy Diamond / CNN:
Trump campaign undergoes major overhaul
Discussion: The Last Refuge and CANNONFIRE
Associated Press:
Republican Donald Trump Shaking up Campaign
Discussion: Politico and ABC News
Megan McArdle / Bloomberg:
Aetna's Retreat From Obamacare Is More Than It Seems  —  Aetna is pulling out of 11 of the 15 states it serves on the Obamacare exchanges.  Longtime readers of this column will be unsurprised at the reason: It's losing substantial amounts of money on its exchange policies.
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Carolyn Y. Johnson / Washington Post:
Aetna decision exposes weaknesses in Obama's health-care law  —  Insurance giant Aetna's decision to stop offering much of its individual coverage through the Affordable Care Act is exposing a problem in President Obama's signature health-care law that could lead to another fraught political battle in Congress.
The Huffington Post:
Aetna CEO Threatened Obamacare Pullout If Feds Opposed Humana Merger  —  Give us our merger or we'll quit Obamacare, the insurer told Justice Department officials in a July letter.  —  Senior National Correspondent, The Huffington Post  —  The big health care news this week came from Aetna …
Associated Press:
AP Sources: Manafort tied to undisclosed foreign lobbying  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump's campaign chairman helped a pro-Russian governing party in Ukraine secretly route at least $2.2 million in payments to two prominent Washington lobbying firms in 2012, and did so in a way that effectively obscured …
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Nick Gass / Politico:
Ex-Cruz spokesman: New Trump camp CEO ‘a little controversial’  —  Donald Trump's new campaign CEO Stephen Bannon is “a little controversial,” Ted Cruz's former campaign spokesman Rick Tyler said Wednesday.  —  “You probably hear from a lot of people who have worked with Bannon that he's not the easiest person to get along with.
Discussion: ABC News and The Week
Nicholas Weaver / Lawfare:
NSA and the No Good, Very Bad Monday  —  Monday was a tough day for those in the business of computer espionage.  Russia, still using the alias Guccifer2.0, dumped even more DNC documents.  And on Twitter, Mikko Hypponen noted an announcement on Github that had gone overlooked for two days …
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David E. Sanger / New York Times:
‘Shadow Brokers’ Leak Raises Alarming Question: Was the N.S.A. Hacked?
Discussion: Boing Boing and Motherboard
Shane Goldmacher / Politico:
Trump accuses Clinton of ‘bigotry’ toward African-Americans  —  Donald Trump made a new and explicit plea for the support of black voters on Tuesday, saying the Democratic Party had “failed and betrayed” them and accusing Hillary Clinton of “bigotry” in the pursuit of minority voters.
Discussion: ABC News, CNN, Mediaite and Balloon Juice
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Jason Nichols / The Hill:
Would racism exist if there had been no US slavery?
Discussion: Instapundit
Politico:
Trump issues ‘pledge to the American people’
Discussion: NBC News and ABC News
Andrew Weinstein / Medium:
An Open Letter to Reince Priebus, Chairman, Republican National Committee  —  In every election cycle, the Republican National Committee (RNC) must make difficult decisions in the closing months about where to allocate its limited resources—money, time, staff, and ads—to ensure the best possible opportunities for the Party's success.
Eleanor Clift / The Daily Beast:
Saying Goodbye to John McLaughlin, TV's Original Tough Political Talker  —  A panelist remembers the political priest turned talk-show host who brought strong opinions to Sunday mornings.  —  If there were a Mount Olympus for talk-show hosts, John McLaughlin would be on it.
Discussion: New York Times
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New York Daily News:   John McLaughlin dead at 89, hosted ‘The McLaughlin Group’ since 1982
Peter Kafka / Recode:
Univision is buying Gawker Media for $135 million  —  Sold!  —  Asa Mathat  —  Univision has won the auction for Gawker Media.  —  The TV network and digital publisher has agreed to pay $135 million for the bankrupt blog network, according to a person familiar with the deal.
Russ Buettner / New York Times:
Trump Casinos' Tax Debt Was $30 Million.  Then Christie Took Office.  —  By the time Chris Christie became governor of New Jersey, the state's auditors and lawyers had been battling for several years to collect long-overdue taxes owed by the casinos founded by his friend Donald J. Trump.
Discussion: LawNewz and Raw Story
Los Angeles Times:
Buildings burn, residents flee as out-of-control brush fire burns 15,000 acres in Cajon Pass  —  Paloma Esquivel, James Queally and Sarah Parvini  —  A brush fire exploded out of control Tuesday in the Cajon Pass, scorching 15,000 acres as walls of flame forced more than 80,000 people …
Matthew Hamilton / Albany Times Union:
After Trump sign is stolen, supporter builds security measures  —  Capital Region home builder Robert Marini surrounds new sign in barbed wire after 5 thefts  —  COLONIE — Donald Trump wants to build that wall.  —  Robert Marini has emulated his preferred presidential candidate.
Discussion: The Root and New York Magazine
Lynnley Browning / Bloomberg:
Clinton Could Have Cut Her Tax Bill in Half Under Trump's Plan  —  Her proposals would have increased her tax by $224,000 or more  —  Trump's business-tax plan would mean savings for pass-throughs  —  Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton could have cut her 2015 federal tax bill roughly …
Discussion: The Week
Bill Gertz / Washington Free Beacon:
Russian Military Forces StagingNear Ukraine  —  The Pentagon has identified eight staging areas in Russia where large numbers of military forces appear to be preparing for incursions into Ukraine, according to U.S. defense officials.  —  As many as 40,000 Russian troops, including tanks …
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Please share and spread the word .  This is our family's official statement.  Thank you.  —  Jabara Family Statement on the Murder of Khalid Jabara  —  August 15, 2016  —  On Friday night, our world was shattered when our brother, Khalid Jabara, was murdered on the front porch of our family home.
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Michael E. Miller / Washington Post:
Man's ‘unusual fixation’ with Lebanese neighbors led to killing, Tulsa police say
Discussion: Walid Shoebat and Raw Story
New York Times:
Stop Saudi Arms Sales Until Carnage in Yemen Ends  —  A hospital associated with Doctors Without Borders.  A school.  A potato chip factory.  Under international law, those facilities in Yemen are not legitimate military targets.  Yet all were bombed in recent days by warplanes belonging …
Sam Reisman / Mediaite:
Rick Perry Says Khizr Khan ‘Struck the First Blow’ in Trump Feud: ‘Shame on You’  —  F ormer Texas governor and former Republican presidential contender Rick Perry said on CNN Tuesday afternoon that the father of a soldier killed in Iraq “struck the first blow” against Donald Trump.
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Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
Pow: It's just a 2-point race, Clinton 38%, Trump 36%  —  The convention polling bumps for Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton and Republican Donald Trump are over, and they are practically even, according to a new poll of likely voters.  —  A Zogby Analytics survey provided to Secrets Tuesday shows:
New York Daily News:
The dangerous alliance between Hillary Clinton's Democrats and neocons: Fear of Trump is cementing a strange relationship  —  Earlier this month, Hillary Clinton's campaign released a TV ad that should give pause to anyone hoping to avoid foreign policy catastrophe in coming years.
 
 
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Jeva Lange / The Week:
Even Jill Stein is spending more on advertising than Donald Trump
Discussion: Hot Air
BostonGlobe.com:
Clinton Foundation should stop accepting funds
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Politico
Mike Levine / ABC News:
Trump to Receive First Classified Briefing
Emily Chan / Daily Mail:
‘This is war’: Black Panther leader says ‘black people are being murdered’ …
Mark Hensch / The Hill:
Trump: 'I don't want to pivot'
Elizabeth Harrington / Washington Free Beacon:
Feds Holding Summits forLesbian Farmers
Discussion: Daily Wire
Numbers / Pew Research Center:
Nearly half of refugees entering the U.S. this year are Muslim
Discussion: The Daily Caller
 Earlier Items: 
Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Trump's Post Advocating For Intervention In Libya Is Still On His Facebook
Chris Spargo / Daily Mail:
Yachting with the enemy: Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner take the jet skis out and relax …
The Local:
Sex pigs halt traffic after laser attack on Pokémon teens
Discussion: Mashable
Dan Elsom / New York Post:
Penis crushes pole vaulter's Olympic dream
TMZ.com:
... Penis Pics, Fecal Matter, Hair Demands
Discussion: Mediaite and The Big Lead
Kristine Marsh / NewsBusters:
CNN Selectively Edits Police Shooting Victim's Sister's Words to Protesters