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8:40 AM ET, August 24, 2016

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Associated Press:
MANY DONORS TO CLINTON FOUNDATION MET WITH HER AT STATE  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — More than half the people outside the government who met with Hillary Clinton while she was secretary of state gave money - either personally or through companies or groups - to the Clinton Foundation.
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Annie Karni / Politico:
Hillary Clinton's run-out-the-clock strategy  —  She is not planning on sitting for another televised armchair confessional to rehash regrets about a private email server.  Nor is the campaign setting up the kind of war room employed last year to discredit a book that aimed to expose …
Katie Bo Williams / The Hill:
Emails threaten to shadow Clinton through Election Day  —  's use of a private email server appears certain to dog her until Election Day, after a federal judge ordered the State Department to accelerate its production of nearly 15,000 previously-unreleased emails uncovered by the FBI.
Discussion: Politico
Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
Now Hillary has a big Clinton Foundation problem, too  —  Hillary Clinton has never been great at understanding that, in politics, perception almost always equals reality.  Witness this story that just broke from the Associated Press: … So, er, okay.  —  Let's stipulate two things here before I go any further:
Christian Datoc / The Daily Caller:
Emails Show Huma Used To Put Hillary Down For Nap Time
New York Times:
6.2-Magnitude Earthquake Shakes Italy, Killing at Least 10  —  ROME — Strong earthquakes struck central Italy early Wednesday, killing at least 10 people, trapping many others under debris and setting off tremors that awakened residents in Rome nearly 100 miles to the southwest.
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Elisabetta Povoledo / New York Times:
Powerful Earthquakes in Italy Kill Dozens and Shatter Towns
The Daily Beast:
Donald Trump Used Campaign Donations to Buy $55,000 of His Own Book  —  Donald Trump used his campaign funds to buy thousands of copies of his own book at retail cost, simultaneously diverting donor money back into his pockets while artificially boosting his sales figures.
Discussion: Raw Story
Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Inside Donald Trump's new strategy to counter the view of many that he is ‘racist’  —  Donald Trump is rapidly trying to turn around his presidential campaign with a vigorous and at times strained effort to shed a label applied to him by a substantial portion of the electorate: racist.
Joshua Robertson / Guardian:
French man allegedly shouted ‘Allahu Akbar’ in fatal stabbing of British woman at Australian hostel  —  A British man is in a critical condition and a woman is dead after attack witnessed by up to 30 people in Home Hill, in Queensland's north  —  A French man allegedly cried “Allahu Akbar” …
Discussion: Pamela Geller
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Jonathan Pearlman / Telegraph:
Frenchman in Australia kills British backpacker and injures man while ‘shouting Allahu Akbar’
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Chris Kahn / Reuters:
Clinton leads Trump by 12 points in Reuters/Ipsos poll  —  Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton leads Republican rival Donald Trump by 12 percentage points among likely voters, her strongest showing this month, according to a Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll released on Tuesday.
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Alexa Ashwell / WSOC-TV:
Vigil held for deaf driver killed in trooper-involved shooting  —  CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Friends and neighbors gathered Monday evening with the family of a deaf man who was killed last week in a trooper-involved shooting.  —  Daniel Harris, 29, was shot and killed by a Highway Patrol trooper …
Burgess Everett / Politico:
The return of ‘Straight Talk’ McCain  —  SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — The dour John McCain of Capitol Hill is on hiatus.  In his place, at least for a day: The loose, accessible, happy warrior of Straight Talk Express yesteryear.  —  McCain is deadly serious about winning reelection and continuing …
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Mass Lesbian Farm Infiltration Is Obama's Best Scheme Yet  —  Barack Obama is nearing the finish line of a presidency filled with accomplishments ranging from death panels to FEMA camps to the importation of Sharia law.  Year eight is a natural time for Obama to unveil the most deviously brilliant plot …
Daily Mail:
Get 'em off!  Armed police order Muslim woman to remove her burkini on packed Nice beach - as mother, 34, wearing Islamic headscarf is threatened with pepper spray and fined in Cannes  —  The French ban on the burkini is threatening to turn into a farce as police officers armed with pepper spray …
New York Times:
New York Times's Moscow Bureau Was Targeted by Hackers  —  The New York Times's Moscow bureau was the target of an attempted cyberattack this month.  But so far, there is no evidence that the hackers, believed to be Russian, were successful.  —  “We are constantly monitoring our systems …
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CNN:
FBI investigating Russian hack of New York Times reporters, others
Emma Dumain / Post and Courier:
S.C. Democrats tout new poll showing Clinton, Trump in dead heat  —  WASHINGTON — A new poll shows Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump tied in the presidential contest in the Palmetto State.  —  The poll, paid for by the South Carolina Democratic Party and conducted by the Feldman Group …
Esther Yu Hsi Lee / ThinkProgress:
If Trump's New Immigration Plan Sounds Familiar, That's Because Obama Is Already Enforcing It  —  Donald Trump has built his presidential campaign around harsh rhetoric toward immigrants—referring to people who cross the border as “rapists,” pledging to build a wall between the United States and Mexico …
Jill Lawrence / USA Today:
Change is not your friend this year: Jill Lawrence  —  Trump says we should bet our economy on him.  He also wants to sell you a casino and a university.  —  What do you have to lose?  Donald Trump keeps asking African Americans.  But really that's his question to all of us.
Reid Wilson / The Hill:
2M people off food stamp benefits in last year  —  The number of Americans who receive food stamps has dropped by more than 2 million over the last year, according to new data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, as states begin to reintroduce work rules relaxed during the recession.
CBS News:
Second-grade teacher's unique homework policy goes viral  —  Every school year, elementary school students are faced with new challenges.  —  They have to make new friends, get to know new teachers and learn how to juggle more complex courses.  —  But there's at least one stressful thing second-graders …
New York Times:
More Attacks on Transgender Rights  —  Just days after the federal Department of Education in May issued sensible antidiscrimination guidelines for accommodating transgender students, Texas' attorney general, Ken Paxton, set out to challenge them.  —  His team reached out to tiny school districts …
Paul Mirengoff / Power Line:
A terrorist attack in Roanoke  —  A man in Roanoke County is in custody after attacking a couple in an apartment complex.  The man, Wasil Farooqui, slashed the victims with a knife while allegedly shouting “Allahu Akbar.”  The couple doesn't know Farooqui.  Apparently he selected them at random to be attacked.
The White House:
President Obama Honors Outstanding Mathematics and Science Teachers  —  WASHINGTON, DC — President Obama today named 213 mathematics and science teachers as recipients of the prestigious Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching.
Discussion: WWLP-TV and NOLA River
Petula Dvorak / Washington Post:
'I wasn't crazy.' A homeless woman's long war to prove the feds owe her $100,000.  —  If you've spent any time in downtown Washington, you've probably seen 80-year-old Wanda Witter.  —  Shock white hair, a determined, unsmiling set to her mouth, jeans.  She may have asked you for some change …
Ollie Gillman / Daily Mail:
Tattoos spelling out ‘NO!’ are being given to young girls at German swimming pools to help stop sex attacks  —  Young girls at German swimming pools are being given temporary tattoos with the word ‘NO!’ on them in an attempt to put off rapists.  —  The stick-on messages say ‘no’ in German …
 
 
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