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6:50 PM ET, August 25, 2016

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Dyno Rush / dailyrushbo.com:
Limbaugh CRACKS UP!  Who Knew It Would Be Trump That Converts GOP Base On Amnesty!  —  RUSH: Could you imagine what it's like to be Jeb Bush today?  Who knew — (laughing) I'm sorry, folks.  “She's a bigot!”  Who knew.  First they tried Marco Rubio.  They tried the Gang of Eight.
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Sarah K. Burris / Raw Story:
CNN erupts in laughter as Katrina Pierson pushes a bizarre defense of Trump's immigration flip-flop  —  DON'T MISS STORIES.  FOLLOW RAW STORY!  —  Donald Trump campaign spokesperson Katrina Pierson hasn't been on television since her nightmare week of catastrophic appearances.
Ali Vitali / NBC News:
Trump: ‘Hillary Clinton Is a Bigot’  —  JACKSON, Miss. — Donald Trump has spent the week calling for African-Americans to uproot voter trends, reject “the bigotry” of Hillary Clinton, and vote for him in November.  But Wednesday night, Trump escalated the line of attack and labeled Clinton herself a “bigot.”
Eddie Scarry / Washington Examiner:
Ann Coulter: Maybe it's ‘in our interest’ to let some illegal immigrants stay  —  Conservative author and Donald Trump supporter Ann Coulter isn't giving up on her candidate yet, even as he appears to be shifting on an issue most dear to her.  —  Trump is now open to possibly “softening” …
Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Jeb Bush Says He's Not Buying The Trump Immigration Shift  —  Jeb Bush says Donald Trump doesn't actually have any beliefs on immigration because it's all a game to Trump.  —  “Well, I can only say that whatever his views are this morning, they might change this afternoon …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Daily Wire
Benjy Sarlin / NBC News:
Donald Trump Openly Weighs a Massive Immigration Reversal  —  Trump Reaches Out to Black, Latino Voters as Poll Numbers Show Numbers Falling 2:03  —  In what would be a stunning reversal on an issue central to his candidacy, Donald Trump floated a possible process to allow undocumented immigrants …
Jonathan Swan / The Hill:
Coulter: Trump's ‘softening’ on immigration remark a panic move  —  “panicked” when he said he was open to softening his immigration policies, according to conservative pundit and Trump ally Ann Coulter.  —  “It's just rhetoric but it's still annoying,” Coulter told The Hill Wednesday night.
Nick Gass / Politico:
Coulter mocks Trump's immigration muddle
Nick Gass / Politico:
Trump hits back at Clinton: ‘Shame on you’
Discussion: ABC News
Adam Kelsey / ABC News:
Donald Trump Pre-Empts Hillary Clinton's Speech: 'We're Not' Racists
Discussion: ThinkProgress, Politico and The Hill
Louis Nelson / Politico:
Clinton ad ties Trump to KKK, white supremacists  —  A video released Thursday by Hillary Clinton's campaign makes the case that Donald Trump is the candidate of racists, white supremacists and neo-Nazis.  —  “The reason a lot of Klan members like Donald Trump is because a lot of what he believes …
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Matt Flegenheimer / New York Times:
Hillary Clinton Says ‘Radical Fringe’ Is Taking Over G.O.P. Under Donald Trump  —  RENO, Nev. — Hillary Clinton on Thursday prepared to deliver a blistering denunciation of Donald J. Trump's embrace of the “alt-right” political philosophy, presenting his choice as an especially ominous turn in a presidential election full of them.
Politico:
Transcript: Hillary Clinton's full remarks in Reno, Nevada  —  Hillary Clinton Remarks as Prepared for Delivery - Reno, Nevada  —  Thank you, Reno!  It's great to be back in Nevada...  My original plan for this visit was to focus on our agenda to help small businesses and entrepreneurs.
Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
Flashback: Hillary Clinton Praises Exalted Cyclops of Ku Klux Klan (VIDEO)
Discussion: Breitbart and BizPac Review
Wall Street Journal:
Chelsea Clinton Plans to Stay on Board of Family Foundation  —  Clinton Health Access Initiative might also continue to accept foreign government and corporate funding  —  The Clinton Foundation is considering exceptions to its plan to stop accepting corporate and foreign donations …
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Max J. Rosenthal / Mother Jones:
Trump Attacks Hillary's “Criminal” Foundation, Forgets He Donated $110,000 to It
Discussion: Political Wire and Breitbart
Arkansas Online:
Clinton Inc., at home and abroad
David A. Fahrenthold / Washington Post:
What we know about the charitable giving by Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump
Edward Morrissey / The Fiscal Times:
Hillary Lied, Withheld Evidence, Traded Power for Money, and Could Be President
Discussion: Washington Monthly, NPR and Daily Wire
David Ferguson / Raw Story:
‘I lost.  The ni**er won’: Alabama GOP mayor gets racist on Facebook after losing to black candidate  —  DON'T MISS STORIES.  FOLLOW RAW STORY!  —  The Republican mayor of Midland City, Alabama got nasty on Facebook after losing her seat to a black candidate in this week's mayoral election.
Jon Miltimore / intellectualtakeout.org:
Univ. of Chicago pushes back on trigger warnings, safe spaces  —  Letters sent to the incoming class of 2020 make it clear the University of Chicago isn't a fan of trigger warnings or safe spaces.  —  Academics around the country are embracing the relatively new trend of using trigger warnings …
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Scott Jaschik / Inside Higher Ed:
U Chicago to Freshmen: Don't Expect Safe Spaces
Discussion: Mother Jones and Fox News
Jerry Mitchell / The Clarion Ledger:
Two nuns fatally stabbed in Mississippi  —  Authorities are investigating the brutal killings of two nuns that were reportedly stabbed to death at their home in Holmes County.  —  Sister Paula Merrill, a nurse practitioner with the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth in Kentucky, and Sister Margaret Held …
Massimo Calabresi / TIME:
What Donald Trump Knew About Undocumented Workers at His Signature Tower  —  Massimo Calabresi joined the Washington bureau of TIME in 1999 and has covered the CIA, State, Justice, Treasury, Congress and the White House.  He covered the wars in Bosnia, Croatia and Kosovo as TIME's Central Europe bureau chief …
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ABC News:
Trump Meets With Black and Hispanic Leaders in Manhattan
Discussion: Politico
Tegna / KARE-TV:
Trump, Pence not yet on MN ballot … ST. PAUL, Minn. - Don't plan to vote for Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump?  You'll have options on the Minnesota ballot this November.  —  Tuesday was the deadline for non-major party candidates for President and Vice President to file the necessary paperwork to be on the ballot in Minnesota.
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Lisa Hagen / The Hill:   Trump makes Minnesota's ballot
Joe Concha / The Hill:
Exclusive: Ed Henry returning to Fox News  —  Ed Henry will be returning to Fox News after an almost a four-month absence from the airwaves.  —  The Hill hears that Henry will return to the network this Monday.  The 45-year-old will do general assignment reporting and will no longer be the network's chief White House correspondent.
Discussion: Politico, Mediaite and TVNewser
Eric Newcomer / Bloomberg:
Uber Loses at Least $1.2 Billion in First Half of 2016  —  After touting profitability in the U.S. early this year, the ride-hailing company is said to post second-quarter losses exceeding $100 million.  —  The ride-hailing giant Uber Technologies Inc. is not a public company …
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Rachel Maddow's fascinating duel with Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway, annotated  —  Donald Trump only does Fox News these days, but on Wednesday night his new campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway, gamely ventured into the unfriendly confines of Rachel Maddow's MSNBC show.
Discussion: TVNewser
Kevin D. Williamson / National Review:
The Politics of Anaphylaxis  —  The real scandal of EpiPen pricing  —  A couple of years ago, I got my front teeth knocked out by a combination of bad decisions and gravity.  —  I had never so much as seen the inside of a dentist's office, so I didn't really know what to expect.
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James Gordon / Daily Mail:
Saddest goodbye: Heartbreaking moment devoted couple married for 62 years are forced to separate because they can't get into the same care home  — With failing health, they've moved into care homes in Canada but cannot live together because of a lack of space in Surrey, British Columbia
 
 
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Texas elector threatens not to vote Trump
Chris Bundgaard / WKRN-TV:
Soldier arrested after 2 shots fired at Fort Campbell airfield
Discussion: KSNT-TV and WDTN-TV
Scott Thistle / The Portland Press Herald:
LePage stands by his racially charged statements about drug dealers coming to Maine
New York Post:
Straphangers go berserk after woman tosses bugs in subway car
Discussion: Gothamist
ABC:
Gold nugget weighing more than 4kg found in Central Victoria
 Earlier Items: 
James Wilkinson / Daily Mail:
Wikileaks co-founder Julian Assange claims he is about to release ‘significant’ …
Fox News:
Ryan Lochte to be summoned to testify in Brazil over robbery claim
James Rogers / Fox News:
Crusader-era hand grenade surprises archaeologists
Discussion: Bearing Arms
Washington Post:
Is Rudy Giuliani okay?
John Sides / Washington Post:
How many votes will Trump give up by not running a professional campaign? A lot.
Discussion: New York Magazine
 

 
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