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12:20 PM ET, August 19, 2016

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Shane Goldmacher / Politico:
Paul Manafort resigns from Trump campaign  —  Donald Trump's campaign is still trembling from its shakeup this week.  —  Trump on Friday announced that campaign chairman Paul Manafort had resigned, two days after the Republican nominee put in place a new leadership structure that appeared to minimize Manafort's role.
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Robert Costa / Washington Post:
Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort resigns  —  Trump campaign chairman and chief strategist Paul Manafort resigned on Friday, following a staff shake-up this week that reduced his role in the campaign.  —  GOP nominee Donald Trump confirmed the resignation in a statement Friday morning …
Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Paul Manafort Quits Donald Trump's Campaign After Tumultuous Run  —  Paul Manafort, installed as the chief strategist for Donald J. Trump's campaign after the firing of his original campaign manager, handed in his resignation on Friday morning.  —  Mr. Manafort left after a major shake …
Associated Press:
Trump advisers waged covert influence campaign  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — A firm run by Donald Trump's campaign chairman directly orchestrated a covert Washington lobbying operation on behalf of Ukraine's ruling political party, attempting to sway American public opinion in favor …
Associated Press:
The Latest: Manafort Resigns From Trump Campaign
Discussion: Politico
CNN:
Donald Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort resigns
Discussion: Raw Story and WTVR-TV
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Nick Gass / Politico:
Trump blasts ‘rigged’ Clinton system in first general election TV ad  —  Donald Trump's campaign rolled out its first general election ad Friday, part of a buy totaling nearly $5 million in battleground states where he is currently trailing Hillary Clinton.  Its message: Trump will keep …
Thomas Kaplan / New York Times:
Donald Trump Steps Out of Character to Voice Unexplained Regrets  —  CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Donald J. Trump on Thursday expressed regret for making statements that have “caused personal pain,” a rare display of contrition that followed the shake-up of his campaign's leadership this week.
Peter D. Hart / Wall Street Journal:   Behind the Polls: The Message in a Longtime Conservative Tilting Away From Trump, Toward Clinton
Tim Hains / RealClearPolitics:
Full Replay/Transcript: Donald Trump Gives First Campaign Speech Since Hiring Bannon & Conway
Amy Chozick / New York Times:
Hillary Clinton Told F.B.I. Colin Powell Advised Her to Use Private Email  —  Pressed by the F.B.I. about her email practices at the State Department, Hillary Clinton told investigators that former Secretary of State Colin L. Powell had advised her to use a personal email account
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Jane Onyanga-Omara / USA Today:
Report: Clinton told FBI Colin Powell advised her to use personal email
Mark Hensch / The Hill:
Clinton to FBI: Powell said to use private email
Discussion: Atlanta Black Star
Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
Republicans Worry a Falling Donald Trump Tide Will Lower All Boats  —  Donald J. Trump's struggling candidacy has now become a direct threat to Republican control of Congress, significantly increasing the likelihood that Democrats will take control of the Senate and cut substantially into the House Republican majority next year.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Daily Kos
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Tierney Sneed / Talking Points Memo:
Smoking Gun Memo Could Bolster Voting Rights Case Against North Carolina  —  North Carolina's Republican Party has had an interesting response to a recent appeals court ruling that said a number of voting restrictions passed by the state's GOP legislature were enacted with the intent …
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Trump's ugly and dishonest new TV ad shows he isn't changing a thing
Discussion: Politico
Colin Campbell / Raleigh News & Observer:
NCGOP leader's brother calls his actions ‘racist’ on Twitter
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Nicholas Confessore / New York Times:
How One Family's Deep Pockets Helped Reshape Donald Trump's Campaign
Discussion: ThinkProgress and WNYC News
Hunter Walker / Yahoo:
Breitbart editor planned secret anti-Trump campaign to take down reporter
Kai Reed / WBALTV:
Dog dies after shielding infant from fire  —  Firefighters rescue child from second floor of home  —  An 8-month-old infant is in serious condition after a fire late Sunday in Baltimore.  —  The girl is alive today thanks to an act of heroism and a heart-breaking loss for her family.
Sam Biddle / The Intercept:
The NSA Leak Is Real, Snowden Documents Confirm  —  On Monday, a hacking group calling itself the “ShadowBrokers” announced an auction for what it claimed were “cyber weapons” made by the NSA.  Based on never-before-published documents provided by the whistleblower Edward Snowden …
Discussion: The Atlantic, Forbes, The Verge and Mashable
Mike Vaccaro / New York Post:
Ryan Lochte is everything the world hates about Americans  —  MORE FROM:  —  This was late one night — actually, early one morning — in the summer of 2004, at a bustling tavern in Plaka, the social heart of Athens during the Olympics.  We could see the Parthenon from our table …
Nikita Vladimirov / The Hill:
Naked Donald Trump statues pop up in several cities  —  Naked, life-size statues of Donald Trump  —  are being unveiled Thursday in several U.S. cities.  —  The statues were erected by the anarchist collective Indecline and are set to appear in New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Cleveland and Seattle.
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TheDustyRebel / Gothamist:
Here's How NYers React To A Life-Size Naked Donald Trump Statue In Union Square
Julian Hattem / The Hill:
GOP preps tough perjury case against Clinton  —  House Republicans are doubling down in their effort to bring perjury charges against Hillary Clinton  —  over her testimony last year to the House Select Committee on Benghazi.  —  GOP lawmakers have claimed that the Democratic presidential nominee broke …
Discussion: Infowars, Political Wire and AFF
Reuters:
Hackers targeted Trump campaign, Republican Party groups: sources  —  Hackers targeted the computer systems of presidential candidate Donald Trump and Republican Party organizations as well as Democratic Party networks, sources familiar with investigations into the attacks said.
Discussion: AOL and Talking Points Memo
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Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
Cruz's Image Among Republicans Tanks After GOP Convention
Discussion: Politico
Louis Nelson / Politico:
State Dept. confirms $400 million Iran payment conditioned on hostage release  —  Republicans are claiming vindication after the State Department confirmed on Thursday that the United States conditioned the release of a $400 million cash payment to Iran on the departure of American prisoners from Tehran.
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David E. Sanger / New York Times:
U.S. Concedes $400 Million Payment to Iran Was Delayed as Prisoner ‘Leverage’
 
 
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The Daily Beast:
Breitbart Editor Milo Yiannopoulos Takes $100,000 for Charity, Gives $0
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Erica Tempesta / Daily Mail:
Jewelry designers are branded ‘trashy’ …
Nicole Brown / AM New York:
DNC launches ‘Donald Ducks’ mascot to make Trump release his tax returns
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
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Daily Express:
German asylum seekers refuse to work insisting 'We are Merkel's GUESTS'
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Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Trump spokeswoman claims Clinton has rare brain disease
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Geoff Earle / Daily Mail:
Why so shy?  Trump blasts M-4 rifle at targets before meeting police - and even hits two bullseyes …
 

 
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