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3:24 AM ET, June 17, 2015

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David Corn / Mother Jones:
Neil Young to Donald Trump: Don't Rock in My Free World  —  The rocker also endorses Bernie Sanders.  —  When Donald Trump strode on to the stage at Trump Tower on Tuesday to announce that he would enter the Republican race for president, a rock and roll anthem blared: Neil Young's “Rockin' in the Free World.”
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Tim Hanrahan / Wall Street Journal:
Donald Trump Transcript: ‘Our Country Needs a Truly Great Leader’  —  Donald Trump on Tuesday announced he was running for president in 2016, a move that threatens to upend the already crowded Republican primary field.  In his speech, Mr. Trump offered a blistering critique of the Obama administration and of politicians in general.
P. J. O'Rourke / The Daily Beast:
Garish Tastes, Awful Hair: Donald Trump Is America  —  He's the king of bad taste in a country that loves bad taste.  And all the candidates (him included) are pygmies anyway.  Go, Donald!  —  Who are these jacklegs, highbinders, wirepullers, mountebanks, swellheads, buncombe spigots …
Randy Lewis / Los Angeles Times:
Neil Young: Donald Trump ‘not authorized’ to rock in the free world
Discussion: The Week
Alexander Burns / New York Times:
Pushing Someone Rich, Donald Trump Offers Himself
Discussion: Daily Kos and Outside the Beltway
Harry Enten / FiveThirtyEight:
Why Donald Trump Isn't A Real Candidate, In One Chart
Tim Hanrahan / Wall Street Journal:
Why Donald Trump Is Important, in One Chart
Discussion: Washington Post and Hot Air
Esther Yu-Hsi Lee / ThinkProgress:   Watch Donald Trump Go Full Nativist In Presidential Campaign Launch
Washington Post:   Full text: Donald Trump announces a presidential bid
Martin Matishak / The Hill:
Issa escorted out of Benghazi deposition  —  Former House Oversight Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) tried to crash former Hillary Clinton adviser Sidney Blumenthal's deposition before the House Select Committee on Benghazi on Tuesday.  —  Issa marched into the closed-door deposition …
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Rachael Bade / Politico:
Blumenthal says he didn't write Libya intel he sent Clinton  —  Sidney Blumenthal did not write or know the source of any of the Libya intelligence he passed on to then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Blumenthal told House Benghazi investigators on Tuesday, according to sources in the room.
Charles P. Pierce / Esquire:
Donald Trump Elbows His Way into the Republican Clown Car  —  And Sidney Blumenthal does the whole Benghazi thing.  —  GETTY NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP  —  This is one of those days that cries out for Mark Twain.  Not the jovial old squire of Hartford, but the dark, brooding skeptic who saw human nature …
Michael S. Schmidt / New York Times:
St. Louis Cardinals Investigated by F.B.I. for Hacking Astros  —  WASHINGTON — The F.B.I. and Justice Department prosecutors are investigating front-office officials for the St. Louis Cardinals, one of the most successful teams in baseball over the past two decades, for hacking …
Mark Schultz / Raleigh News & Observer:
Teacher, vice principal resign over gay fable  —  Teacher Omar Currie reads a copy of a complaint a parent filed after he read the book 'King & King" to his third grade students at Efland-Cheeks Elementary School.  The school has upheld the use of the book, but a parent has appealed the superintendent.
Paul Lewis / Guardian:
Senate passes torture ban despite Republican opposition  —  Despite 21 Republican senators rejecting push to prevent future administrations from enacting Bush-era CIA torture programs, bipartisan amendment passes  —  More than 20 Republican senators rejected a ban on the use of cruel …
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Katie Glueck / Politico:
Jeb Bush knocks Pope on climate change push  —  He makes a little news during his foray into New Hampshire.  —  DERRY, N.H. — A day after pledging to run, and run hard, in every state, Jeb Bush started off with the relatively easy road through New Hampshire on Tuesday.
Discussion: Bloomberg Business
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Alex Rogers / National Journal:
Joni Ernst: Jeb Bush Should Return to Iowa, Ride a Harley
Bjorn Lomborg / USA Today:
What Pope Francis should do to really help the poor: Bjorn Lomborg  —  How can we best aid the world's most vulnerable?  —  Pope Francis's concern for the poor is clear, so it is understandable that climate change is the topic of his forthcoming Encyclical — a Papal letter that is sent out to the world.
Discussion: Power Line and EcoWatch
Erin McClam / NBC News:
‘I Definitely Am Not White’: Rachel Dolezal Breaks Silence  —  Rachel Dolezal, the NAACP chapter leader who resigned after she was accused of lying about her race, refused to concede that she had deceived anyone and flatly told NBC News on Tuesday: “I identify as black.”
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Greg Bensinger / Wall Street Journal:
Amazon Experiments With Citizen Deliveries  —  Move would help Web retailer manage the shopping experience, rising shipping costs  —  In its ceaseless quest to speed delivery, Amazon.com Inc. wants to turn the U.S. into a nation of couriers.  —  The Seattle retailer is developing …
Cory Bennett / The Hill:
Oversight chair wants officials fired over hack  —  House Oversight Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) called on President Obama to fire at least two top officials from the embattled Office of Personnel Management (OPM) over their role in the massive data breach that has rattled the government.
David Streitfeld / Los Angeles Times:
Kirk Kerkorian, once L.A.'s richest man, dies at 98  —  Kirk Kerkorian, an eighth-grade dropout who traded his way to a $15-billion fortune and for a time was the richest person in Los Angeles, has died.  He was 98.  —  Kerkorian's death was confirmed Tuesday by Anthony Mandekic …
Discussion: The Week and NPR
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Food and Drug Administration:
The FDA takes step to remove artificial trans fats in processed foods  —  Action expected to reduce coronary heart disease and prevent thousands of fatal heart attacks every year  —  For Immediate Release  —  Based on a thorough review of the scientific evidence, the U.S. Food …
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Mary Clare Jalonick / Associated Press:   FDA Tells Food Industry to Phase out Artificial Trans Fats
 
 
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Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
GOP Congressman: Iran Is “Hitler With Nuclear Weapons”
David Brooks / New York Times:
The Democratic Tea Party
Discussion: Eschaton and The Hill
Thomas Tracy / New York Daily News:
Accused gay-bash attacker at Dallas BBQ surrenders to NYPD, but lawyer says he's gay too: sources
Discussion: Daily Mail and Advocate
Lisa Rein / Washington Post:
The mysterious case of $54 million VA spent on prosthetics in $24,999 payments
John Marzulli / New York Daily News:
Long Island high school student sues over SAT printing error
Daisuke Wakabayashi / Wall Street Journal:
Apple Revokes Monster's Authority to Make Licensed Accessories
Nick Gass / Politico:
White House fence jumper gets 17 months in prison
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