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Email bombshells from Hillary's secret account show she didn't know when cabinet meetings were held, was dumbfounded by a fax machine and emailed aides to fetch her iced tea — State Department published a massive tranche of Hillary Clinton's emails Tuesday night from her days as secretary of state

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Adam B. Lerner / Politico:

The 12 Hillary Clinton emails you must read — From Hillary's frustration with the White House to that epic battle with the fax machine. — On Tuesday evening the State Department released approximately 3,000 pages of emails sent by and to Hillary Clinton during her time as secretary of state, primarily in 2009.

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Daniel Schulman / Mother Jones:
An Inside Look at How Hillary Clinton Plays the Media

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New York Times:
New Trove of Hillary Clinton's Emails Highlights Workaday Tasks at the State Department

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Eric Bradner / CNN:
Clinton emails: Obama aides knew of private address

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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
New Hillary Clinton emails show expansive role of Sidney Blumenthal

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CNN:

Poll: Bush, Trump rising nationally for GOP, but both trail Clinton — Story highlights — Washington (CNN)With nearly all of the expected 2016 presidential candidates formally in the race, a new CNN/ORC national poll finds two recent entrants to the GOP field on the rise …

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MJ Lee / CNN:

First on CNN: Macy's dumps Donald Trump — What's Next for Donald Trump? — (CNN)Macy's is pulling Donald Trump brand merchandise from its stores after the Republican presidential candidate's recent controversial remarks created a public uproar. — The department store …

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S.V. Dáte / National Journal:

Trump Trouble For The GOP in New Hampshire — Trump distances himself from the “third-rate” Repulican governors and senators running against him. — BEDFORD, New Hampshire - The brash-talking, big-city Republican of the 2016 field returned to the home of the first presidential primary Tuesday …

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Markos Moulitsas / The Hill:

A bad week for the GOP — If you're one of the nearly 20 Republicans running for president next year, you need to find a way to differentiate yourself from the herd — so you're probably grateful to the conservative-led Supreme Court for chumming the waters last week.

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Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly:

Supreme Fallout — Yesterday morning when I was discussing the topic of my weekly TPMCafe column with my editor over there, I offered to do either a joyful trashing of Chris Christie's presidential prospects or an analysis of how Republicans were coping with last week's landmark Supreme Court decisions.

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Charlie Cook / National Journal:
A Momentous Week, and a GOP That Needs to Change

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Jessica Derschowitz / EW.com:

TV LAND PULLS DUKES OF HAZZARD EPISODES OFF ITS SCHEDULE — TV Land has pulled reruns of The Dukes of Hazzard off its schedule, a spokesperson for the network confirmed to EW on Wednesday. — The network did not comment further or say why the episodes were removed, but the news comes …

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Andrea Morabito / New York Post:

TV Land pulls ‘Dukes’ — Confederate flag a no-no — Tom Wopat (left) and John Schneider with their car, the General Lee. — The latest victim of the growing controversy over the Confederate flag is the 1980s TV series “The Dukes of Hazzard.” — A TV Land spokesperson confirmed Tuesday …

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ABC News:

Transcript for US and Cuba to Normalize Diplomatic Relations — Along US freeze with Cuba is about to get one step closer. To a complete thought in just a few moments President Obama will announce that the US and Cuba are going to reopen their embassies. You were closed after the Cuban revolution in 1959.

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Reuters:
U.S., Cuba restoring diplomatic ties after 54 years

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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
US, Cuba to open embassies on July 20

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John McCormick / Bloomberg Business:

Scott Walker Sees Iowa Lead Shrink in Latest Quinnipiac Poll — Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker continues to lead prospective and declared 2016 Republican presidential candidates in Iowa, although his support is shrinking, a Quinnipiac University poll shows.

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Michael Falcone / ABC News:
The Note: What's Coming Up For Cuba

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Brent Budowksy / The Hill:

Budowsky: Obama could sink 2016 Dems — Nothing better dramatizes the damage that President Obama has done to Democrats than the fact that Republicans now control the House of Representatives, the Senate and a majority of governorships across America. — Nothing better illustrates the reason …

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Nick Gass / Politico:
Nancy Pelosi: Elizabeth Warren doesn't speak for the Democratic Party

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Jennifer Rankin / Guardian:

Greek debt: Merkel dismisses Tsipras's last-ditch compromise plan — German chancellor reiterates stance of no new negotiations with Athens until after Sunday's referendum on bailout — Germany has dismissed a last-ditch compromise plan from Greece that bowed to some key demands of its creditors.

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Peter Spiegel / Financial Times:
Alexis Tsipras backs down on many Greece bailout demands

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In Touch Weekly:

Duggars Facing Lawsuit From Nonfamily Molestation Victim

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James W. Loewen / Washington Post:

Why do people believe myths about the Confederacy? Because our textbooks and monuments are wrong. — False history marginalizes African Americans and makes us all dumber. — History is the polemics of the victor, William F. Buckley allegedly said. Not so in the United States, at least not regarding the Civil War.

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Jennifer Epstein / Bloomberg Business:

Hillary Clinton Raises Record $45 Million in First Quarter of Campaign — Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign raised at least $45 million during its first quarter, her campaign told Bloomberg on Wednesday. — Clinton's haul from her campaign's launch in mid-April through June 30 is a record for a candidate's first quarter.

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Cindy Archer / Wall Street Journal:

Why I'm Filing a Civil-Rights Lawsuit — Milwaukee County District Attorney John Chisholm and his agents ransacked my house and ruined my career. — By — After much soul-searching, I am filing a civil-rights lawsuit on Wednesday against Milwaukee County District Attorney John Chisholm.

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Robert D. McFadden / New York Times:

Nicholas Winton Is Dead at 106; Saved Children from the Holocaust — Nicholas Winton, a Briton who said nothing for a half-century about his role in organizing the escape of 669 mostly Jewish children from Czechoslovakia on the eve of World War II, a righteous deed like those of Oskar Schindler …

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