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GOP operatives on the prowl for secret Clinton transcripts — Republican operatives are scouring the country for transcripts, notes or secret recordings of Hillary Clinton — 's paid speeches to Goldman Sachs in hopes of finding damaging material for the general election.
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I'm Voting Trump, Warts and All — I stand by all my criticisms of the New Yorker, but the stakes for the country are too great to elect Clinton. — Some of my fellow Republicans have declared they will never, under any circumstances, vote for Donald Trump.
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New York Times

Lee Zeldin promotes Donald Trump and their shared history
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NY State of Politics


Obama itches for Trump fight — President Obama can't wait to take on Donald Trump — Obama has been largely sidelined in the presidential contest, a last-year officeholder with high approval ratings who has repeatedly shown he likes to spar with political foes.
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The GOP's electoral-map problem is not about Trump. It's about demographics.
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Booman Tribune

Head of the Class — Last week, Donald Trump became the leader of the Republican Party.
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Democrats gird for fight with Trump in U.S. Rust Belt states — CLEVELAND/NEW YORK - Bracing for a general election fight with Donald Trump, Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton and her allies are putting resources into industrial states such as Ohio and Pennsylvania to try …
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Hillary Clinton Is A Progressive Democrat, Despite What You May Have Heard
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New York Times

‘I think he could come apart’ — Mark Salter, the most prominent and most defiant Republican to announce his support of Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump, thinks the 2016 campaign could literally — no joke — drive the billionaire developer insane. — Salter, one of McCain's top aides during …
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Raw Story


Poll: 6-in-10 oppose bills like the North Carolina transgender bathroom law — Washington (CNN)Americans broadly oppose laws that would require transgender people to use facilities that correspond with their gender at birth rather than their gender identity, according to a new CNN/ORC Poll …
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Towleroad and Joe.My.God.

How We Advocated for the Iran Deal — In recent years, few things have been as exhaustively debated or written about than the Iran deal. — That debate reignited this week after a long article about me included a section about the Iran deal. There are many issues raised in an article of this length …
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High school yearbook misidentifies Muslim student as ‘Isis Phillips’ — A high school yearbook is supposed to be a keepsake, but for a Muslim student in Rancho Cucamonga it will be a painful reminder of being misidentified as “Isis Phillips” in a photo that showed her smiling and wearing a hijab.
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I Am Going To Vote For Trump Though It Makes Me Want To Projectile Vomit — I intend to vote for Donald Trump, and just typing those words makes me throw up a little. Make that a lot, and for distance. Yeah, I know Trump is a clown, but so is Hillary Clinton, and while he's sort …
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Hot Air
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Congress says no Puerto Rico bailout, but tax deal beat it to the punch — Lawmakers say they absolutely, positively will not bail out Puerto Rico, but here's the thing: The federal government already is bailing out Puerto Rico. — The Obama administration effectively has been providing …
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The Hill and Washington Post


Twitter Bars Intelligence Agencies From Using Analytics Service — Social media firm cuts access to Dataminr, a service used to identify unfolding terror attacks, political unrest — Twitter Inc. cut off U.S. intelligence agencies from access to a service that sifts through the entire output …
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Business Insider, The Verge, Mashable and New York Magazine


Donald Trump's Warning to Paul Ryan Signals Further G.O.P. Discord — The widening rift in the Republican Party grew deeper on Sunday and threatened to upset the July convention as Donald J. Trump refused to rule out removing Paul D. Ryan, the speaker of the House, as the convention's chairman.
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Politicus USA, Political Wire, USA Today, CNN, New York Magazine, Slantpoint, The Huffington Post and The Gateway Pundit
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Donald Trump Won't Rule Out Effort to Remove Paul Ryan as Convention Chairman
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The Huffington Post, The Moderate Voice, New York Magazine, CNN, Political Wire and ABC News


Dozens of Parents Sue DOE Over Illinois Transgender Bathroom Law — The bathroom controversy that started in North Carolina has had national implications, even making its way into the 2016 campaign and the White House. The state law bars citizens who identify as transgender from entering whichever bathroom they choose.
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NC governor: Feds gave us ‘unrealistic’ bathroom law deadline
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RedState


The Latest Strategy To Prevent Women From Getting A Safe Abortion — A number of states have unleashed a new strategy to further restrict a woman's legal right to end a pregnancy: Ban the safest way to perform a second-trimester abortion. — Called Dilation and Evacuation (D&E) …
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Ozzy Osbourne and Sharon Osbourne Split After More Than 33 Years of Marriage — It's over for Ozzy Osbourne and Sharon Osbourne. — The 67-year-old heavy metal rocker and the 63-year-old co-host of The Talk have broken up after more than 33 years of marriage, E! News has learned.
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TMZ.com, Slantpoint, In Touch Weekly, AOL, The Daily Caller and Page Six


Trump's Dangerous National Debt Plan Is Also Unconstitutional — Presumptive Republican presidential nominee has an usual plan for our nation's finances: intentionally refuse to pay back America's debt. — Trump offered this idea during an interview with CNBC last Thursday.
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Politico