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Washington Post:
Clinton's inexcusable, willful disregard for the rules — HILLARY CLINTON'S use of a private email server while secretary of state from 2009 to 2013 has been justifiably criticized as an error of judgment. What the new report from the State Department inspector general makes clear is that it also was not a casual oversight.
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Paul Waldman / Washington Post:
What does the new Inspector General report actually tell us about Hillary Clinton's emails? — Today the State Department's inspector general released a report on Hillary Clinton's email use during her time as secretary of state. Both Democrats and Republicans are going to spin the report …
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Nick Gass / Politico:
The 9 biggest revelations in the State IG report on Clinton's emails
The 9 biggest revelations in the State IG report on Clinton's emails
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Associated Press:
Clinton email use broke federal rules: inspector's report
Clinton email use broke federal rules: inspector's report
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Nick Gass / Politico:
State Dept. watchdog: Clinton violated email rules
State Dept. watchdog: Clinton violated email rules
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Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
Hillary Clinton's email problems just got much worse
Hillary Clinton's email problems just got much worse
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Steven Lee Myers / New York Times:
Hillary Clinton Is Criticized for Private Emails in State Dept. Review
Hillary Clinton Is Criticized for Private Emails in State Dept. Review
Marc Caputo / Politico:
Trump fires top aide — Donald Trump's presidential campaign on Wednesday night announced it had parted ways with its national political director, Rick Wiley — a move that appears to stem in part from an ongoing turf war atop the campaign. — Wiley was the first high-profile hire by Paul Manafort …
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Bloomberg:
Donald Trump Parts Ways With National Political Director — Rick Wiley's duties in the Sunshine State have been shifted to another staffer. — michaelcbender — Rick Wiley, Donald Trump's national political director, has left the Republican's presidential campaign following a decision …
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Bloomberg:
Donald Trump and Paul Ryan to Speak by Phone Tonight — The House speaker and the presumptive Republican presidential nominee will try again to erase the rift between the two men. — michaelcbender — Donald Trump and Paul Ryan will talk by telephone on Wednesday night …
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Michael Scherer / TIME:
Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe Invited Chinese Donor to Hillary Clinton's Home — A donation to the Clinton Foundation followed weeks later — Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe invited the Chinese businessman whose donations to him have been named as a focus of Justice Department investigators …
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New York Times:
States Sue Obama Administration Over Transgender Bathroom Policy
States Sue Obama Administration Over Transgender Bathroom Policy
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Jeannie Suk / New Yorker:
The Transgender Bathroom Debate and the Looming Title IX Crisis
The Transgender Bathroom Debate and the Looming Title IX Crisis
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Mark Berman / Washington Post:
Eleven states sue Obama administration over bathroom directive
Eleven states sue Obama administration over bathroom directive
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Marc Caputo / Politico:
Trump plans to target Clinton over Whitewater — Donald Trump, who in recent days has accused Bill Clinton of rape and suggested he and Hillary Clinton may have had a role in the death of one of their close friends, plans to focus next on the Whitewater real estate scandal, POLITICO has learned.
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Los Angeles Times:
Trump's backers and critics square off in Anaheim; tense moments but no major violence
Trump's backers and critics square off in Anaheim; tense moments but no major violence
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John Santucci / ABC News:
Donald Trump to Jimmy Kimmel: My Past Pro-Clinton Comments Were “A Little Bit” Insincere
Donald Trump to Jimmy Kimmel: My Past Pro-Clinton Comments Were “A Little Bit” Insincere
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Stephen Gutowski / Washington Free Beacon:
Audio Shows Katie Couric Documentary Deceptively Edited Interview with Pro-Gun Activists — The makers of a new Katie Couric documentary on gun violence deceptively edited an interview between Couric and a group of gun rights activists in an apparent attempt to embarrass the activists, an audio recording of the full interview shows.
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Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
Trump: Romney ‘walks like a penguin’ — cut into a handful of prominent Republican figures during a Wednesday rally, even lightly chiding those who ultimately came around to endorsing him for president. — The presumptive GOP nominee lashed out at 2012 nominee Mitt Romney, saying he “walks like a penguin.”
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Ben Schreckinger / Politico:
Trump returns to campaign trail with new taunts, big promises
Trump returns to campaign trail with new taunts, big promises
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Nell Frizzell / Guardian:
The men who live as dogs: 'We're just the same as any person on the high street' — Ahead of a new documentary, Spot, Bootbrush and Kaz open up about their community — t's easy to laugh at a grown man in a rubber dog suit chewing on a squeaky toy. Maybe too easy, in fact …
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Howard Fineman / The Huffington Post:
Donald Trump's Top Adviser: ‘This Is Not A Hard Race’ — Paul Manafort explains why his boss is “gonna win,” no prob. — Global Editorial Director, The Huffington Post — Donald Trump “sees himself more as the chairman of the board” of the country. — ALEXANDRIA, Va. …
Ruby Cramer / BuzzFeed:
Bill Clinton Gets Into 30-Minute Debate With A 24-Year-Old Bernie Fan — SANTA FE, N.M. — Five different times, aides tried to drag him away from the booth where Josh Brody, a 24-year-old supporter of Bernie Sanders, was holding forth about all that had gone wrong in the 1990s: welfare, NAFTA, Wall Street.
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Seung Min Kim / Politico:
Big-name Democrats won't defend Wasserman Schultz — The knives are out for Debbie Wasserman Schultz on Capitol Hill. But it's unclear whether it amounts to griping or a more serious warning sign that the embattled Democratic Party chairwoman's post is in jeopardy.
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Andrew Ross Sorkin / New York Times:
Peter Thiel, Tech Billionaire, Reveals Secret War With Gawker — A billionaire Silicon Valley entrepreneur was outed as being gay by a media organization. His friends suffered at the hands of the same gossip site. Nearly a decade later, the entrepreneur secretly financed a lawsuit to try to put the media company out of business.
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Eliana Dockterman / TIME:
A Marvel Editor Explains How Captain America Was a Hydra Agent All Along — In a shocking twist, Steve Rogers always has been and will continue to be a member of the evil group — Sure, he wears red white and blue on the outside, but on the inside? It turns out Steve Rogers …
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Marisa Guthrie / Hollywood Reporter:
‘Roots’ Reborn: How a Slave Saga Was Remade for the Black Lives Matter Era — Forty years after the original gripped half the nation (literally), a more violent and more accurate remake is here, gambling on big stars including Forest Whitaker and Anna Paquin and the unresolved emotional core …
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Bloomberg:
Google Steps Up Pressure on Partners Tardy in Updating Android — Web giant creates rankings that could shame ecosystem laggards — Friendly tactics also used to unify top phone operating system — Getting phone makers and carriers to update to the latest version of Android …
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Dan Mangan / CNBC:
US military uses 8-inch floppy disks to coordinate nuclear force operations — Maybe they use the '80s flick “War Games” as a training film, too. — The U.S. Defense Department is still using — after several decades — 8-inch floppy disks in a computer system that coordinates …
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