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Donald Trump has exposed Marco Rubio — In the late stages of his doomed presidential campaign, Sen. Marco Rubio declared that the front-runner for his party's nomination was “a con artist.” But it turns out that Donald Trump wasn't the only GOP presidential candidate pulling the wool over people's eyes.
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Donald Trump pledges to rip up Paris climate agreement in energy speech — In a rare prepared speech, Donald Trump outlined his energy policy in Bismarck, North Dakota. — Trump is known for bucking conservative orthodoxy but, on Thursday, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee largely hewed to the typical Republican line.
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NBC News, AOL and Media Matters for America


Marco Rubio says he's going to the GOP convention
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Die-Hard Bernie Sanders Backers See F.B.I. as Answer to Their Prayers — ANAHEIM, Calif. — Senator Bernie Sanders may be trailing Hillary Clinton by hundreds of delegates, and Mrs. Clinton may be treating the Democratic nomination as hers, but Julie Crowell, a stay-at-home mother …
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Sanders angers Democrats with Trump debate ploy — For some Democrats, Bernie Sanders' latest gambit — challenging Donald Trump to a debate to cap all debates — is the last straw. — “Bulls**t,” said Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia. “That confirms what we've been saying.
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Analysis Why Bernie Sanders keeps popping up in California's out-of-the-way places
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Mother Jones and Washington Free Beacon

Why Some Clinton Supporters Are Not ‘Really Ready To Go Public’
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California poll: Clinton and Sanders in virtual dead heat
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New York Times, PPIC, New York Magazine and Common Dreams

Trump's Delusions of Competence — In general, you shouldn't pay much attention to polls at this point, especially with Republicans unifying around Donald Trump while Bernie Sanders hasn't conceded the inevitable. Still, I was struck by several recent polls showing Mr. Trump favored …
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Daily Kos
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4 things Hillary Clinton got wrong in her latest statement about those emails

Hillary Clinton, Drowning in Email
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John Hawkins' Right Wing News and Washington Free Beacon

Joe Scarborough to Clinton: ‘Stop lying’ about emails
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Politico, Zero Hedge and LewRockwell


An Open Letter to Peter Thiel — Nearly a decade ago, after you had opened up to friends and colleagues, a gay writer for Gawker shared an item with the readers of Valleywag, a section for news and gossip about the rich and powerful of Silicon Valley. “Peter Thiel, the smartest VC in the world, is gay,” wrote Owen Thomas.
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‘Surreal’ Trump tangent—Thiel-Denton duel
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Media Matters for America and New York Times, more at Mediagazer »


‘Game on’ — Trump, Sanders to debate? — Donald Trump agrees to debate Bernie Sanders — (CNN)Could a debate between presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump and Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders be in the works? — Trump says he'd “love to.” — Who's really winning presidential race?
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Trump: I'll debate Sanders for $10 million for women's health issues
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Trump: I'll debate Bernie for $10 million
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Obama becomes first U.S. president to visit Hiroshima, and calls on the world to morally evolve — President Obama lays a wreath at Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima, Japan, on Friday, becoming the first sitting U.S. president to travel to the site of the first nuclear bomb ever deployed in warfare.
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How Donald Trump Destroyed the Interview — The interview is the Niagara that fills the news ocean. A quick check of the front page of the New York Times, a scan of any 30-minute block of CNN, or a few clicks on the POLITICO home page establish it: For generations, the interview …
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Political Wire


At 96, Dr. Heimlich finally uses his life-saving technique — When he heard that a resident was choking, Perry Gaines, maître d' for the Deupree House dining room, ran toward the table. — Gaines has been trained in the Heimlich maneuver and has performed it at least twice …
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Raw Story and CBS New York


Chinese Detergent Ad Draws Charges of Racism — A Chinese laundry detergent commercial has spurred outrage online, with many social media users accusing it of blatant racism. — In the commercial for Qiaobi laundry detergent, an Asian woman shoves a detergent pod into the mouth of a black worker …
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Vox, Shanghaiist and Althouse


The secret life of Kim Jong Un's aunt, who has lived in the U.S. since 1998 — NEW YORK — Wandering through Times Square, past the Naked Cowboy and the Elmos and the ticket touts, she could be any immigrant trying to live the American Dream. — A 60-year-old Korean woman with a soft perm …


Bernie Hits Bump on Univision: Speechless on Socialism's Failures — The Democrats' socialist candidate for President of the United States, Bernie Sanders, was seriously tripped up this week in an interview with Univision's León Krauze. — When asked to explain the failure …
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Truth Revolt, Hot Air, Hit & Run, Independent Journal … and The Daily Caller

RNC scrambles to calm state GOP officials — The Republican National Committee is scrambling to respond to increasingly frantic concerns from state GOP officials that the party has not provided enough field organizers and will be badly outgunned by Democrats in battleground states.
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Washington Monthly and Political Wire


Bible verse prompts GOP walkout after LGBT vote labeled a sin — A House conservative went after dozens of fellow Republicans on Thursday with suggestions that they'd sinned for backing an anti-discrimination proposal against gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people.
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Trump: ‘You have to be wealthy in order to be great’ — declared Thursday that “you have to be wealthy in order to be great,” while promising to add wealth to the country. — The comment from the billionaire businessman and presumptive GOP presidential nominee came during a speech …
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Political Wire and The Week

My Bizarre Dinner Party with Donald Trump, Roy Cohn and Estee Lauder — Roy Cohn's weekend house wasn't large, maybe two bedrooms, a brown shingle lovely that stood over a burbling brook at the end of a long, wooded driveway in north Greenwich, Connecticut.
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The Week

Early Detection of New Antibiotic Resistance — Just over a year ago, President Obama released a National Action Plan for Combating Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria. As part of that plan, he also charged the Department of Defense (DoD), Department of Agriculture (USDA) and Department of Health …
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Phenomena, CNN, New York Times, Slantpoint and STAT
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Obama's naive idealism has caused havoc as America makes the same mistakes over and over again — How do you distinguish a foreign policy “idealist” from a “realist,” an optimist from a pessimist? Ask one question: Do you believe in the arrow of history? Or to put it another way, do you think history is cyclical or directional?


They Tilt Right, but Top Chief Executives Don't Give to Trump — The C-suite leans right. — Republican candidates have drawn overwhelming support from the highest-paid chief executives in the country this election cycle, according to an analysis by the Center for Responsive Politics conducted for The New York Times.
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