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Reid J. Epstein / Wall Street Journal:
Trump Attacks Federal Judge in Trump U Case — The presumptive GOP nominee devotes 12 minutes of a 58-minute address to the suit — SAN DIEGO-In one of his most personal attacks against an apolitical figure since becoming the presumptive Republican presidential nominee …
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Tara Culp-Ressler / ThinkProgress:
Trump Attacks Judge Overseeing The Case Against His Fake University: 'He's A Hater' — During a campaign stop in San Diego on Friday, presumptive GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump devoted a significant amount of time to attacking the federal judge overseeing the ongoing case against Trump University …
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Michelle Moons / Breitbart:
Death Threat to Trump at Protest: 'He'll Be Dead Within a Week' — SAN DIEGO — Hundreds of protesters gathered outside a Donald Trump rally on Friday, chanting “f**k Donald Trump” and holding obscene signs — including one that included a death threat against Trump should he win the presidency in November.
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Jenna Johnson / Washington Post:
In San Diego, Trump shames local ‘Mexican’ judge as protesters storm streets
In San Diego, Trump shames local ‘Mexican’ judge as protesters storm streets
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The American Conservative
Eugene Scott / CNN:
Sanders to DNC: Remove Clinton backers from convention committees — Washington (CNN)Bernie Sanders' campaign wants the Democratic National Committee to remove two Hillary Clinton supporters from key convention roles, accusing them of being “aggressive attack surrogates.”
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John Aravosis / AMERICAblog NewsAMERICAblog News:
UPDATED: Did Sanders uses “shoot the gays” rap song at CA rally? — UPDATE: This story gets weirder and weirder. A journalist friend pointed out to me that he found some video from the Sanders campaign (via ABC), from the same event, that uses different music than the DMX song. I'm including that video below.
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Henry C. Jackson / Politico:
The RNC's state(s) of disarray
The RNC's state(s) of disarray
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Guardian, CANNONFIRE and The Atlantic
Daniel Strauss / Politico:
Sanders calls for ouster of Clinton convention allies
Sanders calls for ouster of Clinton convention allies
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Talking Points Memo, The Hill, ABC News and The American Spectator
Adelle Platon / Billboard:
DMX Responds to Bernie Sanders Walking Out to ‘Where the Hood At’ at California Rally
DMX Responds to Bernie Sanders Walking Out to ‘Where the Hood At’ at California Rally
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Joel Gehrke / Washington Examiner:
Trump camp concedes it's low on money — Donald Trump's campaign has alerted Senate Republicans that he won't have much money to spend fending off attacks from Hillary Clinton over the next couple months. — The notice came when Paul Manafort, Trump's senior advisor …
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Politicus USA, Hullabaloo, BNR, RedState and Hot Air
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Jim Acosta / CNN:
First on CNN: Trump campaign eyeing big stadium for acceptance speech — (CNN)Donald Trump's campaign is considering booking one of Cleveland's big sports venues for his acceptance speech in July, two GOP sources familiar with the planning of the upcoming GOP convention say.
USA Today:
Donald Trump tells Californians there is no drought — 6.1k Shares — California had one of its driest years in 2015. In fact, last year marked the driest four-year period in the state's history. — But Donald Trump isn't sold. Six months later, the presumptive GOP nominee told supporters …
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Devin Henry / The Hill:
Trump pledges to ‘open up the water’ to solve Calif. drought
Trump pledges to ‘open up the water’ to solve Calif. drought
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RedState, Conservative Tribune and Daily Kos
Julian Hattem / The Hill:
Clinton email headache is about to get worse — 's email headache is about to get even worse. — A scathing inspector general's report this week was just the first in what is likely to be a series of official actions related to her private server stemming from the FBI, a federal courthouse and Capitol Hill.
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Julian Hattem / The Hill:
Feds fight to prevent Clinton deposition in email case
Feds fight to prevent Clinton deposition in email case
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BizPac Review and Hot Air
Fred Barnes / Weekly Standard:
Trump's Intellectuals — They're out there—beyond the Beltway. — Inside the Beltway and along the Washington-to-Boston corridor, #NeverTrump has won the hearts and minds of conservative intellectuals and the high-toned media. The dissenters—yes, there are some—make a lot less noise.
John Hayward / Breitbart:
War Crimes of Imperial Japan: A Lesson In Moral Equivalence for Mr. Obama — President Obama made a single, vague reference to “evil” during his prepared remarks in Hiroshima: “We may not be able to eliminate man's capacity to do evil, so nations and the alliances that we form must possess the means to defend ourselves.
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Daily Mail:
Iraqi migrant who bought a T-shirt saying 'I'm Muslim, don't panic' is hospitalised by three Islamic asylum seekers who thought he was insulting their religion — An asylum seeker who jokingly wore a T-shirt saying 'I'm Muslim, don't panic' was so savagely beaten by his fellow refugees that he had to be rushed to hospital.
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Peter Baker / New York Times:
Rise of Donald Trump Tracks Growing Debate Over Global Fascism — WASHINGTON — The comparison was inflammatory, to say the least. Former Gov. William F. Weld of Massachusetts equated Donald J. Trump's immigration plan with Kristallnacht, the night of horror in 1938 when rampaging Nazis smashed Jewish homes …
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Kristen East / Politico:
Paula Broadwell to NYT: I screwed up — Three years after Gen. David Petraeus resigned as CIA director and apologized to Congress for an affair with his biographer, Paula Broadwell now asks, “how long does a person pay for their mistake?” — “I'm the first to admit I screwed up.
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alan.com and New York Times
New York Times:
Venezuela Drifts Into New Territory: Hunger, Blackouts and Government Shutdown — CARACAS, Venezuela — The courts? Closed most days. The bureau to start a business? Same thing. The public defender's office? That's been converted into a food bank for government employees.
Andrew Freedman / Mashable:
Trump on climate: He's even worse than we thought — No one expected Donald Trump to give a single energy speech and suddenly pivot to the left on global warming, after a record of expressing skepticism that global warming exists on several prior occasions.
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Paulina Firozi / The Hill:
Sanders: Clinton with a moderate VP would be a ‘disaster’ — on Friday warned that a Democratic presidential ticket of Hillary Clinton — and a moderate running mate would be a “disaster.” — “If Hillary Clinton were to win and Hillary Clinton were to bring onboard a conservative …
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