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Chris Geidner / BuzzFeed:
Tech Company: We Will Put Up $10 Million For Bernie-Trump Debate — WASHINGTON — A technology investment company has offered to put up the $10 million for charity that Donald Trump said on Thursday would be needed to hold a debate with Bernie Sanders. — [Update at 4:38 p.m. …
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Hadas Gold / Politico:
Donald Trump backs out of debate with Bernie Sanders — Donald Trump will not participate in a debate with Sen. Bernie Sanders, the presumptive GOP presidential nominee said Friday. — In a statement, Trump slammed Sanders, Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton and the Democratic nominating process …
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Donald J Trump for President:
DONALD J. TRUMP STATEMENT ON DEBATING BERNIE SANDERS
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Meghan Keneally / ABC News:
‘Mr. Trump, What Are You Afraid Of?’ Sanders Responds After Donald Backs From Debate
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Dahlia Lithwick / Slate:
Fellow Liberals, Let's Stop Doing These Things
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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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New York Times:
Donald Trump's Campaign Stumbles as It Tries to Go Big — BISMARCK, N.D. — A constant stream of changes and scuffles are roiling Donald J. Trump's campaign team, including the abrupt dismissal this week of his national political director. — A sense of paranoia is growing among …
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Wall Street Journal:
Donald Trump Raised $6 Million in First Joint Fundraiser With RNC
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Howard Kurtz / Fox News:
Nominee or not, why is Trump still smacking Republicans around?
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Julian Hattem / The Hill:
Feds fight to prevent Clinton deposition in email case — The Obama administration is trying to prevent former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton — from being deposed in an ongoing open records case connected to her use of a private email server. — Late Thursday evening …
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Larry O'Connor / Hot Air:
Welp... Hillary doesn't know how to use a computer — We're told that Hillary Clinton is the smartest, most qualified and most capable person to ever run for President. Ever. … Let's face it, we're lucky that she's even lowering herself to the demeaning process of having to earn votes in the presidential election.
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Shane Goldmacher / Politico:
Libertarian ‘dream ticket’ in peril as Weld bombs in Orlando — ORLANDO, Fla. — It was supposed to be a stroke of genius: Gary Johnson, the 2012 Libertarian nominee for president and the party's leading contender in 2016, announced that William Weld, the two-term former Republican governor of Massachusetts …
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CNNMoney:
Donald Trump under oath: Trump University's promises crumble — The ads for his university were classic Donald Trump — Trump stares into the camera and proclaims: — “We're going to have professors and adjunct professors that are absolutely terrific people, terrific brains, successful.
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CANNONFIRE
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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Kevin Dugan / New York Post:
Billionaire admits he secretly funded Gawker's downfall — Two Silicon Valley billionaires with a history of bad blood are squaring off over Gawker. — Pierre Omidyar, an eBay co-founder, is leading the charge to support Gawker in its appeal of a $140 million judgment awarded to Hulk Hogan …
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Matthew J. Belvedere / CNBC:
Gawker CEO: I'm ‘slightly impressed’ by Thiel's ‘Count of Monte Cristo’ revenge
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Jonathan Swan / The Hill:
Carson: Trump starting to believe in ‘greater power’ — is starting to believe in “a greater power” and is praying more often. — Trump's former presidential rival, a key surrogate and possible vice presidential pick, told The Hill on Friday that he believes Trump is becoming more spiritual.
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Jodi Guglielmi / People.com:
Amber Heard Accuses Johnny Depp of Domestic Violence with Graphic Photo of Bruise: ‘This Was Not an Isolated Event,’ Says Source — Amber Heard has filed a domestic violence restraining order against Johnny Depp, as a source tells PEOPLE “this was not an isolated event.”
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Tom Holland / New York Times:
When the Barbarous Brits First Quit Europe — London — CLOSE by Westminster Bridge and the Houses of Parliament, there stands the statue of a woman brandishing a spear. Erected in 1902, it portrays Boudicca, the warrior queen who, in the words of the inscription on the statue's plinth …
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bioRxiv:
Report of Partial findings from the National Toxicology Program Carcinogenesis Studies of Cell Phone Radiofrequency Radiation in Hsd: Sprague Dawley® SD rats (Whole Body Exposure) — Abstract — The US National Toxicology Program (NTP) has carried out extensive rodent toxicology …
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Tom Phillips / Guardian:
World's scariest school run? Chinese children tackle 800-metre cliff — Children as young as six from Atuler village in Sichuan province have to scale a huge rockface using rickety ladders — Authorities in south-west China have vowed to come to the aid of an isolated mountain village …
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