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Susan Page / USA Today:
Mitch McConnell on endorsing Trump, battling Obama and playing ‘the long game’ — LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who learned an early lesson about the value of patience and persistence during a childhood bout with polio, has some advice for Republicans alarmed …
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
Cruz looks to ease bad blood with GOP establishment
USA Today:
Hillary Clinton broke the rules: Our view — As secretary of State, she ignored repeated warnings about email security. — Everyone, including Hillary Clinton, now agrees that the newly confirmed secretary of State made a mistake in 2009 when she decided, for the sake of “convenience,” …
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The Moderate Voice
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Ruby Cramer / BuzzFeed:
Campaign Chairman: Clinton Knows Email Setup Was A “Mistake” — In a memo to top supporters, Hillary Clinton's top official sought to clarify the campaign's response to a new report from the State Department inspector general and move past a controversy that has dogged the candidate now for 15 months.
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Politico and The Daily Caller
Duffy Hayes / Daily Sentinel:
Racist meme posted by hacker on Facebook, Delta Republicans say — An overtly racist Internet meme — comparing President Barack Obama to 1950s movie chimpanzee Bonzo — that appeared to be shared on the personal Facebook page of the chairwoman of the Delta County Republican Central Committee …
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Slantpoint
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Arturo Garcia / Raw Story:
Col. Republicans blame hacker for official's racist anti-Obama photo — after she called it a joke
Col. Republicans blame hacker for official's racist anti-Obama photo — after she called it a joke
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Adam Shaw / Fox News:
GOP convention no-shows threaten to undercut Trump unity push — Even as Donald Trump and Republican Party bosses diligently work Capitol Hill in hopes of bringing the party together after a fractious presidential primary, convention planners could still be looking at a block of empty seats for the July convention.
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Daily Mail
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Rebecca Traister / New York Magazine:
Hillary Clinton's Campaign Was Never Going to Be Easy. But Did It Have to Get This Hard? — In a locker room at the University of Bridgeport in Connecticut, people are waiting in line to get their pictures taken with Hillary Clinton before a rally in the school's gym.
Nick Gass / Politico:
National poll: Trump nearly even with Clinton — Donald Trump has nearly pulled even with Hillary Clinton, according to the results of the NBC News/SurveyMonkey weekly tracking poll released Tuesday. — While Clinton is looking to wrap up the Democratic nomination with a strong performance …
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The Week and Washington Free Beacon
Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Clinton's challenge: Become a change agent in a year shaped by voter fury — BUENA PARK, Calif. — Rallying hundreds of service workers who are struggling to get by, Hillary Clinton tried here last week to empathize with their frustrations and promised to deliver change.
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New York Times
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Abby Phillip / Washington Post:
Clinton adds more campaign stops to avert a Sanders upset in California
Clinton adds more campaign stops to avert a Sanders upset in California
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Washington Free Beacon and The Last Refuge
Ben White / Politico:
Shady accounting underpins Trump's wealth — NEW YORK — Donald Trump claims a net worth of more than $10 billion and income of $557 million. But he appears to get there only by over-valuing properties and ignoring his expenses. — POLITICO spoke with more than a dozen financial experts …
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Lomi Kriel / Houston Chronicle:
Police ID gunman in west Houston shooting spree as military vet — Paris Nichols saw the bare-chested man with a crew cut stride calmly up to his wife Sunday morning as she chatted with a longtime customer at their family-owned car wash off Memorial Drive. He reached around her …
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Newser
David Frum / The Atlantic:
The Seven Broken Guardrails of Democracy — A long time ago, more than 20 years in fact, the Wall Street Journal published a powerful, eloquent editorial, simply headlined: “No Guardrails.” … Twenty years later, that same newspaper is edging toward open advocacy in favor of Donald Trump …
Glenn Thrush / Politico:
Sessions to GOP: Adapt to Trump or die — Sen. Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III, Donald Trump's friendly but fierce Alabama ally, has a message for Republicans still queasy about their party's nominee: Tide's about to roll over you. — Sessions, a 69-year-old former state attorney general …
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Talking Points Memo
Gabriel Debenedetti / Politico:
Clinton gives Trump the Mitt Romney treatment — He's too rich and out-of-touch to understand the problems facing average Americans. He's hiding something in his tax returns. He's a cold-blooded capitalist predator — and there's a recording to prove it.
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Political Wire
Patrick Howley / Breitbart:
EXCLUSIVE — Huffington Post Writer: Editors Deleted My Article on Hillary's Imminent Indictment, Disabled Me from Writing — WASHINGTON, D.C. — A writer for The Huffington Post is still waiting for an explanation as to why editors deleted his piece reporting that the FBI will pursue an indictment against Hillary Clinton.
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TPNN, Instapundit, CANNONFIRE and New Urban Legends
Sarah Knapton / Telegraph:
Donald Trump is a ‘vulgar, demented, pig demon’ says Hillary Clinton's ex adviser — Donald Trump is a ‘vulgar, demented, pig demon’ who only appeals to ‘emasculated’ middle-aged men, the former innovation adviser to Hillary Clinton has said. — Alec Ross, who was senior aide to Clinton during …
David Fleshler / Sun-Sentinel:
Alligators found eating dead body in western Broward County — Investigators on the scene on U.S. 27 near Sheridan Street where a dead body was being eaten by two alligators in western Davie. Police scared them away and recovered the body. — Sun Sentinel … Privacy Policy
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Associated Press
Daily Mail:
New video footage of Harambe shows the 400-pound gorilla HOLDING HANDS with the boy who fell into the zoo enclosure as witnesses say the animal was ‘acting protectively’ — Harambe was fatally shot after a four-year-old boy crawled past the railing and fell 10ft into the gorilla exhibit moat, authorities said
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Shauna Steigerwald / USA Today:
Science offers ‘future’ out of Harambe's remains