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James Hohmann / Washington Post:
Warren to meet with Clinton this morning, fueling VP speculation — Elizabeth Warren and Hillary Clinton will meet privately Friday morning, according to two knowledgeable Democrats. — The sit-down, coming just hours after the Massachusetts senator formally endorsed the presumptive Democratic nominee …
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Gabriel Debenedetti / Politico:
The Sanders wind-down begins — The walls are crumbling, and Bernie Sanders knows it. — Barack Obama made his support for Hillary Clinton official on Thursday. So did Vice President Joe Biden and liberal hero Sen. Elizabeth Warren. The major political groups surrounding Sanders are saying it's time to unify.
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Jennifer Steinhauer / New York Times:
Elizabeth Warren Endorses Clinton and Goes Taunt-for-Taunt With Trump — WASHINGTON — Now that Senator Bernie Sanders is all but out of the race, Democrats can unite to take aim at Donald J. Trump. Their new sledgehammer is Senator Elizabeth Warren. — In her day job, Ms. Warren cuts …
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Gabriel Debenedetti / Politico:
Clinton hires Sanders' top student organizer — Hillary Clinton's team is moving to shore up an area where she urgently needs help — the campaign has hired Bernie Sanders' director of student organizing to serve as her national campus and student organizing director, a Clinton official confirmed to POLITICO.
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Ruby Cramer / BuzzFeed:
Clinton Looks To Add Young Voters To Her Coalition Against Trump
Clinton Looks To Add Young Voters To Her Coalition Against Trump
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Annie Linskey / BostonGlobe.com:
Elizabeth Warren endorses Clinton
Elizabeth Warren endorses Clinton
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John Wagner / Washington Post:
How Bernie Sanders's day in Washington got eclipsed by Democratic unity
How Bernie Sanders's day in Washington got eclipsed by Democratic unity
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Alexander Burns / New York Times:
What Hillary Clinton's To-Do List Might Look Like Now
What Hillary Clinton's To-Do List Might Look Like Now
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Julie Hirschfeld Davis / New York Times:
Obama Endorses Hillary Clinton, and Urges Democrats to Unite
Obama Endorses Hillary Clinton, and Urges Democrats to Unite
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Carrie Dann / NBC News:
Elizabeth Warren Endorses Hillary Clinton on Rachel Maddow Show
Elizabeth Warren Endorses Hillary Clinton on Rachel Maddow Show
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Dan McLaughlin / National Review:
With Obama's Endorsement of Hillary Clinton, He Should Appoint a Special Prosecutor
With Obama's Endorsement of Hillary Clinton, He Should Appoint a Special Prosecutor
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Annie Karni / Politico:
Clinton: Warren is ‘qualified’ to be my VP
Clinton: Warren is ‘qualified’ to be my VP
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Bloomberg:
McConnell: Donald Trump 'Doesn't Know a Lot About the Issues' — Despite his reservations, the Senate majority leader says he is still “comfortable” with Trump at the top of the GOP ticket. — haddadmedia — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Thursday that Donald Trump needs …
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Reihan Salam / Slate:
The Wall Street Journal Has Lost Its Mind — The advice it's giving Paul Ryan and the Republican Party is transparently absurd. — On June 2, Paul Ryan said he was backing Donald Trump because he believed the presumptive Republican nominee would help turn Ryan's policy ideas into reality.
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Benjamin Siegel / ABC News:
Paul Ryan Called Trump About Controversial Judge Remarks — House Speaker Paul Ryan personally called Donald Trump Wednesday night to express his disapproval of Trump's comments about a federal judge's ethnicity, one day after Ryan publicly called the presumptive GOP presidential nominee's remarks the “textbook” definition of racism.
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German Lopez / Vox:
Watch: Elizabeth Warren calls Donald Trump “a thin-skinned, racist bully”
Watch: Elizabeth Warren calls Donald Trump “a thin-skinned, racist bully”
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Steve Reilly / USA Today:
USA TODAY exclusive: Hundreds allege Donald Trump doesn't pay his bills — Donald Trump casts himself as a protector of workers and jobs, but a USA TODAY NETWORK investigation found hundreds of people - carpenters, dishwashers, painters, even his own lawyers - who say he didn't pay them for their work.
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Dana Blanton / Fox News:
Fox News Poll: Majority thinks Clinton is lying about emails — American voters think Hillary Clinton put national security at risk by mishandling classified emails — and that she's lying about it. — By a 60-27 percent margin, they think she's lying about how her emails were handled …
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Dana Blanton / Fox News:
Fox News Poll: Trump drops, now trails Clinton — Most voters feel the upcoming election matters more than ones in the past. At the same time, majorities dislike the presumptive nominees — and think they lack the integrity to hold the nation's highest office.
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Fox News Poll: National Release 6-9-16
Fox News Poll: National Release 6-9-16
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Wall Street Journal:
Emails in Clinton Probe Dealt With Planned Drone Strikes — Some vaguely worded messages from U.S. diplomats in Pakistan and Washington used a less-secure communications system — At the center of a criminal probe involving Hillary Clinton's handling of classified information is a series …
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Matthew Mosk / ABC News:
How Clinton Donor Got on Sensitive Intelligence Board — Newly released State Department emails help reveal how a major Clinton Foundation donor was placed on a sensitive government intelligence advisory board even though he had no obvious experience in the field, a decision that appeared to baffle the department's professional staff.
Matea Gold / Washington Post:
Trump doesn't have a national campaign. So the GOP is trying to run one for him. — Katie Walsh, the Republican National Committee's chief of staff, was just a few hours from meeting with Donald Trump's new political director this week when the television outside her office blared the latest news breaking out of the Trump orbit.
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Clinton BlackBerry photo led to State official's query about email account — An iconic photograph of then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton using her BlackBerry while wearing sunglasses on a military plane in 2011 prompted a recordkeeping official in her office to inquire about whether Clinton …
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Eli Lake / Bloomberg:
U.S. Taxpayers Are Funding Iran's Military Expansion — One of the unexpected results of President Barack Obama's new opening to Iran is that U.S. taxpayers are now funding both sides of the Middle East's arms race. The U.S. is deliberately subsidizing defense spending for allies like Egypt and Israel.
Jonah Goldberg / National Review:
For Liberals, All's Fair When Starting a ‘Conversation’ — Liberals go to extremes to start a dialogue. — C — onversations! Glorious conversations! What more can you ask for? — The other day, former CBS News darling Katie Couric was speaking at an event organized by something called “TheWrap.”
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Steven Shepard / Politico:
4-in-10 GOP insiders want to derail Trump at the convention — After a rocky start to his general-election campaign, a sizable number of GOP insiders want the party to change the rules to short-circuit Donald Trump's nomination at the July national convention.
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