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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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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Carson says Trump knows judge attack was wrong — In public, Donald Trump insists his racial attacks on an Indiana-born judge of Mexican descent have been “misconstrued.” But in private, Trump concedes he made a mistake, according to Ben Carson, a top advisor and former rival for the Republican presidential nomination.
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Ezra Klein / Vox:
A Republican senator just prayed that Obama's “days be few.” This is how the GOP got Trump. — Want to know how Republicans ended up with Donald Trump? This is how Republicans ended up with Donald Trump: … Sen. David Perdue is the junior senator from Georgia.
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Betsy Woodruff / The Daily Beast:
GOP Senator David Perdue Jokes About Praying for Obama's Death
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Michael B. Mukasey / Wall Street Journal:
Trump, the Judiciary and Identity Politics
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
Sen. Perdue offers prayer for Obama: ‘Let his days be few’
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James Hohmann / Washington Post:
Warren met with Clinton this morning, fueling VP speculation — Elizabeth Warren and Hillary Clinton met privately Friday morning, according to two knowledgeable Democrats, just hours after the Massachusetts senator formally endorsed the presumptive Democratic nominee.
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Harper Neidig / The Hill:
Sanders surrogate blasts Warren: 'You don't get brownie points from me' — is lashing out at Sen. Elizabeth Warren — after her endorsement of Hillary Clinton — , saying the senator hasn't done enough for progressives. — During a radio interview on SiriusXM's “Steele and Unger,” …
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Michael Falcone / ABC News:
The Note: Dueling Speeches in DC
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Jennifer Steinhauer / New York Times:
Elizabeth Warren Endorses Clinton and Goes Taunt-for-Taunt With Trump
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Peter Kafka / Recode:
Gawker files for bankruptcy and says it will sell the company to Ziff Davis or someone else — Gawker and Nick Denton say they won't pay Hulk Hogan and Peter Thiel $140 million. — Asa Mathat — Peter Thiel is getting closer to his goal: Gawker Media has filed for bankruptcy protection …
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Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
Gawker Media Files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy — The online news site makes its move after suffering a $140 million judgment in the Hulk Hogan lawsuit. — Gawker Media has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy after a Florida judge issued a $140 million final judgment in favor of Hulk Hogan …
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Lukas I. Alpert / Wall Street Journal:
Gawker Files for Bankruptcy, Will Be Put Up for Auction — Move comes after $140 million Hogan judgment is ruled to stand; auction to begin with $100 million bid from publisher Ziff Davis — Gawker Media filed for bankruptcy Friday and the company will be put up for auction after a judge ruled …
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Peter Sterne / Politico:
Gawker Media files for bankruptcy — Gawker Media filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Friday, in order to protect its assets from seizure by former professional wrestler Hulk Hogan. — In March, Hogan won a $140.1 million judgment against Gawker Media, CEO Nick Denton and former Gawker.com editor A.J. Daulerio.
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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.
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David Brooks / New York Times:
The Unity Illusion — Paul Ryan says it's time for Republicans to unite with the presumptive nominee Donald Trump. Sure, Trump says racist things sometimes and disagrees with most of our proposals, but Republicans have to go into this campaign as a team. There has to be a Republican majority …
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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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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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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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Zeke J. Miller / TIME.com:
Hillary Clinton's general-election wakeup call came suddenly in May, when loud cursing erupted from her Brooklyn headquarters. — She had just begun a speech to union leaders in Las Vegas when every major cable network had decided to go live to an empty podium in North Dakota, where Donald Trump would soon appear.
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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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David French / National Review:
Not a Single Republican Delegate Is ‘Bound’ to Donald Trump
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Timothy B. Lee / Vox:
There's no evidence that Google is manipulating searches to help Hillary Clinton — There's a video making the rounds purporting to show that Google is suppressing the phrase “Hillary Clinton crimes” from autocomplete results, thereby boosting Clinton's candidacy.
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Emily Kirschenheuter / KRON4.com:
Court files show Brock Turner lied about drug use — PALO ALTO (KRON) — Court documents released on the Stanford rape case show that Brock Turner lied to Judge Aaron Persky about his drug use. — New pictures that were used during his rape trial show him smoking from a bong and drinking liquor.
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Nicole Auerbach / USA Today:
Former Stanford swimmer won't be eligible for USA Swimming events
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Warner Todd Huston / Breitbart:
Canada's highest court has just ruled that some sex acts between humans and animals are legal. — In a quixotic ruling, the country's high court ruled that a man who was on trial for raping and sexually exploiting his own daughters wasn't guilty of “bestiality.”
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