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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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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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Erick Erickson / The Resurgent:
The Next Two Weeks: Either Trump Or Unexpected Redemption Led by Wisconsin — Having spent the better part of this week suddenly fielding calls from donors and elected officials who've been otherwise adamant that I should give up and get on the Trump bandwagon, it is clear Trump …
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The Hill:
Ryan under GOP fire for Trump remarks — is coming under criticism from Senate Republicans, many of whom prefer the way their leader, Mitch McConnell — , deals with the unconventional candidate. — McConnell, the Senate majority leader from Kentucky, has steadfastly declined …
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Jesse Byrnes / The Hill:
Biden blasts Trump's ‘racist’ attack on federal judge
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Michael B. Mukasey / Wall Street Journal:
Trump, the Judiciary and Identity Politics
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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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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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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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Lukas I. Alpert / Wall Street Journal:
Gawker Files for Bankruptcy, Will Be Put Up for Auction
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Sydney Ember / New York Times:
Gawker, Filing for Bankruptcy After Hulk Hogan Suit, Is Said to Be for Sale
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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'
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Liz Farmer / Crime Blog:
Domesitc dispute ends in officer-involved shooting at Dallas Love Field Airport; suspect hospitalized … An officer-involved shooting prompted a lockdown Friday afternoon at Dallas Love Field Airport. — Police believe that a domestic dispute between a man and a woman preceded the shooting.
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Claire Ricke / KXAN-TV:
VIDEO: Shots fired at Dallas Love Field — DALLAS, Texas (KXAN) — Shots have been fired at the Dallas Love Field airport. A bystander captured the incident in an Instagram video uploaded Friday afternoon. — The incident began around noon Friday. A video posted to Instagram bye flashy films shows …
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.
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
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Donald Trump's polling surge has faltered - and Democrats haven't even united — Donald Trump's beloved polls have betrayed him. — Trump uses polls the way other people use love from a child or a good report card: as validation that all is right with the world and that he's doing okay.
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Dana Blanton / Fox News:
Fox News Poll: Majority thinks Clinton is lying about emails
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David French / National Review:
Not a Single Republican Delegate Is ‘Bound’ to Donald Trump — Those who claim otherwise would evade responsibility for his nomination. — Let's begin with a simple proposition: As a matter of law and history, there is not a single “bound” delegate to the Republican National Convention.
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Steven Shepard / Politico:
4-in-10 GOP insiders want to derail Trump at the convention
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Betsy Woodruff / The Daily Beast:
GOP Senator David Perdue Jokes About Praying for Obama's Death — The Georgia freshman quoted Scripture at a right-wing Christian confab to say the president's days should be short. — At a major event for conservative Christians this morning, a Republican senator joked about praying for President Obama's “days to be short.”
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
Sen. Perdue offers prayer for Obama: ‘Let his days be few’
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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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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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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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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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Daily Wire, The Independent, John Hawkins' Right Wing News and Liberty Unyielding
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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