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3:30 PM ET, June 11, 2016

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Ines de la Cuetara / ABC News:
High-Profile GOP Donor Meg Whitman Indicates She Is Likely to Support Hillary Clinton, Say Sources  —  Republican donor Meg Whitman, the high-profile Hewlett Packard Enterprise president and CEO, indicated at Mitt Romney's closed-door summit on Friday that she would likely be supporting Hillary Clinton …
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Theodore Schleifer / CNN:
Romney retreat puts spotlight on Trump's fundraising problem in critical stretch  —  Park City, Utah (CNN)Republican fundraisers are beginning to fret that Donald Trump does not comprehend the enormity of the challenge before him, warning that if he fails to execute the basic tasks …
Discussion: Business Insider
Jesse Byrnes / The Hill:
Romney rips Trump, but won't run as independent … Mitt Romney launched a new attack on now-presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump  —  Friday, but is standing by his decision not to jump into the race as a third-party candidate.  —  “I think you're not going to find a credible candidate actually running …
Discussion: Politico, RedState and Business Insider
Julie Bykowicz / Associated Press:
Romney loyalists ponder a future with Trump
Arturo Garcia / Raw Story:
Mitt Romney rips Trump's ‘trickle down racism, trickle down bigotry, trickle down misogyny’
Discussion: CNN, Guardian and Washington Post
Theodore Schleifer / CNN:
Romney says Trump will change America with ‘trickle-down racism’
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:   A Trump Presidency Just Got a Lot Less Likely — and a Lot More Terrifying
Matea Gold / Washington Post:
Trump's ‘Pocahontas’ attack leaves fellow Republicans squirming (again)  —  It was a bad time for Sen. Cory Gardner to be caught in an elevator with a reporter.  Donald Trump had just referred to Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts as “Pocahontas” — again — and the Republican freshman …
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Jessie Hellmann / The Hill:
Pocahontas.com redirects to Warren campaign site  —  (D-Mass.) is turning the tables on Donald Trump  —  's favorite insult for the senator.  —  The website Pocahontas.com now redirects it to Warren's campaign website — the handiworkwork of one of her supporters, according to the Washington Post.
Discussion: Daily Wire
Brett T. / twitchy.com:
You won't find Pow Wow Chow recipes at Pocahontas.com, but you will find this
Discussion: BizPac Review
New York Times:
How Donald Trump Bankrupted His Atlantic City Casinos, but Still Earned Millions  —  ATLANTIC CITY — The Trump Plaza Casino and Hotel is now closed, its windows clouded over by sea salt.  Only a faint outline of the gold letters spelling out T-R-U-M-P remains visible on the exterior of what was once this city's premier casino.
Amanda Hess / New York Times:
For the Alt-Right, the Message Is in the Punctuation  —  The Anti-Defamation League added a new symbol this week to Hate on Display, its database of prominent white supremacist imagery.  It's called the “echo,” and it is used online to call attention to Jewish names in the news.
Discussion: alan.com and neo-neocon
Joe Sutton / CNN:
‘Voice’ singer Christina Grimmie dies after shooting at Orlando concert  —  (CNN)Singer Christina Grimmie, who starred in NBC's “The Voice,” died early Saturday after a gunman shot her following a performance in Florida, authorities said.  —  A man armed with two guns walked …
Oliver Jj Lane / Breitbart:
Politically Correct Schoolgirls Cover Up Their Own Sex Attacks At Hands Of Migrants  —  Three teenage girls colluded to cover up sex assaults against them because they felt bad for their attackers and didn't want to see them “discriminated against”.  —  Pupils at the Herder school in Kassel …
Paulina Firozi / The Hill:
Trump's Virginia rally draws smaller crowd  —  's Friday night rally in Richmond, Va., appeared to draw a much smaller crowd than the presumptive GOP nominee's usual audience based on photos from the scene just before the rally's scheduled 8 p.m. start.  —  One reporter tweeted …
Jonathan Tilove / Austin Investigative News …:
In Texas, Donald Trump must rely on uncertain allies in state GOP  —  Highlights  —  George P. Bush is heading the state GOP election effort, but he isn't endorsing Trump.  —  One Trump supporter calls the choice of Bush to lead the state GOP campaign “baffling.”
Discussion: Political Wire
Kristin Salaky / Talking Points Memo:
Trump Holds On To Claim Don King Endorsed Him Despite King's Denial  —  Donald Trump is continuing to speak out on his claim Saturday that notorious boxing promoter Don King has endorsed him while King is denying that he ever made the endorsement.  —  Trump first claimed that King endorsed …
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Julia Moore / KDKF-TV:
Witnesses Say Man Lassoed Suspected Thief at Eagle Point Walmart  —  EAGLE POINT, Ore. — A man on a horse chased down and lassoed a suspected thief at the Eagle Point Walmart, according to witnesses.  —  Police say that a woman was yelling about her bike being stolen and a nearby man unloaded …
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Alan Blinder / New York Times:
Michael Hubbard, Alabama House Speaker, Is Convicted on 12 Felony Ethics Charges  —  Michael G. Hubbard, the speaker of the Alabama House of Representatives, whose sharp-elbowed approach to politics propelled the Republican Party to dominance in his state, was convicted Friday on 12 felony ethics charges …
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Kim Chandler / Associated Press:
Jury convicts Alabama House speaker on 12 ethics charges
Discussion: Joe.My.God. and Raw Story
Nick Corasaniti / New York Times:
Donald Trump Wants Sports Stars, Not Politicians, on Convention Stage  —  RICHMOND, Va. — Donald J. Trump has some ideas for how to jazz up the Republican National Convention, and he previewed one at a rally here on Friday evening: a “winner's evening” of sports celebrities and champions addressing …
Discussion: Deadspin and ProFootballTalk
Casey Parks / Oregonian:
Oregon court allows person to change sex from ‘female’ to ‘non-binary’  —  An Oregon judge ruled Friday that a transgender person can legally change their sex to “non-binary” rather than male or female in what legal experts believe is a first in the United States.
David Harsanyi / The Federalist:
Gawker Is Bankrupt, And Now Liberals Are Pretending To Care About Free Speech  —  So Gawker and its owner Nick Denton filed Chapter 11 today to avoid paying Hulk Hogan the $140 million they owe him after losing an invasion of privacy trial.  The suit was funded by libertarian billionaire Peter Thiel …
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CNN:
Florida AG sought donation before nixing Trump University fraud case
Discussion: Addicting Info and RedState
Joshua Holland / Rolling Stone:
After Bernie, Does the Left Need a Rethink?
Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Clinton's third-term dilemma
Discussion: alan.com and 89.3 KPCC
Jim Newell / Slate:
Democrats Will Rally Around Hillary Clinton
Alessandra Stanley / New York Times:
Will This Guy Shut Off the Lights in the Sanders Campaign?
Kristina Wong / The Hill:
Air Force has lost 100,000 inspector general records
 Earlier Items: 
Weekly Standard:
The Diversity Profession  —  Who knew hush money could be so loud?
Robert F. Worth / New York Times:
What if PTSD Is More Physical Than Psychological?
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Dawn Foster / Guardian:
The Queen's birthday has unleashed a pernicious new patriotism
Discussion: Tim Worstall
Christopher Moraff / The Daily Beast:
DEA Wants Inside Your Medical Records to Fight the War on Drugs
Discussion: TalkLeft, Boing Boing and The Week
Kate Irby / Fresno Bee:
What does Brock Turner's mom have to say?
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Rabbi Michael Lerner Brings Down The House At Muhammad Ali's Funeral
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