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Ed O'Keefe / Washington Post:
Dozens of GOP delegates launch new push to halt Donald Trump — Dozens of Republican convention delegates are hatching a new plan to block Donald Trump at this summer's party meetings, in what has become the most organized effort so far to stop the businessman from becoming the GOP nominee.
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Sara Murray / CNN:
First on CNN: Priebus probes state GOP leaders over anti-Trump push — (CNN)Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus has been quietly having conversations with state party leaders to discuss the latest push by convention delegates to nominate anyone other than Donald Trump.
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Associated Press, NBC News, RedState, Hot Air and Daily Kos
Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
Several GOP delegates working to block Trump's nomination: report
Several GOP delegates working to block Trump's nomination: report
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Washington Post, The Atlantic, The Gateway Pundit, Hot Air and RedState
Tierney Sneed / Talking Points Memo:
Paul Ryan On Stopping A President Trump's Muslim Ban: We'll Sue Him!
Paul Ryan On Stopping A President Trump's Muslim Ban: We'll Sue Him!
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The Gateway Pundit, Business Insider and FOX News Radio
Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
One sentence from Bernie Sanders's speech last night that really enrages Democratic leaders — As you can probably guess, most Democratic Party insiders were really hoping Bernie Sanders would formally drop out of the race this week and offer Hillary Clinton a fulsome endorsement.
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Slate, National Review and Bernie Sanders
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Harper Neidig / The Hill:
GOP stirs Clinton-Sanders tensions — The Republican National Committee is promoting a report that accuses the Democratic Party of conspiring to nominate Hillary Clinton — in the early days of the presidential primary. — In an email, the RNC sent to reporters a story published …
John Wagner / Washington Post:
A Sanders endorsement of Clinton could come ahead of the Philadelphia convention — BURLINGTON, Vt. — Bernie Sanders could offer an endorsement of presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton before the party's convention next month, depending on the outcome of ongoing policy talks between …
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Marisa Schultz / New York Post:
Leaked document shows the DNC wanted Clinton from start
Leaked document shows the DNC wanted Clinton from start
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Washington Free Beacon
Sahil Kapur / Bloomberg:
Sanders' Long Refusal to Endorse Clinton Hurts His Leverage
Sanders' Long Refusal to Endorse Clinton Hurts His Leverage
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Shakesville, Washington Post, ABC News and NBC News
Tyler Durden / Zero Hedge:
Sanders Supporters Vindicated: Proof DNC Used Media To Rig Election for Hillary
Sanders Supporters Vindicated: Proof DNC Used Media To Rig Election for Hillary
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New Urban Legends, John Hawkins' Right Wing News and AOL
Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Donald Trump, Seeing Himself Behind in Polls, Says He Hasn't ‘Started Yet’ — Donald J. Trump rarely, if ever, acknowledges he might be losing at anything. He expressed bewilderment at a poll during the primary race that showed him behind in the Iowa caucuses.
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Mediaite, Politicus USA, Politico, The Week and Los Angeles Times
Cristiana Moisescu / CNN:
Grandmother's Google search goes viral — London (CNN)Step aside, cute baby videos — there's now a special funny place on the internet for the less tech-savvy. Like these grandparents working out how a webcam works. Or all of these grandparents figuring out Facebook.
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Tampa Bay Times:
LGBT pride flag raised after Orlando shooting ‘unbearable’ for Christian employee, Hillsborough commissioner says — TAMPA — A pride flag waving outside the Hillsborough County center was meant to be a sign of respect and remembrance for the victims of the shooting at an LGBT nightclub in Orlando.
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Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE: Omar Mateen's brother-in-law REFUSES to say if he knew about terror plot as it is revealed gunman sold him the deed to his $165k home just two months before club massacre - for only $100 — Mustafa Abasin, 43, refused to comment when asked if he knew about his brother-in-law Omar Mateen's attack ahead of time
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Hurriyet Daily News:
A Turkish call to massacre LGBT community … At a time when the world is mourning the massacre of 49 people at a gay night club in Orlando, a new massacre is being brewed by Islamists and a far-right nationalist group in Istanbul. — One day after a group called the Anatolia Muslim Youth Association …
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Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
Muslim Youth League Calls for Massacre at Gay Rights Parade
Muslim Youth League Calls for Massacre at Gay Rights Parade
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Shane Goldmacher / Politico:
Trump appears to have paid no taxes for two years in early 1990s — Billionaire businessman Donald Trump appears to have paid zero, or near-zero, in personal income taxes in at least two more years in the early 1990s, according to records from New Jersey's gambling authorities reviewed by POLITICO.
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Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed:
Thanks To Apple's Influence, You're Not Getting A Rifle Emoji — No realm of modern life is immune to the contentious national debate over guns, including emojis. — You can currently purchase a semi-automatic rifle in a major U.S. city in just seven minutes, but don't expect to text someone a rifle emoji anytime soon.
Olivier Knox / Yahoo:
Condi Rice says no to being Trump's VP — Condoleezza Rice, who served George W. Bush as national security adviser and then secretary of state, has zero interest in being Donald Trump's running mate, her chief of staff said Friday. — “Dr. Rice has repeatedly said in past cycles as well as this one …
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Jesse Byrnes / The Hill:
Fla. rep: Rubio says he's ‘getting in’ Senate race … Rep. David Jolly (R-Fla.) said Friday morning that Sen. Marco Rubio — (R-Fla.) is “saying he's getting in” the Senate race. — Jolly added during an appearance on CNN's “New Day” that he plans to tell his constituents at noon …
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ABC News, Booman Tribune, Post On Politics, Liberty Unyielding, RedState, Washington Post and Business Insider
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Clinton email lawsuit zeroes in on Kennedy, Koh — A conservative group pressing for more answers about Hillary Clinton's private email set-up is training its fire on two of her former aides: Undersecretary of State for Management Patrick Kennedy and former State Department Legal Adviser Harold Koh.
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
How the Party of Sarah Palin Became the Party of Donald Trump — Perhaps not a completely unforeseeable development. — Donald Trump appeared on the national political stage almost eight years ago. Only then he was called “Sarah Palin.” The circumstances of Palin's ascent came very differently.
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Lawyers, Guns & Money and Balloon Juice
Neal Ascherson / New York Times:
From Great Britain to Little England — London — IT was Queen Elizabeth's official 90th birthday celebration last Sunday, and tables for 10,000 guests were set along the Mall in central London. Steadily the rain fell, dripping out of the tubas of the bands and softening the sandwiches …
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Harper Neidig / The Hill:
Ala. county refuses order to lower flags after Orlando shooting — An Alabama county is refusing to lower its flags to half-staff in the wake of the Orlando mass shooting last weekend despite orders to do so from both President Obama and Gov. Robert Bentley, according to CNN.
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WTVR-TV, Washington Post, NBC News and WHNT-TV
Timothy Egan / New York Times:
A Week for All Time — They will remember, a century from now, who stood up to the tyrant Donald Trump and who found it expedient to throw out the most basic American values — the “Vichy Republicans,” as the historian Ken Burns called them in his Stanford commencement speech.
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Media Matters for America
Noam Scheiber / New York Times:
An Expensive Law Degree, and No Place to Use It — VALPARAISO, Ind. — By most measures, John Acosta is a law school success story. He graduated from Valparaiso University Law School — a well-established regional school here in northwestern Indiana — in the top third of his class this past December, a semester ahead of schedule.
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Lawyers, Guns & Money and The American Conservative
Click2Houston.com:
Multiple people detained at Donald Trump's rally in The Woodlands — HOUSTON - A man was taken into custody by police at the Donald Trump rally in The Woodlands on Friday. — Sources tell Channel 2 they found him on the fourth floor of the parking garage with a pistol.
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New York Daily News and Trail Blazers Blog
Economic Policy Institute:
Income inequality in the U.S. by state, metropolitan area, and county — What this report finds: Income inequality has risen in every state since the 1970s and in many states is up in the post-Great Recession era. In 24 states, the top 1 percent captured at least half of all income growth between 2009 …
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CNNMoney, Daily Kos and Washington Monthly
Wall Street Journal:
Justice Department Drops Civil Fraud Case Against Countrywide's Angelo Mozilo — Lender's former CEO and others had been pursued over their alleged role in financial crisis — The U.S. Justice Department has decided not to sue former Countrywide Financial Corp. Chief Executive Angelo Mozilo …
Chris Kahn / Reuters:
Clinton's lead over Trump slips after Florida shooting: Reuters/Ipsos poll — Donald Trump chipped away at Hillary Clinton's lead in the presidential race this week, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Friday, as the candidates clashed over how to respond to the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history.
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