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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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Matthew Continetti / Washington Free Beacon:
The Self-Immolation of the Republican Party — The Darwin Awards is a popular website that “commemorates individuals who protect our gene pool by making the ultimate sacrifice of their own lives. Darwin Award winners eliminate themselves in an extraordinarily idiotic manner …
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Washington Monthly, Salon, TruthFeed, Bloomberg, Washington Post and CNN
Matt Fuller / The Huffington Post:
Paul Ryan: Donald Trump Does Not Have A ‘Blank Check’ — The House Speaker admits he hasn't achieved the “real unity” he wanted with Trump. — Congressional Reporter, The Huffington Post — WASHINGTON — House Speaker Paul Ryan has limits to what he'll accept from presumptive GOP nominee …
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ThinkProgress, Daily Wire, Business Insider, The Last Refuge, Politicus USA and AOL
Tierney Sneed / Talking Points Memo:
Paul Ryan On Stopping A President Trump's Muslim Ban: We'll Sue Him! — House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) has made clear he doesn't agree with a proposal put forward by Donald Trump — whom Ryan has endorsed — to ban Muslim immigration into the United States, but in an interview …
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The Gateway Pundit and FOX News Radio
NBC News:
First Read: Ryan Instructs Republicans to Follow Their ‘Conscience’ on Trump — Ryan instructs Republicans to follow their “conscience” on Trump: In his interview for “Meet the Press” that will air on Sunday, House Speaker Paul Ryan essentially gave every Republican license to follow …
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Washington Post, Talking Points Memo, RedState, Real Clear Politics, Daily Wire, Mediaite, NBC News and Political Wire
Carlo Allegri / National Review:
Democratic Congresswoman Suggests Trump May Be a Clinton Plant — Marcy Kaptur talks about Trump and Hillary. — Some conservative Republicans disgusted by Donald Trump's offensive, scorched-earth campaign have long suspected their party's nominee to be secretly in league with his erstwhile friends Bill and Hillary Clinton.
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Politico:
Transcript: Bernie Sanders speech in Burlington, Vermont — Election days come and go. But political and social revolutions that attempt to transform our society never end. They continue every day, every week and every month in the fight to create a nation of social and economic justice.
Gabriel Debenedetti / Politico:
Sanders loses convention leverage — BURLINGTON, Vt. — Leverage: it's the one thing Bernie Sanders' advisors and aides consistently point to when asked why, exactly, he's formally staying in the Democratic primary race that he's lost to Hillary Clinton. — But it's the one thing he's …
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New York Magazine and Instapundit
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, Townhall.com and AOL
Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
One sentence from Bernie Sanders's speech last night that really enrages Democratic leaders
One sentence from Bernie Sanders's speech last night that really enrages Democratic leaders
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National Review
Tampa Bay Times:
U.S. Rep. David Jolly to run for re-election, drop out of Senate race — U.S. Rep David Jolly will drop out of the U.S. Senate race and run for re-election instead, taking on likely Democratic nominee Charlie Crist, confirmed former St. Petersburg Mayor Rick Baker
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The Hill, Talking Points Memo and Florida Politics
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Jesse Byrnes / The Hill:
Fla. rep: Rubio says he's ‘getting in’ Senate race
Fla. rep: Rubio says he's ‘getting in’ Senate race
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Washington Monthly, RedState, Post On Politics and Business Insider
Burgess Everett / Politico:
Cruz bucks GOP establishment with endorsement in Colorado primary
Cruz bucks GOP establishment with endorsement in Colorado primary
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RedState and Trail Blazers Blog
David Brooks / New York Times:
Religion's Wicked Neighbor — Barack Obama is clearly wrong when he refuses to use the word “Islam” in reference to Islamist terrorism. The people who commit these acts are inflamed by a version of an Islamist ideology. They claim an Islamist identity. They swear fealty to organizations …
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Pirate's Cove
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Stanley McChrystal / New York Times:
Home Should Not Be a War Zone
Home Should Not Be a War Zone
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Steven Shepard / Politico:
Trump's poll ratings in a historic hole — In 2016's race to the bottom, Donald Trump is going to find out if you can become president when two-thirds of Americans don't like you — and a majority can't stand you. — Recent polls have showed Trump's unfavorable rating spiking again, after a brief improvement last month.
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Allegra Kirkland / Talking Points Memo:
All These Companies Are Skipping Out On Trump's GOP Convention In Cleveland — The list of major U.S. companies that plan to scale back funding for the Republican National Convention or avoid it altogether keeps growing as the July event in Cleveland draws closer.
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Politico, Bloomberg and TheStreet.com
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Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
He Had to Wait for LeBron, but Donald Trump Can Finally Set Up His Convention
He Had to Wait for LeBron, but Donald Trump Can Finally Set Up His Convention
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Daily Kos
Wall Street Journal:
Beijing: Apple iPhone Violated Chinese Patent — Apple gets stay to city regulator's order to halt sales of older iPhones — A dispute between Apple Inc. and Chinese regulators broke into the open after Beijing's intellectual property authority said the design of the iPhone 6 …
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Mother Jones, NPR, Mashable and The Verge
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Rebecca R. Ruiz / New York Times:
Russia's Track and Field Team Barred From Rio Olympics — Russia's track and field team has been barred from competing in this summer's Rio Games because of a far-reaching doping conspiracy, an extraordinary punishment that might be without precedent in Olympics history.
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The Atlantic, Mother Jones, Business Insider, Guardian, USA Today, Washington Free Beacon, AOL, The Week and The Diplomat
Stephen Gutowski / Washington Free Beacon:
Store Owner: Undercover CBS Purchase of AR-15 Broke Federal Law — The gun store where a CBS News employee purchased a gun for a segment that aired Thursday on “CBS This Morning” has filed a report with the Virginia State Police and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives over concerns the purchase was unlawful.
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Hot Air, BizPac Review, Bearing Arms, Mediaite, The Week, Pirate's Cove, Daily Wire, National Review and CBS News
William Kristol / Weekly Standard:
Cut the Thread — “Trust me, he's only hanging on by a thread.” — “Patience, my friend, patience . . . we need just one more episode.” — “My colleagues are close to the breaking point.” — This is what one hears—this is what I've heard …
Allegra Kirkland / Talking Points Memo:
Rep Who Co-Chairs Trump Campaign Committee: Why Must I Defend Him? — The co-chair for Donald Trump's U.S. House Leadership Committee played defense on Thursday, insisting he was “not a surrogate” and shouldn't have to answer for everything the real estate tycoon says.
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Jonathan Swan / The Hill:
Duncan Hunter: I am not a Trump surrogate
Duncan Hunter: I am not a Trump surrogate
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RedState, Talking Points Memo and New York Times
New York Times:
An Unlikely Savior Emerges to Help Endangered Republicans: George W. Bush — After eight years of largely abstaining from politics, former President George W. Bush is throwing himself into an effort to save his party's most vulnerable senators, including several whose re-election campaigns …
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Talking Points Memo, Guardian, Daily Kos, New York Magazine and The Week
Mollie Hemingway / The Federalist:
New York Times Claims ‘Romans’ Calls For ‘Execution Of Gays’ — Journalist Terry Mattingly wrote a great column back in 2006 noting the trouble many journalists have understanding the finer details of religion news. His column, “Reporters, crow's ears and Karma Light nuns,” …
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Mediaite, Daily Wire, Roll Call, Heat Street and Political Wire
Matt Flegenheimer / New York Times:
Shunned, Stared at, Still for Trump: The Holdout in Hillary Clinton's Town — CHAPPAQUA, N.Y. — First came the grimaces — the disbelieving eyes trained upon his shirt, his lawn signs, his car window stickers broadcasting a local betrayal. — Then his teenage son refused to drive …
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Althouse
Judge Andrew Napolitano / Townhall.com:
In Defense of Self-Defense — Most of the mass killings by gun in the United States in recent years — Columbine, Virginia Tech, Aurora, Newtown, Charleston, San Bernardino and now Orlando — took place in venues where local or state law prohibited carrying guns, even by those lawfully licensed to do so.
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Bearing Arms