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Dan Balz / Washington Post:
November is fast becoming what the GOP fears: A referendum on Trump. … The hole that Donald Trump has dug for himself keeps getting deeper. On nearly every front, his position continues to deteriorate. Unless he reverses course, Republicans are heading toward a wrenching week …
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Tony Romm / Politico:
Apple won't aid GOP convention over Trump — Apple has told Republican leaders it will not provide funding or other support for the party's 2016 presidential convention, as it's done in the past, citing Donald Trump's controversial comments about women, immigrants and minorities.
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Kristen East / Politico:
Trump: Reports of delegates organizing against him are media ‘hoax’ — Donald Trump says he isn't worried about delegates organizing against him at the Republican National Convention next month — but he spent a large part of his rally in Las Vegas on Saturday afternoon insisting that it won't happen.
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Jessie Hellmann / The Hill:
Trump accuses Jeb Bush of mounting convention coup — on Saturday accused Jeb Bush of mounting a convention coup against him, after reports that Republican delegates who don't personally support Trump are looking for ways to avoid voting for him this summer.
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Nicola Slawson / Guardian:
Jo Cox murder suspect tells court his name is ‘death to traitors, freedom for Britain’ — Thomas Mair, 52, of Birstall, appears in Westminster magistrates court on multiple charges over killing of MP — Thomas Mair has given his name as “death to traitors, freedom for Britain” …
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Kim Hjelmgaard / USA Today:
Exclusive poll: EU support falls after Jo Cox murder — Jo Cox, 41 was a member of the British parliament. She died after being shot and stabbed in the street of her own constituency. VPC — LONDON — British support for remaining in the European Union has weakened in the wake …
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WESH-TV:
Assistant state attorney suspended over Facebook comments on Pulse shooting — Assistant State Attorney Kenneth Lewis was suspended Friday for violating the State Attorney's Office's social media policy, according to Angela Starke, public information officer for the State Attorney's Office, Ninth Judicial Circuit.
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Suzanne Nossel / Los Angeles Times:
Op-Ed How Hillary Clinton went from loser to winner — Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks at a rally at the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Circuit Center in Pittsburgh on June 14. (Andrew Harnik / Associated Press) — Before she won this year's Democratic primary, Hillary Clinton was a loser.
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Bill Bartel / Virginian-Pilot:
Sen. Warner said he's not in the running to be Hillary Clinton's vice president
Sen. Warner said he's not in the running to be Hillary Clinton's vice president
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Shane Harris / The Daily Beast:
The Unhinged Home that Raised Orlando Killer Omar Mateen — Long before his rampage in the Pulse nightclub, there was deep trouble in the home of Omar Mateen. — A mother accused of domestic abuse and described as “paranoid.” A father became a supporter of the Taliban.
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Jessie Hellmann / The Hill:
Trump campaign calls for $100K in donations by the end of the day — campaign has sent its first “emergency” fundraising email to supporters Saturday, seeking to raise at least $100,000 by the end of the day. — That request follows a multimillion dollar ad blitz launched by likely general election rival Hillary Clinton
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Ben Schreckinger / Politico:
Would Donald Trump really drop out for $150 million? — How much would it cost to get Donald Trump to give up his presidential run and walk away? — “I bet if someone offered him $150 million to drop out, he would,” one former Trump adviser told POLITICO, unprompted, during an interview Friday.
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Political Wire, New York Magazine and Washington Post
James Queally / Los Angeles Times:
Oakland loses third police chief in nine days, will operate under civilian control — Acting Oakland Police Chief Paul Figueroa, talking to reporters earlier in the week, has left the post. His departure marks the third time in eight days the city has seen its top police official depart.
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Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
The Trump effect: Could Arizona go blue for the first time in 20 years? — PHOENIX — If there is one place where the dramas and subplots of Campaign 2016 collide, it is across the sprawling and scorching desert state of Arizona. — Here lives Donald Trump's restive base of white voters unsettled …
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Philly.com:
Police: Parents admit ‘gifting’ teen to Bucks man; all 3 arrested — A 51-year-old Bucks County man was arrested after he was found living with 12 girls, including a teenager he considered his wife, and a baby and a toddler he fathered with her, authorities said Friday.
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Laura Vozzella / Washington Post:
Virginia pulls 132 confined sex offenders from list of eligible voters — RICHMOND — State officials abruptly removed 132 sex offenders from Virginia's list of eligible voters last week, reacting to the latest problem emerging from Gov. Terry McAuliffe's sweeping move to restore voting rights …
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Hamza Hendawi / Associated Press:
Egyptian court sentences 2 Al-Jazeera employees to death — CAIRO (AP) — An Egyptian court on Saturday sentenced six people, including two Al-Jazeera employees, to death for allegedly passing documents related to national security to Qatar and the Doha-based TV network during the rule of Islamist President Mohammed Morsi.
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Harper Neidig / The Hill:
Egyptian court sentences two journalists to death
Egyptian court sentences two journalists to death
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Marisa Schultz / New York Post:
Leaked document shows the DNC wanted Clinton from start — More On: — A document leaked by a hacker who took responsibility for the Democratic National Committee data breach appears to show the DNC coordinating with Hillary Clinton from the start of the presidential campaign — just as Bernie Sanders has claimed.
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Politico, Liberal Values, Althouse and Washington Free Beacon
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Harper Neidig / The Hill:
GOP stirs Clinton-Sanders tensions