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Hadas Gold / Politico:
Corey Lewandowski to join CNN — Former Donald Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski is joining CNN as a political commentator, according to a source familiar with the arrangement. — It's a salaried position and will make Lewandowski exclusive to CNN, effective immediately.
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Trump forgives $50 million in loans to his campaign: Trump finance chief — Steve Mnuchin, Trump national finance chair, discusses Donald Trump's fundraising strategy, including online donations. — Donald Trump has forgiven $50 million in loans he made to his campaign …
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Exclusive: Prominent GOP Neoconservative to Fundraise for Hillary Clinton — A prominent neoconservative intellectual and early promoter of the Iraq War is headlining an official campaign fundraiser for Hillary Clinton next month, Foreign Policy has learned.
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CNN hires Corey Lewandowski as political commentator
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Matea Gold / Washington Post:
In move to reassure donors, Trump converts $50 million of campaign loans into donations
In move to reassure donors, Trump converts $50 million of campaign loans into donations
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Rebecca Ballhaus / Wall Street Journal:
Donor Says Trump Campaign Voiced Support for Super PAC
Donor Says Trump Campaign Voiced Support for Super PAC
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Media Matters for America
Ginger Gibson / Reuters:
Trump will not seek refund of $50 million in campaign loans
Trump will not seek refund of $50 million in campaign loans
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New York Times
Laura Meckler / Wall Street Journal:
Several GOP Business Leaders Are Backing Clinton
Several GOP Business Leaders Are Backing Clinton
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The Week
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Democrats launch a toddler-ocracy: Column — Moral outrage is fine, but Democrats are being childish. — Legislation by tantrum. That's what the Democratic sit-in in the chamber of the U.S. House of Representatives amounts to. You don't get what you want, as devoutly as you believe …
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House GOP starts recess early, sidestepping Dems' sit-in
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Matthew Nussbaum / Politico:
House drops Confederate Flag ban for veterans cemeteries
House drops Confederate Flag ban for veterans cemeteries
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BostonGlobe.com:
Paul Ryan, what are you afraid of?
Paul Ryan, what are you afraid of?
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Jamelle Bouie / Slate:
The Democrats Are Changing. Their Unprecedented Sit-In Over Gun Control Is Proof.
The Democrats Are Changing. Their Unprecedented Sit-In Over Gun Control Is Proof.
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Heather Caygle / Politico:
Democrats end guns sit-in
Democrats end guns sit-in
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Supreme Court deadlocks, thwarting Obama's immigration actions — The Supreme Court has thwarted President Barack Obama's drive to expand his executive actions on immigration by making as many as five million immigrants currently in the U.S. illegally eligible for quasi-legal status and work permits.
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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Supreme Court Upholds Affirmative Action Program at University of Texas
Supreme Court Upholds Affirmative Action Program at University of Texas
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Supreme Court won't revive Obama plan to shield illegal immigrants from deportation
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Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Supreme Court upholds University of Texas affirmative action admissions
Supreme Court upholds University of Texas affirmative action admissions
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The Electoral College: Map No. 2 — Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose — Some of our readers may recall that the Crystal Ball published its first 2016 Electoral College map at the end of March. It was somewhat controversial — at least judging by many of the reactions we received.
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The Clinton Campaign Seems To Think Pennsylvania Is In The Bag — Hillary Clinton has a substantial lead in the polls over Donald Trump, and has vastly more cash on hand. But when it comes to spending that cash, her campaign may be making a strategic miscalculation.
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Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Poll: Clinton leads Trump in Arizona
Poll: Clinton leads Trump in Arizona
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The ‘Anti-Business’ President Who's Been Good for Business — Obama on free trade, regulating banks, and why his daughters won't work for Wall Street. … BLOOMBERG BUSINESSWEEK: The stock market has tripled. Profits are very high. And yet you still have this label of being an anti-business figure.
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Trump's Speech About Hillary Was Terrifyingly Effective — He left the clown act to his surrogates, mixed in a truth or two among the lies, and zeroed in on what people hate about Clinton. — Donald Trump's Wednesday morning speech about Hillary Clinton's record is probably the most unnervingly effective one he has ever given.
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Germany shooting: armed man ‘opens fire at cinema’ near Frankfurt — A masked gunman entered the Kinopolis cinema in Viernheim, near Frankfurt, with reports of at least 25 people injured, possibly from tear gas — German police have sealed off a cinema complex in Viernheim …
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Holly Yan / CNN:
Shooting at German cinema leaves 25 injured
Shooting at German cinema leaves 25 injured
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Matt Bai / Yahoo:
What Trump's money troubles really tell us — More incredible news for the Donald Trump juggernaut! — After a 10-day stretch in which Trump found himself rebuked by Republican leaders, plummeting in polls and firing his much-maligned campaign manager, news broke that, according to public filings …
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Gabriel Debenedetti / Politico:
Kaine rises to top of Clinton's veep list — Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine is emerging as the leading candidate atop Hillary Clinton's vice presidential short list, according to Democratic allies and operatives close to the campaign. — Sen. Elizabeth Warren and HUD Secretary Julian Castro …
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Bernie Sanders / Washington Post:
Bernie Sanders: Here's what we want — My supporters and I want real change in this country. — As we head toward the Democratic National Convention, I often hear the question, “What does Bernie want?” Wrong question. The right question is what the 12 million Americans who voted for a political revolution want.
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Despite Campaign Woes, Donald Trump Flies to Scotland to Tend to Business Interests — AYRSHIRE, Scotland — His campaign is desperately short of cash. He has struggled to hire staff. Influential Republicans are demanding that he demonstrate he can run a serious general election campaign.
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Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Presidential Race Knotted in NC; Senate Race Close — North Carolina was the second closest state in the country for President in both 2008 and 2012, and PPP's newest poll finds it remains similarly competitive this time around. Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are dead even at 43% …
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Political Wire
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Charges: Utah head of militia tried to detonate bomb at BLM facility in Arizona — A Tooele County man has been charged by federal prosecutors with attempting to use an explosive device at a BLM facility along the Arizona Strip that he had scouted with Robert LaVoy Finicum in October 2015 …
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