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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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Matthew J. Belvedere / CNBC:
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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John Hudson / Foreign Policy:
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.
Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
CNN hires Corey Lewandowski as political commentator — Three days after being ousted from the Donald Trump campaign, Corey Lewandowski is becoming a political commentator for CNN. — Lewandowski will join CNN's stable of political experts who appear across the channel's newscasts and talk shows.
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Politicus USA, Mediaite, Political Wire and Media Matters for America
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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Vox, Political Wire and The Baffler
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
Ross K. Baker / USA Today:
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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The Hill:
House GOP starts recess early, sidestepping Dems' sit-in — House GOP leaders opted to send lawmakers home a day early for a holiday recess as Democrats threatened to stretch a widely publicized sit-in over gun control into a days-long demonstration. — The House adjourned for the Independence …
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BostonGlobe.com:
Paul Ryan, what are you afraid of?
Paul Ryan, what are you afraid of?
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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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Hullabaloo
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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New York Times:
House Democrats' Gun-Control Sit-In Turns Into Chaotic Showdown With Republicans
House Democrats' Gun-Control Sit-In Turns Into Chaotic Showdown With Republicans
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Allegra Kirkland / Talking Points Memo:
GOP Sen.: I'd Arrest Dems Who Held Sit-In On House Floor
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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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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Politico, The College Fix, ABC News, Rewire and The Root
Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Supreme Court won't revive Obama plan to shield illegal immigrants from deportation
Supreme Court won't revive Obama plan to shield illegal immigrants from deportation
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Bloomberg, Infowars, American Power, Political Wire and Mother Jones
New York Times:
Supreme Court Tie Blocks Obama Immigration Plan
Supreme Court Tie Blocks Obama Immigration Plan
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Sabato's Crystal Ball:
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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Daily Wire and Outside the Beltway
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David Wasserman / FiveThirtyEight:
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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Washington Monthly, Phoenix Business Journal and CNN
Bloomberg:
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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Michelle Goldberg / Slate:
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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Guardian:
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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Political Wire
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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New York Times:
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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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.
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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