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8:40 AM ET, June 28, 2016

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House Republicans' Report Sheds New Light on Benghazi Attack — Benghazi fallout: Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin faces questions 3:17 — After a more than two-year investigation into the 2012 terrorist attack in Benghazi, House Republicans are set to release a lengthy report Tuesday recounting …

Discussion: CNN, Fox News and Hot Air

Michael Biesecker / Associated Press:

More Clinton emails released, including some she deleted — WASHINGTON (AP) — Another 165 pages of emails from Hillary Clinton's time at the State Department surfaced Monday, including nearly three dozen that the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee failed to hand over last year that were sent through her private server.

Discussion: Hot Air

Rachael Bade / Politico:

Report: Mills' influence tainted review board — Cheryl Mills, the longtime attorney, friend and former chief of staff for Hillary Clinton, influenced the findings of an internal State Department review of the 2012 Benghazi terrorist attack, according to a draft of the final House Benghazi Committee report.

Julian Hattem / The Hill:
More previously unreleased Clinton emails emerge

Discussion: Washington Times and Judicial Watch

Linda Greenhouse / New York Times:

The Facts Win Out on Abortion — SOMEONE landing from Mars on Monday and coming upon Justice Stephen G. Breyer's majority Supreme Court opinion in the Texas abortion case would have had no hint of the decades-long battle over women's right to abortion and the dogged efforts by states to put obstacles in their way.

Discussion: Washington Post, SCOTUSblog and Balloon Juice

Hannah Levintova / Mother Jones:
Here's Why Today's Supreme Court Decision on Abortion Is So Important

Geneva Sands / ABC News:
How the Supreme Court Ruling Will Impact Abortion Laws in the US

Discussion: Washington Post, Politico and Towleroad

Greg Stohr / Bloomberg:
U.S. Supreme Court Backs Gun Curbs in Domestic-Violence Case

Discussion: Washington Post, Cato Institute, SCOTUSblog, Politico and The Hill

Laurel Raymond / ThinkProgress:
Justice Thomas Passionately Argues That Convicted Domestic Abusers Need Easier Access To Guns

Discussion: SCOTUSblog, Outside the Beltway, Vox and Hullabaloo

Alicia Parlapiano / New York Times:
When the Eight-Member Supreme Court Avoids Deadlocks, It Leans Left

Discussion: Liberal Values

David French / National Review:
Crazy Right-Wing Supreme Court Rejects Government Regulations

Discussion: No More Mister Nice Blog

Bloomberg:

Trump Hires Senior Advisor for Communications — Jason Miller served as the senior communications advisor for Texas Senator Ted Cruz's presidential campaign — Donald Trump has landed a GOP operative to be his new senior advisor for communications, a move meant to further professionalize his unconventional campaign.

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, Politico, Mediaite, The Hill, The Week, New York Times and BizPac Review

Judd Legum / ThinkProgress:

What Donald Trump's New Communications Director Really Thinks Of Donald Trump, In 11 Deleted Tweets — Donald Trump is having trouble putting together a full-fledged presidential campaign. Trump has a staff of little more than 70 people, compared to more than 700 for Hillary Clinton.

Discussion: Raw Story and Politico

Mark Murray / NBC News:

Poll: Majority of Republicans Prefer Someone Else to Trump — Just 45 percent of Republican voters say they are satisfied with Donald Trump as their party's presumptive presidential nominee, while 52 percent say they would have preferred someone else, according to results from the latest national NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll.

Discussion: Outside the Beltway, Hot Air, The Hill, The Moderate Voice, Politico, Algemeiner.com, Guardian, Political Wire, Mediaite, AOL, National Review, Business Insider, NBC News and Washington Times

Jonathan Easley / The Hill:

Trump: Warren is a ‘racist’ — (D-Mass.) on Monday, calling her a “racist” and a “total fraud.” — Speaking in an interview with NBC News correspondent Hallie Jackson, Trump retaliated against Warren, who described him as a bigot just hours earlier at a campaign stop with presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton

Discussion: Instapundit

Kristin Salaky / Talking Points Memo:
Scott Brown: Warren Should Take DNA Test To Prove Her Native American Roots

Discussion: CNN, Jezebel and The Gateway Pundit

Alex Seitz-Wald / NBC News:
Clinton and Warren Demonstrate Power of Their New Alliance

Discussion: NPR, Associated Press and The Huffington Post

Sara Jerde / Talking Points Memo:
Trump Fires Back At Warren: She's A ‘Fraud’ And A ‘Racist’!

Discussion: McClatchy Washington Bureau, Althouse, Washington Examiner and The Week

Evan Halper / Los Angeles Times:

House Democrats mistakenly release transcript confirming big payout to Clinton friend Sidney Blumenthal — Sidney Blumenthal, a longtime confidant of Hillary Clinton's, told congressional investigators he earned “about $200,000 a year” from a pro-Clinton nonprofit. (Susan Walsh / Associated Press)

Discussion: The Federalist and Mother Jones

Jessica Taylor / NPR:

Obama Cautions Against ‘Hysteria’ Over Brexit Vote — President Obama is warning against financial and international “hysteria” in the wake of last week's vote by the United Kingdom to leave the European Union. — “I think that the best way to think about this is, a pause button …

Discussion: ABC News, Talking Points Memo and Politico

Brian Beutler / New Republic:
Why Are Anti-Trump Conservatives Hailing the Brexit?

Discussion: Hullabaloo

Andy Bruce / Reuters:
Ratings agencies rip into UK's credit score after Brexit vote

Discussion: CNBC, NPR, The Atlantic, Hot Air and New York Times

West Hawaii Today:

Some Kauai residents unhappy about wall being built by Facebook billionaire — Updated: — Alden Alayvilla The Garden Island — KILAUEA, KAUAI — For years, Kilauea, Kauai resident Gy Hall has enjoyed the view of the ocean and the breeze along Koolau Road.

Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:

Anti-Trump Open Borders Advocate Zuckerberg Buys Hawaii Property - Puts Up Wall — Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg lashed out at Donald Trump in April at the annual developer's conference over his proposed border wall paid by Mexico. — Zuckerberg did not like Trump's border wall idea.

Discussion: The Last Refuge

BBC:

EU leaders reject informal talks with UK — The European Union will not hold informal talks with the UK until it triggers Article 50 to leave, Germany, France and Italy have insisted. — German Chancellor Angela Merkel hosted talks with French President Francois Hollande and Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi in Berlin.

Discussion: Associated Press and The Week

New York Times:
Economic Fears Rising, Britain Hopes to Stay in E.U. Market

Discussion: Bloomberg, Guardian, Wall Street Journal, EurActiv.com, Mother Jones, TheStreet.com, naked capitalism, American Prospect, Mediaite and Telegraph

David A. Fahrenthold / Washington Post:

Trump promised millions to charity. We found less than $10,000 over 7 years. — In May, under pressure from the news media, Donald Trump made good on a pledge he made four months earlier: He gave $1 million to a nonprofit group helping veterans' families.

Stephen F. Hayes / Weekly Standard:

The Benghazi Lie in Black and White — The administration's public and private timelines of what happened are very different. — The final majority report of the Benghazi Select Committee is set to be released later Tuesday morning. Representatives Jim Jordan and Mike Pompeo have signed onto …

CBS News:

What went wrong (and right) for Bernie Sanders — On the afternoon before an Iowa Democratic Party dinner in July 2015, Bernie Sanders firmly gripped the podium at a press conference, and referred to himself as an “underdog.” He was closing the gap with Clinton in the polls …

Discussion: New York Times, Washington Times and AOL

Jennifer Haberkorn / Politico:

Congress' Zika fail could bite GOP in election — Congress is poised for an epic failure in its efforts to combat Zika before lawmakers leave Washington for a seven-week vacation — and it could come back to bite Republicans at the ballot box if there's an outbreak of the mosquito-borne virus in the United States this summer.

Discussion: Political Wire

Aditya Chakrabortty / Guardian:

After a campaign scarred by bigotry, it's become OK to be racist in Britain — The leave campaign has opened up a Pandora's box of resentment and suspicion - and it's only going to get worse when Brexit fails to deliver on its promises — n chaos of the kind Britain now faces, history is clear …

Joel B. Pollak / Breitbart:

No, Jesse Williams, I Will Not ‘Sit Down’ — Actor Jesse Williams of Grey's Anatomy is being celebrated by like-minded left-wingers across the Internet for delivering what is being called a courageous speech on race at the Black Entertainment (BET) Awards on Sunday evening.

Discussion: Atlanta Black Star, The Root, VSB and Deadline