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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 …
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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 …
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.
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Hot Air, The Hill and Washington Times
David M. Herszenhorn / New York Times:
House Benghazi Report Finds No New Evidence of Wrongdoing by Hillary Clinton — WASHINGTON — Ending one of the longest, costliest and most bitterly partisan congressional investigations in history, the House Select Committee on Benghazi issued its final report on Tuesday …
Rachael Bade / Politico:
Final Benghazi report details administration failures — In their long-awaited final report, Republicans on the House Benghazi Committee concluded that the Obama administration — including then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton — failed across multiple agencies and levels to protect American diplomats …
Cortney O'Brien / Townhall.com:
Revealed: State Dept Was Debating ‘Appropriate Attire’ While Compound Was Burning — For some reason, the Obama administration was having a debate over apparel while Americans were fighting for their lives in Benghazi, Libya. Rep. Mike Pompeo (R-KS), a member of the House Select Committee on Benghazi …
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Sarah Westwood / Washington Examiner:
Gowdy releases Benghazi committee final report
Gowdy releases Benghazi committee final report
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Politico, Instapundit and Shot in the Dark
Michael Biesecker / Associated Press:
More Clinton emails released, including some she deleted
More Clinton emails released, including some she deleted
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Hot Air
Martha Raddatz / ABC News:
Benghazi Committee Releases Final Report
Benghazi Committee Releases Final Report
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Politico, The Week, Media Matters for America and Associated Press
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.
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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.
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Politico, Talking Points Memo, Mediaite, The Hill, The Week, New York Times and BizPac Review
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Polls are telling Donald Trump the truth, but he's not listening — Polls used to tell Donald Trump something. They told him he was winning the Republican primary race, that his message and style were connecting with voters, that he was more popular than any of his rivals.
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.
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 …
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Mediaite
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.
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Hannah Levintova / Mother Jones:
Here's Why Today's Supreme Court Decision on Abortion Is So Important
Here's Why Today's Supreme Court Decision on Abortion Is So Important
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Geneva Sands / ABC News:
How the Supreme Court Ruling Will Impact Abortion Laws in the US
How the Supreme Court Ruling Will Impact Abortion Laws in the US
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Washington Post, Towleroad and Politico
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)
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Washington Monthly, LawNewz, Washington Free Beacon, The Federalist and Mother Jones
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.
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NBC News:
Clinton Widens Lead Over Donald Trump in NBC Poll — Hillary Clinton now leads Donald Trump by 8 points, her highest advantage since the general election match-up question was first asked on May 2, according to the latest NBC News| SurveyMonkey Weekly Election Tracking Poll.
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Guardian, Political Wire and AOL
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Mark Murray / NBC News:
Poll: Majority of Republicans Prefer Someone Else to Trump
Poll: Majority of Republicans Prefer Someone Else to Trump
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Bloomberg:
North American Leaders Meet, With Brexit and Trump Clouding Ties — Obama, Trudeau and Pena Nieto hold summit Wednesday in Ottawa — U.K. vote, U.S. presidential race weigh on pro-trade agenda — The shadow of Brexit and rising protectionist sentiment loom large as U.S. President Barack Obama meets …
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Politico and Algemeiner.com
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.
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Atlanta Black Star, The Root, VSB and Deadline
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 …
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Brian Beutler / New Republic:
Why Are Anti-Trump Conservatives Hailing the Brexit?
Why Are Anti-Trump Conservatives Hailing the Brexit?
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Hullabaloo
Mark Hensch / The Hill:
Virginia man accused of threatening to shoot senators — A Virginia man is being held in jail after allegedly threatening to shoot at least two senators, according to a new report. — Kyler Schmitz is accused of tweeting the menacing remarks after the mass shooting in Orlando, Fla. …
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Paul Singer / USA Today:
House Democrats face ethics complaints for fundraising off sit-in — Corrections and clarifications: This story has been updated to clarify that Rep. Huffman's email included a link to sign up for information from his campaign, not a direct fundraising appeal.
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Political Insider blog and AOL
Sara Rathod / Mother Jones:
The ACLU Explains Why a Controversial New Immigration Program Is “a Recipe for Disaster” — In late 2014, as part of his executive actions on immigration, President Obama scrapped a controversial immigration enforcement program called Secure Communities. For years, advocates had argued …
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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
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Instapundit and Talking Points Memo
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.
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