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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 …
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NBC News:
Benghazi Panel Finds Blunders, No New Blame for Clinton — Benghazi fallout: Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin faces questions 3:17 — A long-awaited report on the 2012 terrorist attack in Benghazi details an array of bureaucratic miscues and inter-agency blunders but does not blame Hillary Clinton …
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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 …
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Patterico's Pontifications
Rachael Bade / Politico:
Final Benghazi report details administration failures — After more than two years, Republicans delivered a final Benghazi Committee report that ripped the Obama administration's handling of the 2012 terrorist attack — but Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign dismissed the findings as “discredited” conspiracy theories.
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Rachael Bade / Politico:
Report: Mills' influence tainted review board
Report: Mills' influence tainted review board
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Hot Air, Washington Post, Washington Times and The Hill
Stephen Collinson / CNN:
Benghazi report: Clinton should have realized risks
Benghazi report: Clinton should have realized risks
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Hot Air, Washington Post, The Daily Caller, Mediaite, Politico, WTVR-TV and RedState
Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
GOP Benghazi report charges Obama-Clinton did nothing to save lives
GOP Benghazi report charges Obama-Clinton did nothing to save lives
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Hot Air, The Gateway Pundit, Select Committee on Benghazi and Mediaite
D.W. Wilber / The Hill:
Clinton can't escape Benghazi responsibility
Clinton can't escape Benghazi responsibility
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Politico, Washington Times, Pamela Geller, Jihad Watch and Media Matters for America
Cortney O'Brien / Townhall.com:
Revealed: State Dept Was Debating ‘Appropriate Attire’ While Compound Was Burning
Revealed: State Dept Was Debating ‘Appropriate Attire’ While Compound Was Burning
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The Jawa Report
Martha Raddatz / ABC News:
Benghazi Committee Releases Final Report
Benghazi Committee Releases Final Report
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Politico, Washington Free Beacon, Media Matters for America, The Week and Associated Press
CNN:
EU chief to Brexiter Nigel Farage: ‘Why are you here?’ — Go here to follow CNN's Brexit coverage live. — London (CNN)One of the architects of Britain's seismic decision to leave the European Union was met with boos and turned backs at a special meeting of the EU Parliament called to address the crisis Tuesday.
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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
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.
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Katherine Faulders / ABC News:
Latest Tweak in Donald Trump's Proposed Muslim Ban Raises More Questions
Latest Tweak in Donald Trump's Proposed Muslim Ban Raises More Questions
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Politico
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.
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Talking Points Memo, alan.com, LawNewz and Jezebel
Marine Corps Times:
The Marines will remove the word ‘man’ from these 19 job titles — Thousands of Marines serving throughout the infantry and in other key positions are about to get new gender-neutral job titles, but the service's top leaders are pushing to leave the word “man” in some of its most iconic occupations.
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Talking Points Memo, Outside the Beltway, Washington Free Beacon and BizPac Review
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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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Business Insider, BizPac Review, Raw Story and Politico
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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)
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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Politico:
Full transcript: Donald Trump's jobs plan speech — Remarks as prepared for delivery: — Declaring America's Economic Independence — Story Continued Below — It is great to be here. I'd like to thank Alumisource and all the amazing workers here for hosting us.
Ilana E. Strauss / The Atlantic:
Would a Work-Free World Be So Bad? — People have speculated for centuries about a future without work, and today is no different, with academics, writers, and activists once again warning that technology is replacing human workers. Some imagine that the coming work-free world will be defined …
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Althouse
Emily Wagster Pettus / Associated Press:
Judge: Mississippi law creates inequality for gay marriage — JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi clerks cannot cite their own religious beliefs to recuse themselves from issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples, under a ruling a federal judge handed down Monday.
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Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
Hillary Clinton's email story continues to get harder and harder to believe — On Monday night, the Associated Press published a piece noting the release of an additional 165 pages of emails Hillary Clinton sent from her private email address while serving as secretary of state.
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Political Wire
Jennifer Haberkorn / Politico:
Democrats block Zika funding bill, blame GOP — 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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Washington Monthly, Chestnut Hill-Mt. Airy … and Wonkette
Kate Zernike / New York Times:
For Detroit's Children, More School Choice but Not Better Schools — DETROIT — On the face of it, Ana Rivera could have had almost any choice when it came to educating her two sons. For all the abandoned buildings and burned-down houses in her neighborhood in the southwest part of this city …
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Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Eduwonk and Diane Ravitch's blog
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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Wbastone / The Smoking Gun:
Hack Yields Clinton Campaign E-Mail, Records — Breach of Gmail account was part of a broader cyberattack — The broad spear phishing campaign targeting the e-mail accounts of Hillary Clinton campaign officials has yielded hackers a wide assortment of internal memos and other communications …