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Bloomberg:
Trump Campaign Lining Up Tyson and Ditka for Convention — Several sports personalities and musical entertainers have agreed to appear at this summer's convention. — kevcirilli — ESPN has nothing on this summer's Republican national convention. — Donald Trump's campaign aides …
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Ed O'Keefe / Washington Post:
Who will show up? Who will pay? The many unknowns of the GOP convention. — Dozens of well-known Republicans aren't showing up. There's no word yet on who will speak. A growing number of corporate sponsors are taking a pass. Groups of white supremacists and other agitators are on the way …
Sean Cockerham / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
White nationalist group says it will be at Republican convention
White nationalist group says it will be at Republican convention
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Joe.My.God., Addicting Info, Mediaite, Sacramento Bee, Jezebel and Talking Points Memo
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Anxiety mounts over GOP convention's security
Robin Wright / New Yorker:
Chris Stevens's Family: Don't Blame Hillary Clinton for Benghazi — On Tuesday, the House Select Committee on Benghazi, which is controlled by a Republican majority, charged the Obama Administration with diplomatic miscalculations, security failures, and a lengthy delay in rescue efforts …
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Donovan Slack / USA Today:
Exclusive: NRA to run $2 million Benghazi-themed ad campaign for Trump — The National Rifle Association's political arm is launching its first ad campaign of the 2016 presidential race, with a survivor of the terror attack in Benghazi urging viewers to vote for Donald Trump.
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Talking Points Memo, Mediaite, Raw Story, The Week and Bearing Arms
John Podhoretz / New York Post:
Benghazi lies were just standard procedure under Obama — MORE FROM: — The Benghazi report released Tuesday makes clear that one dreadful constant of President Obama's foreign policy is simply this: Deflect. Muddy the picture. Question the motivation.
Tal Kopan / CNN:
First on CNN: Poll shows Clinton with battleground leads — Elizabeth Warren joins Clinton to attack Donald Trump — Washington (CNN)Hillary Clinton leads Donald Trump across the board in a new poll of battleground states. — According to Ballotpedia's battleground poll, Clinton leads Trump:
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Political Wire and The Week
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Fairleigh Dickinson University:
Clinton Trumps Trump by Big Margin, But Johnson Hurts Clinton More than Trump — Hillary Clinton retains her lead in the 2016 presidential race among Garden State registered voters, but the inclusion of Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson hurts Clinton more than Trump.
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Politico
Patrick Svitek / The Texas Tribune:
UT Poll: Trump Leads Clinton by 8 in Texas
UT Poll: Trump Leads Clinton by 8 in Texas
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Real Clear Politics and Off the Kuff
Bill Scher / Politico:
The Left's Beef With Tim Kaine — Everyone assumes Senator Tim Kaine is Hillary Clinton's “safe” pick for vice president. He's geographically safe: hailing from the swing state of Virginia, where a Democratic governor can name his replacement. He's demographically safe: a white male Catholic who speaks fluent Spanish.
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Bernie Sanders / New York Times:
Democrats Need to Wake Up — Surprise, surprise. Workers in Britain, many of whom have seen a decline in their standard of living while the very rich in their country have become much richer, have turned their backs on the European Union and a globalized economy that is failing them and their children.
Harold Meyerson / American Prospect:
The First Post-Middle-Class Election — Two years ago, a pollster for Democratic candidates told me he'd begun advising his clients to cease emphasizing “the middle class” when speaking of those Americans whose interests they were defending. Many Americans who once thought of themselves as middle-class, he argued, no longer did.
James Traub / Foreign Policy:
It's Time for the Elites to Rise Up Against the Ignorant Masses — The Brexit has laid bare the political schism of our time. It's not about the left vs. the right; it's about the sane vs. the mindlessly angry. — I was born in 1954, and until now I would have said that the late 1960s …
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Joey Millar / Daily Express:
EU BACKLASH: Brexit ‘TSUNAMI’ expected as 34 referendums set to rock union
EU BACKLASH: Brexit ‘TSUNAMI’ expected as 34 referendums set to rock union
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Infowars
Marine Le Pen / New York Times:
After Brexit, the People's Spring Is Inevitable
After Brexit, the People's Spring Is Inevitable
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Foreign Policy and Vox Popoli
Matt Canham / Salt Lake Tribune:
Utah's Misty Snow makes history as Dems' transgender Senate nominee — Primary sets up contest with GOP's Lee in November. — Utah voters picked a historic, and largely unknown, Democratic candidate to challenge Sen. Mike Lee this November. — Misty K. Snow is the first transgender nominee …
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BuzzFeed, Joe.My.God., Guardian and Althouse
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CNN:
Istanbul airport explosions: 10 dead, Justice minister says — At least 10 people have been killed and 20 others injured in the attack at Istanbul's Ataturk Airport, Turkey's Justice Minister Bekir Bozdag told CNN. — The two suicide bombers were also killed.
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Constanze Letsch / Guardian:
Turkey airport attack: 28 killed in explosions at Istanbul Atatürk
Turkey airport attack: 28 killed in explosions at Istanbul Atatürk
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Shakesville and Agence France-Presse
The Hill:
EXCLUSIVE: Pro-Hillary group takes $200K in banned donations — has accepted $200,000 in donations from a company holding multiple contracts with the federal government — despite a ban on such contributions. — According to a review of contributions by The Hill, Boston-based Suffolk Construction …
Kristinn Taylor / The Gateway Pundit:
Hillary Clinton Tweets Pro-Trump Message: DONALD TRUMP KNOWS HOW TO CREATE MANUFACTURING JOBS — Democrat Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign posted a tweet Tuesday evening meant to attack GOP presidential rival Donald Trump but which actually praises Trump as a job creating businessman with international experience.
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Garrett Epps / The Atlantic:
What Is on Justice Anthony Kennedy's Mind? — Some years ago, Dahlia Lithwick and I christened Justice Anthony Kennedy “the Sphinx of Sacramento.” Throughout his nearly 30 years on the Supreme Court, Kennedy's mind has often seemed like a distant and mysterious country …
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Washington Monthly, ThinkProgress, Daily Kos and New York Magazine
Daily Mail:
‘Gosh, I suppose I better get up!’ SARAH VINE (aka Mrs Gove) reveals what her husband said when he learned Leave had won the referendum... and how PM's resignation was ‘absolutely’ not intended — The first I knew about the referendum result was at 4.45am last Friday when I was woken …
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New York Times, Coffee House and Guardian
Clive Crook / Bloomberg:
Will Brexit Actually Happen? — The Financial Times's Gideon Rachman says he thinks Brexit won't happen. The referendum result doesn't mean that much, he argues. … He goes on to say, “It is true the British case has some novel elements.” I think you call that ironic understatement.
ABC News:
Nate Silver Predicts Clinton Wins General Election Against Trump … “We're at halftime of the election right now,” Silver said. “She's taking a seven-point, maybe a ten-point lead into half time. There's a lot of football left to be played. She's ahead in almost every poll, every swing state, every national poll.”
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Business Insider and Political Wire
Hadas Gold / Politico:
Lewandowski loses $1.2 million book deal — Corey Lewandowski had a $1.2-million offer from HarperCollins to write a book chronicling his time running Donald Trump's presidential campaign, but the publishing giant backed away from the deal amid concerns about Lewandowski's nondisclosure agreement …
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Washington Post, BizPac Review, Mediaite, Joe.My.God. and Media Matters for America, more at Mediagazer »
Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Gun Control Wall, Bolstered by Republicans, Shows a Crack — WASHINGTON — A widely publicized sit-in by House Democrats. A bipartisan compromise proposal in the Senate. Neither is very likely to lead to any legislative action in Congress on gun safety this year.
Patrick McGreevy / Los Angeles Times:
Initiative to legalize recreational use of pot in California qualifies for November ballot — Different strains of pot are displayed for sale at a marijuana dispensary in Denver in 2013. (Brennan Linsley / Associated Press) — An initiative that would legalize the recreational use …
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Hit & Run, New York Times and FOX5 San Diego
Rick Berke / STAT:
Caitlyn Jenner talks transgender health care, teen suicide, and what doctors need to do better — Reality star Caitlyn Jenner says the “medical profession in general doesn't understand” transgender issues. — ASPEN, Colo. — Among the scores of big shot scientists, hospital presidents …
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The Daily Caller and Guardian