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1:30 AM ET, June 29, 2016

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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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Louis Nelson / Politico:
RNC unveils dramatic Trump convention stage  —  The set that will host Donald Trump's acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland will feature a massive video board and twin white staircases leading up to the stage.  —  The 1,711 square foot video board …
Discussion: ABC News
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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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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Sara Jerde / Talking Points Memo:
White House Blasts Benghazi Report As ‘In-Kind Contribution’ To RNC
Discussion: Associated Press
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 …
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.
Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Senate Democrats block Zika agreement ahead of recess  —  Senate Democrats on Tuesday blocked a deal providing funding for the fight against the Zika virus, virtually guaranteeing that Congress won't get legislation to President Obama's desk this month.  —  In a 52-48 vote …
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Tierney Sneed / Talking Points Memo:
GOP Tries To Use Zika Bill To Undo Cemetery Confederate Flag Ban
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
Jim Morrill / The Charlotte Observer:
NC House leadership drafts HB2 changes amid pressure from NBA  —  Among the draft bill's biggest changes is the creation of an official document that would recognize a person's gender reassignment  —  Proposal could help the league keep the All-Star Game in Charlotte  —  RALEIGH
Discussion: Vox and WNCN
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Zack Ford / ThinkProgress:
If This Is How North Carolina Republicans Think HB2 Can Be Fixed, They're Wrong
Discussion: Business Insider
Ashley May / USA Today:
After son with Down Syndrome isn't invited to birthday party, mom writes letter … When Jennifer Kiss-Engele found out that her son with Down Syndrome was excluded from a classmate's birthday party, she wrote an open letter on Facebook.  —  Kiss-Engele, of British Columbia …
Discussion: AOL, KFOR-TV and Mashable
Michelle Ye Hee Lee / Washington Post:
Why Donald Trump calls Elizabeth Warren ‘Pocahontas’  —  “Crooked Hillary is wheeling out one of the least productive senators in the U.S. Senate, goofy Elizabeth Warren, who lied on heritage.”  —  “Pocahontas is not happy, she's not happy.  She's the worst.
Fusion:
Why is Team Trump asking liberal Scottish politicians for donations?  —  In recent days, as the U.K. pondered its future in the European Union and presumptive GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump waded in with a press conference on his Scottish golf course, the Scottish National Party's 54 members …
Discussion: Scotsman, Daily Kos, Raw Story and RedState
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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Roger Cohen / New York Times:
Britain to Leave Europe for a Lie
Discussion: Hit & Run, Reason and Guardian
Griff Witte / Washington Post:
British Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn loses no-confidence vote as political turmoil deepens  —  LONDON — Britain's political turmoil deepened Tuesday, with members of the opposition Labour Party rebelling against their leader in a no-confidence vote while the governing Conservatives started …
Steven Shepard / Politico:
Are the polls skewed against Trump?  —  Is there a pool of voters who are too embarrassed to admit to pollsters they're voting for Donald Trump?  —  As Trump consistently lags Hillary Clinton in general-election polls, his campaign is counting on it.  —  The notion of the “shy Trump voter” …
Virginia Postrel / Bloomberg:
California Hits the Brakes on High-Speed Rail Fiasco  —  California's high-speed rail project increasingly looks like an expensive social science experiment to test just how long interest groups can keep money flowing to a doomed endeavor before elected officials finally decide to cancel it.
Discussion: Hit & Run
Christopher C. Cuomo / Page Six:
Chris Cuomo was in ‘full-blown drag race’ before car crash  —  :0  —  But a friend of the anchor insisted Cuomo never actually...  CNN anchor Chris Cuomo was boozing at his wife's swanky magazine party in Southampton before he crashed his classic convertible into a parked SUV during a drag race, sources told The Post.
Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
Rolling Stone wins dismissal of defamation lawsuit over rape article  —  A federal judge on Tuesday dismissed a lawsuit by three former University of Virginia fraternity members who accused Rolling Stone magazine, its publisher Wenner Media and a journalist of defamation over a since retracted article describing a gang rape.
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Hot Air
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.
Greg Stohr / Bloomberg:
U.S. Supreme Court Won't Reopen Union-Fees Case, Leaves Deadlock  —  The U.S. Supreme Court refused to reopen a case over public-sector workers' obligation to help fund the union that represents them, leaving intact a 4-4 deadlock.  —  The court on March 29 announced the deadlock …
 
 
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Darren Samuelsohn / Politico:
Trump's secret data reversal
Discussion: Hot Air
Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
Hillary Clinton's email story continues to get harder and harder to believe
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Peter Blumberg / Bloomberg:
X sues to block California's AB 2655, aimed at curbing AI-generated deceptive election content on social media, claiming it impinges on free speech

John Koblin / New York Times:
NBC names Craig Melvin as Hoda Kotb's successor on Today, teaming up with Savannah Guthrie, starting January 13; Melvin has been Today's news anchor since 2018

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