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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 …
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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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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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Nick Gass / Politico:
Trump on Istanbul attack: ‘Will the world ever realize what is going on?’ — Reacting to the bombing at Istanbul's Ataturk airport that killed at least 28 people and injured 60 others, Donald Trump on Tuesday tweeted that the United States “must do everything possible” to prevent similar acts of terrorism in the United States.
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Reuters:
Explosions hit main airport in Istanbul, several wounded — Two explosions hit Istanbul's main international airport on Tuesday, wounding several people, a Turkish official said, in what appeared to be the latest in a string of attacks in Turkey's biggest city this year.
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Daily Mail:
BREAKING NEWS: 28 dead, 60 injured as three suicide bombers attack Istanbul airport with explosive …
BREAKING NEWS: 28 dead, 60 injured as three suicide bombers attack Istanbul airport with explosive …
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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
White House Blasts Benghazi Report As ‘In-Kind Contribution’ To RNC
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Select Committee on Benghazi, Democrats:
Democrats Issue Benghazi Report and Release Interview Transcripts
Democrats Issue Benghazi Report and Release Interview Transcripts
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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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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.
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Tierney Sneed / Talking Points Memo:
GOP Tries To Use Zika Bill To Undo Cemetery Confederate Flag Ban — House Republican lawmakers sought to reverse previously passed legislation restricting the display of the Confederate flag in federal cemeteries by slipping a provision stripping the legislation into a larger appropriations bill that included Zika funding.
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Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Senate Democrats block Zika agreement ahead of recess
Senate Democrats block Zika agreement ahead of recess
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Jennifer Haberkorn / Politico:
Democrats block Zika funding bill, blame GOP
Democrats block Zika funding bill, blame GOP
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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 …
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.
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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 …
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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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.
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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 …
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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.
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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.
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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 …
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.
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” …
Malia Zimmerman / Fox News:
Obama administration pressed to deport illegal immigrant ex-cons — More than 2,000 illegal immigrants were turned loose on American streets after serving prison sentences last year - often because their home countries refused to take them back - and many subsequently committed crimes including rape …
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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 …
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