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10:50 AM ET, June 29, 2016

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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:
Discussion: 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
Discussion: Politico
Kristinn Taylor / The Gateway Pundit:   Hillary Clinton Tweets for Trump=> “DONALD TRUMP KNOWS HOW TO CREATE MANUFACTURING JOBS”
Alan Rappeport / New York Times:
Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump Are Deadlocked, Poll Shows
Discussion: Jezebel and The Week
Edward-Isaac Dovere / Politico:
How Obama will campaign for Clinton
Discussion: The Week
Patrick Svitek / The Texas Tribune:
UT Poll: Trump Leads Clinton by 8 in Texas
Ali Vitali / NBC News:
Donald Trump on Terror: You Have to ‘Fight Fire With Fire’
Discussion: Daily Kos and The Week
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.
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.
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 …
Kyle Cheney / Politico:   Anxiety mounts over GOP convention's security
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 …
Discussion: Washington Monthly
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Joey Millar / Daily Express:
EU BACKLASH: Brexit ‘TSUNAMI’ expected as 34 referendums set to rock union
Discussion: Infowars
Marine Le Pen / New York Times:
After Brexit, the People's Spring Is Inevitable
Discussion: 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 …
Discussion: BuzzFeed, Joe.My.God., Guardian and Althouse
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Louis Nelson / Politico:
Two transgender candidates named ‘Misty’ win primaries
Discussion: AOL and The Week
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 …
Discussion: RedState, Hot Air, LawNewz and The Week
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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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.”
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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Adam Mosseri / Facebook:
Building a Better News Feed for You  —  The goal of News Feed is to show people the stories that are most relevant to them.  Today, we're announcing an update to News Feed that helps you see more posts from your friends and family.  We explain this change in more detail here.
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 …
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 …
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.
 
 
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Rick Berke / STAT:
Caitlyn Jenner talks transgender health care, teen suicide, and what doctors need to do better
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Guardian
Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Gun Control Wall, Bolstered by Republicans, Shows a Crack
Alexis Levinson / National Review:
Darryl Glenn Might Break Out in Today's Colorado Senate Primary
Discussion: RedState, Associated Press and NPR
Jeet Heer / New Republic:
Conservatives Have Groomed the Perfect Suckers for Trump's Epic Scam
Samuel Gibbs / Guardian:
Chatbot lawyer overturns 160,000 parking tickets in London and New York
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Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
Rolling Stone wins dismissal of defamation lawsuit over rape article
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Hot Air
Steven Shepard / Politico:
Are the polls skewed against Trump?
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