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Matt Apuzzo / New York Times:
Lynch to Accept F.B.I. Recommendations in Clinton Email Inquiry, Official Says — Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch plans to announce on Friday that she will accept whatever recommendation career prosecutors and the F.B.I. director make about whether to bring charges related …
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Richard Pollock / The Daily Caller:
EXCLUSIVE: State Department Won't Release Clinton Foundation Emails for 27 Months — Department of Justice officials filed a motion in federal court late Wednesday seeking a 27-month delay in producing correspondence between former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's four top aides …
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Larry O'Connor / Hot Air:
Reporter: FBI ordered ‘no photos, no pictures, no cell phones’ during Clinton/Lynch meeting — Reporter Christopher Sign of ABC 15 in Phoenix, AZ appeared on The O'Reilly Factor Thursday night to talk about his scoop involving that secret meeting between former President Bill Clinton and Attorney General Loretta Lynch.
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Kevin Johnson / USA Today:
Loretta Lynch, Bill Clinton meeting raises eyebrows — WASHINGTON — Attorney General Loretta Lynch faced continuing questions Thursday related to an awkward encounter with former president Bill Clinton after the two crossed paths Monday at Phoenix's Sky Harbor International Airport.
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Michael Falcone / ABC News:
The Note: Clinton-Lynch Meeting Reverberates
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Fox News:
Under fire after secret meeting, Lynch to step back from Clinton probe
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Julian Hattem / The Hill:
Feds ask for 27-month delay in release of Clinton staff emails
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Jesse Byrnes / The Hill:
Lynch meeting with Bill Clinton creates firestorm for email case
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Washington Post:
Gingrich, Christie are the leading candidates to be Trump's running mate — Donald Trump's campaign has begun formally vetting possible running mates, with former House speaker Newt Gingrich emerging as the leading candidate followed by New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie.
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New York Times:
Unpredictability Is Hallmark of Convention to Crown Donald Trump — With just more than two weeks until the Republican National Convention opens in Cleveland, Donald J. Trump's preparations for what is usually a polished and highly choreographed affair are looking a lot like his campaign itself: chaotic, freewheeling and unpredictable.
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New York Times:
Chris Christie Becomes Powerful Figure in Donald Trump Campaign
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Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
Author Gay Talese disavows his latest book amid credibility questions — In his forthcoming book, “The Voyeur's Motel,” acclaimed journalist and nonfiction author Gay Talese chronicles the bizarre story of Gerald Foos, who allegedly spied on guests at his Colorado motel from the late 1960s to the mid-1990s.
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David A. Fahrenthold / Washington Post:
Donald Trump used money donated for charity to buy himself a Tim Tebow-signed football helmet — Did Donald Trump violate IRS rules, by using a charity's money to buy himself a signed football helmet? — Four years ago, at a charity fundraiser in Palm Beach, Donald Trump got into a bidding war at the evening's live auction.
Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
Sanders: No, I'm Not Ready To Endorse Clinton Yet (VIDEO) — After Vice President Joe Biden on Thursday said he was confident that Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) will endorse Hillary Clinton, the Vermont senator insisted that he is still not ready to back the presumptive Democratic nominee.
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Amita Kelly / NPR:
Biden: Bernie Sanders Is ‘Going To Endorse’ Hillary Clinton
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Andrew Prokop / Vox:
Biden: I've talked with Bernie Sanders, and he's going to endorse Hillary Clinton
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Francis Wilkinson / Bloomberg:
Paul Ryan Among the Ruins — Paul Ryan is a sunny politician in a party devoted to spreading gloom. But as Republicans slouch toward Cleveland, even he must be having dark moments. — As the highest-ranking official in his party, he will oversee the Republican National Convention …
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Magdalena Guillen / AOL:
RYAN CAVES: House speaker tells GOP he will allow vote on gun measure, source says
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Lindsey McPherson / Roll Call:
House Plans Vote on Guns Next Week
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Gordon Rayner / Telegraph:
How Boris Johnson was brought to his knees by the ‘cuckoo nest plot’ — Sir Lynton Crosby, Boris Johnson's campaign manager, was making final preparations for the formal announcement of Mr Johnson's Tory leadership bid when his phone rang at 8.53 on Thursday morning.
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Guardian
Jared Yates Sexton / New York Times:
Is the Trump Campaign Just a Giant Safe Space for the Right? — Statesboro, Ga. — DEPENDING on whom you ask, political correctness is either an effort to expunge offensive expression from our culture, or it's a weapon fashioned by the left to brainwash the next generation.
Neely Tucker / Washington Post:
U.S. District Judge strikes down Mississippi's ‘religious freedom’ law — JACKSON, Miss. — U.S. District Judge Carlton W. Reeves late Thursday night issued an injunction blocking a bill by the Mississippi legislature that would have allowed private citizens and some public officials professing a …
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Joe.My.God. and Althouse
Phil Plait / Slate:
The GOP's Denial of Science Primed Them for the Illogic of Trump — Part of the problem with being a vocal advocate for critical thinking is deciding just which facet of nonsense to spend time fighting. The forces of anti-reality present a huge number of fronts, making triage a necessity.
Michael Levenson / BostonGlobe.com:
Trump's conspiracy theories find an audience — Sometimes, Donald Trump sounds as though he is just passing on information, as he did after Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia died. “They say they found a pillow on his face,” Trump told a radio interviewer, “which is a pretty unusual place to find a pillow.”
Kenneth R. Timmerman / The Hill:
Dems circle wagons of lies around Hillary after Benghazi report — House Democrats have gone into full damage control mode over the just-released draft report from the Select Committee on Benghazi with the goal of circling the wagons around their presumptive presidential nominee and of fortifying …
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Richard Gallagher / Washington Post:
As a psychiatrist, I diagnose mental illness. And, sometimes, demonic possession. — How a scientist learned to work with exorcists. — In the late 1980s, I was introduced to a self-styled Satanic high priestess. She called herself a witch and dressed the part, with flowing dark clothes …
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Raw Story
Michael Bastasch / The Daily Caller:
Senator: Navy Evaluates Commanders Based On Climate Change Views — Rhode Island Democratic Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse recently told people gathered in New York City that global warming “denial” hurts U.S. soldiers in the field and that the “main problem” with the military is its reluctance to join the climate crusade.
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The Gateway Pundit, John Hawkins' Right Wing News, Climate Depot and Weasel Zippers
Justin Fenton / Baltimore Sun:
Conviction vacated, new trial granted for Adnan Syed of “Serial” … A Baltimore judge has vacated the murder conviction of Adnan Syed, the subject of the popular “Serial” podcast that explored his case, and granted his request for a new trial. — The order from retired Judge Martin Welch …
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