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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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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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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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Julian Hattem / The Hill:
Feds ask for 27-month delay in release of Clinton staff emails — The Obama administration on Thursday asked a federal court to delay until October 2018 the release of 14,000 pages of emails from aides to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton — In a court filing on Wednesday …
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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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NBC News:
RNC Rules Fight Begins With Plan to Lock In Donald Trump
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New York Times:
Chris Christie Becomes Powerful Figure in Donald Trump Campaign
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Amita Kelly / NPR:
Biden: Bernie Sanders Is ‘Going To Endorse’ Hillary Clinton — Vice President Joe Biden is confident that Bernie Sanders is going to endorse Hillary Clinton and that the Democratic party will unify. — “Oh, I've talked to Bernie, Bernie's going to endorse her, this is going to work out …
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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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Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
Sanders: No, I'm Not Ready To Endorse Clinton Yet (VIDEO)
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Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Trump points to plane, says it could be Mexico ‘ready to attack’ — Presumptive GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump — on Thursday pointed to a plane flying above his event and said it could be a Mexican plane preparing to attack. — “That could be a Mexican plane up there …
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Nick Gass / Politico:
Woman at Trump event: ‘Get rid of all these hibijabis they wear at TSA’
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Jim Dalrymple II / BuzzFeed:
Trump Points Out Plane, Says It's Mexico “Getting Ready To Attack”
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Guardian
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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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.”
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Christina Wilkie / The Huffington Post:
Trump Responds To Supreme Court Abortion Ruling
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Wall Street Journal:
Apple in Talks to Acquire Jay Z's Tidal Music Service — Sources say talks are ongoing and may not result in a deal — Apple Inc. is in exploratory talks to acquire Tidal, a streaming-music service run by rap mogul Jay Z, according to people familiar with the matter.
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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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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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KTVU-TV:
94-year-old Richmond woman attacked & robbed of Obama issued commemorative coin — A 94-year-old woman was attacked in her Richmond home this week and police say the suspect robbed her of some items she can't replace. — “I fully expected he was going to kill me.
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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.
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.
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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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.
Palestinian Media Watch:
who killed 13-year-old girl in her sleep — Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik — This morning, a 17-year-old Palestinian terrorist stabbed and murdered a 13-year-old Israeli girl, Hallel Yaffa Ariel, while she slept in her bed. The Palestinian terrorist Muhammad Taraireh …
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