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Loretta Lynch to Accept F.B.I. Recommendations in Clinton Email Inquiry — WASHINGTON — Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch, conceding that her airport meeting with former President Bill Clinton this week had cast a shadow over a federal investigation of Hillary Clinton's personal email account …
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Chuck Ross / The Daily Caller:
EXCLUSIVE: Hillary Clinton Scheduled To Meet With FBI On Saturday — EXCLUSIVE: Hillary Clinton To Meet With The FBI On Saturday — Loretta Lynch Regrets Private Meeting With Bill Clinton — EXCLUSIVE: Was Bill Clinton Plea Bargaining With The Attorney General? — DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION |
Ken Kurson / The New York Observer:
EXCLUSIVE: Security Source Details Bill Clinton Maneuver to Meet Loretta Lynch — Former president delayed Phoenix takeoff to snare ‘20-25 minute encounter’ with Attorney General — An exclusive interview with a security source who was present at the unplanned meeting Monday night …
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Larry O'Connor / Hot Air:
Reporter: FBI ordered ‘no photos, no pictures, no cell phones’ during Clinton/Lynch meeting
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Louis Nelson / Politico:
Lynch regrets ‘shadow’ over Clinton email probe
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Wayne Carter / WREG-TV:
Disabled St. Jude patient sues airport and TSA after bloody scuffle with Airport Police — Bloodied and bruised Hannah Cohen was led from Memphis International Airport in handcuffs. — The 19-year old was headed home to Chattanooga after treatment for a brain tumor at St. Jude Hospital June 30, 2015.
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Travis Gettys / Raw Story:
Disabled woman beaten bloody by TSA agents after becoming confused and afraid at security checkpoint — DON'T MISS STORIES. FOLLOW RAW STORY! — A disabled woman was beaten bloody by federal agents during an airport security screening while on her way to undergo treatment for a brain tumor.
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New York Times:
More Upheaval on Donald Trump's Team as Two Staff Members Resign — Donald J. Trump's campaign experienced two more departures this week when two staff members who handled surrogate operations resigned, including one who was hired less than two weeks ago. — Kevin Kellems …
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Eli Stokols / Politico:
Trump pivots backward — DENVER — Donald Trump began July looking to turn the page on a June swoon that dulled his post-primary momentum and hurt his ability to unify a fractured Republican coalition. — He did so by talking mostly about his surprising victory in the GOP primary that ended in May.
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Nick Gass / Politico:
Palin rips Never Trump Republicans: ‘You are either with us or against us’
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Steven Shepard / Politico:
Insiders: Clinton dominates Trump on the ground
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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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Pema Levy / Mother Jones:
Trump Delegates: We're Bringing Guns to Cleveland — As the Republican convention in Cleveland approaches, several delegates from Pennsylvania who support Donald Trump say they are planning on bringing their guns with them to the GOP gathering. Why? They say they are worried …
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Louis Nelson / Politico:
Trump: I was asked to speak on all 3 convention nights
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Karen DeYoung / Washington Post:
White House releases its count of civilian deaths in counterterrorism operations under Obama — The United States has inadvertently killed between 64 and 116 non-combatant civilians in drone and other lethal attacks against terrorism suspects in places not considered active war zones, the Obama administration said Friday.
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New York Times:
U.S. Reveals Death Toll From Airstrikes Outside War Zones
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Spencer Ackerman / Guardian:
Obama claims US drones strikes have killed up to 116 civilians
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Hillary Clinton / The Toast:
A note on The Toast — This is not a joke. Hillary's team had talked to me a few weeks back about doing something, but I didn't want to do, like, a “If Hillary Were Your President” type thing, and then they got in touch on Wednesday and said she wanted to write something HERSELF …
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Doug Palmer / Politico:
Gingrich reverses course on trade as Trump VP chatter swirls — Former Speaker Newt Gingrich, under consideration as Donald Trump's running mate, is dropping his decades-long support of free trade deals and picking up Trump's strongly protectionist position.
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Ashley Feinberg / Gawker:
Rumor: Doctor Prescribes Donald Trump “Cheap Speed” — Back in December, Donald Trump's personal doctor declared to the world that Trump would be “the healthiest individual ever elected to the presidency.” While that particular claim is unfalsifiable (although almost certainly incorrect) …
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David Frum / The Atlantic:
The Lessons of the Somme — On this first day of July, exactly 100 years ago, the peoples of the British Empire suffered the greatest military disaster in their history. A century later, “the Somme” remains the most harrowing place-name in the annals not only of Great Britain …
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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.
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Welp, That's Weird. But of Course It Is — So Tim Watts is my new best friend in the Australian federal parliament. MP Tim Watts. Needless to say, we're pals now because he's getting bombarded by the Trump campaign asking for money to fight ‘Crooked Hillary’. Among other things, Tim's a Labor party member.
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Keith J. Kelly / New York Post:
People writer quits in most scorched-earth way possible — Longtime People writer Sara Hammel quit this week with a blistering resignation letter to editorial director Jess Cagle and other top editors. — “It's not me, it's you,” she wrote in the email blast on Monday.
Tessa Berenson / TIME:
Donald Trump to Turkish Reporter: ‘Are You Friend Or Foe?’ — Trump has been known to ask the question at rallies — Donald Trump often asks people if they are “friend or foe,” but on Friday that tendency drew controversy when he asked the question of a Turkish reporter asking a question.
Marc Racicot / Washington Post:
Americans can choose better than Trump — Marc Racicot is a former governor of Montana and former chairman of the Republican National Committee. — As our beloved country marks its 240th birthday, I'm not alone in feeling that we occupy a moment of great turmoil and testing as a nation.
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Beth Reinhard / Wall Street Journal:
Trump Campaign, RNC to Discuss Minority-Outreach Efforts — Call it the unofficial kickoff of Republican presumptive nominee Donald Trump's minority outreach campaign. — Dozens of members of the National Diversity Coalition, a group of Trump volunteers of different races …
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Michael McGrady / The College Fix:
UC Berkeley ‘income inequality’ experts earn more than $300,000 a year — REPORT: 'If UC Berkeley economists are really opposed to income inequality and are concerned about low-paid workers, they might consider sharing some of their compensation with the teaching assistants, graders …
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Callum Borchers / Washington Post:
Corey Lewandowski's first week on CNN was just as bad as everyone expected — A week isn't very long to learn a new job, so it's possible Corey Lewandowski will improve in his role as a CNN commentator. But so far, Donald Trump's recently fired campaign manager is just plain bad — and not only for the reasons many anticipated.
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Norbert Hofer / BBC:
Austria presidential poll result overturned — Austria's highest court has annulled the result of the presidential election narrowly lost by the candidate of the far-right Freedom Party. — The party had challenged the result, saying that postal votes had been illegally and improperly handled.
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Sarah Betancourt / Guardian:
Macy's banned from detaining and fining alleged shoplifters, judge rules — Two women sued New York flagship store for ‘civil recovery’ practice after being held in basement cells, forced to pay hefty fines and given criminal charges — When Samya Moftah walked into the Macy's flagship …
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