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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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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.
CNN:
Loretta Lynch on Clinton meeting: 'I certainly wouldn't do it again' — (CNN)Attorney General Loretta Lynch will accept the determinations and findings of the FBI and career prosecutors who are investigating Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server while she was secretary of state, Lynch said Friday.
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Bloomberg:
Lynch Said to Stop Short of Recusing Herself on Clinton E-Mails — Toluse Olorunnipa, Chris Strohm and Mark Halperin — U.S. Attorney General said likely to follow prosecutor advice — Lynch's meeting with Bill Clinton sparked Republican rebukes — Attorney General Loretta Lynch …
Kevin Johnson / USA Today:
Loretta Lynch, Bill Clinton meeting raises eyebrows
Loretta Lynch, Bill Clinton meeting raises eyebrows
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Fox News:
Under fire after secret meeting, Lynch to step back from Clinton probe
Under fire after secret meeting, Lynch to step back from Clinton probe
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Richard Pollock / The Daily Caller:
EXCLUSIVE: Was Bill Clinton Plea Bargaining With The Attorney General?
EXCLUSIVE: Was Bill Clinton Plea Bargaining With The Attorney General?
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Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
Russia Released Hacked Hillary Emails in 2013 …
Russia Released Hacked Hillary Emails in 2013 …
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Michael Falcone / ABC News:
The Note: Clinton-Lynch Meeting Reverberates
The Note: Clinton-Lynch Meeting Reverberates
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Julian Hattem / The Hill:
Feds ask for 27-month delay in release of Clinton staff emails
Feds ask for 27-month delay in release of Clinton staff emails
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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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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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Louis Nelson / Politico:
Trump: I was asked to speak on all 3 convention nights
Trump: I was asked to speak on all 3 convention nights
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Steven Shepard / Politico:
Insiders: Clinton dominates Trump on the ground
Insiders: Clinton dominates Trump on the ground
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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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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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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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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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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.
Emmanuel Saez / Equitable Growth:
U.S. top one percent of income earners hit new high in 2015 amid strong economic growth — The top 1 percent income earners in the United States hit a new high last year, according to the latest data from the U.S. Internal Revenue Service. The bottom 99 percent of income earners registered …
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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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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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Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
Sanders: No, I'm Not Ready To Endorse Clinton Yet (VIDEO)
Sanders: No, I'm Not Ready To Endorse Clinton Yet (VIDEO)
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Sarah Ferris / The Hill:
Dems: GOP's Planned Parenthood probe could exceed $1M — House Republicans are seeking nearly $500,000 to expand their investigation into Planned Parenthood, according to Democrats on the House Administration Committee. — With that new money, the GOP-led investigative panel would cost …
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New York Daily News:
Major League Baseball must permanently retire ‘God Bless America,’ a song that offends everyone — It's time for God to stop blessing America during the seventh-inning stretch. — Welcome to the July 4 holiday weekend — when once again, baseball fans will be assaulted by the saccharine-sweet non-anthem …
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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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Media Matters for America
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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Dana Blanton / Fox News:
Fox News Poll: Fewer Americans feeling proud — The number of Americans proud of their country has dropped significantly in the last five years, according to the latest Fox News Poll. — Pride is down 19 percentage points: 69 percent of voters were proud of America in 2011. It's 50 percent today.
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Never Trump is never happening at the RNC — Anti-Trump activists plotting a coup at the national convention in Cleveland this month more likely face a drubbing of their own. — Any attempt to block Trump would begin in the convention's rules committee, an 112-member panel of delegates …
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