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11:20 PM ET, July 2, 2016

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Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:

The FBI interviewed Hillary Clinton today. The next two weeks will be huge. — The FBI interviewed Hillary Clinton for three hours on Saturday, the presumed final step of its investigation into whether the former secretary of state or any of her top aides exposed government secrets due …

Ryan Lizza / New Yorker:

Bill Clinton's Bad Judgment — June should have been the month in which Hillary Clinton solidified her control over the Presidential race. She finally vanquished Bernie Sanders, who, if a few hundred Iowans had changed their minds and a few other things had broken his way, could have ended up as the Democratic nominee.

Discussion: Hot Air, CNN, neo-neocon, The Atlantic, Washington Monthly, Washington Post, Business Insider, Vox and New York Times

Amy Chozick / New York Times:
F.B.I. Interviews Hillary Clinton Over Private Email Server

Discussion: John Hawkins' Right Wing News, Washington Post and Hot Air

CBS News:
Hillary Clinton interviewed by FBI on email server

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Harper Neidig / The Hill:
Clinton interviewed by FBI as part of email server investigation

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Matt Zapotosky / Washington Post:
FBI interviews Hillary Clinton for more than 3 hours in email probe

Discussion: Outside the Beltway

Dan Balz / Washington Post:
How everyone looks bad because Bill Clinton met with Loretta Lynch

Discussion: Foreign Policy, Politico and The Hill

Dean Schabner / ABC News:
Clinton Questioned by FBI for 3-Plus Hours About Emails

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Anita Kumar / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Indicted or not indicted, Clinton could lose politically

Discussion: Infowars, Business Insider and The Daily Caller

Charles Gasparino / New York Post:
Hillary Clinton's FBI interview to happen ‘very soon’

Discussion: RedState

Haaretz:

Elie Wiesel, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and renowned Holocaust survivor, dies at 87 — Author and human rights activist made perpetuating the memory of the Shoah his life's work. — By — Zen Subscribe now — Newly unearthed version of Elie Wiesel's seminal work is a scathing indictment of God, Jewish world

Discussion: WAVY-TV, RedState, Raw Story, Pamela Geller, Tablet Magazine, CBS Baltimore and WCMH-TV

Joseph Berger / New York Times:

Elie Wiesel, Auschwitz Survivor and Nobel Peace Prize Winner, Dies at 87 — Elie Wiesel, the Auschwitz survivor who became an eloquent witness for the six million Jews slaughtered in World War II and who, more than anyone, seared the memory of the Holocaust on the world's conscience, died on Saturday at his home in Manhattan.

Discussion: Mediaite, Breitbart, Politico, CBS New York, No More Mister Nice Blog, Jezebel and New York Magazine

Jerusalem Post:
Nobel Prize winner and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel dies at 87

Discussion: Outside the Beltway

Daily Mail:

Three American students among 20 people hacked to death in Bangladesh by ISIS terrorists - who only spared those who could recite the Koran - before armored troops moved in — Abinta Kabir, a student at Emory University who was originally from Miami, Florida, named among those killed

Discussion: RedState, Pamela Geller, The Last Refuge, Weasel Zippers, The Last Tradition and The Daily Star

Daily Mail:
Pictured: The grinning ISIS terrorists who hacked 20 innocent victims including westerners …

Discussion: Walid Shoebat and Power Line

Associated Press:
20 Hostages Killed, 13 Saved in Bangladesh Jihad Attack

Discussion: New York Times, Jihad Watch, Outside the Beltway, Hot Air, Associated Press, Guardian, The Week and Mashable

Ben Jacobs / Guardian:

SEC document shows Trump was worth less than half of $10bn claim in 2012 — On the 2016 campaign trail, Donald Trump has insisted that he is worth more than $10bn. However, a statement filed to the Securities and Exchange Commission by Wells Fargo Securities on Trump's behalf in 2012 indicated …

Discussion: Addicting Info, Politico and Talking Points Memo

Robert Costa / Washington Post:

Trump has ‘warm’ meeting with Indiana governor, as Veep speculation swirls — Donald Trump and Indiana Gov. Mike Pence had a private meeting Saturday morning at Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, N.J., that served as an informal way for the presumptive Republican presidential nominee …

Discussion: Washington Monthly and The Last Refuge

Kristen East / Politico:
Biden to Gingrich: ‘Gonna do it?’

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Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Donald Trump Expected to Announce Running Mate Before Convention

Discussion: No More Mister Nice Blog, The Hill, Politicus USA, AOL, NBC News and Jezebel

Jim Newell / Slate:

Trump Campaign Departures Suggest That Perhaps This Is a Highly Dysfunctional Enterprise — Every so often, the Trump campaign blasts out a new mass email about hires it's made to flesh out its infrastructure beyond Trump and a few goons. Around the same time these emails go out …

Discussion: New York Times

New York Times:

Inside the Six Weeks Donald Trump Was a Nonstop ‘Birther’ — Joseph Farah, a 61-year-old author, had long labored on the fringes of political life, publishing a six-part series claiming that soybeans caused homosexuality and fretting that “cultural Marxists” were plotting to destroy the country.

Discussion: Booman Tribune

Timothy Egan / New York Times:

We're Better Than That — More than a century ago, in the first attempts to shape the face of a nation open to people from all nations, the United States banned convicts, prostitutes and Chinese laborers from landing on our shores. Later, “idiots” were added to the list of forbidden immigrants.

Holman W. Jenkins, Jr / Wall Street Journal:

Trump's Would Be No Ordinary Defeat — How would Donald behave if he decides he can't win and won't throw good money after bad? — Opinion Journal Video — Business World Columnist Holman Jenkins on the threat the presumptive presidential nominee poses to the Republican Party's future.

The XX Committee:

The Kremlin Admits Snowden is a Russian Agent — In the three years since Edward Snowden landed in Moscow, his relationship with his hosts has been a source of much speculation and controversy. The American IT contractor, who worked for the CIA and NSA until he fled Hawaii …

Charles Ashby / Daily Sentinel:

Delta County chairwoman of GOP resigns — 'There's no room for racism, intended or not, in society' — The chairwoman of the Delta County Republican Party has resigned. — Linda Sorenson, who had been embattled recently over sharing a racist meme on her Facebook page …

Discussion: Raw Story and Guardian

Tim Gray / Variety:

Michael Cimino, ‘Deer Hunter’ and 'Heaven's Gate' Director, Dies at 77 — Michael Cimino, who won Oscars as director and a producer of “The Deer Hunter” before “Heaven's Gate” destroyed his career and sped up the demise of 60-year-old United Artists, has died. He was believed to be 77.

Discussion: Guardian, Lawyers, Guns & Money, Mashable, Full Feed and Althouse