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Kevin Durant / The Players' Tribune:
My Next Chapter  —  PHOTOS BY JED JACOBSOHN/THE PLAYERS' TRIBUNE  —  This has been by far the most challenging few weeks in my professional life.  I understood cognitively that I was facing a crossroads in my evolution as a player and as a man, and that it came with exceptionally difficult choices.
Kyle Balluck / The Hill:
Trump slams ‘false attacks’ by Clinton over tweet  —  late Monday blasted “false attacks” by Hillary Clinton  —  's campaign over his use of a six-pointed star in a tweet, saying Clinton is trying to divert attention away from “dishonest behavior.”  —  “These false attacks by Hillary Clinton trying …
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Kristin Salaky / Talking Points Memo:
Trump Denies That Controversial Tweet Was Anti-Semitic
Discussion: Liberal Values and alan.com
Kyle Balluck / The Hill:
Trump adviser: ‘Never any intention of anti-Semitism’ in tweet
Daniel Halper / New York Post:
Huma Abedin admits that Clinton burned daily schedules  —  More On:  —  Hillary Clinton's closest aide revealed in a deposition last week that her boss destroyed at least some of her schedules as secretary of state — a revelation that could complicate matters for the presumptive Democratic nominee …
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Tim Devaney / The Hill:
Report: Top aide said Clinton destroyed State Dept. schedules  —  's top aide said during a deposition that the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee destroyed her schedules as the head of the State Department, according to a new report.  —  Huma Abedin revealed the information …
Daily Mail:
'He grabbed me, then touched my genitals.  Girls were crying everywhere': 17-year-old tells of horror after mob of ‘foreign youths’ sexually assault 35 females as young as 12 at Swedish music festival  —  A 17-year-old has told of her ordeal after a mob of ‘foreign youths’ sexually assaulted dozens …
Kurt Schlichter / Townhall.com:
You Owe Them Nothing - Not Respect, Not Loyalty, Not Obedience  —  Sometimes in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another.  It is high time to declare our personal independence from any remnant …
Sam Reisman / Mediaite:
Flustered Trump Supporter Loses His Mind on CNN Panel Trying to Defend Anti-Semitic Image  —  Michael Caputo had a rough go of it on CNN Monday morning trying to defend his candidate's use of a neo-Nazi-sourced image on Twitter.  —  Caputo, a former Trump campaign advisor, claimed that the campaign had nothing to apologize for.
Discussion: Raw Story
John C Wright / John C. Wright's Journal:
Supreme Court Holds Constitution to be Unconstitutional … The High Court ruled on WHOLE WOMAN'S HEALTH v. HELLERSTEDT, 136 S. Ct.  1001 (2016).  In his dissenting opinion, Justice Thomas points out that the Supreme Court, has, in effect, overthrown the body of the constitution and ignored the limitations of the rule of law.
Discussion: Vox Popoli
USA Today:
USA TODAY/Suffolk Poll: Clinton's lead over Trump narrows to 5 points  —  Democrat Hillary Clinton's lead over Republican Donald Trump has narrowed to five percentage points, a new USA TODAY/Suffolk University Poll finds, in a groundbreaking presidential election that is sparking feelings of alarm for most voters.
BBC:
Medina explosion: Saudi city ‘hit by suicide bomber’  —  A suicide bomber has attacked the Saudi city of Medina, close to the Prophet's Mosque, one of Islam's holiest sites, according to local media reports.  —  The bomber detonated his device as security officers were breaking their Ramadan fast, al-Arabiya TV said.
Discussion: The Week and The Gateway Pundit
New York Times:
The Quiet Fixer in Donald Trump's Campaign?  His Son-in-Law, Jared Kushner  —  International diplomacy is a world of careful rituals, hierarchy and credentials.  But when the Israeli ambassador to the United States, Ron Dermer, wanted to communicate with Donald J. Trump …
Robert G. Parkinson / New York Times:
Did a Fear of Slave Revolts Drive American Independence?  —  Binghamton, N.Y. — FOR more than two centuries, we have been reading the Declaration of Independence wrong.  Or rather, we've been celebrating the Declaration as people in the 19th and 20th centuries have told us we should …
Clare Foran / The Atlantic:
American Secessionists Dream of Declaring Independence  —  Secessionists across the United States are taking heart.  The United Kingdom's historic vote to leave the European Union last month has sparked interest in the far-fetched idea that U.S. states might win independence from Washington …
Discussion: Raw Story
Local News from Sarasota Herald-Tribune:
GoFundMe site created for family of boy accidentally killed at gun range  —  PHOTO OF www.gofundme.com/stephenbrumby  —  SARASOTA - UPDATE: A memorial fund has been set up to help the family of a boy who was accidentally shot and killed Sunday at a gun range.
Discussion: New York Post and Raw Story
Barbie Latza Nadeau / The Daily Beast:
Vatican Priests & Nuns Are Drowning In Wine  —  The Vatican has the highest per capita consumption of wine and it has nothing to do with holy mass.  —  VATICAN CITY — Last month, Pope Francis told a little story during his weekly Catechism lesson about Jesus's first miracle at the wedding feast of Cana …
Discussion: FT Alphaville
Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Donald Trump to Meet With Senator Joni Ernst, a Possible Running Mate  —  Donald J. Trump said on Twitter on Monday that he would meet in New Jersey with Senator Joni Ernst, Republican of Iowa, as he screens potential running mates in a series of meetings.
New York Times:
After Slaughter, Bangladesh Reels at Revelations About Attackers  —  DHAKA, Bangladesh — Bangladesh's capital city reeled in shock on Sunday as clues began to flood social media about the privileged backgrounds of the half-dozen attackers believed to have butchered 20 patrons of a restaurant during a bloody siege here late last week.
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Hullabaloo
Craig Gilbert / Des Moines Register:
Priebus: Republicans need to unite ‘more than ever’  —  WASHINGTON — As the head of a party turned upside down by its nominating fight, Reince Priebus says Republicans need “more than ever” to have a unifying convention this month.  —  “Given the drama that we've had ... I think now …
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Peter W. Stevenson / Washington Post:
Republicans' many tortured excuses for not going to their Donald Trump-led convention
Discussion: Raw Story
Paul Krugman / The New York Review of Books:
Money: The Brave New Uncertainty of Mervyn King  —  The End of Alchemy: Money, Banking, and the Future of the Global Economy  —  1.  —  The Bank of England, founded in 1694, isn't the oldest central bank in the world, an honor that belongs to Sweden's Riksbank, founded a quarter-century earlier.
Discussion: EconLog
JSOnline:
Angry over fireworks, Greenfield man shoots gun toward child  —  A 45-year-old Greenfield man could be charged after firing a .40-caliber pistol in the direction of a child who the man said was shooting off fireworks Saturday night, the Greenfield Police Department said.
Discussion: Raw Story
Chris Spargo For / Daily Mail:
Kennedy family BASHES Trump over Fourth of July weekend with a pinata of The Donald at their Cape Cod compound  — The Kennedy clam gathered at their family compound in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts over the weekend for their annual Fourth of July party  — Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s daughter Kathleen …
Discussion: alan.com
 
 
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BBC:
UKIP leader Nigel Farage stands down
Alexandra Field / CNN:
Dhaka attack: ‘That is not my son,’ killer's horrified father cries
Discussion: Mediaite
Julie Hirschfeld Davis / New York Times:
White House Prohibits Cabinet From Addressing Democratic Convention
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Daniel Strauss / Politico:
Tim Kaine's abortion predicament
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Juan Williams / The Hill:
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Why the World Is Rebelling Against ‘Experts’
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Collin Szewczyk / Aspen Daily News Online:
Gingrich makes the case for Trump
Discussion: Mediaite
Sarah-Joyce Battersbystaff / Toronto Star:
Black Lives Matter protest scores victory after putting Pride parade on pause
Telegraph:
Michael Gove: it's telling Boris pulled out of Tory leadership race
Ishaan Tharoor / Washington Post:
The worst ISIS attack in days is the one the world probably cares least about
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