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4:00 PM ET, July 5, 2016

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Fbi / Federal Bureau of Investigation:
Remarks prepared for delivery at press briefing.  —  Good morning.  I'm here to give you an update on the FBI's investigation of Secretary Clinton's use of a personal e-mail system during her time as Secretary of State.  —  After a tremendous amount of work over the last year …
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Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:
Hillary Clinton Isn't Getting Indicted.  Here's Why.  —  Tuesday morning, FBI Director James Comey announced that his agency's investigation into Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's handling of a private email server while she was Secretary of State has come to a close.
Mark Landler / New York Times:
F.B.I. Director James Comey Recommends No Charges for Hillary Clinton on Email  —  WASHINGTON — The F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, said on Tuesday that the bureau would not recommend criminal charges in Hillary Clinton's handling of classified information, lifting an enormous legal cloud …
Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
Hillary Clinton's email problems might be even worse than we thought  —  (Yana Paskova for The Washington Post)  —  Here's the good news for Hillary Clinton: The FBI has recommended no charges be brought followings its investigation of the former secretary of state's private email server.
Julian Hattem / The Hill:
FBI recommends no charges against Clinton … Federal officials have decided not to pursue federal charges against Hillary Clinton  —  for her private email setup, FBI Director James Comey said Tuesday in an announcement that will send a shockwave throughout national politics.
Megan R. Wilson / The Hill:
Court: Officials can't use private email accounts to evade records laws  —  Federal officials may not use private email accounts to get around public records laws, a federal judge ruled on Tuesday.  —  The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit overturned a lower court decision …
Lindsey Ellefson / Mediaite:   FBI Director Shades Everyone Freaking Out About Clinton Emails: ‘Opinions Are Irrelevant’
Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
FBI recommends no charges against Clinton in email probe
Discussion: Althouse
Charles Johnson / Little Green Footballs:
FBI Will Recommend No Indictment for Hillary Clinton
Discussion: The Federalist and Balloon Juice
Katie Pavlich / Townhall.com:
BREAKING: After Hillary Interview, FBI Director to Make a Statement Tuesday
Discussion: Power Line and RedState
Ashley Feinberg / Gawker:
Trump Campaign Blames Anti-Semitic Tweet on “Microsoft's Shapes”  —  Just when you think the saga of Donald Trump's not-so-subtle, likely accidental white supremacist dog whistle can't get any more exciting, Trump's Director of Social Media Dan Scavino proves us wrong.  Dan—take it away.
Discussion: Jezebel, Althouse and Scripting News
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Jeremy Diamond / CNN:
Donald Trump's ‘Star of David’ tweet controversy, explained  —  (CNN)Donald Trump set off his latest firestorm this weekend when he tweeted a graphic critical of Hillary Clinton that featured a six-pointed star, a pile of cash and the words “most corrupt candidate ever.”
Katherine Krueger / Talking Points Memo:
Paul Ryan: Trump Needs To Get It Together After ‘Anti-Semitic’ Tweet  —  House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) admonished Donald Trump on Tuesday for tweeting an anti-Hillary Clinton message with a Star of David over the weekend.  An exasperated Ryan called the tweet “anti-Semitic” and “ridiculous.”
Discussion: Mother Jones
Scott Wong / The Hill:
Ryan rebukes Trump for ‘anti-Semitic images’
Discussion: Hot Air
Glenn Thrush / Politico:
Nate Silver is happy to be wrong  —  Nate Silver is giving Donald Trump a 19 percent chance of becoming president - and that makes him a little nervous, as well it should.  —  No, it's not because he failed to predict Trump's albino-swan victory in the Republican primaries …
Selim Algar / New York Post:
Trump supporter: ‘Mexican restaurant refused to serve me’  —  An Orange County woman claims she was tossed from a Mexican restaurant Sunday, not for too much tequila — but for too much Trump.  —  Esther Levy, 61, of Warwick, said an employee at the popular Cancun Inn eatery in Sugar Loaf chucked …
Tracy Crane / News-Gazette:
Flag burning leads to Urbana man's arrest  —  What's your opinion?  Submit a Letter to the Editor here  —  URBANA — Within hours of a Fourth of July Facebook post showing him burning an American flag, a 22-year-old Urbana man found himself under arrest and under fire — from all corners of the Internet.
Peter Wehner / New York Times:
The Theology of Donald Trump  —  SINCE Donald Trump assures us that the Bible is his favorite book, it's worth asking: Just what is his theology?  —  After Mr. Trump met with hundreds of evangelical Christians a couple of weeks ago, James Dobson, who is among the most influential leaders …
WKOW 27:
Gov. Scott Walker will speak at Republican National Convention  —  PLATTEVILLE (WKOW) — Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker has accepted a highly-coveted invitation to speak at the upcoming Republican National Convention later this month.  —  Walker confirmed news of the speaking engagement …
JP Carroll / The Daily Caller:
EXCLUSIVE: This Is Trump's Foreign Policy, A Conversation With Top Trump Adviser Dr. Walid Phares  —  Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump “will not ask Japan or South Korea to invest in building nuclear weapons but he will speak with their leaders about how to create a safer …
Kara Swisher / Recode:
Comcast will let customers get Netflix on its set-top box (which is a very big deal)  —  The move means the once contentious pair are now pals.  —  Cable giant Comcast will allow popular web video streaming service Netflix onto its X1 platform, the companies confirmed after being asked by Recode about talks to do so.
Petula Dvorak / Washington Post:
A home that looks perfect, until bigotry rears its ugly head  —  Over a long weekend of fireworks, face paint and flags, Fernando Herboso couldn't stop thinking about the new America he encountered last week.  —  Herboso, 58, and his brother Carlos have their own real estate agency …
Victor Davis Hanson / National Review:
Washington's Hollow Men  —  The government/media power elite are spectacularly ignorant of the American people. … — T. S. Eliot  —  In Merced or Dayton, if an insurance agent, eager to help his wife facing indictment, barged into a restaurant where the local DA is known to lunch …
Discussion: Instapundit
Giovanni Legorano / Wall Street Journal:
Bad Debt Piled in Italian Banks Looms as Next Crisis  —  Brexit vote compounded strains in banking system burdened by sour loans; ‘Italy is the patient that is sickest’  —  MILAN—Britain's vote to leave the EU has produced dire predictions for the U.K. economy.
Discussion: Mother Jones and New York Magazine
CNN:
Rio police tell tourists they won't be able to protect them  —  Rio de Janeiro (CNN)The Olympic Games are just 31 days away — and Rio de Janeiro is in crisis.  —  Violence is on the rise and police officers are at loggerheads with the government after claiming they've not been paid for months.
Discussion: Deadspin, AOL and The Week
 
 
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Kimberly Hefling / Politico:
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CNN:
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