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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.
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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 …
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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.
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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
FBI recommends no charges against Clinton in email probe
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Everett Rosenfeld / CNBC:
FBI's Comey says ‘no reasonable prosecutor’ would bring a case against Clinton for emails
FBI's Comey says ‘no reasonable prosecutor’ would bring a case against Clinton for emails
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Meghan Keneally / ABC News:
FBI Recommends No Charges Should Be Filed Against Hillary Clinton
FBI Recommends No Charges Should Be Filed Against Hillary Clinton
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Charles Johnson / Little Green Footballs:
FBI Will Recommend No Indictment for Hillary Clinton
FBI Will Recommend No Indictment for Hillary Clinton
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Katie Pavlich / Townhall.com:
BREAKING: After Hillary Interview, FBI Director to Make a Statement Tuesday
BREAKING: After Hillary Interview, FBI Director to Make a Statement Tuesday
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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.
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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.”
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Guardian, Politico, Media Matters for America, RedState and Associated Press
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.”
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Dana Schwartz / The New York Observer:
An Open Letter to Jared Kushner, From One of Your Jewish Employees
An Open Letter to Jared Kushner, From One of Your Jewish Employees
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Amanda Terkel / The Huffington Post:
Pro-Donald Trump Super PAC Tries To Tie Hillary Clinton To The KKK
Pro-Donald Trump Super PAC Tries To Tie Hillary Clinton To The KKK
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Katherine Krueger / Talking Points Memo:
Ex-KKK Leader David Duke Loved Trump's Star Of David Tweet
Ex-KKK Leader David Duke Loved Trump's Star Of David Tweet
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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.
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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 …
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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.
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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.