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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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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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Lindsey Ellefson / Mediaite:
FBI Director Shades Everyone Freaking Out About Clinton Emails: ‘Opinions Are Irrelevant’ — All anyone has been talking about for months and months is the Hillary Clinton email scandal. She used a private server, if you don't know, and seeing and hearing people gush about what they saw …
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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Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
FBI recommends no charges against Clinton in email probe — FBI Director James Comey on Tuesday announced the agency is not recommending the Justice Department bring charges against Hillary Clinton, while also denouncing the former secretary of state and her aides for the way they handled …
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Katherine Krueger / Talking Points Memo:
Paul Ryan: Trump Needs To Get It Together After ‘Anti-Semitic’ Tweet
Jeremy Diamond / CNN:
Donald Trump's ‘Star of David’ tweet controversy, explained
Donald Trump's ‘Star of David’ tweet controversy, explained
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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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Mark Hensch / The Hill:
Adviser: Trump ‘not going to get rid of’ Iran deal
Adviser: Trump ‘not going to get rid of’ Iran deal
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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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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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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.
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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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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 …
Robert Dreyfuss / American Prospect:
Political Snipers … Anybody doubting the political clout of the National Rifle Association should speak to the members of Congress-and the now former members-who supported President Clinton's ban on assault weapons as part of the 1994 crime bill. In the campaign cycle surrounding that close vote …
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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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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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