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9:20 PM ET, July 7, 2016

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Sean Sullivan / Washington Post:
Trump, seeking GOP unity, has tense meeting with Senate Republicans  —  Donald Trump's private meeting Thursday with Senate Republicans - designed to foster greater party unity ahead of the national convention in Cleveland — grew combative as the presumptive presidential nominee admonished three senators …
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Lauren Fox / Talking Points Memo:
Trump Manages To Give Some House GOPers More Heartburn In Hill Meeting  —  He arrived 20 minutes late.  —  Then presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump addressed the House GOP's rank and file in a standing-room-only meeting at the Capitol Hill Club in Washington.
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Trump to Sasse: ‘You must want Hillary’  —  Donald Trump singled out his chief Republican nemesis in the Senate, Ben Sasse, during a private meeting with senators on Thursday, and also had a testy exchange with Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake.  —  At one point during the gathering …
Josh Rogin / Washington Post:
Trump to House Republicans: ‘Say great things . . . We love Trump.’
Associated Press:
APNewsBreak: State Department Reopens Clinton Emails Probe  —  The State Department is reopening an internal investigation of possible mishandling of classified information by Hillary Clinton and top aides, officials told The Associated Press on Thursday.  —  Although the former secretary …
Discussion: Power Line, ABC News and Breitbart
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Julian Hattem / The Hill:
FBI didn't record Clinton interview, did not administer sworn oath  —  did not swear an oath to tell the truth before meeting with the FBI for three and a half hours last weekend, and the interview was not recorded, FBI Director James Comey told House lawmakers on Thursday.
Fox News:
State Department reopens internal probe of Clinton emails  —  The State Department is re-opening an internal investigation into whether Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and her top aides mishandled classified information, Fox News confirmed late Thursday.
Eric Fehrnstrom / BostonGlobe.com:
FBI decision on Clinton may be a blessing in disguise for Republicans  —  Hillary Clinton is the new O.J. Simpson.  She may have gotten off, but everyone knows what she did was wrong.  —  This may turn out to be a blessing in disguise for Republicans.  Bernie Sanders consistently polled higher …
Julian Hattem / The Hill:
Five panels to grill FBI on Clinton
Rich Lowry / Politico:
Rigged 101  —  The conspiracy theory about Donald Trump …
Discussion: The Hill, Hot Air and National Review
Tommy Christopher / Mediaite:
FBI Director Destroys Donald Trump Talking Point That Hillary Was Worse Than Petraeus
Discussion: alan.com
Jason Horowitz / New York Times:
Would Donald Trump Quit if He Wins the Election?  He Doesn't Rule It Out  —  The traditional goal of a presidential nominee is to win the presidency and then serve as president.  —  Donald J. Trump is not a traditional candidate for president.  —  Presented in a recent interview with a scenario …
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Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Trump plays coy when asked if he'll serve as president
Discussion: Daily Wire and Washington Monthly
Numbers / Pew Research Center:
2016 Campaign: Strong Interest, Widespread Dissatisfaction  —  As convention nears, most Republicans see a party divided  —  As Republicans and Democrats prepare for their party conventions later this month, a new national survey paints a bleak picture of voters' impressions …
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Pew Research Center:
Vote preference over time  —  2008 June vote preference 2012 …
Discussion: Washington Post
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Lloyd Grove / The Daily Beast:
Fox News Women: Roger Ailes Asked to See My Underwear, If I Was Single, and More
Claude Brodesser-Akner / New Jersey Online:
Trump ‘unlikely’ to pick Christie, according to sources  —  TRENTON — It is highly unlikely that Gov. Chris Christie will be Donald Trump's running mate, according to two sources who are advising the Trump campaign and who requested to remain anonymous.  —  Instead, the sources …
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Jessie Hellmann / The Hill:
Trump: Star of David issue has ‘been very much resolved’
Discussion: WKRC, BuzzFeed and RedState
Bloomberg:
Sanders Says He'll Do Everything Possible to Help Elect Clinton  —  Vermont senator says Trump presidency would be disastrous  —  Sanders says he'd be ‘pleased’ with Warren as Clinton's VP  —  Bernie Sanders signaled a formal endorsement of Hillary Clinton is imminent …
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Patrick Healy / New York Times:
Bernie Sanders Is Expected to Endorse Hillary Clinton Next Week
James Wigney / Herald Sun:
Star Trek Beyond favourite Mr Sulu has come out as castmates reflect on the death of Anton Yelchin … Helmsman of the USS Enterprise, Hikaru Sulu, played by John Cho, is shown in Star Trek Beyond as the loving father of a daughter with a same sex partner.  And in typical trailblazing Trek fashion — it's just not a big deal.
Travis M. Andrews / Washington Post:
The story behind the filming of the fatal Baton Rouge police shooting.  It was no coincidence.  —  The past few years have seen a marked increase in videos featuring police officers injuring or killing suspects.  These videos, which appear on social media and in newscasts …
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CNN:
Alton Sterling shooting: Piecing together what happened before the videos
Eli Stokols / Politico:
Trump's son-in-law under fire from family  —  Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's Jewish son-in-law and increasingly a power player atop his presidential campaign, was an obvious choice to publicly defend the candidate this week amid a firestorm over a tweet that many viewed as anti-Semitic.
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Dylan Segelbaum / York Daily Record:
Red Lion woman pleads guilty in loud sex case  —  Amanda Warfel, 25, was ordered to spend 45 to 90 days in York County Prison, which she's already served.  —  CONNECT  —  A woman from Red Lion pleaded guilty on Wednesday to disorderly conduct in a case in which police said she had sex …
Discussion: AOL, alan.com, WREG-TV and FOX5 San Diego
Sarah Ferris / The Hill:
GOP blocks Dem attempts to allow federal gun research  —  A House panel on Thursday rejected multiple efforts by Democrats to eliminate a budget amendment that has frozen nearly all government research into gun violence for 17 years.  —  During a markup of next year's health spending bill …
Discussion: Daily Kos
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USA Today:
Democrats disrupt House again over gun bills
Discussion: RedState and Bearing Arms
Charles C. W. Cooke / National Review:
A Few Thoughts on the Killing of Philando Castile  —  A horrible story from Minnesota, as reported by the Washington Post: … The aftermath of the shooting was filmed by Castile's girlfriend, but the shooting itself was not.  As such, I imagine that any debate will revolve primarily around …
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Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Philando Castile and the power of Facebook Live
 
 
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Pat Buchanan Warns ‘White America Has Begun To Die’
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Wall Street hot shot ‘trashes’ $20M Hamptons home
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CNN:
Donald Trump meets with Ted Cruz, Reince Priebus
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How Hitler's Rise to Power Explains Why Republicans Accept Donald Trump
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Chicago on the Brink  —  A retreat from proactive policing …
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