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12:50 AM ET, July 11, 2016

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Star Tribune:
Police chief ‘disgusted’ by violence at I-94 protest; 21 officers hurt  —  President Obama said the violence aimed at police by protesters is a “reprehensible crime” that is “doing a disservice to the cause.”  There were about 100 arrests total in St. Paul, roughly half on I-94 and the others elsewhere in the city.
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Lindsey Bever / Washington Post:
Former Philadelphia police commissioner said America is ‘sitting on a powder keg’  —  Former Philadelphia police commissioner Charles Ramsey said Sunday morning that the country is “sitting on a powder keg” amid outcry over a number of fatal police shootings, including two last week that prompted nationwide protests.
Discussion: Real Clear Politics
Michele Kirk / BizPac Review:
Riveting post by black police officer confronts BLM with raw honesty and EVERY American needs to see it  —  An African-American police officer from Florida has laid bare his heart in a powerful way.  —  Pundits have been talking non-stop since a new wave of sensationalized stories …
Discussion: The Last Refuge
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Daily Mail:
Pictured: The female soldier who ‘pervert’ …
Discussion: The Other McCain
Michael Daly / The Daily Beast:
Micah Johnson Was Kicked Out of the Army for Stealing Panties
Ralph Z. Hallow / Washington Times:
Donald Trump likely to choose Indiana Gov. Mike Pence as vice presidential pick  —  CLEVELAND |  Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, little known nationally but highly admired in conservative circles, has a “95 percent probability” of being Donald Trump's choice for vice president, The Washington Times has learned.
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Adam Kelsey / ABC News:
Possible Trump VP Pick Flynn Supports Abortion Rights: ‘Women Have to Be Able to Choose’
Discussion: Politico and Hot Air
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, No Fan of Donald Trump, Critiques Latest Term  —  WASHINGTON — Unless they have a book to sell, Supreme Court justices rarely give interviews.  Even then, they diligently avoid political topics.  Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg takes a different approach.
Discussion: Raw Story
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Cyra Master / The Hill:
Ruth Bader Ginsburg: If Trump wins, time to move to New Zealand  —  Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg jokes that if Donald Trump  —  wins the presidential election, she'll consider moving.  —  In an interview with The New York Times published Sunday, the Supreme Court justice said her husband …
St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Intruder shot by off-duty St. Louis County officer after online argument about Black Lives Matter, family says  —  A 50-pound concrete planter sits on the floor inside of an off-duty St. Louis County police officer's home after an intruder threw it through a window on Saturday, July 9, 2016.
Aaron Klein / Breitbart:
EXCLUSIVE-New Black Panther Leader: Blacks Need to Migrate to Five Southern States, Form ‘Country Within a Country’  —  Babu Omowale, the so-called national minister of defense for the People's New Black Panther Party, says his group and allied organizations have their sights set on establishing …
Julia Hahn / Breitbart:
Paul Ryan Plummets to 43 Percent in New Primary Poll  —  JANESVILLE, WI- A poll of likely Republican voters shows House Speaker Paul Ryan well below 50 percent in his race to maintain his seat in Wisconsin's first Congressional district.  —  The poll was conducted by P.M.I. …
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
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Julia Hahn / Breitbart:   Paul Nehlen at Paul Ryan's Mansion: ‘Tear Down Your Wall’ If You Won't Build One for the Country
Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
Donald Trump Keeps Distance in G.O.P. Platform Fight on Gay Rights  —  CLEVELAND — Same-sex marriage and transgender rights are emerging as points of serious strain between social conservatives and moderates who are trying to shape the Republican platform, reviving a festering cultural dispute …
Discussion: The Hill
Matt Friedman / Politico:
Christie builds his case for Trump's VP  —  Chris Christie has said it over and over: He can't “imagine” being vice president.  His personality just isn't cut out for the role.  —  But the way Christie has been governing New Jersey over the past couple of months has many Trenton insiders …
Discussion: RedState
David Edwards / Raw Story:
‘What you did appalls me’: Reporter blisters Tomi Lahren for calling black activists ‘the new KKK’  —  DON'T MISS STORIES.  FOLLOW RAW STORY!  —  Baltimore Sun media critic David Zurawik shamed controversial conservative host Tomi Lahren on Sunday after she accused Black Lives Matter of being the “new KKK.”
Discussion: alan.com
John Hinderaker / Power Line:
Are Blacks Disproportionately Involved In Police Shootings?  —  Listening to liberals like Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, you would think that enormous numbers of black men are being gunned down by police officers.  When the issue is debated, many take it for granted that a vastly disproportionate number …
 
 
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Allie Malloy / CNN:
Obama to speak Tuesday at Dallas memorial service
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Anne Barnard / New York Times:
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Associated Press:
2 Hospitalized After Shooting Near Denver Nightclub
Rosalind S. Helderman / Washington Post:
In email probe, echoes of another time prosecutors weighed charging Hillary Clinton with a crime
Dallas Morning News:
This city, our city
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