memeorandum: Rep. Steve King wonders what ‘sub-groups’ besides whites made contributions to civilization (Philip Bump/Washington Post)

9:55 PM ET, July 18, 2016

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Kyle Cheney / Politico:

Chaos erupts on GOP convention floor after voice vote shuts down Never Trump forces — CLEVELAND — The Republican party came within a whisker of reaching the unity it had long sought Monday. What it got instead was convention floor chaos. — After mounting for weeks …

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Dylan Matthews / Vox:

An ex-senator called Trump backers “brownshirts,” in case you wondered how the RNC's going — Former Sen. Gordon Humphrey (R-NH) hasn't been a major national political figure for some time. While he was a leading conservative in the Senate from 1978 to 1990, he faded away after he declined …

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Jonathan Easley / The Hill:

Trump fundraiser resigns in anger after floor eruption — CLEVELAND — A top donor raising money for Donald Trump — and the Republican National Committee says he has resigned in disgust after the party muscled through a vote on the convention floor that squashed the “Free the Delegates” movement.

Leon H. Wolf / RedState:

RNC - CHAOS in Cleveland. Chair IGNORES Successfully Filed Petition for Rules Committee Roll Call Vote (UPDATED) — CLEVELAND, OH - Reince Priebus's attempts to avoid a roll call vote on a Rules package appear to have failed, against all expectations. This package is not just an anti-Trump package …

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Allegra Kirkland / Talking Points Memo:

RNC Speaker Scott Baio Tweeted Meme Referring To Hillary Clinton As A C**t — Eighties sitcom star Scott Baio, who is scheduled to address the Republican National Convention on Monday, shares the party nominee's penchant for off-color tweets. — Last week, Baio shared a meme …

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Jonathan Martin / New York Times:

Trump Campaign Denounces John Kasich in Ohio, Where Convention Begins — CLEVELAND — Donald J. Trump's chief adviser used the first day of the Republican National Convention on Monday to excoriate Gov. John R. Kasich for not endorsing Mr. Trump, touching off a remarkably bitter exchange between …

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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Day 1: GOP civil war breaks out in Cleveland

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Tierney Sneed / Talking Points Memo:
Never Trumpers Denied Vote In Disruptive Early Moments Of Convention (VIDEO)

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Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
Anti-Trump delegates say they will force roll call vote on rules

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Nick Gass / Politico:
Trump dials into Fox to bash Kasich during convention action

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Ryan Struyk / ABC News:
Republican Convention Floor Erupts in Chaos as Never-Trump Forces Thwarted

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New York Times:
Scrambling, Planners of the Republican Convention Put ‘Showbiz’ Off to the Wings

Meghan Keneally / ABC News:
5 Things to Know About Melania Trump

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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
And Here's Your First TrumpVention Debacle

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CNN:
Anti-Trump forces make-last ditch effort

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Nick Gass / Politico:
Trump on Obama's police shooting response: 'Look at the body language. There's something going on'

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Jennifer Jacobs / Bloomberg:
Convention Protests Will Probably Help Trump, Top Aide Says

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Louis Nelson / Politico:
Trump may speak at convention tonight

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Gabriel Sherman / New York Magazine:

Murdochs Have Decided to Remove Roger Ailes — the Only Question Now Is When — Roger Ailes's tenure as the head of Fox News may be coming to an end. Rupert Murdoch and sons Lachlan and James — co-chairmen and CEO, respectively, of parent company 21st Century Fox — have settled on removing …

BBC:

Germany axe attack: Assault on train in Wuerzburg — A teenage Afghan refugee armed with an axe and knife injured four people on a train in southern Germany before being shot dead by police, officials say. — Three people were seriously hurt and one suffered minor injuries in the attack in Wuerzburg, police said.

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Daily Mail:

Horror as 19 people are hospitalised by 17-year-old Afghan refugee wielding an AXE and shouting ‘Allahu Akbar’ in German train rampage before police shot him dead as he fled the scene — A teenage Afghan refugee shouted ‘Allahu Akbar’ before hacking at passengers during an axe and knife rampage on a train in Germany.

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Telegraph:
German train ‘axe attack’: more than 20 reported to be injured

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Josh Rogin / Washington Post:

Trump campaign guts GOP's anti-Russia stance on Ukraine — The Trump campaign worked behind the scenes last week to make sure the new Republican platform won't call for giving weapons to Ukraine to fight Russian and rebel forces, contradicting the view of almost all Republican foreign policy leaders in Washington.

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Scott Wong / The Hill:
Ryan: Trump ‘not my kind of conservative’

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Fawn Johnson / Morning Consult:
The Party of Ronald Reagan Isn't So Sure About Itself Now

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Rebecca Ballhaus / Wall Street Journal:
Paul Ryan: Trump Not ‘My Kind of Conservative,’ But GOP Must Get Behind Him

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Philip Bump / Washington Post:

Rep. Steve King wonders what ‘sub-groups’ besides whites made contributions to civilization — Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) offered an unusual defense of the racial homogeneity of his party during a panel on MSNBC Monday evening. — The group, led by Chris Hayes, was discussing …

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Tim Mak / The Daily Beast:

Michelle Van Etten, Soon-to-Be RNC Star, Peddles Pills that Make Alex Jones ‘Crazed’ — A marketer who sells pills based on pseudoscience just landed a primetime speaking slot at the RNC. Among her fans: Infowars' Alex Jones, who says the supplements make him “crazed and aggressive.”

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Brian Tashman / Right Wing Watch:
Alex Jones: Donald Trump Is Bringing Our Views Into The Mainstream

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George Jahn / Associated Press:

AP EXCLUSIVE: SECRET DOCUMENT EASES IRAN NUCLEAR CONSTRAINTS — VIENNA (AP) — Key restrictions on Iran's nuclear program imposed under an internationally negotiated deal will ease in slightly more than a decade, cutting the time Tehran would need to build a bomb to six months from present estimates …

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Tammy Bush Mayo / Facebook:

My husband is a Deputy Sheriff in Lee County, Alabama and tonight a Deputy on his shift went into Taco Bell in Phenix City, AL and was told that they don't serve cops. A lady waiting for her food spoke up to say that she was about to ask for a refund because she didn't want to eat somewhere with a cop.

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Clare Malone / FiveThirtyEight:

The End Of A Republican Party — Analysis by Harry Enten. — Research by David Nield. — Legend has it that after leveling Carthage in the Third Punic War, Roman army generals ordered that the city's fields be sown with salt so that they'd lie fallow for years, Roman generals …

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J.D. Durkin / Mediaite:

‘Are You Gonna Let Me Talk?’: CNN Interview on ‘Phony Movement’ Black Lives Matter Derails — During what was supposed to be an otherwise civil discourse about policing in the wake of another American tragedy Sunday that claimed the lives of three officers in uniform …

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Leinz Vales / CNN:
Wisconsin sheriff on recent Baton Rouge shootings: I predicted this

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Kevin Rector / Baltimore Sun:

Freddie Gray case: Judge acquits Lt. Brian Rice of all charges … Prosecutors in Baltimore have failed for the fourth time to secure a conviction in the Freddie Gray case, with Circuit Judge Barry Williams acquitting Lt. Brian Rice of all charges related to Gray's arrest and death.