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10:00 AM ET, July 18, 2016

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Chuck Ross / The Daily Caller:
Baton Rouge Shooter Gavin Eugene Long Was Nation Of Islam Member, Railed Against ‘Crackers’ On YouTube Channel [VIDEO]  —  A Youtube account operated by Gavin Eugene Long and discovered by The Daily Caller reveals key insight into what might have motivated the 29-year-old black man …
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NBC News:
Gavin or ‘Cosmo’?  Baton Rouge Shooter Left Long, Twisted Digital Footprint  —  The suspect in the fatal shooting of three Baton Rouge cops maintained a robust social media presence and a website called Convos With Cosmo in which he describes himself as a “freedom strategist, mental game coach …
Heather Mac Donald / City Journal:
The Fire Spreads  —  Three cops dead in Baton Rouge, and the analogies to the 1960s deepen.  —  Public safety  —  Perhaps it will turn out that the latest assassination of police officers, this time in Baton Rouge, is unrelated to the hatred fomented by the Black Lives Matter movement.
CBS News:
Dead Baton Rouge shooter attacked police on his birthday
The Advocate:
‘Humble, kind, sweet,’ new dad Montrell Jackson one of Baton Rouge officers killed in attack
Andrew Holleran / College Spun:
Facebook Post From Baton Rouge Police Officer Killed Today Is Going Viral
Discussion: Washington Post, WHNT-TV and WCTX-TV
The White House:
Statement by the President  —  I condemn, in the strongest sense …
NBC News:
Suspected Baton Rouge Shooter Hinted at Defense of ‘Justice’
Alan Blinder / New York Times:
Slain Officer Had Written About Turmoil of Recent Days
Discussion: The Root, Raw Story and USA Today
The Daily Beast:
Slain Baton Rouge Cop's Haunting Facebook Plea: 'Please Don't Let Hate Infect Your Heart.'
Discussion: The Week, CBS New York and Mediaite
Jane Mayer / New Yorker:
Donald Trump's Ghostwriter Tells All  —  “The Art of the Deal” made America see Trump as a charmer with an unfailing knack for business.  Tony Schwartz helped create that myth—and regrets it.  —  Last June, as dusk fell outside Tony Schwartz's sprawling house, on a leafy back road in Riverdale …
Discussion: ABC News, AOL, Raw Story and The Week
2016 GOP Convention:
2016 GOP Convention Program Announced  —  CLEVELAND, Ohio - Jeff Larson, CEO of the 2016 Republican National Convention, today released an updated program for the “Make America Great Again” convention, July 18-21, in Cleveland.  —  Veterans, political outsiders, faith leaders …
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Niall Stanage / The Hill:
Curtain goes up on Trump show  —  The curtain is about to rise on the most extraordinary political convention of modern times.  —  , a man who has never run for political office before, is about to become the Republican presidential nominee.  —  Trump has flouted every rule of campaigning known …
Discussion: ABC News
Gregory Krieg / CNN:
Cleveland police union asks for suspension of ‘open carry’ in wake of Baton Rouge, ahead of RNC
Lesley Stahl / CBS News:
The Republican Ticket: Trump and Pence  —  Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and his running mate, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, speak to Lesley Stahl in their first joint interview  —  The following is a script from “The Republican Ticket” which aired on July 17, 2016.
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Donald Trump's answer on Mike Pence's Iraq vote is really something  —  One section of the first joint interview by the presumptive Republican ticket reveals a great deal about the man at its top.  —  CBS's Lesley Stahl asked Donald Trump if he would send troops to the Middle East to fight the Islamic State.
Jenna Johnson / Washington Post:
Four times Donald Trump answered Mike Pence's questions on ‘60 Minutes’  —  CLEVELAND — For their first lengthy public interaction, Donald Trump and Indiana Gov. Mike Pence opted for a sit-down interview with 60 Minutes.  Trump did most of the talking during the 21-minute segment that aired on Sunday night …
Discussion: Political Wire and CNBC
McKay Coppins / BuzzFeed:
Donald Trump stood on a  —  debate stage in downtown Detroit, surrounded by haters he was determined to dispatch: Liddle Marco to his right, Lyin' Ted to his left, Megyn Kelly at the moderator's table straight ahead, and — somewhere out there, in a darkened living room 1,500 miles away — me.
John Nichols / The Nation:
Republicans Will Nominate a Candidate Who Would Violate the First, Fourth, Fifth and Eighth Amendments  —  If the GOP had any respect for the Bill of Rights, they would reject Trump.  —  By ,  —  Cleveland—As Republican Party “constitutionalists” prepare to nominate authoritarian billionaire Donald Trump …
Steven Shepard / Politico:
GOP insiders dreading Trump's convention  —  Forget about the balloons, the expressions of party unity and the quadrennial celebration of partisan pride.  GOP insiders are dreading the Republican convention in Cleveland this week.  —  That's according to The POLITICO Caucus …
Discussion: Hullabaloo
Marc Fisher / Washington Post:
Donald Trump doesn't read much.  Being president probably wouldn't change that.  —  NEW YORK — As he has prepared to be named the Republican nominee for president, Donald Trump has not read any biographies of presidents.  He said he would like to someday.  —  He has no time to read, he said: “I never have.
Discussion: Raw Story, The Week and Political Wire
Tim Hains / RealClearPolitics:
Cleveland Police Association President Steve Loomis: Obama “Has Blood On His Hands”  —  Detective Steve Loomis said that the shootings of police officers, from Dallas to now, started with what he deemed as a completely false narrative that police are ‘racist.’
Discussion: Los Angeles Times and Bearing Arms
John McCormack / Weekly Standard:
Manafort Confirms Christie Was ‘Livid’ He Wasn't Picked To Be Trump's VP  —  New Jersey governor Chris Christie was reportedly enraged he didn't earn the VP spot, according to a top Trump campaign official.  —  While minding my own business at the Starbucks inside the Westin hotel this morning …
Discussion: The Federalist and The Resurgent
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Susan Wright / RedState:
Months of Servitude With No Payoff Has Left Chris Christie “Livid”
Discussion: bradford-delong.com
 
 
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