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7:40 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 — Chaos broke out at the Republican National Convention Monday after Republican leaders successfully blocked a recorded roll call vote on the convention rules.
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Day 1: GOP civil war breaks out in Cleveland  —  CLEVELAND — Day One of the GOP's national convention has been anything but unified.  —  Chaos erupted on the floor of the convention, as a group of delegates opposed to Donald Trump's nomination pressed for a roll call vote on the national convention rules.
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 …
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 …
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:   Trump fundraiser resigns in anger after floor eruption
Tierney Sneed / Talking Points Memo:
Never Trumpers Denied Vote In Disruptive Early Moments Of Convention (VIDEO)
Discussion: Shakesville and Balloon Juice
Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
Anti-Trump delegates say they will force roll call vote on rules
Discussion: Politico
Louis Nelson / Politico:
Trump may speak at convention tonight
CNN:
Anti-Trump forces make-last ditch effort
Discussion: RedState
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2016 GOP Convention Program Announced
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
‘Law and order’ becomes a major theme of GOP convention
Discussion: The Atlantic and ABC News
Kira Lerner / ThinkProgress:
Trump Campaign Weighs In On Open Carry At The Republican Convention
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 …
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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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 …
Fawn Johnson / Morning Consult:
The Party of Ronald Reagan Isn't So Sure About Itself Now
Discussion: Red Alert Politics and Bloomberg
Jennifer Jacobs / Bloomberg:
Convention Protests Will Probably Help Trump, Top Aide Says
Henry J. Gomez / Plain Dealer:
Would RNC protests help Donald Trump? His campaign chief thinks so
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
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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Telegraph:
German train ‘axe attack’: more than 20 reported to be injured
Discussion: Hot Air
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 …
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 …
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.
Scott Wong / The Hill:
Ryan: Trump ‘not my kind of conservative’  —  , the chairman of the GOP convention here, said Monday he believes that Donald Trump  —  is a conservative — just “not my kind of conservative.”  —  “He's not my kind of conservative, but I come from a different part and wing of the party,” …
Discussion: Politico, Mediaite and Mashable
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Rebecca Ballhaus / Wall Street Journal:
Paul Ryan: Trump Not ‘My Kind of Conservative,’ But GOP Must Get Behind Him
Discussion: Politico
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.
Vox:
The Republicans waged a 3-decade war on government.  They got Trump.  —  Trumpism may have parallels in populist, nativist movements abroad, but it is also the culmination of a proud political party's steady descent into a deeply destructive and dysfunctional state.
Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
John McCain On Nice Attack: Obama “Allowed This To Happen”  —  Arizona Sen. John McCain says President Obama “allowed” the Bastille Day attack in Nice that left at least 84 people dead to happen, blaming his policies towards ISIS for failing “America and the world.”
Discussion: Daily Kos and The Week
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Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
John McCain: Obama ‘Allowed’ Nice Attack To ‘Happen’
Discussion: Associated Press
Nate Cohn / New York Times:
Confused by Contradictory Polls?  Take a Step Back  —  It has been a rocky few weeks all over the world.  Only a few surprising presidential poll results have broken through in a news cycle dominated by shootings by and of the police, the F.B.I.'s decision not to indict Hillary Clinton …
 
 
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Jason Horowitz / New York Times:
Melania Trump: From Small-Town Slovenia to Doorstep of White House
Discussion: New York Times
Rachel Aviv / New Yorker:
The Philosopher of Feelings  —  Martha Nussbaum's far-reaching …
Discussion: Althouse
Clare Malone / FiveThirtyEight:
The End Of A Republican Party
Isaac Stanley-Becker / Washington Post:
In Trump's GOP, Jeff Sessions rockets from the fringe to prime time
Discussion: ABC News
New York Times:
Online Trail Illuminates Baton Rouge Gunman's Path to Violence
Los Angeles Times:
Judge throws out ex-L.A. County Sheriff Lee Baca's plea deal, saying 6 months in prison not enough
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Judge mulls written questions to Clinton on emails
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James Delingpole / Breitbart:
Muslims Were The Real Victims Of The Nice Terror Attack, The BBC Explains
Dallas Franklin / KFOR-TV:
Unknown man allegedly broke into Oklahoma City man's home, watched while he slept
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Tim Devaney / The Hill:
Trump gains on Clinton in Monmouth poll
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J.D. Durkin / Mediaite:
‘Are You Gonna Let Me Talk?’: CNN Interview on ‘Phony Movement’ Black Lives Matter Derails
Discussion: Raw Story and FOX News Radio
Dinesh D'Souza / National Review:
How the Clinton Foundation Got Rich off Poor Haitians
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Ted Cruz contemplates the unthinkable
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