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11:10 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.
The Advocate:
‘Humble, kind, sweet,’ new dad Montrell Jackson one of Baton Rouge officers killed in attack
Theresa Vargas / Washington Post:
Sister of slain Baton Rouge officer Montrell Jackson: 'It's coming to the point where no lives matter'
John Eligon / New York Times:
Black Lives Matter Leader Calls for End to Violence
Allegra Kirkland / Talking Points Memo:
In Heated Interview, Sheriff Blames Black Lives Matter For Police Shootings
Andrew Holleran / College Spun:
Facebook Post From Baton Rouge Police Officer Killed Today Is Going Viral
Discussion: WHNT-TV and The Hayride
CBS News:
Dead Baton Rouge shooter attacked police on his birthday
Associated Press:
Obama Urges Americans to Tamp Down Inflammatory Rhetoric
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
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 …
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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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Kira Lerner / ThinkProgress:
Trump Campaign Weighs In On Open Carry At The Republican Convention  —  CLEVELAND, OHIO — Hours after the head of Cleveland's police union pleaded with the governor to suspend Ohio's open-carry laws during the Republican National Convention, Donald Trump's spokesperson told ThinkProgress she is …
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: Politico and ABC News
New York Daily News:
Donald Trump selects Scott Baio as speaker for Republican National Convention
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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Jennifer Jacobs / Bloomberg:
Convention Protests Will Probably Help Trump, Top Aide Says
Discussion: NOLA River
Jenna Johnson / Washington Post:
Four times Donald Trump answered Mike Pence's questions on ‘60 Minutes’
Discussion: Political Wire
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 …
Discussion: Washington Post
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.
Keiligh Baker / Daily Mail:
The universe as you've never seen it before: Groundbreaking radio telescope finds 1,300 galaxies in tiny corner of the sky where only 70 were known about before  —  A groundbreaking radio telescope has discovered 1,300 galaxies in a tiny corner of the sky where just 70 had been spotted before …
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 and Associated Press
Emily Richmond / The Atlantic:
Why Are Third-Graders Afraid of Donald Trump?  —  Although he's almost a decade shy of the voting age, Micah St. George has a message he's anxious to deliver to the Republican National Committee: Please don't nominate Donald Trump for president.  —  A soon-to-be fourth grader in Newton …
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
 
 
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Barack Obama / Wall Street Journal:
Merrick Garland Deserves a Vote—For Democracy's Sake
Discussion: Politicus USA and SCOTUSblog
Nate Cohn / New York Times:
Confused by Contradictory Polls? Take a Step Back
Glenn Thrush / Politico:
Ted talks: He's not ready to endorse ... yet
Discussion: Raw Story
Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:
Republican Convention Will Push Limits of a Candidate and the News Media
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New York Post:
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Marc Fisher / Washington Post:
Donald Trump doesn't read much. Being president probably wouldn't change that.
Discussion: Raw Story and The Week
Michael Grunwald / Politico:
Donald Trump's One Unbreakable Policy: Skip the Details
 

 
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