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7:15 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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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 — 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.

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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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New York Times:

Scrambling, Planners of the Republican Convention Put ‘Showbiz’ Off to the Wings — CLEVELAND — Donald J. Trump was told, no, it was not sensible to have Don King, the flamboyant boxing promoter, address the Republican convention. But Mr. Trump, who has repeatedly boasted of having Mr. King's support, kept pressing the matter.

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Tierney Sneed / Talking Points Memo:

Never Trumpers Denied Vote In Disruptive Early Moments Of Convention (VIDEO) — CLEVELAND - Anti-Trump delegates trying to cause the GOP nominee embarrassment on the floor of the convention in Cleveland lost in what may have been their last best chance make a symbolic stand against Donald Trump.

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Allegra Kirkland / Talking Points Memo:
RNC Speaker Scott Baio Tweeted Meme Referring To Hillary Clinton As A C**t

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

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Jonathan Easley / The Hill: Trump fundraiser resigns in anger after floor eruption

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

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Louis Nelson / Politico:
Trump may speak at convention tonight

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CNN:
Anti-Trump forces make-last ditch effort

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Kira Lerner / ThinkProgress:
Trump Campaign Weighs In On Open Carry At The Republican Convention

Byron York / Washington Examiner:
‘Law and order’ becomes a major theme of GOP convention

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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 …

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

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

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Henry J. Gomez / Plain Dealer:
Would RNC protests help Donald Trump? His campaign chief thinks so

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

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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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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.

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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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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,” …

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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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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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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.”

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Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
John McCain: Obama ‘Allowed’ Nice Attack To ‘Happen’

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Euan McKirdy / CNN:
Nice attack: Ties to ISIS not yet established, official says

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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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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.

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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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