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2:00 AM ET, July 19, 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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Jenna Johnson / Washington Post:
Donald Trump just can't yield the spotlight  —  CLEVELAND — Patricia Smith stood on the stage of the Republican National Convention and emotionally blamed the death of her son in Benghazi, Libya, on Hillary Clinton.  Suddenly, Fox News Channel cut away to interview the party's presumptive presidential nominee, Donald Trump.
Discussion: Politico, ABC News and The Hill
Nick Gass / Politico:
Trump dials into Fox to bash Kasich during convention action  —  As Pat Smith, the mother of one of the Americans killed in Benghazi tearfully addressed the Republican National Convention on Monday, Donald Trump phoned into Fox News host Bill O'Reilly's show and bashed John Kasich for not showing up to the confab.
Michael Edison Hayden / ABC News:
Antonio Sabato Jr. Says He's ‘Absolutely’ Sure Obama's a Muslim After RNC Speech
Discussion: Raw Story
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 …
Discussion: Weekly Standard and Mediaite
Cristina Marcos / The Hill:
Melania's message: Donald Trump is ready to work for America
Discussion: Politico
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Melania Trump's speech appears to have cribbed from Michelle Obama's in 2008
Dan Balz / Washington Post:
In a divided GOP, the lone uniter is Hillary Clinton
Discussion: Politico and Taylor Marsh
New York Times:
Rancor Reigns as Bitterly Divided Republicans Begin Their Convention
Discussion: LGBTQ Nation and Business Insider
Nick Gass / Politico:
Milwaukee sheriff at RNC: ‘Blue lives matter’
Allegra Kirkland / Talking Points Memo:
RNC Speaker Scott Baio Tweeted Meme Referring To Hillary Clinton As A C**t
Discussion: ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Day 1: GOP civil war breaks out in Cleveland
Discussion: Repository and Washington Monthly
New York Times:
Scrambling, Planners of the Republican Convention Put ‘Showbiz’ Off to the Wings
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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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.
Discussion: Power Line and Vox Popoli
Telegraph:
German train ‘axe attack’: more than 20 reported to be injured
Discussion: Hot Air
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
And Here's Your First TrumpVention Debacle  —  I'm a pretty healthy guy.  But I had a bad sinus headache this afternoon and went to rest in the TPM nap room.  I left with boring speakers droning on the platform in Cleveland.  I come back and all hell's broken loose.
Discussion: Hullabaloo
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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.
Tierney Sneed / Talking Points Memo:
Never Trumpers Denied Vote In Disruptive Early Moments Of Convention (VIDEO)
Discussion: BNR, Balloon Juice and Shakesville
Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
Anti-Trump delegates say they will force roll call vote on rules
Discussion: Washington Post and Politico
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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Scott Wong / The Hill:
Ryan: Trump ‘not my kind of conservative’
Discussion: Mediaite, Politico and Mashable
Fawn Johnson / Morning Consult:
The Party of Ronald Reagan Isn't So Sure About Itself Now
Discussion: Red Alert Politics and Bloomberg
Rebecca Ballhaus / Wall Street Journal:
Paul Ryan: Trump Not ‘My Kind of Conservative,’ But GOP Must Get Behind Him
Discussion: Politico
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 …
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 …
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.
Ryan Lizza / New Yorker:
The Libertarians' Secret Weapon  —  The third-party candidacy of Gary Johnson might make the most unpredictable election in modern times even weirder.  —  Not long ago, Gary Johnson, the Libertarian Party's 2016 Presidential candidate, put a halt to his considerable consumption of marijuana.
Discussion: Hit & Run and Althouse
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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Vicki Needham / The Hill:
HUD's Castro violated law with interview about Clinton
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
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
Discussion: POLICE Magazine and KTLA
Vox:
The Republicans waged a 3-decade war on government. They got Trump.
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Trump gains on Clinton in Monmouth poll
Milo / Breitbart:
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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
Kevin Rector / Baltimore Sun:
Freddie Gray case: Judge acquits Lt. Brian Rice of all charges
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Ted Cruz contemplates the unthinkable
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