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9:35 PM ET, July 21, 2016

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Politico:
Full text: Donald Trump 2016 RNC draft speech transcript  —  Remarks as prepared for delivery according to a draft obtained by POLITICO Thursday afternoon.  —  Friends, delegates and fellow Americans: I humbly and gratefully accept your nomination for the presidency of the United States.
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Nick Gass / Politico:
Leaked document: Trump will tell the nation, ‘I am your voice’  —  Donald Trump will present himself as a big-hearted champion of the everyman on Thursday night as he accepts the Republican Party nomination for president, tempering his hard-edged policies with a protective embrace of those down on their luck.
Andrew Restuccia / Politico:
Trump taunts GOP in private donor meeting  —  CLEVELAND — Just hours before accepting the Republican Party's presidential nomination, Donald Trump taunted his party on Thursday, ripping into his rivals and joking that, had he run as an independent, he could have defeated the GOP.
Breitbart:
Exclusive — Sarah Palin to Ted Cruz: Delete Your Career  —  In an exclusive statement to Breitbart News, former Alaska Governor and 2008 Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin weighed in on Senator Ted Cruz's refusal to honor his pledge and endorse the GOP nominee Donald Trump.
Christopher Massie / BuzzFeed:
Cruz Campaign Manager: Christie “Turned Over His Political Testicles Long Ago”  —  Jeff Roe responded to the New Jersey governor's criticism of Cruz's convention speech.  —  Timothy A. Clary / AFP / Getty Images  —  Ted Cruz's campaign manager responded on Thursday to Chris Christie's criticism …
Washington Post:
Donald Trump's prepared speech to the Republican National convention, annotated
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Roger Stone, Alex Jones plot primary challenge to Cruz
Mark Hensch / The Hill:
Boehner on Cruz: ‘Lucifer is back’
Discussion: Liberty Unyielding and Mediaite
Kenneth P. Vogel / Politico:
‘Republican source’ leaks Trump speech to Dems
Discussion: Washington Post and The Week
The Federalist:
The Full Text Of Donald Trump's 2016 RNC Drafted Speech
Nick Gass / Politico:
Trump speech draft leaks hours in advance
Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
Ted Cruz's massive political gamble, explained
Sam Stein / The Huffington Post:   Trump Adviser Hints Trump May Back Primary Challenger To Cruz In '18
Daniel Pipes / Philly.com:
Why I just quit the Republican Party  —  The Republican Party nominated Donald Trump as its candidate for president of the United States - and I responded by ending my 44-year GOP membership.  —  Here's why I bailed, quit, and jumped ship:  —  First, Trump's boorish, selfish, puerile …
Discussion: Mediaite
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Joe Klein / TIME:
An Unhinged Republican Convention and the Nation's Greatest Test  —  The Republican Convention opened with a distraught mother, tears in her eyes, saying something palpably outrageous: “I blame Hillary Clinton.  I blame Hillary Clinton personally for the death of my son-personally.”
Discussion: Booman Tribune
Lynn Sweet / Chicago Sun Times:
Illinois GOP revokes delegate's credentials for ‘racist’ FB post  —  CLEVELAND - The Illinois Republican Party on Wednesday revoked the convention credentials of a Donald Trump delegate from Chicago “for publicly-made racist comments and threats of violence” on a Facebook posting.
CNN:
Peter Thiel to tell RNC he's proudly gay
Discussion: CBS Philly
Matt Forney / Media Matters for America:
“RNC Contact” Gave White Supremacist And Virulent Misogynist A Convention Pass
21st Century Fox:
Roger Ailes Resigns as Chairman and CEO of Fox News Channel and Fox Business Network, and Chairman Fox Television Stations  —  Rupert Murdoch to Assume Role of Chairman and Acting CEO of Fox News Channel and Fox Business Network  —  21st Century Fox today announced that Roger Ailes …
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John Koblin / New York Times:
Roger Ailes Is Out as Head of Fox News
New York Times:
Transcript: Donald Trump on NATO, Turkey's Coup Attempt and the World  —  Donald J. Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, discussed his views on foreign policy in Cleveland on Wednesday with David E. Sanger and Maggie Haberman of The New York Times.  Here is an edited transcript of their interview.
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Ezra Klein / Vox:
Donald Trump's nomination is the first time American politics has left me truly afraid  —  Tonight, Donald J. Trump will accept the Republican Party's nomination for president of the United States.  And I am, for the first time since I began covering American politics, genuinely afraid.
T. Becket Adams / Washington Examiner:
Coulter on Cruz's non-endorsement: He's a ‘little bitch’
Discussion: RedState
Media Matters for America:
Fox Host: The RNC Is “The Worst Convention I've Ever Seen”  —  KIMBERLY GUILFOYLE (CO-HOST): Do you have something positive to say?  Do you think it's going better now, or what do you think?  —  JUAN WILLIAMS (CO-HOST): No, remember yesterday I asked you, you think this convention is a success?
Discussion: Daily Kos
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Scott Whitlock / NewsBusters:
MSNBC Warns Sensitive Viewers Before Showing Anti-Hillary Buttons
Johari Canty / WSVN-TV:
North Miami officer on paid leave after shooting unarmed black man  —  A therapist who works at a group home for the disabled is still in shock after a North Miami Police officer shot him, but according to the Police Union president, that officer may have been aiming for someone else.
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Adrian Wojnarowski / Yahoo Sports:
NBA pulls 2017 All-Star Game from Charlotte, focuses on New Orleans  —  Without any movement by state legislators in North Carolina to change newly enacted laws targeted at the LGBT community, the NBA is pulling the 2017 All-Star Game out of Charlotte, league sources told The Vertical.
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Scott Cacciola / New York Times:
N.B.A. to Move All-Star Game From North Carolina
Discussion: The Stranger …
Alexandra Klausner / New York Post:
Male escorts are making crazy money at the RNC  —  More On:  —  It's been a great week for gay escorts in Cleveland.  —  Male prostitutes contacted by The Post said business is booming and Republican National Convention attendees — most of them married — are clamoring for their services.
Fusion:
Police asked this 3D printing lab to recreate a dead man's fingers to unlock his phone  —  Last month, law enforcement officers showed up at the lab of Anil Jain, a professor at Michigan State University.  Jain wasn't in trouble; the officers wanted his help.
 
 
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France 24:
Nice truck killer had support, accomplices for carefully planned attack
Jesse Paul / Denver Post:
Colorado town finds THC in its water, warns residents not to drink or bathe in it
Discussion: NPR, FOX31 Denver and WTVR-TV
Kristina Wong / The Hill:
Poll: Libertarian Johnson beating Trump, Clinton among active troops
Rachel Premack / Washington Post:
'I'm going to be free': Terminally ill Wisconsin teen schedules her death and one ‘last dance’
Discussion: WGN-TV
Paul Waldman / Washington Post:
Please, can we not grade Donald Trump's acceptance speech on a curve?
Richard L. Hasen / Slate:
The Voting Rights Act Might Get Some Teeth Back
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
It's mostly old people watching the convention, because mostly old people watch conventions
Discussion: The Week and Nielsen Newswire
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Adam Kilgore / Washington Post:
GW basketball players report coach's ‘verbal and emotional abuse’; many fled school
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
‘Private’ video of Virgin Islands Democratic delegate posted online
Discussion: Jezebel
Joe Concha / The Hill:
Michael Moore: Trump is going to win
Jennifer Chambers / Detroit News:
Judge blocks Michigan ban on straight-party voting
Discussion: Eclectablog
Tara Golshan / Vox:
Why Mark Cuban went from saying Trump is the “best thing” for America to #NeverTrump
Discussion: Liberal Values and AOL
 

 
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
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Financial Times:
Sources: Palantir and Anduril are in talks with OpenAI, SpaceX, and more to form a consortium to bid for US defense contracts and plan to announce it in January
 
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