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Trump campaign hits ‘Corrupt Kaine’ right out of the gate — Donald Trump's campaign wasted little time depicting Hillary Clinton's new running mate as a continuation of the “rigged system,” casting Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine as “Corrupt Tim” and attacking him for supporting President Barack Obama's policies.

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, Breitbart, Washington Post, RedState, Fox News Insider, FiveThirtyEight and TalkLeft

Slate:

WHAT WOMEN REALLY THINK — After months of speculation that Hillary Clinton might select Sen. Elizabeth Warren as her running mate, creating the first-ever two-woman ticket, or perhaps Labor Secretary Tom Perez, a civil rights lawyer who would've been the first Latino VP …

Discussion: Vox, Politico, Arkansas Blog, Arkansas Times, The American Conservative, National Review, STAT, The Week, Lawyers, Guns & Money, BizPac Review, Common Dreams and Rewire

Michael Tomasky / The Daily Beast:

Holy Crap, Tim Kaine Just Killed It In His First Speech With Clinton — He spoke Spanish to the cheering crowds and delivered a healthy dose of humility in a diseased election year. In other words, Tim Kaine just took America by storm. — Holy crap. He killed it. — I'm not trying to spin you.

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Associated Press:
The Latest: Progressives Push to End Use of Superdelegates

Discussion: Politico and ABC News

Mike Lillis / The Hill:
Clinton VP pick could face liberal ire

Discussion: Politico, Washington Post, Instapundit and Clayton Cramer

Associated Press:
Kaine liberal appeal muted by energy ties, abortion concerns

Discussion: BuzzFeed

Joel B. Pollak / Breitbart:
Tim Kaine Boycotted Netanyahu Speech, Backed Iran Deal

Discussion: BizPac Review and Politico

New York Times:
The Swing-State Appeal of Mr. Kaine

Discussion: Media Matters for America, Politico, NPR and Washington Post

Amy Chozick / New York Times:
Hillary Clinton Selects Tim Kaine, a Popular Senator From a Swing State, as Running Mate

Dylan Matthews / Vox:
Tim Kaine is Hillary Clinton's VP pick, a mostly safe choice that will piss off pro-choice activists

Discussion: BuzzFeed, The Nation, whorunsGov, USA Today, Legal Planet, The Root, NPR, Politicus USA, Raw Story, WTKR-TV, Washington Post and Advocate

Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Tim Kaine: A Self-Effacing Senator in a Sharp-Elbows Era

Discussion: Vox, Raw Story, Religion News Service, Washington Post and Power Line

Elizabeth Dexheimer / Bloomberg: Kaine Pick Won't Help Clinton Win Over Anti-Wall Street Critics

Alex Swoyer / Breitbart:
Donald Trump Compares ‘Ethically Challenged’ Tim Kaine to Bob McDonnell

Discussion: BizPac Review

BBC:

Munich gunman ‘obsessed with mass shootings’ — The 18-year-old gunman who killed nine people in Munich was obsessed with mass shootings but had no known links to the Islamic State group, German police say. — Written material on such attacks was found in his room.

Discussion: Hullabaloo, ThinkProgress and Joe.My.God.

Raheem Kassam / Breitbart:
BBC Scrubs ‘Ali’ From Munich Killer's Name On TV, In Articles, AND On Social Media

Discussion: Telegraph and The Last Refuge

Caleb Howe / RedState:

BUSTED: 19,252 Emails from DNC Leaked by Wikileaks, and Oh MAN Are They Great! — On Friday, website Wikileaks posted over 19,000 emails that were taken from the Democratic National Committee that show story manipulation and collusion with the MSM, internal attempts to sabotage Bernie Sanders during the primary, and a whole lot more.

Discussion: Scared Monkeys, The Next Web, The Daily Beast, CNN, BuzzFeed, The Resurgent, Fox News Insider, BizPac Review, Associated Press, The Daily Caller, Mediaite, WCTX-TV, The Hill, Engadget, The Federalist, The Last Refuge, Sputnik International and CBS San Francisco

Rudy Takala / Washington Examiner:

Twitter accused of suppressing DNC Wikileaks story — Twitter lit up Friday night with allegations that it tried to suppress news that secret-leaking website Wikileaks exposed thousands of emails obtained from the servers of the Democratic National Committee.

Mike Cernovich / Mike Cernovich Presents Danger & Play:

5 Biggest Scoops from the #DNCLeaks WikiLeak — “There's what you know and there's what you can prove,” is a line lawyers and fans of the Wire are familiar with. We've all known the media conspired with Democrats to rig news coverage. With the Wikileaks documents, we can prove it.

Discussion: The Gateway Pundit

The Hill:

Outcry from Sanders supporters after leaked DNC ‘atheism’ emails — supporters Friday tore into the Democratic National Committee (DNC) on social media after a leaked email appeared to show a DNC official plotting to question Sanders's religion. — The email, written by Chief Financial …

Discussion: Instapundit, New York Magazine, Techdirt and Hot Air

New York Post:
Leaked emails show how Democrats screwed Sanders

Michael Sainato / The New York Observer:
Wikileaks Proves Primary Was Rigged: DNC Undermined Democracy

Discussion: Mediaite, New Urban Legends, BizPac Review, Liberty Unyielding, Red Alert Politics, Clayton Cramer, Washington Post and RT

Oliver Darcy / Business Insider:
Leaked emails reveal Politico reporter made ‘agreement’ to send advanced Clinton story to DNC

Discussion: Heat Street, Vox, The Intercept, The Daily Caller, The Right Scoop and The American Spectator, more at Mediagazer »

Stephen F. Hayes / Weekly Standard:

Donald Trump Is Crazy, and So Is the GOP for Embracing Him — The Republican nominee opens his mouth and removes all doubt. — Trump's foreign policy speech, at Washington's Mayflower Hotel — Cleveland — Yes, Donald Trump is crazy. And, yes, the Republican party owns his insanity.

Discussion: The Atlantic, Power Line and New York Times

Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:

Wow! Did Hillary Clinton Just Suffer a Seizure on Camera? — Wow! — The poor woman is in worse shape than we thought. — Hillary Clinton has seizure on camera. — Or maybe it was something else? — WARNING: DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME! … Satan? … The post Wow!

New York Times:

At Fox News, Kisses, Innuendo, Propositions and Fears of Reprisal — In 2006, after nearly a decade at CNN, Rudi Bakhtiar came to the Fox News Channel's headquarters in New York with a command of foreign policy, an appealing personality and a delivery that easily switched between light and serious.

Discussion: Media Matters for America, Praxis and 89.3 KPCC, more at Mediagazer »

Washington Post:
The fall of Roger Ailes: He made Fox his ‘locker room’ — and now women are telling their stories

Discussion: Althouse and Media Matters for America, more at Mediagazer »

Tom Cruise / TMZ.com:

‘Allah Akbar, Tom’ — Tom Cruise has been pulled into the middle of a police investigation surrounding a potential suicide bomber who made alarming threats to the Church of Scientology. — Cops say the man called the Church back in April asking, “Are there any bombings I can do?”

Discussion: Jihad Watch

Amanda Smith / WKBN-TV:

Atty. refuses to remove Black Lives Matter pin, taken into custody — A Youngstown Municipal Court judge sentenced Atty. Andrea Burton to 5 days in jail, but the decision is being appealed — YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (WKBN) - An attorney was removed from court and taken into custody after a judge declared …

Discussion: Liberty Unyielding, John Hawkins' Right Wing News, Raw Story and The Root

Robin Abcarian / Los Angeles Times:

In the Trump family tradition, Ivanka uses her moment in the spotlight to hawk her wares — Ivanka Trump takes the stage during the final day of the 2016 Republican National Convention at Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)

Gregory Korte / USA Today:

Obama vetoes cuts to former presidents' expense accounts — WASHINGTON — President Obama took steps to preserve the office allowances given to former presidents Friday, by vetoing a measure that would have capped those expenses at $200,000 a year. — The veto comes less than six months …

Discussion: The Week and RT