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Amy Chozick / New York Times:
Hillary Clinton Selects Tim Kaine, a Popular Senator From a Swing State, as Running Mate — Hillary Clinton named Senator Tim Kaine of Virginia to be her running mate Friday, selecting a battleground state politician with working-class roots and a fluency in Spanish, traits that she believes …
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John Wagner / Washington Post:
Kaine's VP pick greeted by blowback from progressive groups — RICHMOND — Even before Sen. Timothy M. Kaine (D-Va.) was unveiled Friday as Hillary Clinton's running mate, liberal groups were teed up to criticize the pick. — Kaine's boosters say that Kaine, a former Virginia governor …
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Politico and New York Times
Annie Karni / Politico:
Vanilla nice: Why Hillary picked Kaine — When Hillary Clinton announced Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine as her running mate Friday evening, she made a characteristically cautious but responsible choice — indicating that in her pick she was more concerned with finding a long-term governing partner than an electrifying campaigner on the road.
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The Intercept:
Hours Before Hillary Clinton's VP Decision, Likely Pick Tim Kaine Praises the TPP
Hours Before Hillary Clinton's VP Decision, Likely Pick Tim Kaine Praises the TPP
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NBC News, The Nation, ThinkProgress, Washington Post, Common Dreams, Rewire, The Daily Caller and Independent Journal Review
Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
Clinton Picks Tim Kaine As Running Mate
Clinton Picks Tim Kaine As Running Mate
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Anne Gearan / Washington Post:
Sen. Timothy M. Kaine of Virginia chosen as Hillary Clinton's VP
Sen. Timothy M. Kaine of Virginia chosen as Hillary Clinton's VP
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Politico, Power Line, TalkLeft and FiveThirtyEight
Evan Popp / ThinkProgress:
What You Need To Know About Tim Kaine, Hillary Clinton's Vice President Pick
What You Need To Know About Tim Kaine, Hillary Clinton's Vice President Pick
NBC News:
Clinton VP Pick To Be Announced Friday Afternoon
Clinton VP Pick To Be Announced Friday Afternoon
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Daily Mail:
BREAKING NEWS: ‘Several dead’ and 10 injured in shooting rampage inside a Munich shopping centre as police hunt gunman — At least one person has died and another 10 people are injured after a lone gunman went on a shooting spree in a German shopping centre.
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Washington Post:
Alleged shooter in Munich spree who killed 9 was an 18-year-old German-Iranian from Munich … [BREAKING:Alleged shooter in Munich spree who killed 9 was an 18-year-old German-Iranian from Munich] — MUNICH — A gunman carried out a shooting rampage Friday in a busy shopping area of Munich …
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Hit & Run, Daily Kos, Common Dreams and Guardian
CNN:
Report: Several killed in shooting at Munich shopping mall
Report: Several killed in shooting at Munich shopping mall
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Fox News:
‘TERROR ATTACK IS SUSPECTED’: Many feared dead after shooting spree at Munich shopping center
‘TERROR ATTACK IS SUSPECTED’: Many feared dead after shooting spree at Munich shopping center
Associated Press:
Police give all-clear in Munich shooting; say suspect dead
Police give all-clear in Munich shooting; say suspect dead
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WCTX-TV, Associated Press, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, RT, Daily Wire, NBC News and The Daily Caller
Harriet Alexander / Telegraph:
Watch live: Munich shooting latest
Watch live: Munich shooting latest
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Sky News and Bearing Arms
BBC:
Munich shooting: Police hunt ‘attackers’
Munich shooting: Police hunt ‘attackers’
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Daily Wire, Raw Story and The Daily Caller
Nicky Woolf / Guardian:
Munich attack: police say 10 dead including lone gunman - live
Munich attack: police say 10 dead including lone gunman - live
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Washington Post:
Donald Trump is a unique threat to American democracy — DONALD J. TRUMP, until now a Republican problem, this week became a challenge the nation must confront and overcome. The real estate tycoon is uniquely unqualified to serve as president, in experience and temperament.
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The Week, alan.com, Media Matters for America and Guardian
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Alexa Corse / The Daily Beast:
Vice Chair of D.C. GOP to Resign Over Trump Nomination — The vice chairman of the Washington, D.C., GOP party plans to resign from his post and vote for libertarian candidate Gary Johnson in November, the longtime Republican operative told The Daily Beast.
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The PolitiStick and RedState
Jamelle Bouie / Slate:
Donald Trump's Speech Was Just Another Scam
Donald Trump's Speech Was Just Another Scam
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Some Rights Reserved, Human Rights Campaign, New York Magazine, The Mahablog, The Hayride, BillMoyers.com and CityLab
Michael Goodwin / New York Post:
Donald Trump's RNC address could mark the start of an American revival
Donald Trump's RNC address could mark the start of an American revival
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New York Times, ABC News, Common Dreams, Mediaite, Campaign for America's Future, BizPac Review and ThinkProgress
The Intercept:
New Leak: Top DNC Official Wanted to Use Bernie Sanders's Religious Beliefs Against Him — Among the nearly 20,000 internal emails from the Democratic National Committee, released Friday by Wikileaks and presumably provided by the hacker “Guccifer 2.0,” is a May 2016 message from DNC CFO Brad Marshall.
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The Intercept:
DNC Staffers Mocked the Bernie Sanders Campaign, Leaked Emails Show — A new trove of internal Democratic National Committee emails, stretching back to April 2016, released by Wikileaks show that the organization's senior staff chafed at Bernie Sanders's continued presence in the presidential primary.
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Techdirt, New Urban Legends and Towleroad
Tom Hamburger / Washington Post:
Hacked emails are posted online as Democrats' convention nears
Hacked emails are posted online as Democrats' convention nears
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Hit & Run, Mediaite, CBS San Francisco, Sputnik International and Engadget
Susan Wright / RedState:
Rush Limbaugh Shreds Last Bits of Dignity to Idolize Trump and Trash Ted Cruz — If you want to know how a raging, barely coherent, lifelong Manhattan liberal became the new face of the GOP, look at traitorous talking heads like Rush Limbaugh. — After last night's funeral for the Republican party …
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Washington Examiner, Rush Limbaugh and Mediaite
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Elizabeth Titus / Bloomberg:
Trump Rips Into Cruz the Morning After Accepting GOP Nomination — Revisits debunked theory about Cruz's father, JFK assassin — Follows former rival's endorsement snub on primetime TV — A day after accepting the Republican presidential nomination in a speech that signaled …
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LewRockwell, Hit & Run and Washington Free Beacon
Mark Halperin / Bloomberg.com:
Trump Would Fund Super-PACs Aimed at Taking Down Cruz, Kasich — Donald Trump plans to create and fund super-PACs specifically aimed at ending the political careers of Ted Cruz and John Kasich should either run for office again, after both snubbed the Republican nominee during his party's convention …
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electionlawblog.org, Business Insider, Hot Air, SOOPERMEXICAN and RedState
governor.virginia.gov:
Governor McAuliffe Statement on the Virginia Supreme Court Decision on the Restoration of Civil Rights — Governor Terry McAuliffe released the following statement today following the Virginia Supreme Court decision in Howell v. McAuliffe: — “Once again, the Virginia Supreme Court …
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Mother Jones
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Washington Post:
The fall of Roger Ailes: He made Fox his ‘locker room’ — and now women are telling their stories — One day in early June, an embattled but determined news anchor, a public relations man and a group of attorneys settled into chairs around the conference table on the 35th floor of a law office on Madison Avenue in Manhattan.
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Media Matters for America, more at Mediagazer »
Jeff Wise / New York Magazine:
Exclusive: MH370 Pilot Flew a Suicide Route on His Home Simulator Closely Matching Final Flight — New York has obtained a confidential document from the Malaysian police investigation into the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 that shows that the plane's captain, Zaharie Ahmad Shah …
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Liberty Unyielding and The Week
Jason Samenow / Washington Post:
Two Middle East locations hit 129 degrees, hottest ever in Eastern Hemisphere, maybe the world — The temperature in Mitribah, Kuwait, surged Thursday to a blistering 129.2 degrees (54 Celsius). And on Friday in Basra, Iraq, the mercury soared to 129.0 degrees (53.9 Celsius).
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Dr. Jeff Masters' WunderBlog