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7:40 AM ET, June 16, 2015

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Juan Williams / The Hill:
Dems should not be losing voting-rights fight  —  Why are Democrats losing the debate over voting rights?  —  The biggest political fight shaping the 2016 campaigns for the White House and Senate is over limiting the Democrats' base of likely voters.  —  President Obama twice won …
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Rachael Bade / Politico:
Some of Hillary Clinton's Libya emails said to be withheld from Benghazi Committee  —  It's not clear who withheld the correspondence.  —  House GOP Benghazi investigators have discovered additional Libya communications between Sidney Blumenthal and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton …
Discussion: The Last Refuge
Politico:
Hillary Clinton = Jeb Bush?  —  Their policies may be different, but their political problems look remarkably similar.  —  One candidate vowed to “ban discrimination against LGBT Americans” and “make preschool and quality childcare available to every child in America.”
Discussion: Bloomberg Business
McKay Coppins / BuzzFeed:
Jeb Bush Embarks On Least Joyful Campaign Ever  —  Five days ago, Jeb Bush was outside a hotel in Berlin, straining to evince something other than abject dread at the prospect of running for president.  —  He stood, rigid and erect, in front of a semicircle of American political reporters …
Michael S. Schmidt / New York Times:
Sidney Blumenthal, Hillary Clinton's Confidant, Turns Over Memos on Libya  —  WASHINGTON — A close confidant of Hillary Rodham Clinton's, Sidney Blumenthal, has provided the House committee investigating the 2012 attacks in Benghazi, Libya, with dozens of pages of emails between him and Mrs. Clinton …
Martin Matishak / The Hill:   OVERNIGHT DEFENSE: Ex-Clinton aide headed before Benghazi panel
Washington Post:
Stressing his experience as governor of Fla., Jeb Bush enters 2016 race
Gail Sheehy / Politico:
Full text of Jeb Bush's presidential announcement
Zeke J Miller / TIME:
Transcript: Read Full Text of Former Gov. Jeb Bush's Campaign Launch
Eli Stokols / Politico:
Jeb Bush makes it official: ‘I will run to win’
Discussion: Bloomberg Business and The Week
Wbastone / The Smoking Gun:
NAACP Imposter Sued School Over Race Claims  —  Rachel Dolezal alleged she was victim of white discrimination  —  The NAACP official who today resigned in the face of evidence that she masqueraded as black once sued Howard University for denying her teaching posts and a scholarship …
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Spokane NAACP / Facebook:
Dear Executive Committee and NAACP Members,  —  It is a true honor to serve in the racial and social justice movement here in Spokane and across the nation.  Many issues face us now that drive at the theme of urgency.  Police brutality, biased curriculum in schools, economic disenfranchisement …
Jelani Cobb / New Yorker:
Black Like Her  —  On June 7th, Elinor Burkett published an Op-Ed in the Times expressing what she portrayed as a feminist's reluctant skepticism about aspects of the transgender movement.  She argued, in part, that the notion of men simply transitioning into women was equivalent …
Guardian:
Pope Francis warns of destruction of Earth's ecosystem in leaked encyclical  —  Vatican condemns early release of document in which pontiff calls on people to change their lifestyles and energy consumption or face grave consequences  —  Pope Francis will this week call for changes in lifestyles …
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Washington Post:
Pope Francis blasts global warming deniers in leaked draft of encyclical
Francis X. Rocca / Wall Street Journal:
Papal Draft Blames Most Global Warming on Human Activity
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Instapundit
Gardiner Harris / New York Times:
Invitations to a White House Party: Signed, Sealed, Delivered, but Private  —  WASHINGTON — The Obama administration has thrown an invisibility cloak over many issues during its nearly seven years in office: drone strikes in Yemen, the raid to kill Osama bin Laden in Pakistan …
Discussion: The Week and Washington Post
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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
White House defends private Prince party
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
William Leitch / Bloomberg Business:
We Are All Donald Trump Now  —  Back in 2000, my grandmother returned from visiting my uncle in Chattanooga to the Coles County Airport of Mattoon, Illinois.  She flew as cheaply as possible, which meant she took tiny US Airways shuttles from Chattanooga to West Lafayette, Indiana, to Mattoon.
Discussion: Washington Post
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Washington Post:
Donald Trump will declare $9 billion in assets as he reveals 2016 plans  —  Businessman and TV personality Donald Trump is a possible Republican contender for the White House in 2016.  Here's his take on Obamacare, building a border wall, and more, in his own words.  (Julie Percha/The Washington Post)
Lyda Longa / Daytona Beach News-Journal:
2 boys shoot out woman's teeth with BB gun in Holly Hill, police say  —  Two boys could be extradited from Michigan and charged with a felony after Holly Hill police said the 12- and 16-year-old siblings intentionally shot four people with a BB gun.  —  One of the victims was struck in the mouth and lost two teeth.
Discussion: Associated Press
Joe Siegrist / The LastPass Blog:
LastPass Security Notice  —  We want to notify our community that on Friday, our team discovered and blocked suspicious activity on our network.  In our investigation, we have found no evidence that encrypted user vault data was taken, nor that LastPass user accounts were accessed.
Jake Tapper / CNN:
45 times Secretary Clinton pushed the trade bill she now opposes  —  Hillary Clinton on trade: Let's turn lemons into lemonade 02:32  —  Washington (CNN)Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, as a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, seems reluctant to take a firm position …
 
 
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Michael Bastasch / The Daily Caller:
America's Most Advanced Climate Station Data Shows US In A 10-Year Cooling Trend
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Chris Palmer / Philly.com:
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Benjamin Freed / Washingtonian:
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Discussion: The Daily Caller and ThinkProgress
Heather Haddon / Wall Street Journal:
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Dylan Byers / Politico:
DeMaio calls on CNN to correct sexual harassment ‘smear’
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Athens Daily News:
The sun has not exploded
New York Post:
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Discussion: The Daily Caller
Casey Conley / Portsmouth Herald:
Scott Brown goes from Senate to cycle assembly
David Zweig / Salon:
The facts vs. David Brooks: Startling inaccuracies raise questions about his latest book