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3:25 PM ET, June 14, 2016

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Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post:
Russian government hackers penetrated DNC, stole opposition research on Trump  —  Russian government hackers penetrated the computer network of the Democratic National Committee and gained access to the entire database of opposition research on GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump …
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Daniel Strauss / Politico:
Russian government hackers broke into DNC servers, stole Trump oppo
Discussion: Heat Street
Dmitri Alperovitch / crowdstrike.com/blog:
Bears in the Midst: Intrusion into the Democratic National Committee
NBC News:
Omar Mateen's Wife Tried to Talk Him Out of Orlando Attack, Sources Say  —  The Orlando gunman's wife has told federal agents she tried to talk her husband out of carrying out the attack, NBC News has learned.  —  Omar Mateen's current wife, Noor, told the FBI she was with him when he bought ammunition …
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Palm Beach Post:
Orlando shooter Omar Mateen was gay, former classmate says  —  A former classmate of Omar Mateen's 2006 police academy class said he believed Mateen was gay, saying Mateen once asked him out.  —  Officials say Mateen shot and killed 49 people and injured 53 others at an Orlando nightclub early Sunday morning.
CBS News:
War veteran saves dozens during Orlando nightclub shooting  —  ORLANDO — When Omar Mateen opened fire with his military style AR-15 assault rifle on a gay nightclub in Orlando, there was one man who recognized the sound, a war veteran.  —  Imran Yousuf, a bouncer at the Pulse nightclub …
Orlando Sentinel:
Witness: Omar Mateen drank alone at Pulse before attack
New York Post:
SEE ALL 57 STORIES  —  The ex-wife of Orlando mass killer Omar …
Bloomberg:
Obama Assails Trump in Dispute Over Use of ‘Radical Islam’ Label  —  President says U.S. would ‘validate’ terrorists with label  —  Obama cites progress reducing ranks of Islamic State fighters  —  President Barack Obama angrily rejected Republicans' insistence that the U.S …
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Chris W. Cox / USA Today:
Gun laws don't deter terrorists: Opposing view  —  Destroy radical Islam, not the right of law-abiding Americans to protect themselves.  —  Americans were shocked and disgusted to learn of another act of terrorism on our soil, this time in Orlando.  In the aftermath of this terrorist attack …
Katie Pavlich / Townhall.com:
Irony: Jeh Johnson Says Gun Control Now a Matter of Homeland Security...Orlando Terrorist Worked For DHS
Discussion: Hot Air
Nick Gass / Politico:
Obama laces into Trump for whipping up terrorism fears
Discussion: New York Magazine and CNN
Margaret Talev / Bloomberg:
Clinton Says Gun Laws, Allies Key to Stemming Terror Threat
Discussion: Politico
KFDA-TV/DT:
Police respond to possible hostage situation at Amarillo Walmart on Canyon Drive  —  AMARILLO, TX (KFDA) - The Amarillo Police Department is reporting an active situation at the Amarillo Walmart at 4215 Canyon Drive.  Early reports indicate an armed man is inside the store.
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Jeannie Nguyen / KVII:
Active shooter at Walmart on I-27 and Georgia  —  The Amarillo Police Department have confirmed an active shooter situation at the Walmart on I-27 and Georgia.  —  Police said they have not confirmed any gunshot victims at this time.  They said this appears to be a workplace-type incident.
John Bresnahan / Politico:
Trump's terror response has Republicans fretting anew  —  Donald Trump's combative anti-terrorism speech Monday flouted the typical post-tragedy script and left Republican insiders fretting that the business mogul is unprepared to play a crucial presidential role: national healer.
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Nick Gass / Politico:
National poll: Clinton lead grows over Trump  —  Hillary Clinton's advantage over Donald Trump grew over the course of the last week, according to the results of the latest NBC News/SurveyMonkey poll released Tuesday.  —  In the same week that Clinton clinched the Democratic nomination …
Discussion: ABC News
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Katherine Krueger / Talking Points Memo:
Pastors Praise Orlando Killings Of ‘Vile, Perverted Predators’ (VIDEO)  —  After 49 people were gunned down in an Orlando gay nightclub in the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history, pastors in California and Arizona praised the gunman for massacring “perverted predators” and “pedophiles.”
Discussion: Joe.My.God.
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Kyle Buis / CBS Sacramento:
Sacramento Baptist Preacher Praises Orlando Gay Nightclub Attack
Discussion: Washington Post and KTLA
Bob Owens / Bearing Arms:
NARRATIVE FAIL: Orlando Islamic Terrorist Did NOT Use An AR-15  —  The anti-gun politimedia wasted no time at all demonizing the most common rifle in the United States as being the real villain of the Islamic terrorist attack on Pulse nightclub in Orlando.  —  Newsweek screamed, “ORLANDO SHOOTING PUTS SPOTLIGHT ON AR-15 RIFLE.”
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Alex Byers / Politico:
Court upholds Obama-backed net neutrality rules  —  A federal appeals court Tuesday upheld a White House-supported effort to make internet service providers treat all web traffic equally, delivering a major defeat to cable and telephone companies.  —  The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals …
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Brian Fung / Washington Post:
Cable and telecom companies just lost a huge court battle on net neutrality
Discussion: Daily Kos
Sam Stein / The Huffington Post:
Sad!  —  These three campaign gurus for Jeb Bush, Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio  —  have had some time to reflect on their loss to The Donald.  —  And do they ever have stories to tell. … It's been roughly 40 days since Donald Trump became the presumptive presidential nominee of the Republican Party …
Michael Falcone / ABC News:
The Note: What Bernie Wants  —  NOTABLES  —MEETING OF THE MINDS: After more than 12 months of competing against each other for the Democratic presidential nomination — and on the very last day of the primary season — Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders will, for the first time all year …
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Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
Trump says he's revoking press credentials for The Washington Post
Megan McArdle / Bloomberg:
Orlando Shows Us Our Very Scary Future  —  “I will say one thing,” Kevin Drum writes about the tragedy in Orlando.  “There is a big difference between an attack coordinated and carried out by a foe (Pearl Harbor, Pan Am 103, 9/11, Paris, etc.) and an attack by a lunatic who was inspired by something or other …
Discussion: Mother Jones
 
 
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Andrea Bernstein / www.wnyc.org:
Christie's Destroyed and Missing Evidence is Like Nixon's Missing Tapes, Bridgegate Lawyers Say
Discussion: alan.com
Julie Carr Smyth / Associated Press:
George Voinovich, former Ohio governor and senator, dies at 79
James Hohmann / Washington Post:
The Daily 202: Hillary Clinton's hawkishness insulates her from Trump's post-Orlando attacks
Discussion: BuzzFeed
Polly Toynbee / Guardian:
Brexit supporters have unleashed furies even they can't control
Discussion: Eschaton
 Earlier Items: 
Associated Press:
Lawmaker Says He Will Protest “Moment of Silence” in House
Esther Yu-Hsi Lee / ThinkProgress:
It's Much Harder To Immigrate To The U.S. Than It Is To Buy A Gun
Lisa Hagen / The Hill:
Muslim rep. decries Trump's ‘villainous rampage against other Americans’
Discussion: Hot Air
New York Times:
Compare These Gun Death Rates: The U.S. Is in a Different World
Discussion: The Daily Beast and Hullabaloo
 

 
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