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1:55 PM ET, June 17, 2016

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Ed O'Keefe / Washington Post:
Dozens of GOP delegates launch new push to halt Donald Trump  —  Dozens of Republican convention delegates are hatching a new plan to block Donald Trump at this summer's party meetings, in what has become the most organized effort so far to stop the businessman from becoming the GOP nominee.
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Matthew Continetti / Washington Free Beacon:
The Self-Immolation of the Republican Party  —  The Darwin Awards is a popular website that “commemorates individuals who protect our gene pool by making the ultimate sacrifice of their own lives.  Darwin Award winners eliminate themselves in an extraordinarily idiotic manner …
Matt Fuller / The Huffington Post:
Paul Ryan: Donald Trump Does Not Have A ‘Blank Check’  —  The House Speaker admits he hasn't achieved the “real unity” he wanted with Trump.  —  Congressional Reporter, The Huffington Post  —  WASHINGTON — House Speaker Paul Ryan has limits to what he'll accept from presumptive GOP nominee …
Tierney Sneed / Talking Points Memo:
Paul Ryan On Stopping A President Trump's Muslim Ban: We'll Sue Him!  —  House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) has made clear he doesn't agree with a proposal put forward by Donald Trump — whom Ryan has endorsed — to ban Muslim immigration into the United States, but in an interview …
Nick Gass / Politico:
Ryan: I won't divide party over Trump
Discussion: Daily Kos
Carlo Allegri / National Review:
Democratic Congresswoman Suggests Trump May Be a Clinton Plant  —  Marcy Kaptur talks about Trump and Hillary.  —  Some conservative Republicans disgusted by Donald Trump's offensive, scorched-earth campaign have long suspected their party's nominee to be secretly in league with his erstwhile friends Bill and Hillary Clinton.
Discussion: Hot Air, RedState and Raw Story
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Politico:
Transcript: Bernie Sanders speech in Burlington, Vermont  —  Election days come and go.  But political and social revolutions that attempt to transform our society never end.  They continue every day, every week and every month in the fight to create a nation of social and economic justice.
Gabriel Debenedetti / Politico:
Sanders loses convention leverage  —  BURLINGTON, Vt. — Leverage: it's the one thing Bernie Sanders' advisors and aides consistently point to when asked why, exactly, he's formally staying in the Democratic primary race that he's lost to Hillary Clinton.  —  But it's the one thing he's …
Discussion: New York Magazine and Instapundit
ABC News:
The Note: Bernie Won't Back Down  —  Sanders did, however …
Discussion: Bloomberg, WCTX-TV and Politico
Tampa Bay Times:
U.S. Rep. David Jolly to run for re-election, drop out of Senate race  —  U.S. Rep David Jolly will drop out of the U.S. Senate race and run for re-election instead, taking on likely Democratic nominee Charlie Crist, confirmed former St. Petersburg Mayor Rick Baker
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Mike DeBonis / Washington Post:   Make no mistake: Democrats are ready for a Marco Rubio Senate run
Steven Shepard / Politico:
Trump's poll ratings in a historic hole  —  In 2016's race to the bottom, Donald Trump is going to find out if you can become president when two-thirds of Americans don't like you — and a majority can't stand you.  —  Recent polls have showed Trump's unfavorable rating spiking again, after a brief improvement last month.
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Niall Stanage / The Hill:
Can Trump turn it around?
Discussion: Israpundit
Allegra Kirkland / Talking Points Memo:
All These Companies Are Skipping Out On Trump's GOP Convention In Cleveland  —  The list of major U.S. companies that plan to scale back funding for the Republican National Convention or avoid it altogether keeps growing as the July event in Cleveland draws closer.
Discussion: Joe.My.God.
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Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
He Had to Wait for LeBron, but Donald Trump Can Finally Set Up His Convention
Discussion: Daily Kos
New York Times:
An Unlikely Savior Emerges to Help Endangered Republicans: George W. Bush  —  After eight years of largely abstaining from politics, former President George W. Bush is throwing himself into an effort to save his party's most vulnerable senators, including several whose re-election campaigns …
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Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
George W. Bush Helping Vulnerable GOP Senators
Discussion: Daily Kos
David Brooks / New York Times:
Religion's Wicked Neighbor  —  Barack Obama is clearly wrong when he refuses to use the word “Islam” in reference to Islamist terrorism.  The people who commit these acts are inflamed by a version of an Islamist ideology.  They claim an Islamist identity.  They swear fealty to organizations …
Discussion: Pirate's Cove
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Fear, Loathing and Brexit
Discussion: Forbes
Rebecca R. Ruiz / New York Times:
Russia's Track and Field Team Barred From Rio Olympics  —  Russia's track and field team has been barred from competing in this summer's Rio Games because of a far-reaching doping conspiracy, an extraordinary punishment that might be without precedent in Olympics history.
Wall Street Journal:
Orlando Shooter Traveled to Saudi Arabia on Trip Organized By NYU Center  —  University spokesman says Omar Mateen and three others thought to be family members joined tour group on 2012 trip  —  An Islamic center in New York determined Thursday that Orlando shooter Omar Mateen was among …
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William Kristol / Weekly Standard:
Cut the Thread  —  “Trust me, he's only hanging on by a thread.”  —  “Patience, my friend, patience .  .  . we need just one more episode.”  —  “My colleagues are close to the breaking point.”  —  This is what one hears—this is what I've heard …
Stephen Gutowski / Washington Free Beacon:
Store Owner: Undercover CBS Purchase of AR-15 Broke Federal Law  —  The gun store where a CBS News employee purchased a gun for a segment that aired Thursday on “CBS This Morning” has filed a report with the Virginia State Police and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives over concerns the purchase was unlawful.
Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
Republicans, Democrats Interpret Orlando Incident Differently  —  PRINCETON, N.J. — Republicans and Democrats have starkly different interpretations of what the recent mass shooting at an Orlando nightclub represents.  While 79% of Republicans view it primarily as an act of Islamic terrorism …
Discussion: Washington Post and Politico
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Mark Landler / New York Times:
51 U.S. Diplomats Urge Strikes Against Assad in Syria  —  WASHINGTON — More than 50 State Department diplomats have signed an internal memo sharply critical of the Obama administration's policy in Syria, urging the United States to carry out military strikes against the government …
Matt Flegenheimer / New York Times:
Shunned, Stared at, Still for Trump: The Holdout in Hillary Clinton's Town  —  CHAPPAQUA, N.Y. — First came the grimaces — the disbelieving eyes trained upon his shirt, his lawn signs, his car window stickers broadcasting a local betrayal.  —  Then his teenage son refused to drive …
Discussion: Althouse
Mollie Hemingway / The Federalist:
New York Times Claims ‘Romans’ Calls For ‘Execution Of Gays’  —  Journalist Terry Mattingly wrote a great column back in 2006 noting the trouble many journalists have understanding the finer details of religion news.  His column, “Reporters, crow's ears and Karma Light nuns,” …
Judge Andrew Napolitano / Townhall.com:
In Defense of Self-Defense  —  Most of the mass killings by gun in the United States in recent years — Columbine, Virginia Tech, Aurora, Newtown, Charleston, San Bernardino and now Orlando — took place in venues where local or state law prohibited carrying guns, even by those lawfully licensed to do so.
Discussion: Bearing Arms
 
 
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John Podhoretz / New York Post:
Obama has turned jihadist terror attack into personal gun war
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
How the Party of Sarah Palin Became the Party of Donald Trump
David M. Herszenhorn / New York Times:
Spurred by Orlando Shooting, Senator Offers a Gun Control Compromise
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Devin Henry / The Hill:
Fracking fight looms for Democrats
Discussion: CNN and Hot Air
Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Harry Reid Compliments Mitch McConnell's 'Fool's Errand' Over Merrick Garland
Discussion: Daily Kos
Allegra Kirkland / Talking Points Memo:
Rep Who Co-Chairs Trump Campaign Committee: Why Must I Defend Him?
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Mother responds after video shows gallons of water dumped on baby
 Earlier Items: 
Alice Ollstein / ThinkProgress:
Former Ms. Universe Urges Immigrants To Join Her In Becoming Citizens To Vote Against Donald Trump
Tim Arango / New York Times:
Iraqi Forces Enter Falluja, Encountering Little Fight From ISIS
Discussion: The Atlantic, NPR and Business Insider
Bethania Palma Markus / Raw Story:
'He's obsessed with menstruation': Ex-producer exposes Trump's bizarre ‘Apprentice’ behavior
Discussion: Slate
Philip Klein / Washington Examiner:
Donald Trump is getting schlonged
Discussion: The Atlantic
Southern Poverty Law Center:
Alleged killer of British MP was a longtime supporter of the neo-Nazi National Alliance
Jeff.Schogol / Marine Corps Times:
West Coast Marines under investigation for alleged threat to gay bars
 

 
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