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2:55 PM ET, June 18, 2016

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Dan Balz / Washington Post:
November is fast becoming what the GOP fears: A referendum on Trump  —  The hole that Donald Trump has dug for himself keeps getting deeper.  On nearly every front, his position continues to deteriorate.  Unless he reverses course, Republicans are heading toward a wrenching week at their convention …
Discussion: Hullabaloo and The Ringer
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Tony Romm / Politico:
Apple won't aid GOP convention over Trump  —  Apple has told Republican leaders it will not provide funding or other support for the party's 2016 presidential convention, as it's done in the past, citing Donald Trump's controversial comments about women, immigrants and minorities.
Associated Press:
Trump battleground plan relies on skeptical GOP leaders  —  DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — His campaign riled by infighting and Republican revolt, Donald Trump is working to address a battleground state staffing shortage that highlights his reliance on a skeptical GOP establishment.
WESH-TV:
Assistant state attorney suspended over Facebook comments on Pulse shooting  —  Assistant State Attorney Kenneth Lewis was suspended Friday for violating the State Attorney's Office's social media policy, according to Angela Starke, public information officer for the State Attorney's Office, Ninth Judicial Circuit.
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Shane Harris / The Daily Beast:
The Unhinged Home that Raised Orlando Killer Omar Mateen  —  Long before his rampage in the Pulse nightclub, there was deep trouble in the home of Omar Mateen.  —  A mother accused of domestic abuse and described as “paranoid.”  A father became a supporter of the Taliban.
Discussion: Fox News, Portside and Daily Mail
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Kevin Sullivan / Washington Post:
Troubled.  Quiet.  Macho.  Angry.  The volatile life of the Orlando shooter.  —  After a lifetime of angst and embarrassment, Omar Mateen was on the verge of realizing a longtime dream in the spring of 2007.  —  He was about to graduate from a Florida training academy that would put him on a path to being a police officer.
Philly.com:
Police: Parents admit ‘gifting’ teen to Bucks man; all 3 arrested  —  A 51-year-old Bucks County man was arrested after he was found living with 12 girls, including a teenager he considered his wife, and a baby and a toddler he fathered with her, authorities said Friday.
Discussion: Scared Monkeys
Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
The Trump effect: Could Arizona go blue for the first time in 20 years?  —  PHOENIX — If there is one place where the dramas and subplots of Campaign 2016 collide, it is across the sprawling and scorching desert state of Arizona.  —  Here lives Donald Trump's restive base of white voters unsettled …
Discussion: Political Wire and Booman Tribune
Kim Hjelmgaard / USA Today:
Exclusive poll: EU support falls after Jo Cox murder  —  Jo Cox, 41 was a member of the British parliament.  She died after being shot and stabbed in the street of her own constituency.  VPC  —  LONDON — British support for remaining in the European Union has weakened in the wake …
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Megan McArdle / Bloomberg:
Britain's Elites Can't Ignore the Masses
Discussion: Vox Popoli
Neal Ascherson / New York Times:
From Great Britain to Little England
James Queally / Los Angeles Times:
Oakland loses third police chief in nine days, will operate under civilian control  —  Acting Oakland Police Chief Paul Figueroa, talking to reporters earlier in the week, has left the post.  His departure marks the third time in eight days the city has seen its top police official depart.
Harper Neidig / The Hill:
Egyptian court sentences two journalists to death  —  Six people, including two Al-Jazeera employees, were sentenced to death by an Egyptian court on Saturday after being found guilty of leaking national security documents under ousted President Mohammed Morsi's regime, according to the Associated Press.
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Hamza Hendawi / Associated Press:   Egyptian court sentences 2 Al-Jazeera employees to death
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
A rational reading of Trump's Muslim proposals  —  Noise and controversy aside, Donald Trump is making two arguments about immigration.  The first is that the U.S. admits too many immigrants.  The second is that, given nearly two decades of Islamic terrorism, the government should take special measures …
Suzanne Nossel / Los Angeles Times:
Op-Ed How Hillary Clinton went from loser to winner  —  Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks at a rally at the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Circuit Center in Pittsburgh on June 14.  (Andrew Harnik / Associated Press)  —  Before she won this year's Democratic primary, Hillary Clinton was a loser.
Ian Wishart / Bloomberg:
Belgium Arrests 12 Amid Reports of Plot to Attack Soccer Fans  —  Prosecutor to decide Saturday whether to detain them further  —  Country on alert three months after suicide bombings killed 32  —  Belgian authorities arrested 12 people after conducting anti-terror raids in Brussels …
Discussion: Jihad Watch
Evelyn Rupert / The Hill:
Trump: It would've been ‘beautiful’ for Fla. clubgoer to kill shooter  —  argued again that the mass shooting in Orlando, Fla., could have been less deadly had people in the gay nightclub been able to shoot back.  —  At a rally in The Woodlands, Texas, Friday night, Trump theatrically …
Del Quentin Wilber / Orlando Sentinel:
Pulse nightclub security video recovered by agents  —  Mayor Dyer provides an update on assistance to those directly affected by the Pulse shooting at Camping World Stadium. … Privacy Policy  —  Investigators have recovered graphic video footage from security cameras at the Orlando nightclub …
Harper Neidig / The Hill:
GOP stirs Clinton-Sanders tensions  —  The Republican National Committee is promoting a report that accuses the Democratic Party of conspiring to nominate Hillary Clinton  —  in the early days of the presidential primary.  —  In an email, the RNC sent to reporters a story published …
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Marisa Schultz / New York Post:
Leaked document shows the DNC wanted Clinton from start
 
 
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Jessie Hellmann / The Hill:
Iraqi forces driving ISIS further out of Fallujah
Discussion: Washington Post
Greg Howard / New York Times:
Why ‘Transcending Race’ Is a Lie
Discussion: The Atlantic
Alex Roarty / Roll Call:
House GOP to Jolly: We're Not Sure We Want You Back
NBC News:
U.S. Officials Fear Saudi Collapse If New Prince Fails
Byron Tau / Wall Street Journal:
Federal Agency Approves New, Higher Fence Surrounding White House
Discussion: Scared Monkeys
 Earlier Items: 
Timothy Egan / New York Times:
A Week for All Time  —  They will remember, a century from now …
Discussion: Politicus USA and Daily Kos
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Clinton email lawsuit zeroes in on Kennedy, Koh
Discussion: Power LinePower Line
Cristiana Moisescu / CNN:
Grandmother's Google search goes viral
Wall Street Journal:
Justice Department Drops Civil Fraud Case Against Countrywide's Angelo Mozilo
Discussion: Bloomberg and NPR
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