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5:45 PM ET, June 18, 2016

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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.
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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 …
Kristen East / Politico:
Trump: Reports of delegates organizing against him are media ‘hoax’  —  Donald Trump says he isn't worried about delegates organizing against him at the Republican National Convention next month — but he spent a large part of his rally in Las Vegas on Saturday afternoon insisting that it won't happen.
Discussion: Political Wire
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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Nicola Slawson / Guardian:
Jo Cox murder suspect tells court his name is ‘death to traitors, freedom for Britain’  —  Thomas Mair, 52, of Birstall, appears in Westminster magistrates court on multiple charges over killing of MP  —  Thomas Mair has given his name as “death to traitors, freedom for Britain” …
Megan McArdle / Bloomberg:
Britain's Elites Can't Ignore the Masses
Discussion: Vox Popoli
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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Jessie Hellmann / The Hill:
Trump campaign calls for $100K in donations by the end of the day  —  campaign has sent its first “emergency” fundraising email to supporters Saturday, seeking to raise at least $100,000 by the end of the day.  —  That request follows a multimillion dollar ad blitz launched by likely general election rival Hillary Clinton
Discussion: RedState
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: alan.com, Fox News and Portside
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Kevin Sullivan / Washington Post:   Troubled. Quiet. Macho. Angry. The volatile life of the Orlando shooter.
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.
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Bill Bartel / Virginian-Pilot:
Sen. Warner said he's not in the running to be Hillary Clinton's vice president
Discussion: Politico and Political Wire
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: Booman Tribune
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.
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
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 …
Hamza Hendawi / Associated Press:
Egyptian court sentences 2 Al-Jazeera employees to death  —  CAIRO (AP) — An Egyptian court on Saturday sentenced six people, including two Al-Jazeera employees, to death for allegedly passing documents related to national security to Qatar and the Doha-based TV network during the rule of Islamist President Mohammed Morsi.
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Harper Neidig / The Hill:   Egyptian court sentences two journalists to death
Marisa Schultz / New York Post:
Leaked document shows the DNC wanted Clinton from start  —  More On:  —  A document leaked by a hacker who took responsibility for the Democratic National Committee data breach appears to show the DNC coordinating with Hillary Clinton from the start of the presidential campaign — just as Bernie Sanders has claimed.
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Harper Neidig / The Hill:   GOP stirs Clinton-Sanders tensions
 
 
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Ben Schreckinger / Politico:
Would Donald Trump really drop out for $150 million?
Los Angeles Times:
Suspect in fire that killed 5 was here illegally, fought with another transient before slayings
Discussion: Fox News
Lisa Ferdinando DoD / U.S. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE:
Carter Announces ‘Hack the Pentagon’ Program Results
Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
Flashback Interview: Trump Defends Gays from Clintons in 2000
Discussion: Prntly
New York Times:
A Saudi Imam, 2 Hijackers and Lingering 9/11 Mystery
Jessie Hellmann / The Hill:
Iraqi forces driving ISIS further out of Fallujah
Discussion: Washington Post
Ian Wishart / Bloomberg:
Belgium Arrests 12 Amid Reports of Plot to Attack Soccer Fans
Discussion: Jihad Watch
Del Quentin Wilber / Orlando Sentinel:
Pulse nightclub security video recovered by agents
 Earlier Items: 
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
Evelyn Rupert / The Hill:
Trump: It would've been ‘beautiful’ for Fla. clubgoer to kill shooter
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
Timothy Egan / New York Times:
A Week for All Time  —  They will remember, a century from now …
Discussion: Daily Kos and Politicus USA