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4:05 AM ET, June 18, 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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Sara Murray / CNN:
First on CNN: Priebus probes state GOP leaders over anti-Trump push  —  (CNN)Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus has been quietly having conversations with state party leaders to discuss the latest push by convention delegates to nominate anyone other than Donald Trump.
Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
One sentence from Bernie Sanders's speech last night that really enrages Democratic leaders  —  As you can probably guess, most Democratic Party insiders were really hoping Bernie Sanders would formally drop out of the race this week and offer Hillary Clinton a fulsome endorsement.
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John Wagner / Washington Post:
A Sanders endorsement of Clinton could come ahead of the Philadelphia convention  —  BURLINGTON, Vt. — Bernie Sanders could offer an endorsement of presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton before the party's convention next month, depending on the outcome of ongoing policy talks between …
Harper Neidig / The Hill:   GOP stirs Clinton-Sanders tensions
Marisa Schultz / New York Post:
Leaked document shows the DNC wanted Clinton from start
Sahil Kapur / Bloomberg:
Sanders' Long Refusal to Endorse Clinton Hurts His Leverage
Tyler Durden / Zero Hedge:
Sanders Supporters Vindicated: Proof DNC Used Media To Rig Election for Hillary
Cristiana Moisescu / CNN:
Grandmother's Google search goes viral  —  London (CNN)Step aside, cute baby videos — there's now a special funny place on the internet for the less tech-savvy.  Like these grandparents working out how a webcam works.  Or all of these grandparents figuring out Facebook.
Discussion: WRIC-TV, Mediaite and twitchy.com
Media Matters for America:
Sean Hannity Threatens Paul Ryan: “It's Time To Get A New Speaker” If You Won't Support Trump  —  SEAN HANNITY (HOST): And it seems that the greatest anger that we get out of our speaker is against Donald Trump.  You know, this open effort now to sabotage the person that got the most votes in a primary …
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Matt Fuller / The Huffington Post:
Paul Ryan: Donald Trump Does Not Have A ‘Blank Check’
Tampa Bay Times:
LGBT pride flag raised after Orlando shooting ‘unbearable’ for Christian employee, Hillsborough commissioner says  —  TAMPA — A pride flag waving outside the Hillsborough County center was meant to be a sign of respect and remembrance for the victims of the shooting at an LGBT nightclub in Orlando.
Discussion: Raw Story and Friendly Atheist
Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Donald Trump, Seeing Himself Behind in Polls, Says He Hasn't ‘Started Yet’  —  Donald J. Trump rarely, if ever, acknowledges he might be losing at anything.  He expressed bewilderment at a poll during the primary race that showed him behind in the Iowa caucuses.
Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE: Omar Mateen's brother-in-law REFUSES to say if he knew about terror plot as it is revealed gunman sold him the deed to his $165k home just two months before club massacre - for only $100  — Mustafa Abasin, 43, refused to comment when asked if he knew about his brother-in-law Omar Mateen's attack ahead of time
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Hurriyet Daily News:
A Turkish call to massacre LGBT community … At a time when the world is mourning the massacre of 49 people at a gay night club in Orlando, a new massacre is being brewed by Islamists and a far-right nationalist group in Istanbul.  —  One day after a group called the Anatolia Muslim Youth Association …
Discussion: Liberty Unyielding
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Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
Muslim Youth League Calls for Massacre at Gay Rights Parade
Discussion: Yahoo
Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed:
Thanks To Apple's Influence, You're Not Getting A Rifle Emoji  —  No realm of modern life is immune to the contentious national debate over guns, including emojis.  —  You can currently purchase a semi-automatic rifle in a major U.S. city in just seven minutes, but don't expect to text someone a rifle emoji anytime soon.
Discussion: Mashable, The Verge, 9to5Mac and Engadget
Shane Goldmacher / Politico:
Trump appears to have paid no taxes for two years in early 1990s  —  Billionaire businessman Donald Trump appears to have paid zero, or near-zero, in personal income taxes in at least two more years in the early 1990s, according to records from New Jersey's gambling authorities reviewed by POLITICO.
Discussion: www.wnyc.org
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Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:   Trump Brushes Off Report That He Didn't Pay Income Taxes For 2 Years
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Clinton email lawsuit zeroes in on Kennedy, Koh  —  A conservative group pressing for more answers about Hillary Clinton's private email set-up is training its fire on two of her former aides: Undersecretary of State for Management Patrick Kennedy and former State Department Legal Adviser Harold Koh.
Discussion: Power LinePower Line
Olivier Knox / Yahoo:
Condi Rice says no to being Trump's VP  —  Condoleezza Rice, who served George W. Bush as national security adviser and then secretary of state, has zero interest in being Donald Trump's running mate, her chief of staff said Friday.  —  “Dr. Rice has repeatedly said in past cycles as well as this one …
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.
Click2Houston.com:
Multiple people detained at Donald Trump's rally in The Woodlands  —  HOUSTON - A man was taken into custody by police at the Donald Trump rally in The Woodlands on Friday.  —  Sources tell Channel 2 they found him on the fourth floor of the parking garage with a pistol.
Harper Neidig / The Hill:
Ala. county refuses order to lower flags after Orlando shooting  —  An Alabama county is refusing to lower its flags to half-staff in the wake of the Orlando mass shooting last weekend despite orders to do so from both President Obama and Gov. Robert Bentley, according to CNN.
Jesse Byrnes / The Hill:
Fla. rep: Rubio says he's ‘getting in’ Senate race … Rep. David Jolly (R-Fla.) said Friday morning that Sen. Marco Rubio  —  (R-Fla.) is “saying he's getting in” the Senate race.  —  Jolly added during an appearance on CNN's “New Day” that he plans to tell his constituents at noon …
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Neal Ascherson / New York Times:
From Great Britain to Little England  —  London — IT was Queen Elizabeth's official 90th birthday celebration last Sunday, and tables for 10,000 guests were set along the Mall in central London.  Steadily the rain fell, dripping out of the tubas of the bands and softening the sandwiches …
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
How the Party of Sarah Palin Became the Party of Donald Trump  —  Perhaps not a completely unforeseeable development.  —  Donald Trump appeared on the national political stage almost eight years ago.  Only then he was called “Sarah Palin.”  The circumstances of Palin's ascent came very differently.
Noam Scheiber / New York Times:
An Expensive Law Degree, and No Place to Use It  —  VALPARAISO, Ind. — By most measures, John Acosta is a law school success story.  He graduated from Valparaiso University Law School — a well-established regional school here in northwestern Indiana — in the top third of his class this past December, a semester ahead of schedule.
Timothy Egan / New York Times:
A Week for All Time  —  They will remember, a century from now, who stood up to the tyrant Donald Trump and who found it expedient to throw out the most basic American values — the “Vichy Republicans,” as the historian Ken Burns called them in his Stanford commencement speech.
 
 
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Bethania Palma Markus / Raw Story:
Sarah Palin invites mockery by calling Obama ‘special kind of stupid’ in latest unhinged rant
Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
Republicans, Democrats Interpret Orlando Incident Differently
Wall Street Journal:
Justice Department Drops Civil Fraud Case Against Countrywide's Angelo Mozilo
Discussion: Bloomberg and NPR
Guardian:
Jo Cox killing: Nazi regalia discovered at house of suspect
Ari Melber / NBC News:
Top Obama Lawyer: Obamacare Fight Over, Muslim Ban Unlikely
Discussion: Josh Blackman's Blog and Politico
Chris Kahn / Reuters:
Clinton's lead over Trump slips after Florida shooting: Reuters/Ipsos poll
Discussion: The Week
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Mike DeBonis / Washington Post:
Even one of Donald Trump's most ardent Capitol Hill backers is exasperated
Discussion: Mediaite, Joe.My.God. and Guardian
Declan Walsh / New York Times:
What I Saw in Syria  —  Damascus, the capital, had an air of normalcy.
Discussion: The Atlantic and Taylor Marsh
Kristin Salaky / Talking Points Memo:
Warren Reportedly Visits Clinton Campaign HQ: 'Don't Screw This Up!'
Discussion: BostonGlobe.com
Randall Stross / New York Times:
Why LinkedIn Will Make You Hate Microsoft Word
Discussion: Mother Jones and Eschaton
Steven Hayward / Power LinePower Line:
Hitler Learns the Journal of American Greatness Has Shut Down
Caroline May / Breitbart:
The Obama Administration is on pace to issue more than a million green cards to migrants …
 

 
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