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4:50 PM ET, June 28, 2016

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David M. Herszenhorn / New York Times:
House Benghazi Report Finds No New Evidence of Wrongdoing by Hillary Clinton  —  WASHINGTON — Ending one of the longest, costliest and most bitterly partisan congressional investigations in history, the House Select Committee on Benghazi issued its final report on Tuesday …
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NBC News:
Benghazi Panel Finds Blunders, No New Blame for Clinton  —  Benghazi fallout: Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin faces questions 3:17  —  A long-awaited report on the 2012 terrorist attack in Benghazi details an array of bureaucratic miscues and inter-agency blunders but does not blame Hillary Clinton …
Media Matters for America:
Farewell To Fox News' Benghazi Hoax  —  To the surprise of no one, the Republicans' four-year partisan inquisition surrounding the terrorist attack on the American compound in Benghazi, Libya, is likely ending with a whimper.  With the House Select Committee on Benghazi finally releasing its findings …
Stephen F. Hayes / Weekly Standard:
The Benghazi Lie in Black and White  —  The administration's public and private timelines of what happened are very different.  —  The final majority report of the Benghazi Select Committee is set to be released later Tuesday morning.  Representatives Jim Jordan and Mike Pompeo have signed onto …
Rachael Bade / Politico:
Final Benghazi report details administration failures  —  After more than two years, Republicans delivered a final Benghazi Committee report that ripped the Obama administration's handling of the 2012 terrorist attack — but Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign dismissed the findings as “discredited” conspiracy theories.
Rachael Bade / Politico:
State worried about Marine uniforms during attack
Discussion: ABC News
Katie Pavlich / Townhall.com:
Committee Report: Secretary of Defense Panetta Ordered Military Assets For Benghazi, They Never Moved
Discussion: Politico
CNN:
EU chief to Brexiter Nigel Farage: ‘Why are you here?’  —  Go here to follow CNN's Brexit coverage live.  —  London (CNN)One of the architects of Britain's seismic decision to leave the European Union was met with boos and turned backs at a special meeting of the EU Parliament called to address the crisis Tuesday.
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Aditya Chakrabortty / Guardian:
After a campaign scarred by bigotry, it's become OK to be racist in Britain
Discussion: Mediaite
Max Fisher / New York Times:
How Britain Could Exit ‘Brexit’
David A. Fahrenthold / Washington Post:
Trump promised millions to charity.  We found less than $10,000 over 7 years.  —  In May, under pressure from the news media, Donald Trump made good on a pledge he made four months earlier: He gave $1 million to a nonprofit group helping veterans' families.
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Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:   Donald Trump Took Back His Promise To Donate His “Apprentice” Salary To Charity
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Polls are telling Donald Trump the truth, but he's not listening  —  Polls used to tell Donald Trump something.  They told him he was winning the Republican primary race, that his message and style were connecting with voters, that he was more popular than any of his rivals.
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Katherine Faulders / ABC News:
Latest Tweak in Donald Trump's Proposed Muslim Ban Raises More Questions
Discussion: Politico and Daily Kos
NBC News:
Clinton Widens Lead Over Donald Trump in NBC Poll
Discussion: Hot Air and AOL
Marine Corps Times:
The Marines will remove the word ‘man’ from these 19 job titles  —  Thousands of Marines serving throughout the infantry and in other key positions are about to get new gender-neutral job titles, but the service's top leaders are pushing to leave the word “man” in some of its most iconic occupations.
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Thomas Gibbons-Neff / Washington Post:   The Marines just took ‘man’ out of 19 job titles, and people are losing their minds
Jennifer Haberkorn / Politico:
Democrats block Zika funding bill, blame GOP  —  Congress is poised for an epic failure in its efforts to combat Zika before lawmakers leave Washington for a seven-week vacation — and it could come back to bite Republicans at the ballot box if there's an outbreak of the mosquito-borne virus in the United States this summer.
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Tierney Sneed / Talking Points Memo:
GOP Tries To Use Zika Bill To Undo Cemetery Confederate Flag Ban
Reuters:
Explosions hit main airport in Istanbul, several wounded  —  Two explosions hit Istanbul's main international airport on Tuesday, wounding several people, a Turkish official said, in what appeared to be the latest in a string of attacks in Turkey's biggest city this year.
Kate Zernike / New York Times:
For Detroit's Children, More School Choice but Not Better Schools  —  DETROIT — On the face of it, Ana Rivera could have had almost any choice when it came to educating her two sons.  For all the abandoned buildings and burned-down houses in her neighborhood in the southwest part of this city …
Christopher C. Cuomo / Page Six:
Chris Cuomo was in ‘full-blown drag race’ before car crash  —  :0  —  But a friend of the anchor insisted Cuomo never actually...  CNN anchor Chris Cuomo was boozing at his wife's swanky magazine party in Southampton before he crashed his classic convertible into a parked SUV during a drag race, sources told The Post.
Wbastone / The Smoking Gun:
Hack Yields Clinton Campaign E-Mail, Records  —  Breach of Gmail account was part of a broader cyberattack  —  The broad spear phishing campaign targeting the e-mail accounts of Hillary Clinton campaign officials has yielded hackers a wide assortment of internal memos and other communications …
Louis Nelson / Politico:
RNC unveils dramatic Trump convention stage  —  The set that will host Donald Trump's acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland will feature a massive video board and twin white staircases leading up to the stage.  —  The 1,711 square foot video board …
Discussion: ABC News
Politico:
Full transcript: Donald Trump's jobs plan speech  —  Remarks as prepared for delivery:  —  Declaring America's Economic Independence  —  Story Continued Below  —  It is great to be here.  I'd like to thank Alumisource and all the amazing workers here for hosting us.
Discussion: Vox, Washington Post and Cafe Hayek
Emile Nakhleh / Vox:
I worked in the CIA under Bush.  Obama is right to not say “radical Islam.”  —  Avoiding the phrase isn't “politically correct.”  It's strategic.  —  The recent verbal attacks by the Republican presumptive nominee Donald Trump and his supporters on President Barack Obama for avoiding the phrase …
Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
Hillary Clinton's email story continues to get harder and harder to believe  —  On Monday night, the Associated Press published a piece noting the release of an additional 165 pages of emails Hillary Clinton sent from her private email address while serving as secretary of state.
Discussion: Political Wire
Joel B. Pollak / Breitbart:
No, Jesse Williams, I Will Not ‘Sit Down’  —  Actor Jesse Williams of Grey's Anatomy is being celebrated by like-minded left-wingers across the Internet for delivering what is being called a courageous speech on race at the Black Entertainment (BET) Awards on Sunday evening.
Discussion: The Root, VSB, Deadline and Washington Post
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Megan Lasher / TIME:
Read the Full Transcript of Jesse Williams' Powerful Speech on Race at the BET Awards
Discussion: Washington Post
 
 
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Nick Ochsner / WBTV-TV:
NC House leadership drafts HB2 changes amid pressure from NBA
Discussion: Vox, Raw Story and WNCN
Griff Witte / Washington Post:
British Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn loses no-confidence vote as political turmoil deepens
Greg Stohr / Bloomberg:
U.S. Supreme Court Won't Reopen Union-Fees Case, Leaves Deadlock
Seung Min Kim / Politico:
Reid: Taxpayers should sue Rubio for truancy
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Virginia Postrel / Bloomberg:
California Hits the Brakes on High-Speed Rail Fiasco
Discussion: Hit & Run
Erik D. Olson / nrdc.org:
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Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
UK Pols To Trump: Stop Clogging Our Inboxes With Your ‘Intemperate Spam’!
Darren Samuelsohn / Politico:
Trump's secret data reversal
Discussion: Hot Air and The Hill
Ian Shapira / Washington Post:
Civil rights leader Walter Fauntroy arrested at Dulles International Airport
Discussion: Power Line
Ilana E. Strauss / The Atlantic:
Would a Work-Free World Be So Bad?
Discussion: Althouse