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6:45 AM ET, June 29, 2016

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Bloomberg:
Trump Campaign Lining Up Tyson and Ditka for Convention  —  Several sports personalities and musical entertainers have agreed to appear at this summer's convention.  —  kevcirilli  —  ESPN has nothing on this summer's Republican national convention.  —  Donald Trump's campaign aides …
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Ed O'Keefe / Washington Post:
Who will show up?  Who will pay?  The many unknowns of the GOP convention.  —  Dozens of well-known Republicans aren't showing up.  There's no word yet on who will speak.  A growing number of corporate sponsors are taking a pass.  Groups of white supremacists and other agitators are on the way …
Discussion: Politico
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
CNN:
Istanbul airport explosions: 10 dead, Justice minister says  — At least 10 people have been killed and 20 others injured in the attack at Istanbul's Ataturk Airport, Turkey's Justice Minister Bekir Bozdag told CNN.  —  The two suicide bombers were also killed.
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BBC:
Istanbul Ataturk airport attack: At least 28 dead and dozens injured
Discussion: Jihad Watch and The Daily Caller
Hadas Gold / Politico:
Lewandowski loses $1.2 million book deal  —  Corey Lewandowski had a $1.2-million offer from HarperCollins to write a book chronicling his time running Donald Trump's presidential campaign, but the publishing giant backed away from the deal amid concerns about Lewandowski's nondisclosure agreement …
Joey Millar / Daily Express:
EU BACKLASH: Brexit ‘TSUNAMI’ expected as 34 referendums set to rock union  —  THE European Union (EU) is about to be rocked by a “political tsunami” with right-wing parties across the continent calling for dozens of in-out referendums.  —  EXPRESS  —  Brexit is expected to inspire dozens of other referenda across Europe
Discussion: Infowars
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James Traub / Foreign Policy:
It's Time for the Elites to Rise Up Against the Ignorant Masses  —  The Brexit has laid bare the political schism of our time.  It's not about the left vs. the right; it's about the sane vs. the mindlessly angry.  —  I was born in 1954, and until now I would have said that the late 1960s …
Discussion: Infowars
Marine Le Pen / New York Times:
After Brexit, the People's Spring Is Inevitable
Discussion: Foreign Policy and Vox Popoli
Bernie Sanders / New York Times:
Democrats Need to Wake Up  —  Surprise, surprise.  Workers in Britain, many of whom have seen a decline in their standard of living while the very rich in their country have become much richer, have turned their backs on the European Union and a globalized economy that is failing them and their children.
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Roger Cohen / New York Times:
Britain to Leave Europe for a Lie
Discussion: Hit & Run, Reason and Guardian
Fusion:
Why is Team Trump asking liberal Scottish politicians for donations?  —  In recent days, as the U.K. pondered its future in the European Union and presumptive GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump waded in with a press conference on his Scottish golf course, the Scottish National Party's 54 members …
Discussion: Scotsman, Daily Kos, Raw Story and RedState
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Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
UK Pols To Trump: Stop Clogging Our Inboxes With Your ‘Intemperate Spam’!
Jim Morrill / The Charlotte Observer:
NC House leadership drafts HB2 changes amid pressure from NBA  —  Among the draft bill's biggest changes is the creation of an official document that would recognize a person's gender reassignment  —  Proposal could help the league keep the All-Star Game in Charlotte  —  RALEIGH
Discussion: Vox and WNCN
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Zack Ford / ThinkProgress:
If This Is How North Carolina Republicans Think HB2 Can Be Fixed, They're Wrong
Discussion: Business Insider
Ashley May / USA Today:
After son with Down Syndrome isn't invited to birthday party, mom writes letter … When Jennifer Kiss-Engele found out that her son with Down Syndrome was excluded from a classmate's birthday party, she wrote an open letter on Facebook.  —  Kiss-Engele, of British Columbia …
Discussion: Tech Times, AOL, KFOR-TV and Mashable
Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Senate Democrats block Zika agreement ahead of recess  —  Senate Democrats on Tuesday blocked a deal providing funding for the fight against the Zika virus, virtually guaranteeing that Congress won't get legislation to President Obama's desk this month.  —  In a 52-48 vote …
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Tierney Sneed / Talking Points Memo:
GOP Tries To Use Zika Bill To Undo Cemetery Confederate Flag Ban
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
Kristinn Taylor / The Gateway Pundit:
Hillary Clinton Tweets Pro-Trump Message: DONALD TRUMP KNOWS HOW TO CREATE MANUFACTURING JOBS  —  Democrat Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign posted a tweet Tuesday evening meant to attack GOP presidential rival Donald Trump but which actually praises Trump as a job creating businessman with international experience.
Steven Shepard / Politico:
Are the polls skewed against Trump?  —  Is there a pool of voters who are too embarrassed to admit to pollsters they're voting for Donald Trump?  —  As Trump consistently lags Hillary Clinton in general-election polls, his campaign is counting on it.  —  The notion of the “shy Trump voter” …
Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
Rolling Stone wins dismissal of defamation lawsuit over rape article  —  A federal judge on Tuesday dismissed a lawsuit by three former University of Virginia fraternity members who accused Rolling Stone magazine, its publisher Wenner Media and a journalist of defamation over a since retracted article describing a gang rape.
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Hot Air
Patrick Svitek / The Texas Tribune:
UT Poll: Trump Leads Clinton by 8 in Texas … *Editor's note: This story has been updated throughout.  —  Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump leads Democratic rival Hillary Clinton by 8 percentage points in Texas, according to a University of Texas/Texas Politics Project Poll released Monday.
Malia Zimmerman / Fox News:
Obama administration pressed to deport illegal immigrant ex-cons  —  More than 2,000 illegal immigrants were turned loose on American streets after serving prison sentences last year - often because their home countries refused to take them back - and many subsequently committed crimes including rape …
Michelle Ye Hee Lee / Washington Post:
Why Donald Trump calls Elizabeth Warren ‘Pocahontas’  —  “Crooked Hillary is wheeling out one of the least productive senators in the U.S. Senate, goofy Elizabeth Warren, who lied on heritage.”  —  “Pocahontas is not happy, she's not happy.  She's the worst.
Griff Witte / Washington Post:
British Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn loses no-confidence vote as political turmoil deepens  —  LONDON — Britain's political turmoil deepened Tuesday, with members of the opposition Labour Party rebelling against their leader in a no-confidence vote while the governing Conservatives started …
Virginia Postrel / Bloomberg:
California Hits the Brakes on High-Speed Rail Fiasco  —  California's high-speed rail project increasingly looks like an expensive social science experiment to test just how long interest groups can keep money flowing to a doomed endeavor before elected officials finally decide to cancel it.
Discussion: Hit & Run
 
 
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Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Sanders raising money to send delegates to Philadelphia
Sara Jerde / Talking Points Memo:
White House Blasts Benghazi Report As ‘In-Kind Contribution’ To RNC
Discussion: Associated Press
Eric Geller / Politico:
Hackers down House Democrats' websites
Discussion: Infowars
Greg Stohr / Bloomberg:
U.S. Supreme Court Won't Reopen Union-Fees Case, Leaves Deadlock
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