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10:00 AM ET, June 29, 2016

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Robin Wright / New Yorker:
Chris Stevens's Family: Don't Blame Hillary Clinton for Benghazi  —  On Tuesday, the House Select Committee on Benghazi, which is controlled by a Republican majority, charged the Obama Administration with diplomatic miscalculations, security failures, and a lengthy delay in rescue efforts …
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John Podhoretz / New York Post:
Benghazi lies were just standard procedure under Obama  —  MORE FROM:  —  The Benghazi report released Tuesday makes clear that one dreadful constant of President Obama's foreign policy is simply this: Deflect.  Muddy the picture.  Question the motivation.
Donovan Slack / USA Today:
Exclusive: NRA to run $2 million Benghazi-themed ad campaign for Trump  —  The National Rifle Association's political arm is launching its first ad campaign of the 2016 presidential race, with a survivor of the terror attack in Benghazi urging viewers to vote for Donald Trump.
Bill Scher / Politico:
The Left's Beef With Tim Kaine  —  Everyone assumes Senator Tim Kaine is Hillary Clinton's “safe” pick for vice president.  He's geographically safe: hailing from the swing state of Virginia, where a Democratic governor can name his replacement.  He's demographically safe: a white male Catholic who speaks fluent Spanish.
Discussion: GOP.com, Washington Post, Salon and NBC News
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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.
Harold Meyerson / American Prospect:
The First Post-Middle-Class Election  —  Two years ago, a pollster for Democratic candidates told me he'd begun advising his clients to cease emphasizing “the middle class” when speaking of those Americans whose interests they were defending.  Many Americans who once thought of themselves as middle-class, he argued, no longer did.
Tal Kopan / CNN:
First on CNN: Poll shows Clinton with battleground leads  —  Elizabeth Warren joins Clinton to attack Donald Trump  —  Washington (CNN)Hillary Clinton leads Donald Trump across the board in a new poll of battleground states.  —  According to Ballotpedia's battleground poll, Clinton leads Trump:
Discussion: The Week and Political Wire
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Fairleigh Dickinson University:
Clinton Trumps Trump by Big Margin, But Johnson Hurts Clinton More than Trump
Discussion: Politico
Patrick Svitek / The Texas Tribune:
UT Poll: Trump Leads Clinton by 8 in Texas
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 …
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: Political Wire
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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 …
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Joey Millar / Daily Express:
EU BACKLASH: Brexit ‘TSUNAMI’ expected as 34 referendums set to rock union
Discussion: Infowars
Marine Le Pen / New York Times:
After Brexit, the People's Spring Is Inevitable
Discussion: Foreign Policy and Vox Popoli
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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Constanze Letsch / Guardian:
Turkey airport attack: 28 killed in explosions at Istanbul Atatürk
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.
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Ali Vitali / NBC News:
Donald Trump on Terror: You Have to ‘Fight Fire With Fire’
Discussion: Daily Kos and The Week
Nick Gass / Politico:
Trump on Istanbul attack: ‘Will the world ever realize what is going on?’
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and ABC News
Matt Canham / Salt Lake Tribune:
Utah's Misty Snow makes history as Dems' transgender Senate nominee  —  Primary sets up contest with GOP's Lee in November.  —  Utah voters picked a historic, and largely unknown, Democratic candidate to challenge Sen. Mike Lee this November.  —  Misty K. Snow is the first transgender nominee …
Discussion: Althouse
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Louis Nelson / Politico:
Two transgender candidates named ‘Misty’ win primaries
Discussion: The Week
Clive Crook / Bloomberg:
Will Brexit Actually Happen?  —  The Financial Times's Gideon Rachman says he thinks Brexit won't happen.  The referendum result doesn't mean that much, he argues. … He goes on to say, “It is true the British case has some novel elements.”  I think you call that ironic understatement.
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 …
Daily Mail:
‘Gosh, I suppose I better get up!’  SARAH VINE (aka Mrs Gove) reveals what her husband said when he learned Leave had won the referendum... and how PM's resignation was ‘absolutely’ not intended  —  The first I knew about the referendum result was at 4.45am last Friday when I was woken …
The Hill:
EXCLUSIVE: Pro-Hillary group takes $200K in banned donations  —  has accepted $200,000 in donations from a company holding multiple contracts with the federal government — despite a ban on such contributions.  —  According to a review of contributions by The Hill, Boston-based Suffolk Construction …
Discussion: RedState and LawNewz
Patrick McGreevy / Los Angeles Times:
Initiative to legalize recreational use of pot in California qualifies for November ballot  —  Different strains of pot are displayed for sale at a marijuana dispensary in Denver in 2013.  (Brennan Linsley / Associated Press)  —  An initiative that would legalize the recreational use …
Discussion: New York Times and FOX5 San Diego
Edward-Isaac Dovere / Politico:
How Obama will campaign for Clinton  —  Concerned that Hillary Clinton is still struggling to generate excitement, President Barack Obama is preparing to campaign for her by reminding voters there was a time he didn't like her so much, but he came around — and they should too.
Discussion: The Week
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
 
 
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Samuel Gibbs / Guardian:
Chatbot lawyer overturns 160,000 parking tickets in London and New York
Discussion: The Week, Boing Boing and Nerdcore
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie / New York Times:
‘The Arrangements’: A Work of Fiction
Jessica Taylor / NPR:
Obama: Trump Hasn't Captured ‘Zeitgeist Of The Country’
Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
Rolling Stone wins dismissal of defamation lawsuit over rape article
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Hot Air
Steven Shepard / Politico:
Are the polls skewed against Trump?
Discussion: Washington Post
 Earlier Items: 
Ashley May / USA Today:
After son with Down Syndrome isn't invited to birthday party, mom writes letter
Discussion: Tech Times, AOL, Mashable and KFOR-TV
Malia Zimmerman / Fox News:
Obama administration pressed to deport illegal immigrant ex-cons
Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Sanders raising money to send delegates to Philadelphia
Virginia Postrel / Bloomberg:
California Hits the Brakes on High-Speed Rail Fiasco
Discussion: Hit & Run
Michelle Ye Hee Lee / Washington Post:
Why Donald Trump calls Elizabeth Warren ‘Pocahontas’
Christopher C. Cuomo / Page Six:
Chris Cuomo was in ‘full-blown drag race’ before car crash