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12:00 PM ET, June 29, 2016

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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:
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Alan Rappeport / New York Times:
Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump Are Deadlocked, Poll Shows  —  Hillary Clinton and Donald J. Trump are deadlocked less than a month before the Democratic and Republican presidential conventions, according to a new national poll that shows the American electorate feeling disappointed in each candidate.
Discussion: Jezebel and The Week
Ballotpedia News:
Ballotpedia's battleground poll, 2016  — Ballot access for presidential candidates  — The media's coverage of Hillary Clinton  — Insiders Poll: First Democratic debate (October 13, 2015)  — Insiders Poll: Winners and losers from the Fox News Republican Debate
Kristinn Taylor / The Gateway Pundit:   Hillary Clinton Tweets for Trump=> “DONALD TRUMP KNOWS HOW TO CREATE MANUFACTURING JOBS”
Jim Ruth / Washington Post:
I hate Donald Trump. But he might get my vote.
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
Ali Vitali / NBC News:
Donald Trump on Terror: You Have to ‘Fight Fire With Fire’
Discussion: Daily Kos and The Week
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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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.
John Podhoretz / New York Post:   Benghazi lies were just standard procedure under Obama
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Two years, $7 million, still no smoking gun on Clinton and Benghazi
Discussion: Hit & Run
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: CNN
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Anxiety mounts over GOP convention's security
Discussion: Washington Post
ABC News:
Nate Silver Predicts Clinton Wins General Election Against Trump … “We're at halftime of the election right now,” Silver said.  “She's taking a seven-point, maybe a ten-point lead into half time.  There's a lot of football left to be played.  She's ahead in almost every poll, every swing state, every national poll.”
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.
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Harold Meyerson / American Prospect:   The First Post-Middle-Class Election
Bernie Sanders / New York Times:
Democrats Need to Wake Up
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: Washington Monthly
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Clive Crook / Bloomberg:   Will Brexit Actually Happen?
Joey Millar / Daily Express:
EU BACKLASH: Brexit ‘TSUNAMI’ expected as 34 referendums set to rock union
Discussion: Infowars
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 …
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Susan Wright / RedState:
CHILLING: Senator Marco Rubio Accurately Predicts Istanbul Terrorist Attack  —  Florida Senator Marco Rubio is no lightweight, and has proven himself well-versed in the threats facing our nation at this very critical juncture in world history.  —  In the wake of Tuesday's terrorist attack …
Discussion: CNN, Mediaite, The Week and Hot Air
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CNN:
Istanbul airport explosions: 10 dead, Justice minister says
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 …
Emma Platoff / Philly.com:
Why police were called to a South Jersey third-grade class party  —  On June 16, police were called to an unlikely scene: an end-of-the-year class party at the William P. Tatem Elementary School in Collingswood.  —  A third grader had made a comment about the brownies being served to the class.
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 …
Cindy Chang / Los Angeles Times:
Poorly performing L.A. sheriff's deputies are not weeded out in their first year, report says  —  Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department recruits grimace in pain on the first day of training, known as “Black Monday.”  (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)  —  New sheriff's deputies …
Discussion: 89.3 KPCC and New York Times
Garrett Epps / The Atlantic:
What Is on Justice Anthony Kennedy's Mind?  —  Some years ago, Dahlia Lithwick and I christened Justice Anthony Kennedy “the Sphinx of Sacramento.”  Throughout his nearly 30 years on the Supreme Court, Kennedy's mind has often seemed like a distant and mysterious country …
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 …
Rosalind S. Helderman / Washington Post:
Disclosures of new Clinton emails raise questions about her transparency  —  As Hillary Clinton prepares to accept the Democratic presidential nomination next month and tries to put to rest the controversy over her private email server, she has repeatedly sought to remind voters that she turned …
Discussion: Politico
 
 
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Mark Murray / NBC News:
Team Clinton Spent $26M on Battleground Ads in June. Trump Spent $0.
Discussion: Mother Jones
Josh Rogin / Washington Post:
Russian FSB guard attacked U.S. diplomat outside Moscow embassy
Eliana Johnson / National Review:
New Documents Suggest IRS's Lerner Likely Broke the Law
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Jake Sherman / Politico:
Warning: House office water tainted with lead
Discussion: The Hill and ThinkProgress
Rick Berke / STAT:
Caitlyn Jenner talks transgender health care, teen suicide, and what doctors need to do better
Discussion: The Daily Caller, Guardian and Mashable
Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Gun Control Wall, Bolstered by Republicans, Shows a Crack
Jeet Heer / New Republic:
Conservatives Have Groomed the Perfect Suckers for Trump's Epic Scam
 Earlier Items: 
Fairleigh Dickinson University:
Clinton Trumps Trump by Big Margin, But Johnson Hurts Clinton More than Trump
Discussion: Politico
Edward-Isaac Dovere / Politico:
How Obama will campaign for Clinton
Discussion: The Week
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
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