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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.”
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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:
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
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.
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
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 …
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Anxiety mounts over GOP convention's security
Nick Gass / Politico:
Carson: My mother ‘would have taken a gun’ and shot ‘dishonest reporters’  —  Former Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson joked Wednesday that if his mother did not have Alzheimer's Disease, she would have likely taken to arms and gone after the “dishonest reporters” covering the campaign herself.
Discussion: The Week
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Dr. Ben Carson / Play.It:
Brown and Scoop … FacebookTwitter … Former Presidential candidate and retired neurosurgeon Dr. Ben Carson joined the show.  Dr. Carson discussed his Presidential campaign, supporting Donald Trump, the future of our nation if Hillary Clinton wins, his book Gifted Hands, and much more.
Discussion: Business Insider
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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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.
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Bill Scher / Politico:
The Left's Beef With Tim Kaine
Bernie Sanders / New York Times:
Democrats Need to Wake Up
Jim Ruth / Washington Post:
I hate Donald Trump.  But he might get my vote.  —  No Trump campaign buttons or bumper stickers for me.  I'm part of the new silent majority: those who don't like Donald Trump but might vote for him anyway.  For many of us, Trump has only one redeeming quality: He isn't Hillary Clinton.
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
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Kristinn Taylor / The Gateway Pundit:   Hillary Clinton Tweets for Trump=> “DONALD TRUMP KNOWS HOW TO CREATE MANUFACTURING JOBS”
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.
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 …
Khari Johnson / VentureBeat:
The DoNotPay bot has beaten 160,000 traffic tickets — and counting  —  A bot made to challenge traffic tickets has been used more than 9,000 times by New Yorkers, according to DoNotPay maker Joshua Browder.  —  The bot was made available to New Yorkers in March.
Discussion: LawNewz
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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 …
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 …
Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Gun Control Wall, Bolstered by Republicans, Shows a Crack  —  WASHINGTON — A widely publicized sit-in by House Democrats.  A bipartisan compromise proposal in the Senate.  Neither is very likely to lead to any legislative action in Congress on gun safety this year.
Discussion: Politicus USA
 
 
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Bloomberg:
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CIA chief Brennan looks at Turkish attack and sees a warning for Americans
Rosalind S. Helderman / Washington Post:
Disclosures of new Clinton emails raise questions about her transparency
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Russian FSB guard attacked U.S. diplomat outside Moscow embassy
Eliana Johnson / National Review:
New Documents Suggest IRS's Lerner Likely Broke the Law
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Jake Sherman / Politico:
Warning: House office water tainted with lead
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Jeet Heer / New Republic:
Conservatives Have Groomed the Perfect Suckers for Trump's Epic Scam
Fairleigh Dickinson University:
Clinton Trumps Trump by Big Margin, But Johnson Hurts Clinton More than Trump
Discussion: Politico
Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
Rolling Stone wins dismissal of defamation lawsuit over rape article
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