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5:15 PM ET, July 1, 2016

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New York Times:
Loretta Lynch to Accept F.B.I. Recommendations in Clinton Email Inquiry  —  WASHINGTON — Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch, conceding that her airport meeting with former President Bill Clinton this week had cast a shadow over a federal investigation of Hillary Clinton's personal email account …
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Chuck Ross / The Daily Caller:
EXCLUSIVE: Hillary Clinton Scheduled To Meet With FBI On Saturday  —  EXCLUSIVE: Hillary Clinton To Meet With The FBI On Saturday  —  Loretta Lynch Regrets Private Meeting With Bill Clinton  —  EXCLUSIVE: Was Bill Clinton Plea Bargaining With The Attorney General?  —  DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION |
Larry O'Connor / Hot Air:
Reporter: FBI ordered ‘no photos, no pictures, no cell phones’ during Clinton/Lynch meeting  —  Reporter Christopher Sign of ABC 15 in Phoenix, AZ appeared on The O'Reilly Factor Thursday night to talk about his scoop involving that secret meeting between former President Bill Clinton and Attorney General Loretta Lynch.
Ken Kurson / The New York Observer:
EXCLUSIVE: Security Source Details Bill Clinton Maneuver to Meet Loretta Lynch  —  Former president delayed Phoenix takeoff to snare ‘20-25 minute encounter’ with Attorney General  —  An exclusive interview with a security source who was present at the unplanned meeting Monday night …
Louis Nelson / Politico:
Lynch regrets ‘shadow’ over Clinton email probe  —  Acknowledging that her meeting this week with former president Bill Clinton had “cast a shadow” over her department's investigation into his wife, Attorney General Loretta Lynch announced Friday that she “fully” expects to accept whatever recommendations …
New York Times:
Unpredictability Is Hallmark of Convention to Crown Donald Trump  —  With just more than two weeks until the Republican National Convention opens in Cleveland, Donald J. Trump's preparations for what is usually a polished and highly choreographed affair are looking a lot like his campaign itself: chaotic, freewheeling and unpredictable.
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Nick Gass / Politico:
Palin rips Never Trump Republicans: ‘You are either with us or against us’
Discussion: RedState
Hadas Gold / Politico:   OpenSecrets denied credential to Republican National Convention
Pema Levy / Mother Jones:
Trump Delegates: We're Bringing Guns to Cleveland
Discussion: Bearing Arms and Hit & Run
Wayne Carter / WREG-TV:
Disabled St. Jude patient sues airport and TSA after bloody scuffle with Airport Police  —  Bloodied and bruised Hannah Cohen was led from Memphis International Airport in handcuffs.  —  The 19-year old was headed home to Chattanooga after treatment for a brain tumor at St. Jude Hospital June 30, 2015.
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Travis Gettys / Raw Story:
Disabled woman beaten bloody by TSA agents after becoming confused and afraid at security checkpoint  —  DON'T MISS STORIES.  FOLLOW RAW STORY!  —  A disabled woman was beaten bloody by federal agents during an airport security screening while on her way to undergo treatment for a brain tumor.
Discussion: Weasel Zippers and Hullabaloo
Brandon Morse / RedState:   Another Example Of How the TSA Is An Awful, Useless, Waste of Taxpayer Money
New York Times:
More Upheaval on Donald Trump's Team as Two Staff Members Resign  —  Donald J. Trump's campaign experienced two more departures this week when two staff members who handled surrogate operations resigned, including one who was hired less than two weeks ago.  —  Kevin Kellems …
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Steven Shepard / Politico:
Insiders: Clinton dominates Trump on the ground
Discussion: Vox, Raw Story and Outside the Beltway
Shane Goldmacher / Politico:   Clinton launches ‘Republicans Against Trump’ campaign
Hillary Clinton / The Toast:
A note on The Toast  —  This is not a joke.  Hillary's team had talked to me a few weeks back about doing something, but I didn't want to do, like, a “If Hillary Were Your President” type thing, and then they got in touch on Wednesday and said she wanted to write something HERSELF …
CBS News:
Bangladesh attack: Gunmen take hostages in deadly assault at Dhaka restaurant  —  DHAKA, Bangladesh — As many as nine gunmen attacked a restaurant popular with foreigners in a diplomatic zone of the Bangladeshi capital on Friday night, taking dozens of hostages and exchanging gunfire with security forces …
Discussion: CNN, NBC News, WBTV-TV and CBS New York
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David A. Fahrenthold / Washington Post:
Donald Trump used money donated for charity to buy himself a Tim Tebow-signed football helmet  —  Did Donald Trump violate IRS rules, by using a charity's money to buy himself a signed football helmet?  —  Four years ago, at a charity fundraiser in Palm Beach, Donald Trump got into a bidding war at the evening's live auction.
Karen DeYoung / Washington Post:
White House releases its count of civilian deaths in counterterrorism operations under Obama  —  The United States has inadvertently killed between 64 and 116 non-combatant civilians in drone and other lethal attacks against terrorism suspects in places not considered active war zones, the Obama administration said Friday.
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New York Times:
U.S. Reveals Death Toll From Airstrikes Outside War Zones
Doug Palmer / Politico:
Gingrich reverses course on trade as Trump VP chatter swirls  —  Former Speaker Newt Gingrich, under consideration as Donald Trump's running mate, is dropping his decades-long support of free trade deals and picking up Trump's strongly protectionist position.
German Lopez / Vox:
Judge: Mississippi's “religious freedom” anti-LGBTQ law violates religious freedom  —  The law favors some religious beliefs — specifically, anti-LGBTQ ones — over others.  —  When Mississippi passed its anti-LGBTQ law earlier this year, state lawmakers argued that they were defending religious freedoms.
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David Frum / The Atlantic:
The Lessons of the Somme  —  On this first day of July, exactly 100 years ago, the peoples of the British Empire suffered the greatest military disaster in their history.  A century later, “the Somme” remains the most harrowing place-name in the annals not only of Great Britain …
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Joseph Loconte / New York Times:   How J.R.R. Tolkien Found Mordor on the Western Front
Callum Borchers / Washington Post:
Corey Lewandowski's first week on CNN was just as bad as everyone expected  —  A week isn't very long to learn a new job, so it's possible Corey Lewandowski will improve in his role as a CNN commentator.  But so far, Donald Trump's recently fired campaign manager is just plain bad — and not only for the reasons many anticipated.
Jared Yates Sexton / New York Times:
Is the Trump Campaign Just a Giant Safe Space for the Right?  —  Statesboro, Ga. — DEPENDING on whom you ask, political correctness is either an effort to expunge offensive expression from our culture, or it's a weapon fashioned by the left to brainwash the next generation.
Norbert Hofer / BBC:
Austria presidential poll result overturned  —  Austria's highest court has annulled the result of the presidential election narrowly lost by the candidate of the far-right Freedom Party.  —  The party had challenged the result, saying that postal votes had been illegally and improperly handled.
Discussion: NPR, The Daily Caller and The Week
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Welp, That's Weird.  But of Course It Is  —  So Tim Watts is my new best friend in the Australian federal parliament.  MP Tim Watts.  Needless to say, we're pals now because he's getting bombarded by the Trump campaign asking for money to fight ‘Crooked Hillary’.  Among other things, Tim's a Labor party member.
 
 
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Wall Street Journal:
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David Brooks / New York Times:
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Gordon Rayner / Telegraph:
How Boris Johnson was brought to his knees by the ‘cuckoo nest plot’
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