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9:45 AM ET, July 6, 2016

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Associated Press:
AP FACT CHECK: Clinton email claims collapse under FBI probe  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Key assertions by Hillary Clinton in defense of her email practices have collapsed under FBI scrutiny.  —  The agency's yearlong investigation found that she did not, as she claimed, turn over all her work-related messages for release.
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Sen. Rand Paul / TIME:
Sen Rand Paul: Hillary Clinton Should Not Be Above the Law  —  Paul is the junior U.S. Senator for Kentucky.  —  It is said—and most of us have spent our lives believing—that we are a nation of laws.  —  If the FBI's decision to not prosecute Hillary Clinton is accepted …
New York Times:
Legal, but Not Political, Clarity on the Clinton Emails  —  James Comey, the director of the F.B.I., may have relieved Hillary Clinton of a legal burden on Tuesday, but he left her with a substantial political one.  While announcing that the bureau would not recommend criminal charges …
Michael Falcone / ABC News:
The Note: Politics on the Jersey Shore  —  NOTABLES  —CLINTON CAMPAIGNS IN ATLANTIC CITY: Hillary Clinton campaigns in Atlantic City today, and this morning her campaign is up with a new online video highlighting Donald Trump's business record in the city, ABC's LIZ KREUTZ notes.
Discussion: NBC News, Washington Post and AOL
Jesse Byrnes / The Hill:
Ryan: GOP will hold hearings on Clinton probe  —  Republicans will hold hearings to learn more about the FBI's decision to not recommend criminal charges for presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton  —  (R-Wis.) said Tuesday night.  —  “People have been convicted for far less …
Discussion: New York Magazine and Hot Air
Andrew McCarthy / National Review:
FBI Rewrites Federal Law to Let Hillary Off the Hook  —  There is no way of getting around this: According to Director James Comey (disclosure: a former colleague and longtime friend of mine), Hillary Clinton checked every box required for a felony violation of Section 793(f) of the federal penal code …
Joel Gehrke / Washington Examiner:
Now FBI director faces congressional probe  —  House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte has a lot of questions for FBI Director James Comey, given the news that Comey won't recommend criminal charges against former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for her mishandling of classified information.
Nick Gass / Politico:
Lewandowski: FBI director acted as ‘judge and jury’ on Clinton  —  Corey Lewandowski, Donald Trump's fired campaign manager, ripped FBI Director James Comey for acting as “the judge and the jury” in his handling of the bureau's probe of Hillary Clinton's email habits.
Discussion: The Hill, Townhall.com and NBC News
Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
On Hillary Clinton's Rough Day, Republicans Rue Missed Chance  —  WASHINGTON — As the Republican strategist Brian Walsh watched the nonstop cable news coverage Tuesday from his K Street office, he thought he was seeing the stuff of his party's dreams.  —  A week after former President Bill Clinton lit …
Chuck Hobbs / The Hill:   FBI's Clinton decision proves rules don't apply to rich and powerful
The Intercept:
Washington Has Been Obsessed With Punishing Secrecy Violations — Until Hillary Clinton
Patrick Healy / New York Times:
F.B.I.'s Critique of Hillary Clinton Is a Ready-Made Attack Ad
Joel B. Pollak / Breitbart:
FBI Proves Hillary Clinton Committed Perjury Before Benghazi Committee
David Weigel / Washington Post:
GOP congressmen call for new independent counsel, to probe Clinton again
Matt Zapotosky / Washington Post:
FBI recommends no criminal charges in Clinton email probe
Jeremy Diamond / CNN:
Trump praises for Saddam Hussein's efficient killing of ‘terrorists,’ calls today's Iraq ‘Harvard for terrorism’  —  Trump: World better with Hussein and Gadhafi in power  —  Raleigh, North Carolina (CNN)Donald Trump on Tuesday once again expressed his preference for keeping dictators in power in the Middle East.
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Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
Clinton Camp Blasts Trump's ‘Cavalier Compliments’ For Dictators  —  The Hillary Clinton campaign on Tuesday night criticized Donald Trump's comments about Saddam Hussein, calling out the Republican presidential candidate's tendency to praise “brutal strongmen.”
Ali Vitali / NBC News:
Donald Trump Praises Saddam Hussein's Approach to Terrorism — Again
Discussion: National Review and AOL
The Hill:
Ryan faces GOP defections on gun proposal  —  Already dealing with threats of another Democratic floor protest, Speaker Paul Ryan  —  (R-Wis.), is now facing defections from the right on a GOP gun bill that conservatives complain is unconstitutional.  —  The handful of Republican naysayers …
Discussion: Instapundit
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Edward-Isaac Dovere / Politico:
Democrats bet the House on Trump  —  As part of an effort to nationalize the November elections by tying Republicans to their lightning-rod presidential nominee, House Democrats have begun collaborating with Hillary Clinton's campaign to build what they're calling their “Trump model” of persuadable voters.
Discussion: Political Wire
Associated Press:
Dems, GOP Seem on Collision Course Over Gun, Terror Bills
Discussion: Politico
Washington Post:
Video captures white Baton Rouge police officer fatally shooting a black man, sparking outrage  —  A video showing two white police officers involved in a deadly altercation with a 37-year-old black man in Baton Rouge circulated across the Internet early Wednesday morning …
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New York Daily News:
Alton Sterling shot, killed by Louisiana cops during struggle after he was selling music outside …
Discussion: NPR, New York Magazine and Mashable
Sarah Palin / Facebook:
GOP # NEVERTRUMP TRAITORS - HILLARY DELIGHTS IN YOU, FOR SHE CAN'T WIN WITHOUT YOU  —  Ironic, tragic, but not unexpected - amidst America's Independence Day celebrations the Ruling Class put another boot on our neck to snuff liberty's life out of We the People.
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Jay Caruso / RedState:
Sarah Palin Calls #NeverTrump “Traitors.” Here's Why She Can Sod Off
Discussion: Daily Wire
Dana Schwartz / The New York Observer:
An Open Letter to Jared Kushner, From One of Your Jewish Employees  —  My name is Dana Schwartz and I'm an entertainment writer at the Observer, the paper owned by your publishing company.  On July 2, as I'm sure you're aware (and have probably been wringing your hands about for the last three days) …
Rong-Gong Lin II / Los Angeles Times:
City workers destroy ‘Holy Grail’ for earthquake scientists — without even knowing it  —  For nearly half a century, thousands trekked to Rose and Prospect streets to behold a slice of sidewalk that, by conventional standards, had no curb appeal.  —  Pulled apart so that it no longer aligned, the humble curb wasn't much to look at.
Discussion: The Verge
John Cheves / Lexington Herald-Leader:
Kim Davis violated Open Records Act, attorney general says  —  Rowan County clerk refuses to produce legal records from 2015 marriage fight  —  Washington nonprofit seeks to learn more about her lawyers at Liberty Counsel  —  Attorney general says Davis must turn records over to its office for private review
 
 
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Daily Mail:
Left-wing German politician who was raped by migrants admits she LIED to police about her …
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