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Sean Sullivan / Washington Post:
Trump, seeking GOP unity, has tense meeting with Senate Republicans  —  Donald Trump's private meeting Thursday with Senate Republicans - designed to foster greater party unity ahead of the national convention in Cleveland — grew combative as the presumptive presidential nominee admonished three senators …
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Lauren Fox / Talking Points Memo:
Trump Manages To Give Some House GOPers More Heartburn In Hill Meeting  —  He arrived 20 minutes late.  —  Then presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump addressed the House GOP's rank and file in a standing-room-only meeting at the Capitol Hill Club in Washington.
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Trump to Sasse: ‘You must want Hillary’  —  Donald Trump singled out his chief Republican nemesis in the Senate, Ben Sasse, during a private meeting with senators on Thursday, and also had a testy exchange with Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake.  —  At one point during the gathering …
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Majority of GOP senators to attend Trump convention  —  A majority of Senate Republicans will be attending the party's national convention in Cleveland this month, despite the reservations that many of them have about Donald Trump  —  A survey by The Hill found that 32 Senate Republicans plan …
CNN:
Donald Trump meets with Ted Cruz, Reince Priebus
Discussion: Hot Air
Scott Wong / The Hill:
Trump blasts media in meeting with House Republicans
Julian Hattem / The Hill:
FBI didn't record Clinton interview, did not administer sworn oath  —  did not swear an oath to tell the truth before meeting with the FBI for three and a half hours last weekend, and the interview was not recorded, FBI Director James Comey told House lawmakers on Thursday.
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Julian Hattem / The Hill:
Five panels to grill FBI on Clinton  —  Furious congressional Republicans are launching a multipronged attack against the FBI and Hillary Clinton  —  A total of five congressional committees will either hold hearings with high-profile law enforcement officials over the next week …
Rich Lowry / Politico:
Rigged 101  —  The conspiracy theory about Donald Trump …
Discussion: The Hill and National Review
Tommy Christopher / Mediaite:
FBI Director Destroys Donald Trump Talking Point That Hillary Was Worse Than Petraeus
Discussion: alan.com
Louis Nelson / Politico:
Comey sharply rejects idea that FBI coordinated with others on Clinton probe
Discussion: The Resurgent
Alex Griswold / Mediaite:
FBI Director: Hillary Clinton Wasn't ‘Sophisticated Enough’ to Understand Classified Markings
Discussion: LawNewz
Jason Horowitz / New York Times:
Would Donald Trump Quit if He Wins the Election?  He Doesn't Rule It Out  —  The traditional goal of a presidential nominee is to win the presidency and then serve as president.  —  Donald J. Trump is not a traditional candidate for president.  —  Presented in a recent interview with a scenario …
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Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Trump plays coy when asked if he'll serve as president
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Sdswanson / WCCO | CBS Minnesota:
Police Fatally Shoot Man During Traffic Stop, Aftermath Video Posted  —  MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — A 32-year-old man has died after an officer-involved shooting Wednesday night in Falcon Heights.  —  Philando Castile's mother, Valerie Castile, says he died at Hennepin County Medical Center after 11 p.m.
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Charles C. W. Cooke / National Review:
A Few Thoughts on the Killing of Philando Castile  —  A horrible story from Minnesota, as reported by the Washington Post: … The aftermath of the shooting was filmed by Castile's girlfriend, but the shooting itself was not.  As such, I imagine that any debate will revolve primarily around …
Washington Post:
Minn. cop fatally shoots man during traffic stop, aftermath broadcast on Facebook
Bloomberg:
Sanders Says He'll Do Everything Possible to Help Elect Clinton  —  Vermont senator says Trump presidency would be disastrous  —  Sanders says he'd be ‘pleased’ with Warren as Clinton's VP  —  Bernie Sanders signaled a formal endorsement of Hillary Clinton is imminent …
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Patrick Healy / New York Times:
Bernie Sanders Is Expected to Endorse Hillary Clinton Next Week
David Siders / Sacramento Bee:
Poll sees Hillary Clinton trouncing Donald Trump in California
Discussion: Hot Air and Booman Tribune
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Numbers / Pew Research Center:
2016 Campaign: Strong Interest, Widespread Dissatisfaction  —  As convention nears, most Republicans see a party divided  —  As Republicans and Democrats prepare for their party conventions later this month, a new national survey paints a bleak picture of voters' impressions …
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Pew Research Center:
Vote preference over time  —  2008 June vote preference 2012 …
Discussion: Washington Post
James Wigney / Herald Sun:
Star Trek Beyond favourite Mr Sulu has come out as castmates reflect on the death of Anton Yelchin … Helmsman of the USS Enterprise, Hikaru Sulu, played by John Cho, is shown in Star Trek Beyond as the loving father of a daughter with a same sex partner.  And in typical trailblazing Trek fashion — it's just not a big deal.
Eli Stokols / Politico:
Trump's son-in-law under fire from family  —  Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's Jewish son-in-law and increasingly a power player atop his presidential campaign, was an obvious choice to publicly defend the candidate this week amid a firestorm over a tweet that many viewed as anti-Semitic.
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Sarah Ferris / The Hill:
GOP blocks Dem attempts to allow federal gun research  —  A House panel on Thursday rejected multiple efforts by Democrats to eliminate a budget amendment that has frozen nearly all government research into gun violence for 17 years.  —  During a markup of next year's health spending bill …
Discussion: Daily Kos
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USA Today:
Democrats disrupt House again over gun bills
Discussion: RedState and Bearing Arms
John Bresnahan / Politico:
House GOP indefinitely delays gun control votes
Discussion: ThinkProgress and Daily Kos
Dylan Segelbaum / York Daily Record:
Red Lion woman pleads guilty in loud sex case  —  Amanda Warfel, 25, was ordered to spend 45 to 90 days in York County Prison, which she's already served.  —  CONNECT  —  A woman from Red Lion pleaded guilty on Wednesday to disorderly conduct in a case in which police said she had sex …
Claude Brodesser-Akner / New Jersey Online:
Trump ‘unlikely’ to pick Christie, according to sources  —  TRENTON — It is highly unlikely that Gov. Chris Christie will be Donald Trump's running mate, according to two sources who are advising the Trump campaign and who requested to remain anonymous.  —  Instead, the sources …
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Roxane Gay / New York Times:
Alton Sterling and When Black Lives Stop Mattering  —  OVER the past several years, we have borne witness to grainy videos of what “protect and serve” looks like for black lives — Tamir Rice, Walter Scott, Eric Garner, Kajieme Powell, to name a few.  I don't think any of us could have imagined …
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Kira Lerner / ThinkProgress:
Why Black Lives Don't Matter To The NRA
Discussion: Raw Story and Guardian
Emily Smith / Page Six:
Wall Street hot shot ‘trashes’ $20M Hamptons home  —  Hedge funder Brett Barna threw a wild “Wolf of Wall Street"-style Hamptons party — awash with Champagne, scores of bikini-clad women and costumed gun-toting midgets — and allegedly trashed a $20 million mansion.
 
 
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