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12:35 PM ET, July 13, 2016

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Nick Gass / Politico:
Swing-state stunner: Trump has edge in key states  —  Did Donald Trump really just surge past Hillary Clinton in two of the election's most important battlegrounds?  —  New swing-state polls released Wednesday by Quinnipiac University show Trump leading Clinton in Florida and Pennsylvania …
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David Lightman / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Clinton's lead over Trump shrinks dramatically  —  It's the first time she's dropped below 50 percent support  —  Clinton up 3 points against only Trump, by 5 in 4-way contest  —  The email controversy is taking a toll on Clinton  —  CLEVELAND  —  Hillary Clinton's lead over Donald Trump …
Jesse Byrnes / The Hill:
New poll shows Trump leading Clinton in key swing states  —  in Florida and has a lead in the swing state of Pennsylvania, according to a new poll released Wednesday by Quinnipiac University.  —  Trump leads Clinton, 42 to 39 percent, in Florida in the latest Quinnipiac University poll.
Jim Dwyer / New York Times:   Scholars Steeped in Dead Politicians Take On a Live One: Donald Trump
Lissette Rodriguez / ABC News:
Donald Trump Up to Dead Heat With Hillary Clinton in 3 Swing State Polls
Discussion: Politico and Associated Press
Mark Murray / NBC News:
Ad Spending Update: Clinton Outspends Trump $57M to $4M
Discussion: Don Surber and Washington Post
New York Times:
Donald Trump Is Right About Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg  —  Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg needs to drop the political punditry and the name-calling.  —  Three times in the past week, Justice Ginsburg has publicly discussed her view of the presidential race, in the sharpest terms.
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Mark Hensch / The Hill:
Ginsburg doubles down on Trump criticism
Brian McBride / ABC News:
Donald Trump Calls for Justice Ginsburg to Resign
Discussion: Associated Press, Politico and 6abc.com
Mark Hensch / The Hill:
GOP rep: Ginsburg's Trump attacks ‘inexcusable’
Media Matters for America:
CNN's Corey Lewandowski Is Still Being Paid By Donald Trump  —  Former Donald Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski is still being paid by the presumptive GOP presidential nominee's campaign while simultaneously drawing a salary as a CNN contributor to discuss the candidate on-air, according to the network.
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Hadas Gold / Politico:
Trump campaign manager gets rough with Breitbart reporter  —  Donald Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski forcibly yanked Breitbart reporter Michelle Fields out of the way after his press conference in Florida on Tuesday night.  —  Fields was attempting to ask Trump a question as he exited the press conference.
James Hohmann / Washington Post:
The Daily 202: Mike Pence will be in big trouble if Trump passes him over for vice president  —  THE BIG IDEA:  —  One of the bigger knocks on Mike Pence when he was in the House, whispered privately among some leading lights of the conservative movement, was that he comes across as inauthentic and a little phony.
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Wall Street Journal:
Donald Trump Wants an Attack Dog as His Running Mate
Jennifer Aniston / The Huffington Post:
For The Record  —  Let me start by saying that addressing gossip is something I have never done.  I don't like to give energy to the business of lies, but I wanted to participate in a larger conversation that has already begun and needs to continue.  Since I'm not on social media, I decided to put my thoughts here in writing.
Nicholas Confessore / New York Times:
For Whites Sensing Decline, Donald Trump Unleashes Words of Resistance  —  The chant erupts in a college auditorium in Washington, as admirers of a conservative internet personality shout down a black protester.  It echoes around the gym of a central Iowa high school, as white students taunt …
Discussion: Daily Kos and The Week
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Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
GOP platform gets Trump-ified
Discussion: Mediaite and BizPac Review
CBS News:
Son of Alton Sterling: “Protest the right way”  —  At just 15, Cameron Sterling is preparing for his father's funeral.  He's also thinking about the protests that are happening across the country and the police ambush in Dallas, which was motivated in part by his father's fatal shooting.
Discussion: Guardian, The Root and BizPac Review
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Andrew Rosenthal / New York Times:
Bernie's Uninspiring Endorsement  —  Bernie Sanders went off for a month to contemplate life after the revolution, and this was the best he could come up with?  “Secretary Clinton has won the Democratic nominating process, and I congratulate her for that.”  —  So said Sanders at a rally …
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Orin Kerr / Washington Post:
9th Circuit: It's a federal crime to visit a website after being told not to visit it  —  The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit has handed down a very important decision on the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, Facebook v. Vachani, which I flagged just last week.
We Are The Left:
An Open Letter on Identity Politics, to and from the Left  —  We, the undersigned, are in the uncomfortable position of reporting on a problem that we are told does not exist.  —  We ask you to consider a few incidents.  —  In 1968, the leftist Shulamith Firestone gives a speech at a conference.
Post Register:
Transgender woman arrested for voyeurism at Target  —  A transgender Idaho Falls woman was arrested Tuesday on one count of felony voyeurism for a report that she took pictures of another woman changing clothes in a dressing room at Target in Ammon.  —  Shauna Patricia Smith, 43 …
Richard Roeper / Chicago Sun Times:
‘Ghostbusters’ reboot a horrifying mess  —  So bad.  —  “Ghostbusters” is a horror from start to finish, and that's not me saying it's legitimately scary.  —  More like I was horrified by what was transpiring onscreen.  —  How could so many talented, well-meaning artists …
Discussion: Vox Popoli
Leon H. Wolf / RedState:
Donald Trump: I'd Like to Say I Know What it's Like to be Black Because the GOP Oppressed me in the Primary (VIDEO)  —  Donald Trump, one of the most privileged-from-birth white people who has ever walked the face of the earth, was asked last night by the execrable and equally orange Bill O'Reilly …
Discussion: Mediaite
Paul Demko / Politico:
Obamacare's sinking safety net  —  If you're looking to find a smashing Obamacare success story—a place where the nation's biggest and most controversial new law in a generation has truly lived up to its promise—you might stick a pin directly in North Carolina.
WTKR-TV:
Three hospitalized after Norfolk shooting caught on Facebook Live  —  NORFOLK, Va. - According to police, three men were shot in the 900 block of Bainbridge Blvd. Tuesday evening.  —  Neighbors said they heard anywhere from 10-20 gunshots and it appears that one of the passengers inside …
Discussion: CBS Baltimore, fox13now.com and RT
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Emily Satchell / WAVY-TV:
Norfolk Police confirm Facebook video shows triple shooting
Discussion: KRON4.com and NBC News
Nate Raymond / Reuters:
In first, U.S. judge throws out cell phone ‘stingray’ evidence  —  For the first time, a federal judge has suppressed evidence obtained without a warrant by U.S. law enforcement using a stingray, a surveillance device that can trick suspects' cell phones into revealing their locations.
Discussion: ACLU, ThinkProgress and The Week
 
 
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Carmelo Anthony / Guardian:
We athletes can no longer remain on the sidelines in the struggle for justice
Discussion: USA Today and Complex
John Dodge / CBS Chicago:
White Woman Walks In Black Neighborhood: I'm Sorry Black America
Discussion: Daily Wire and Raw Story
Tina Nguyen / Vanity Fair:
Republican Senator Jeff Flake Explains Why Trump Can't Win
Sean Davis / The Federalist:
No, President Obama, It's Not Easier To Buy A Glock Than A Book
Discussion: Betsy's Page, Mediaite and Daily Wire
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Rebecca Ballhaus / Wall Street Journal:
Many Voters Think They've Seen Trump Ads On TV — But He Hasn't Run Any
Discussion: Political Wire
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Trump University case: A battle over video
Discussion: The Week
Christine Hauser / New York Times:
Minuteman Co-Founder Sentenced to 19½ Years for Molesting 5-Year-Old
Discussion: Boing Boing
WEWS-TV:
Shreve police sergeant suspended after ‘monkey’ Facebook post
Discussion: The Root, Raw Story and Mediaite