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10:15 PM ET, July 18, 2016

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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Chaos erupts on GOP convention floor after voice vote shuts down Never Trump forces  —  CLEVELAND — The Republican party came within a whisker of reaching the unity it had long sought Monday.  What it got instead was convention floor chaos.  —  After mounting for weeks …
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Dylan Matthews / Vox:
An ex-senator called Trump backers “brownshirts,” in case you wondered how the RNC's going  —  Former Sen. Gordon Humphrey (R-NH) hasn't been a major national political figure for some time.  While he was a leading conservative in the Senate from 1978 to 1990, he faded away after he declined …
Discussion: Weekly Standard and Mediaite
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Trump fundraiser resigns in anger after floor eruption  —  CLEVELAND — A top donor raising money for Donald Trump  —  and the Republican National Committee says he has resigned in disgust after the party muscled through a vote on the convention floor that squashed the “Free the Delegates” movement.
Leon H. Wolf / RedState:
RNC - CHAOS in Cleveland.  Chair IGNORES Successfully Filed Petition for Rules Committee Roll Call Vote (UPDATED)  —  CLEVELAND, OH - Reince Priebus's attempts to avoid a roll call vote on a Rules package appear to have failed, against all expectations.  This package is not just an anti-Trump package …
Allegra Kirkland / Talking Points Memo:
RNC Speaker Scott Baio Tweeted Meme Referring To Hillary Clinton As A C**t  —  Eighties sitcom star Scott Baio, who is scheduled to address the Republican National Convention on Monday, shares the party nominee's penchant for off-color tweets.  —  Last week, Baio shared a meme …
Tierney Sneed / Talking Points Memo:
Never Trumpers Denied Vote In Disruptive Early Moments Of Convention (VIDEO)
Discussion: BNR, Balloon Juice and Shakesville
Meghan Keneally / ABC News:
5 Things to Know About Melania Trump
Discussion: Politico, Associated Press and KSNG-TV
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Day 1: GOP civil war breaks out in Cleveland
New York Times:
Scrambling, Planners of the Republican Convention Put ‘Showbiz’ Off to the Wings
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
And Here's Your First TrumpVention Debacle
Discussion: Hullabaloo
Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
Anti-Trump delegates say they will force roll call vote on rules
Discussion: Washington Post and Politico
CNN:
Anti-Trump forces make-last ditch effort
Discussion: RedState and The Right Scoop
Gabriel Sherman / New York Magazine:
Murdochs Have Decided to Remove Roger Ailes — the Only Question Now Is When  —  Roger Ailes's tenure as the head of Fox News may be coming to an end.  Rupert Murdoch and sons Lachlan and James — co-chairmen and CEO, respectively, of parent company 21st Century Fox — have settled on removing …
BBC:
Germany axe attack: Assault on train in Wuerzburg  —  A teenage Afghan refugee armed with an axe and knife injured four people on a train in southern Germany before being shot dead by police, officials say.  —  Three people were seriously hurt and one suffered minor injuries in the attack in Wuerzburg, police said.
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Daily Mail:
Horror as 19 people are hospitalised by 17-year-old Afghan refugee wielding an AXE and shouting ‘Allahu Akbar’ in German train rampage before police shot him dead as he fled the scene  —  A teenage Afghan refugee shouted ‘Allahu Akbar’ before hacking at passengers during an axe and knife rampage on a train in Germany.
Discussion: Power Line and Vox Popoli
Richard Wheatstone / Mirror.co.uk:
Germany train axe attack: Afghan teenage refugee shouting ‘Allahu Akbar’ goes on bloody rampage hacking passengers  —  The teenager was shot dead as he attempted to leave the train having injured a number of people  —  An axe-man who stormed a passenger train and hacked at terrified passengers …
Telegraph:
German train ‘axe attack’: more than 20 reported to be injured
Discussion: Hot Air
Josh Rogin / Washington Post:
Trump campaign guts GOP's anti-Russia stance on Ukraine  —  The Trump campaign worked behind the scenes last week to make sure the new Republican platform won't call for giving weapons to Ukraine to fight Russian and rebel forces, contradicting the view of almost all Republican foreign policy leaders in Washington.
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Vox:
The Republicans waged a 3-decade war on government. They got Trump.
Fawn Johnson / Morning Consult:
The Party of Ronald Reagan Isn't So Sure About Itself Now
Discussion: Bloomberg and Red Alert Politics
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Rep. Steve King wonders what ‘sub-groups’ besides whites made contributions to civilization  —  Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) offered an unusual defense of the racial homogeneity of his party during a panel on MSNBC Monday evening.  —  The group, led by Chris Hayes, was discussing …
George Jahn / Associated Press:
AP EXCLUSIVE: SECRET DOCUMENT EASES IRAN NUCLEAR CONSTRAINTS  —  VIENNA (AP) — Key restrictions on Iran's nuclear program imposed under an internationally negotiated deal will ease in slightly more than a decade, cutting the time Tehran would need to build a bomb to six months from present estimates …
Tim Mak / The Daily Beast:
Michelle Van Etten, Soon-to-Be RNC Star, Peddles Pills that Make Alex Jones ‘Crazed’  —  A marketer who sells pills based on pseudoscience just landed a primetime speaking slot at the RNC.  Among her fans: Infowars' Alex Jones, who says the supplements make him “crazed and aggressive.”
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Brian Tashman / Right Wing Watch:
Alex Jones: Donald Trump Is Bringing Our Views Into The Mainstream
Tammy Bush Mayo / Facebook:
My husband is a Deputy Sheriff in Lee County, Alabama and tonight a Deputy on his shift went into Taco Bell in Phenix City, AL and was told that they don't serve cops.  A lady waiting for her food spoke up to say that she was about to ask for a refund because she didn't want to eat somewhere with a cop.
Clare Malone / FiveThirtyEight:
The End Of A Republican Party  —  Analysis by Harry Enten.  —  Research by David Nield.  —  Legend has it that after leveling Carthage in the Third Punic War, Roman army generals ordered that the city's fields be sown with salt so that they'd lie fallow for years, Roman generals …
Jason Horowitz / New York Times:
Melania Trump: From Small-Town Slovenia to Doorstep of White House  —  SEVNICA, Slovenia — On days when Melanija Knavs could not play outside or grew tired of knitting her navy blue sweaters, she and her friends would exchange notes along the lines of yarn they strung between their apartment block balconies.
Discussion: New York Times
J.D. Durkin / Mediaite:
‘Are You Gonna Let Me Talk?’:  CNN Interview on ‘Phony Movement’ Black Lives Matter Derails  —  During what was supposed to be an otherwise civil discourse about policing in the wake of another American tragedy Sunday that claimed the lives of three officers in uniform …
Discussion: Raw Story and FOX News Radio
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Ryan Lizza / New Yorker:
The Libertarians' Secret Weapon
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Rachel Aviv / New Yorker:
The Philosopher of Feelings  —  Martha Nussbaum's far-reaching …
Discussion: Althouse
Isaac Stanley-Becker / Washington Post:
In Trump's GOP, Jeff Sessions rockets from the fringe to prime time
Discussion: ABC News
New York Times:
Online Trail Illuminates Baton Rouge Gunman's Path to Violence
Los Angeles Times:
Judge throws out ex-L.A. County Sheriff Lee Baca's plea deal, saying 6 months in prison not enough
Discussion: KTLA and POLICE Magazine
Scott Wong / The Hill:
Ryan: Trump ‘not my kind of conservative’
Discussion: Mediaite, Politico and Mashable
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Judge mulls written questions to Clinton on emails
Discussion: LawNewz
James Delingpole / Breitbart:
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Trump gains on Clinton in Monmouth poll
Milo / Breitbart:
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Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
John McCain On Nice Attack: Obama “Allowed This To Happen”
Discussion: Daily Kos and The Week
Kevin Rector / Baltimore Sun:
Freddie Gray case: Judge acquits Lt. Brian Rice of all charges
Glenn Thrush / Politico:
Ted Cruz contemplates the unthinkable
Discussion: RedState, Raw Story and Mediaite
Jane Mayer / New Yorker:
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Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
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Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
The New York Times is broken, shown by its entitled, petulant reaction to Politico's report on its tense relationship with Biden

Andrew Marchand / The Athletic:
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