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10:40 AM ET, July 22, 2016

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Politico:
Full text: Donald Trump 2016 RNC draft speech transcript  —  Remarks as prepared for delivery according to a draft obtained by POLITICO Thursday afternoon.  —  Friends, delegates and fellow Americans: I humbly and gratefully accept your nomination for the presidency of the United States.
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Washington Post:
Donald Trump's prepared speech to the Republican National convention, annotated  —  Donald Trump's prepared remarks accepting the Republican nomination in Cleveland Thursday night were provided on an embargoed basis.  The embargo was broken by other news organizations — therefore we are posting them here.
Michael Barbaro / New York Times:   Escape His Caricature? Donald Trump Passes Up the Chance
Mark Berman / Washington Post:
What Trump says about crime in America and what is really going on
Discussion: NPR, ThinkProgress and The Federalist
Peter Suderman / Hit & Run:
Donald Trump's RNC Speech Was a Terrifying Display of Nightmarish Authoritarianism
Dan Balz / Washington Post:
In his most important speech ever, Trump echoes Richard Nixon
Nick Gass / Politico:
Leaked document: Trump will tell the nation, ‘I am your voice’
Fred Imbert / CNBC:
VC Peter Thiel says 'I'm proud to be gay,' gets applause at RNC  —  Peter Thiel: Proud to be gay, Republican  —  Entrepreneur Peter Thiel speaks at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio, about identity.  —  CLEVELAND — Peter Thiel received a big applause Thursday night …
Discussion: RealClearPolitics
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CNN:
Peter Thiel to tell RNC he's proudly gay  —  Cleveland (CNN)Peter Thiel is set to admonish the GOP for refusing to embrace LGBT rights on stage here tonight.  —  The tech billionaire will declare to the Republican National Convention that he is proud to be gay, a source familiar with Thiel's remarks told CNN.
Mary Jordan / Washington Post:
Ivanka Trump introduces her father — with a personal appeal to women  —  CLEVELAND — Ivanka Trump, the polished, careful daughter of a shoot-from-the-hip presidential candidate, made a personal appeal to women voters tonight who remain skeptical of a Trump presidency, describing her father “as a fighter” for the nation and women.
Discussion: ABC News, NBC News and Politico
Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
Peter Thiel Comes Out at RNC as Gay Republican - Gets STANDING OVATION (VIDEO)
Discussion: Daily Wire
Tony Romm / Politico:
Thiel urges Republicans to back off ‘culture wars’
Discussion: ABC News
Daniel Pipes / Philly.com:
Why I just quit the Republican Party  —  The Republican Party nominated Donald Trump as its candidate for president of the United States - and I responded by ending my 44-year GOP membership.  —  Here's why I bailed, quit, and jumped ship:  —  First, Trump's boorish, selfish, puerile …
Discussion: Mediaite
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David Brooks / New York Times:   The Death of the Republican Party
Matthew Continetti / Washington Free Beacon:   The Demagogue Rises  —  Donald Trump delivered the longest …
Mike Lillis / The Hill:
Liberals press Clinton not to pick Kaine for VP  —  Liberal Democrats are launching an eleventh-hour campaign against Sen. Tim Kaine  —  's presidential ticket.  —  The advocates say Kaine, a moderate who's risen to the top of the VP shortlist, should be disregarded both for his positions …
Discussion: Politico
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Wall Street Journal:
Sen. Tim Kaine Seen as Clinton's VP Pick  —  Virginian with Spanish skills and low-key style could aid Democrat Hillary Clinton in the general election  —  Hillary Clinton is on the verge of announcing her vice-presidential pick, with Democrats familiar with her search believing she will settle …
Discussion: Politicus USA
Associated Press:
In the swirl of balloons and cheers of the masses, Donald Trump finally …
Discussion: Politico, ABC News and Associated Press
Amy Chozick / New York Times:
Tim Kaine Seems Likely for Hillary Clinton's No. 2, but Liberals Balk
Ezra Klein / Vox:
Donald Trump doesn't want to make America great.  He wants to make it afraid.  —  Donald Trump is not a candidate the American people would turn to in normal times.  He's too inexperienced, too eccentric, too volatile, too risky.  Voting Trump is burning down the house to collect the insurance money …
Discussion: Guardian, The Root and Daily Wire
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Franklin Foer / Slate:
Donald Trump's Un-American Acceptance Speech  —  There was no reference to the nation's history, its values, or even its armed forces.  There was only Trump.  —  I am your voice ... the mystical union of leader and nation.  Really, that refrain is the essence of Trump's authoritarian threat.
Matthew Yglesias / Vox:   Donald Trump's law and order acceptance speech didn't feature any actual crime policies
Jesse Paul / Denver Post:
Colorado town finds THC in its water, warns residents not to drink or bathe in it  —  Colorado emergency management officials are heading to Hugo  —  A town on Colorado's Eastern Plains is warning its residents not to drink, bathe in or cook with its water because officials said evidence was found of THC …
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Ben Guarino / Washington Post:
Officials detect THC, marijuana's active ingredient, in Colorado town's public water supply
Discussion: ABC News and Instapundit
Anica Padilla / FOX31 Denver:
Hugo water supply tainted with THC, Lincoln County County Sheriff warns
Discussion: AOL, fox4kc.com and WTVR-TV
Allegra Kirkland / Talking Points Memo:
RNC Displays Tweet From White Supremacist As Trump Accepts Nom  —  As Donald Trump accepted the GOP presidential nomination on Thursday night, a tweet from a white supremacist account was broadcast through the convention hall at Quicken Loans Arena. … User @Western_Triumph's tweet itself was generic …
21st Century Fox:
Roger Ailes Resigns as Chairman and CEO of Fox News Channel and Fox Business Network, and Chairman Fox Television Stations  —  Rupert Murdoch to Assume Role of Chairman and Acting CEO of Fox News Channel and Fox Business Network  —  21st Century Fox today announced that Roger Ailes …
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Marisa Guthrie / Hollywood Reporter:
Roger Ailes Resigns as Fox News Chief After Sexual Harassment Accusations
Discussion: AOL and Media Matters for America
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Five ways Trump's convention was a success  —  The Republican National Convention came to a close on Thursday night after a dramatic week marred by a plagiarism controversy involving Melania Trump and a surreal scene in which Ted Cruz  —  was shouted off the stage.
Discussion: Liberty Unyielding
Wall Street Journal:
Russia Bombed Base in Syria Used by U.S.  —  An outpost near the Jordanian border that is used by U.S. and British special forces was hit by the airstrikes last month  —  When Russian aircraft bombed a remote garrison in southeastern Syria last month, alarm bells sounded at the Pentagon and the Ministry of Defense in London.
Julia Ioffe / Politico:
The World Looks at Trump, Confused  —  On the RNC's “America First” night, overseas reporters try to figure out what he's really talking about.  —  The theme of tonight's Republican National Convention is “Making America First Again”—a reference to our nation's place in the world …
Washington Post:
Donald Trump: The candidate of the apocalypse  —  THESE ARE anxious times in America.  Despite a steadily, if slowly, growing economy and the absence of a major war, people remain troubled by a sense of national underperformance and myriad social ills, most recently the surge …
Discussion: Politico and New York Times
 
 
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Tegna / KVUE-TV:
APD investigating officers' actions in teacher's 2015 arrest
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Will Drabold / TIME:
Read Ivanka Trump's Speech at the Republican Convention
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New York Post:
Trump faced his biggest challenge yet — and he nailed it
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Ben Terris / Washington Post:
The most interesting thing to watch at RNC isn't the speeches. It's the Trump VIP box.
Art Swift / Gallup:
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Media Matters for America:
Fox Host: The RNC Is “The Worst Convention I've Ever Seen”
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