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	Dem Rep Accuses Joe Biden of Mistakenly Endorsing the Wrong Congressman by Alex Griswold Democratic Florida Congressman Alan Grayson told The Tampa Bay Times Thursday that Vice President Joe Biden endorsed his primary opponent because he thought he was someone else entirely. Read More »

	Donald Trump Even Made His Ex-Wife Ivana Sign Confidentiality Agreement by Rachel Stockman Read More »

	Maybe They DO Put Crack in the Burritos: Chipotle Exec Sidelined After Cocaine Arrest by J.D. Durkin Crumpacker was tasked with overseeing the recovery efforts after the company took a hit regarding food safety issues last year. Read More »

	Aides: Trump Didn't Even Realize Republican Convention Had to Be in Cleveland by Alex Griswold According to his own aides, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump did not even realize when planning the Republican National Convention that the event had to be Cleveland. Read More »

	CNN's Camerota Presses Lewandowski Hard on Trump Fundraising Emails to Foreigners by Tommy Christopher The latest controversy (or one of the latest) to crop up for the campaign of presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is the raft of complaints from foreign legislators who say they have received emails soliciting campaign funds from the real estate magnate's campaign. On CNN's New Day Friday morning, co-anchor Alisyn Camerota made CNN analyst and former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski earn his paycheck by peppering him like a firearms instructor at the Dick Cheney Hunting Academy. Read More »

	'She Has No Right': Benghazi Widow Rebukes Hillary Clinton's Plea to 'Move On' by Alex Griswold Speaking to CNN's Erin Burnett Thursday night, the widow of Navy SEAL Tyrone Woods rebuked Hillary Clinton's reaction to the House Benghazi Committee's report that the country should now "move on." Read More »

	Reporter Claims the FBI Ordered 'No Photos, No Pictures' of Lynch/Clinton Meeting by Alex Griswold In an interview with The O'Reilly Factor, the Phoenix journalist who broke the story of the private meeting between Attorney General Loretta Lynch and former president Bill Clinton said that his sources tell him the FBI was on the scene of the meeting telling bystanders they weren't allowed to take photos. Read More »

	Pro-Hillary CNN Analyst: Clinton-Lynch Meeting Was 'Bad Optics' But 'Not Illegal' by Tommy Christopher As fallout from the meeting between Attorney General Loretta Lynch and former President Bill Clinton begins to take practical form in Lynch's promise to abide by the FBI's recommendation in the Hillary Clinton email review, more and more Democrats are questioning the political wisdom of the meeting. On CNN's New Day Friday morning, Former South Carolina State Rep. and current pro-Hillary CNN analyst Bakari Sellers probably echoed the feelings of many Clinton supporters who are wondering what the pair were thinking, Read More »

	Mutilated Body Washes Up on Rio Shore Near Site of Olympic Volleyball Court by J.D. Durkin Here's a quick recap of the Rio-is-so-screwed scorecard: Read More »

	Attorney General Lynch Promises to Accept Whatever FBI Recommends in Clinton Email Investigation by Rachel Stockman Read More »

	Jessica Williams Gets a Big Emotional Sendoff From The Daily Show by Josh Feldman Jessica Williams got a big Daily Show sendoff tonight on her final appearance as a correspondent. Read More »

	Writer Gay Talese Disowns His Own Book After It Gets Fact-Checked by Josh Feldman Longtime reporter and writer Gay Talese has completely denounced his own book days ahead of its publication. Read More »

	Limbaugh: If Trump Wins, Liberals Will Kick Off 'Levels of Violence That We Have Not Seen' by Josh Feldman Rush Limbaugh today declared that if Donald Trump wins the election, there's going to be a huge burst of anger and violence on the left. Read More »

	Carl Bernstein Blasts 'Incredible Lapse in Judgment' by Bill Clinton and AG Lynch by Sam Reisman "It's inexplicable, it's wrong, it's improper. And [Clinton] needs the Attorney General to now recuse herself from overseeing this investigation." Read More »

	Fox's Goldberg: Networks Shouldn't Let Candidates Do Softball Interviews with Supporters by Josh Feldman During a segment on media bias towards certain candidates, Fox's Bernie Goldberg tonight criticized commentators who are way "too soft on people running for president." Read More »

	Bernie Sanders: Trump's Wrong, I Don't 'Hate' Hillary Clinton by Josh Feldman Donald Trump has been saying recently that Bernie Sanders "hates" Hillary Clinton, so Chris Hayes tonight asked Sanders if that's true. Read More »

	Chechen Leader Will Choose His New Assistant on an Apprentice-Type Reality Show by Josh Feldman Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov is looking for an assistant and he is bringing his search to television. Read More »

	Trump Files Petition to Pay Lower Taxes on His Washington, D.C. Property by Sam Reisman Donald Trump has filed a petition in D.C. Superior Court to pay lower taxes on his property in the nation's capital where he is planning to build a hotel. Read More »

	McCain Gets Snarky: If You Predicted Trump or Sanders Would Make It Big, ‘You’re Crazy’ by Josh Feldman John McCain got just a little snarky yesterday with boosters of both Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders. Read More »

	Undercovered: A 'Lost Generation' of Young Syrian Refugees in Turkey by Sam Reisman Aids organizations and educators have warned that the half a million Syrian refugee children in Turkey stand to be exploited by sweatshops or otherwise abused, according to a BBC report published Thursday. Read More »

	Asked About Muslim Profiling, Natl Security Analyst Tells Fox Host 'Okay Great!' by Sam Reisman Speaking to Fox's Trish Regan Thursday afternoon, Jim Hansen expressed his enthusiasm for using profiling to root out radical Islamic terrorism. Read More »

	Joe Biden: Bernie Sanders 'Is Going to Endorse' Hillary Soon by Josh Feldman Joe Biden seems to have a habit of prematurely deflating the hopes and dreams of Bernie Sanders fans. Read More »

	New Calls For Special Prosecutor in Clinton Email Probe Because of Conflict of Interest by Christopher White Read More »

	Woman at Rally Asks Trump About Getting 'Rid of All These Hibeejabis They Wear at the TSA' by Josh Feldman During the Q&A portion of Donald Trump's event in Manchester, New Hampshire today, a woman at the rally asked him a, um, pretty racially-loaded question. Read More »

	Trump on Lynch-Bill Clinton Meeting: That's the 'Rigged System' in Action! by Josh Feldman Donald Trump weighed in today on the private plane meeting between Attorney General Loretta Lynch and former president Bill Clinton. Read More »

	Serial’s Adnan Syed Officially Gets a New Trial by Lindsey Ellefson Incarcerated protatonist Adnan Syed got some big wins and disappointments after his story went viral last year, but this looks to be one of the biggest wins of all. Read More »

	The Blaze's Tomi Lahren: People of Color 'Get a Free Pass' in the 'Melanin Showdown' by Sam Reisman The Blaze's Tomi Lahren blasted her critics in a video posted Thursday in which she accused people of color for being able to "say whatever the hell they want and get a free pass" in any discussion of race. Read More »

	Stacey Dash Rips Jesse Williams Over BET Awards Speech: 'Hollywood Plantation Slave' by Josh Feldman Actor Jesse Williams gave a very moving speech at the BET Awards this week that a lot of people loved for its message about the continued struggles of black America. Fox's Stacey Dash did not. Read More »

	Trump Jokes About Mexican Plane 'Getting Ready to Attack' Above His Rally by Josh Feldman A plane flew overhead during Donald Trump's rally in Manchester, New Hampshire this afternoon, and Trump made quite the odd joke about who it could have been. Read More »

	White House Spox on Clinton-Lynch Confab: 'I Wasn't There for the Meeting' by Tommy Christopher Fans of the Hillary Clinton "Emailgate" story got a brontosaurus-sized bone to chew on Tuesday when it was reported that Attorney General Loretta Lynch met with former President Bill Clinton for about 30 minutes aboard a private plane at an airport in Phoenix. The meeting has drawn criticism from some as a bad look for an administration whose opponents have tried to question the independence of its Justice Department's investigation into email practices during Hillary Clinton's tenure at the State Department. Read More »

	Wimbledon Player Viktor Troicki Unleashes the Best Tennis Rant Since McEnroe by Robert Webster Viktor Troicki was not happy after he was aced during a match against Albert Ramos-Vinolas. Read More »

	Trump Responds to NBC Report About His Campaign Loan by Trashing NBC by Josh Feldman NBC News reported today that despite his insistence, Donald Trump has not provided any evidence that he forgave the roughly $50 million dollar loan he made to his own campaign. Trump responded by 1) not producing said evidence, and 2) trashing NBC. Read More »

	It Sure Looks Like Missouri Plans to Flagrantly Disregard SCOTUS’ Abortion Ruling by Elura Nanos Read More »

	Paul Ryan: House Will Vote on Gun Control Next Week by Josh Feldman It looks like that Democratic sit-in might have actually gotten something done, because Paul Ryan said today that the House of Representatives would be taking up gun control legislation this week. Read More »

	Missouri GOP Candidate Selling 'ISIS Hunting Permits' to Raise Campaign Cash by Robert Webster A Missouri GOP candidate for governor is raising money for his campaign in a new way. Eric Greitens, the candidate and a former US Navy SEAL, is selling 'ISIS hunting permits' to help him raise money. Read More »

	Donald Trump Literally Can't Count to Five by Tommy Christopher If expectations for presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump get any lower, he may wind up running with an amoeba on his presidential ticket. In a radio interview Thursday morning, the real estate mogul demonstrated that in addition to his overt racism and advocacy for war crimes, he lacks even the ability to count to five, or two digits higher than the failure that doomed Rick Perry. Trump was discussing the recent Supreme Court decision striking down Texas' anti-abortion TRAP laws when he made a stunning claim. Read More »

	KKK Leaders See Current Political Climate As Encouragement to Unify and Mobilize by Lindsey Ellefson Brent Waller, imperial wizard of the United Dixie White Knights in Mississippi, told the AP that the plan is to unify this summer. Read More »

	Cleveland Chef Bans Trump From His Restaurants During RNC by Sam Reisman One Cleveland restauranteur has stated that presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump is not welcome to eat at any of his locations when he comes to town for his coronation in July. Read More »

	First Proposed RNC Rule A Sweeping Rebuke to the 'Dump Trump' Flank by Sam Reisman The first proposed rule to this year's RNC is a blanket effort to lock Donald Trump in as the nominee and a sweeping rebuke to the "Dump Trump" flank of the party that wanted to oust him during the election. Read More »

	MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell Dismisses Concerns Over Lynch/Clinton Meeting as ‘Conspiracy Theories’ by Alex Griswold Despite an MSNBC panel and a Democratic senator both saying that former president Bill Clinton should not have met privately with Attorney General Loretta Lynch, MSNBC host Andrea Mitchell dismissed those and other complaints as "conspiracy theories" Thursday. Read More »