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WASHINGTON (AP) — Bernie Sanders is expected to spend his final primary night meeting with Democratic rival Hillary Clinton — not before thousands of cheering supporters — as his campaign seeks to influence Clinton's agenda against Republican Donald Trump.

Donald Trump said Monday that he was revoking The Washington Post's press credentials to cover his campaign after the publication gave him "incredibly inaccurate" coverage.

TPM Reader DC checks in on how Trump's response to Orlando plays:

In response to Josh's thoughtful post about how Orlando and Trump's reaction to it will not necessarily help him:

There is recent evidence for exactly this phenomenon. Remember when "Benghazi" happened, which in some ways could have been much worse politically for the incumbent party (though certainly fewer lives were lost), namely a sitting American ambassador killed by what was clearly an organized attack on our embassy in Libya. Читать дальше...

Presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump claimed in a speech Monday that “hundreds of thousands of refugees” are flowing into the United States, with “no system” in place to vet them – a claim that’s repeatedly been dispelled as false.

One of the things people marvel at with Donald Trump is how successful he's been over the last year with these gyres and tirades which are full not only of what are often demonstrably false claims but increasingly hyperbolic warnings about the future. In his statement yesterday Trump said "If we do not get tough and smart real fast, we are not going to have a country anymore. Because our leaders are weak, I said this was going to happen – and it is only going to get worse."

White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said Monday that President Barack Obama was too busy to be distracted by things “so small” as Donald Trump, who insinuated after the deadly mass shooting in Orlando, Florida that the President was working with terrorists.

Presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump said Monday that the man suspected of opening fire on an LGBT nightclub Sunday in Orlando, Florida and killing 49 people was only able to do so because of the nation's "immigration system."

Presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump was expected to address the Orlando shooting on Monday that left 50 people dead.

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — The City of Orlando has released names and ages of victims of the nightclub shooting whose next of kin have been contacted. The list will be periodically updated on www.cityoforlando.net/blog/victims/ as those who died are identified and families and loved ones notified. The city gave no additional information other than the names and ages.

WASHINGTON (AP) — A Democratic congressman frustrated with inaction on gun control said Monday he's done with the moments of silence typically held on the House floor after mass shootings, calling them "obnoxious expressions of smug incompetence."

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Mina Justice was sound asleep when she received the first text from her son, Eddie Justice, who was in the gay nightclub when a gunman opened fire in an attack that left 49 patrons dead and more than 50 wounded.

Longtime Donald Trump confidante Roger Stone said Monday that the Orlando terrorist attack was a good opportunity for his candidate to question whether top Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin could be a “terrorist agent.”

Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) said Monday that he was opposed to presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump's renewed call for a ban on Muslims entering the United States, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton reiterated her plan to defeat the Islamic State after a mass shooting at an LGBT nightclub in Orlando, Florida left 50 people dead and dozens of others injured.

Reacting to the mass shooting in a gay nightclub in Orlando, allegedly by a self-proclaimed ISIS sympathizer, Senate Democrats plan to push legislation once again to keep people on the federal government's terrorist watch list from buying guns.

Chris Christie, the sitting governor of New Jersey, has been diminished to an errand boy for Donald Trump’s campaign, according to a New Yorker report published online on Monday.

The man allegedly behind the largest mass shooting in American history purchased his weapons from a gun dealer and shooting range whose owner has in the past posted anti-Muslim and anti-President Obama comments on Facebook, the New York Daily News reported.

We have televisions running on the cable networks throughout the day here in our office. So I get an immersive read on the conversations of the day, which today of course are about the horrific mass shooting in Orlando. As is so often the case, it is striking how much of the chatter is tied up with trying to put these mass murders into some convenient and simple bucket. Mental illness? Radical Islam? Homophobia? The product of readily available guns? It can be a cop-out to simply say all of the above. Читать дальше...

After months of Republicans taking President Obama and Democrats to task for refusing to use the term “radical Islamic terrorism,” Hillary Clinton said this weekend's deadly mass shooting in Orlando, Florida was the work of “radical Islamism.”

"More Love. Less Hate."

That was the heartfelt message on the screen during a prayer vigil at Joy Metropolitan Community Church in Orlando, Florida, hours after the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history.

President Barack Obama told reporters on Monday there is “no direct evidence” that the man suspected of killing 49 people early Sunday at an LGBT nightclub in Orlando, Florida was directed to do so by a terrorist network or as part of a larger plot.

Outgoing U.S. Solicitor General Donald Verrilli, whose departure from the Justice Department was announced earlier this month, told the New York Times his biggest regret as the federal government's top trial lawyer was losing in a major voting rights case, Shelby County v. Holder.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from 20 states seeking to block a federal rule targeting mercury pollution from taking effect while the government revises the rule to account for compliance costs.

In advance of his big foreign policy speech today, Donald Trump went on Fox this morning to suggest that President Obama may actually be secretly working with ISIS terrorists to facilitate attacks on the US.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A federal appeals court has thrown out a $1.8 million judgment awarded to former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura, who says he was defamed in the late author Chris Kyle's bestselling book "American Sniper."