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<i>The Atlantic </i> Politics & Policy Daily: Obama Slow Jams the Summer

The president released his 2016 summer playlist.
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Hillary Clinton Donald Trump’s economic plan as only benefiting the wealthy during a speech in Detroit, and Trump nine new members—including eight women—to his team of economic advisers. The Drug Enforcement Administration it will start allowing researchers to use marijuana grown from facilities other than its own, but stopped short of reclassifying the drug. Donald Trump comments he made on Wednesday night, telling conservative radio show host Hugh Hewitt that President Obama is “the founder of ISIS.” House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi the Democratic National Committee hack “an electronic Watergate” in a news conference. And President Obama his 2016 summer playlist.

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