Thursday Morning News Roundup

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Here’s the news roundup for this morning:

BoJo has taken himself out of the race to be Britain’s next prime minister. I guess he didn’t feel like trying to clean up the mess he made by winning the Brexit vote.
Donald Trump apparently had a special console in his bedroom at Mar-a-Lago so he could listen in on staff phone calls.
Bill Clinton met privately with Attorney General Loretta Lynch in Phoenix. It was just a social call, they said, but everyone agrees the optics are pretty terrible.

And that’s just the past few hours….