Vox Sentences: BenghaZOMGitsfinallyover

The hottest Select Committee report of the year is out; dozens killed in a terror attack in Istanbul; Donald Trump gives a speech.

Vox Sentences is written by Dylan Matthews and Dara Lind.

TOP NEWS

Begonezi

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• The House Select Committee on Benghazi has finally released its long-awaited (or at least long-besomethinged) final report on the 2012 attack that killed four Americans, including Ambassador Chris Stevens.

  [House Select Committee on Benghazi]

• (In case you have already forgotten what Benghazi was, or never really knew, Zack Beauchamp's explainer is here.)

  [Vox / Zack Beauchamp]

• The final report doesn't reveal any new information — which is to say, it didn't find anything the other eight(!) government investigations of Benghazi didn't find.

  [CNN / Stephen Collinson]

• One loser from the Benghazi report: Hillary Clinton. Without the committee, we might not have found out that she used a private email server while secretary of state.

  [Washington Post Robert O'Harrow Jr.]

• One winner: (also) Hillary Clinton, whose marathon appearance before the committee last year was among the best political performances she's given this cycle.

  [The New Yorker / Amy Davidson]

• Loser: Trey Gowdy, a once-ascendant GOP backbencher who now seems for all the world like one of those child stars whose careers are forever identified with a starring role in a long-running, terrible TV show.

  [Slate / Josh Voorhees]

• Winner: Sid Blumenthal, a Clinton ally who apparently made $200,000 a year simply for doing part-time work in the Clintons' orbit — a fact revealed not in the main Benghazi report, but rather, by accident in the "minority report" released by House Democrats.

  [LAT / Evan Halper]

• Come to think of it, loser: House Democrats, who need to proofread their reports better.

Terror at the Istanbul airport

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• As many as 50 people have been killed in a terrorist attack at the main airport in Istanbul.

  [AP]

• Multiple attackers were involved (reports indicate either three or four suicide bombers). When airport personnel started shooting at them outside the airport, they detonated suicide vests in the parking lot.

  [NYT / Sabrina Tavernise and Ceylan Yegnisu]

• (One of the concerns with the airport security regime in places like the US, where security starts well within the terminal, is that it might make outlying areas like parking lots attractive targets.)

  [CNBC / Aniti Balakrishnan]

• The Turkish government is already attributing the attacks to ISIS, which is notable; the last few times there have been terrorist attacks in Turkey, the government's first reaction has been to blame the Kurdish separatist group PKK.

  [Boston Globe / Dominique Soguel and Zeynep Bilginsoy]

• This story is developing as of this email. The International Business Times article here is updating as new developments come in.

  [International Business Times / Julia Glum]

When you think about Donald Trump, think about … garbage

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• Donald Trump gave a speech today revealing his "jobs plan," which is essentially to force renegotiations of trade deals.

  [Politico]

• This is not a new stance for Trump. He's always been a populist — possibly, as Michael Lind (no relation to Dara) argues, one of the purer exemplars of the form we've seen in American politics.

  [Politico / Michael Lind]

• You could read Tuesday's speech as Trump's pitch for Sanders supporters (although they've always shared an economically populist tone).

  [NBC News / Benjy Sarlin]

• You could also read it as Trump's response to the victory of Brexit — and perhaps even his attempt to avoid the mistakes that led the "Leave" campaign to a catastrophic success.

  [Vox / Dara Lind]

• It's fair to talk about a Trump speech having this sort of strategy, because it pretty clearly wasn't mostly Trump. For the last few days, he's been much more conventional in his messaging — and, apparently, much more closely managed by his daughter Ivanka and her husband (whose name is the filename under which Tuesday's speech was uploaded to Trump's campaign website).

  [Philip Bump via Twitter]

• It could be an effective message if he can stick to it — not least because it puts Hillary Clinton in the strange and wholly unpersuasive position of arguing she, too, is a trade skeptic, oho, indeed.

  [Vox / Matt Yglesias]

• Of course, for those of you wondering, "but how long can he stick to it," the answer is "a few hours" — in a speech Tuesday night, he repeatedly referred to the Trans-Pacific Partnership as rape.

  [Mike Hayes via Twitter]

MISCELLANEOUS

Giants in film, ranked by height. [Slate / Forrest Wickman and Natalie Matthews-Ramo]

• A semi-dumb but common question answered: Why aren't all the other apes evolving into human-like creatures yet?

  [Washington Post / Sarah Kaplan]

• In praise of Margaery Tyrell, one of Game of Thrones' cleverest and most morally interesting characters.

  [Slate / Heather Schwedel]

• Big news in the world of helium exploration! No, really!

  [Gizmodo / Jennifer Ouellette]

• On T.J. Miller, Kumail Nanjiani, Martin Starr, and the rise of the "upper-middle class" of comedy performers.

  [Wired / Brian Raftery]

VERBATIM

"If addiction resides in the parts of the brain involved in love, then recovery is more like getting over a breakup than it is like facing a lifelong illness." [NYT / Maia Szalavitz]

• "It was the heyday of scientific glass blowing."

  [LA Times / Rosanna Xia]

• "Snowden’s body might be confined to Moscow, but the former NSA computer specialist has hacked a work-around: a robot … The avatar resides at the Manhattan offices of the ACLU, where it takes meetings and occasionally travels to speaking engagements."

  [NY Mag / Andrew Rice]

• "55 percent of married couples are Democratic-only or Republican-only … There’s about twice as much interparty marriage as interracial marriage."

  [FiveThirtyEight / Eitan Hersh]

• "[Stoya] is up front with her fans about the fact that, yes, she has periods. When an Instagram post about her DivaCup elicited 'ewwww's, she responded: 'You can find on a Tube site, HD video showing the interior of my rectum. But periods? How disgusting.'"

  [NY Mag / Lizzy Goodman]

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