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Wall Street Journal:
Preet Bharara's Probes Likely to Continue After His Exit — Long-term direction of the Manhattan U.S. attorney's office is unclear — The sudden departure of Preet Bharara, the top federal prosecutor in Manhattan, isn't likely to change the course of several high-profile investigations …
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Political Wire
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Media Matters for America:
US Attorney Preet Bharara Was Investigating Fox News When Trump Fired Him — Fox News Faced Numerous Sexual Assault And Harassment Allegations — Ailes Left Fox News Amid Flurry Of Sexual Harassment Allegations. In early July, former Fox News anchor Gretchen Carlson sued the network's CEO …
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Los Angeles Times, Vanity Fair, Bloomberg and Raw Story
Olivia Beavers / The Hill:
Fired U.S. attorney invokes shuttered New York corruption panel in tweet — Preet Bharara, one of the most high-profile federal prosecutors in the country, who was fired Saturday by President Donald Trump — , tweeted Sunday that he now understood what the “Moreland Commission” felt like.
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New York Times, Reuters, TheBlaze, IJR and Raw Story
David Edwards / Raw Story:
US Attorney fired by Trump was banned from entering Russia by Vladimir Putin — DON'T MISS STORIES. FOLLOW RAW STORY! — Preet Bharara, the former U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York who was fired by President Donald Trump over the weekend, was so despised by Vladimir Putin's …
Mike Allen / Axios:
1 big thing: Why Preet was toast
1 big thing: Why Preet was toast
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New York Post, Business Insider, The Atlantic, Gothamist, The Last Tradition, Washington Free Beacon, Political Wire and Daily Kos
Kailani Koenig / NBC News:
HHS Sec. Tom Price: ‘Nobody Will Be Worse Off Financially’ Under GOP Health Plan — WASHINGTON — No one will be adversely affected by the Republicans' new health care bill once its enacted, according to Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price. — “I firmly believe that nobody …
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Vox, NBC News, Hot Air, Mediaite, AOL, Booman Tribune, Daily Wire, The Week, Political Wire and The Intercept
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Bloomberg:
White House Pledges No One ‘Worse Off’ in Obamacare Replacement
White House Pledges No One ‘Worse Off’ in Obamacare Replacement
Discussion:
Daily Kos and Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi
Josh Israel / ThinkProgress:
Trump economic head: Whether millions have insurance is ‘interesting’ but beside the point
Trump economic head: Whether millions have insurance is ‘interesting’ but beside the point
Discussion:
Hullabaloo
Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
Price on Obamacare replacement: ‘Nobody will be worse off financially’
Price on Obamacare replacement: ‘Nobody will be worse off financially’
Burgess Everett / Politico:
Another key Republican senator knocks GOP Obamacare plan — Sen. Dean Heller (R-Nev.) panned House Speaker Paul Ryan's bill to repeal and replace Obamacare during a closed meeting with constituents on Saturday, according to audio obtained by POLITICO. — The remarks by Heller …
Discussion:
LasVegasSun.com and Balloon Juice
Ari Melber / NBC News:
After Pledging to Donate Salary, Trump Declines to Release Proof — President Donald Trump pledged to forego a presidential salary, but as his second payday approaches, the White House is declining to say if the president has donated any of his earnings yet.
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Outside the Beltway
Eli Watkins / CNN:
McCain calls on Trump to clarify wiretapping claim — Washington (CNN)Sen. John McCain said Sunday that President Donald Trump should either retract or substantiate his claim that President Barack Obama wire-tapped him in the final weeks of the presidential campaign and added he expects …
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John Hawkins' Right Wing News, New York Magazine, RedState and The Guardian
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Olivia Beavers / The Hill:
Kremlin spokesman: Russian ambassador met with advisers to Clinton campaign too
Kremlin spokesman: Russian ambassador met with advisers to Clinton campaign too
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RedState, The Daily Caller and twitchy.com
Kelsey Snell / Washington Post:
McCain to Trump: Retract wiretapping claim or prove it
McCain to Trump: Retract wiretapping claim or prove it
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NBC News, CBS New York and IJR
Jill Disis / CNNMoney:
Trump's budget director claims Obama was ‘manipulating’ jobs data — President Trump's budget director claims the Obama administration was “manipulating” jobs data. — Mick Mulvaney told CNN's Jake Tapper on Sunday that he has long thought the previous administration framed data …
Discussion:
Political Wire
Mitch Smith / New York Times:
New Ferguson Video Adds Wrinkle to Michael Brown Case — In the two and a half years since Michael Brown, a black 18-year-old, was shot and killed by a white police officer in Ferguson, Mo., the explosive case has been parsed in intricate detail. Witnesses offered varying descriptions of the fatal encounter.
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New York Daily News, New York Magazine, Hot Air, RedState, The Daily Caller, Business Insider, The Gateway Pundit and The Root
New York Times:
Trump Administration Is Said to Be Working to Loosen Counterterrorism Rules — WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is exploring how to dismantle or bypass Obama-era constraints intended to prevent civilian deaths from drone attacks, commando raids and other counterterrorism missions outside …
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CNBC
Paul Sonne / Wall Street Journal:
What WikiLeaks Really Revealed About the CIA's Spying Techniques — WASHINGTON—The “Vault 7” trove of documents released Tuesday by WikiLeaks has been cited by commentators to claim that the Central Intelligence Agency may have been masquerading as other foreign states while conducting its cyberhacks.
Discussion:
Media Matters for America
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New York Times:
Trump Lets Key Offices Gather Dust Amid ‘Slowest Transition in Decades’ — WASHINGTON — At the State Department, the normally pulsating hub of executive offices is hushed and virtually empty. At the Pentagon, military missions in some of the world's most troubled places are being run …
Elliot Hannon / Slate:
GOP Congressman's White Supremacist Tweet: “We Can't Restore Our Civilization With Somebody Else's Babies.” — Republican Congressman Steve King, who has a history of tip-toeing around white nationalist rhetoric, fired off a tweet Sunday afternoon that reeked of white supremacist ideology.
Discussion:
Washington Post and Booman Tribune
Stuart Anderson / Forbes:
83% Of America's Top High School Science Students Are The Children Of Immigrants — What would we lose if immigrants could no longer come to America? Surprisingly, one of the most important things America would lose is the contributions made by their children.
Jessica Glenza / The Guardian:
Trump supporters in the heartland fear being left behind by GOP health plan — Republican proposal would upend a healthcare system in Indiana that covers many low-income people - in a program that Mike Pence put in place — anice Phelps, a 60-year-old disabled factory worker in Evansville, Indiana, knows how expensive healthcare is.