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4:20 PM ET, June 18, 2017

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Kailani Koenig / NBC News:
Trump Attorney: The President Is Not Under Investigation  —  WASHINGTON — An attorney for President Trump was adamant on Sunday that the president is not under investigation, despite the president's tweets this week referring to one as a “witch hunt.”  —  “Let me be clear here,” …
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Associated Press:
Trump attorney says president not under investigation  —  A member of the president's outside legal team said Sunday that Donald Trump is not under federal investigation, days after Trump appeared to confirm he was with a tweet about being the target of a “witch hunt.”
Discussion: ABC News and Axios
CBS News:
Transcript: Jay Sekulow on “Face the Nation,” June 18, 2017
Max Greenwood / The Hill:
Ex-Bush ethics lawyer: Pence will soon become the president if Trump fires Mueller
Discussion: Raw Story, Politico and Axios
Bruce Bialosky / Townhall.com:
The Winners Are the Russians  —  You set off to invade and disrupt the election process of a global competitor.  Your desire is to weaken the other's government.  Except for potentially being responsible for leaking emails obtained from political operatives of one party …
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Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Senate GOP shifts focus to Lynch  —  Senate Republicans are clamoring to hear from Loretta Lynch after former FBI Director James Comey raised concerns about her involvement in the Hillary Clinton  —  email investigation.  —  Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee are seizing …
New York Times:
High-Stakes Referendum on Trump Takes Shape in a Georgia Special Election  —  ATLANTA — Taking the stage in a half-filled airplane hangar to rally supporters of Republican candidate Karen Handel, Health Secretary Tom Price could not help but point to the record-shattering surge of liberal money …
Discussion: Political Wire
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Steven Shepard / Politico:
Georgia special election hurtles toward nail-biting finish
Discussion: CNN
Nicki Rossoll / ABC News:
Newt Gingrich says Trump has a ‘compulsion to counterattack’  —  Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said President Trump's tweet asserting that he's under investigation for firing FBI Director James Comey wasn't helpful to the president.  —  “Trump has a compulsion to counterattack …
Discussion: Politico
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ABC News:
Book excerpt: Newt Gingrich's ‘Understanding Trump’
Discussion: Raw Story
Thomas Healy / The Atlantic:
Who's Afraid of Free Speech?  —  Middlebury College's decision to discipline 67 students who participated in a raucous and violent demonstration against conservative author Charles Murray brings closure to one of several disturbing incidents that took place on college campuses this semester.
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Ross Douthat / New York Times:
Notes on a Political Shooting  —  THE first thing to say about the attempted massacre of congressional Republicans on a baseball field in suburban Virginia is that the motivations of the shooter were unusual.  By which I mean that, based on what we know, James Hodgkinson had surprisingly normal political beliefs.
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Derek Hunter / Townhall.com:
Liberals Got Their Blood, Will It Be Enough?
Discussion: Fox News
Kali Holloway / Salon:
White kids are bullying minority students using Trump's words  —  This is Trump's America: kids are mimicking the president in rhetoric and action  —  Donald Trump's real campaign promise was that he would give whites back the power they imagined they'd lost.
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New York Times:
How Michael Flynn's Disdain for Limits Led to a Legal Quagmire  —  WASHINGTON — Michael T. Flynn was a man seething and thwarted.  In the summer of 2014, after repeatedly clashing with other Obama administration officials over his management of the Defense Intelligence Agency …
Emily Jashinsky / Washington Examiner:
Caitlyn Jenner on congressional baseball tragedy: 'Liberals can't even shoot straight'  —  Asked during a discussion at the College Republican National Committee's convention to comment on the violent attack on a GOP baseball practice earlier in the week, Caitlyn Jenner quipped, “Liberals can't even shoot straight.”
CNN:
Portugal wildfire: 61 killed, victims burned in cars as they fled  —  Photos:  —  Wildfire rages through central Portugal  —  A massive wildfire is reflected in a stream in central Portugal on Sunday, June 18, 2017.  Several hundred firefighters fought the blaze, which broke out Saturday in the municipality of Pedrogao Grande.
Discussion: New York Times, NPR and The Week
Wall Street Journal:
In Georgia House Race, Parties Battle for New Swing Voters  —  Democrat Jon Ossoff and Republican Karen Handel seek votes of Republicans uneasy with Donald Trump ahead of Tuesday's poll  —  As Georgia's sixth district residents cast votes in a special election, President Trump looms over their decision at the ballot box.
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Max Greenwood / The Hill:
New ads target 5 GOP senators on healthcare  —  A group opposed to the GOP's efforts to repeal and replace ObamaCare is set to a launch a $1.5 million ad campaign on Monday urging five key Republican senators to vote against the chamber's expected healthcare bill.
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Lisa Rein / Washington Post:
Help wanted: Why Republicans won't work for the Trump administration  —  The array of legal and political threats hanging over the Trump presidency have compounded the White House's struggles to fill out the top ranks of the government.  —  Trump's firing of FBI Director James B. Comey …
 
 
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CBS News:
Transcript: Sen. Marco Rubio on “Face the Nation,” June 18, 2017
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and The Week
BBC:
Mosul battle: Iraqi forces attack IS-held Old City
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Charles J. Sykes / New York Times:
The Danger of Ignoring Alex Jones
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Mike McIntire / New York Times:
Russia Renewed Unused Trump Trademarks in 2016
Yashar Ali / HuffPost:
Unedited Putin Interview Reveals A Missed Opportunity For Megyn Kelly and America
Discussion: Breitbart, Mediaite and Hullabaloo
 Earlier Items: 
John Bowden / The Hill:
ICE chief doubles down: Undocumented immigrants ‘should be concerned’
Megan Cerullo / New York Daily News:
Ex-politician admits he groped 103-year-old mother-in-law's breasts
Discussion: Fusion and Raw Story
Jose A. DelReal / Washington Post:
Poll of rural Americans shows deep cultural divide with urban centers
Discussion: Axios
Chris Tomlinson / Breitbart:
Swedish Police Attacked By 100 Masked Migrant Youths
miamiherald:
‘We are better than this,’ impassioned Biden tells Florida Democrats
Discussion: Political Wire
 

 
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Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
An interview with Telegraph Director of Technology Dylan Jacques on the goal of launching 12 significant uses of AI in the newsroom over 12 months

Liam Scott / Voice of America:
Reporters Without Borders sues X in France for “complicity in disseminating false information”, after X failed to block a fake video with RSF's logo

UnHerd:
Scientific American EIC Laura Helmuth is stepping down, following criticism for her social media posts suggesting Trump voters were racist, sexist, and fascist

 
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