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New York Times:
Kushner Is Said to Be Reconsidering His Legal Team — Representatives of Jared Kushner, President Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser, have quietly contacted high-powered criminal lawyers about potentially representing him in the wide-ranging investigation into Russia's influence on the 2016 election …
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Carol E. Lee / Wall Street Journal:
Jared Kushner to Travel to Middle East in Effort to Advance U.S. Peace Efforts — President Donald Trump's son-in-law and senior White House adviser, Jared Kushner, plans to travel to the Middle East this week to try to advance U.S. efforts to reach an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal, a White House official said Sunday.
Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Jared Kushner to visit Middle East in pursuit of peace between the Israelis and the Palestinians — Jared Kushner, President Trump's son-in-law and a senior White House adviser, is traveling to the Middle East this week in pursuit of a peace deal between the Israelis and the Palestinians, a White House official confirmed Sunday night.
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The Week
BBC:
Finsbury Park: ‘Several hurt’ as vehicle hits pedestrians — A vehicle has struck pedestrians “leaving a number of casualties” in north London, police said. — One person was arrested following the incident near Finsbury Park Mosque on Seven Sisters Road.
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Daily Mail:
One dead and ten hurt in new London terror attack as a white van driver, 48, ploughs into Muslims as they helped an elderly man who collapsed at a bus stop outside well-known Finsbury Park Mosque — A van ploughed into a crowd on Seven Sisters Road near Finsbury Park Mosque at around 20 past midnight
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The Daily Caller
Associated Press:
GOP senator warns against rushed vote on health care bill — A Republican senator on Sunday warned against rushing a vote on a GOP bill to repeal and replace the nation's health care law, saying both parties deserve a chance to fully debate the bill and propose changes after it was drafted in secret.
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Ema O'Connor / BuzzFeed:
The Man Who Secretly Taped Planned Parenthood Could Be Going To Prison — Alongside His Criminal Lawyers — Last month, David Daleiden and his criminal defense lawyers released additional footage of abortion providers and the names of 14 of his accusers, possibly violating court injunctions and seals.
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Raw Story
NBC News:
NBC News Exclusive: Memo Shows Watergate Prosecutors Had Evidence Nixon White House Plotted Violence — Watergate prosecutors had evidence that operatives for then-President Richard Nixon planned an assault on anti-war demonstrators in 1972, including potentially physically attacking Vietnam …
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Political Wire
Josh Rogin / Washington Post:
The State Department just broke a promise to minority and female recruits — Dozens of young minority and female State Department recruits received startling and unwelcome news last week: They would not be able to soon join the Foreign Service despite having been promised that opportunity.
Thomas Gibbons-Neff / Washington Post:
U.S. aircraft shoots down a Syrian government jet over northern Syria, Pentagon says — A United States strike aircraft shot down a Syrian government fighter jet on Sunday shortly after the Syrians bombed U.S.-backed fighters in northern Syria, the Pentagon said in a statement.
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Artemis Moshtaghian / CNN:
Iran launches missiles into eastern Syria, targets ISIS
Iran launches missiles into eastern Syria, targets ISIS
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Instapundit
John Amato / Latest from Crooks and Liars:
Newt Gingrich Responds To MSNBC's Joe Scarborough By Calling Him ‘A Prostitute’ — Trump super surrogate Newt Gingrich responded to a tweet fight he had with Joe Scarborough over his flip-flopping on once very positive views of Bob Mueller as Special Counsel by calling the MSNBC host “a prostitute.”
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Jenna Johnson / Washington Post:
Two years ago, they couldn't look away. Now some Trump supporters are tuning out. — New York — Donald Trump stepped onto the golden escalator that descends into the pink-marbled food court of Trump Tower. He flashed a thumbs-up as he passed a line of supposed supporters …
Kathy Ehrich Dowd / People.com:
Caitlyn Jenner Jokes That 'Liberals Can't Even Shoot Straight' While Addressing GOP Baseball Attack — Longtime Republican Caitlyn Jenner has spoken out about Tuesday's GOP baseball practice attack that left House Majority Whip Rep. Steve Scalise critically injured, joking that “liberals can't even shoot straight.”
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Julia Manchester / The Hill:
Senators wrestle with transparency in healthcare debate — Both Republican and Democratic senators are expressing concerns over the lack of open process in the Senate's work on a revised ObamaCare repeal-and-replace bill even as Republican leadership looks to move the bill to a vote as soon as possible.
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Tom Kludt / CNNMoney:
Bill O'Reilly promises to make news about his firing — This is why Bill O'Reilly was fired — As Bill O'Reilly sees it, the same forces that led to his ouster at Fox News are out to get President Trump. And, in much the same spirit as Trump, O'Reilly is determined to settle the score.
Cleve R. Wootson Jr / Washington Post:
People mad about the Trump-like ‘Julius Caesar’ are sending death threats to the wrong theater — In the 1990s, during the Internet's adolescence, someone at Shakespeare & Company, a theater in Lenox, Mass., had the forethought to snap up the Shakespeare.org domain name.
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NBC4 Washington:
Teen Missing in Fairfax County Believed Dead; Suspect Charged: Police — A teen girl who was missing in Fairfax County is dead and a man has been charged in her murder, police say. — Police believe a body found Sunday afternoon in a pond in the 21500 block of Ridgetop Circle in Sterling …
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Raw Story
Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:
The Justice Department Is Killing Trump — Four key decisions put Sessions on the sidelines and intensify a scandal. — President Donald Trump's missteps have intensified the scandal that is consuming his administration. — One is tempted to put scandal in scare quotes.
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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 GOP shifts focus to Lynch
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