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New York Times:
Georgia's Special Election Comes to a Nail-Biting Finish — ATLANTA — Tuesday's runoff between Karen Handel and Jon Ossoff in Georgia's Sixth Congressional District will decide what has become the most expensive House campaign in history — and quite possibly the most consequential special election since Watergate.
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The Hill:
Georgia special election runoff: live coverage — Election Day is finally here in Georgia's 6th Congressional District, the closely watched special election runoff to fill the House seat left open by Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price. Democrat Jon Ossoff and Republican Karen Handel …
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Politico, Breitbart, FiveThirtyEight, The Daily Caller, Washington Free Beacon and Mediaite
Tamar Hallerman / Political Insider blog:
Live updates: The nail-biting begins in Georgia's 6th District as polls close — It's election day in the north Atlanta suburbs. — Welcome to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution's live blog. We'll be tracking all things 6th District special election throughout this rainy day (and night) …
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Ben Jacobs / The Guardian:
Georgia special election candidate says journalism has fueled ‘lack of civility’
Elena Schneider / Politico:
Georgia special election: 7 things to watch
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Axios, ABC News, The Atlantic, Political Insider blog, Daily Kos, NPR, USA Today and AOL
CBS News:
Trump's handling of Russia investigations weighs on approval ratings — President Trump's job approval rating has dipped in recent weeks, pushed down by negative reaction to his handling of the Russia investigations, and he's seen some slippage among Republicans as well.
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Laura Litvan / Bloomberg:
Senate Republicans Haven't Seen Their Health Bill Either — Collins, Flake and Toomey not ready to offer support for plan — McCain says he hasn't ‘met any American’ who has seen the bill — Senate Republicans may be asked to vote on a controversial health-care bill next week …
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The Hill, New Republic, Talking Points Memo, Fusion, Political Wire, Washington Post, CNBC and The Week
Caitlin Owens / Axios:
Senate Medicaid spending limits may lose moderate Republicans
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Talking Points Memo, NPR, Associated Press, Weekly Standard, New York Magazine, No More Mister Nice Blog and Daily Kos
Nathaniel Weixel / The Hill:
Health plans slam Medicaid cuts in emerging Senate bill
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Politico
Brent Lang / Variety:
Shocker! Daniel Day-Lewis Quits Acting (EXCLUSIVE) — Senior Film and Media Editor @BrentALang — Three-time Oscar winner Daniel Day-Lewis, widely considered one of the preeminent actors of his generation, is retiring from acting, Variety has learned. — The 60-year-old star …
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East Bay Times, The Daily Caller, The Guardian, TMZ.com and Mashable
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Squad dashcam video - Yanez case (WARNING: Graphic content) — Squad dashcam video of July 6, 2016 traffic stop of Philando Castile. — WARNING: Graphic content. — Evidence presented by Ramsey County Attorney's Office in State of Minnesota versus Jeronimo Yanez.
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Andrew Romano / Yahoo:
Eric Holder joins the anti-Trump resistance — and mulls a presidential campaign of his own … LOS ANGELES — More than two years after leaving the Obama administration, former Attorney General Eric Holder is reentering the political fray. — His goal: to lead the legal resistance …
Charles P. Pierce / Esquire:
David Brooks Didn't Do the Reading. Look What Happened. — And now he's rewriting the Whitewater history to absolve himself. — Moral Hazard, the Irish setter owned for photo-op purposes by New York Times columnist David Brooks, searched the Young Fogies Club in midtown Manhattan …
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Lawyers, Guns & Money
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David Brooks / New York Times:
Let's Not Get Carried Away — I was the op-ed editor at The Wall Street Journal at the peak of the Whitewater scandal. We ran a series of investigative pieces “raising serious questions” (as we say in the scandal business) about the nefarious things the Clintons were thought to have done back in Arkansas.
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Rosie Gray / The Atlantic:
The White House Press Briefing Is Slowly Dying — Over the course of the Trump administration, the White House's daily press briefings have been pared progressively further back; they are now shorter, less frequent, and routinely held off-camera. — The daily briefing is a venerable …
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Eamon Javers / CNBC:
Tim Cook told Trump tech employees are ‘nervous’ about immigration — Tech employees are “nervous” about the Trump administration's approach on immigration, Tim Cook says. — Behind the scenes at the White House tech CEO meeting, Apple CEO Tim Cook told President Donald Trump …
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ABC News, Washington Post, Mediaite, Talking Points Memo, GeekWire, The Daily Caller, Daily Kos, IJR, Raw Story, Politicus USA, The Week and Axios, more at Techmeme »
Jason Leopold / BuzzFeed:
Secret Government Report: Chelsea Manning Leaks Caused No Real Harm — Prosecutors said WikiLeaks' disclosures about Iraq and Afghanistan posed a major threat to US national security. But it turns out the classified document they cited — newly obtained by BuzzFeed News — said almost the exact opposite.
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Lawyers, Guns & Money, The Guardian, AOL, The Week and Balloon Juice, more at Mediagazer »
Kevin Johnson / USA Today:
Attorney General Jeff Sessions retains private lawyer — WASHINGTON - Jeff Sessions, the nation's chief law enforcement officer and top prosecutor, has private lawyer of his own. — Attorney Charles “Chuck” Cooper, a longtime advocate for conservative causes, has been providing counsel …
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Joe.My.God. and Mediaite
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Katelyn Polantz / National Law Journal:
Chuck Cooper Confirms: He's AG Jeff Sessions' Lawyer
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Axios, The New Civil Rights Movement and Daily Kos
Cyd Zeigler / Outsports:
Former Patriots and Chiefs tackle Ryan O'Callaghan comes out as gay — O'Callaghan had always planned to commit suicide after football, until Kansas City Chiefs staffers stepped in. — Editor's note: This story contains conversation and description of suicide.
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Daily Mail, ThinkProgress, Joe.My.God., The Guardian, TMZ.com, Forbes and East Bay Times
Zachary Hansen / Arizona Republic:
Nearly 50 flights canceled Tuesday as Phoenix nears 120-degree day … The extreme heat forecast for Phoenix on Tuesday now has caused the cancellation of nearly 50 American Airlines regional airline flights out of Sky Harbor International Airport. — According to a statement from American Airlines …
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New York Times:
Despite Concerns About Blackmail, Flynn Still Heard C.I.A. Secrets — WASHINGTON — Senior officials across the government became convinced in January that the incoming national security adviser, Michael T. Flynn, had become vulnerable to Russian blackmail.
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Political Wire
Los Angeles Times:
Bodyguard for well-known alt-right figure stabbed several times in Santa Monica — A man who works as a bodyguard for a nationally known figure popular among the alt-right was stabbed multiple times in Santa Monica on Saturday night following a dispute in a parking lot, police said.
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Raw Story, TheBlaze, The Gateway Pundit and Daily Wire
Bloomberg:
China Invites Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner to Visit Beijing — Latest sign of first family's influence on foreign policy — Trip later this year could pave way for president's visit — China has invited President Donald Trump's daughter and son-in-law to visit later this year …
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Alayna Treene / Axios:
Trump: China's effort “has not worked out” on North Korea
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Politico and New York Magazine
Dylan Wells / ABC News:
Sen. Marco Rubio hugs Ivanka Trump before child tax credit meeting … The Florida Republican invited colleagues to meet with him and Trump during her trip to the Hill about child tax credits, including Sen. Deb Fischer, R-Neb. — Fischer introduced a bill focusing on tax credits for companies …
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Seung Min Kim / Politico:
Ivanka Trump to meet with Rubio, Fischer on paid family leave
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Andrew Kaczynski / CNN:
FBI Director nominee removed reference to case involving Russian government from law firm bio — Christopher Wray represented an American energy executive in 2006 who was being criminally investigated by the Russian government. — The detail, which was included on Wray's biography …
Peter Beinart / The Atlantic:
How the Democrats Lost Their Way on Immigration — the myth, which liberals like myself find tempting, is that only the right has changed. In June 2015, we tell ourselves, Donald Trump rode down his golden escalator and pretty soon nativism, long a feature of conservative politics, had engulfed it.
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Power Line and Viking Pundit
Todd Van Luling / HuffPost:
New Moby Video Depicts Donald Trump's Rise And A Violent Demise — Moby spoke with HuffPost about activism and becoming a reluctant mouthpiece for anti-Trump intel. — Moby believes it is “obvious” the world is “a millimeter away from collapse.” — That fearful idea may already be seared …
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Breitbart, Washington Times, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, Raw Story, IJR, The Daily Caller and TheBlaze
Shawn Boburg / Washington Post:
Trump seeks sharp cuts to housing aid, except for program that brings him millions — President Trump's budget calls for sharply reducing funding to programs that shelter the poor and combat homelessness — with a notable exception: It leaves intact the type of federal housing subsidy that is paid directly to private landlords.
Daily Mail:
Brussels central station suicide bomber shot down — A suspected suicide bomber has blown himself up in the Belgium capital's Central Station tonight — Shots rang out soon after 9pm as police and soldiers moved in ‘to neutralise a suspect threatening civilians’
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