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11:00 PM ET, June 29, 2017

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Shane Harris / Wall Street Journal:
GOP Operative Sought Clinton Emails From Hackers, Implied a Connection to Flynn  —  Peter W. Smith portrayed the former general as having been an ally in an effort, independent of the Trump campaign, to find personal emails deleted by Hillary Clinton.
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Charlie Spiering / Breitbart:
John Podesta Loses It During Russia Debate with Maria Bartiromo
Emily Smith / New York Post:
Trump calls out Mika's ‘bleeding facelift’ in low-blow tweetstorm  —  The hosts of MSNBC's “Morning Joe” delayed their vacation plans so they can return to the air Friday morning and fire back at President Trump's Twitter attack.  —  “Joe and Mika were supposed to start their July 4th weekend early …
Discussion: RedState, Mediaite and TheBlaze
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Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Trump tweets shocking assault on Brzezinski, Scarborough  —  Trump attacks ‘Morning Joe’ hosts on Twitter  —  Even by President Trump's standards, these tweets were shocking.  —  On Thursday morning, while MSNBC's “Morning Joe” was on the air, Trump posted a pair of hateful tweets about co-hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski.
The Daily Beast:
Trump Attacks ‘Crazy’ Mika Brzezinski: She Was ‘Bleeding Badly From a Face-Lift’ … President Trump launched a cruel personal attack on MSNBC's Morning Joe co-hosts and love birds Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski on Thursday morning, rather than deal with his health-care bill seemingly on death's door.
Michelle Goldberg / Slate:
Trump No Longer Seems Able to Hide His Raw Misogyny.  Good.  —  The President of the United States began this morning as he often does, tweeting juvenile insults at the news media.  But even by Donald Trump standards, today's jabs at TV hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski were unusually gross.
The Hill:
White House offers unapologetic defense of Trump tweets
Discussion: RedState and ABC News
Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
Trump Mocks Mika Brzezinski; Says She Was ‘Bleeding Badly From a Face-lift’
Daniella Diaz / CNN:
GOP lawmakers blast Trump's ‘Morning Joe’ tweets
Emily Jane Fox / Vanity Fair:
Breaking: MSNBC and Greta Van Susteren Agree to Part Ways  —  In an era where liberal anger is driving ratings, the former Fox anchor's show never caught fire.  —  “Remember me?”  Greta Van Susteren crooned to the camera as she raised the curtain on her new MSNBC show on January 9.  “I'm baaack.”
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Media Matters for America:
Bret Stephens and MSNBC's hiring spree: The network keeps moving right
Discussion: Mediaite
Dylan Scott / Vox:
Ted Cruz has a big idea that just might unlock a Senate health care deal  —  Here's how it works.  —  An amendment is under consideration that maybe, just maybe, could unlock the whole Senate Republican health bill.  It might knock over the dominoes necessary for a deal, starting with regulations …
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Ezra Klein / Vox:
It turns out the liberal caricature of conservatism is correct  —  It's depressing.  But it's true.  —  Marc Thiessen, the George W. Bush speechwriter who now writes a column for the Washington Post op-ed page, is aghast at the Senate GOP's health care bill.
Discussion: bradford-delong.com
Sarah Karlin-Smith / Politico:
Dazed GOP bolts Washington in health care disarray
Discussion: Daily Kos
Fox News:
House passes Kate's Law, as part of illegal immigrant crackdown  —  House Republicans took action Thursday to crack down on illegal immigrants and the cities that shelter them.  —  One bill passed by the House would deny federal grants to sanctuary cities and another, Kate's Law …
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Tal Kopan / CNN:
House passes 'Kate's Law' and bill declaring war on sanctuary cities
Fox News:
Attorney General Sessions: Congress must pass Kate's Law and make America safer
CNN:
Susan Rice agrees to testify before House intelligence panel  —  (CNN)The House intelligence committee plans to interview Susan Rice next month as part of its investigation into Russia meddling in the US election last year, a high-profile target for Republicans who accuse President Barack …
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Austin Wright / Politico:
Conaway, Schiff threaten to subpoena White House over Comey tapes
Discussion: RedState and ABC News
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Hawaii challenges Trump stance on Supreme Court travel ban ruling  —  The State of Hawaii is asking a federal judge to rule that the administration's latest plan to carry out President Donald Trump's travel ban executive order defies the ruling the Supreme Court issued on the subject just four days ago.
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Natasha Bertrand / Business Insider:
A chilling National Rifle Association ad gaining traction online appears to be ‘an open call to violence’  —  A National Rifle Association ad that has gained traction on social media this month urges Americans to join “freedom's safest place” as protesters and members of the “resistance” …
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Van Jones / CNN:
Much ado about nothing (burger)  —  Reporter fires back on ‘fake news’ attack  — Jones says he thinks it's unlikely Trump will be forced from office over the Russia investigation but that doesn't mean he thinks there's nothing there  —  CNN political commentator Van Jones is president …
Robert Parry / Consortiumnews.com:
NYT Finally Retracts Russia-gate Canard  —  Exclusive: A founding Russia-gate myth is that all 17 U.S. intelligence agencies agreed that Russia hacked into and distributed Democratic emails, a falsehood that The New York Times has belatedly retracted, reports Robert Parry.
Rhiannon Poolaw / KSWO-TV:
Family's amateur sting operation takes down man targeting young girl  —  DEL CITY, OK (KSWO)- A man accused of targeting a young girl for sex was taken down by an amateur sting operation put together by a Del City family.  —  The father of a 15-year-old girl found out about the relationship …
Discussion: Washington Post and Raw Story
Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Pence to Replace His Chief of Staff  —  WASHINGTON — Vice President Mike Pence's chief of staff will depart the White House in the coming weeks and will be replaced by a long-serving aide, in the first major staff change of his office, officials said on Thursday.
Betsy Woodruff / The Daily Beast:
Republicans Left Ron Johnson for Dead Last Year, Now He Could Kill Their Health Care Bill … Last Friday, Sen. Ron Johnson gave Senate Republican leadership a minor aneurysm when he announced he wasn't ready to back the health care bill.  —  Getting Johnson to support that bill was expected to be easy.
Ben Collins / The Daily Beast:
NASA Denies That It's Running a Child Slave Colony on Mars … A report on Alex Jones' InfoWars claiming child sex slaves have been kidnapped and shipped to Mars is untrue, NASA told The Daily Beast on Thursday.  —  “There are no humans on Mars.  There are active rovers on Mars.
Discussion: RedState
Christopher Ingraham / Washington Post:
Trump's voter-fraud commission wants to know voting history, party ID and address of every voter in the U.S.  —  The chair of President Trump's Election Integrity Commission has penned a letter to all 50 states requesting their full voter-roll data, including the name, address, date of birth …
Discussion: The White House, The Week and Gizmodo
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WLOS-TV:
Caught on camera: Man chased, struck by SUV in Walmart parking lot; man and driver charged  —  A pregnant woman tells News 13 she chased a man and hit him with her SUV in a Walmart parking lot after she says he attempted to steal her purse.  —  It happened around 12:30 p.m. on Wednesday at the Walmart on Bleachery Boulevard.
Discussion: ABC News, MILO NEWS and TheBlaze
Alexandra Yoon-Hendricks / Sacramento Bee:
Federal judge blocks California ban on high-capacity magazines  —  A federal judge has temporarily blocked a voter-approved California law that would have forced gun owners to get rid of high-capacity ammunition magazines by this Saturday.  —  U.S. District Judge Roger Benitez …
Fox News:
Fox News Poll: Voters say Trump's tweets hurting agenda  —  Few voters approve of President Trump's tweeting, and most agree it's making his job harder.  —  Seventy-one percent say the president's tweets are hurting his agenda, according to the latest Fox News Poll.  Just 17 percent see the tweets as helpful.
 
 
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Kate Mather / Los Angeles Times:
Homicide suspect filmed himself during running gun battle that wounded LAPD officer
Discussion: KTLA and LAist
Associated Press:
US approves 1st arms sale to Taiwan under Trump
Discussion: The Atlantic and ABC News
Tyler Durden / zerohedge.com/fullrss2.xml/James:
The Main Reason Congress Is Getting So Little Done Is... They Will Have 218 Days Off In 2017
Discussion: SARAH PALIN
Chris Tomlinson / Breitbart:
Czech Republic Parliament Passes Constitutional Right to Bear Arms
Discussion: Washington Post
Liam Deacon / Breitbart:
‘Death Panel’: European Court Says Terminal Baby Must Die Despite Parents Funding Extra Care
Rosie Gray / The Atlantic:
A Right-Leaning Foreign-Policy Think Tank Shuts Down
Elizabeth Dwoskin / Washington Post:
Twitter is looking for ways to let users flag fake news, offensive content
 Earlier Items: 
Louis Nelson / Politico:
U.S. sanctions Chinese bank for allegedly helping North Korea
Timothy Bella / Esquire:
'It's Amazing I Haven't Ruined Myself'
Discussion: The Week
Nikhil Sonnad / Quartz:
All the “wellness” products Americans love to buy are sold on both Infowars and Goop
Discussion: Raw Story, Mediaite and The Week
Nancy Coleman / CNN:
Army vet beaten to death after saving two teens
Discussion: The Root
 

 
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is working on a smart doorbell system with advanced facial recognition that can wirelessly connect and unlock third-party smart locks

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Donald Trump announces that Sriram Krishnan, until recently a general partner at a16z, will serve as senior policy advisor for AI at the White House OSTP

Financial Times:
Sources: Palantir and Anduril are in talks with OpenAI, SpaceX, and more to form a consortium to bid for US defense contracts and plan to announce it in January
 
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