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The Time I Got Recruited to Collude with the Russians — View of the Kremlin from the Bolshoy Kammeny Bridge (Alexander Gusev) — I read the Wall Street Journal's article yesterday on attempts by a GOP operative to recover missing Hillary Clinton emails with more than usual interest.
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Wall Street Journal:
GOP Activist Who Sought Clinton Emails Cited Trump Campaign Officials — Peter W. Smith listed Bannon, Conway and Clovis, besides Flynn, in a recruiting document; his purpose isn't clear and there's no indication he asked for or received any coordination with them.
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Now We Have a Roadmap to the Trump Campaign's Collusion with Russia — Most of the commentary surrounding the Russia scandal has treated the possibility that Donald Trump's campaign deliberately colluded with Moscow as remote, unfounded speculation. The new reporting that has broken …
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Mediaite
Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:
Still No Collusion Evidence — The latest ‘bombshell’ tells us more about media bias than about election meddling — So here's the latest big “collusion” story that has been, er, broken by the Wall Street Journal. — About ten days before he died in mid-May, an 81-year-old man …
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New York Times:
President Trump, Melting Under Criticism — Maybe we should all take a moment to feel a little sorry for Donald Trump, who reacted to criticism on Thursday by tweeting a stream of coarse insults at the television journalist Mika Brzezinski. — After all, he so clearly lacks the toughness …
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Oli Coleman / Page Six:
CNN screws up — again … Let's call this one “'F***!' news.” — We're told CNN flew into a panic on Friday after it accidentally aired a fake National Enquirer cover during Jake Tapper's broadcast. — Tapper did a segment on his “The Lead” show about Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski's claim …
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Bloomberg:
Jared Kushner Almost Bought the National Enquirer Three Years Ago — Tabloid newspaper bandied about in Trump's MSNBC Twitter war — White House offered to help spike story, MSNBC hosts say — The National Enquirer's ties to President Donald Trump and his family are so close that his son …
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Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:
‘Morning Joe’ Row Is Fresh Sign of TV's Iron Grip on Trump — There are a lot of insights to be drawn from the latest media maelstrom involving President Trump: about his sensitivity to criticism, his impulsivity, the way he talks about women and the ease with which he can still hurl the basest of insults.
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CBS News:
Science division of White House office left empty as last staffers depart — WASHINGTON — The science division of the White House's Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) was unstaffed as of Friday as the three remaining employees departed this week, sources tell CBS News.
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Alicia Cohn / The Hill:
Trump goes after states on voter data: ‘What are they trying to hide?’ — President Trump on Saturday blasted the more than two dozen states refusing to comply with his election integrity commission's request for voter data, asking “What are they trying to hide?”
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24 states refusing to provide voter data to Trump election panel
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Bryan Lowry / Kansas City Star:
Kobach: Kansas won't give Social Security info to Kobach-led voter commission at this time
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Justice News:
Manhattan U.S. Attorney Announces Charges Against Individual For Defrauding Investors In Digital Media Company — William McFarland Made False Representations to Investors in Fyre Media LLC and the Fyre Festival — Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York …
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Washington Post, Engadget, AOL and The FADER
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New York Times:
Fyre Festival Organizer Charged With Wire Fraud
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Gizmodo, Balloon Juice and NPR
Michael Isikoff / Yahoo:
Bill to create panel that could remove Trump from office quietly picks up Democratic support — For months, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and other Democratic leaders have privately counseled their more militant members to forswear talk of impeaching President Trump …
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Randy Ludlow / The Columbus Dispatch:
Statehouse showdown: Kasich vetoes lawmakers' Medicaid freeze — Gov. John Kasich is welcoming a showdown with fellow Republicans in the General Assembly over his decision to expand Medicaid health-care coverage to low-income Ohioans. — Kasich used his line-item veto late Friday to kill …
Eliana Johnson / Politico:
Tillerson argued with a second White House aide — The secretary of state, who blew up at Trump's personnel chief over the slow pace of filling political posts, also had a West Wing dispute with senior aide Stephen Miller. — Secretary of State Rex Tillerson argued with senior White House …
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Talking Points Memo, The Week, Business Insider and Washington Monthly
Sean Illing / Vox:
I think health care is a right. I asked an expert to tell me why I'm wrong. — “You've got to be willing to accept that there's a trade-off here.” —Craig Garthwaite — “I believe that health care should be regarded as a public good, not a marketplace commodity. Tell me why I'm wrong.”
John Bowden / The Hill:
Watchdog says State Dept. failing to adequately track foreign aid — The State Department and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) have failed to adequately track the more than $30 billion they spend annually on foreign aid, according to a government watchdog report released Friday.
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RedState
Abigail Tracy / Vanity Fair:
The Republican Plot to Kill Obamacare Isn't as Dead as It Seems — The Senate bill is in trouble, but insiders warn against underestimating Mitch McConnell. — With the July Fourth recess looming, Mitch McConnell and Republican leadership spent Thursday scrambling to cobble together …
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CNNMoney, Washington Monthly and New York Magazine
Binyamin Appelbaum / New York Times:
American Companies Still Make Aluminum. In Iceland. — REYDARFJORDUR, Iceland — Where did the United States' aluminum smelters go? — More than 30 of the giant factories once dotted the American landscape, sucking down huge amounts of electricity to produce the metal for car parts, beer cans and aluminum foil.
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Washington Post
Darren Boyle / Daily Mail:
Salford student union president calls for Islamic takeover — A Muslim student union leader has claimed she would like to ‘oppress white people’ and has suggested there would be an Islamic takeover if more people read the Koran. — Zamzam Ibrahim, who was elected President …
Matt Friedman / Politico:
Christie adds government shutdown to his legacy — Chris Christie is heading into his final six months as governor presiding over New Jersey's biggest government crisis in more than a decade: A shutdown that will literally turn the lights out in Trenton. — New Jersey lawmakers failed …
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