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10:50 AM ET, July 3, 2017

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New Jersey Online:
PHOTOS: Christie, family soak up sun on N.J. beach he closed to public  —  Gallery: Gov. Chris Christie and family on closed Island Beach State Park in N.J.  —  NJ Advance Media for NJ.com  —  BERKELEY TOWNSHIP — People hoping to visit Island Beach State Park this holiday weekend …
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Andrew Mills / New Jersey Online:
The plane truth: How we caught Chris Christie sunbathing on a closed beach  —  Gallery: Gov. Chris Christie and family on closed Island Beach State Park in N.J.  —  amills@njadvancemedia.com,  —  NJ Advance Media for NJ.com  —  In my 23 years as a photo journalist …
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Scoop: Bannon pushes tax hike for wealthy  —  Steve Bannon is causing a stir inside the administration by pushing an idea that's anathema to most Republicans: raising taxes on the wealthiest Americans to pay for steep middle and working-class tax cuts.  (Some officials who've heard Bannon's idea …
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Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
How Low Can Taxes Go? Outside Washington, Republicans Find Limits
Discussion: Axios, Hullabaloo and Laffer Center
Laura Santhanam / PBS NewsHour:
New poll: 70% of Americans think civility has gotten worse since Trump took office  —  Americans broadly believe their country's political tone has become less civil since Donald Trump was elected president and that fundamental rights are weakening, according to a new PBS NewsHour/NPR/Marist poll.
Discussion: NPR
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Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
PBS poll: 70 percent say civility has dropped since Trump's election  —  A majority of Americans in a new survey thinks civility has gotten worse since President Trump was elected.  —  A PBS NewsHour/NPR/Marist Poll out early Monday found that 70 percent of Americans think civility has gotten worse since Trump's election.
Discussion: RedState
Foreign Policy:
Tillerson Ready to Let Russia Decide Assad's Fate  —  In talks with the U.N. chief, Tillerson indicates Russia should be in the driver's seat when it comes to the future of Syria.  —  Secretary of State Rex Tillerson told the U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres during …
New York Times:
Medicaid Worsens Your Health?  That's a Classic Misinterpretation of Research  —  As a program for low-income Americans, Medicaid requires the poor to pay almost nothing for their health care.  Republicans in Congress have made clear that they want to change that equation for many …
Discussion: Vox
Helena Horton / Telegraph:
Vagina surgery ‘sought by girls as young as nine’ because of pornography, doctors reveal  —  Girls as young as nine are reportedly seeking surgery on their private parts because of insecurities stemming from adult content such as pornography, according to leading doctors.
Jacqueline Thomsen / The Hill:
GOP lawmaker to CNN: ‘You guys are getting played’ … Rep. Scott Taylor (R-Va.) told CNN early Monday that the media is “getting played” by covering President Trump's tweets.  —  The congressman said the media needs to cover “real issues” instead of Trump's tweets when asked on CNN's …
Jacqueline Thomsen / The Hill:
Kushner, Ivanka rub elbows with Dem billionaire Soros at Hamptons party: report  —  First daughter Ivanka Trump and her husband Jared Kushner were spotted at a party over the weekend rubbing elbows with billionaire Democratic financier George Soros and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer
Discussion: RedState and Politico
David Sirota / International Business Times:
Justice Department's Corporate Crime Watchdog Resigns, Saying Trump Makes It Impossible To Do Job  —  One of the Justice Department's top corporate crime watchdogs has resigned, declaring that she cannot enforce ethics laws against companies while, she asserts, her own bosses in the Trump administration …
Discussion: Common Dreams and The Hill
Choe Sang-Hun / New York Times:
Deportation a ‘Death Sentence’ to Adoptees After a Lifetime in the U.S.  —  SEOUL, South Korea — Phillip Clay was adopted at 8 into an American family in Philadelphia.  —  Twenty-nine years later, in 2012, after numerous arrests and a struggle with drug addiction, he was deported back to his birth country, South Korea.
New York Times:
Trump Foot Soldier Sidelined Under Glare of Russia Inquiry  —  Just over a decade ago, Donald J. Trump was locked in conflict with a group of apartment owners who had taken control of the condominium board at his new glass tower across from the United Nations.
ABC:
Donald Trump tweets ‘juvenile’ fake wrestling video of him beating up CNN  —  US President Donald Trump has stepped up his feud with the media by tweeting a mock video of himself tackling and repeatedly striking a man in a business suit, his face replaced by the CNN logo, outside a wrestling ring.
Discussion: Informed Comment
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Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
Trump Tweets a Video of Him Wrestling ‘CNN’ to the Ground
 
 
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Charles M. Blow / New York Times:
The Hijacked American Presidency
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John Wagner / Washington Post:
President largely sidesteps the bully pulpit in pushing health-care bill
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Why the generation after millennials will vote Republican
John Hinderaker / Power Line:
A Muslim Comes to Rural Minnesota
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Niv Elis / The Hill:
GOP leaders have few sure votes on debt ceiling
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Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:
Independent Press Is Under Siege as Freedom Rings
Avi Selk / Washington Post:
A Reddit user who wrote about stabbing Muslims is claiming credit for Trump's CNN video
Discussion: Quartz and Viking Pundit
Michael Goodwin / New York Post:
Why the media has broken down in the age of Trump
Los Angeles Times:
Thousands march in L.A. for impeachment of President Trump; his supporters hold their own rally
Discussion: The Week and KTLA
Jon Ralston / The Nevada Independent:
Heller caught between distrustful left and angry right
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Senate GOP pressures budget refs for better score on ObamaCare replacement
Discussion: ACASignups.net and The Guardian
Claire Cain Miller / New York Times:
It's Not Just Mike Pence. Americans Are Wary of Being Alone With the Opposite Sex.
Discussion: Althouse and IJR
 

 
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Matthew Keys / The Desk:
DirecTV terminates its Dish acquisition after a group of Dish creditors rejected a modified bond exchange offer

Ashley Carman / Bloomberg:
A growing number of podcasters, including Tim Ferriss, are moving away from interviews to monologues or co-hosts, as some well-known guests can be overexposed

Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
A New York judge finds Sirius XM liable for a difficult subscription cancellation process; Sirius says it will appeal but abide by a new “click-to-cancel” rule

 
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