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4:30 PM ET, July 3, 2017

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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 …
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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 …
Associated Press:
Gov. Chris Christie is blistered over his day at the beach  —  Gov. Chris Christie got blistered online Monday after he was photographed sunning himself on a New Jersey beach that he had closed to the public over the Fourth of July weekend because of a government shutdown.
WNYW-TV:
Gov. Christie defends going to beach during shutdown  —  NEW JERSEY (FOX5NY) - New Jersey's governor is defending going to a state beach during a state government shutdown that has closed state beaches.  —  NJ Advance Media published photos of Gov. Christie and his family on lounging …
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 …
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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 …
David M. Drucker / Washington Examiner:
Top GOP Senate recruit Ann Wagner won't challenge Claire McCaskill  —  Rep. Ann Wagner has opted against a 2018 Senate bid, choosing re-election to the House over challenging vulnerable Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill.  —  Wagner's surprise move, finalized over the weekend, is a blow to the Republican Party.
CNN:
Emmanuel Macron assassination plot foiled by French police  —  (CNN)A man has been charged with plotting to assassinate French President Emmanuel Macron on Bastille Day during US President Donald Trump's visit to France, a spokeswoman for the Paris Prosecutor's office said Monday.
Discussion: Washington Examiner, RedState and IJR
FiveThirtyEight:
How Americans Order Their Steak  —  Are people who prefer their steaks well done just wrong?  It's the question that has divided a nation that is otherwise firmly united on the “steak is great” front, given that we Americans consume about 25 billion pounds of beef annually.
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: The Hill, Axios and RedState
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Jessica Taylor / NPR:
Americans Say Civility Has Worsened Under Trump; Trust In Institutions Down
Discussion: Daily Kos, IJR and Political Wire
Diamond Naga Siu / Politico:
Trump offers help to terminally ill U.K. boy  —  President Donald Trump on Monday offered to help a 10-month-old boy in the U.K. who is suffering from a rare genetic condition.  —  Charlie Gard received international attention after a series of legal battles by his parents on whether he should continue receiving life support.
Discussion: Raw Story
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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
Meg James / Los Angeles Times:
Jamie Horowitz, head of Fox Sports programming, fired in sexual harassment probe  —  Jamie Horowitz onstage at the ESPN portion of the 2013 Summer Television Critics Assn. tour at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on July 24, 2013 in Beverly Hills.  (Frederick M. Brown / Getty Images)
Richard Gonzales / National Security:
Pentagon Considers Canceling Program That Recruits Immigrant Soldiers  —  The Pentagon is considering pulling out of a deal it made with thousands of noncitizen recruits with specialized skills: Join the military and we'll put you on the fast track to citizenship.
Discussion: Fusion
Rick Hasen / electionlawblog.org:
Justice Kennedy Tells October 2018 Clerkship Applicants He's Considering Retirement, Right Before 2018 Midterms  —  Big news hiding in Nina Totenberg's story on Justice Gorsuch voting 100% with Justice Thomas: … This would put Justice Kennedy's retirement right before the 2018 midterms …
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Adam Liptak / New York Times:   Confident and Assertive, Gorsuch Hurries to Make His Mark
Lawrence Wright / New Yorker:
America's Future Is Texas  —  With right-wing zealots taking over the legislature even as the state's demographics shift leftward, Texas has become the nation's bellwether.  —  When Frederick Law Olmsted passed through Texas, in 1853, he became besotted with the majesty of the Texas legislature.
Julie Jordan / People.com:
Maria Menounos Reveals She Was Diagnosed with a Brain Tumor — While Her Mom Is Fighting Stage 4 Brain Cancer  —  As she was caring for her mother, who has stage 4 brain cancer, Maria Menounos found out she was facing a health crisis of her own.  —  In February, the TV and Sirius XM radio host started experiencing troubling symptoms.
Charles M. Blow / New York Times:
The Hijacked American Presidency  —  Every now and then we are going to have to do this: Step back from the daily onslaughts of insanity emanating from Donald Trump's parasitic presidency and remind ourselves of the obscenity of it all, registering its magnitude in its full, devastating truth.
Discussion: Quartz
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: naked capitalism, RedState and Politico
Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
How Low Can Taxes Go?  Outside Washington, Republicans Find Limits  —  WASHINGTON — Something strange has been happening to taxes in Republican-dominated states: They are going up.  —  Conservative lawmakers in Kansas, South Carolina and Tennessee have agreed to significant tax increases …
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 …
 
 
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Kelly Weill / The Daily Beast:
Jay Sekulow's Son Made Close to $1 Million From Family Charity
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Steve Johnson / Financial Times:
Inevitable Chinese slowdown ‘a myth’
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USA Today:
On Independence Day, U.S. elections remain vulnerable
Dylan Scott / Vox:
The Senate GOP's health care stalemate, in one chart
Discussion: Politico, Washington Post and Daily Kos
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USA Today:
CNN caved to Trump. It should have stood by its reporters.
Rahm Emanuel / New York Times:
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Discussion: The Daily Caller
Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
The best thing Chief Justice Roberts wrote this term wasn't a Supreme Court opinion
Discussion: Vox, Power Line and Los Angeles Times
Daily Mail:
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Mark Finkelstein / Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion:
WaPo's Ignatius: Fighters in Syria cheer at mention of Trump name
Discussion: Washington Free Beacon and Hot Air
Helena Horton / Telegraph:
Vagina surgery ‘sought by girls as young as nine’ because of pornography, doctors reveal
Niv Elis / The Hill:
GOP leaders have few sure votes on debt ceiling
 

 
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Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
A deep dive into Paramount's sale to Skydance; sources: Skydance may integrate Pluto into Paramount+, and CBS head George Cheeks is expected to be head of TV

Bloomberg:
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Ankush Khardori / Politico:
Trump may erode press protections but the ABC case is not evidence of that as the decision to settle appears reasonable given Stephanopoulos' imprecise remarks

 
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