memeorandum: Senate Republicans Lay Low on the Fourth, or Face Single-Minded Pressure (New York Times)

10:25 AM ET, July 5, 2017

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Andrew Kaczynski / CNN:

How CNN found the Reddit user behind the Trump wrestling GIF — (CNN)The Reddit user who initially claimed credit for President Donald Trump's tweet that showed Trump tackling CNN issued an apology Tuesday for the video and other offensive content he posted — one day after CNN identified …

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Ben Shapiro / Daily Wire:

THUG JOURNALISM: CNN Threatens To Reveal Identity Of Reddit Man Who Made Trump-CNN Bodyslam Meme If He Disobeys Them — Last week, the President of the United States tweeted out an idiotic meme of himself, from his WWE days, pummeling another combatant after clotheslining him.

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Travis J. Tritten / Washington Examiner:

Trump tells troops in Fourth of July speech: I have your back — President Trump told members of the U.S. military gathered at the White House for the Fourth of July Tuesday that he “will always have your back,” as he boasted that the country is doing “really, really well.”

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David Rothkopf / Washington Post:
The greatest threat facing the United States is its own president

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Wall Street Journal:
The North Korean Missile Crisis

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David E. Sanger / New York Times:
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Max Greenwood / The Hill: Former acting CIA chief: ‘No good option’ for dealing with North Korea

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North Korea missile launch marks a direct challenge to Trump administration

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U.S., South Korea respond to North Korea ICBM launch with ‘show of force’

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David Weigel / Washington Post:

At parades and protests, GOP lawmakers get earful about health care — EASTPORT, Maine — For the 15th year, Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) spent July 4 marching through this town of 1,331, a short boat ride away from Canada. She walked and waved, next to marching bands and Shriner-driven lobster boats.

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New York Times:

Senate Republicans Lay Low on the Fourth, or Face Single-Minded Pressure — ALDERSON, W.Va — In normal times, the Fourth of July parade is a fat pitch down the middle for the grinning politician. For instance, here was Senator Joe Manchin III, a Democrat facing re-election next year …

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Steven Shepard / Politico:

Poll: Majority of voters back Trump travel ban — A clear majority of voters supports President Donald Trump's travel ban on visitors from six predominantly Muslim countries, according to a new POLITICO/Morning Consult poll. — Polling on the travel restrictions has varied wildly since …

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Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:

Majority in new poll backs Trump's travel ban — A majority of voters backs President Trump's travel ban, according to a new survey. — A Politico/Morning Consult poll found 60 percent of voters support the State Department's “new guidelines which say visa applicants from six predominately …

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Karma Allen / ABC News:

NYC officer shot, killed while sitting in police car — An on-duty New York City police officer was killed early Wednesday after a man walked up to her patrol vehicle and fired shots through the window, authorities said. — Officer Miosotis Familia, a 12-year veteran assigned …

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CNN:
NYPD officer shot in the head, dies in hospital

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Ryan Martin / Indianapolis Star:

Indiana GOP asked Facebook for Obamacare horror stories. The responses were surprising. — That will leave about 76,000 Hoosiers without coverage, but there may be other options for them.. Dwight Adams/IndyStar — The Indiana Republican Party posed a question to Facebook on Monday: “What's your Obamacare horror story?

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Olivia Beavers / The Hill:
Indiana GOP request for ObamaCare ‘horror stories’ goes wrong

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NBC4 Washington:

NJ Sand Sculpture Mocks Gov. Christie's Viral Beach Outing — The sand sculpture appeared in the wake of a state government shutdown largely blamed on the governor — Jersey Shore Sand Sculpture Mocks Gov. Chris Christie — A giant sand sculpture of Gov. Chris Christie lounging in a chair …

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Frank Bruni / New York Times:
Chris Christie's Tutorial in Hubris

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Matthew Yglesias / Vox:

Bernie Sanders is the Democrats' real 2020 frontrunner — He's staffing up, touring the country, and still drawing record crowds. — Amid a swirl of speculation about Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Kirsten Gillibrand, Cory Booker, and practically everyone else under the sun …

Lawrence Meyers / Townhall.com:

Why They Hate Trump So Much — One of the reasons the Leftists are so angry at President Trump isn't so much because he won, even though Leftists are incapable of being gracious losers. It's that they were told that the Second Coming of Typhoid Mary would occur, and like all children, are mad that Papa CNN and Mama MSNBC were wrong.

Keith J. Kelly / New York Post:

Another big-time Trump donor eyes buying up Time — A supporter holds a copy of TIME magazine he had signed by Donald Trump. — Getty Images — MORE FROM: … There is now more than one conservative booster of President Trump with a fancy for buying Time Inc. — and its 94-year-old flagship newsweekly, Time.

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Mike Allen / Axios:

Steve Bannon is out of Trump's doghouse — Not a lot of people in the White House are having fun these days. But one top official is having a blast — inviting friends over for lunch, joking about good times from the campaign, plotting 2018 and even 2020.

Ronald Brownstein / CNN:

How accelerating change is deepening our political divisions — This is the first edition of “Fault Lines,” a new weekly column from CNN Senior Political Analyst Ronald Brownstein that analyzes the changing political landscape. — This column takes its name from its intention …

Mohammad Zia Adnan / New York Times:

Going to Hooters and Seeing America — It sounds like the beginning of an uncomfortable joke: Four brown kids of Pakistani descent — from Karachi, Dubai, London and Augusta, Ga. — walk into a Hooters on a recent Saturday afternoon. — They order cheese fries, mozzarella sticks and a plate …