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Nicholas Fandos / New York Times:
U.S. Government Ethics Chief Will Resign, Casting Uncertainty Over Agency — WASHINGTON — Walter M. Shaub Jr., the government's top ethics watchdog who has repeatedly gone head-to-head with the Trump administration over conflicts of interest, said on Thursday that he was calling it quits.
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Federal ethics chief who clashed with White House announces he will step down — The director of the independent Office of Government Ethics, who has been the federal government's most persistent critic of the Trump administration's approach to ethics, announced Thursday …
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Peter Overby / NPR:
Ethics Office Director Walter Shaub Resigns, Saying Rules Need To Be Tougher — Office of Government Ethics Director Walter Shaub Jr. turned in his resignation on Thursday. — The move follows months of clashes with the White House over issues such as President Trump's refusal to divest …
Walter Shaub / CBS News:
Walter Shaub says America should have right to know motivations of its leaders — In a conversation with CBS News Thursday, Walter Shaub, Jr., spoke about his resignation from his position as director of the Office of Government Ethics (OGE). — “Do you think the president and his family are using the office to enrich themselves?”
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Jordan Libowitz / CREW:
CREW FILES ETHICS COMPLAINT AGAINST JARED KUSHNER
CREW FILES ETHICS COMPLAINT AGAINST JARED KUSHNER
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Trumpcare Is Having a Very Bad Day — Last week, just as the Senate appeared to be racing toward the stealth repeal of Obamacare, it came to a screeching halt. Mitch McConnell has tried to use the July Fourth recess to regroup and find a way to assemble the 50 votes he needs to roll back the Affordable Care Act.
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McConnell: Limited Bill Needed If GOP Senate Obamacare Repeal Bill Dies — GLASGOW, Ky. (AP) — A bill focused on buttressing the nation's insurance marketplaces will be needed if the full-fledged Republican effort to repeal much of President Barack Obama's health care law fails, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Thursday.
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Caitlin Owens / Axios:
Mike Lee takes harder stance on conservative health care amendment — Sen. Mike Lee won't vote for the Senate GOP health care bill without the addition of a controversial amendment he's championing with Sen. Ted Cruz — a position he has made clear to the White House and Senate Republican leaders.
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Paul Kane / Washington Post:
One reason the GOP health bill is a mess: No one thought Trump would win
One reason the GOP health bill is a mess: No one thought Trump would win
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
GOP tensions rise over Cruz proposal
GOP tensions rise over Cruz proposal
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Marcus Engert / BuzzFeed:
President Trump Apparently Couldn't Find A Hotel To Book For The G20 Summit — He is one of the most powerful people in the world. He is coming to the meeting of 20 powerful countries. And he has a problem: no hotel room for the G20. — White House officials apparently waited too long …
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Sarah Wildman / Vox:
Trump's speech in Poland sounded like an alt-right manifesto — “For family, for freedom, for country, and for God.” — This morning in Warsaw, Poland, President Donald Trump issued a battle cry — for “family, for freedom, for country, and for God” — in a speech that often resorted …
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Annie Karni / Politico:
Trump hands a victory to Polish nationalists
Trump hands a victory to Polish nationalists
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Matthew Continetti / Washington Free Beacon:
President Trump's Remarkable Warsaw Speech
President Trump's Remarkable Warsaw Speech
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Travis Gettys / Raw Story:
WATCH: Trump greeted by Confederate flag during speech in Poland
WATCH: Trump greeted by Confederate flag during speech in Poland
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New York Times:
Back to the Center, Democrats — The path back to power for the Democratic Party today, as it was in the 1990s, is unquestionably to move to the center and reject the siren calls of the left, whose policies and ideas have weakened the party. — In the early 1990s, the Democrats relied …
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Bloomberg:
Trump Cites Russian Election Meddling But Blames Others Too — Says intelligence community's failings on Iraq raise doubts — Trump makes remarks ahead of meeting with Russia's Putin — President Donald Trump said he believes Russia meddled in the 2016 election but maintained that the U.S …
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Robin Eberhardt / The Hill:
CNN's Acosta: Trump held ‘fake news conference’ in Poland
CNN's Acosta: Trump held ‘fake news conference’ in Poland
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John Hudson / BuzzFeed:
Bannon Ally Leaves White House As McMaster Consolidates Power — Former Breitbart writer Tera Dahl has exited the National Security Council in a blow to the Trump White House's nationalist wing. — Reporting From Washington, D.C. — As rival factions inside the White House continue …
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Tara Palmeri / Politico:
Trump's aides build their own empires in the West Wing
Trump's aides build their own empires in the West Wing
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Sarah Sanchez / KVOA-TV:
Protesters arrested at Sen. Flake's Tucson office — TUCSON - — Two protesters were arrested at Sen. Jeff Flake's Tucson office Thursday morning. — According to a media release distributed Wednesday by the Tucson Chapter of Progressive Democrats of America, dozens of people planned …
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Jessica Huseman / ProPublica:
Election Experts See Flaws in Trump Voter Commission's Plan to Smoke Out Fraud — Vice President Mike Pence's office has confirmed the White House commission on voter fraud intends to run the state voter rolls it has requested against federal databases to check for potential fraudulent registration.
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Spencer S. Hsu / Washington Post:
Trump voter commission to store data on White House computers under Pence staff direction
Trump voter commission to store data on White House computers under Pence staff direction
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Tom Burgis / Financial Times:
Russia-born dealmaker linked to Trump assists laundering probe — Felix Sater, who worked on Trump Soho, turns against Kazakh former business partners — Read next … Donald Trump faces renewed scrutiny of the riches that flowed into his real estate empire from the former Soviet Union …
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Allegra Kirkland / Talking Points Memo:
Report: Trump Ex-Business Associate To Assist Kazakh Money Laundering Probe
Report: Trump Ex-Business Associate To Assist Kazakh Money Laundering Probe
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Associated Press:
The Latest: Vote delayed amid report of hazardous material — The Latest on the Illinois Legislature's actions to address the nation's longest state budget stalemate (all times local): — A critical override vote on a package of budget bills is being delayed as authorities investigate …
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Monique Garcia / Chicago Tribune:
Illinois Capitol reopens after lockdown, no hazardous materials found
Illinois Capitol reopens after lockdown, no hazardous materials found
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Joe Flint / Wall Street Journal:
In TV Ratings Game, Networks Try to Dissguys Bad Newz from Nielsen — In a game largely sanctioned by TV-ratings firm Nielsen, television networks try to hide shows' poor performances on any given night by forgetting how to spell. That can dramatically improve a show's average viewership.
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Mike Cherry / KHVO:
United takes seat away from 2-year-old; resells ticket — With tickets in hand, Shirley Yamauchi - a teacher at Kapolei Middle school and her 27-month old son were on the final leg of an 18-hour flight from Hawaii to Boston. — “He and I, we had both our tickets scanned, we both went on board no problem,” Yamauchi said.
CBS News:
Are sleeveless dresses “appropriate attire”? Congress doesn't think so — A young, female reporter recently tried to enter a guarded room known as the Speaker's lobby outside the House chamber, but her outfit was considered inappropriate because her shoulders weren't covered. She was wearing a sleeveless dress.
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Nathan L. Gonzales / Roll Call:
One Reason Why Republicans Don't Have More Women in the Senate — GOP misses a rare opportunity in Missouri — GOP Campaign Tracker Violates Bipartisan Truce (Again) Chris Van Hollen Had His Own Fake Time Magazine Cover 11 Things I Think I Think After the Special Elections
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Stacy Cowley / New York Times:
18 States Sue Betsy DeVos Over Student Loan Protections — Democratic attorneys general from 18 states and the District of Columbia filed a lawsuit on Thursday against the Education Department and its secretary, Betsy DeVos, challenging the department's move last month to freeze new rules …
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Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
The Network Against the Leader of the Free World — Jeffrey A. Zucker hasn't been getting a lot of sleep lately. But he says that's nothing new. — “I don't sleep that much anyway,” Mr. Zucker, the president of CNN, said on Wednesday in his fifth-floor office, just off the network's glassy Midtown Manhattan newsroom.
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Julia Manchester / The Hill:
Pence: ‘We will put American boots on the face of Mars’ … Vice President Pence pledged during a tour of the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Thursday that the U.S. would put humans on Mars. — “Here the Hubble Space Telescope, the New Horizons, and so many other technological wonders lifted off …
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Kelly Mclaughlin / Daily Mail:
'There's a $3,000 bounty on your head in Philadelphia': Woman gets death threats after Facebook video of her urinating on an American flag goes viral — She captioned the video, which she posted on Facebook and later deleted: ‘F*** your nationalism. F*** your country. F*** your stupid f****** flag’