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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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Tara Palmeri / Politico:
Trump's aides build their own empires in the West Wing — President Donald Trump won office on promises to shake up how Washington works, and so far that's been most apparent in his own West Wing, where his top advisers have built up personal staffs to support their own agendas instead …
The Daily Beast:
Trump Aides Want Kremlin Critic in Putin Meeting … The White House's best-known Russia hawk is already in Germany, in advance of Donald Trump's high-stakes meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin and the G-20 summit. But whether Fiona Hill will be allowed in the room when the two presidents …
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New York Times:
In Poland, Trump Asks Whether West Has ‘Will to Survive’ — Right Now: President Trump has arrived in Hamburg, Germany, for a Group of 20 summit meeting with leaders of other major economies. — • During a speech in Warsaw, Mr. Trump said that in an age of terrorism …
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Veronica Stracqualursi / ABC News:
The Note: Trump vs. Trump as foreign trip gets busy start — WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW TODAY — President Trump's trip to Europe is off to a newsy start. In a news conference with the Polish president, Trump attacked some U.S. news outlets as “fake news,” and blasted former President Obama …
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Condition Update: Rep. Steve Scalise Progress
Condition Update: Rep. Steve Scalise Progress
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Daily Mail:
Donald Trump calls on the world to stop North Korea
Donald Trump calls on the world to stop North Korea
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Voice of America:
Trump in Poland: Strengthening NATO, Shipping LNG and North Korea's Bad Behavior
Trump in Poland: Strengthening NATO, Shipping LNG and North Korea's Bad Behavior
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Clarence Williams / Washington Post:
Rep. Steve Scalise is readmitted to MedStar Intensive Care amid concerns for infection
Rep. Steve Scalise is readmitted to MedStar Intensive Care amid concerns for infection
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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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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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U.S. Department of Justice:
United States Files Civil Action To Forfeit Thousands Of Ancient Iraqi Artifacts Imported By Hobby Lobby — Cuneiform Tablets Were Falsely Labeled as Product “Samples” and Shipped to Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc., and Two Corporate Affiliates — Earlier today, the United States filed …
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Alan Feuer / New York Times:
Hobby Lobby Agrees to Forfeit 5,500 Artifacts Smuggled Out of Iraq
Hobby Lobby Agrees to Forfeit 5,500 Artifacts Smuggled Out of Iraq
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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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Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
Trump Won't Pin 2016 Election Hacking On Russia: ‘Nobody Really Knows’
Trump Won't Pin 2016 Election Hacking On Russia: ‘Nobody Really Knows’
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Richard Shears / Daily Mail:
Photo ‘showing Amelia Earhart’ is not the US aviator — A photo of a woman claimed to be missing US aviator Amelia Earhart is said today to be proof that she survived a crash into the Pacific Ocean 80 years ago - but the picture has a major flaw, it can be revealed.
Josh Dawsey / Politico:
Senate Obamacare repeal vote unlikely next week — Republicans are reviewing possible changes to the bill and still don't have the votes to gut the health law. — Senate Republicans are highly unlikely to vote next week to repeal Obamacare and are tentatively preparing for a vote …
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
Right threatens McConnell's Obamacare repeal
Right threatens McConnell's Obamacare repeal
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Michael Chertoff / Washington Post:
Trump's voter data request poses an unnoticed danger — Michael Chertoff, U.S. homeland security secretary from 2005 to 2009, is executive chairman of the Chertoff Group, a security and risk-management advisory firm. — The Trump administration's Presidential Advisory Commission …
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Jordan Libowitz / CREW:
CREW FILES ETHICS COMPLAINT AGAINST JARED KUSHNER — FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE — Washington, D.C.—White House Senior Advisor and Assistant to the President Jared Kushner appears to have failed to make the required disclosure of his ownership interest in an online real estate investment company called Cadre …
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Brooke Singman / Fox News:
Trump, in Poland, vows ‘the West will never, ever be broken’ — President Trump delivered a staunch defense of Western values during a rousing speech Thursday to thousands of Poles in Warsaw's Krasinski Square, rallying allies against what he described as “dire threats” to civilization and vowing, “the West will never, ever be broken.”
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Linda Greenhouse / New York Times:
Trump's Life-Tenured Judicial Avatar — So Neil M. Gorsuch, the aw-shucks humble servant of the law whom the country encountered during his mind-numbing confirmation hearing, turns out to be a hard-right conservative. No real surprise there, and by now, no real news either …
Megan Messerly / The Nevada Independent:
Rosen officially announces Senate bid, says Reid encouraged her to run — Democratic Rep. Jacky Rosen announced today she is officially running for U.S. Senate, culminating weeks of deliberations that — once again — began with a phone call from Nevada's political godfather Harry Reid.
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Cass R Sunstein / Bloomberg:
A Graceless President, a National Betrayal — Unlike Trump, Reagan understood the power of humility and graciousness. — For leaders as well as friends, spouses and colleagues, grace is a precious characteristic. Whatever one thinks of Donald Trump's policy choices, our nation has never had a president more lacking in grace.
Casey B. Mulligan / Wall Street Journal:
How Many Jobs Does ObamaCare Kill? — We surveyed managers at small businesses and put the count at 250,000.
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Washington Post:
Government supporters attack Venezuelan congress, injure opposition lawmakers — CARACAS, Venezuela — Venezuelan lawmakers who oppose President Nicolás Maduro were beaten and bloodied in the halls of congress Wednesday as a pro-government mob stormed the building, apparently facing little or no resistance from security guards.
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Matt Vespa / Townhall.com:
Oregon To Health Insurers: You Must Cover Abortions Now — The Oregon state legislature has a bill heading for the governor's desk, which tells health insurers operating in the state one thing: you must cover abortions. The bill split along party lines, but the Democratic legislature …
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Nelson D. Schwartz / New York Times:
Hopes of ‘Trump Bump’ for U.S. Economy Shrink as Growth Forecasts Fade — The promise of faster economic growth has become a study in the triumph of hope over experience. — While the June jobs report, coming on Friday, is expected to show that hiring continued at a healthy pace last month …
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