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2:10 PM ET, July 6, 2017

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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.
Discussion: Politico and The Week
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Washington Post:
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 …
Discussion: ABC News and Politicus USA
Campaign Legal Center:
OGE Director Walter M. Shaub, Jr. to Join CLC to Lead Ethics Practice  —  WASHINGTON - Walter M. Shaub, Jr., director of the United States Office of Government Ethics (OGE), will join Campaign Legal Center (CLC) as Senior Director, Ethics, beginning on July 19.
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 …
Discussion: Political Wire and Shareblue
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
Discussion: MichelleMalkin.com, Fox News and IJR
Austin Wright / Politico:
Schumer urges Trump to confront Putin over election meddling
Veronica Stracqualursi / ABC News:
The Note: Trump vs. Trump as foreign trip gets busy start
Discussion: Politico, WFAA-TV, The Week and The Hill
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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abendblatt.de:
G20: Findet Donald Trump kein Hotel in Hamburg?
Discussion: Mediaite
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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Ron Klain / Washington Post:
To win the working class, Democrats need to start talking straight
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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Kyle Pope / Columbia Journalism Review:
What we miss when we obsess over Trump's tweets
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 …
Discussion: CNBC, Raw Story and The Stranger …
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Tara Palmeri / Politico:   Trump's aides build their own empires in the West Wing
The Daily Beast:
Trump Aides Want Kremlin Critic in Putin Meeting
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 …
Discussion: Raw Story
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Allegra Kirkland / Talking Points Memo:
Report: Trump Ex-Business Associate To Assist Kazakh Money Laundering Probe
Discussion: Shakesville
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.
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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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
The Trump White House's dishonest spin on its voter fraud commission
Discussion: Shareblue, Forbes and The Week
Eric Boehlert / Shareblue:
Men get 73 percent of top-paying White House jobs, women get biggest pay gap since the '80s
Discussion: Vox, IJR, Mother Jones, AOL and Washington Post
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.
Discussion: Mother Jones, twitchy.com and The Verge
NBC News:
Here's the Full Text of Donald Trump's Speech in Poland  —  President Donald Trump delivered the following remarks to the people of Poland from Warsaw's Krasiski Square after being introduced by first lady Melania Trump.  —  Thank you very much.  That's so nice.
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
GOP tensions rise over Cruz proposal  —  Tensions between Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell  —  (R-Ky.) and his old antagonist, Sen. Ted Cruz  —  (R-Texas), have reappeared in the high-stakes negotiation over healthcare reform.  —  Cruz is insisting on a reform to the Senate GOP bill …
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Josh Dawsey / Politico:
Senate Obamacare repeal vote unlikely next week
Discussion: Politicus USA
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.
Discussion: RedState and Washington Post
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 …
Discussion: Vox and Talking Points Memo
Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:
The Trump administration is quietly making it easier to abuse seniors in nursing homes  —  Even if Trumpcare fails, the administration can still do a great deal to make our health care system meaner.  —  The Trump administration is poised to undo rules issued by the Obama administration …
Molly Hensley-Clancy / BuzzFeed:
18 States Are Suing Betsy DeVos Over For-Profit College Rules  —  The Trump administration has “sided with for-profit school executives against students,” one state attorney general said when announcing the lawsuit.  —  Eighteen states and Washington, DC, are suing Education Secretary Betsy DeVos …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo, Politico and Axios
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’
Joshua Green / Bloomberg:
The Remaking of Donald Trump  —  In the multicultural days of The Apprentice, he rose to a level of popularity with minorities that the GOP could only dream of.  Then he torched it all to prepare for a hard-right run at the presidency.  —  Donald Trump had been thinking about running …
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 …
 
 
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WHTM-TV:
Sen. Pat Toomey joins ABC27 for town hall event
Discussion: Washington Post and Political Wire
Peter Schweizer / New York Post:
Uncovering the Russia ties of Hillary's campaign chief
Discussion: Power Line
Eddie Scarry / Washington Examiner:
CNN's Jim Acosta gets fact about intelligence community's Russia assessment wrong, calls it ‘fake news’
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and twitchy.com
Sarah Harris / Daily Mail:
Winning is banned at more than half of primary school sports days: Pupils compete in teams despite 82% …
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Kurt Schlichter / Townhall.com:
We Should Cheer CNN's Ritual Suicide
Eric Whitney / MTPR:
Rep Gianforte Responds To Trump Bodyslam Tweet
Discussion: The Daily Caller and The Guardian
Jim Siegel / The Columbus Dispatch:
Ohio House backs off from overriding Kasich veto of Medicaid freeze
Cass R Sunstein / Bloomberg:
A Graceless President, a National Betrayal
Nelson D. Schwartz / New York Times:
Hopes of ‘Trump Bump’ for U.S. Economy Shrink as Growth Forecasts Fade
Discussion: ThinkProgress and Washington Post