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New York Times:
Trump Presses Putin on Russian Meddling in U.S. Election — Right Now: President Trump pressed Vladimir V. Putin on Russia's interference in the 2016 United States election but did not dwell on the subject. Their encounter lasted two hours and 15 minutes, far longer than expected.
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Caitlin Yilek / Washington Examiner:
Melania was sent in to Trump-Putin meeting to get them to wrap up, Tillerson says — First lady Melania Trump was sent into President Trump's meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin to try to get the two leaders to wrap it up after their scheduled 30-minute meeting ran for more than an hour …
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Callum Borchers / Washington Post:
The White House got in the game after Russia took charge of the Trump-Putin narrative — The White House allowed Russia to shape early impressions of Friday's meeting between President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin but responded quickly with its own account of the session …
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CNN:
Trump, Putin reach Syria deal, discuss election interference — Hamburg, Germany (CNN)President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin met for over two hours Friday afternoon, discussing interference in US elections and ending with an agreement on curbing violence in Syria, the top American diplomat said.
Sputnik International:
Putin Reveals What He Discussed With Trump During Two-Hour-Long Meeting — Russian President Vladimir Putin has commented on the topics that he and his American counterpart Donald Trump covered in their long-awaited meeting in Hamburg on Friday. — Russian President Vladimir Putin …
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RT:
‘Phone talks obviously not enough’: Putin & Trump meet on sidelines of G20 summit (VIDEO)
‘Phone talks obviously not enough’: Putin & Trump meet on sidelines of G20 summit (VIDEO)
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Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Tillerson: Trump pressed Putin on election interference
Tillerson: Trump pressed Putin on election interference
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The Daily Beast:
Trump Aides on Podesta Tweet: ‘No Idea What He Is Talking About’ … The world's most powerful leaders gathered in Germany this week to hammer out tough geopolitical issues—and, according to a tweet from President Donald Trump, to dump on Hillary Clinton's former campaign chairman.
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John Podesta / Washington Post:
Why is Trump tweeting about me when he should be doing his job? — John Podesta, the chair of Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign, served as counselor to President Barack Obama and chief of staff to President Bill Clinton. — MOREHEAD, Ky. — Weaving through the mountains …
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Craig Whitlock / Washington Post:
FBI investigated complaints that Bobby Knight groped women at U.S. spy agency — Even before he started cursing from the podium at a U.S. spy agency, Bobby Knight was an unorthodox choice to deliver a lecture on leadership. — Employees at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) …
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Robert H. Frank / New York Times:
Why Single-Payer Health Care Saves Money — Lingering uncertainty about the fate of the Affordable Care Act has spurred the California legislature to consider adoption of a statewide single-payer health care system. — Sometimes described as Medicare for all, single-payer is a system …
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Lee Fang / The Intercept:
Republican Lawmakers Buy Health Insurance Stocks as Repeal Effort Moves Forward
Republican Lawmakers Buy Health Insurance Stocks as Repeal Effort Moves Forward
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New York Magazine
Tyler Jett / timesfreepress.com:
Sen. Bob Corker addresses concerns over health care reform
Sen. Bob Corker addresses concerns over health care reform
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Politico
Lazaro Gamio / Axios:
The most unpopular bill in three decades
The most unpopular bill in three decades
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Glenn Greenwald / The Intercept:
Rachel Maddow's Exclusive “Scoop” About A Fake NSA Document Raises Several Key Questions — MSNBC's Rachel Maddow devoted the first 21 minutes of her Thursday night program to what she promoted as an “exclusive” scoop. The cable news host said that someone had sent her a “carefully forged” …
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Anita Kumar / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Trump personally pockets club membership fees, breaking with industry norms — Even as he serves as president, Donald Trump earns a tidy sum — tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars — every time a new member joins one of his tony clubs. — Whether it's the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster …
Philip Oltermann / The Guardian:
Arrests and injuries as Hamburg gripped by mass anti-G20 protests — Teargas and water cannon deployed outside Elbphilharmonie concert hall while inside world leaders listen to Ode to Joy … A day of violent clashes between police and protesters culminated on Friday evening …
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Aida Chavez / The Hill:
Melania Trump unable to leave hotel because of G-20 protests
Melania Trump unable to leave hotel because of G-20 protests
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Andrew Marantz / New Yorker:
The Alt-Right Branding War Has Torn the Movement in Two — A few weeks ago, Colton Merwin, a nineteen-year-old from Maryland who recently dropped out of college, decided to organize a rally on the National Mall. “I got all the permits and stuff myself,” he said. “It was pretty easy, actually.”
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John Cassidy / New Yorker:
Donald Trump's Credibility Problem at the G-20 Summit — With North Korea's successful testing of an intercontinental ballistic missile that might be able to reach parts of the United States, Donald Trump is facing a foreign-policy challenge of the first order.
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Tim Kelly / Reuters:
U.S. bombers challenge China in South China Sea flyover
U.S. bombers challenge China in South China Sea flyover
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Paul Sperry / New York Post:
New holes in Loretta Lynch's story on the Hillary probe — MORE FROM: … When former Attorney General Loretta Lynch testified last year about her decision not to prosecute Hillary Clinton for mishandling classified information, she swore she never talked to “anyone” on the Clinton campaign.
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Austin Wright / Politico:
Loretta Lynch denies offering assurances to Clinton campaign over email probe
Loretta Lynch denies offering assurances to Clinton campaign over email probe
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Battle Creek Enquirer:
Are goats taking jobs from union workers? — A battle is brewing at Western Michigan University this summer between a group of hungry goats and a labor union. — The 400-member American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees has filed a grievance contending that the work …
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Jonah Goldberg / National Review:
The Dangers of Arrogant Ignorance — Widespread historical ignorance is driving political polarization. — During President Trump's speech in Warsaw, Poland, on Thursday, he memorialized Pope John Paul II's momentous 1979 visit to the city. — For many historians …
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The Daily Signal
Bundesregierung:
Exklusive Perspektive! Nicht stören - aber alles im Blick haben, das ist die Arbeit der offiziellen Fotografen. Wir haben unserem Kollegen eine Videokamera auf seine Fotokamera gesetzt. Ganz besondere Einblicke in das informelle Treffen der #G20-Chefs, das so genannte „Retreat":
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Alexander Nazaryan / Newsweek:
BIZARRE ALT RIGHT CARTOON OF TRUMP AS 9/11 PLANE AND CNN AS TWIN TOWERS CONFUSES TWITTER — The American right frequently delights in its mockery of CNN, dutifully following in the footsteps of President Trump, who spent much of the last week maligning the cable news network.
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Mike Konczal / Vox:
What the stock market's rise under Trump should teach Democrats — A lot of predictions were upended when Donald Trump won the presidency. But one of the most interesting was the idea that a President Trump would cause a stock market collapse — or at least a sharp decline.
Patricia Cohen / New York Times:
U.S. Labor Market Roars Back, Adding 222,000 Jobs in June — The Labor Department released the June hiring and unemployment figures on Friday morning. This is the latest official snapshot of the state of the American economy. — The Numbers — • 222,000 jobs were added last month.
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Mike Lillis / The Hill:
Dem bill would grant green cards to undocumented 9/11 workers — The head of the House Democratic Caucus will introduce legislation next week that would grant permanent legal status to hundreds of undocumented workers who toiled in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks.
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Josh Dawsey / Politico:
Trump's leaks crackdown sends chills through national security world — National security officials across the federal government say they are seeing new restrictions on who can access sensitive information, fueling fears in the intelligence and security community that the Trump administration …
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Pema Levy / Mother Jones:
These Three Lawyers Are Quietly Purging Voter Rolls Across the Country — The Trump administration could soon follow their lead. — Willie Miller was born — in 1948 in Noxubee County, Mississippi, an agricultural community along the state's eastern border named after a Choctaw word that translates roughly to “stinks like fish.”
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