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Darren Samuelsohn / Politico:
Donald Trump Jr. in legal danger for Russia meeting about Clinton dirt — Donald Trump Jr. is in a legal danger zone following his acknowledgment that he met during the heat of the 2016 presidential campaign with a Russian lawyer with Kremlin ties who offered to deliver damaging information about Hillary Clinton.
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Andrew Prokop / Vox:
The latest Trump/Russia leaks came from inside the White House — Why three White House advisers might have wanted to leak a fuller account of Donald Trump Jr.'s Russian lawyer meeting. — The New York Times had a big scoop Sunday that Donald Trump Jr. took a meeting with a Russian lawyer to try to get dirt on Hillary Clinton.
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Karen Freifeld / Reuters:
Exclusive: Donald Trump Jr. hires N.Y. lawyer for Russia probes
Exclusive: Donald Trump Jr. hires N.Y. lawyer for Russia probes
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BuzzFeed, The Atlantic, Talking Points Memo, NPR, New York Magazine, Raw Story, AOL and The Daily Caller
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Donald Trump Jr. just contradicted a whole bunch of White House denials of Russian contacts
Donald Trump Jr. just contradicted a whole bunch of White House denials of Russian contacts
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The Atlantic, Talking Points Memo, ThinkProgress, ABC News, Axios, CNBC, emptywheel, Vox, Little Green Footballs, Daily Kos, Politico, JustOneMinute, CNN, The Root, Business Insider, New York Post, NBC News, IJR, AOL and Shakesville
Bob Bauer / Just Security:
Open Door to Moscow? New Facts in the Potential Criminal Case of Trump Campaign Coordination with Russia
Open Door to Moscow? New Facts in the Potential Criminal Case of Trump Campaign Coordination with Russia
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NBC News, Economist, Business Insider, Raw Story, New Yorker, ThinkProgress and Talking Points Memo
Olivia Beavers / The Hill:
GOP senator: Trump Jr. should be interviewed by Senate Intel panel
GOP senator: Trump Jr. should be interviewed by Senate Intel panel
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The Gateway Pundit, ABC News, Business Insider, CNBC, The Guardian, Mediaite, NBC News, Raw Story, The Daily Caller and IJR
Washington Post:
Meeting between Trump Jr. and Russian lawyer was requested by Russian pop star whose family is close to Putin
Meeting between Trump Jr. and Russian lawyer was requested by Russian pop star whose family is close to Putin
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New York Times:
How a Pageant Led to a Trump Son's Meeting With a Russian Lawyer
How a Pageant Led to a Trump Son's Meeting With a Russian Lawyer
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CNBC, Business Insider, The Atlantic, Mother Jones, Politico, Balloon Juice, Washington Post, Talking Points Memo, The Week, AOL and Fox News Insider
Josiah Ryan / CNN:
CNN's Cuomo, Conway clash over Donald Trump Jr.'s meeting with Russian lawyer
CNN's Cuomo, Conway clash over Donald Trump Jr.'s meeting with Russian lawyer
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ABC News, Politico, Townhall.com, Raw Story, Talking Points Memo, NPR, Washington Post, Business Insider, Media Matters for America, The Gateway Pundit, The Daily Caller, Conservative News Today, Mediaite, ThinkProgress, IJR, Washington Free Beacon, The Colorado Independent and Refinery29
Pew Research Center:
Sharp Partisan Divisions in Views of National Institutions — Republicans increasingly say colleges have negative impact on U.S. — Republicans and Democrats offer starkly different assessments of the impact of several of the nation's leading institutions - including the news media …
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Cristina Cabrera / Talking Points Memo:
Poll: Majority Of Republicans Now Say Colleges Are Bad For America
Poll: Majority Of Republicans Now Say Colleges Are Bad For America
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Breaking News USA, Lawyers, Guns & Money and Political Wire
Josh Dawsey / Politico:
GOP struggles to revamp ailing Obamacare repeal bill — Republican leaders are frantically pushing for a vote on the Senate's ailing Obamacare repeal bill next week, with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell racing to placate warring moderates and conservatives in a new draft due within days, according to senators and aides.
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Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Senate GOP eyes ObamaCare repeal vote next week
Senate GOP eyes ObamaCare repeal vote next week
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Vox, Talking Points Memo and Fusion
Brian Beutler / New Republic:
How Trumpcare Dies — Republicans' health care legislation is on the fritz.
How Trumpcare Dies — Republicans' health care legislation is on the fritz.
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Los Angeles Times, Lawyers, Guns & Money and Outside the Beltway
John Solomon / The Hill:
Comey's private memos on Trump conversations contained classified material — More than half of the memos former FBI Director James Comey wrote as personal recollections of his conversations with President Trump about the Russia investigation have been determined to contain classified information …
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Trump accuses James Comey of breaking the law — based on a misleading Fox News report
Trump accuses James Comey of breaking the law — based on a misleading Fox News report
Jake Tapper / CNN:
Comey friend: No memos given to me were marked classified
Comey friend: No memos given to me were marked classified
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Axios and twitchy.com
Jonathan O'Connell / Washington Post:
Federal government cancels costly, decade-long search for a new FBI headquarters — The federal government is canceling the search for a new FBI headquarters, according to officials familiar with the decision, putting a more than decade-long search by the bureau to move out of the crumbling J. Edgar Hoover Building back at square one.
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Political Wire
David Siders / Politico:
California Democrats plunge into ‘civil war’ — LOS ANGELES — Long-standing tensions between the Democratic Party's moderate and liberal wings have ignited in California, where progressive activists are redirecting their anger over Donald Trump and congressional Republicans toward Democratic leaders at home.
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Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion and The Daily Caller
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Could Donald Trump Have Been Elected As a Democrat?
The Intercept:
Jared Kushner Tried and Failed to Get a Half-Billion Dollar Bailout From Qatar — Not long before a major crisis ripped through the Middle East, pitting the United States and a bloc of Gulf countries against Qatar, Jared Kushner's real estate company had unsuccessfully sought …
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Talking Points Memo, New York Magazine, Mother Jones, Raw Story and The Week
Bloomberg:
One of the Biggest Reasons Republicans Stick by Trump — They blocked Obama's court nominees for years. Now they're filling those seats, starting a huge shift rightward for the judiciary. — Although he's been thwarted so far on his legislative agenda before Congress, most notably on health care …
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Mark K. Matthews / Denver Post:
Ed Perlmutter to drop out of Colorado governor's race, sources say — Decision coming just weeks after entry of fellow Democratic congressman Jared Polis into the race — WASHINGTON — U.S. Rep. Ed Perlmutter plans to announce Tuesday that he will end his run for Colorado governor …
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Political Wire
Shawn Boburg / Washington Post:
Federal prosecutors step up probe of land deal pushed by wife of Bernie Sanders — A federal investigation into a land deal led by Jane Sanders, the wife and political adviser of Sen. Bernie Sanders, has accelerated in recent months — with prosecutors hauling off more than a dozen boxes …
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The Hill, Washington Free Beacon, VTDigger, Political Wire and AOL
Foreign Policy:
Trump's Trolls Are Waging War on America's Civil Servants — Alt-right bloggers are singling out government employees deemed hostile to the president's agenda. — On June 11, alt-right blogger Mike Cernovich published an article attacking an assistant to National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster …
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Raw Story
Matthew Boyle / Breitbart:
Exclusive — Mark Meadows Draws Line in the Sand: Next Spending Bill Must Fund President Trump's Border Wall — House Freedom Caucus chairman Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC) told Breitbart News exclusively that the next government spending bill must fund President Donald Trump's promised border wall …
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ThinkProgress, Axios, Political Wire, The Daily Caller, TheBlaze and Fusion
David Wallace-Wells / New York Magazine:
When Will the Planet Be Too Hot For Humans? Much, Much Sooner Than You Imagine. — Famine, economic collapse, a sun that cooks us: What climate change could wreak — sooner than you think. … It is, I promise, worse than you think. If your anxiety about global warming is dominated …
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ACLU:
This is the website of the American Civil Liberties Union and the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation. — Learn more about these two components of the ACLU.
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Owen Bennett / HuffPost UK:
Tory MP Anne Marie Morris Recorded Saying Brexit No Deal Is A ‘N***** In A Woodpile’ — No reaction from other Tory MPs on the panel. — Deputy Political Editor, HuffPost UK — A Tory Brexiteer has described the UK leaving the EU without a deal as a “real n*****r in the woodpile” at a meeting of eurosceptics in Central London.
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Fusion, Raw Story, Business Insider, The Guardian, Mashable and The FADER
Andrew Desiderio / The Daily Beast:
Trump Admin. Lobbied Lawmakers to Weaken Russia Sanctions … Trump administration officials huddled privately on Capitol Hill last week as part of a bid to weaken legislation that would slap new sanctions on Russia and Iran, The Daily Beast has learned. — A top Treasury Department official met …
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Raw Story
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
President Trump's enemies list — Donald Trump is less than six months into his presidency, yet one of the organizing principles of his political operation is already becoming clear: payback. — In private, Trump has spoken of spending $10 million of his own money to defeat an incumbent senator …
Judy Kurtz / The Hill:
Lena Dunham selling the dress she wore the night Trump won — Lena Dunham is selling the dress she says she cried in on election night last year, when President Trump defeated Hillary Clinton — The Kenzo ruffle-accented printed dress is one of more than a hundred items up for grabs from the former …
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Greg Wilford / The Independent:
Young Japanese people are not having sex — Nearly half of Japanese people are entering their 30s without any sexual experience, leaving the country facing a steep population decline — Nearly half of Japanese people are entering their 30s without any sexual experience, according to new research.
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Monmouth University:
Monmouth University Polling Institute — New Jersey — Choice Words for “Beachgate” — Most think state is now worse off because of Gov. Christie — West Long Branch, NJ - The past few weeks have been no day at the beach for New Jersey's governor... except for that day at the beach, of course.
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Business Insider, Washington Post, The Daily Caller, Fox News Insider, New York Times, TheBlaze, Daily Wire and Political Wire