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9:05 AM ET, July 10, 2017

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New York Times:
Trump's Son Met With Russian Lawyer After Being Promised Damaging Information on Clinton  —  President Trump's eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., was promised damaging information about Hillary Clinton before agreeing to meet with a Kremlin-connected Russian lawyer during the 2016 campaign …
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John Solomon / The Hill:
Comey's private memos on Trump conversations contained classified material  —  More than half of the memos former FBI chief James Comey wrote as personal recollections of his conversations with President Trump about the Russia investigation have been determined to contain classified information …
Joshua Green / New York Magazine:
Steve Bannon Is Out of Trump's Doghouse and Leading the Charge Against Mueller  —  Why does Trump double-down every time it seems like he should retreat?  Because Steve Bannon is back in his boss's good graces.  —  On May 22, just as a strange photo of President Trump, Saudi king Salman …
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Michael Walsh / New York Post:
The Times ‘exposé’ on Donald Trump Jr. is a big yawn  —  The news was delivered by the New York Times in the breathless tones that might announce a cure for cancer or the discovery of life on Mars:  —  “President Trump's eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., was promised damaging information …
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Donald Trump Jr.'s ‘Denials’ of Russian Collusion Are Actually Confessions  —  Many figures in Donald Trump's orbit have been caught denying contacts with Russia that have later surfaced.  What's unusual about the lies that Donald Trump Jr. tells is that they aren't even exculpatory.
Callum Borchers / Washington Post:
Donald Trump Jr.'s stunning admission to the New York Times  —  Donald Trump Jr. has made a potentially damaging New York Times report much, much worse.  —  The Times on Sunday reported that the president's eldest son was promised damaging information about Hillary Clinton before meeting …
Brandon Carter / The Hill:
Ex-Bush ethics lawyer on Trump Jr: ‘This borders on treason’ … An ethics lawyer under former President George W. Bush blasted Donald Trump  —  Jr. for meeting with a Russian lawyer who claimed to have compromising information on Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton  —  during the campaign, saying it “borders on treason.”
Discussion: Political Wire
David Remnick / New Yorker:
The Truth Behind Donald Trump, Jr.,'s Meeting with a Russian Lawyer  —  Don't get ahead of the reporting.  That's one of the first lessons you're supposed to learn as a novitiate in the church of journalism.  Don't assert what is not yet established by the facts.  The consequences can be dire.
Discussion: Washington Post
Veronica Stracqualursi / ABC News:
The Note: Fire peers out from Trump-Russia smoke
Discussion: RedState and The Week
Liam Stack / New York Times:
Donald Trump Jr.'s Two Different Explanations for Russian Meeting
Discussion: CBS Miami and Political Wire
David Frum / The Atlantic:   Will Congress Hold Russia Accountable for the Behavior Trump Excuses?
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 …
Discussion: Washington Post
Andy Slavitt / USA Today:
Republicans' best play amid health bill chaos is failure  —  This is a mess of the party's own making and a Congress far more in touch with 2016 politics than 2017 governing.  —  The Republican plan to undo the Affordable Care Act has spun out of control.  GOP senators are frustrated …
Discussion: BostonGlobe.com, Salon and Reuters
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
Senate GOP returns from break no closer to Obamacare deal
Discussion: Raw Story
Karol Markowicz / Reuters:
Why Democrats are still losing the war of ideas  —  MORE FROM: … Last week, a Politico/Morning Consult poll on President Trump's proposed travel ban on visitors from six predominantly Muslim countries revealed a somewhat surprising discovery: 60 percent of voters agreed with Trump's proposed ban.
Juliet Eilperin / Washington Post:
Obama returns to political fray for a Democratic Party cause  —  Former president Barack Obama will formally reenter the political fray this week less than six months after leaving office, headlining a fundraiser for a group that could prove critical to the Democratic Party's rebuilding efforts.
Discussion: Political Wire and Politico
Rhett Jones / Gizmodo:
Smart Device Breaks Up Domestic Dispute By Calling the Police  —  We're gradually learning that smart home devices can be quite valuable for police.  Following a recent case in which Amazon handed over data from its Echo device to police investigating a murder, a smart device called the police …
Discussion: Mashable and Engadget
Lawrence Summers / Financial Times:
Donald Trump's alarming G20 performance  —  A company would have replaced a CEO with behaviour as erratic as that of the president  —  Read next  —  Confusing civility with comity is a grave mistake in human or international relations.  Yes, the G20 summit did agree on a common communiqué after the leaders' meeting.
Maya Salam / New York Times:
Australian Journalist's Trump Teardown Goes Viral Amid Interest in G-20  —  In an Australian news broadcast that seems to have resonated with Americans, a political journalist delivered a scathing evaluation of President Trump's performance last week at the Group of 20 summit meeting in Hamburg, Germany.
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Alicia Cohn / The Hill:
G20 world leaders' agreement hinges on U.S. climate change issue
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Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
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Paul Mirengoff / Power Line:
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David Dolan / Reuters:
U.S.'s Tillerson praises Turkish ‘courage’ during coup attempt
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
The demise of the deficit hawks
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Islamophobes are attacking me because I'm their worst nightmare
Discussion: The Daily Caller
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Chris Baynes / The Independent:
Britain's first pregnant man gives birth to girl
Discussion: RedState
David Edwards / Raw Story:
Outgoing ethics chief accuses Reince Priebus of making ‘explicit threat’ to silence his complaints about Trump
Julia Manchester / The Hill:
Pope Francis: US-Russia alliance ‘dangerous’
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
‘Grandstanding’ or truth teller? CNN's Acosta walks a fine line with Trump.
Discussion: IJR and Mediaite
Bruce Bialosky / Townhall.com:
The Foolishness of Never Trumpers
Christopher Caldwell / New York Times:
Germany's Newest Intellectual Antihero
 

 
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Peter Blumberg / Bloomberg:
X sues to block California's AB 2655, aimed at curbing AI-generated deceptive election content on social media, claiming it impinges on free speech

John Koblin / New York Times:
NBC names Craig Melvin as Hoda Kotb's successor on Today, teaming up with Savannah Guthrie, starting January 13; Melvin has been Today's news anchor since 2018

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