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11:40 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 …
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Trump accuses James Comey of breaking the law — based on a misleading Fox News report  —  President Trump's first day back in the office after his brief trip to Europe began, as so many do, with a flurry of tweets.  It seems that Trump, as he so often does, tuned into “Fox and Friends” …
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Donald Trump Jr. just contradicted a whole bunch of White House denials of Russian contacts  —  (Photo by Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post)  —  Donald Trump Jr. acknowledged Sunday that he met with a Russian lawyer who had promised damaging information on Hillary Clinton in June 2016.
Discussion: Daily Kos, CNN and Business Insider
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.
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 …
Veronica Stracqualursi / ABC News:
The Note: Fire peers out from Trump-Russia smoke
Discussion: RedState and The Week
Michael Edison Hayden / ABC News:
Conway: No meaningful information received in Trump Jr.'s meeting with Russian lawyer
Discussion: Associated Press
Brandon Carter / The Hill:
Ex-Bush ethics lawyer on Trump Jr: ‘This borders on treason’
Rosalind S. Helderman / Washington Post:
Donald Trump Jr. met with Russian lawyer during presidential campaign after being promised …
Callum Borchers / Washington Post:
Donald Trump Jr.'s stunning admission to the New York Times
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 …
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 out of his own pocket to defeat …
Discussion: The Hill
Jason Del Rey / Recode:
Amazon is quietly rolling out its own Geek Squad to set up gadgets in your home  —  The new service is aimed at educating customers about “the smart home” — and, naturally, about Alexa.  —  For 15 years, Best Buy's Geek Squad installation and repair service has served as one key advantage …
Discussion: Gizmodo, Mashable and The Week
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Rhett Jones / Gizmodo:
Smart Device Breaks Up Domestic Dispute By Calling the Police
Discussion: Mashable and Engadget
Susan B. Glasser / Politico:
Does Trump Have a Point About Obama and Russia?  —  Did President Obama “choke,” as his successor has now taken to claiming, by failing to respond more aggressively to the Russian hacking of the 2016 elections?  —  For President Trump to say so carries more than a whiff of hypocrisy given …
Cynthia Cox / The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation:
Individual Insurance Market Performance in Early 2017  —  Concerns about the stability of the individual insurance market under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) have been raised in the past year following exits of several insurers from the exchange markets, and again with renewed intensity …
Discussion: Balloon Juice
Michael Wines / New York Times:
A Secretaries of State Meeting Used to Be Friendly.  Then the White House Asked for Voter Data.  —  INDIANAPOLIS — In the partisan battlefield of elective office, the National Association of Secretaries of State has always been a DMZ of sorts, an alliance of obscure officials …
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.
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 …
 
 
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Josh Rogin / Washington Post:
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Discussion: The Daily Caller
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Discussion: The Daily Caller and RedState
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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:
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