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12:30 PM ET, July 10, 2017

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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 …
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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 …
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.
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
Veronica Stracqualursi / ABC News:
The Note: Fire peers out from Trump-Russia smoke
Discussion: RedState and The Week
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 …
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
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 …
Brian Beutler / New Republic:
How Trumpcare Dies  —  Republicans' health care legislation is on the fritz.  Here's what it'll take to grind it to a halt indefinitely.  —  One of the central challenges opponents of Trumpcare face is that they must constantly probe the bill for signs of life.
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Andy Slavitt / USA Today:
Republicans' best play amid health bill chaos is failure
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 …
Discussion: Washington Post and The Week
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 …
Discussion: AOL
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 …
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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 Barack 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 Donald Trump to say so carries more than a whiff …
Zach Berg / Iowa City Press-Citizen:
Prairie Lights brings Bernie Sanders back to Iowa City  —  The Prairie Lights bookstore will bring former Democratic presidential candidate and current U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders back to Iowa City in August.  —  Sanders, who will soon be on tour to promote his latest book, “Bernie Sanders …
Discussion: The Hill
Kurtis Lee / Los Angeles Times:
Former Ohio official who accidentally released Social Security numbers is on Trump's voter fraud panel  —  Ken Blackwell's appointment to President Trump's voter fraud commission has drawn increased scrutiny to his tenure as Ohio secretary of state, during which millions of voters' Social Security numbers were accidentally released.
Jane C. Timm / NBC News:
States Push New Voter Requirements, Fueled by Trump  —  MARSHALL, Mo. — Paul Gieringer let Missouri Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft talk for half an hour, explaining the state's complicated new voter ID law to a crowd of two dozen at the local community center, before raising his hand.
 
 
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Jeff Stein / Vox:
The resistance is making opposition to the GOP health bill impossible to ignore
Discussion: ThinkProgress and Shareblue
Matthew Boyle / Breitbart:
Exclusive - Mo Brooks in Senate Ad: Fund President Trump's Border Wall or Face Government Shutdown
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Fusion
John O'Sullivan / National Review:
Trump Defends the West in Warsaw
Discussion: Shot in the Dark
Julia Manchester / The Hill:
Therapist writes play about negative ‘election effect’ on patients
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Josh Rogin / Washington Post:
Battle emerging inside Trump administration over who controls immigration and refugees
Discussion: Lawfare
Charlie Cooper / Politico:
Romney-linked lobbying firm to open London branch
Michael Wines / New York Times:
A Secretaries of State Meeting Used to Be Friendly. Then the White House Asked for Voter Data.
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Cynthia Cox / The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation:
Individual Insurance Market Performance in Early 2017
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Dan Desai Martin / Shareblue:
Red state mayors defy Trump's silence during Pride month
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Axios Sneak Peek
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Karol Markowicz / Reuters:
Why Democrats are still losing the war of ideas
Lawrence Summers / Financial Times:
Donald Trump's alarming G20 performance
Paul Mirengoff / Power Line:
Europe's childless leaders
Juliet Eilperin / Washington Post:
Obama returns to political fray for a Democratic Party cause
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