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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.
Zoe Tillman / BuzzFeed:
Donald Trump Jr. Has Hired A Lawyer Who Has Handled Organized Crime And Cybercrime Cases
Washington Post:
Meeting between Trump Jr. and Russian lawyer was requested by Russian pop star whose family is close to Putin
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Donald Trump Jr. just contradicted a whole bunch of White House denials of Russian contacts
Josiah Ryan / CNN:
CNN's Cuomo, Conway clash over Donald Trump Jr.'s meeting with Russian lawyer
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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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 with 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
Discussion: Vox, Talking Points Memo and Fusion
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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Jake Tapper / CNN:
Comey friend: No memos given to me were marked classified
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Trump accuses James Comey of breaking the law — based on a misleading Fox News report
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 …
Discussion: neo-neocon
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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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:   Could Donald Trump Have Been Elected As a Democrat?
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.
Discussion: 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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Olivia Beavers / The Hill:   FBI investigation of Jane Sanders' land deal picks up: report
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 …
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 …
Discussion: Political Wire
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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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 …
Discussion: 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 …
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.
Discussion: neo-neocon
Jacob Sullum / Hit & Run:
NRA Breaks Its Silence on Philando Castile Shooting  —  Spokeswoman Dana Loesch calls the incident “a terrible tragedy that could have been avoided.”  But by whom?  —  Yesterday the National Rifle Association broke its recent silence on the shooting of Philando Castile …
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.
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 …
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 …
Discussion: Vox, Daily Kos and The Hill
Ryan J. Reilly / HuffPost:
Woman Who Laughed At Jeff Sessions Could Face Jail Time This Week  —  The government argues that the jury that convicted a Code Pink protester may have believed her laugh “was a deliberate disruption” and “intentional.”  —  WASHINGTON A woman convicted after laughing during a confirmation hearing …
Discussion: Raw Story and The Slot
Anemona Hartocollis / New York Times:
Long After Protests, Students Shun the University of Missouri  —  COLUMBIA, Mo. — In the fall of 2015, a grassy quadrangle at the center of the University of Missouri became known nationwide as the command center of an escalating protest.  —  Students complaining of official inaction …
 
 
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Hadas Gold / Politico:
Sinclair increases ‘must-run’ Boris Epshteyn segments
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Jade Scipioni / Fox Business:
Republicans are better tippers than Democrats, survey finds
Jason Noble / Des Moines Register:
At town meeting dominated by health care, Ernst says she's undecided on Senate legislation
Discussion: NBC News
Ryan Parker / Hollywood Reporter:
Nelsan Ellis' Family Shares Circumstances of ‘True Blood’ Actor's Death    
Discussion: Vox, The Root and Mashable
Jon N. Hall / The Federalist:
Obamacare's Basket Of Insurance Mandates Should Be The First Thing To Go
Anthony Capaccio / Bloomberg:
F-35 Program Costs Jump to $406 Billion in New Pentagon Estimate
Discussion: Common Dreams and The Daily Caller
Cleve R. Wootson Jr / Washington Post:
Teen camper wakes up to ‘crunching noise’ — and discovers his head is inside bear's mouth
 Earlier Items: 
Andrew Desiderio / The Daily Beast:
Trump Admin. Lobbied Lawmakers to Weaken Russia Sanctions
Discussion: Raw Story
Jason Del Rey / Recode:
Amazon Prime is on pace to become more popular than cable TV
Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Howard Dean: ‘Criminal enterprise’ running the country now
Michael E. Mann:
Since this New York Magazine article ("The Uninhabitable Earth" …
Zach Berg / Iowa City Press-Citizen:
Prairie Lights brings Bernie Sanders back to Iowa City
 

 
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Max Tani / @maxwelltani:
Memo: WaPo's Matt Murray lays out plans for WP Ventures, the “third newsroom”; Krissah Thompson will be editor and Samantha Henig will be general manager

Jack Dunn / Variety:
Trump appoints Mark Burnett, the British TV executive who created and produced the reality show The Apprentice, as a special envoy to the UK

Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
A deep dive into Paramount's sale to Skydance; sources: Skydance may integrate Pluto into Paramount+, and CBS head George Cheeks is expected to be head of TV

 
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