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11:55 AM ET, July 12, 2017

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McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Trump-Russia investigators probe Jared Kushner-run digital operation  —  WASHINGTON  —  Investigators at the House and Senate Intelligence committees and the Justice Department are examining whether the Trump campaign's digital operation - overseen by Jared Kushner - helped guide Russia's …
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New York Times:
Rancor at White House as Russia Story Refuses to Let the Page Turn  —  WASHINGTON — If President Trump emerged from his meeting with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia last week hoping he had begun to “move forward” from the controversy over the Kremlin's election meddling, as advisers put it …
Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
‘Category 5 hurricane’: White House under siege by Trump Jr.'s Russia revelations  —  The White House has been thrust into chaos after days of ever-worsening revelations about a meeting between Donald Trump Jr. and a lawyer characterized as representing the Russian government …
Eric Boehlert / Shareblue:
Trump goes AWOL, hasn't shown up to work all week  —  Day after day, Donald Trump's schedule remains empty.  He hasn't made an official, stateside public appearance in more than a week.  —  Donald Trump's public schedule has gone blank once again, as the amorphous Republican retreats behind the walls of the White House.
New York Post:
Donald Trump Jr. is an idiot  —  We see one truly solid takeaway from the story of the day: Donald Trump Jr. is an idiot.  —  SEE ALSO  —  In the heat of your father's presidential campaign, a bozo British publicist e-mails you to set up a sitdown with a “Russian government attorney” …
New York Times:
Natalia Veselnitskaya, Lawyer Who Met Trump Jr., Seen as Fearsome Moscow Insider  —  MOSCOW — When American prosecutors accused a senior Russian official's son of laundering $14 million by investing in Manhattan property and other assets, she was called to defend him.
Kevin G. Hall / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Lawyer that met Don Jr. had ties to Russian government, spy agency  —  WASHINGTON  —  The Russian lawyer at the center of Donald Trump Jr.'s scandal over possible collusion with Kremlin election meddlers has denied she has ties to the Russian government.  —  But she threatened action …
Josh Dawsey / Politico:
White House aides feeling ‘helpless’ as Trump Jr. scandal explodes  —  White House aides feel blindsided by the bombshell revelations around Donald Trump Jr.'s campaign meeting with a Russian lawyer, while the president is using his relatively light schedule to watch TV and fume about the latest scandal …
Elizabeth Preza / Raw Story:
President Trump personally signed off on false statement claiming Don Jr.'s meeting was about adoption: report  —  DON'T MISS STORIES.  FOLLOW RAW STORY!  —  President Donald Trump personally signed off on a statement provided Sunday by Donald Trump Jr., which insisted a meeting between …
New York Times:
Did Donald Jr. Break the Law?  —  The revelation that Donald Trump Jr. enthusiastically accepted an offer to meet with an individual described as a “Russian government attorney” bringing “official documents and information” to help the Trump campaign and injure the Clinton campaign is a bombshell.
Discussion: Politico and RedState
Samuel Chamberlain / Fox News:
Donald Trump Jr. tells Sean Hannity: ‘In retrospect I probably would have done things a little differently’
Jake Lahut / Politico:
Trump: ‘I have very little time for watching T.V.’
Discussion: Political Wire
National Review:   Don Jr.'s Disgraceful Meeting
New York Times:
Donald Trump Jr. Makes the Russian Connection
Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
Campaign Opposition Research Is Standard. But Not ‘Oppo’ From Hostile Nations.
Michael Crowley / Politico:
Trump Jr.'s love affair with Moscow
Discussion: Mother Jones
CNN:
Source: Justice Dept. probe will look at Trump Jr.'s disclosed emails, meeting
Fox News:
Dershowitz: Did Donald Trump Jr. commit a crime or merely political sin? It depends
Discussion: Althouse
Kayleigh McEnany / The Hill:
OPINION | Forget Don Jr.'s email — it's Hillary Clinton who ‘colluded’ with Russia
Walter Shapiro / The Guardian:   Fox News might buy Donald Trump Jr's spin. But Republicans have no excuse
Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Republicans Reluctantly Acknowledge a Failure of Governing  —  WASHINGTON — Republicans are failing at governance.  And they know it.  —  Their senatorially painful decision announced on Tuesday to sacrifice some of lawmakers' usually sacrosanct August recess was a public confession …
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Bloomberg:
Senators Explore Bipartisan ‘Plan B’ to Troubled GOP Health Bill  —  McConnell to push for vote on his Obamacare repeal next week  —  Some senators seek instead to shore up Obamacare markets  —  More than half a dozen Republican and Democratic senators have discussed alternatives …
Discussion: Daily Kos and Balloon Juice
Steven Shepard / Politico:
Republican voters to GOP: Keep working on Obamacare repeal
Discussion: Washington Times and Axios
Axios:
Public wants GOP to work with Dems on health care
Project MIDAS:
Larsen C calves trillion ton iceberg  —  A one trillion tonne iceberg - one of the biggest ever recorded - has calved away from the Larsen C Ice Shelf in Antarctica.  The calving occurred sometime between Monday 10th July and Wednesday 12th July 2017, when a 5,800 square km section of Larsen C finally broke away.
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Lauren Said-Moorhouse / CNN:   Massive iceberg breaks away from Antarctica
New York Post:
Teen blasted ‘F-k Tha Police’ during slain officer's funeral  —  A Bronx teen defiantly blasted the NWA song “F— Tha Police” out his third-floor apartment window Tuesday as thousands of cops were gathered below to mourn slain cop Miosotis Familia — prompting a house call from about 20 officers.
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ProPublica:
Trump's Russia Lawyer Isn't Seeking Security Clearance, And May Have Trouble Getting One  —  The ongoing investigations into alleged collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia involve reams of classified material.  Yet Marc Kasowitz, the New York lawyer whom President Donald Trump …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Associated Press:
The Latest: Wray says Russia inquiry is not a witch hunt  —  The Latest on the Senate hearing on Christopher Wray's nomination as FBI director (all times local):  —  President Donald Trump's pick for FBI director says he does not consider special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation a “witch hunt.”
Discussion: Politico
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Darren Samuelsohn / Politico:
The 6 toughest questions for the next FBI director
Discussion: Axios, Associated Press and ABC News
HuffPost:
Hillary Clinton Campaign Aide To Press: We Told You Russia Was A BFD  —  A top aide details the many attempts to get the media to pay more attention to the election meddling.  —  The most ignored story of the 2016 presidential campaign is the press corps' unwillingness to focus …
Discussion: Axios and Political Wire
Kaileen Gaul / Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE: Chelsea Clinton is sued for $150,000 by writer who claims she ripped off his idea for her best selling feminist children's book ‘She Persisted’  — Christopher Kimberley has filed a federal lawsuit in New York claiming Chelsea Clinton and Penguin Random House stole his book idea
Discussion: Red Alert Politics and IJR
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Ari Berman / The Nation:
American Democracy Is Now Under Siege by Both Cyber-Espionage and GOP Voter Suppression
New York Times:
Bronx Toddlers' Deaths Are Ruled Homicides
Discussion: Gothamist and The Root
Aaron Rupar / ThinkProgress:
House Republican threatens new Clinton investigations unless Democrats stop talking about Russia
Discussion: Raw Story
S.M. / Economist:
Why Democrats are taking aim at gerrymandering
Walter Russell Mead / Wall Street Journal:
The G-20: Another Vacuous Meet-and-Greet
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James Freeman / Wall Street Journal:
What Did Hillary Know about Russian Interference?
Discussion: Power Line
Fox News:
Baltimore teacher sex case: Spanish instructor left during daytime hours to record sex act with student
Discussion: Baltimore Sun and IJR
Mike Allen / Axios:
Trump v. everyone
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