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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 …
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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” …
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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 …
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 …
National Review:
Don Jr.'s Disgraceful Meeting — It's been a journalistic season of hype, innuendo, and sometimes flat-out error on the Russia story, but the New York Times finally hit paydirt in the last several days. — Over the weekend, the Times revealed that Donald Trump Jr., then-campaign manager Paul Manafort …
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.
Lachlan Markay / The Daily Beast:
Donald Trump Jr.'s Russian Connection Has Ties to Former Kremlin Spies … The Russian lawyer who peddled dirt on Hillary Clinton to Donald Trump Jr. has ties to former Russian military and intelligence officials, a key congressional committee will hear in testimony next week.
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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Trump-Russia investigation takes sharp turn toward the dumb — Could there a dumber, more obvious come-on than the one Rob Goldstone, described in press reports as a British-born publicist and former tabloid reporter, sent to Donald Trump, Jr. on June 3, 2016?
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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 …
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Josh Dawsey / Politico:
White House aides feeling ‘helpless’ as Trump Jr. scandal blossoms — 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 …
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Samuel Chamberlain / Fox News:
Donald Trump Jr. tells Sean Hannity: ‘In retrospect I probably would have done things a little differently’ — Donald Trump Jr. acknowledged in an exclusive interview with Fox News' “Hannity” Tuesday night that he “probably would have done things a little differently” when he met …
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Oliver Darcy / CNNMoney:
Pro-Trump media scrambles to react to bombshell emails
Pro-Trump media scrambles to react to bombshell emails
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Rachael Bade / Politico:
Gowdy fumes at Trump administration over latest Russia controversy
Gowdy fumes at Trump administration over latest Russia controversy
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Fox News:
Dershowitz: Did Donald Trump Jr. commit a crime or merely political sin? It depends
Dershowitz: Did Donald Trump Jr. commit a crime or merely political sin? It depends
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CNN:
Source: Justice Dept. probe will look at Trump Jr.'s disclosed emails, meeting
Source: Justice Dept. probe will look at Trump Jr.'s disclosed emails, meeting
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Walter Shapiro / The Guardian:
Fox News might buy Donald Trump Jr's spin. But Republicans have no excuse
Kayleigh McEnany / The Hill:
OPINION | Forget Don Jr.'s email — it's Hillary Clinton who ‘colluded’ with Russia
OPINION | Forget Don Jr.'s email — it's Hillary Clinton who ‘colluded’ with Russia
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Weekly Standard:
Senate Republicans Eager to Hear From Donald Trump Jr.
Senate Republicans Eager to Hear From Donald Trump Jr.
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The Daily Beast:
Trump Aides Freaking Out Over Don Jr.'s Russia Email: The ‘Sum Of All Fears’
Trump Aides Freaking Out Over Don Jr.'s Russia Email: The ‘Sum Of All Fears’
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Dan Rather:
The questions are obvious. The answers are wanting.
The questions are obvious. The answers are wanting.
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Darren Samuelsohn / Politico:
Trump Jr. delivers ‘smoking gun’ to Mueller
Trump Jr. delivers ‘smoking gun’ to Mueller
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Jack Shafer / Politico:
If Donald Trump Jr. Sinks, Who Goes Down With Him?
If Donald Trump Jr. Sinks, Who Goes Down With Him?
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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 …
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David Nather / Axios:
Still not seeing a health care game changer
Still not seeing a health care game changer
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Michael Isikoff / Yahoo:
New details emerge on Moscow real estate deal that led to the Trump-Kremlin alliance … While in Moscow for the Miss Universe pageant in November 2013, Donald Trump entered into a formal business deal with Aras Agalarov, a Russian oligarch close to Vladimir Putin, to construct a Trump Tower in the Russian capital.
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Lauren Said-Moorhouse / CNN:
Massive iceberg breaks away from Antarctica — (CNN)A massive iceberg weighing more than one trillion tons has broken away from western Antarctica, according to a UK-based research team. — Scientists from Project MIDAS had been monitoring a break in the Larsen C ice shelf …
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Larsen C calves trillion ton iceberg
Larsen C calves trillion ton iceberg
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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 …
Mike Allen / Axios:
Trump v. everyone — President Trump increasingly feels (and knows) that he's fighting virtually every force in U.S. and global politics — even those who initially wanted to give him the benefit of the doubt or seem friendly. — The only people truly on his side are the 40 percent …
James Freeman / Wall Street Journal:
What Did Hillary Know about Russian Interference? — A congressional committee examines the Kremlin's campaign to influence U.S. energy policy.
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Paul Mirengoff / Power Line:
A Russia collusion story worth pursuing
Darren Samuelsohn / Politico:
The 6 toughest questions for the next FBI director — Christopher Wray faces a stark question from skeptics as he prepares to take on one of the toughest jobs in the Trump administration: Where does your loyalty lie? — The cloud of fired FBI Director James Comey will loom large …
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