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Bloomberg:
Mueller Expands Probe to Trump Business Transactions — Special counsel examines dealings of Kushner, Manafort, Trump — Trump has warned Mueller against going beyond Russia in probe — The U.S. special counsel investigating possible ties between the Donald Trump campaign and Russia …
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CNN:
Trump's blast of Sessions has ‘chilling’ effect inside West Wing — Trump: ‘I love getting even with people’ (1992) — STORY HIGHLIGHTS — Washington (CNN)For President Donald Trump, loyalty in Washington is a one-way street. — Trump's trashing of several of his administration's …
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GOP senators dismayed at Trump's criticism of DOJ officials — Sessions: I plan to continue as attorney general — STORY HIGHLIGHTS — Washington (CNN)A group of Republican senators criticized President Donald Trump on Thursday, a day after the President rebuked top law enforcement officials …
New York Times:
Excerpts From The Times's Interview With Trump — President Trump spoke on Wednesday with three New York Times reporters — Peter Baker, Michael S. Schmidt and Maggie Haberman — in an exclusive interview in the Oval Office. Also in attendance was Hope Hicks, a White House spokeswoman.
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Bloomberg:
Here's the Chain Reaction Trump Could Set Off by Trying to Fire Mueller — Warning on Russia investigation renews speculation of firing — Dismissing Mueller ‘not politically survivable,’ Democrat says — President Donald Trump's interview with the New York Times on Wednesday …
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Donald Trump: L'état, C'est Moi — In his bizarre New York Times interview, Donald Trump expresses his characteristic assortment of fever-dream assertions. The president believes Hillary Clinton “was totally opposed to any sanctions for Russia,” that a properly amortized health-insurance plan …
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Bwittes / Lawfare:
The President vs. Federal Law Enforcement: Trump Attacks Everyone
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Washington Post, Hit & Run, IJR, Business Insider, Daily Kos and Talking Points Memo
Matthew Chapman / Shareblue:
Now Trump thinks health insurance costs $12 a year
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Raw Story, Forbes, Washington Post, IJR and The Atlantic
Louis Nelson / Politico:
Sen. Paul backs Trump's frustration with Sessions' recusal
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New York Times:
In Interview, Trump Expresses Anger at Sessions and Comey, and Warns Mueller
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New York Times:
Inspiring Little Fear in Senators, Trump Struggles to Sell Health Bill — WASHINGTON — President Trump thought he could sell balky Republican senators like Ron Johnson of Wisconsin on the Senate health care bill through pleasantries, cajoling and, ultimately, some Oval Office muscle.
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Take Care Blog, Mediaite, Daily Kos, Raw Story, Politicus USA and The Week
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Rachael Bade / Politico:
Republicans lament an agenda in ‘quicksand’ — Sen. David Perdue persuaded Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell last week to scrap two weeks of August recess to advance President Donald Trump's agenda. But since then, the GOP's Obamacare repeal effort has almost entirely collapsed …
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Washington Post, Business Insider, Raw Story, Daily Kos, Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi and Talking Points Memo
Alice Ollstein / Talking Points Memo:
Key Trumpcare Holdout Says He's A Yes If Guaranteed A Vote On His Amendment
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Balloon Juice
Seung Min Kim / Politico:
Senate GOP's latest health care push sputters
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Vox, ThinkProgress and Washington Examiner
Dylan Scott / Vox:
A clear guide to what the hell is going on with the Senate health care bill
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The Hill, Politico, Outside the Beltway, The Nation and Talking Points Memo
TMZ.com:
Linkin Park Singer Chester Bennington Dead, Commits Suicide by Hanging (UPDATE) — 12:32 PM PT — Law enforcement sources tell TMZ Bennington was home alone at the time of the suicide. We're told his family was out of town and he was found upstairs by an employee.
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Sam Stein / The Daily Beast:
Team Trump Used Obamacare Money to Run PR Effort Against It … The Trump administration has spent taxpayer money meant to encourage enrollment in the Affordable Care Act on a public relations campaign aimed at methodically strangling it. — The effort, which involves a multi-pronged social media push …
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Business Insider, Bloomberg, Daily Kos, Shakesville, Mediaite, New York Magazine, Talking Points Memo, Axios and IJR
CBO's Publications:
H.R. 1628, the Better Care Reconciliation Act of 2017: An Amendment in the Nature of a Substitute — CBO and JCT estimate that enacting this legislation would reduce federal deficits by $420 billion over the coming decade and increase the number of people who are uninsured by 22 million in 2026 relative to the number under current law.
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Bloomberg:
GOP Health Bill's $13,000 Deductibles Would Be Illegal, CBO Says — 22 million would become uninsured in latest GOP health plan — Measure would reduce deficit by $420 billion over 10 years — The GOP health bill promises lower premiums for consumers.
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NPR
Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
Trumpcare still isn't dead
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Los Angeles Times and Lawyers, Guns & Money
Lisa Rein / Washington Post:
Interior Dept. ordered Glacier park chief, other climate expert pulled from Zuckerberg tour — Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg flew to Glacier National Park on Saturday to tour the melting ice fields that have become the poster child for climate change's effects on Montana's northern Rockies.
Chris Conte / WTVF-TV:
White County Inmates Given Reduced Jail Time If They Get A Vasectomy — Inmates in White County, Tennessee have been given credit for their jail time if they voluntarily agree to have a vasectomy or birth control implant, a popular new program that is being called “unconstitutional” by the ACLU.
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Business Insider, Above the Law, Washington Free Beacon, The Root and Fusion
Cindy Boren / Washington Post:
An apologetic O.J. Simpson is granted parole, to be released in October — After nearly nine years in prison, O.J. Simpson was granted his freedom Thursday by four members of the Nevada Board of Parole Commissioners and will leave prison on or after Oct. 1.
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Steve Phillips / New York Times:
The Democratic Party's Billion-Dollar Mistake — The Democratic Party is at risk of repeating the billion-dollar blunder that helped create its devastating losses of 2016. With its obsessive focus on wooing voters who supported Donald Trump, it is neglecting the cornerstone of its coalition …
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The Daily Caller
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Amie Parnes / The Hill:
Dems see huge field emerging to take on Trump
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RedState and Washington Free Beacon
Samantha Swindler / Oregonian:
IQ costs Oregon parents their kids, but is that fair? (Column) — Gallery: Redmond couple fights for custody of their children — The nursery in Amy Fabbrini and Eric Ziegler's home is filled with unread children's books and unworn baby clothes. A Winnie the Pooh blanket lies untouched inside …
New York Times:
Kamala Harris and Rand Paul: To Shrink Jails, Let's Reform Bail — Kalief Browder, a 16-year-old New Yorker, was arrested on charges of stealing a backpack in 2010. To ensure he would show up for trial, and because of a previous offense, the judge set bail at $3,000. But his family could not afford to pay.
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Talking Points Memo
Patt Morrison / Los Angeles Times:
Column Bill Nye on the terrifying ascendancy of American ‘dingbatitude’ — From the Emmy-winning “science guy on” the PBS children's television program to the lab-coat crusader who “saves the world” on Netflix, Bill Nye is a longtime science-is-entertaining educator, a onetime mechanical engineer and a perpetual science lover.
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Washington Examiner, TheBlaze, Daily Wire, The Daily Caller, MichelleMalkin.com, IJR, twitchy.com and Washington Free Beacon
Melanie Zanona / The Hill:
GOP signals infrastructure bill must wait — The timing and fate of President Trump's infrastructure plan may depend on whether the GOP enacts major tax reform — a task that could prove challenging amid the struggle to pass a healthcare bill. — Republicans are signaling …
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Washington Monthly and Political Wire
Chris Kahn / Reuters:
One in eight people who voted for Trump having second thoughts - Reuters/Ipsos poll — 6 MIN READ — NEW YORK (Reuters) - About one in eight people who voted for President Donald Trump said they are not sure they would do so again after witnessing Trump's tumultuous first six months in office …
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The Rush Limbaugh Show, Shakesville, Joe.My.God., Talking Points Memo and The Daily Caller
Charles C. W. Cooke / National Review:
Louise Mensch's Destructive Fantasies — Mensch, a former British MP, is now the purveyor of fantastical conspiracy theories about Donald Trump and Russia. — A few years back, my father and I voluntarily submitted ourselves to an episode of Question Time, a long-running program on the BBC …
Pew Research Center:
Since Trump's Election, Increased Attention to Politics - Especially Among Women — Most find it stressful to talk politics with those who differ on Trump — Following an election that had one of the largest gender gaps in history, women are more likely than men to say they are paying increased attention to politics.
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Axios and Washington Post
CorpComm AG / Newsroom:
Massive blow to criminal Dark Web activities after globally coordinated operation — Takedown of AlphaBay and Hansa will lead to hundreds of new investigations in Europe — Months of preparation and coordination have resulted today, 20 July 2017, in the takedown of two of the largest criminal Dark Web markets, AlphaBay and Hansa.
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National Review:
Jeff Sessions Should Drop His Expansion of Civil Asset Forfeiture — Attorney General Jeff Sessions should reconsider his plan to expand the use of civil asset forfeiture in the service of the so-called war on drugs. If he fails to do so, Congress should reconsider it for him — indeed …
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Hot Air, The Federalist and neo-neocon
Lucia I. Suarez Sang / Fox News:
Two members of missing Burundi robotics team spotted crossing into Canada, police say — Two members of an African robotics team who were reported missing from an international robotics competition in Washington, D.C. were spotted crossing into Canada on Thursday morning, authorities said.
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