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5:40 PM ET, July 20, 2017

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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 …
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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CNN:
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.
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 …
Bwittes / Lawfare:
The President vs. Federal Law Enforcement: Trump Attacks Everyone
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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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 …
Alice Ollstein / Talking Points Memo:
Key Trumpcare Holdout Says He's A Yes If Guaranteed A Vote On His Amendment
Discussion: Balloon Juice
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.
David A. Fahrenthold / Washington Post:
During ‘Made in America Week,’ President Trump's Mar-a-Lago Club applies to hire 70 foreign workers  —  President Trump's Mar-a-Lago Club in Florida has asked permission to hire 70 foreign workers this fall, attesting — in the middle of the White House's “Made in America Week” …
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Jeremy Singer-Vine / BuzzFeed:
More Foreign Workers Requested By Trump's Mar-A-Lago  —  It's Made in America Week at the White House, but Mar-A-Lago and a nearby Trump National Golf Club have told the Department of Labor that there aren't enough Americans to hire.  These two Trump properties have now requested …
Caitlin Owens / Axios:
Dean Heller is keeping his options open on health care  —  Sen. Dean Heller has been tight-lipped on the Senate health care plan ever since his fiery joint press conference with Gov. Brian Sandoval last month, following the release of the first version of the bill.
Discussion: The Daily Caller
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Matt Fuller / HuffPost:
Senate Republicans Report New Life On Their Health Care Bill
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
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 …
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
Discussion: NPR
Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
Trumpcare still isn't dead
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.
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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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 …
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.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
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Jamiles Lartey / The Guardian:
New legislation encourages states to end discriminatory ‘money bail’ practice
Discussion: Common Dreams
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 …
Discussion: The Daily Caller
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Amie Parnes / The Hill:
Dems see huge field emerging to take on Trump
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.
Discussion: IJR and The Week
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Los Angeles Times:
O.J. Simpson is granted parole after serving 9 years for Vegas robbery
Discussion: The Resurgent
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 …
Discussion: Hit & Run, Raw Story and Jezebel
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 …
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 …
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.
Alana Semuels / The Atlantic:
The Mystery of Why Japanese People Are Having So Few Babies  —  TOKYO—Japan's population is shrinking.  For the first time since the government started keeping track more than a century ago, there were fewer than 1 million births last year, as the country's population fell by more than 300,000 people.
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 …
Discussion: Daily Wire
 
 
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Detroit News:
Michigan woman convicted of murder in parrot case
Discussion: Daily Wire
Daniel Dale / Toronto Star:
Donald Trump said 414 false things in his first six months. Here's what we've learned
Reuters:
U.S. says Exxon under Tillerson violated Russia sanctions in 2014
Discussion: The Federalist
Manu Raju / CNN:
Grassley threatens subpoena for Trump Jr., Manafort if they don't testify
Joshua Eaton / ThinkProgress:
Students say Christian college turned a blind eye to serial rapists
Discussion: Raw Story
Paul Blest / The Nation:
How the Left Can Win in the South
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 Earlier Items: 
Charles M. Blow / New York Times:
Trump Is His Own Worst Enemy
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Pew Research Center:
Since Trump's Election, Increased Attention to Politics - Especially Among Women
Discussion: Axios and Washington Post
National Review:
Jeff Sessions Should Drop His Expansion of Civil Asset Forfeiture
Discussion: Hot Air, The Federalist and neo-neocon
Rosie Gray / The Atlantic:
A Top Rohrabacher Aide Is Ousted After Russia Revelations
Discussion: Politico and The Daily Caller
Ashleydaysc / New York's PIX11:
Brooklyn family kicked off JetBlue flight speaks out
Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
President Trump's first six months: The fact-check tally
 

 
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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:
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