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4:40 PM ET, August 1, 2017

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David Folkenflik / NPR:
Behind Fox News' Baseless Seth Rich Story: The Untold Tale  —  The Fox News Channel and a wealthy supporter of President Trump worked in concert under the watchful eye of the White House to concoct a story about the murder of a young Democratic National Committee aide, according to a lawsuit filed Tuesday.
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Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
Former Fox News Executive Said to Be Considered for White House Job  —  Bill Shine, a former co-president of Fox News and top lieutenant to the network's founder, Roger Ailes, has spoken with White House officials about taking a position on President Trump's communications team, according to several people briefed on the discussions.
Oliver Darcy / CNNMoney:
Lawsuit: Fox News concocted Seth Rich story with oversight from White House
Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
White House denies Fox-Trump connection on Rich story
Discussion: Raw Story
Jake Tapper / CNN:
White House officials tricked by email prankster  —  (CNN)A self-described “email prankster” in the UK fooled a number of White House officials into thinking he was other officials, including an episode where he convinced the White House official tasked with cyber security that he was Jared Kushner …
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TMZ.com:
Anthony Scaramucci Mum On Goodbyes to Trump, Send-off Message for Gen. Kelly  —  Anthony Scaramucci is not done with D.C. yet — the morning after he bolted from the White House, he was cruising out of the Trump Hotel ... and talking about his future.  —  This is the first time the Mooch …
Associated Press:
Kelly flexes muscle his first day on the job at White House  —  https://apnews.com/290dfd4f9e364a29ba0e 4d7f6e7ad9aa  —  Link copied!  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Raised voices could be heard through the thick door to the Oval Office as John Kelly — then secretary of Homeland Security — offered some tough talk to President Donald Trump.
The Daily Beast:
Trump's New Chief John Kelly Reaches Out to Top Dems to Save White House's Agenda
Discussion: Washington Post and CANNONFIRE
Judy Kurtz / The Hill:
Scaramucci ‘working on being the best person I can be’
Discussion: Washington Free Beacon and TMZ.com
Daniel Lippman / Politico:
SENATE REPUBLICANS TO TRUMP: Thanks for the advice, but we're moving on from health care …
Discussion: The Hill and Vox
Nicole Lafond / Talking Points Memo:
Eric Trump: I Want Somebody To Start Fighting For My Father
Discussion: Daily Kos
Ashley Feinberg / Wired:
Kushner On Middle East Peace: “What Do We Offer That's Unique?  I Don't Know.”  —  ON MONDAY, WHITE House senior advisor Jared Kushner spoke to a group of congressional interns as part of an ongoing, off-the-record summer lecture series.  During the question-and-answer portion of the event …
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New York Times:
China's State Media Slams Trump's ‘Emotional Venting’ on Twitter
Washington Post:
Trump dictated son's misleading statement on meeting with Russian lawyer … On the sidelines of the Group of 20 summit in Germany last month, President Trump's advisers discussed how to respond to a new revelation that Trump's oldest son had met with a Russian lawyer during the 2016 campaign …
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Ken Meyer / Mediaite:   Sarah Sanders Defends Trump for Reportedly Dictating Son's Russian Lawyer Statement
Ellen Mitchell / The Hill:
Coast Guard ‘will not break faith’ with transgender members, leader says  —  Coast Guard officials reached out personally to their transgender service members to express support after President Trump's announcement of a new policy barring transgender people in the military, according to Commandant Adm. Paul Zukunft.
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Hope Hodge Seck / Military.com:
Commandant: ‘I Will Not Break Faith’ With Transgender Coast Guardsmen
Discussion: ThinkProgress, VICE News and Raw Story
Jess Bravin / Wall Street Journal:
Acting DEA Chief Rebuts Trump's Remarks on Police Use of Force  —  Rosenberg memo to agency staff says to disregard suggestion that suspects should be roughed up  —  WASHINGTON—The nation's top narcotics officer repudiated President Donald Trump's remarks about police use of force …
Andrew Joyce / Mic:
Democratic rising star Kamala Harris has a “Bernieland” problem  —  Freshman Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) has recently become the subject of much speculation about a potential 2020 presidential run.  Several major news outlets have run feature-length profiles of Harris …
Adam Taylor / Washington Post:
An anti-immigrant group mistook empty bus seats for women wearing burqas  —  Last week, a photograph that appeared to show six women wearing burqas on a bus sparked a heated debate in a private Facebook group for Norwegians critical of immigration.  —  For many members of the group …
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The Local:
Norwegian anti-immigrant Facebook groups confuses empty bus seats with ‘terrorists’
Discussion: Splinter
Hadas Gold / Politico:
Full transcript: Trump's Wall Street Journal interview  —  President Donald Trump called his son-in-law a “good boy” while thanking Wall Street Journal editor-in-chief Gerard Baker for a positive editorial about Kushner and said the leader of the Boy Scouts told him his jamboree speech was “the greatest speech ever made to them.”
Damian Paletta / Washington Post:
Debt-ceiling talks between White House, Senate break up with no progress  —  Talks between the White House and the Senate's top Republican and Democrat broke up Tuesday with no progress on raising the country's debt ceiling, an impasse that threatens a financial crisis if left unresolved.
Discussion: Washington Monthly and Politico
Nellie Andreeva / Deadline:
‘Black America’: Amazon Alt-History Drama From Will Packer & Aaron McGruder Envisions Post-Reparations America  —  EXCLUSIVE: A century and a half after slavery was abolished in the U.S., the wounds left by one of the darkest periods in American history are far from healed …
Edward-Isaac Dovere / Politico:
Obama's Inner Circle Is Urging Deval Patrick to Run  —  BOSTON — Barack Obama is nudging him to run.  His inner circle is actively encouraging it.  Obama world's clear and away 2020 favorite is sitting right here, on the 38th floor of the John Hancock Building, in a nicely decorated office at Bain Capital.
Bari Weiss / New York Times:
When Progressives Embrace Hate  —  A mere half-year ago, before collusion and Comey, before Mika's face and Muslim bans and the Mooch, there was a shining moment where millions of Americans flooded the streets in cities across the country to register their rage that an unapologetic misogynist had just been made leader of the free world.
Discussion: Mediaite
James Mulvaney / Washington Post:
President Trump's reference to ‘paddy wagon’ insults Irish Americans like me  —  The use of the derogatory phrase “paddy wagon” wasn't the worst thing President Trump said last week.  But it shouldn't get lost amid the litany of objectionable utterances.  —  In a speech on Long Island Friday …
Discussion: CityLab
Ken Buck / Denver Post:
The Republican Party is dead  —  The Republican Party is dead.  —  At one time, the blood of the people coursed through its veins, enlivening the party with their values and virtues, their goals and dreams.  The party became its own energizing force, compelling people to sacrifice for a higher moral purpose.
The Daily Beast:
Corey Lewandowski Has Been Fired From The One America News Network … Corey Lewandowski has been fired.  Again.  —  Three sources with knowledge of the situation tell The Daily Beast that the former Trump campaign manager and current informal adviser to the president has been let go from …
WFSB-TV:
Homes displaying American Flag are targets of hate mail  —  Some residents in Marlborough say the American Flags flying outside their homes are making them the target of hate mail.  —  While the people who got the hate mail say they are disturbed by what they found in their mailbox …
Discussion: IJR, TheBlaze and Fox News Insider
 
 
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Alyson Martin / BuzzFeed:
Sen. Cory Booker Will Face An Uphill Battle Fixing America's “Badly Broken” Drug Laws
Discussion: Washington Post and The Root
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
McConnell faces questions, but no test to his leadership
Discussion: Weekly Standard and The Resurgent
Travis M. Andrews / Washington Post:
Houston oil executives join Dallas business leaders in denouncing Texas ‘bathroom bill’
Discussion: Off the Kuff and Grist
Paul Mirengoff / Power Line:
North Carolina enacts Restore Campus Free Speech Act
Discussion: National Review
CNN:
Why John Kelly may be destined to repeat history
Discussion: Vox
Naureen S Malik / Bloomberg:
Billionaire Behind the Dakota Access Is ‘Baffled’ by Complaints About His New Pipeline
Discussion: ThinkProgress and Reuters
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Mark Frauenfelder / Boing Boing:
“I'll keep doing that until I run out of batteries” Tennessee sheriff's deputies torture teenager with stun gun
Sarah Kliff / Vox:
The last GOP health plan left standing, explained
Discussion: New York Magazine
YouTube:
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Reid Wilson / The Hill:
Federal judges order new North Carolina district lines
Discussion: The Root
Josh Rogin / Washington Post:
State Department considers scrubbing democracy promotion from its mission
 

 
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