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The Hill:
White House official mocked ‘dying’ McCain at internal meeting  —  A White House official mocked Sen. John McCain  —  's brain cancer diagnosis at an internal meeting on Thursday, a day after the Arizona Republican announced his opposition to President Trump  —  's nominee for CIA director, Gina Haspel.
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Lena H. Sun / Washington Post:
Top White House official in charge of pandemic response exits abruptly … The top White House official responsible for leading the U.S. response in the event of a deadly pandemic has left the administration, and the global health security team he oversaw has been disbanded under a reorganization …
Discussion: CNN, Vox and HuffPost
Andrew Kirell / The Daily Beast:
Fox Military Guest: Torture Is Good, ‘It Worked on John McCain’ … According to a frequent Fox Business Network military commentator, torture is good because it worked on Sen. John McCain (R-AZ).  —  McCain, who was tortured while a prisoner of war in Vietnam, has been outspoken in opposing Gina Haspel …
Media Matters for America:
Military analyst on Fox advocates for torture: “It worked on John [McCain].  That's why they call him ‘Songbird John’”
Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
White House official derides McCain over Haspel opposition: 'He's dying anyway'
Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE: That's not what he told me! …
Discussion: Mediaite, TheBlaze and Daily Wire
CNN:
White House aide joked of ‘dying’ McCain
Discussion: HuffPost and Washington Press
New York Times:
Homeland Security Secretary Was Close to Resigning After Trump Berated Her  —  WASHINGTON — Kirstjen Nielsen, the homeland security secretary, told colleagues she was close to resigning after President Trump berated her on Wednesday in front of the entire cabinet for what he said was her failure …
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Richard Gonzales / NPR:
John Kelly: Despite ‘Times Of Great Frustration,’ No Regrets Taking White House Job  —  President Trump's chief of staff, Gen. John Kelly, said that he's never seriously considered leaving his job and indicated that he's in lock-step with the president.  Kelly says they have “a close relationship” …
Mark Penn / The Hill:
Who is paying Michael Avenatti?  —  So exactly who is paying Michael Avenatti?  And is he a lawyer, an opposition researcher, a journalist, or a campaign operative?  —  He wants to make the discussion all about where Michael Cohen, President Trump  —  's personal attorney, got his money but …
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Washington Post:
Cohen's $600,000 deal with AT&T specified he would advise on Time Warner merger, internal company records show  —  Three days after President Trump was sworn into office, the telecom giant AT&T turned to his personal attorney Michael Cohen for help on a wide portfolio of issues pending …
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Jonathan D. Rockoff / Wall Street Journal:
Novartis CEO Calls Hiring of Trump Lawyer Michael Cohen a ‘Mistake’
Discussion: Raw Story
Carol Morello / Washington Post:
My journey to North Korea with the secretary of state … The State Department normally craves elaborate planning and procedures for everything.  Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's 13-hour visit to North Korea had little of that.  —  I had a view of the improvisational quality of his trip because …
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Tom Blumer / NewsBusters:
NBC's Hallie Jackson Whines: Hostage Release ‘Choreographed’ and ‘Staged Production’
Discussion: Daily Wire and twitchy.com
The Babylon Bee:
CNN Report: Evil Trump Kidnaps Three People From North Korean Paradise
Discussion: twitchy.com
Washington Post:
At Sean Hannity properties in low-income areas, an aggressive approach to rent collection … PERRY, Ga. — For years, Fox News host Sean Hannity has poured his fortune into a surprising side venture: a vast portfolio of rental properties in working-class neighborhoods.
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Kimberley A. Strassel / Wall Street Journal:
About That FBI ‘Source’  —  Did the bureau engage in outright spying against the 2016 Trump campaign?  —  The Department of Justice lost its latest battle with Congress Thursday when it allowed House Intelligence Committee members to view classified documents about a top-secret intelligence source …
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
New York Times:
Giuliani Resigns From Law Firm Amid Tensions Over Comments About Trump  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump's personal lawyer, Rudolph W. Giuliani, abruptly resigned from his law firm after weeks of tensions over his public comments.  —  Mr. Giuliani took a leave of absence last month from the firm …
Robert Pear / New York Times:
Trump to Drop Call for Medicare to Negotiate Lower Drug Prices  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump will lay out on Friday a broad strategy to reduce prescription drug prices, but in a break from one of his most popular campaign promises, he will not call for Medicare to negotiate lower prices …
theGrio:
‘I Love Hate Speech’: Sarah Braasch, the white woman who called police on Black Yale grad student for napping in dorm, defends slavery and supports burqa ban in writings  —  Sarah Braasch is also against hate crime legislation.  —  Sarah Braasch is the woman who called the police …
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Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Loyalty, unease in Trump's Midwest  —  Voters gave Trump a chance.  Some remain all in.  Others have grown weary of the chaos.  —  After eight years of displeasure with the presidency of Barack Obama and faced with a choice between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, Dennis Schminke of Austin …
Washington Post:
Gina Haspel fails the test  —  GINA HASPEL, President Trump's nominee to head the Central Intelligence Agency, faced a clear test when she appeared before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Wednesday.  After a 33-year career at the agency, she may be, in many respects …
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Elena Schneider / Politico:
‘When gerrymandering backfires’: Democrats go after once-safe GOP seats  —  Republican redistricting maximized GOP gains in past years, but it could exacerbate the party's losses in 2018.  —  Republicans redrew congressional districts across the country in 2010 in an attempt to consign Democrats to a semipermanent House minority.
Discussion: Washington Post
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The Charlotte Observer:   GOP strategist says ‘fall may be brutal’ for party after North Carolina primary upset
Margaret Coker / New York Times:
Five Top ISIS Officials Captured in U.S.-Iraqi Sting  —  BAGHDAD — Five senior Islamic State officials have been captured, including a top aide to the group's leader, in a complex cross-border sting carried out by Iraqi and American intelligence, two Iraqi officials said Wednesday.
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Daily Mail:
Trump announces the capture of the five ‘most wanted’ …
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and WND
San Francisco Chronicle:
Video shows woman calling police over barbecue at Lake Merritt  —  A video of a confrontation over a charcoal barbecue at Lake Merritt is attracting national attention after being shared and viewed thousands of times since its initial posting.  —  A white woman was in disagreement …
Discussion: Raw Story, The Root and Splinter
Kurt Schlichter / Townhall:
Sigh* No, Being A Christian Does Not Require You Meekly Submit To Leftist Tyranny  —  First, the oldest but best Christian joke in the world (The second best is the one about how what was going on in Gomorrah was so bad nobody will talk about it): There's this Christian guy who gets on his roof to escape a flood.
Rick Wilson / The Daily Beast:
Rudy Giuliani and Donald Trump: This Will End Badly.  And Probably Soon. … Like a bloated, portly fake billionaire rolling off a hooker after a hot 45 seconds of passionate sex, Donald Trump's ardor for Rudy Giuliani seems to have cooled.  —  If the White House leaks are any barometer …
Robby Soave / Hit & Run:
To Fight Patriarchy, Female Cornell Student Presents Thesis in Her Underwear  —  A female student at Cornell University stripped down to her underwear—twice— before presenting her senior thesis to professors and other students.  —  The student was attempting to strike a blow against the patriarchy …
Bloomberg:
Merkel Says Europe Can't Count on U.S. Military Umbrella Anymore  — German chancellor prods EU in speech honoring France's Macron  — Reprises theme of U.S., allies drifting apart in Trump era  —  German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Europe can no longer count on the U.S …
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Valery Hache / Agence France-Presse:
Lagerfeld may drop German citizenship over migrant welcome
Discussion: Breitbart
Yahoo:
San Francisco's many free syringes are littering its streets  —  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — San Francisco hands out millions of syringes a year to drug users but has little control over how they are discarded and that's contributing to thousands of complaints.  —  The city distributes …
Rinat Sagdiev / Reuters:
Exclusive: Sanctioned Russian tycoon hands back his private jets  —  Rinat Sagdiev, Polina Ivanova  —  MOSCOW - Russian tycoon Oleg Deripaska has handed back three private jets he was leasing because U.S. sanctions imposed on him last month make it impossible to keep using the planes …
 
 
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Alyssa Rosenberg / Washington Post:
Goodbye, ‘Brooklyn Nine-Nine.’ And thank you.
Jordan Sargent / SPIN:
Why Is TMZ in Bed With R. Kelly?
Discussion: AOL, CBS Chicago and theGrio
Seung Min Kim / Washington Post:
Group of GOP senators calls for canceling August recess
Olivia Messer / The Daily Beast:
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Campbell Robertson / New York Times:
These Women Mostly Ignored Politics. Now, Activism Is Their Job.
Miles Parks / NPR:
6 States Hit Harder By Cyberattacks Than Previously Known, New Report Reveals
Associated Press:
Vladimir Putin scores 5 goals in exhibition hockey game
Discussion: Political Wire
 Earlier Items: 
Veronica Stracqualursi / CNN:
Nurse charged in the death of H.R. McMaster's father
Scott Lemieux / New Republic:
Democrats: Prepare to Pack the Supreme Court
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
Sara Carter / Sara A. Carter:
Former FBI Director Comey Consulted with Mueller on Russia Testimony
Discussion: Judicial Watch and Daily Wire
Masha Gessen / New Yorker:
Taking Children from Their Parents Is a Form of State Terror
Brent Budowsky / The Hill:
Obama, Kerry and Europe take on Trump
Discussion: Breitbart
TMZ.com:
Pamela Anderson Reaches Out to Kanye West to Help Julian Assange
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Jonathan Van Meter / Vogue:
Georgina Chapman on Life After Harvey Weinstein
 

 
From Mediagazer:

Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
A New York judge finds Sirius XM liable for a difficult subscription cancellation process; Sirius says it will appeal but abide by a new “click-to-cancel” rule

Ashley Carman / Bloomberg:
A growing number of podcasters, including Tim Ferriss, are moving away from interviews to monologues or co-hosts, as some well-known guests can be overexposed

Matthew Keys / The Desk:
DirecTV terminates its Dish acquisition after a group of Dish creditors rejected a modified bond exchange offer

 
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