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The Guardian:
Revealed: Ecuador spent millions on spy operation for Julian Assange  —  Exclusive: Files show at least $5m went on activities including spying on guests at London embassy  —  Ecuador bankrolled a multimillion-dollar spy operation to protect and support Julian Assange in its central London embassy …
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New York Times:
Tom Wolfe, Pyrotechnic Nonfiction Writer and Novelist, Dies at 87  —  Tom Wolfe, an innovative journalist whose technicolor, wildly punctuated prose brought to life the worlds of California surfers, car customizers, astronauts and Manhattans moneyed status-seekers in works like …
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Matt Schudel / Washington Post:
Tom Wolfe, apostle of ‘New Journalism’ who captured extravagance of his times, dies at 88
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
Bill Morris / The Daily Beast:
Tom Wolfe Dies and Exchanges His Trademark White Suit for Angel's Wings
Ellen Gamerman / Wall Street Journal:
Tom Wolfe, Author of ‘Bonfire of the Vanities’ and Best-selling Creator of New Journalism, Dies at 88
Discussion: AOL
Louis Nelson / Politico:
Nikki Haley blames Hamas for violence in Gaza  —  U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley said Tuesday that the relocation of the U.S. Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem was not to blame for deadly violence that erupted along the Gaza border, casting blame instead on Hamas and its backers in the Iranian government.
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Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
A Grotesque Spectacle in Jerusalem  —  On Monday, Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner and other leading lights of the Trumpist right gathered in Israel to celebrate the relocation of the American Embassy to Jerusalem, a gesture widely seen as a slap in the face to Palestinians who envision East Jerusalem as their future capital.
Yahoo:
Israel faces outcry after 60 killed on Gaza border
Josh Rogin / Washington Post:
China gave Trump a list of crazy demands, and he caved to one of them … After top Trump officials went to Beijing last month, the Chinese government wrote up a document with a list of economic and trade demands that ranged from the reasonable to the ridiculous.
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S.V. Date / HuffPost:
Trump Orders Help For Chinese Phone-Maker After China Approves Money For Trump Project  —  Trump will profit from Indonesian resort project that will get $500 million in Chinese loans in a deal sealed days before before his tweet ordering help for ZTE.  —  WASHINGTON - A mere 72 hours …
Washington Post:
Trump administration preparing to shelter migrant children on military bases  —  The Trump administration is making preparations to warehouse migrant children on military bases, according to Defense Department communications, the latest sign the government is moving forward with plans to split up families who cross the border illegally.
Discussion: The Week
Alex Kantrowitz / BuzzFeed:
Twitter Is Going To Limit The Visibility Of Tweets From People Behaving Badly  —  Act like a jerk, and Twitter will start limiting how often your tweets show up.  —  On Tuesday, Twitter announced a massive change to the way its conversations will work, evaluating not just the content of individual tweets …
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Casey Newton / The Verge:
Twitter will hide more bad tweets in conversations and searches
CNN:
Haspel says CIA should not have conducted interrogation program  —  (CNN)Gina Haspel, President Donald Trump's pick to be the next CIA director, says in a new letter that the CIA should not have conducted then-President George W. Bush's interrogation and detention program where waterboarding …
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Jennifer Bendery / HuffPost:
Not An Onion Story: Blake Farenthold Gets A New Job Lobbying Congress  —  It's only been a month since he quit his House seat amid an ethics committee probe into sexual harassment allegations.  —  WASHINGTON A month after abruptly resigning from Congress in an apparent effort to avoid …
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John Parkinson / ABC News:
Disgraced former congressman Blake Farenthold won't repay $84K sexual harassment settlement  —  Former Rep. Blake Farenthold, the disgraced Texas Republican who resigned last month in the aftermath of a sexual harassment settlement, has secured his next paid gig - as a government lobbyist.
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
The truth is about to catch up to Trump.  He has Giuliani to thank for it. … THE MORNING PLUM:  —  Today is the deadline for President Trump to file his financial disclosure form for 2017.  That fact may seem trivially bureaucratic, but lurking at its core is a dilemma for Trump …
Emily Smith / Page Six:
Bill O'Reilly in talks to return to cable news  —  Bill O'Reilly is in talks to head back to cable news in his old 8 p.m. slot, but this time at Newsmax TV, sources exclusively tell Page Six.  —  A year after O'Reilly's abrupt exit from Fox News, where he was the top-rated host in cable news …
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Josh Feldman / Mediaite:
Sean Hannity: 'We Lost Three Quarters of Fox Primetime and We're Still Killing It' in the Ratings
Discussion: Contemptor and Daily Wire
Joe Pinsker / The Atlantic:
The Ivy League School That Won't Talk About Its Most Famous Graduate  —  For 176 years, William Henry Harrison was the only president the University of Pennsylvania had any kind of claim on, and even then it was kind of a stretch.  As a student, Harrison did a brief stint at Penn, but he didn't stay long enough to get a degree.
Discussion: Raw Story
RealClearInvestigations:
Two Colleagues Contradict Brennan's Denial of Reliance on Dossier  —  Former CIA Director John Brennan's insistence that the salacious and unverified Steele dossier was not part of the official Intelligence Community Assessment on Russian interference in the 2016 election is being contradicted by two top former officials.
Kaitlan Collins / CNN:
In leaky West Wing, not even a phone ban can stop embarrassing disclosures  —  Washington (CNN)The dustup over a White House aide's crass remark about Sen. John McCain's health has once again inflamed the White House's frustration with staffers who reveal the inner workings of the West Wing to reporters outside the building.
Cristiano Lima / Politico:
Trump warns of ‘dangerous anti-police prejudice’  —  President Donald Trump lamented what he called the spread of a “dangerous anti-police prejudice” in the U.S. during an event to honor fallen and injured law enforcement officials on Tuesday.  —  Speaking at the 37th annual National Peace …
Discussion: ABC News
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Alexander Mallin / ABC News:
First lady ‘in good spirits and resting’ following kidney procedure
Discussion: CNN and Conservative News Today
NBC News:
In Florida Senate race, Dems face down a daunting price tag  —  WASHINGTON — Across the 2018 Senate landscape, the vulnerable red-state Senate Democrats are either outspending their GOP challengers over the TV and radio airwaves, or they're keeping the disparity as close as possible.
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Molly Hensley-Clancy / BuzzFeed:   The Medicare for All Debate Isn't Settled for Democrats In Many Swing Districts
Garrett M. Graff / Wired:
The Untold Story of Robert Mueller's Time in Combat  —  Robert Mueller's job is to make sense of how Russia hacked the 2016 election.  But to make sense of Mueller, you have to revisit some of the bloodiest battles of Vietnam.  —  ONE DAY IN the summer of 1969, a young Marine lieutenant …
Discussion: Politico
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
GOP golden boy mails it in  —  Republicans worry that Josh Hawley, the party's top Senate recruit, is squandering his opportunity to beat vulnerable Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill.  —  FENTON, Mo. — As GOP Rep. Ann Wagner prepared to introduce candidates in a Republican Senate debate here Friday …
Discussion: Splinter
U.S. Department of the Treasury:
Treasury Targets Iran's Central Bank Governor and an Iraqi Bank Moving Millions of Dollars for IRGC-Qods Force  —  Washington - Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) imposed sanctions on the Governor and a senior official of the Central Bank of Iran …
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Politico:
U.S. hits head of Iran's central bank with terror sanctions
Jeff Baillon / KMSP:
Millions of dollars in suitcases fly out of MSP, but why?  —  MINNEAPOLIS (KMSP) - For five months, Fox 9 has been investigating what appears to be rampant fraud in a massive state program.  —  This fraud is suspected of costing Minnesota taxpayers as much as $100 million a year.
Discussion: Jihad Watch, Daily Wire and Power Line
David Brooks / New York Times:
The American Renaissance Is Already Happening  —  People who read this column know my political ideology: I'm a Whig.  If progressives generally believe in expanding government to enhance equality, and libertarians try to reduce government to expand freedom, Whigs seek to use limited but energetic government to enhance social mobility.
Henry Goldman / Bloomberg:
Bharara Weighs Independent Bid for New York Attorney General  — He has the name recognition, resume and money to make the race  — Former prosecutor plays coy about run and says ‘Stay Tuned’  —  When a New York jury convicted ex-Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver on bribery charges last week …
Discussion: Political Wire
Washington Post:
One year of Robert Mueller  —  IT HAS been a year since special counsel Robert S. Mueller III took over the Justice Department's Russia investigation.  Since then, by all appearances, he has performed with professionalism, integrity and remarkable efficiency.  —  That is not President Trump's view, of course.
Discussion: Hot Air
Washington Post:
In this town, you can flip the channel all you want — the news is often the same  —  As big chains gobble up small TV stations, merged newsrooms are creating a uniformity of news coverage.  —  JOHNSTOWN, Pa. — The TV news has a familiar feel to it here in west-central Pennsylvania.
Bloomberg:
Trump Nominates McConnell and Chao's Brother-In-Law to Lead Pension Agency  — Hartogensis to lead Pension Benefit Guarantee Corporation  — McConnell, Chao relative would replace Obama appointee Reeder  —  President Donald Trump nominated Gordon Hartogensis, a self-described entrepreneur …
James Hohmann / Washington Post:
The Daily 202: Trump supporters suffer unintended consequences of his policies … THE BIG IDEA: President Trump sometimes seems impervious to the second and third order consequences of his decisions.  —  Several recent developments have highlighted the unintended — though often foreseeable …
 
 
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Tierney Sneed / Talking Points Memo:
Will Missouri GOPers Be First To Pounce On Trump's Census Citizenship Gambit?
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What Scott Pruitt's been doing while you weren't looking
Yahoo:
Outcry in Mali after albino child beheaded in ‘ritual’ murder
Christopher Vourlias / Variety:
Spike Lee Slams Trump as ‘Motherf-ker’ After ‘BlacKkKlansman’ Cannes Premiere
Discussion: IJR, Hollywood Reporter and Daily Wire
 Earlier Items: 
Travis Gettys / Raw Story:
Morning Joe panel says Mueller should probe Trump and Kushner's shady dealings with China and Qatar
Josh Israel / ThinkProgress:
Congressman says it is un-American to acknowledge that racism exists
Discussion: Splinter and Fox News Insider
Kevin Poulsen / The Daily Beast:
Russian Troll Farm Hijacked American Teen Girls' Computers for Likes
Salena Zito / Townhall:
‘The Great Revolt’  —  America's political experts got it wrong …
Eugene Robinson / Washington Post:
‘Real’ Americans are a myth. Don't you dare buy it.
Karen Deyoung / Washington Post:
Allies fume over Trump's withdrawal from Iran deal but have few options to respond
Discussion: MSNBC and Raw Story
Axios:
Scoop: Inside Trump's 2020 startup
Discussion: Shakesville and Political Wire
 

 
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