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Felicia Schwartz / Wall Street Journal:
Kim Jong Un Begged for Summit ‘on His Hands and Knees,’ Giuliani Says — With the summit plans back in place, the U.S. has the upper hand, President Trump's lawyer said — TEL AVIV—President Donald Trump's lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, said North Korean leader Kim Jong Un got …
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Associated Press:
Giuliani says Mueller's team is trying to frame Trump — JERUSALEM (AP) — Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani says special counsel Robert Mueller's team is trying to frame President Trump. — Giuliani, who has been serving as Trump's lawyer amid the Russia scandal, says Wednesday in Israel …
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Daily Kos, Mediaite and Political Wire
Jennifer Jacobs / Bloomberg:
Trump Wants Kim to Commit to Disarmament Timetable in Singapore — Mar-a-Lago summit possible if talks go well between leaders — White House hasn't described schedule beyond first meeting — The White House wants North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to commit to a timetable to surrender …
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Associated Press:
APNewsBreak: Secret Obama-era license let Iran tap dollars — WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration secretly sought to give Iran access — albeit briefly — to the U.S. financial system by sidestepping sanctions kept in place after the 2015 nuclear deal, despite repeatedly telling Congress and the public it had no plans to do so.
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Olivia Beavers / The Hill:
GOP Senate report says Obama officials gave Iran access to US financial system
GOP Senate report says Obama officials gave Iran access to US financial system
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The Daily Caller, Townhall and Fox News
Adam Kredo / Washington Free Beacon:
Obama Administration Skirted U.S. Sanctions to Grant Iran Billions in Cash
Obama Administration Skirted U.S. Sanctions to Grant Iran Billions in Cash
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Jihad Watch
New York Times:
California Primary Election Results — At the top of the ballot in California is the race to replace Gov. Jerry Brown, a term-limited Democrat. The big question on Tuesday is not so much who will place first — that's almost certain to be Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom, a former mayor of San Francisco — but who will place second.
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Christine Mai-Duc / Los Angeles Times:
Democrats look like they won't be shut out of critical California House races
Democrats look like they won't be shut out of critical California House races
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Axios and Patterico's Pontifications
Maeve Reston / CNN:
Error leaves 118,000 voters in California off rosters in Los Angeles County
Error leaves 118,000 voters in California off rosters in Los Angeles County
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Los Angeles Times:
Live results from the California primary
Live results from the California primary
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Los Angeles Times, BloombergQuint, The Daily Caller and KTLA
New York Times:
Gavin Newsom Wins Spot in California Election for Governor
Gavin Newsom Wins Spot in California Election for Governor
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Dakota Smith / Los Angeles Times:
California Sen. Josh Newman seems headed for removal from office for supporting higher gas tax
California Sen. Josh Newman seems headed for removal from office for supporting higher gas tax
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CALmatters and KTLA
Bob Egelko / San Francisco Chronicle:
Bid to recall Judge Aaron Persky appears successful in Santa Clara County — Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Aaron Persky was on his way to being voted out of office Tuesday, two years after he set off national outrage by sentencing a Stanford athlete to six months in jail …
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Palo Alto Daily Post
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Maggie Astor / New York Times:
California Voters Remove Aaron Persky, the Judge Who Gave a 6-Month Sentence for Sexual Assault
California Voters Remove Aaron Persky, the Judge Who Gave a 6-Month Sentence for Sexual Assault
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HuffPost, USA Today, Axios, CALmatters and Mother Jones
Meagan Flynn / Washington Post:
Voters remove judge who sentenced Brock Turner to six months in Stanford sexual assault case
Voters remove judge who sentenced Brock Turner to six months in Stanford sexual assault case
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Refinery29, twitchy.com and NPR
Grace Wyler / BuzzFeed:
The Judge In The Brock Turner Sexual Assault Case Has Been Recalled
The Judge In The Brock Turner Sexual Assault Case Has Been Recalled
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Vox
Carole Cadwalladr / The Guardian:
Cambridge Analytica director ‘met Assange to discuss US election’ — Brittany Kaiser also claims to have channelled payments and donations to WikiLeaks — A Cambridge Analytica director apparently visited Julian Assange in February last year and told friends it was to discuss what happened during …
Bryan Lowry / Kansas City Star:
Democrat Arthur wins Missouri special election days after Greitens resigns — Democratic Rep. Lauren Arthur prevailed by a double-digit margin over Republican Rep. Kevin Corlew in a special election for a state Senate seat Tuesday night. — Republicans won't risk losing control …
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David Weigel / Washington Post:
Democrats win state Senate seat in Missouri, their 42nd red-to-blue flip of the cycle
Democrats win state Senate seat in Missouri, their 42nd red-to-blue flip of the cycle
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Politico, Associated Press, The Week, Axios and Political Wire
Mike Levine / ABC News:
DOJ watchdog finds Comey defied authority as FBI director, sources say — The Justice Department's internal watchdog has concluded that James Comey defied authority at times during his tenure as FBI director, according to sources familiar with a draft report on the matter.
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New York Times:
Grifters Gonna Grift — The editorial board represents the opinions of the board, its editor and the publisher. It is separate from the newsroom and the Op-Ed section. — This is shaping up to be another red-letter week for Draining the Swamp. — On Monday, Paul Manafort …
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Jake Sherman / Politico:
Playbook scoop: Senate Democrats' August messaging plan
Playbook scoop: Senate Democrats' August messaging plan
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CNN, Mediaite and New York Times
Washington Post:
Scott Pruitt enlisted an EPA aide to help his wife find a job — at Chick-fil-A
Scott Pruitt enlisted an EPA aide to help his wife find a job — at Chick-fil-A
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David Von Drehle / Washington Post:
There will be no Trump collapse — I've tried everything to avoid thinking about the next election — family travel, yard work, crossword puzzles. But now it's only five months away, barely longer than the gestation period of a North American beaver, or the Stanley Cup playoffs.
CBS News:
Secret Service arrests White House contractor with outstanding attempted murder warrant — The Secret Service arrested a contractor outside the White House on Tuesday for an outstanding warrant that includes an attempted murder charge, CBS News Washington correspondent Paula Reid reports.
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Noreen Malone / New York Magazine:
The New Yorker Staff Has Unionized — The era of white-collar organized labor is fully upon us: the editorial staff of The New Yorker wants to unionize. This morning, organizers sent a letter to the magazine's editor, David Remnick, asking that the institution and its corporate owner …
Kaitlan Collins / CNN:
Exclusive: Trump considers dozens of new pardons — Washington (CNN)The White House has assembled the paperwork to pardon dozens of people, two sources with knowledge of the developments tell CNN, signaling that President Donald Trump is poised to exert his constitutional power and intervene …
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Washington Post:
Trump to sign veterans health bill as White House works against plan to fund it — President Trump is preparing to sign a sweeping new law Wednesday aimed at expanding veterans' access to private-sector health care. But behind the scenes his administration is fighting a bipartisan Senate effort to fund the legislation.
Betsy Woodruff / The Daily Beast:
Trump Transition Team Goes to War Over Rogue FBI Agent … At the time, it was one of the more controversial moments of Robert Mueller's probe: Late last year, news broke that a federal agency turned over tens of thousands of private emails of Trump transition team officials to the special counsel's team …
Peter Baker / New York Times:
Why Is Trump Mad at Sessions? A Tweet Provides the Answer — WASHINGTON — For nearly a year, President Trump has been relentlessly attacking his handpicked attorney general for recusing himself from the Russia investigation that has so nettled him. And so in that sense …
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New York Times:
Facebook Gave Data Access to Chinese Firm Flagged by U.S. Intelligence — Facebook has data-sharing partnerships with at least four Chinese electronics companies, including a manufacturing giant that has a close relationship with China's government, the social media company said on Tuesday.
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Mike Allen / Axios:
Facebook playing with fire in D.C.
Facebook playing with fire in D.C.
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Wall Street Journal:
Rick Perry's Obama Imitation — His intrusion to save coal and nuclear plants is as bad as renewable subsidies. — One Trump Administration achievement has been liberating U.S. energy producers of all kinds from federal shackles. Companies have responded with jobs and investment …
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Jennifer Bendery / HuffPost:
It Looks Like America Is Finally Going To Have A Native American Congresswoman — Deb Haaland won her Democratic primary in New Mexico's congressional race. She's likely to win in November, too. — Deb Haaland won the Democratic nomination for a New Mexico congressional seat on Tuesday …
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CNN:
Press aide who mocked McCain is out at the White House — White House still won't apologize for McCain joke — (CNN)Kelly Sadler, the White House communications aide who made a imprudent comment about Republican Sen. John McCain's health last month, no longer works in the administration …
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Eli Watkins / CNN:
State Department spokeswoman notes D-Day in answer on ‘strong relationship’ with Germany — Nauert invokes D-Day while praising US-Germany relations — Washington (CNN)State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert on Tuesday cited the D-Day invasion during an answer about the current state of US-German relations.
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Justin Glawe / The Daily Beast:
Steve Mnuchin Blacked Out Schedule on Days of Controversial Trips … Before stepping off a military jet in Kentucky last summer where he viewed a solar eclipse at Fort Knox, Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin was doing something else in secret. — Mnuchin and his wife's trip on August 21 …
Washington Post:
The Post has mapped more than 52,000 homicides in major American cities over the past decade and found that across the country, there are areas where murder is common but arrests are rare. — Christopher Dickson felt justice had been served. For weeks, he'd bragged around his neighborhood …