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Eliana Johnson / Politico:
Trump and Bolton spurn top-level North Korea planning — After two months on the job, Trump's new national security adviser has not called a single top-level National Security Council meeting on North Korea. — National Security Adviser John Bolton has yet to convene a Cabinet-level meeting …
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Washington Post:
Trump complains about traveling to Canada ahead of Singapore summit with Kim — President Trump is planning to fly to Canada on Friday. He is not exactly happy about it. — The president has vented privately about Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as their trade tensions have spilled into public view.
Nicholas Kristof / New York Times:
Democrats Childishly Resist Trump's North Korea Efforts — Shock! Horror! President Trump is actually doing something right. — Sadly, Democrats in Congress are responding in a quite Trumpian way: They seem more concerned with undermining him than supporting a peace process with North Korea.
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New Republic
Josh Rogin / Washington Post:
Trump still holds Jimmy Carter's view on withdrawing U.S. troops from South Korea
The Daily Beast:
Trump Has Weighed Golfing With Kim Jong Un if Singapore Summit Goes Well
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Jeremy Diamond / CNN:
Trump and Kim could meet for second day in Singapore
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Foreign Policy, The Hill and Wall Street Journal
Politico:
Another mess for Pruitt: Overstaying his White House welcome at lunch — Too many visits for lunch at the Mess earned a rebuke from the White House. — EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt loves eating at the White House mess, an exclusive U.S. Navy-run restaurant open only to White House officials, Cabinet members and other dignitaries.
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Talking Points Memo, Political Wire, Lawyers, Guns & Money and The Week
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Mike Sielski / Philly.com:
Eagles' Pederson on cancelled White House visit: 'I'm not discussing, it's over'
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SBNation.com, Hot Air, ThinkProgress and Mediaite
Washington Post:
Joseph Hagin, point person on Korea summit, plans to leave White House soon
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Breitbart
Elaina Plott / The Atlantic:
Pruitt Aide Resigns Amid Scandals
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Meridith McGraw / ABC News:
Trump holds first Iftar amid tense relations with Muslim American community
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Jihad Watch, Breitbart, Politico, HuffPost, Associated Press and Axios
Mark Murray / NBC News:
Poll: Economic satisfaction under Trump isn't helping his party's 2018 chances — By a whopping 25-point margin, voters say they're more likely to back a congressional candidate who promises to serve as a check on President Donald Trump, according to a new national poll from NBC News and the Wall Street Journal.
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John Harwood / CNBC:
More Americans are crediting Trump with the stronger economy, but that isn't helping the GOP with voters: NBC/WSJ poll — A new poll found that seven in 10 voters say the economy has improved under the Trump administration. — But the survey found that respondents favored Democrats …
Matthew Nussbaum / Politico:
Foreign leaders who embraced Trump now feel burned — Trump's overseas friends are learning the hard way that handshakes and golf games can't convince Trump not to smack would-be allies. — Call it friends without benefits. — Foreign leaders are learning that hand-holding, golf games …
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CNN:
Exclusive: Trump invokes War of 1812 in testy call with Trudeau over tariffs
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Daniel Lippman / Politico:
Playbook: Inside the House GOP's big immigration meeting
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Washington Post, Mediaite and The Week
Sarah Jones / New Republic:
John Conyers's Medicare for All bill gains steam in the wake of Trumpcare's failure.
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BuzzFeed, The Hill and The American Spectator
Helene Fouquet / Bloomberg:
France Warns Trump It Won't Sign a G-7 Statement
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Political Wire
Brian Schwartz / CNBC:
Special counsel Robert Mueller's team is requesting that witnesses turn in their personal phones to inspect their encrypted messaging programs — Special counsel Robert Mueller's team is asking witnesses to turn in their phones in order to access encrypted messaging applications, sources tell CNBC.
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Aris Folley / The Hill:
Former US attorney says Manafort will likely go to prison Friday
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Joe.My.God.
Aidan McLaughlin / Mediaite:
Lou Dobbs and Rep. Gaetz Trash ‘Disaster’ Paul Ryan: ‘Get the Hell Out of the Office’ — If you thought SpyGate on Fox News primetime was lit, take a gander over at what's happening on Fox Business Network, where host Lou Dobbs is truly wilding on a nightly basis.
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Rachael Bade / Politico:
GOP congressman blasts Trump's spy conspiracy — Rep. Tom Rooney, a top Republican lawmaker on the House Intelligence Committee, is ripping President Donald Trump's unsupported claim that the FBI inserted a spy inside his campaign. — “What is the point of saying that there was a spy in the campaign when there was none?”
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Talking Points Memo, POLITICUSUSA, Shareblue Media, Joe.My.God., New York Magazine, Splinter, Axios, Mediaite and New York Times
Berkeley Lovelace Jr / CNBC:
US strikes a deal with China's ZTE to end crippling sanctions, Commerce Secretary Ross says — Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross says the U.S. has struck a deal with Chinese telecom giant ZTE to end crippling American sanctions. — Commerce said the deal includes a $1 billion penalty …
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Josh Dawsey / Washington Post:
In private FEMA remarks, Trump's focus strays from hurricanes — The meeting was supposed to be about hurricane preparedness, as disaster officials gathered at Federal Emergency Management Agency headquarters days after the start of the 2018 season. — But President Trump had a lot else on his mind …
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Talking Points Memo, MSNBC and Mother Jones
Erik Larson / Bloomberg:
Judge Calls Trump's Border Separations of Children ‘Brutal’ — ACLU lawsuit is allowed to proceed in San Diego federal court — Administration says policy helps prosecute undocumented adults — The Trump administration failed to kill a legal challenge to its practice …
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POLITICUSUSA and HuffPost
Alicia H. Munnell / Politico:
Millennials and retirement: How bad is it? — Today's young adults are falling behind but there's a way they can catch up. … Concern about the financial health of America's younger generations is growing—especially millennials, a demographic boom that came of age in an environment …
Charles Robinson / Yahoo! Sports:
Sources: Colin Kaepernick's legal team expected to subpoena President Trump in case against NFL — After months of circling President Donald Trump during NFL depositions and discovery, Colin Kaepernick's lawyers are expected to force Trump directly into the ongoing legal battle between the quarterback and league.
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Andrew Freedman / Axios:
Mapped: Global temperatures since 1880 — Every area of the globe has warmed since instrument records began in 1880, NASA data shows. The planet isn't warming equally, however — the fastest temperature increases are taking place at the poles. That Arctic, for example …
Liz Robbins / New York Times:
He Delivered Pizza to an Army Base in Brooklyn. Now He Faces Deportation. — Food delivery. Sanctuary. Those are often the anchors for the more than half a million undocumented immigrants who live and work in New York City. — But an incident at the United States Army base in Fort Hamilton …
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Axios
Christoph Koettl / New York Times:
What We Learned From the Videos of Stephon Clark Being Killed by Police — The visual investigations team at The New York Times examines the world through the lens of video footage and other types of open-source evidence. Using everything from satellite images and audio waveforms to metadata …
New York Times:
A Medical Mystery Grows as U.S. Consulate Workers in China Fall Ill — GUANGZHOU, China — A crisis over a mysterious ailment sickening American diplomats and their families — which began in Cuba and recently appeared in China — widened on Wednesday. The State Department evacuated at least …
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Washington Post:
Does Google think it's better than the U.S. military? — Giving in to pressure from its workforce, Google recently announced that it is pulling out of Project Maven, a groundbreaking Pentagon program to harness artificial intelligence to sift through and interpret video imagery from drones.
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Stanford Daily
Chuck Ross / The Daily Caller:
Papadopoulos Was Approached By ‘Highly Suspicous’ Businessmen, His Wife Claims — A dossier source allegedly offered Papadopoulos $30,000 a month to work from inside Trump administration — In the wake of the revelation that an FBI informant lured George Papadopoulos to London during the 2016 campaign …
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Daily Wire, The Gateway Pundit, Washington Monthly and The Federalist
Tracy Neal / NWADG.com:
Man admits to intentionally getting HIV — BENTONVILLE — Stephen Koch admitted in court to intentionally contracting HIV so he could infect others with the virus. — Koch, 25, of Scranton, Ark. pleaded guilty Monday to attempting to exposing another person to HIV, possession of methamphetamine …
Houston Chronicle:
Trump: Many Texans watched Harvey from their boats, requiring Coast Guard rescue — AUSTIN — President Donald Trump praised the Coast Guard for its heroics during Hurricane Harvey Wednesday, but credited the high number of water rescues to people taking their boats out to watch the storm roll in, baffling first responders.
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CNN:
Giuliani defends comments about Stormy Daniels' credibility — Giuliani: Melania believes Trump over Daniels — Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump's lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, said Thursday he stands by his recent comments that adult film actress Stormy Daniels has no credibility because of her profession.
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Christina Wilkie / CNBC:
Meet the New York architect who was a key figure in Donald Trump's deals and connections in Eastern Europe — As Robert Mueller looks ever more closely at President Donald Trump's foreign business ties, one former associate has remained outside the spotlight despite playing a key role …
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