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New York Times:
Inside the White House's Quiet Campaign to Create a Supreme Court Opening  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump singled him out for praise even while attacking other members of the Supreme Court.  The White House nominated people close to him to important judicial posts.
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The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation:
Poll: Two-thirds of Americans Don't Want the Supreme Court to Overturn Roe v. Wade  —  Equal Pay and Fair Employment Practices are Voters' Top Concerns among Women's Issues  —  Large Majority of the Public View Federal Funding of Family Planning Services for Low-Income Women as “Important”
Discussion: Political Wire
Daniel Lippman / Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Inside Senate Democrats' SCOTUS strategy  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  INSIDE SENATE DEMOCRATS' SUPREME COURT STRATEGY ... Look for Senate Democrats to emphasize health care — pre-existing conditions — and abortion rights as they talk about the upcoming Supreme Court vacancy.
Washington Examiner:   Overturn Roe v. Wade
The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation:   Further Findings from Kaiser's June Health Tracking Poll: Women's Issues
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Could a woman be what Trump needs for SCOTUS?
Eugene Kontorovich / USA Today:
Who should Donald Trump nominate to replace Justice Anthony Kennedy on the Supreme Court?
Discussion: Vox, The Week and The Federalist
Ruth Marcus / Washington Post:   This must be another Bork moment
Senator Cory Booker / YouTube:   Cory Booker Warns of POTUS Conflict of Interest in Selecting Supreme Court Justice
Jean Marbella / Baltimore Sun:
Capital Gazette shooting victim Rob Hiaasen: A joyful stylist, a generous mentor  —  Capital Gazette editor Rob Hiaasen has been identified as victim of a shooting at the newspaper.  —  Rob Hiaasen once wrote a description of his ideal job: “I would like to be paid for the occasional amusing remark …
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Baltimore Sun:
Sources identify suspect in Annapolis Capital shooting as Jarrod Ramos, who had long-running feud with paper  —  Police and federal agents gathered late Thursday outside the address of 38-year-old Jarrod W. Ramos, who is being held as the suspect in the deadly shooting at Capital Gazette, law enforcement sources said.
Yvonne Wenger / Baltimore Sun:
Capital Gazette shooting victim Wendi Winters: A prolific writer who chronicled her community  —  Capital Gazette reporter Wendi Winters has been identified as victim of a shooting at the newspaper.  —  Wendi Winters spent a dozen years writing her way into the Capital Gazette newsroom.
Discussion: WTOP, NPR, The Week, Mother Jones and Faithwire
Erin Cox / Baltimore Sun:
Capital Gazette shooting victim Gerald Fischman: Clever and quirky voice of a community newspaper  —  Capital Gazette editorial writer Gerald Fischman has been identified as victim of a shooting at the newspaper.  —  The first time Gerald Fischman applied for a job at The Capital, the editor passed him over.
Tonya Alanez / Sun-Sentinel:
South Florida's Rob Hiaasen, novelist Carl Hiaasen's brother, killed in newsroom shooting  —  Rob Hiaasen, who grew up in the Fort Lauderdale area, was a columnist and editor at the Maryland newspaper.  He was 59.  (Courtesy)  —  South Florida Sun Sentinel  —  Privacy Policy
Kevin Rector / Baltimore Sun:
Shooting reported at Capital Gazette newspaper in Annapolis
Andrea K. McDaniels / Baltimore Sun:
Capital Gazette shooting victim John McNamara: Sports reporting was his dream job
Discussion: WTOP and The Guardian
New York Times:
Annapolis Shooting Suspect Had Long-Running Dispute With Newspaper
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
Erin Cox / Baltimore Sun:
Victims of Capital Gazette shooting in Annapolis
Discussion: Al Jazeera English
capitalgazette.com:
Five dead in ‘targeted attack’ at Capital Gazette newspaper in Annapolis, police say; Laurel man charged with murder
Los Angeles Times:
Maryland mass-shooting suspect had harassed, threatened newspaper's journalists for years
Kevin Rector / capitalgazette.com:
Five dead, others ‘gravely injured’ in shooting at Capital Gazette newspaper in Annapolis
NBC News:
Capital Gazette shooting: Suspect charged after 5 killed at Maryland newspaper
Edward-Isaac Dovere / Politico:
Obama: ‘You are right to be concerned’  —  In his first public comments in months, the former president talks about anger, regrets — and what the Republicans are doing right.  —  LOS ANGELES — Barack Obama's message to Democrats: Stop dreaming of him.  —  Speaking at a Democratic National …
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Dan Merica / CNN:
Obama offers Democrats tough love ahead of midterms: ‘Enough moping’  —  Beverly Hills, California (CNN)Former President Barack Obama, re-emerging into the political fray for a Democratic National Committee fundraiser here on Thursday, had a message for troubled Democrats: Do more than just mope.
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Dan Merica / CNN:
Obama: I told Trump to just rename Obamacare and take credit for it
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Scoop: Trump's private threat to upend global trade  —  President Trump has repeatedly told top White House officials he wants to withdraw the United States from the World Trade Organization, a move that would throw global trade into wild disarray, people involved in the talks tell Axios.
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Josh Rogin / Washington Post:
Trump is trying to destabilize the European Union  —  As President Trump heads to Europe next month for the NATO summit and then a historic meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, his personal attacks on the European Union and other pillars of the Western order are overshadowing …
CNN:   Trump privately floats plan to make a deal with Putin on Syria
Media Matters for America:
Sean Hannity blames Maxine Waters for shooting at Maryland newsroom  —  Hannity: “I've been saying now for days that something horrible was going to happen because of the rhetoric.  Really Maxine?”  —  From the June 28 edition of Premiere Radio Networks' The Sean Hannity Show:  —  Loading the player reg...
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Jacqueline Thomsen / The Hill:
Maxine Waters cancels events over ‘very serious death threat’
Discussion: Raw Story
Linda Qiu / New York Times:
4 Misleading or False Claims From Trump's North Dakota Rally
Discussion: The Hill, KTLA and CNN
Ashley Killough / CNN:
Maxine Waters says she's faced increased threats, cancels attending 2 events
Matthew Acton / The Sun:
BLOWN TO SHREDS Kim Jong-un has top army officer blasted with 90 bullets for giving his troops extra rations of food and fuel  —  Lieutenant General Hyon Ju-song was put to death after being found guilty of charges of abusing authority, profiting the enemy and engaging in anti-Party acts
Emily Jane Fox / Vanity Fair:
“He Could Go Down in History as the Man That Saved This Country”: Freed from Trump, Michael Cohen Sees a New Identity: National Hero  —  As Cohen is further distanced from the president, friends have been encouraging him to change his narrative.  “Washington is actively pushing him away,” a person close to Cohen says.
Discussion: Raw Story
Ron Nixon / New York Times:
Agents Seek to Dissolve ICE in Immigration Policy Backlash  —  WASHINGTON — At least 19 Immigration and Customs Enforcement investigators are seeking to dissolve the agency, concerned that the Trump administration's crackdown on illegal migrants has limited their ability to pursue national security threats …
Dara Lind / Vox:
Exclusive: Trump administration plan would bar people who enter illegally from getting asylum  —  A sweeping regulation being considered by the Department of Justice would likely stop most Central Americans from winning asylum in the US.  —  The Department of Justice, under Attorney General Jeff Sessions …
Associated Press:
The Latest: UN migration agency rejects Trump-pitched leader  —  GENEVA (AP) — The Latest on the U.N. migration agency's rejection of (all times local):  —  The U.N.'s migration agency has rejected the Trump administration's proposed candidate to head the body, a post previously held by Americans since 1951.
Discussion: Yahoo, National Review and The Week
 
 
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Matt Wilstein / The Daily Beast:
Michael Moore: We Have to ‘Put Our Bodies on the Line’ to Stop Trump
NBC News:
Trump admin ran ‘pilot program’ for separating migrant families in 2017
Discussion: Daily Wire
Gideon Resnick / The Daily Beast:
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand on Abolishing ICE: ‘Get Rid of It, Start Over’
Chris Suarez / Daily Progress:
Aug. 12 event request includes dunk tank, petting zoo in Emancipation Park
Discussion: The Daily Beast
UNICORN RIOT:
LEAKED: Violent Racists Use Facebook Chat To Plan ‘Unite The Right 2’
Jennifer Medina / New York Times:
For Survivors of Japanese Internment Camps, Court's Korematsu Ruling Is ‘Bittersweet’
Discussion: SCOTUSblog and Outside the Beltway
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Toni Airaksinen / Campus Reform:
Students complain that prof's op-ed made them feel bad
Sohrab Ahmari / Commentary Magazine:
British Education Regulators Get Creepy With Jewish Girls
Karolina Rivas / ABC News:
Nearly 600 protesters at Women's March arrested on Capitol Hill
S.V. Date / HuffPost:
Trump Lied About Parents Of Korean War Vets, Now He's Lying About Returned Bodies
Discussion: IJR
 

 
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Reporters Without Borders sues X in France for “complicity in disseminating false information”, after X failed to block a fake video with RSF's logo

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An interview with Telegraph Director of Technology Dylan Jacques on the goal of launching 12 significant uses of AI in the newsroom over 12 months

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