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George Stephanopoulos / ABC News:
Michael Cohen says family and country, not President Trump, is his ‘first loyalty’  —  Michael Cohen — President Donald Trump's longtime personal attorney and a former executive vice president at the Trump Organization — has always insisted he would remain loyal to the president.
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Kate Riga / Talking Points Memo:
Cohen Won't Declare Loyalty To Trump, Hints At Danger He Could Pose To Prez
Associated Press:   Trump's former personal lawyer says he'll put family first
John Wagner / Washington Post:   Trump lawyer Michael Cohen says his family, not the president, is his first loyalty
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Michael Cohen to Trump: I will flip on you if I need to
Blair Guild / CBS News:
Two federal judges seen as Trump's leading contenders for Supreme Court  —  President Trump says he will begin interviewing potential Supreme Court justices today and that he intends to officially nominate his candidate to the nation's highest court in just one week.
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Chuck Schumer / New York Times:
Our Rights Hang in the Balance  —  Justice Anthony Kennedy's retirement has created the most important vacancy on the Supreme Court in our lifetimes.  Whoever fills Justice Kennedy's seat will join an evenly divided court with the ability to affect the laws of the United States and the rights of its citizens for generations.
Michael Scherer / Washington Post:
A bad week for Democrats gives rise to a big problem: Outrage could become an obstacle in midterms  —  Growing liberal agitation over a pivotal Supreme Court retirement and a simmering crisis about immigrant child separation have left Democratic leaders scrambling to keep the political outrage …
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Keep the focus on Trump's cruelty and incompetence
Discussion: TIME, AOL and CNN
Ginger Gibson / Reuters:
Exclusive: Largest U.S. business group attacks Trump on tariffs  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the nation's largest business group and customarily a close ally of President Donald Trump's Republican Party, is launching a campaign on Monday to oppose Trump's trade tariff policies.
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Matthew J. Belvedere / CNBC:
Trump isn't going to change his mind on trade even if the stock market keeps falling: Wilbur Ross
Discussion: Political Wire and The Week
Reuters:   Iran diplomat among four arrested over suspected plot against Iranian opposition meeting
Matthew Schmitz / New York Times:
Trump's ‘Purple’ Family Values  —  In the months leading up to Donald Trump's election, I noticed a divide in how my acquaintances spoke about his family values — or lack thereof.  —  People I knew from college or had met in New York expressed distaste for Mr. Trump's behavior.
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Exclusive: A leaked Trump bill to blow up the WTO  —  Axios has obtained a leaked draft of a Trump administration bill — ordered by the president himself — that would declare America's abandonment of fundamental World Trade Organization rules.  —  Why it matters: The draft legislation is stunning.
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New York Times:
In Denmark, Harsh New Laws for Immigrant ‘Ghettos’  —  COPENHAGEN — When Rokhaia Naassan gives birth in the coming days, she and her baby boy will enter a new category in the eyes of Danish law.  Because she lives in a low-income immigrant neighborhood described by the government as a …
McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Russia investigators likely got access to NRA's tax filings, secret donors  —  WASHINGTON  —  For months, the National Rifle Association has had a stock answer to queries about an investigation into whether Russian money was funneled to the gun rights group to aid Donald Trump's presidential campaign.
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA
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Avery Anapol / The Hill:
Legal experts say Mueller team likely gained access to NRA tax filings: report
Discussion: Joe.My.God.
Jonathan Cheng / Wall Street Journal:
North Korea Expands Key Missile-Manufacturing Plant  —  New satellite imagery indicates Pyongyang is pushing ahead with weapons programs even as it pursues dialogue with Washington  —  SEOUL—North Korea is completing a major expansion of a key missile-manufacturing plant …
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Tommy Christopher / Shareblue Media:   Intel expert: Trump ‘clearly in debt to Moscow in some way’
New York Times:
Leftist Wins Mexico Presidency in Landslide With Mandate to Reshape Nation  —  MEXICO CITY — Riding a wave of populist anger fueled by rampant corruption and violence, the leftist Andrés Manuel López Obrador was elected president of Mexico on Sunday, in a landslide victory …
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Joshua Partlow / Washington Post:
Andrés Manuel López Obrador wins Mexican presidential race
Discussion: Politico and VICE News
Peter Whoriskey / Washington Post:
‘A way of monetizing poor people’: How private equity firms make money offering loans to cash-strapped Americans  —  The check arrived out of the blue, issued in his name for $1,200, a mailing from a consumer finance company.  Stephen Huggins eyed it carefully.  —  A loan, it said.
Richard Johnson / Page Six:
Ex co-worker no fan of Democrat darling Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez  —  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is being hailed as the new face of the Democratic party after vanquishing Queens party boss Joe Crowley in Tuesday's primary, but one former co-worker isn't jumping on her bandwagon.
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The Intercept:
Data Suggest That Gentrifying Neighborhoods Powered Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Victory
Discussion: NY State of Politics
Matt Zapotosky / Washington Post:
FBI arrests man it says was plotting July 4 attack in downtown Cleveland  —  The FBI in Cleveland has arrested a 48-year-old man it says was planning a July 4 attack in the city's downtown, authorities said.  —  The man — who lived in Maple Heights, a southeastern suburb of Cleveland …
Discussion: Fox News and Daily Wire
Brad Wilmouth / NewsBusters:
Rubin: Sarah Huckabee Sanders Should Be Harassed Publicly as a ‘Life Sentence’  —  On Sunday's AM Joy, MSNBC contributor and Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin declared that Sarah Huckabee Sanders deserves a “life sentence” of being harassed publicly as she asserted that the White House press secretary …
Discussion: Daily Wire and twitchy.com
Avi Selk / Washington Post:
Man arrested after shouting ‘womp, womp’ and pulling a gun on immigration protesters … The gathering at a park gazebo in Huntsville, Ala., was by no means the largest of Saturday's nationwide protests against President Trump's “zero tolerance” border policies, though it was memorable for other reasons.
Bloomberg:
A Morgan Stanley Star Wants You to Back His Political Movement  —  Eric Grossman doesn't look like he would want to do anything drastic.  The top lawyer at Morgan Stanley is a 51-year-old homeowner in the New York suburbs with twin sons and a seat on the firm's management committee.
Deborah Yetter / Courier-Journal:
Bevin cuts dental, vision benefits to nearly 500K Medicaid recipients  —  Gov. Matt Bevin's administration has abruptly cut Medicaid dental and vision benefits to nearly half a million Kentuckians, prompting an outcry from Democrats who called the Republican governor's decision “rash.”
Justin Henry / Manhattan District Attorney's Office:
District Attorney Vance Announces Additional Charges Against Harvey Weinstein Including Predatory Sexual Assault  —  Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance, Jr., today announced the filing of a superseding indictment containing additional charges against HARVEY WEINSTEIN, 66.
Discussion: Vox
Fred Hiatt / Washington Post:
The Trump administration's extraordinary cruelty will always find opponents  —  In March, as The Post was publishing a series of editorials criticizing the Trump administration for separating a Congolese asylum seeker from her 7-year-old daughter, administration officials contacted me to complain.
Tom Fish / Dailystar.co.uk:
Holy smoke: Jesus used cannabis oil to perform ‘miracles’  —  JESUS used cannabis and was an early champion of its medicinal properties, a growing consensus of experts agree.  —  And acceptance of this theory could help promote the controversial drug's use in treating a range of illnesses.
 
 
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David Rutz / Washington Free Beacon:
‘The Verge’ Co-Founder Calls Ben Shapiro ‘The Jew Who Helps Other Jews Onto the Train’
Discussion: twitchy.com
Noam Scheiber / New York Times:
Supreme Court Labor Decision Wasn't Just a Loss for Unions
Danielle Kurtzleben / NPR:
Life As A Young Woman Candidate: Fending Off ‘Older Men’ And Being An Outsider
Robert Gearty / Fox News:
Trump-shaped ecstasy pills seized by Indiana police
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Teresa Wright / Canadian Press:
Trudeau addresses groping allegation from 2000, says he doesn't recall ‘negative interactions’
Discussion: Daily Wire
Charles M. Blow / New York Times:
Trump's Rage Junkies
Dion Nissenbaum / Wall Street Journal:
Ex-Trump Adviser McMaster to Take on ‘Infected’ National Security Discourse
 Earlier Items: 
Sharyl Attkisson / The Hill:
Rosenstein conflicts undermine legitimacy of Mueller's investigation
USA Today:
How Donald Trump could speed up Robert Mueller's Russia investigation: Talk to him.
Jesse Newman / Wall Street Journal:
Trade Fight Threatens Farm Belt Businesses
Rachael Bade / Politico:
Immigration storm bears down on Republicans
Roger Kimball / American Greatness:
The Left Is Slipping into Terminal Irrelevance
Deb Riechmann / Associated Press:
I never said that! High-tech deception of ‘deepfake’ videos
Associated Press:
APNewsBreak: Border Patrol Arrests Drop Sharply in June
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