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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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John Wagner / Washington Post:   Trump lawyer Michael Cohen says his family, not the president, is his first loyalty
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
Discussion: Daily Kos, NY State of Politics and CNN
Michael Scherer / Washington Post:
A bad week for Democrats gives rise to a big problem: Outrage could become an obstacle in midterms
Matthew Nussbaum / Politico:
White House reorganizing staff as Supreme Court fight looms
Discussion: Breitbart and Weekly Standard
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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Reuters:
Iran diplomat among four arrested over suspected plot against Iranian opposition meeting
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
NBC News:
News media paid Melania Trump thousands for use of photos in ‘positive stories only’  —  The First Lady earned six figures from an agreement with Getty Images that paid royalties to the Trumps and mandated photos be used in positive coverage.  —  Since her husband took office Melania Trump …
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: IJR and 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. and POLITICUSUSA
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.”
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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Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Axios Sneak Peek
Discussion: Breitbart and Wall Street Journal
Kasia Klimasinska / Bloomberg:
‘A Little Premature’ to Discuss U.S. Exit From WTO, Ross Says
Discussion: Axios, VICE News and CNBC
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 …
Dominic Patten / Deadline:
Harvey Weinstein Faces Life In Prison From New Sex Crime Charges By NYC D.A. From 3rd Victim  —  Already facing rape and criminal sex act charges and a potential 25-years behind bars, Harvey Weinstein today was hit with even heavier legal weight from the Manhattan D.A. - that could see him in jail for life.
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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.
Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
Eric Trump rushes into NYC traffic to save ailing woman  —  An ordinary morning in New York City last week for President Trump's son Eric Trump abruptly turned frantic when he rushed to the aid of a woman who passed out near a train station, dodging rush-hour traffic to chase down a passing ambulance.
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
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.
Discussion: Shakesville and Splinter
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
Patterico's Pontifications:
Would a Justice Amy Barrett Recuse Herself in Abortion Cases?  —  Judge Amy Barrett seems to be the new hotness among conservatives.  She is being seriously discussed as a credible candidate to replace Anthony Kennedy despite a mighty thin track record as a judge.  Why?  Let's look at a couple of representative pieces.
Discussion: Right Wing Watch and The Week
Mike Allen / Axios:
Scoop: Trump may hold Round 2 with Kim Jong-un in NYC  —  Some administration officials are so optimistic about making progress with North Korea's Kim Jong-un that they hope a Round 2 with President Trump can be held in New York in September, when world leaders pour into Trump's hometown for the U.N. General Assembly.
Discussion: Raw Story, VICE News, AOL, The Week and Mediaite
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Jonathan Cheng / Wall Street Journal:
North Korea Expands Key Missile-Manufacturing Plant
Associated Press:
Russian charged with Trump's ex-campaign chief is key figure  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — During the special counsel's Russia investigation, Konstantin Kilimnik has been described as a fixer, translator or office manager to President Donald Trump's ex-campaign chairman Paul Manafort.
Tim Stickings / Daily Mail:
The one result he didn't see coming: Rabiot the octopus - who correctly predicted every outcome of Japan's World Cup group matches - is chopped up and eaten before knockout stages  —  An octopus who had predicted all three of Japan's group stage results at the World Cup has been turned into seafood.
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.
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.
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
 
 
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Douglas MacMillan / Wall Street Journal:
Tech's ‘Dirty Secret’: The App Developers Sifting Through Your Gmail
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Katrin Bennhold / New York Times:
Trump's Ancestral Village Abounds With His Relatives. Few Will Admit It.
Discussion: IJR and Raw Story
Marlow Stern / The Daily Beast:
Hollywood Keeps Getting Into Bed With Trump Pariahs
Discussion: Washington Press
Danielle Kurtzleben / NPR:
Life As A Young Woman Candidate: Fending Off ‘Older Men’ And Being An Outsider
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
Discussion: The Mahablog and twitchy.com
Sharyl Attkisson / The Hill:
Rosenstein conflicts undermine legitimacy of Mueller's investigation
 Earlier Items: 
USA Today:
How Donald Trump could speed up Robert Mueller's Russia investigation: Talk to him.
Rachael Bade / Politico:
Immigration storm bears down on Republicans
Roger Kimball / American Greatness:
The Left Is Slipping into Terminal Irrelevance
Tom Fish / Dailystar.co.uk:
Holy smoke: Jesus used cannabis oil to perform ‘miracles’
New York Times:
Leftist Wins Mexico Presidency in Landslide With Mandate to Reshape Nation
Richard Johnson / Page Six:
Ex co-worker no fan of Democrat darling Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Avi Selk / Washington Post:
Man arrested after shouting ‘womp, womp’ and pulling a gun on immigration protesters
 

 
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