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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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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Michael Cohen to Trump: I will flip on you if I need to
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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 …
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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
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Emily Tillett / CBS News:
Blumenthal says Trump's Supreme Court pick “ought to recuse” themselves from Russia decisions
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Keep the focus on Trump's cruelty and incompetence
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Matthew Nussbaum / Politico:
White House reorganizing staff as Supreme Court fight looms
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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
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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.”
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Peter Sullivan / The Hill:
Ky. governor cancels Medicaid dental, vision benefits after losing work requirement ruling
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Mara Siegler / Page Six:
Brian Ross is leaving ABC after botched Michael Flynn report — ABC News' Brian Ross — who was suspended last year as chief investigative correspondent for a faulty report on Michael Flynn — is leaving the network, Page Six has exclusively learned. — ABC suspended Ross last December …
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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 …
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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.
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Avery Anapol / The Hill:
Legal experts say Mueller team likely gained access to NRA tax filings: report
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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.
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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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Kasia Klimasinska / Bloomberg:
‘A Little Premature’ to Discuss U.S. Exit From WTO, Ross Says
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Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
In U.S., Record-Low 47% Extremely Proud to Be Americans — WASHINGTON, D.C. — This Fourth of July marks a low point in U.S. patriotism. For the first time in Gallup's 18-year history asking U.S. adults how proud they are to be Americans, fewer than a majority say they are “extremely proud.”
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NBC News
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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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.
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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.
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.
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 …
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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.
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.
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Douglas MacMillan / Wall Street Journal:
Tech's ‘Dirty Secret’: The App Developers Sifting Through Your Gmail — Software developers scan hundreds of millions of emails of users who sign up for email-based services — Google said a year ago it would stop its computers from scanning the inboxes of Gmail users for information …
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The Daily Caller
Melissa Korn / Wall Street Journal:
You Graduated Cum Laude? So Did Everyone Else — With more students boasting flashy GPAs, academic honors lose their luster — Nearly half of students who graduated from Lehigh University, Princeton University and the University of Southern California this year did so with cum laude …
Courier-Journal:
Man allegedly threatens to chop up Rand Paul and his family with an ax — Matt Stone/Louisville Courier Journal — A man is accused of threatening to chop up U.S. Sen. Rand Paul and his family with an ax. — The man has been arrested. He allegedly called in the threats to Paul's Bowling Green office.
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Alexander Heffner / TIME:
The American Historical Record Includes Court Cases, Famous Speeches—And Trump's Tweets. Here's Why That Matters — Jaap Arriens—NurPhoto via Getty Images — When my grandfather Richard Heffner published a collection of pivotal documents from United States history in 1952 …
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 …
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