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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
Michael Cohen to Trump: I will flip on you if I need to
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Vox, Conservative News Today, Mediaite and Florida Politics
Wall Street Journal:
Top GOP Fundraiser to Stop Hush Payments Over Affair
Top GOP Fundraiser to Stop Hush Payments Over Affair
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Talking Points Memo, Politico, Joe.My.God., The Week, Mediaite and Lawyers, Guns & Money
Kate Riga / Talking Points Memo:
Cohen Won't Declare Loyalty To Trump, Hints At Danger He Could Pose To Prez
Cohen Won't Declare Loyalty To Trump, Hints At Danger He Could Pose To Prez
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Washington Post, Raw Story, CNN, New Republic and Outside the Beltway
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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Townhall, Washington Free Beacon, CBS Chicago and The Week
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Chuck Schumer / New York Times:
Our Rights Hang in the Balance
Our Rights Hang in the Balance
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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
A bad week for Democrats gives rise to a big problem: Outrage could become an obstacle in midterms
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Washington Monthly, National Review, CNN and New York Times
Matthew Nussbaum / Politico:
White House reorganizing staff as Supreme Court fight looms
White House reorganizing staff as Supreme Court fight looms
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Weekly Standard and Breitbart
Rick Klein / ABC News:
The Note: Trump, Republicans pounce on progressives' new movement
The Note: Trump, Republicans pounce on progressives' new movement
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Fox News Insider, The Daily Beast and Breitbart
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Inside the Democratic strategy to oppose Trump's Supreme Court pick
Inside the Democratic strategy to oppose Trump's Supreme Court pick
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Washington Post, Talking Points Memo, ABC News and Raw Story
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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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
Trump isn't going to change his mind on trade even if the stock market keeps falling: Wilbur Ross
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National Review, Political Wire, Daily Kos and The Week
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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IJR and POLITICUSUSA
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Avery Anapol / The Hill:
Legal experts say Mueller team likely gained access to NRA tax filings: report
Legal experts say Mueller team likely gained access to NRA tax filings: report
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Joe.My.God. and POLITICUSUSA
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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Jezebel, Marginal REVOLUTION and Lawyers, Guns & Money
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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Splinter, Rewire.News, Joe.My.God. and The American Spectator
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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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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New Republic, IndieWire and Daily Wire, more at Mediagazer »
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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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New Republic and Lawyers, Guns & Money
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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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.
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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 …
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Fox News and Daily Wire
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.
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.”
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.
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.
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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.
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Jonathan Cheng / Wall Street Journal:
North Korea Expands Key Missile-Manufacturing Plant
North Korea Expands Key Missile-Manufacturing Plant
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Washington Post, New Republic, Hullabaloo, The Diplomat, Daily Kos, New York Times, Salon, The Daily Caller, Defense One, CNN, Bloomberg, Mediaite and Reuters
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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Daily Wire and twitchy.com
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.
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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