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E.P.A. Aide Questioned Deleting Sensitive Meeting Details. Then She Was Fired. — WASHINGTON — Scott Pruitt, the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency and the subject of numerous investigations into claims that he used agency resources for personal benefit …
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How Scott Pruitt's Disloyalty to His Own Staff Brought Him Down in the End … Minutes before President Donald Trump announced the resignation of Scott Pruitt, his top environmental regulator, one of his former aides accused him of firing another for questioning a potentially illegal purge of official agency records.
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Coral Davenport / New York Times:
How the New Acting E.P.A. Chief Differs From Scott Pruitt — WASHINGTON — The departure of Scott Pruitt, the scandal-plagued former head of the Environmental Protection Agency, means that the agency will be led in the coming months by Mr. Pruitt's deputy, Andrew Wheeler …
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Ramesh Ponnuru / National Review:
Pruitt Blew It — EPA administrator Scott Pruitt had enemies who were out to get him because he is a Republican, a conservative, a high-ranking member of the Trump administration, and an environmental deregulator. But it wasn't liberals, the media, or deep staters who made him get large raises …
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Washington Post:
Move to omit controversial cardinal's name from Pruitt's schedule prompted protests
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Scott Pruitt / Fox News:
Scott Pruitt's full resignation letter to President Trump
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Josh Dawsey / Washington Post:
Pruitt survived months of controversy by preserving his relationship with Trump
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Corky Siemaszko / NBC News:
Fourth Ohio State wrestler says Rep. Jim Jordan knew about sexual abuse when he was coach — The wrestler said Jordan, a former assistant coach at Ohio State, took part in locker-room conversations where athletes discussed the abuse. — A fourth former Ohio State University wrestler came forward Thursday …
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AP NewsBreak: US Army quietly discharging immigrant recruits — SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Some immigrant U.S. Army reservists and recruits who enlisted in the military with a promised path to citizenship are being abruptly discharged, the Associated Press has learned.
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Kang In-sun / Digital Chosunilbo:
Pompeo Brings ‘Rocket Man’ CD for Kim Jong-un — U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo left for North Korea on Thursday for denuclearization talks and brought two gifts for leader Kim Jong-un. — One is a letter from U.S. President Donald Trump and the other an Elton John CD with his song “Rocket Man.”
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Daniel Lippman / Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Pompeo brings ‘Rocket Man’ CD to Pyongyang — DRIVING THE DAY — THE CHOSUN ILBO (one of South Korea's major newspapers): “Pompeo Brings ‘Rocket Man’ CD for Kim Jong-un”: “U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo left for North Korea on Thursday for denuclearization talks and brought two gifts for leader Kim Jong-un.
Emily Cochrane / New York Times:
Trump Assails Critics and Mocks #MeToo. What About Putin? 'He's Fine' — GREAT FALLS, Mont. — President Trump lobbed personal and derogatory attacks at two Democratic senators, mocked the #MeToo movement and vouched for President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia on Thursday during a freewheeling …
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John Parkinson / ABC News:
Trump stumps in Montana: 'It's time to retire liberal Democrat Jon Tester'
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Ana Swanson / New York Times:
Trump's Trade War Against China Is Officially Underway — WASHINGTON — A trade war between the world's two largest economies officially began on Friday morning as the Trump administration followed through with its threat to impose tariffs on $34 billion worth of Chinese products …
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Caitlin Dickerson / New York Times:
Trump Administration in Chaotic Scramble to Reunify Migrant Families — Faced with a court-imposed deadline to reunite families separated at the southwest border, federal authorities are calling in volunteers to sort through records and resorting to DNA tests to match children with parents.
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Karoun Demirjian / Washington Post:
Republicans on Russia trip face scorn and ridicule from critics at home — Republican lawmakers who went to Russia seeking a thaw in relations received an icy reception from Democrats and Kremlin watchers for spending the Fourth of July in a country that interfered in the U.S. presidential election and continues to deny it.
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Nina Totenberg / NPR:
Trump Narrows Supreme Court Shortlist To 3 — With 2 On The Inside Track — President Trump has narrowed his list of Supreme Court candidates to three, according to two sources close to the process. — The three are Judges Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett and Raymond Kethledge with Kavanaugh …
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Schumer urges Trump to tap Merrick Garland for Supreme Court
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MJ Lee / CNN:
Michael Cohen tells friends he doesn't think Trump would pardon him — (CNN)Michael Cohen has recently told friends that he is pessimistic that President Donald Trump will offer him a pardon — one more indication that Cohen does not believe his former boss will have his back.
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Kevin Wallevand / WDAY-TV:
Ed Schultz, former Fargo radio personality, has died — Ed Schultz listens to a caller during a broadcast of his nationally syndicated liberal talk show on Feb. 9, 2006. There's no reason a left-leaning show can't be successful, he says. “The last time I checked, liberals drive vehicles,” he says.
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Helmut Schmidt / WDAY-TV:
Ed Schultz, local and national broadcast personality, died at Washington, D.C., home from natural causes
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Jeff Cox / CNBC:
The U.S. labor shortage is reaching a critical point — Private payrolls grew less than expected in June, likely due not just to a slowdown in hiring but also a decline in the labor pool. — America's labor shortage is approaching epidemic proportions, and it could be employers who end up paying.
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Elaine Lies / Reuters:
Hundreds of thousands evacuated in Japan as ‘historic’ rain falls; two dead — TOKYO (Reuters) - Hundreds of thousands of people across a wide swathe of western and central Japan were evacuated from their homes on Friday as torrential rains pounded the nation, flooding rivers …
BuzzFeed:
Trump's Mar-A-Lago Wants To Hire 40 More Foreign Workers — With the latest filing, the club has now sought to hire more than 240 foreign workers since Donald Trump launched his presidential campaign. — Mar-a-Lago, President Donald Trump's private club in Palm Beach, Florida …
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David A. Fahrenthold / Washington Post:
Trump's Mar-a-Lago Club in Florida seeks to hire 40 foreign workers
New York Times:
Brett Kavanaugh, Supreme Court Front-Runner, Once Argued Broad Grounds for Impeachment — WASHINGTON — Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh, the front-runner to replace Justice Anthony M. Kennedy on the Supreme Court, once argued that President Bill Clinton could be impeached for lying to his staff …
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Colleen Wright / miamiherald:
Mom's secret recording catches kindergarten teacher calling 5-year-old a ‘loser’ — By the second week of school last fall, Kandy Escotto knew something was amiss with her 5-year-old. — Her son, Aaron, complained about going to school. He brought home poor grades.
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Financial Times:
EU rigidity on Brexit putting lives at risk, says German minister — Germany's interior minister has warned Brussels it risks putting lives at risk with a dogmatic approach to Brexit that would hamper reaching an “unlimited” security deal with Britain. — The letter from Horst Seehofer …
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Jillian Jorgensen / New York Daily News:
EXCLUSIVE: City nixes property tax break for Trump's NYC apartment … New York City has nixed a $48,000 tax break President Trump was set to receive on his Trump Tower condo following inquiries from the Daily News about whether he is still eligible for the savings.
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