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Adam K. Raymond / New York Magazine:
Manafort Kept in Solitary 23 Hours a Day to ‘Guarantee His Safety,’ Lawyer Says — Paul Manafort is being kept in solitary confinement in a Virginia jail in order to “guarantee his safety,” his lawyer said in court documents filed this week. “He is locked in his cell for at least 23 hours per day …
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Washington Post:
Paul Manafort wants trial moved to Roanoke, says Northern Virginia too liberal — Attorneys for Paul Manafort asked a federal judge to move his fast-approaching criminal bank and tax fraud trial from Alexandria to Roanoke, Va., saying a more Republican-friendly jury would decide his guilt or innocence more fairly.
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Katelyn Polantz / CNN:
Paul Manafort doesn't want to be seen in public until his trial — WASHINGTON, DC - JUNE 15: Former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort arrives at the E. Barrett Prettyman U.S. Courthouse for a hearing on June 15, 2018 in Washington, DC. Today a federal judge could rule on whether …
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Ronn Blitzer / Law & Crime:
Why the Heck is Paul Manafort Being Kept in Solitary Confinement? — Paul Manafort has been behind bars ever since a federal judge in Washington, D.C. revoked his pre-trial release for violating his bail conditions as he faces money laundering charges. According to a new court filing …
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New York Times:
Shifting Strategy, Trump's Lawyers Set New Conditions for Mueller Interview — WASHINGTON — President Trump's lawyers set new conditions on Friday on an interview with the special counsel and said that the chances that the president would be voluntarily questioned were growing increasingly unlikely.
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Bloomberg:
Pruitt Was Told to Resign in Call From White House, Sources Say — EPA chief's tenure was marred by alleged ethical missteps — Call to quit came from Trump Chief of Staff John Kelly — Scott Pruitt resigned as EPA chief Thursday after White House Chief of Staff John Kelly delivered …
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Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
John Kelly, Scott Pruitt, and the Epic Turnover of the Trump Administration
Erin Dunne / Washington Examiner:
Why the Left will hate Andrew Wheeler at EPA even more than Scott Pruitt
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Washington Post:
Ahead of NATO and Putin summits, Trump's unorthodox diplomacy rattles allies — President Trump will land in Europe next week amid fears that he will blow up a key summit focused on Europe's defense and then offer concessions to NATO's main adversary in Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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Matthew Rozsa / Raw Story:
A pillar of the American right predicts dire and catastrophic consequences for the Trump-Putin summit — Conservative columnist George F. Will, who has been a pillar of the American right for decades, has just predicted that President Donald Trump's upcoming meeting with Russian dictator Vladimir Putin …
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Alexander Smith / NBC News:
The secretary of state neither confirmed nor denied a report that an Elton John CD was among …
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Caleb Ecarma / Mediaite:
Bill Shine's Wife Darla Complained She Couldn't Use N-Word and Spread Conspiracy Theories About ‘Blacks’ — The wife of Bill Shine — former Fox News co-president who just joined the Trump administration as White House communications chief — has a lengthy history of defending racists …
Wall Street Journal:
Chinese Tariffs Hit Trump Counties Harder — Beijing's retaliation would be felt by U.S. soybean farmers, auto makers and oil producers — The fallout from President Donald Trump's tariffs and China's countertariffs—which formally went into effect on Friday—will have the greatest impact …
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BBC:
China and Russia hit back at Trump tariffs
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Tom Ley / Splinter:
Inspiring: A Small Number of Jackasses Put Minimal Effort Into Remembering Some Onion Inc. Blogs — The Daily Beast reported today that Univision, the parent company of both the Gizmodo Media Group and Onion Inc., is planning to layoff a significant number of Onion Inc. employees in the coming days.
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Wall Street Journal:
Ex-Playmate Files Suit Against GOP Donor Elliott Broidy Over Hush-Money Deal — Shera Bechard sues Republican fundraiser after he said breach of nondisclosure agreement over their affair meant he would no longer pay — A former Playboy centerfold model has sued a prominent Republican fundraiser …
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Eric Levitz / New York Magazine:
New Study Confirms That American Workers Are Getting Ripped Off — America's unemployment rate is hovering near half-century lows. There are now more job openings than unemployed workers in the United States for the first time since the government began tracking that ratio.
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Nathaniel Meyersohn / CNNMoney:
Another strong jobs report. Here's why unemployment jumped
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Keith L. Alexander / Washington Post:
Federal prosecutors abruptly dismiss all remaining Inauguration Day rioting cases — District prosecutors on Friday dismissed rioting charges against all remaining defendants arrested after destructive Inauguration Day protests, bringing to a close a controversial case which led to allegations of government overreach.
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Zoe Tillman / BuzzFeed:
The Government Is Dropping All Charges In The Remaining Inauguration Day Prosecutions
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Politico:
‘A cesspool of deviancy’: New claims of voyeurism test Jordan denials — A half-dozen former wrestlers at Ohio State, where GOP Rep. Jim Jordan once coached, said they were regularly harassed by men in their training facility. — New allegations in the Ohio State University sexual abuse scandal …
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Nathan McDermott / CNN:
Democrat running to replace Paul Ryan in Wisconsin has history of arrests, including driving under the influence — (CNN)A Democrat from Wisconsin running to replace House Speaker Paul Ryan in Congress was arrested and pleaded guilty to driving while intoxicated in 1998, in addition to eight other arrests …
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The Daily Caller, FOX6Now.com, Washington Free Beacon and NRCC
New York Times:
In Making His Second Supreme Court Pick, Trump Has a Model: His First — WASHINGTON — All four of President Trump's candidates for the Supreme Court are white, middle-aged, federal appeals court judges with reliably conservative legal records. — One of them, Brett M. Kavanaugh …
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Marc A. Thiessen / Washington Post:
Democrats have only themselves to blame for their judicial predicament
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Chris Cillizza / CNN:
The 11 most dangerous things Donald Trump said in his Montana speech — (CNN)On Thursday night, President Donald Trump flew to Montana to headline a rally for Matt Rosendale, the Republican nominee against Sen. Jon Tester (D) this November. Trump's speech was, like most of his addresses …
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Julia Ainsley / NBC News:
Trump admin asks for more time to reunite kids and parents separated at border — The Justice Department asked a federal judge Friday to extend the court-ordered deadlines for reuniting nearly 3,000 migrant children with their parents. — WASHINGTON — The Justice Department asked …
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Peter Walker / The Guardian:
Donald Trump to almost entirely avoid London during UK visit — Meetings with Theresa May and the Queen to be held away from protests in capital — Donald Trump will almost entirely avoid London during his four-day visit to the UK next week, Downing Street has said, unveiling an itinerary likely …
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Kenneth Lovett / New York Daily News:
Cuomo not the only NY Democrat keeping Trump money … ALBANY — Gov. Cuomo is not the only critic of President Trump in New York who is in no hurry to return previous campaign donations from him. — Trump, when he was just a famous real estate developer, donated to a bevy of New York Democrats …
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Matthew Continetti / Washington Free Beacon:
Who Killed the Center-Left? — The victory of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez …
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John Solomon / The Hill:
Memos detail FBI's ‘Hurry the F up pressure’ to probe Trump campaign — Multiple reviews of whether FBI agents' political bias affected the Russia-Trump collusion case remain in their infancy, but investigators already have unearthed troubling internal communications long withheld from public view.
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The Daily Caller, Conservative News Today, Daily Wire and The Gateway Pundit
Julia Jacobs / New York Times:
Holocaust Denier in California Congressional Race Leaves State G.O.P. Scrambling — A Republican congressional candidate in a reliably blue California district managed to capture nearly a quarter of votes cast in the state's open primary last month — just after the state Republican Party caught wind …
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Law & Crime, The Daily Beast and Shareblue Media
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
Wisconsin Supreme Court sides with Marquette professor John McAdams in free speech case, orders university to reinstate him — The Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled Friday that embattled Marquette University political science professor John McAdams was improperly suspended after he publicly criticized …
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Joel Gehrke / Washington Examiner:
Ron Johnson: Russian lawmakers 'don't understand why' election interference is a big deal — Russian lawmakers “don't understand why” the 2016 cyberattacks against the Democratic Party sparked an array of U.S. sanctions, a senior Republican lawmaker said after meetings in Moscow.
Washington Post:
Twitter suspended more than 70 million accounts in May and June, and the pace has continued in July — SAN FRANCISCO - Twitter has sharply escalated its battle against fake and suspicious accounts, suspending more than one million accounts a day in recent months, a major shift to lessen …
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David Wasserman / The Cook Political Report:
VA-07: Brat Moves from Lean Republican to Toss Up — In 2014, economics professor Dave Brat turned the political world upside-down when he upset House Majority Leader Eric Cantor in the GOP primary by taking a hard line on illegal immigration. But four years later, he's at risk of getting swept …
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