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8:15 AM ET, July 6, 2018

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New York Times:
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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The Daily Beast:
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.
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 …
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 …
Discussion: CBS News, Roll Call and Power Line
Wall Street Journal:   Pruitt Drowns in the Swamp
Washington Post:
Move to omit controversial cardinal's name from Pruitt's schedule prompted protests
Scott Pruitt / Fox News:
Scott Pruitt's full resignation letter to President Trump
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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Associated Press:
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.
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
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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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.
Discussion: The Week
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Julia Ainsley / NBC News:
U.S. has nearly 3,000 separated migrant kids, will use DNA to find parents
Discussion: AOL, The Week and MSNBC
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.
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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Yahoo:   Trade Wars: Trump loads decisive volley against China
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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Carl Hulse / New York Times:   Political Polarization Takes Hold of the Supreme Court
Washington Post:
Schumer urges Trump to tap Merrick Garland for Supreme Court
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
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.
Discussion: New Republic
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Fred Imbert / CNBC:   Private payrolls miss expectations as companies can't find enough people to hire
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 …
Discussion: Axios
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David A. Fahrenthold / Washington Post:   Trump's Mar-a-Lago Club in Florida seeks to hire 40 foreign workers
Claire Cain Miller / New York Times:
Americans Are Having Fewer Babies.  They Told Us Why.  —  Women have more options, for one.  But a new poll also shows that financial insecurity is altering a generation's choices.  —  Americans are having fewer babies.  At first, researchers thought the declining fertility rate …
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 …
Brian Slodysko / Associated Press:
Indiana governor, legislative leaders call for AG to resign  —  INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb and the two GOP Statehouse leaders on Thursday called for Republican Attorney General Curtis Hill to resign amid what they called credible claims that Hill drunkenly groped four women …
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.
Discussion: Raw Story
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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Annie Snider / Politico:
Sources: EPA blocks warnings on cancer-causing chemical
Washington Post:
As tariffs near, Trump's business empire retains ties to China
Discussion: New York Times, CNBC and Daily Kos
Politico:
EU considers eliminating car tariffs to avoid trade war
Discussion: ABC News
Brittany De Lea / Fox Business:
Germany willing to cut tariffs on US cars, lifting automakers' shares
John Myers / Los Angeles Times:
Federal judge denies Trump administration effort to block California's ‘sanctuary’ law
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Spencer Ackerman / The Daily Beast:
Trump Ready to Turn Away Another 20,000 Refugees
Jacqueline Thomsen / The Hill:
Trump: I would offer Warren $1M to prove her Native American heritage
Drew Musto / The Cornell Daily Sun:
19 Cornell Law Professors: Dismiss Title IX Complaint Against Graduate Student and Give Him His Ph.D.
Discussion: Breitbart and The College Fix
Michael Neibauer / Washington, D.C. Business Journal:
Smithsonian planning for permanent security checkpoints at the National Zoo
Discussion: DCist
 

 
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