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5:40 PM ET, July 8, 2018

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Andrew Jacobs / New York Times:
U.S. Opposition to Breast-Feeding Resolution Stuns World Health Officials  —  A resolution to encourage breast-feeding was expected to be approved quickly and easily by the hundreds of government delegates who gathered this spring in Geneva for the United Nations-affiliated World Health Assembly.
New York Times:
Trump Giving a Fresh Look to Thomas Hardiman for Supreme Court  —  BERKELEY HEIGHTS, N.J. — President Trump is expressing fresh interest in Judge Thomas M. Hardiman, the runner-up for last year's Supreme Court vacancy, as he pushes his decision on a replacement for Justice Anthony M. Kennedy …
Discussion: Breitbart, Law & Crime and twitchy.com
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Cabot Phillips / Campus Reform:
VIDEO: Students hate Trump's SCOTUS pick... before he made it  — This month, Justice Anthony Kennedy announced he would be retiring from the Supreme Court of the United States, giving President Donald Trump an opportunity to nominate a potential replacement.
Bob Egelko / San Francisco Chronicle:   Trump has ‘outsourced’ his Supreme Court picks to this conservative group
Jenna Ellis / Washington Examiner:   When they lose, Democrats just want to change the rules
Catherine Lucey / Yahoo:   Trump still pondering Supreme Court pick as big reveal nears
Philip Elliott / TIME:
Inside Donald Trump's Supreme Court Deliberations
Discussion: Breitbart, Hot Air and TheBlaze
Tim Dodson / Richmond Times-Dispatch:
Richmond bookstore owner says he called police after woman confronted Steve Bannon in his shop  —  A bookstore owner in Richmond said he called the police after a woman confronted Steve Bannon, former White House chief strategist for President Donald Trump, in his shop Saturday.
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Michael Goodwin / New York Post:
Is Hillary Clinton secretly planning to run in 2020?  —  The messages convey a sense of urgency, and are coming with increasing frequency.  They are short, focused reactions to the latest “outrage” committed by President Trump.  —  Some end by asking for money, some urge participation in protests.
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Salena Zito / Washington Examiner:   Will #resistance summer dampen the Democrats' big autumn?
Nick Wadhams / Bloomberg:
Inside Pompeo's Fraught North Korea Trip  — Secretary of state struggled for clarity on visit's schedule  — Regime issued harsh statement after Pompeo left country  —  As U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo touched down in Pyongyang at 10:54 a.m. on Friday he had few details …
Discussion: BloombergQuint
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Bloomberg:
U.S.-North Korea Talks Stumble as Pyongyang Knocks Pompeo Effort
Washington Post:
Pompeo pushes back against North Korea's ‘gangster-like’ criticism
The Guardian:
Thailand cave rescue: four boys taken to hospital; operation to resume later - live  —  First boy emerged at 5:40pm local time, operation chief confirms, as up to 90 divers are involved in getting the children to safety  —  Play Video  —  Mattha Busby (now), Kate Lyons (earlier)
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Louis Nelson / Politico:
Giuliani: Mueller probe ‘most corrupt investigation I have ever seen’
Discussion: CNN
Jack Khoury / Haaretz:
Syria: Israel Behind Attack on Iranian Air Force Base Near Homs  —  Reports say Syrian air defense systems fired at planes, coming in from Jordan, and heading towards the T4 airbase used by Iran  —  Does Iran really want to nuke Israel?  Is Israel stronger than Iran?  A top security expert explains
Washington Post:
Trump is bent on wrecking NATO.  Prepare for catastrophe.  —  U.S. AMBASSADOR to NATO Kay Bailey Hutchison says “the overall theme” of this week's summit meeting in Brussels “is going to be NATO's strength and unity,” which is what it ought to be.  There is considerable good news to celebrate …
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA and Breitbart
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Krishnadev Calamur / The Atlantic:
Trump's Message to NATO
Discussion: RT
Least Dangerous Blog:
Textualism is not Strict Constructionism is not Originalism  —  As President Donald Trump prepares to appoint a second Supreme Court justice, the national dialogue has been saturated with gossip over what judicial philosophy the next nominee might bring to the bench.
Robert Pear / New York Times:
Health Insurers Warn of Market Turmoil as Trump Suspends Billions in Payments  —  WASHINGTON — The Trump administration said Saturday that it was suspending a program that pays billions of dollars to insurers to stabilize health insurance markets under the Affordable Care Act …
Discussion: Joe.My.God., TheBlaze and Reuters
The Guardian:
Revealed: Arron Banks met Russian ambassador 11 times  —  The Leave.EU founder was offered lucrative deals in talks with the envoy  —  Brexit's biggest funder, Arron Banks, met the Russian ambassador at least 11 times in the run-up to the EU referendum and in the two months beyond …
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
A journalist's conscience leads her to reveal her source to the FBI.  Here's why.  —  It's pretty much an inviolable rule of journalism: Protect your sources.  —  Reporters have gone to jail to keep that covenant.  —  But Marcy Wheeler, who writes a well-regarded national security blog …
Jay Weaver / miamiherald:
Fake sultan was scamming a Miami billionaire.  Then he ate pork  —  A Colombian-born man posing as a wealthy Saudi prince traveled the globe swindling millions from investors somehow dazzled by his spiel.  —  When Anthony Gignac set his sights on Miami, he targeted super-rich real estate …
Josh Meyer / Politico:
The secret story of how America lost the drug war with the Taliban  —  A high-stakes plan to indict Afghan drug lords and insurgency leaders on criminal conspiracy charges ran afoul of the Obama team.  Five years later, it remains buried under Trump.  —  As Afghanistan edged ever closer …
 
 
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Kevin McCullough / Townhall:
Tomi Lahren's Six Lies About SCOTUS & the Right To Life
Discussion: twitchy.com, RedState and Hot Air
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Details emerge on Justice Department meeting with reporters on Manafort
Miranda Green / The Hill:
Ex-aide says he'll take credit for Pruitt's downfall
Discussion: The Daily Caller and RedState
Derek Hunter / Townhall:
Liberal Outrage Is All The Rage
Associated Press:
Death toll climbs to 76 as heavy rains hammer southern Japan
New York Times:
Yet Another Book Takes on Impeachment: This Time, the Case Against
Josh Boak / Associated Press:
Trump's economic gamble: Solid job gains vs. risky trade war
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Associated Press:
How the trade war is changing minds in a Senate battleground
Martin Cizmar / Raw Story:
Devin Nunes calling for a ‘task force’ to investigate officials and activists who exposed Russian election meddling
Courier-Journal:
Protesters confront Mitch McConnell over immigration on Bardstown Road
John Ziegler / Mediaite:
Shhhh... Don't Tell the Media but the Bizarre Broidy-Playmate-Trump Saga Is In the Process of Exploding
Washington Post:
Rep. Jim Jordan faces new accusation that he must have known about alleged sexual abuse at Ohio State
Stewart Paterson / Daily Mail:
Leading Putin critic was found strangled to death at his London home on the day he was due …
 

 
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is working on a smart doorbell system with advanced facial recognition that can wirelessly connect and unlock third-party smart locks

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Donald Trump announces that Sriram Krishnan, until recently a general partner at a16z, will serve as senior policy advisor for AI at the White House OSTP

Financial Times:
Sources: Palantir and Anduril are in talks with OpenAI, SpaceX, and more to form a consortium to bid for US defense contracts and plan to announce it in January
 
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