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Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Trump Narrows Supreme Court Field as Advice Pours In — Signaling he has not yet settled on his pick for the Supreme Court, President Trump on Monday morning worked the phones primarily seeking input about two judges who are apparently the finalists, Brett Kavanaugh and Thomas Hardiman, people familiar with the discussions said.
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Trump's delusions are about to blow up in his own voters' faces — THE MORNING PLUM: — With the exception of the big, beautiful wall that is already being built on the southern border (in President Trump's mind, anyway), the issue that taps most directly into the most visceral strains …
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Ezra Klein / Vox:
The Supreme Court vs. democracy — Even those most invested in the Court's grandeur are finding it hard to defend its reality. — Tonight, at 9 pm Eastern, President Donald Trump will announce his pick to replace Justice Anthony Kennedy on the Supreme Court.
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Matthew Nussbaum / Politico:
Trump said to have reached final decision on Supreme Court nominee — President Donald Trump has reached a final decision on who he will nominate to the Supreme Court, two sources familiar with the matter said on Monday, just hours before the president plans to do a prime-time reveal from the White House.
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Axios, Law & Crime, One America News Network, Power Line, Splinter, New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Washington Post
Michael Graham / CBS News:
Commentary: Don't destroy the Supreme Court to save it from Trump
Commentary: Don't destroy the Supreme Court to save it from Trump
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Washington Examiner, CBS New York and Bustle
Rick Klein / ABC News:
The Note: President Trump's instincts put to the test with SCOTUS pick, NATO summit
The Note: President Trump's instincts put to the test with SCOTUS pick, NATO summit
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Washington Post:
‘Viciousness’: Trump aides endure public fury toward president's policies — Just after arriving in Washington to work for President Trump, Kellyanne Conway found herself in a downtown supermarket, where a man rushing by with his shopping cart sneered, “You ought to be ashamed of yourself!
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BuzzFeed:
Pregnant Women Say They Are Being Mistreated In Immigration Detention, Despite The Administration's Claims — Pregnant women in immigration detention under the Trump administration say they have been denied medical care, shackled around the stomach, and abused. — Reporting From Washington, DC
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Hill Reporter and Raw Story
BBC:
Boris Johnson quits to add to pressure on May over Brexit — Boris Johnson has resigned as Foreign Secretary amid a growing political crisis over the UK's Brexit strategy. — He is the second senior cabinet minister to quit within hours following Brexit Secretary David Davis's exit.
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Christie Smythe / Bloomberg:
Trump's Personal Driver for 25 Years Sues for Unpaid Overtime — Noel Cintron says he's owed 3,300 hours in back pay for years — Wage bump in 2010 came with a catch, loss of health insurance — Donald Trump's personal driver for more than 25 years says the billionaire real estate developer …
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Victoria Bekiempis / New York Daily News:
President Trump stiffed longtime personal driver on thousand of hours of overtime, lawsuit alleges
President Trump stiffed longtime personal driver on thousand of hours of overtime, lawsuit alleges
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Lloyd Grove / The Daily Beast:
New York Times Executive Editor Dean Baquet: Yes, We Did Too Many Alan Dershowitz Stories … Even publicity-savvy, Alan Dershowitz is astonished at the flood-the-zone coverage that The New York Times has been devoting to his social sufferings on Martha's Vineyard.
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Salon, Hullabaloo, Washington Times and New York Times
Jane Coaston / Vox:
Nazis and white supremacists are running as Republicans across the country. The GOP is terrified. — The racist candidates are expected to lose, but they could drag their party down with them. — In at least five state and national races across the country, the Republican Party is dealing with an uncomfortable problem.
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Aris Folley / The Hill:
GOP lawmaker rejects racism charge: ‘My son is named after a black guy’
GOP lawmaker rejects racism charge: ‘My son is named after a black guy’
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The Daily Caller and Raw Story
Andrew Prokop / Vox:
Why does Michael Cohen keep publicly hinting that he'll flip on Trump? — There have been some reports that Cohen wants Trump to pay his legal fees. — Michael Cohen really, really wants everyone to know that he's willing to flip on President Donald Trump.
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Dara Lind / Vox:
Trump's about to miss a court-ordered deadline to reunite young immigrant kids with their parents — But in a twist, the ACLU is working with the government to try to reunify families as quickly as possible. — The federal government is definitely not going to meet a court-imposed July 10 deadline …
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BuzzFeed:
Some Members Of Trump's Exclusive Clubs Appear To Have Been Invited To An Air Force One Tour — The invitations would raise more questions about the overlap between Trump's administration and his family's private businesses. — Reporting From Washington, DC
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Vox, Mediaite, Daily Kos, Shareblue Media and ThinkProgress
Tim Dickinson / Rolling Stone:
Nancy Pelosi: 'They Come After Me Because I'm Effective' — The House Minority Leader on the midterms, impeachment, her own party, sexism and the sexist-in-chief — As the countdown to November commences, with Democrats desperate for a moonshot, Nancy Pelosi sits atop a three-stage rocket, full of possibility and danger.
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Townhall, Breitbart, Mediaite, Washington Free Beacon and The Daily Caller
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Will Trump Be Meeting With His Counterpart — Or His Handler? — On June 14, 2016, the Washington Post reported that Russian hackers had broken into the Democratic National Committee's files and gained access to its research on Donald Trump. A political world already numbed by Trump's astonishing rise barely took notice.
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Jay Michaelson / The Daily Beast:
The Secrets of Leonard Leo, the Man Behind Trump's Supreme Court Pick … When President Donald Trump nominates a justice to the Supreme Court on Monday night, he will be carrying out the agenda of a small, secretive network of extremely conservative Catholic activists already responsible …
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Daily Wire and New Republic
Rachel Frazin / The Daily Beast:
Journalist Held by ICE Speaks: ‘Without a Doubt’ I Was Targeted for My Work … What started out as a “just another day” in Memphis-based journalist Manuel Duran's life ended in his arrest by local police and transfer to Immigration and Customs Enforcement. — The arrest, Duran claims …
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Adiel Kaplan / miamiherald:
Miami grandma targeted as U.S. takes aim at naturalized immigrants with prior offenses — The United States government has long reserved its power to revoke citizenship for the rarest of cases, going after the likes of war criminals, child rapists and terrorist funders. — Norma Borgono is none of those.
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Law & Crime
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Sasse tempts Trump's wrath by refusing to bow — The Republican senator and persistent Trump critic stokes speculation about his intentions with a soon-to-publish book and new nonprofit. — Ben Sasse has so far been spared the public floggings that Donald Trump inflicted …
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Splinter
Antonio García Martínez / Wired:
How Silicon Valley Fuels an Informal Caste System — CALIFORNIA IS THE future of the United States, goes the oft-cited cliché. What the US is doing now, Europe will be doing in five years, goes another. Given those truthy maxims, let's examine the socioeconomics of the “City by the Bay” as a harbinger of what's to come.
Matthew Dessem / Slate:
Michelle Wolf Gets Patriotic For a Red, White, and Blue Salute to Abortion — With the country more polarized than ever, it's been hard for Americans to find common ground this Fourth of July. As columnist Megan McArdle recently argued in the Washington Post, to find our way back, we'll need …
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Nomaan Merchant / Associated Press:
AP Exclusive: How an ordinary ICE raid left behind a crisis — COVINGTON, Ky. (AP) — It had taken a decade for Brandon Tomas Tomas to establish a life in America: a wife, a steady job and five American-born children. It took 20 seconds for that life to be taken away.
Laura Pitel / Financial Times:
Erdogan names son-in-law to lead Turkey's finance ministry — Recep Tayyip Erdogan appointed his own son-in-law to head Turkey's powerful new treasury and finance ministry as he unveiled a cabinet dominated by ultra-loyalists. — The choice of Berat Albayrak, who married the president's daughter in 2004 …
Nacha Cattan / Bloomberg:
Mexico's Next President Plans His Own Border Police Force — Lopez Obrador's security chief Durazo to create border force — Humanitarian, development program to be big part of policy — After months of Donald Trump's controversial clampdown on immigration, Mexico's President …
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National Review and The Daily Caller
Karol Markowicz / New York Post:
San Francisco's crisis looks like New York's future — “A major medical association is pulling its annual convention out of the city — saying its members no longer feel safe,” reports the San Francisco Chronicle. It's a loss of approximately $40 million dollars for the city and a warning …
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Instapundit and Breitbart
Mary Papenfuss / HuffPost:
Ivanka Trump's Chinese-Made Products Conveniently Spared From Dad's Tariffs — The first daughter doesn't appear to believe in “made in America.” — Donald Trump's tariffs on Chinese goods won't touch Ivanka Trump's foreign-made products for her fashion line.
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Successful Farming, Susan Wright on the Right, Bustle, AOL and The Root
Ben Schreckinger / Politico:
Beto-mania Sweeps Texas — Ted Cruz's long-shot challenger is drawing riotous crowds. Is it enough? — FORT WORTH, Texas — Beto O'Rourke is running to replace Ted Cruz. Literally. Sweat pours off his lean, 6' 4"-frame as the El Paso Democrat jogs along the southern bank …
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BostonGlobe.com:
Boston weighs giving legal, non-US citizens voting rights — BOSTON — Non-US citizens living in the country legally may one day be allowed to vote in Boston elections. — The City Council is holding a hearing Tuesday on the idea at the request of Council President Andrea Campbell.
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CNN:
Former coaches come out in support of Jim Jordan amid OSU wrestling sex abuse allegations — Columbus, Ohio (CNN)Former Ohio State University wrestling coaches showed their support for fellow former coach Jim Jordan Monday, saying they believe his claims that he was not aware of sexual abuse allegations against a former team doctor.
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CBS News:
Thai cave rescue: Four more boys pulled from flooded cave — live updates — Four more members of a youth soccer team were pulled from a flooded cave in a second round of rescue operations in Thailand on Monday. The 12 boys and their coach were trapped in the cave for two weeks.
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