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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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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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Noah Feldman / Bloomberg:
Be Smart About Trump's Supreme Court Pick
Be Smart About Trump's Supreme Court Pick
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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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CBS New York, Washington Examiner and Bustle
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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Justin Wise / The Hill:
Bartender cursed at Stephen Miller as he picked up takeout sushi: Washington Post
Bartender cursed at Stephen Miller as he picked up takeout sushi: Washington Post
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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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Law & Crime, Raw Story and Hill Reporter
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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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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David A. Fahrenthold / Washington Post:
Trump's longtime personal driver sues for overtime wages
Trump's longtime personal driver sues for overtime wages
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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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Julie Hirschfeld Davis / New York Times:
Trump Poised to Enter NATO Meeting as Wild Card Among Allies — WASHINGTON — As he heads into this week's North Atlantic Treaty Organization summit meeting, President Trump is widely seen as a wild card among allies who are seeking to show solidarity against Russian threats …
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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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Politico, IJR, Breitbart, Front Page Magazine, Townhall, Mediaite, Washington Free Beacon, The Daily Caller and New York Times
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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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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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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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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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Page testimony not yet finalized, lawyer says — House Republicans say Lisa Page — the former FBI attorney whose anti-Trump text messages have become the centerpiece of President Donald Trump's claims of a “witch hunt” against him — is scheduled to appear Wednesday for a closed-door deposition on Capitol Hill.
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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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National Review, The Daily Signal, Common Dreams, New Republic and Daily Wire
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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Issie Lapowsky / Wired:
YouTube Debuts Plan to Promote and Fund ‘Authoritative’ News — FOLLOWING A YEAR in which YouTube has repeatedly promoted conspiracy theory videos during breaking news events like the shootings in Parkland, Florida, and Las Vegas, on Monday the company announced a slew of new features it hopes …
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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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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.
Mary Papenfuss / HuffPost:
Trump Tariffs Spare Clothing Industry — Including Ivanka's Chinese-Made Products — The first daughter doesn't appear to believe in “made in America.” — President Donald Trump enacted tariffs Friday morning on $34 billion worth of Chinese goods, affecting hundreds of products from boats to medical devices and auto parts.
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Luke Henriques-Gomes / The Guardian:
Scientists discover world's oldest colour - bright pink — Pigments found in 1.1bn-year-old rocks beneath the Sahara desert shed light on ‘major puzzle’ about early life — Scientists have discovered what they say are the world's oldest colours - and they are bright pink.
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Daily Wire
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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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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