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Washington Post:
Trump upends NATO summit, demanding immediate spending increases or he will ‘do his own thing’  —  BRUSSELS — President Trump upended the NATO summit here Thursday by calling an emergency meeting of leaders and threatening that if all member countries do not immediately increase …
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Politico:
Trump threatens to pull out of NATO  —  U.S. President Donald Trump threatened on Thursday to break with NATO and conduct American security unilaterally — if allies do not rapidly meet higher military spending targets, NATO officials and diplomats said.  —  Officials inside the room …
Fox News:
Trump dubs himself ‘stable genius,’ calls NATO summit a success  —  President Trump pronounced the NATO summit a success and himself a “stable genius” in a freewheeling press conference that followed a sometimes tense meeting of the western alliance.  —  Trump spoke to international reporters …
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Trump's huge self-contradiction on Russia at NATO  —  President Trump is a man who contains multitudes, and sometimes those multitudes seem to all come out at once.  —  On Thursday, it happened with the whole Western world watching.  —  During his closing news conference at a NATO summit in Brussels, Trump was all over the place.
Discussion: Axios, CNBC and Washington Press
Rebecca Tan / Washington Post:
When Trump attacked Germany in Brussels, his aides pursed their lips and glanced away  —  President Trump kicked off his trip to Europe with a biting critique of the United States' longtime allies, declaring at a breakfast meeting that Germany “is captive to Russia.”
New York Times:
As President Trump Bashes NATO, Republicans Are Largely Silent
Discussion: The Guardian, Fox News and ABC News
Seung Min Kim / Washington Post:
Trump says he will raise election meddling with Putin at summit
Discussion: Hot Air, ABC News and MSNBC
Sam Meredith / CNBC:   Trump says NATO allies have agreed to increase their defense spending after crisis meeting
Washington Post:
Trump is poisoning NATO. Why?
Bloomberg:
Macron and Merkel Play Down Trump's Spending Claims: NATO Update
Discussion: twitchy.com and BloombergQuint
Gregory Korte / USA Today:
Power breakfast: How Trump lambasted Germany over eggs and fruit salad
Discussion: Mother Jones and Joe.My.God.
Tom McTague / Politico:
Why Trump has few friends in Europe
Amy Brittain / Washington Post:
Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh piled up credit card debt by purchasing Nationals tickets, White House says  —  Supreme Court nominee Brett M. Kavanaugh incurred tens of thousands of dollars of credit card debt buying baseball tickets over the past decade and at times reported liabilities …
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Kevin Daley / The Daily Caller:
What Kavanaugh Was Secretly Caught Doing Hours After Trump's Nomination Will Silence The Critics  —  President Donald Trump nominated Judge Brett Kavanaugh for the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday night.  —  His nomination has set off a generational fight over the future of the high court.
Megan Brenan / Gallup:
Nearly Two-Thirds of Americans Want Roe v. Wade to Stand  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — As the U.S. Senate prepares to hold confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, the public is strongly opposed to any attempts to overturn Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 ruling that made abortion legal nationwide.
Discussion: Political Wire
David G. Savage / Los Angeles Times:
Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh lauded late Chief Justice Rehnquist for dissenting in Roe vs. Wade and supporting school prayer … Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh, President Trump's Supreme Court nominee, gave a revealing speech last fall in which he lauded former Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist …
Discussion: The Week
Hailey Fuchs / Yale Daily News:
A sports junkie who ate pasta with ketchup: Law school friends reflect on Kavanaugh's time at YLS
Katie Benner / New York Times:
Rosenstein Asks Prosecutors to Help With Kavanaugh Papers in Unusual Request
David Rutz / Washington Free Beacon:
MSNBC's Katy Tur: Is It ‘Appropriate’ to Take Originalist View of Constitution Since Americans Are More Progressive Now?
Discussion: Hot Air
CNN:
Stormy Daniels arrested at Ohio strip club.  Her attorney calls it a setup.  —  (CNN)Adult film actress Stormy Daniels was arrested early Thursday at an Ohio strip club for allegedly touching patrons on stage in violation of state law.  —  Daniels, who gained notoriety …
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CBS News:
Stormy Daniels arrested while performing at Ohio strip club  —  Porn actress Stormy Daniels was arrested at an Ohio strip club and is accused of letting patrons touch her in violation of a state law, her attorney said early Thursday.  While Daniels was performing Wednesday night at Sirens …
Everett Rosenfeld / CNBC:
Stormy Daniels arrested in Ohio while performing, her attorney says  —  Stormy Daniels, the adult film actress who has made headlines for an alleged affair with Donald Trump, was arrested in Columbus, Ohio, according to her attorney.  —  Michael Avenatti, who has represented Daniels …
Bloomberg:
North Koreans Are No Show at U.S. War Dead Talks, Yonhap Reports  — American officials kept waiting on militarized border  — Latest sign of tension after Pompeo's visit last weekend  —  North Korean officials didn't show up for a planned meeting with U.S. counterparts to discuss returning …
Discussion: Politico
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Adam Taylor / Washington Post:
North Korean officials no-show for meeting about U.S. troop remains
Discussion: Task & Purpose
Committee on the Judiciary:
Cummings and Nadler Call for Release of Full Strzok Transcript  —  Hundreds of GOP Questions Show Extensive Interference with Mueller Investigation  —  Washington, D.C. (July 11, 2018)—Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Ranking Member of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform …
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Eric Tucker / Associated Press:
FBI agent: My work has never been tainted by political bias
Discussion: Roll Call and Raw Story
Benjamin Siegel / ABC News:
FBI agent Peter Strzok to publicly testify on Capitol Hill about anti-Trump texts
Discussion: Politico, Wall Street Journal and CNN
Tom Burgis / Financial Times:
Tower of secrets: the Russian money behind a Donald Trump skyscraper  —  One October day in 2007, a celebrity real estate developer in a greatcoat and powder-blue tie alighted from a stretch limousine in Toronto's financial district.  Before a bank of photographers, he took hold of a golden shovel.
Discussion: Raw Story
Mike Allen / Axios:
Scoop: Trump wants tough new Air Force One paint job  —  President Trump wants to update the paint job on the next version of Air Force One, ditching the iconic robin's-egg blue (which he calls a “Jackie Kennedy color") for a bolder, “more American” look.  —  The big picture …
Discussion: CNN, Hullabaloo, Joe.My.God. and The Week
Thomas Wright / Politico:
Trump Backed Brexit.  Then He Used It As Leverage.  —  Under this president, the ‘special relationship’ isn't so special anymore.  —  When President Trump visits the United Kingdom on Friday, he will find the special relationship in its worst shape since the Suez Crisis of 1956.
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David Lammy / TIME:
I'm a British Lawmaker. Here's Why I'm Protesting Trump's Visit to the U.K.
Discussion: Lawfare
Libby Brooks / The Guardian:
Petition asks for Trump Baby balloon to be flown over Scottish golf course
Discussion: Politico and New York Times
Tom McCarthy / The Guardian:
Sean Spicer contradicts Trump's Manafort claims in new book  —  Exclusive: Trump's former press secretary describes Manafort as impactful and describes the president as ‘a unicorn, riding a unicorn over a rainbow’  —  Dreamily envisioning Donald Trump as “a unicorn, riding a unicorn over a rainbow” …
Discussion: Raw Story
Lisa W. Foderaro / New York Times:
Ocasio-Cortez Highlights How Third-Party Quirks Can Muddle Elections  —  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's political star has risen so high, she can win a primary election without trying — or apparently even knowing.  —  Last month, Ms. Ocasio-Cortez, 28, unleashed a political tsunami of sorts …
Matthew Nussbaum / Politico:
Trump's top Hill aide leaving White House amid Supreme Court battle  —  Marc Short, Trump's director of legislative affairs, is leaving later this month to join a D.C. consulting firm and teach at UVA.  —  President Donald Trump's legislative affairs director is heading for the exits …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Mediaite
Tal Kopan / CNN:
Trump administration to turn away far more asylum seekers at the border under new guidance  —  Washington (CNN)The Trump administration is implementing a new asylum policy at the border that will result in potentially thousands of asylum seekers being turned away before they can plead their case in court.
Discussion: FOX40
David Beard / Poynter:
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Emily Guskin / Washington Post:
Trump is battling Mueller investigation to a draw in court of public opinion
Discussion: Political Wire
Rick Noack / Washington Post:
As Trump rattles NATO, 42 percent of Germans now want U.S. troops out of the country
Discussion: Politico
Haley Byrd / Weekly Standard:
What Comes Next For The Effort to Curb Trump's Trade Powers?
Discussion: The Week
Fredrick Kunkle / Washington Post:
TSA agents cannot be sued over allegations of abuse, federal court rules
Discussion: Axios and TheBlaze
Media Matters for America:
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Max Boot / Washington Post:
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 Earlier Items: 
Axios:
Trump again calls himself “a very stable genius”
Discussion: Political Wire
Grant Stern / The Dworkin Report:
Pre-med student just exposed Trump's lice-infested ICE detention camps are far worse than we feared
Nate Madden / Conservative Review:
Jordan accuser emailed a widow a picture of her husband's killer over a business disagreement
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Caleb Howe / Mediaite:
Shepard Smith Torches Trump Over NATO Remarks: Could ‘Turn Back the Global Clock Centuries’
Jeremy Barr / Hollywood Reporter:
After Backlash, Fox News' Jeanine Pirro Doesn't Appear on Bill O'Reilly's Show
BuzzFeed:
Meet The Man — And Propaganda Machine — Behind Trump's Latest Pardon
Discussion: Mediaite and Trent Loos
Matt Steecker / Press & Sun-Bulletin:
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