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11:40 AM ET, July 12, 2018

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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 …
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Trump leaves European allies spinning after NATO summit  —  BRUSSELS — President Trump left allies in a state of irritation, confusion and — for some, relief — after a NATO summit during which I'm told he was privately charming in some of his one-on-ones but bombastic and threatening in larger meetings.
Discussion: Washington Post, Raw Story and The Week
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Trump creates a big, self-contradictory spectacle at NATO
Discussion: CNBC and Washington Press
Axios:
Trump again calls himself “a very stable genius”
Discussion: Political Wire
Rebecca Tan / Washington Post:
When Trump attacked Germany in Brussels, his aides pursed their lips and glanced away
Bloomberg:
Macron and Merkel Play Down Trump's Spending Claims: NATO Update
Discussion: BloombergQuint and twitchy.com
New York Times:
As President Trump Bashes NATO, Republicans Are Largely Silent
Discussion: The Guardian, TheBlaze and ABC News
Gregory Korte / USA Today:
Power breakfast: How Trump lambasted Germany over eggs and fruit salad
Discussion: Mother Jones
Washington Post:
Trump is poisoning NATO. Why?
Sam Meredith / CNBC:   Trump says NATO allies have agreed to increase their defense spending after crisis meeting
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.
Hailey Fuchs / Yale Daily News:
A sports junkie who ate pasta with ketchup: Law school friends reflect on Kavanaugh's time at YLS  —  In the days following the nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh '87 LAW '90 to the U.S. Supreme Court, Democrats have condemned President Donald Trump's pick as an enemy of the left.
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
Daniel Henninger / Wall Street Journal:   Kavanaugh and the Culture Wars
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
Nicholas Fandos / New York Times:
F.B.I. Agent at Center of Russia Probe Turns Tables on G.O.P.  —  WASHINGTON — The embattled F.B.I. agent who oversaw the opening of the Russia investigation mounted an aggressive personal defense on Thursday, rejecting accusations that he let his private political views bias his official actions …
Discussion: Political Wire
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Eric Tucker / Associated Press:
FBI agent: My work has never been tainted by political bias  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — An FBI agent whose anti-Trump text messages fueled suspicions of partisan bias will tell lawmakers Thursday that his work has never been tainted by politics and that the intense scrutiny he is facing represents …
Discussion: Roll Call and Raw Story
Committee on the Judiciary:   Cummings and Nadler Call for Release of Full Strzok Transcript
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 …
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 and The Week
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Adam Taylor / Washington Post:
North Korean officials no-show for meeting about U.S. troop remains
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 …
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 …
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
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: AOL and Raw Story
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 …
Jay Reeves / Associated Press:
APNewsBreak: Government reopens probe of Emmett Till slaying  —  BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — The federal government has reopened its investigation into the slaying of Emmett Till, the black teenager whose brutal killing in Mississippi shocked the world and helped inspire the civil rights movement more than 60 years ago.
Discussion: The Root, Common Dreams and Raw Story
Dan Diamond / Politico:
Dozens of ‘eligible’ young migrant kids reunited, but many more still separated  —  The Trump administration Thursday said that all eligible migrant children under age 5 who were separated from their parents at the border were reunited with their families, but dozens more young kids remain separated …
Brad Heath / USA Today:
Baltimore police stopped noticing crime after Freddie Gray's death.  A wave of killings followed.  —  BALTIMORE - Just before a wave of violence turned Baltimore into the nation's deadliest big city, a curious thing happened to its police force: officers suddenly seemed to stop noticing crime.
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: KTLA
 
 
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