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David Ignatius / Washington Post:
Putin must wonder what else America knows about Russia — When Russian President Vladimir Putin sits down at the table in Helsinki on Monday, he will surely have in the back of his mind some intelligence worries that have nothing to do with the U.S. president seated across from him.
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Charles M. Blow / New York Times:
Trump, Treasonous Traitor — The president fails to protect the country from an ongoing attack. — Put aside whatever suspicions you may have about whether Donald Trump will be directly implicated in the Russian investigation. — Trump is right now, before our eyes and those of the world …
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Bustle
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Scoop: The time Putin actually enraged Trump — Earlier this year in the thick of his election campaign, Vladimir Putin released a propaganda video promoting Russia's “invincible” new generation of nuclear weapons. — Why it matters: One scene in particular caught President Trump's attention …
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Politico, One America News Network, CNN and Breitbart
CBS News:
“I think the European Union is a foe,” Trump says ahead of Putin meeting in Helsinki
“I think the European Union is a foe,” Trump says ahead of Putin meeting in Helsinki
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Politico, Axios, Informed Comment, Home Page Rotator, IJR, Vox, Raw Story, HuffPost, ThinkProgress, Outside the Beltway, Daily Kos, New York Times, The Week, AOL, ABC News, NPR and Joe.My.God.
New York Times:
Trump, on Eve of Putin Meeting, Calls E.U. a Trade ‘Foe’
Trump, on Eve of Putin Meeting, Calls E.U. a Trade ‘Foe’
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ABC News, Wall Street Journal, The Hill, The Gateway Pundit, HeraldScotland, Bustle and Vox
Quinn Scanlan / ABC News:
‘I find it hard to believe’ Putin didn't know about Russian interference in U.S. election …
‘I find it hard to believe’ Putin didn't know about Russian interference in U.S. election …
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The Daily Beast, Politico, Gizmodo, The Hill, CBS News, Hot Air, Mother Jones, Breitbart, Axios, ThinkProgress and The Week
Quint Forgey / Politico:
Rand Paul on Russian election meddling: ‘We all do it’
Rand Paul on Russian election meddling: ‘We all do it’
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POLITICUSUSA, ThinkProgress, Breitbart, CNN, The Hill and The Week
New York Times:
U.K. Poisoning Inquiry Turns to Russian Agency in Mueller Indictments — LONDON — The same Russian military intelligence service now accused of disrupting the 2016 presidential election in America may also be responsible for the nerve agent attack in Britain against a former Russian spy …
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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Nunes: Mueller indictment tracks House Intel report — In a tweet Sunday, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., a member and former chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, boiled down special counsel Robert Mueller's new Russian election-meddling indictment to one basic lesson …
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Jamie Dupree - AJC and Breitbart
Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed:
The MAGA Trolls Meet Their Match In Sacha Baron Cohen And “Who Is America?” — Sacha Baron Cohen — a consummate troll himself — is a perfect foil to the current political climate of grift and trolling. — While many journalists have risen to the occasion of the Trump era …
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Daniel Fienberg / Hollywood Reporter:
‘Who Is America?’: TV Review — Sacha Baron Cohen's new Showtime comedy is occasionally funny, but it's hard to be outrageous in a world where ideologies that used to be concealed are now proudly public. — Back in 2000, when Da Ali G Show premiered, people still had a modicum of shame.
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Townhall
The Daily Beast:
Russia Hawk Axed From National Security Council Right Before Trump-Putin Summit … Shortly before Donald Trump detonated a NATO summit, shanked the beleaguered British prime minister and prepped for a face-to-face love session with Vladimir Putin, his White House quietly divested itself …
Micaela Marshall / 13abc:
Arrest made in racially charged vandalism on Ogden Ave. — TOLEDO, Ohio (WTVG) - Toledo police arrested Patricia Edelen for spray painting racial slurs on her neighbor's home Friday night. — “She had multiple warrants. She ran from the officers inside her residence.
Ryan Lizza / Esquire:
Vanishing Point — As the GOP increasingly comes to resemble a personality cult, is there any red line—video tapes? DNA evidence? a war with Germany—President Trump could cross and lose party support? “Very doubtful,” say a dozen GOP members of Congress stuck hard behind the MAGA eight ball.
Joe Gamp / Daily Express:
Julian Assange could be EVICTED from Ecuador embassy as he's branded ‘STONE in the shoe’ — WIKILEAKS founder Julian Assange could soon be removed from the Ecuador Embassy in London as the country's new President steps up work to kick him out. — British ministers and foreign office officials …
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Raw Story
New York Times:
$88 Million and Counting: Trump Amasses Huge Head Start for 2020 Campaign — WASHINGTON — President Trump has raised more than $88 million for his re-election campaign over the last year and a half, giving him a dramatic head-start on prospective Democratic challengers in the 2020 race.
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Jennifer Medina / New York Times:
Judge Orders Los Angeles Times to Delete Part of Published Article — LOS ANGELES — A federal judge ordered The Los Angeles Times to remove information from a published article on Saturday, a step that legal experts said was extremely unusual and conflicted with the First Amendment.
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Reason, Los Angeles Times and KTLA, more at Mediagazer »
The Daily Beast:
White House Retaliates Against CNN by Cancelling Interview — The White House cancelled an interview with CNN in retaliation for an interaction between President Trump and a network reporter at a press conference in London. CNN had secured an interview with national security adviser John Bolton …
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USA Today, HuffPost, Contemptor, Daily Wire and Daily Kos, more at Mediagazer »
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Josh Feldman / Mediaite:
Fox News' Howard Kurtz on Trump-CNN Flap: Jim Acosta Was ‘Trying to Hijack the Question’
Fox News' Howard Kurtz on Trump-CNN Flap: Jim Acosta Was ‘Trying to Hijack the Question’
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The Daily Caller and Raw Story
New York Times:
White House Orders Direct Taliban Talks to Jump-Start Afghan Negotiations — KABUL, Afghanistan — The Trump administration has told its top diplomats to seek direct talks with the Taliban, a significant shift in American policy in Afghanistan, done in the hope of jump-starting negotiations to end the 17-year war.
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The Week
Gerald F. Seib / Wall Street Journal:
Inside Israel's Raid to Seize Nuclear Documents in Iran — Agents infiltrated Tehran warehouse, extracted trove including partial warhead designs, officials say — TEL AVIV—Israeli agents covertly extracted documents detailing Iran's nuclear program in a dramatic 6½-hour operation …
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Stephen Dinan / Washington Times:
40% vacancy: Feds release illegal immigrant families instead of filling detention centers — Although the beds were empty, the government was still paying for them — The government pays for thousands of detention beds for illegal immigrant families, but nearly 40 percent of them were sitting unused …
Joe Romm / ThinkProgress:
EXCLUSIVE: Former Fox News reporter warns that Trump team is ‘still colluding’ with the Russians — Former Fox News Channel chief political correspondent Carl Cameron has a warning for America: “The Trump team were colluding with the Russians in 2016 - and they are still colluding.”
Daily Mail:
Newspapers run IDENTICAL letters slamming Trump's SCOTUS pick — The papers included big-market brands like the Dallas Morning News and The Washington Times. They ran carbon-copy letters targeting Judge Brett Kavanaugh, all signed by different people.
Alexandra Arriaga / Chicago Sun Times:
Black woman says CVS manager called police because she had wrong coupon — Camilla Hudson wanted to use a manufacturer's coupon at CVS on North Broadway on Friday night, but a manager who said he'd never seen a coupon like that called the police, she said in a Facebook post.
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Masha Gessen / New Yorker:
World Cup 2018: The Moral Clarity of Pussy Riot's Protest — On Sunday, in the fifty-second minute of the final game of the World Cup, four women dressed in Russian police uniforms charged the field, briefly disrupting the match. They were members of the Russian protest-art group Pussy Riot.
Carole Cadwalladr / The Guardian:
Elizabeth Denham: ‘Data crimes are real crimes’ — With the publication of an interim report on her investigation into the Brexit referendum, the information commissioner has issued a strong statement of intent against the tech giants — Nobody does cool, calm and collected like Elizabeth Denham does cool, calm and collected.
Washington Post:
Widespread unrest erupts in southern Iraq amid acute shortages of water, electricity — BAGHDAD — Widespread unrest is engulfing southern Iraq as Iraqis frustrated by shortages of electricity, water and jobs vent their anger, setting fire to political offices, attacking government infrastructure …
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