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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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Talking Points Memo
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CBS News:
“I think the European Union is a foe,” Trump says ahead of Putin meeting in Helsinki — Coming off a contentious NATO summit and a trip to the U.K. in which he seemed to undercut the government of America's closest ally, President Trump took aim at another Western institution just days …
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Axios, Raw Story, HuffPost, Home Page Rotator, IJR, Vox, ThinkProgress, Daily Kos, Politico, The Week, AOL and The Guardian
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 …
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, The Hill, CNN, ThinkProgress, The Week and Breitbart
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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Wall Street Journal, Jamie Dupree - AJC, The Hill, Politico, HeraldScotland, The Gateway Pundit 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, The Hill, Politico, Hot Air and Breitbart
CBS News:
Trump on Putin meeting: “I go in with low expectations”
Trump on Putin meeting: “I go in with low expectations”
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RedState, Axios, The Guardian, Gizmodo, Bustle, TheBlaze, ABC News, HuffPost, The Hill, NPR, Politico, Joe.My.God., Washington Post, ThinkProgress, Law & Crime, Washington Times, The Week, One America News Network, Mediaite and New York Times
New York Times:
Just Sitting Down With Trump, Putin Comes Out Ahead
Just Sitting Down With Trump, Putin Comes Out Ahead
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Washington Monthly and Outside the Beltway
Emily Tillett / CBS News:
Gowdy to Trump: Ask Putin where “we can pick up the 25 Russians” indicted in Mueller probe
Gowdy to Trump: Ask Putin where “we can pick up the 25 Russians” indicted in Mueller probe
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Mother Jones and ABC News
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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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 …
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.
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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Political Wire
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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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 Daily Kos
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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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.
Eleanor Busby / The Independent:
Elon Musk calls British diver who helped rescue Thai schoolboys ‘pedo guy’ in Twitter outburst — ‘Sorry pedo guy, you really did ask for it’ — POPULAR VIDEOS — Elon Musk has called a British diver who helped rescue schoolboys from a flooded cave in Thailand ‘pedo guy’ on Twitter.
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Breitbart, Joe.My.God., Mashable and Mediaite
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Zeynep Tufekci / New York Times:
What Elon Musk Should Learn From the Thailand Cave Rescue
What Elon Musk Should Learn From the Thailand Cave Rescue
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The Tracinski Letter and The Guardian
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.”
New York Times:
Warren is Preparing for 2020. So Are Biden, Booker, Harris and Sanders. — RENO, Nev. — During a campaign-style tour of the West late last month, Senator Elizabeth Warren did not announce she was running for president. But in private events and public speeches, her message about 2020 was as clear as it was rousing.
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twitchy.com and Althouse
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 …
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.
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.
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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Advocate, Joe.My.God., Block Club Chicago, The Root, theGrio, WGN-TV and Raw Story
Reuven Blau / New York Daily News:
Rent-stabilized tenants allege Kushner Cos. harassed them — The real estate company formerly headed by Jared Kushner exposed children to cancer-causing substances as part of a campaign to push rent-stabilized tenants out of their apartments, said a lawsuit filed by a group of renters.
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Splinter
Leah C. Stokes / Los Angeles Times:
Climate change is behind the global heat wave. Why won't the media say it? — Last week's heat wave brought record temperatures to Southern California. Hot winds blew fire into my community in Santa Barbara County, ripping through a dozen homes and threatening hundreds more.
Emily Ngo / Newsday:
The evolution of Kirsten Gillibrand — Gillibrand once held more conservative views on guns and immigration, but in her nine years as New York's junior senator, she has swung steadily to the left on those and other issues. — Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand describes her shift from defender …
Dean Weingarten / The Truth About Guns:
Gun Control Advocate Misrepresents Massachusetts Court Decision on Common Rifles — In an interview with Mother Jones, Brady Campaign co-president Avery Gardiner, makes the following claims about the “common use” of AR-pattern rifles in the US: … Gardiner misstates what Judge Young wrote in his opinion.
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 …