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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.
Discussion: 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 …
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 …
Discussion: CNN and Politico
New York Times:
Just Sitting Down With Trump, Putin Comes Out Ahead
CBS News:
Trump on Putin meeting: “I go in with low expectations”
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 …
Discussion: FOX 61 and The Week
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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 …
Discussion: Jamie Dupree - AJC and Breitbart
David M. Drucker / Washington Examiner:   The Devin Nunes fundraising geyser: $4.4 million raised in 2nd quarter from ‘tens of thousands’
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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Washington Post:
Sacha Baron Cohen still knows how to punk America, but his new show erodes what little trust we have left
Discussion: Vox and Althouse
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.
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.
Discussion: Los Angeles Times
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Cindy Chang / Los Angeles Times:
Judge orders L.A. Times to alter story about Glendale cop, sparking protest from newspaper
Discussion: Reason 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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Josh Feldman / Mediaite:
Fox News' Howard Kurtz on Trump-CNN Flap: Jim Acosta Was ‘Trying to Hijack the Question’
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Daily Kos
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.
Discussion: Political Wire
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:   How Israel, in Dark of Night, Torched Its Way to Iran's Nuclear Secrets
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.
Discussion: The Week
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.”
Discussion: Mediaite and Raw Story
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.
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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Zeynep Tufekci / New York Times:
What Elon Musk Should Learn From the Thailand Cave Rescue
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 …
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.
Discussion: twitchy.com and Althouse
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.
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 …
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.
Discussion: Splinter
 
 
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Matt Apuzzo / New York Times:
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Discussion: Raw Story and Lawfare
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