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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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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


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, The Daily Beast, CNN, The Hill, Breitbart, Hot Air and Vox


Trump wins sympathy from Russian media ahead of summit — MOSCOW (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump is no fan of American journalists, but he might love what the Russian media are saying about him ahead of his meeting Monday with Russian President Vladimir Putin.


Amid investigations and tensions, Trump-Putin going 1-on-1 — HELSINKI (AP) — President Donald Trump blamed the United States, and not Russian election meddling or the country's annexation of Crimea, for a low-point in U.S.-Russia relations hours before a summit with Vladimir Putin that played …
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The Week


Ahead of Putin summit, Trump faults U.S. ‘stupidity’ for poor relations with Russia
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Weekly Standard, Axios and Politico

“I think the European Union is a foe,” Trump says ahead of Putin meeting in Helsinki
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Washington Post, The Atlantic, Politico, RealClearPolitics, NPR, Informed Comment, Home Page Rotator, IJR, Gizmodo, Vox, HuffPost, Raw Story, ThinkProgress, Outside the Beltway, Daily Kos, The Week, New York Times, Bustle, ABC News, AOL and Joe.My.God.


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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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


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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‘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


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 …


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.


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.


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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Los Angeles Times
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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


$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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BuzzFeed, HuffPost and Lawyers, Guns & Money


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, Contemptor, HuffPost, Daily Wire and Daily Kos, more at Mediagazer »
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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


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


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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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 …


Tracing Guccifer 2.0's Many Tentacles in the 2016 Election — The message from WikiLeaks in July 2016 to a group of Russian intelligence officers who prosecutors say were posing as a Romanian hacker named Guccifer 2.0 urged swift action before the opening of the Democratic National Convention that month.


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.”


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.


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.