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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Why Trump doesn't admit Russian election interference — Was Russia's effort to interfere in the 2016 election the most important issue on the table at President Trump's Helsinki summit with President Vladimir Putin? No. But it's not an unimportant issue either, and Trump knew the American press is obsessed with it.
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Julia Ioffe / GQ:
Now We All Know What Putin Has on Trump — After a summit that left most Americans stunned—but maybe not surprised—the truth is now obvious: Trump is doing Putin's bidding. And the reasons why are clear. GQ's Julia Ioffe on Putin's monumental win and the lasting result of Trump's Helsinki debacle.
Todd J. Gillman / Dallas Morning News:
It's time for impeachment, says Beto O'Rourke, after Donald Trump summit with Russia's Vladimir Putin — WASHINGTON - Texas Democrat Beto O'Rourke, who is challenging Sen. Ted Cruz, said Tuesday that he President Donald Trump's performance at a summit with Russian strongman Vladimir Putin merits impeachment.
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Washington Post:
Trump says he accepts U.S. intelligence on Russian interference in 2016 election but denies collusion — Seeking to quell mounting criticism after the Helsinki summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin, President Trump on Tuesday said he accepts the U.S. intelligence community's conclusion …
Caleb Howe / Mediaite:
Fox & Friends Works Overtime to Explain Directly to Trump What He Got Wrong — It's no secret that Fox & Friends is President Donald Trump's preferred morning show, and perhaps banking on his watching on Tuesday, the hosts addressed him directly to explain to him how he screwed up yesterday …
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Louder With Crowder, Contemptor and The Hill
John R. Schindler / Observer:
Donald Trump Tosses Word-Salad, Ends His Presidency in Helsinki — It was like nothing anybody had ever seen. Nobody acquainted with Donald Trump expected the July 16 Helsinki summit—which wasn't really a summit, more like a one-on-one-date between the presidents of Russia and the United States …
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Townhall, USA Today and Washington Post
Robert Gehrke / Salt Lake Tribune:
Come home, Ambassador Huntsman, your country needs you — Ambassador Huntsman, you work for a pawn, not a president. It's time to come home. — There is no other reasonable course of action to take after Monday's disgraceful joint news conference with President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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Bill Goodykoontz / USA Today:
Sean Hannity's interview with Donald Trump after the Russia summit was just embarrassing … President Donald Trump's talk with Sean Hannity on Fox News after the summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin was certainly not journalism. — A lot of media people wasted no time and spared …
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Conservative News Today, Mediaite, The Atlantic and Washington Post
Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post:
NSA and Cyber Command to coordinate actions to counter Russian election interference …
NSA and Cyber Command to coordinate actions to counter Russian election interference …
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Axios, Hullabaloo and Defense One
Patrick J. Buchanan / The American Conservative:
Trump Calls Off Cold War II
Trump Calls Off Cold War II
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Townhall, NewsBusters and ABC News
Aidan McLaughlin / Mediaite:
Maria Bartiromo: Trump's Presser ‘Was Probably the Low Point’ of His Presidency
Maria Bartiromo: Trump's Presser ‘Was Probably the Low Point’ of His Presidency
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Jamelle Bouie / Slate:
Donald Trump Is Fulfilling All of Those Obama Conspiracy Theories
Donald Trump Is Fulfilling All of Those Obama Conspiracy Theories
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Roger Kimball / American Greatness:
What Critics Missed About the Trump-Putin Summit
What Critics Missed About the Trump-Putin Summit
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Front Page Magazine, The Hill and Grabien News
Kevin Liptak / CNN:
Trump surprised at fierce criticism of Putin news conference — Commentators slam Trump for summit performance — Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump was upbeat immediately after his news conference with Vladimir Putin in Helsinki, Finland, but by the time he returned stateside …
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Wall Street Journal:
The Trump First Doctrine — Putin respects strength but Trump showed weakness.
The Trump First Doctrine — Putin respects strength but Trump showed weakness.
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Axios:
Trump officials embarrassed by Putin show
Trump officials embarrassed by Putin show
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Brooke Seipel / The Hill:
Protests erupt outside of White House as Trump returns from Putin summit
Protests erupt outside of White House as Trump returns from Putin summit
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Peter Baker / New York Times:
Critics of Trump Have a New Word in Their Vocabulary: Treason
Critics of Trump Have a New Word in Their Vocabulary: Treason
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The Daily Beast:
'Putin's Favorite Congressman' Now Engulfed in NRA Spy Case … Pro-Kremlin GOP Congressman Dana Rohrabacher met with a Putin ally in Russia in August 2015, The Daily Beast has confirmed, matching an account in Monday's blockbuster FBI affidavit against accused Russian spy Maria Butina.
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Betsy Woodruff / The Daily Beast:
Russia-NRA Arrest: This Is as Close as It Gets to Collusion … It's the first time the Justice Department has explicitly claimed that a Russian spy working to influence the 2016 campaign had deliberate assistance with her efforts from a U.S. citizen. On Monday, the DOJ arrested and charged …
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Politico, Refinery29, ThinkProgress, NBC News, VICE News, Law & Crime, HuffPost and Lawfare
Martyn McLaughlin / Scotsman:
Donald Trump's Turnberry firm paid £50,000 by US Government for weekend visit — Donald Trump personally profited by more than £50,000 from his weekend stay at his loss-making Turnberry resort, with the US government footing the accommodation bill for the president and his entourage, The Scotsman can reveal.
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Astead W. Herndon / New York Times:
A Congressional Candidate Used to Be a Rapper. Will It Matter? — RHINEBECK, N.Y. — Antonio Delgado is a lot of things: a Rhodes Scholar, a graduate of Harvard Law School, a former lawyer at one of the country's largest lobbying firms, and now the Democratic nominee for Congress …
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The Daily Beast:
MGM Resorts Sues Victims of Las Vegas Mass Shooting — MGM Resorts International has reportedly filed federal lawsuits against hundreds of victims of last year's mass shooting in Las Vegas in an apparent bid to pre-empt any compensation claims. MGM, which owns the Mandalay Bay hotel-casino …
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Kim Zetter / Motherboard:
Top Voting Machine Vendor Admits It Installed Remote-Access Software on Systems Sold to States — Remote-access software and modems on election equipment ‘is the worst decision for security short of leaving ballot boxes on a Moscow street corner.’ — The nation's top voting machine maker …
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Patti Greco / Cosmopolitan:
The Great CNN Baby Boom — AN UNPRECEDENTED NUMBER OF THE NETWORK'S MOST PROMINENT WOMEN ARE PROVING THEY CAN HANDLE A MADDENING NEWS CYCLE — When Brianna Keilar saw her CNN colleague Pamela Brown adjust her dress — , she became suspicious. “We were sitting on set …
Monmouth University Polling Institute:
Neck and Neck in CD48 — 6-in-10 partisan voters satisfied with their nominee — West Long Branch, NJ - The race for California's 48th Congressional District between Republican incumbent Dana Rohrabacher and Democratic challenger Harley Rouda is virtually tied according to the Monmouth University Poll.
Hot Air:
Too Good To Check: The Great “Mariia Butina In The Oval Office” Photo Fiasco — A fleeting sensation on Twitter this morning from Mic reporter Emily Singer, worthy of more than 1,500 retweets: — See the redheaded woman in the doorway, her face just visible over the shoulder of the guy in the blue tie?
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RedState, The Daily Beast, Conservative News Today and The Week
Mike Lillis / The Hill:
Ocasio-Cortez draws ire from Democrats: ‘Meteors fizz out’ — Frustrated Democratic lawmakers are offering Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez some advice: Cool it. — Ocasio-Cortez stunned the political world with her upset primary victory last month over Rep. Joseph Crowley (D-N.Y.) …
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Kevin Poulsen / The Daily Beast:
Trump's ‘Missing DNC Server’ Is Neither Missing Nor a Server … Donald Trump turns to right-wing conspiracy theories when he's cornered, and he was cornered on Monday. Standing feet away from Vladimir Putin at a press conference following their Helsinki tete-a-tete, a reporter challenged Trump …
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Pew Research Center:
Americans Divided on Kavanaugh's Nomination to the Supreme Court — Democrats are worried he will make court too conservative — A week after Donald Trump nominated Brett Kavanaugh to fill Justice Anthony Kennedy's seat on the U.S. Supreme Court, the public is split in its early views of the nomination.
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Doug Moore / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
10 black Washington U. students stopped by Clayton police, falsely accused of leaving IHOP without paying — Clayton police chief Kevin Murphy takes questions from the media during a press conference in Clayton on Thursday, Feb. 26, 2015. Photo By David Carson, dcarson@post-dispatch.com
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David Morgan / Reuters:
U.S. Treasury moves to protect identities of ‘dark money’ political donors — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Treasury said on Monday that it will no longer require certain tax-exempt organizations including politically active nonprofit groups, such as the National Rifle Association and Planned Parenthood …
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Steve Bloomfield / Prospect Magazine:
Whatever happened to Seymour Hersh? — The strange story of how a legendary investigative journalist came to echo Assad's propoganda — Seymour Hersh's first big scoop—before the revelations about an American massacre in the Vietnamese village of My Lai started his great award-winning streak …
Colin Kalmbacher / Law & Crime:
Legal Experts Say Manafort Could Be Cutting Plea Deal as Judge Suddenly Delays Proceedings — The judge overseeing Paul Manafort's federal court case on charges of tax evasion and bank fraud in Virginia delayed proceedings in a surprise move on Monday afternoon.
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Jack Healy / New York Times:
It's 4 A.M. The Baby's Coming. But the Hospital Is 100 Miles Away. — KENNETT, Mo. — A few hours after the only hospital in town shut its doors forever, Kela Abernathy bolted awake at 4:30 a.m., screaming in pain. — Oh God, she remembered thinking, it's the twins. — They were not due for another two months.
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Anna Edney / BloombergQuint:
U.S. to Make More Drugs Easily Available, Cutting Role Docs Play — (Bloomberg) — Americans may soon be able to get cholesterol-lowering medications and other widely used prescription drugs without seeing a doctor, a first step in what could amount to sweeping changes to how patients access treatments for chronic conditions.