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Will Hurd / New York Times:
Trump Is Being Manipulated by Putin. What Should We Do? — Lawmakers must keep the American people informed of the current danger, writes a Republican congressman from Texas. — Mr. Hurd, a former C.I.A. officer, is a congressman from the 23rd District of Texas.
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Ilya Arkhipov / Bloomberg:
Putin Tells Diplomats He Made Trump a New Offer on Ukraine at Their Summit — Russian leader suggested referendum in separatist regions — Putin said to agree to let Trump mull plan before going public — Vladimir Putin told Russian diplomats that he made a proposal to Donald Trump …
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Blake Hounshell / Politico:
Why I'm No Longer a Russiagate Skeptic — Facts are piling up, and it's getting harder to deny what's staring us in the face. — When I wrote, back in February, that I was skeptical that President Donald Trump would ever be proved to have secretly colluded with Russia to sway the 2016 election in his favor, I mistyped.
Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
“No Way to Run a Superpower”: the Trump-Putin Summit and the Death of American Foreign Policy — In the days since the Monday meeting in Helsinki, there's been an understandable frenzy over President Trump's post-summit press conference, given that he sided with the Russian President …
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Adam Davidson / New Yorker:
A Theory of Trump Kompromat — Why the President is so nice to Putin, even when Putin might not want him to be. — The former C.I.A. operative Jack Devine watched Donald Trump's performance standing next to Vladimir Putin in Helsinki on Monday, and his first thought was, “There is no way Trump is a Russian agent.”
Eliana Johnson / Politico:
White House morale tanks amid Helsinki fallout — Staffers are considering accelerating their departures in the wake of the president's equivocations on Russian meddling in the 2016 election. — President Donald Trump's disastrous performance since his news conference alongside Russian …
Daniel Lippman / Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: What we've learned this week — DRIVING THE DAY — 'JUST POSTED - “Bill Shine, Trump's Top Communicator, Was Questioned by Federal Prosecutors,” by NYT's Elizabeth Williamson and Emily Steel: “Mr. Shine's appointment to the White House job has drawn criticism from some women …
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Scott Bixby / The Daily Beast:
Poll: Half of Americans Think Trump Acted ‘Treasonous’ in Helsinki
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Emily Cochrane / New York Times:
Who Heard What Trump Said to Putin? Only One Other American
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Mark Landler / New York Times:
Trump to Invite Putin to Washington, but Much of Their Last Meeting Is Still a Mystery
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Jeff Cox / CNBC:
Trump says he's ‘ready’ to put tariffs on all $505 billion of Chinese goods imported to the US — President Donald Trump has indicated he is willing to put tariffs on all $505 billion of Chinese goods the U.S. imports. — The rhetoric marks ramps up the U.S-China trade war another step …
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BuzzFeed News:
Congratulations, Mr. President: Zuckerberg Secretly Called Trump After The Election — In the days following Donald Trump's election victory over Hillary Clinton, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg placed a secret, previously unreported call to the president-elect during which, sources tell BuzzFeed News …
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Kevin Collier / BuzzFeed News:
The Russians Who Hacked The DNC Have Targeted At Least Three 2018 Campaigns, Microsoft Says — The same Russian intelligence agency charged with hacking Democrats' emails in 2016 has targeted at least three candidates running for election in 2018, a Microsoft executive said.
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Engadget, Gizmodo, The Verge, Cyberscoop and Talking Points Memo
Politico:
McConnell issues Supreme Court ultimatum — The Senate GOP leader is vowing to squeeze Democrats with a vote on Brett Kavanaugh right before the midterms if they don't back down on their demand for documents. — Mitch McConnell has a warning for Democrats demanding copious documents …
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Daniel Chaitin / Washington Examiner:
Robert Mueller offers Tony Podesta immunity to testify against Paul Manafort: Report — Tony Podesta, founder of the now-shuttered Podesta Group and brother to former Hillary Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta, has been offered immunity by special counsel Robert Mueller to testify …
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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Does the mainstream media regret using all those emails allegedly stolen by Russians?
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Hollywood Reporter:
Paramount TV President Amy Powell Fired Over Inappropriate Comments — She was tapped to oversee the division in 2013 and has delivered hits including ‘13 Reasons Why’ and ‘The Alienist.’ — Five years after being tapped to lead the newly relaunched Paramount Television banner, Amy Powell is out.
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Desmond Butler / Yahoo:
Rosenstein defends charging foreign agents US can't arrest — ASPEN, Colo. (AP) — The top law enforcement official overseeing the probe of Russian meddling in the 2016 election is defending the prosecution of foreign agents who may never see the inside of a U.S. courtroom.
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Mara Siegler / Page Six:
Whoopi Goldberg and Jeanine Pirro get into explosive argument backstage at ‘The View’ — Whoopi Goldberg and Jeanine Pirro got into an explosive argument backstage at “The View” on Thursday — after an intense on-the-air exchange got even more heated behind-the-scenes, sources exclusively tell Page Six.
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Matt Wilstein / The Daily Beast:
Jeanine Pirro: Whoopi Goldberg Screamed at Me Backstage at ‘The View’
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The Daily Beast, Mediaite and Breitbart
NBC 6 South Florida:
Father of Parkland School Shooting Survivors Killed in North Lauderdale Armed Robbery — North Lauderdale Robbery Surveillance Video — The father of two Parkland school shooting survivors was fatally shot at his own North Lauderdale convenience store during a robbery, according to the Broward County Sheriff's Office.
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Joe Simonson / The Daily Caller:
MSNBC And CNN Employees Dominate White House Press Briefings — The daily White House press briefing is meant to give a chance for reporters, from a variety of publications with their own perspectives and agendas, to ask the Trump administration various questions in the hopes of soliciting information for their respective outlets.
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Wall Street Journal:
Three Top FBI Cybersecurity Officials to Retire — Three of the top cybersecurity officials at the Federal Bureau of Investigation are retiring from government service—departures that come as cyberattacks are a major concern for the country's security agencies.
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Engadget and Cyberscoop
John Hinderaker / Power Line:
Our Country Is Insane — I am by nature an optimist, but it is hard to maintain a positive attitude in the face of the rampant insanity that has seized control over our national life. When I get time, I am going to write about the ritual defenestration of Papa John's pizza company …
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Front Page Magazine and The American Conservative
Lachlan Cartwright / The Daily Beast:
‘60 Minutes’ Boss Hired Law Firm Over #MeToo Story … One of television's most powerful men, 60 Minutes Executive Producer Jeff Fager, hired a law firm that boasts about “killing stories” for a Washington Post investigation into him, three sources familiar with the matter told The Daily Beast.
Terry Gross / NPR:
Reporter Shows The Links Between The Men Behind Brexit And The Trump Campaign — Carole Cadwalladr's investigation into Cambridge Analytica's role in Brexit led her to Russian connections and the Trump campaign. She says British investigators are working “closely with the FBI.” — TERRY GROSS, HOST:
Rick Gladstone / New York Times:
U.S. Rebuffed at U.N. on North Korea Sanctions Enforcement — Signaling new tensions over North Korea at the United Nations, Russia and China on Thursday blocked disciplinary steps sought by the United States to stop what it called rampant cheating on North Korea's petroleum imports.
Associated Press:
US, allies set to evacuate Syrian aid workers from southwest — WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. officials say the United States is finalizing plans to evacuate several hundred Syrian civil defense workers and their families from southwest Syria as Russian-backed government forces close in on the area.
NBC News:
Facing deadline, government reunified 364 of 2,500-plus migrant children — Of 1,607 parents eligible to be reunited with their children, 719 have final orders of deportation, the government says, meaning they could be removed from the country as soon as they are reunited.
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POLITICUSUSA, New York Post and The Week
Kaweewit Kaewjinda / Associated Press:
Thailand seeks control over movies about cave ordeal — BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand's military government wants to control how movies portray the ordeal of the young soccer players and their heroic rescue from a flooded cave that drew worldwide interest and the attention of foreign filmmakers.
Predrag Milic / Associated Press:
Montenegro more puzzled than affronted by Trump's attention — PODGORICA, Montenegro (AP) — World War III? Not us, say the puzzled people of Montenegro. — Public officials in this tiny European nation didn't know what to say initially when U.S. President Donald Trump suggested …
Megan Specia / New York Times:
Inside That Black Sarcophagus in Egypt? 3 Mummies (and No Curses) — When a black granite sarcophagus was found at the bottom of a pit in Alexandria, Egypt, last week, the discovery immediately prompted questions and theories ranging from the sensible to the supernatural.
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Todd S. Purdum / The Atlantic:
Trump's Troubling Helsinki Remarks: Bizarre—and Historic? — Whether Donald Trump is president for four years or eight, whatever history's ultimate judgment of him, and however he tries to explain it away, his remarks in Helsinki absolving Vladimir Putin of interference in the 2016 election …
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Vox and POLITICUSUSA
McKay Coppins / The Atlantic:
A New Talking Point From the Pro-Trump Fringe — On Wednesday morning, in the midst of yet another contentious news cycle dominated by coverage of Russian election meddling, I tweeted a kind of thought experiment: “If Trump & co. just pivoted to 'Aren't you glad Russia helped us defeat Hillary Clinton? …
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