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Washington Post:
Trump's Putin fallout: Inside the White House's tumultuous week of walk backs — Executive time began early on Thursday, just after sunrise. — Feeling exasperated and feisty as he awoke in the White House residence, President Trump fired off his grievances on Twitter about how the media had been covering his Helsinki summit.
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Associated Press:
Inside Trump's isolation after Putin summit, walkbacks — BRIDGEWATER, N.J. (AP) — Facing condemnation from allies and foes alike on Capitol Hill, President Donald Trump was outnumbered even in the Oval Office. Top aides gathered to convince the president to issue a rare walk-back of the comments …
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New York Times:
Trump Doubles Down on Russia. The Spies Shake Their Heads in Disbelief. — WASHINGTON — When President Trump directed aides to ask President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia to the White House this fall, the invitation was his latest attempt to use personal diplomacy in the pursuit of better relations with the Kremlin.
New York Times:
Tabloid Company, Aiding Trump Campaign, May Have Crossed Line Into Politics — Federal authorities examining the work President Trump's former lawyer did to squelch embarrassing stories before the 2016 election have come to believe that an important ally in that effort …
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Political Wire, Mother Jones, The Gateway Pundit, TheBlaze, Contemptor, NBC News and Bustle
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CNN:
Trump attorneys waive privilege on secret recording about ex-Playmate payment — (CNN)President Donald Trump's lawyers have waived attorney-client privilege regarding a secretly recorded conversation he had in September 2016 with his former longtime lawyer Michael Cohen in which they discussed payments …
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Vox, Fox News Insider, Washington Post and Talking Points Memo
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
FBI seizes records from Trump lawyer Michael Cohen
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Adam Shaw / Fox News:
Trump calls Cohen's taping of phone call ‘inconceivable,’ possibly illegal
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Glenn Greenwald / The Intercept:
Ecuador Will Imminently Withdraw Asylum for Julian Assange and Hand Him Over to the UK. What Comes Next? — Ecuador's President Lenin Moreno traveled to London on Friday for the ostensible purpose of speaking at the 2018 Global Disabilities Summit (Moreno has been confined to a wheelchair since being shot in a 1998 robbery attempt).
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Alexander Burns / New York Times:
There Is a Revolution on the Left. Democrats Are Bracing. — DETROIT — For Rachel Conner, the 2018 election season has been a moment of revelation. — A 27-year-old social worker, Ms. Conner voted for Hillary Clinton in the 2016 primaries, spurning the more liberal Bernie Sanders, whom many of her peers backed.
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The Guardian, The Daily Beast and The Week
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Steve Peoples / Associated Press:
Democratic socialism rising in the age of Trump — PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A week ago, Maine Democrat Zak Ringelstein wasn't quite ready to consider himself a member of the Democratic Socialists of America, even if he appreciated the organization's values and endorsement in his bid to become a U.S. senator.
Enjoli Francis / ABC News:
Gunman in parking space shooting not charged because of ‘Stand Your Ground’ law — A man who was captured on surveillance video fatally shooting another man in Clearwater, Florida, during a parking-spot spat as his young son watched nearby will not be arrested or charged by police, according to Pinellas County Sheriff.
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Vladimir Soldatkin / Reuters:
Lavrov tells Pompeo: free Russian woman accused in U.S. of espionage — MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's foreign minister told his U.S. counterpart on Saturday that a woman arrested in the United States on accusations she was a Russian agent had been detained on “fabricated charges” and should be released.
Nico Hines / The Daily Beast:
Inside Bannon's Plan to Hijack Europe for the Far-Right … LONDON—Steve Bannon plans to go toe-to-toe with George Soros and spark a right-wing revolution in Europe. — Trump's former White House chief advisor told The Daily Beast that he is setting up a foundation in Europe called …
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Joe.My.God., Politico and Althouse
Michael Gordon / The Charlotte Observer:
A mother and her son turned up for a domestic-violence case. Then ICE arrested them. — A Charlotte woman and her 16-year-old son, who are both involved in a domestic-violence dispute, were arrested in the Mecklenburg courthouse by federal immigration agents after they turned up for a hearing, their attorneys said.
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Max Jaeger / New York Post:
Sheriff who backed Roy Moore allegedly had sex with teen girl — The Alabama sheriff who threw his support behind accused jailbait-chaser Roy Moore's failed Senate bid is now under investigation for allegedly having sex with an underage girl. — SEE ALSO
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Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Michael Cohen privately questions Trump's fitness to be president — Friends of Michael Cohen have noticed that since Trump's Helsinki press conference with Vladimir Putin he's been more openly questioning Trump's fitness to be president. “It's one thing for him [Cohen] …
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Political Wire and CNBC
Mitchell Armentrout / Chicago Sun-Times:
Mark Janus quits state job for conservative think tank gig after landmark ruling — Less than a month after he won a Supreme Court case to preserve his First Amendment rights as a state worker not to pay union fees, Mark Janus has announced he's quitting his job for a position with the conservative …
Elizabeth Williamson / New York Times:
Got $250? You Can Go to Sean Spicer's Book Party — WASHINGTON — Typically, an author's colleagues have a house party to launch a book, or gather in a local pub. — Not Sean Spicer, who served six months as President Trump's embattled press secretary and is now the author …
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Adam Shaw / Fox News:
DC commissioners fight to revoke Trump Hotel liquor license
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Conservative News Today and JONATHAN TURLEY
Elana Schor / Politico:
Kavanaugh inches closer to confirmation hearing with new filing — Trump's nominee turned over biographical information, previously delivered speeches, published writings, interviews, past court filings and other related documents. — Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh formally returned …
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The Gateway Pundit, Sarah Palin, USA Today and Breitbart
Andrew O'Reilly / Fox News:
Nazis and anti-Semites slip through GOP primaries, causing headaches for party — Arthur Jones is an avowed member of the American Nazi Party, a Holocaust denier and a sympathizer of the Ku Klux Klan. — He also is the Republican candidate challenging Democratic Rep. Dan Lipinski …
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Lawyers, Guns & Money
Bethany Mandel / New York Post:
It's no crime to be happy in the age of Trump — A fellow mom friend recently posted an idyllic picture of her kids online, writing about what a magical summer they've had so far. She ended the post by saying “even in dark times like these, my kids are such a bright spot.”
Emilie Eaton / San Antonio Express-News:
Six times, a SAPD lieutenant has been fired. Will he get his job back again? — A San Antonio police lieutenant with a long history of disciplinary problems — including four firings and 11 suspensions — is in trouble again, accused of making a homophobic remark about Police Chief William McManus.
Daniel Politi / Slate:
Trump Suggests Season Suspension as Punishment for NFL Players Who Protest Anthem — President Donald Trump took to Twitter Friday night and as everyone was focused on revelations that his longtime lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen had made a secret recording of a conversation with his former boss …
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Washington Post, USA Today and Fox News Insider
Steven Hayward / Power Line:
The Week in Pictures: A Bit Red in Helsinki Edition — It finally came back to me. Monty Python had a sketch way back when that involved a made-up entity that is a perfect headline for this week—the “Institute of Going in Bit Red in Helsinki,” in which a Dr. Carl Gruber (related to Hans? …
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