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Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Justice Dept. Releases Secret Carter Page Surveillance Documents at Center of Partisan Clash — WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has disclosed a previously top-secret set of documents related to the wiretapping of Carter Page, the onetime Trump campaign adviser who was at the center …
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Chuck Ross / The Daily Caller:
DOJ Releases Carter Page FISA Applications
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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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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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
FBI seizes records from Trump lawyer Michael Cohen
FBI seizes records from Trump lawyer Michael Cohen
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CNN:
Trump says ‘inconceivable’ that Cohen recorded conversation about ex-Playmate payment
Trump says ‘inconceivable’ that Cohen recorded conversation about ex-Playmate payment
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Adam Shaw / Fox News:
Trump calls Cohen's taping of phone call ‘inconceivable,’ possibly illegal
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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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
Inside Trump's isolation after Putin summit, walkbacks
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Steve Holland / Reuters:
U.S. intelligence chief Coats says no disrespect intended toward Trump over Russia summit news
U.S. intelligence chief Coats says no disrespect intended toward Trump over Russia summit news
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Alexander Gabuev / Foreign Policy:
The Kremlin Is Celebrating Helsinki. For Now.
The Kremlin Is Celebrating Helsinki. For Now.
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Mark Sherman / Associated Press:
Kavanaugh: Watergate tapes decision may have been wrong — WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh suggested several years ago that the unanimous high court ruling in 1974 that forced President Richard Nixon to turn over the Watergate tapes, leading to the end of his presidency, may have been wrongly decided.
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Elana Schor / Politico:
Kavanaugh inches closer to confirmation hearing with new filing
Kavanaugh inches closer to confirmation hearing with new filing
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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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Washington Post:
In private, Trump vents frustration over lack of progress on North Korea — When he emerged from his summit with Kim Jong Un last month, President Trump triumphantly declared that North Korea no longer posed a nuclear threat and that one of the world's most intractable geopolitical crises had been “largely solved.”
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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] …
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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Luke O'Brien / HuffPost:
How Pizzagate Pusher Mike Cernovich Keeps Getting People Fired — He just took down director James Gunn. Now he's using a trollish rumor about a sex tape to go after journalists. — Mike Cernovich was celebrating on Friday, at least for a few hours. Disney had just fired James Gunn …
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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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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.
James Hibberd / EW.com:
Fantastic Beasts panel gets political at Comic-Con: ‘Impeach Trump!’ — The panel for Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald had a few surprises in store for Comic-Con's Hall H on Saturday: A terrific new trailer, an appearance by Johnny Depp (in character, no less), and a few pointed political comments.
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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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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.
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 …
Maya Salam / New York Times:
Women, Stop Volunteering for Office Housework! — Gender Letter is a weekly take on news and culture. Sign up here to get future installments delivered to your inbox. Tell us what you think at dearmaya@nytimes.com. — I'm an enthusiastic person — earnest and hungry, starving really …
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