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7:55 PM ET, July 21, 2018

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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 …
Discussion: Althouse, Vox and Fox News Insider
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
FBI seizes records from Trump lawyer Michael Cohen
Discussion: The Daily Beast, CANNONFIRE and Reuters
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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Tony Mauro / National Law Journal:   Kavanaugh Got a White House Call the Afternoon Kennedy Called It Quits
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).
Discussion: HuffPost, RT, Mother Jones and Raw Story
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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New York Times:   Trump Doubles Down on Russia. The Spies Shake Their Heads in Disbelief.
Steve Holland / Reuters:
U.S. intelligence chief Coats says no disrespect intended toward Trump over Russia summit news
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Alexander Gabuev / Foreign Policy:
The Kremlin Is Celebrating Helsinki. For Now.
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.”
Discussion: CNN
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Andrew Jeong / Wall Street Journal:   North Korea Signals Reluctance on Reunions, Nuclear Program
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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Steve Peoples / Associated Press:   Democratic socialism rising in the age of Trump
Alex Roarty / McClatchy Washington Bureau:   Centrist Dems begin arguing against far-left agenda as 2020 play
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] …
Discussion: Mediaite and CNBC
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.
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 …
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
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 …
Discussion: twitchy.com and The Daily Beast
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.
Discussion: The Daily Caller
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 …
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.
Discussion: Bustle and Splinter
Morgan Gstalter / The Hill:
CVS pharmacist fired after refusing to fill transgender woman's hormone prescription  —  A CVS pharmacist in Arizona was fired after he refused to fill the hormone prescription of a transgender woman.  —  Hilde Hall wrote a blog post on Thursday for the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) …
 
 
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Jason Willick / Wall Street Journal:
How Conservatives Won the Law
Maya Salam / New York Times:
Women, Stop Volunteering for Office Housework!
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Wall Street Journal:
The Trade Casualties Mount
Discussion: Raw Story and POLITICUSUSA
Aaron Mak / Slate:
The Sierra Club Declared War on Scott Pruitt—and Won
Daniel Politi / Slate:
Trump Suggests Season Suspension as Punishment for NFL Players Who Protest Anthem
Steven Hayward / Power Line:
The Week in Pictures: A Bit Red in Helsinki Edition
Elizabeth Williamson / New York Times:
Got $250? You Can Go to Sean Spicer's Book Party
Mitchell Armentrout / Chicago Sun-Times:
Mark Janus quits state job for conservative think tank gig after landmark ruling
 Earlier Items: 
Max Jaeger / New York Post:
Sheriff who backed Roy Moore allegedly had sex with teen girl
Discussion: WHNT-TV and ThinkProgress
Emilie Eaton / San Antonio Express-News:
Six times, a SAPD lieutenant has been fired. Will he get his job back again?
Lisa Napoli / Columbia Journalism Review:
CNN cameraman has 40 years in the field, and the storage units to prove it
Bethany Mandel / New York Post:
It's no crime to be happy in the age of Trump
David M. Halbfinger / New York Times:
Israel Cements Right-Wing Agenda in a Furious Week of Lawmaking
Paul Kane / Washington Post:
Midterm history 101: Trump's win a boost to chances for Senate Democratic incumbents
New York Times:
Trump Endorsement in Georgia Race Surprised, and Frustrated, Some Republicans
Discussion: Mother Jones and The Atlantic
 

 
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Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
A deep dive into Paramount's sale to Skydance; sources: Skydance may integrate Pluto into Paramount+, and CBS head George Cheeks is expected to be head of TV

Kimberly Nordyke / The Hollywood Reporter:
News Corp and Telstra agree to sell Australian pay TV company Foxtel Group to sports streaming platform DAZN in a deal worth ~$2.1B

New York Times:
In a first, Telegram is set to be profitable in 2024, with $1B+ in revenue, up from ~$350M in 2023, and 12M subscribers; source: 50%+ its revenue is from ads

 
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