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6:25 PM ET, July 23, 2018

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Washington Post:
White House says Trump wants to revoke security clearances for former intelligence officials critical of him over Russia  —  President Trump plans to revoke the security clearances of a handful of former officials who have been critical of his rhetoric and actions toward Russia …
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Rebecca Morin / Politico:
Rand Paul to ask Trump to revoke security clearance of ex-CIA chief Brennan
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
The Trump White House's hypocritical, slippery slope on purging its critics' security clearances
Discussion: Shareblue Media
David Kurtz / Talking Points Memo:
REVEALED: Identities Of 5 Witnesses Immunized To Testify Against Manafort  —  A federal judge Monday unsealed the names of five witnesses granted immunity by special counsel Robert Mueller to testify at the upcoming trial of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort.
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Bloomberg:
Manafort Trial Start Delayed; Witnesses With Immunity Identified  — Judge pushes trial to July 31 after complaints from lawyers  — Manafort's lawyers say need more time to review documents  —  The trial set to begin this week for Paul Manafort, President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman …
Discussion: Joe.My.God.
Darren Samuelsohn / Politico:
Manafort trial postponed to July 31  —  Paul Manafort's first criminal trial has been postponed a week to July 31.  —  U.S. District Court Judge T.S. Ellis III agreed Monday to the weeklong delay, pushing back the biggest showdown yet between the former Donald Trump campaign chairman and special counsel Robert Mueller.
Avery Anapol / The Hill:
Judge approves Mueller request to grant immunity for witnesses in Manafort trial
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Talking Points Memo:
Judge Orders Witnesses Granted Immunity To Testify At Manafort Trial
Discussion: Joe.My.God. and Law & Crime
Politico:
Risks pile up for Trump as Manafort heads to trial
Discussion: Washington Post and ABC News
Bloomberg:
Trump to Seek Repeal of California's Smog-Fighting Power  — Proposed revision to auto emission standards to come out soon  — Will propose end of state's waiver from federal standards  —  The Trump administration will seek to revoke California's authority to regulate automobile emissions …
Bob Van Voris / Bloomberg:
Michael Cohen Prosecutors Get 12 Audio Recordings to Review  — There's no longer dispute over recordings, retired judge says  — Michael Cohen secretly recorded Trump discussing hush payments  —  U.S. prosecutors probing Michael Cohen are reviewing 12 audio recordings seized …
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Laura Nahmias / Politico:
12 tapes seized in Michael Cohen raid handed over to prosecutors  —  Twelve audio recordings seized from President Donald Trump's former personal lawyer Michael Cohen in an April FBI raid were handed over to federal prosecutors on Friday, according to a court filing made public Monday.
Discussion: National Review and ABC News
Reuters:   Prosecutors have at least 12 recordings by Trump lawyer Cohen
The Intercept:
Ohio Democratic Rep. Tim Ryan Is Telling People He Will Run for President in 2020, Hoping to Win “Yoga Vote”  —  Ohio Democratic Rep. Tim Ryan has been telling political consultants and operatives that he intends to run for president of the United States in 2020, and is beginning to put together a team …
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Elizabeth Brown-Kaiser / ABC News:
2020 buzz builds around Rep. Tim Ryan
Discussion: Vox and NBC News
Carrie Dann / NBC News:
NBC/WSJ poll: Support for Roe v. Wade hits new high  —  A majority of Republicans — 52 percent — say the Supreme Court decision should not be overturned.  —  As President Donald Trump's Supreme Court pick readies for his eventual confirmation hearing, support for the court's landmark ruling in Roe v. Wade has hit an all-time high.
Discussion: Political Wire
Nik DeCosta-Klipa / Boston Globe:
Fox News mistakenly booked a Massachusetts state senator, and got an unexpected message  —  Someone in the Fox News booking department might be in need of a second cup of coffee.  —  Fox & Friends First, the network's early morning show, thought they had booked former Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick …
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Christine Todd Whitman / Los Angeles Times:
Calling my fellow Republicans: Trump is clearly unfit to remain in office  —  President Trump's disgraceful performance in Helsinki, Finland, and in the days since is an indication that he is not fit to remain in office.  Trump's 2016 “America First” platform might be more aptly named …
Discussion: IJR, POLITICUSUSA and Raw Story
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Travis Gettys / Raw Story:   Conservatives clash on MSNBC's Morning Joe over GOP response to Trump's embrace of Putin
Greg Bluestein / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Ga. lawmaker urged to resign after using racial slurs, dropping pants in TV show  —  Spencer apologizes for ‘ridiculously ugly’ episode but refuses to step down  —  Georgia House Speaker David Ralston demanded that state Rep. Jason Spencer resign after he yelled racial slurs and exposed himself …
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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Ignore Trump's clueless bluster on Iran  —  The Post reports: … The verbal exchange comes in the wake of Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's fiery speech on Sunday in which he excoriated the Iranian regime for human rights abuses and corruption.  —  Commentators might become alarmed …
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Max Boot / Washington Post:
Sorry, Trump. Your misdirection won't work this time.
Jacob Bunge / Wall Street Journal:
2.5 Billion Pounds of Meat Piles Up in U.S. as Production Grows, Exports Slow  —  Profits, prices are threatened as record amounts of red meat and poultry fill U.S. warehouses  —  Meat is piling up in U.S. cold-storage warehouses, fueled by a surge in supplies and trade disputes that are eroding demand.
Jerry Iannelli / Miami New Times:
Florida Cops Ship 24-Year-Old Mom to ICE After She Paid Traffic Ticket … Maria, an undocumented, 24-year-old mother of three from Guatemala, showed up to the Martin County Jail earlier this year to voluntarily pay a $150 traffic fine.  —  Instead, she wound up handcuffed and thrown inside that jail.
Discussion: ThinkProgress and Splinter
Barry Petchesky / Deadspin:
Sounds Like Everyone Should Lay Off That Cubs Fan Who “Stole” A Baseball From A Kid  —  Sunday outrage gives way to Monday fact-checking.  If you were one of the people who (reasonably) got very angry at a short video clip appearing to show an adult Cubs fan intercepting a ball meant for a child, you can stand down.
Jennifer Bendery / HuffPost:
GOP Congressman Calls Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez ‘This Girl ... Or Whatever She Is’  —  Rep. Ron DeSantis was referring to a full-grown woman who is a New York Democratic congressional nominee.  —  WASHINGTON Rep. Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.) on Saturday referred to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez …
Discussion: Refinery29 and Naked Politics
Juliet Eilperin / Washington Post:
Trump administration officials dismissed benefits of national monuments  —  In a quest to shrink national monuments last year, senior Interior Department officials dismissed evidence that these public lands boosted tourism and spurred archaeological discoveries, according to documents …
Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:
FISA Applications Confirm: The FBI Relied on the Unverified Steele Dossier  —  A salacious Clinton-campaign product was the driving force behind the Trump-Russia investigation.  —  On a sleepy summer Saturday, after months of stonewalling, the FBI dumped 412 pages of documents related …
Jaclyn Peiser / New York Times:
Tronc Cuts Daily News Newsroom in Half; Ousts Editor in Chief  —  The meeting lasted less than a minute.  By the time it was over, reporters and editors at The Daily News had been told that the newsroom staff was being cut in half and that the editor in chief, Jim Rich, was out of a job.
Robert Costa / Washington Post:
McFaul expected to meet with Trump's top adviser on Russia at White House  —  Michael A. McFaul, a former U.S. diplomat and fierce critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, will visit the White House on Tuesday for a private meeting with President Trump's top adviser on Russia …
Daniel W. Drezner / Washington Post:
Anton's creed is not just racist; it is patently un-American.  —  Daniel W. Drezner is a professor of international politics at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and a regular contributor to PostEverything.  —  Michael Anton is the author of the infamous …
Brad Reed / Raw Story:
'I'm ashamed': Trump voter admits she got it wrong after ICE deports her daughter-in-law  —  A woman who voted for President Donald Trump in 2016 this week expressed regret after the president's government agents deported her daughter-in-law to Mexico.  —  The Associated Press this week published …
Discussion: Associated Press
38 North:
North Korea Begins Dismantling Key Facilities at the Sohae Satellite Launching Station  —  A 38 North exclusive with analysis by Joseph S. Bermudez Jr.  —  In an important first step towards fulfilling a commitment made by Kim Jong Un at the June 12 Singapore Summit, new commercial satellite imagery …
Thomas Kaplan / New York Times:
A Supreme Court Vote Is Just One of Heidi Heitkamp's Headaches  —  PETERSBURG, N.D. — Before Senator Heidi Heitkamp spoke to constituents in this tiny rural town, population 175, Mary Ann Dunbar confessed that she had reservations about Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh, President Trump's nominee to the Supreme Court.
Discussion: Washington Free Beacon and YouTube
 
 
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San Francisco Chronicle:
BART killing in Oakland: Stabbing suspect identified, manhunt continues
Discussion: The Root
Matt Laslo / The Daily Beast:
GOP to Silicon Valley: Promote the Far Right or Else
Deadspin:
How Is This Shit Legal  —  This past spring, Michael Ferro resigned …
Doug Bock Clark / GQ:
The Untold Story of Otto Warmbier, American Hostage
Kansas City Star:
‘True definition of evil’: Alleged Shawnee murderer is white supremacist, family says
Discussion: Raw Story
Christian Britschgi / Hit & Run:
Portland Food Cart Shuts Down Following Harassment by Occupy ICE Protesters
Ryan Nobles / CNN:
Arrest made after brick thrown into Sen. Mark Warner's Roanoke, Virginia, office
Discussion: The Daily Caller
 Earlier Items: 
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Sean Spicer is still trying to gaslight America about President Trump
Kay Coles James / Fox News:
Tax cuts only help the wealthy, right? American paychecks show otherwise
Discussion: The Daily Signal
Chris D'Angelo / HuffPost:
Scandals Pile Up For Interior Chief Ryan Zinke
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA
Patricia Mazzei / New York Times:
Congratulations, You Are Now a U.S. Citizen. Unless Someone Decides Later You're Not.
Mara Siegler / Page Six:
Wannabe socialite swindler may have bilked Fyre Festival fraudster
The Marshall Project:
New York on ICE  —  As a precaution, some have stopped traveling.
Ryan Cooper / The Week:
Why the left needs to wise up to the growing Trump-Russia scandal
Discussion: Jacobin
 

 
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is working on a smart doorbell system with advanced facial recognition that can wirelessly connect and unlock third-party smart locks

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Donald Trump announces that Sriram Krishnan, until recently a general partner at a16z, will serve as senior policy advisor for AI at the White House OSTP

Financial Times:
Sources: Palantir and Anduril are in talks with OpenAI, SpaceX, and more to form a consortium to bid for US defense contracts and plan to announce it in January
 
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