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Politico:
Trump advisers quietly begin thinking about ‘life after Sarah’ — The press secretary says she has no plans to step down, but a shortlist of potential replacements is starting to take shape. — White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders says publicly that she has no plans to leave …
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New York Times:
Trump Weighs Stripping Security Clearances From Officials Who Criticized Him — WASHINGTON — President Trump threatened on Monday to strip the security clearances of former national security officials who have criticized his refusal to confront Russia over its election interference …
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Raw Story, Balloon Juice, Mediaite, Real Clear Politics, Mother Jones and The Last Refuge
Washington Post:
White House says Trump wants to revoke security clearances for former intelligence officials critical of him over Russia
White House says Trump wants to revoke security clearances for former intelligence officials critical of him over Russia
Jill Colvin / Associated Press:
Trump considering revoking 6 ex-Obama officials' clearance
Trump considering revoking 6 ex-Obama officials' clearance
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The Week
Rebecca Morin / Politico:
Rand Paul to ask Trump to revoke security clearance of ex-CIA chief Brennan
Rand Paul to ask Trump to revoke security clearance of ex-CIA chief Brennan
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Bustle, CNN, Breitbart, infowars.com, CNBC, Shareblue Media, Jamie Dupree - AJC, HuffPost, Fox Business, Axios and Townhall
Ken Dilanian / NBC News:
Trump looking at revoking security clearances of Brennan, Clapper, Hayden, Rice, Comey, McCabe
Sarah Hallam / CNN:
James Clapper: Trump revoking our security clearances would be ‘very, very petty’
James Clapper: Trump revoking our security clearances would be ‘very, very petty’
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The Gateway Pundit and Splinter
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
The Trump White House's hypocritical, slippery slope on purging its critics' security clearances
Brooke Singman / Fox News:
Trump looking into revoking security clearances for Brennan, other top Obama officials
Trump looking into revoking security clearances for Brennan, other top Obama officials
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CNN, CBS News, Fox News Insider, LifeZette, CBS Chicago and TheBlaze
Rebecca Morin / Politico:
Trump may revoke clearances of ex-officials who have slammed him
Trump may revoke clearances of ex-officials who have slammed him
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Talking Points Memo, Washington Post, ABC News, The Atlantic, Power Line and Law & Crime
Emily Jane Fox / Vanity Fair:
“Did They Think I Was Just Going to Roll Over and Die?”: The Cohen vs. Trump Battle Ratchets Up — What might Cohen know about the June 2016 meeting in Trump Tower between Don Jr., Kushner, Manafort, and a Russian lawyer with ties to the Kremlin who promised to provide them with “dirt” on Hillary Clinton?
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HuffPost and Washington Free Beacon
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Allan Smith / Business Insider:
Why Trump's lawyers allowed the government to get ahold of the bombshell Michael Cohen tapes — President Donald Trump's lawyers waived privilege over 12 audio recordings seized by the FBI from his former longtime lawyer Michael Cohen. — One source with knowledge of the Trump team's decision making …
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Washington Post, CNN, New York Times and Hot Air
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 …
Laura Nahmias / Politico:
12 tapes seized in Michael Cohen raid handed over to prosecutors
12 tapes seized in Michael Cohen raid handed over to prosecutors
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Reuters, ABC News, National Review and The Week
Rebecca Smith / Wall Street Journal:
Russian Hackers Reach U.S. Utility Control Rooms, Homeland Security Officials Say — Blackouts could have been caused after the networks of trusted vendors were easily penetrated — Hackers working for Russia claimed “hundreds of victims” last year in a giant and long-running campaign …
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The Daily Caller
New York Post:
Layoffs at the Daily News mark a grim day for New York City — SEE ALSO — Monday's mass layoffs at the Daily News are bad news for New York: This town needs more good reporters, not fewer. — The numbers are brutal: a newsroom staff slashed in half; no staff photographers at a place …
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Lloyd Grove / The Daily Beast:
The Daily News Was Superman's Paper—Tronc Fed It Kryptonite … By noon on Monday, Bavaria Bierhaus, a downtown bar on Stone Street, a short walk from the offices of the New York Daily News at 4 New York Plaza, was already filling up with day-drinkers who had just been fired from the century-old tabloid …
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One America News Network
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
The city that never sleeps finds that it's running out of reporters to report
The city that never sleeps finds that it's running out of reporters to report
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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.
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Talking Points Memo, ThinkProgress, TIME and Splinter
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 …
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Watts Up With That?, Hullabaloo, HuffPost, RedState, Common Dreams, National Review, Engadget, TheBlaze, POLITICUSUSA, Little Green Footballs and CNBC
Maya Lora / The Hill:
Haley tells high schoolers to avoid 'own the libs'-style online behavior — U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley — kicked off a conservative conference of high school students on Monday by urging attendees to avoid inflammatory language in favor of demonstrating real leadership.
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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Darren Samuelsohn / Politico:
Manafort trial postponed to July 31
Manafort trial postponed to July 31
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ABC News, The Gateway Pundit, The Daily Caller and American Greatness
Rebecca Ballhaus / Wall Street Journal:
Donald Trump's Legal Team Submits Counteroffer for Possible Interview in Mueller Probe — Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani says president open to questions on possible collusion, less willing to discuss possible obstruction of justice — WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump's legal team has submitted …
Nick Miroff / Washington Post:
Government signals 463 parents of migrant children may have been deported — The Trump administration said in a court filing Monday that 463 parents of migrant children are no longer present in the United States, indicating that the number of mothers and fathers potentially deported without …
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Doug Bock Clark / GQ:
The Untold Story of Otto Warmbier, American Hostage — President Trump hailed him as a catalyst of the summit with Kim Jong-Un. But what happened to Warmbier—the American college student who was sent home brain-damaged from North Korea—is even more shocking than anyone knew. — 1. Homecoming
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Deadspin:
How Is This Shit Legal — This past spring, Michael Ferro resigned as chairman of publicly traded media-looting hell-company Tronc, Inc., just ahead of the publication of sexual harassment allegations against him. As a parting gift, Tronc paid him $15 million, voluntarily bundling …
Max Boot / Washington Post:
Sorry, Trump. Your misdirection won't work this time. — “In order to get elected, @BarackObama will start a war with Iran.” That was Donald Trump tweeting in 2011. — This was President Trump tweeting late Sunday night: “To Iranian President Rouhani: “NEVER, EVER THREATEN …
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Conservative Review, LobeLog, New York Post, The Guardian, Raw Story and POLITICUSUSA
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Travis Gettys / Raw Story:
Conservatives clash on MSNBC's Morning Joe over GOP response to Trump's embrace of Putin — A pair of conservative commentators squared off on MSNBC's “Morning Joe” over Republican inaction against President Donald Trump as he moves closer to Russian president Vladimir Putin.
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Christine Todd Whitman / Los Angeles Times:
Calling my fellow Republicans: Trump is clearly unfit to remain in office
Calling my fellow Republicans: Trump is clearly unfit to remain in office
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IJR, POLITICUSUSA and Raw Story
Josh Meyer / Politico:
How U.S. intelligence agencies can find out what Trump told Putin — A top-secret Special Collection Service has extraordinary capabilities to hoover up intel from foreign adversaries. — President Donald Trump's insistence on holding a one-on-one meeting with Russian President Vladimir …
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Axios
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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Kansas City Star:
‘True definition of evil’: Alleged Shawnee murderer is white supremacist, family says — Those who knew Ronald Lee Kidwell were not surprised to learn he was charged with the murder of a black woman — her body discovered in the Shawnee home where he lived. — “This was a hate crime,” said his neighbor Kathleen Brown.
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Law & Crime and Raw Story
Julia Nista / The Daily Caller:
Katy Tur Calls Out Daily Caller, Fox News — Says They Aren't Journalists — MSNBC host Katy Tur believes it's up to her to decide who is a journalist and who isn't, saying The Daily Caller and Fox News “aren't journalists” because of their reporting on Special Counsel Robert Mueller's Russia probe.
Andrew Rosati / Bloomberg:
Venezuela's Inflation to Reach 1 Million Percent, IMF Forecasts — IMF compares Venezuela with Germany in 1923, Zimbabwe in 2000s — Venezuelan economy seen contracting 18% this year, 5% in 2019 — Venezuela's inflation will skyrocket to 1 million percent by the end of the year …
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.
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ThinkProgress and Splinter
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.
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Fortune, CNBC, The Daily Caller and New York Times
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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ABC News, Hot Air, The Week, Washington Free Beacon, Conservative Review, Splinter, Politico and Political Wire