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New York Times:
Mueller Examining Trump's Tweets in Wide-Ranging Obstruction Inquiry — WASHINGTON — For years, President Trump has used Twitter as his go-to public relations weapon, mounting a barrage of attacks on celebrities and then political rivals even after advisers warned he could be creating legal problems for himself.
Wall Street Journal:
Trump Organization Finance Chief Called to Testify Before Federal Grand Jury — Longtime Trump executive Allen Weisselberg has been subpoenaed in Michael Cohen probe — Allen Weisselberg, a longtime financial gatekeeper for President Donald Trump, has been subpoenaed to testify …
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Washington Post:
Once again, ‘fake news’ decried by Trump turns out to be true
Once again, ‘fake news’ decried by Trump turns out to be true
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New Yorker, Daily Kos, Mashable and New York Times
Washington Post:
'I'm not going to be a punching bag anymore': Inside Michael Cohen's break with Trump
'I'm not going to be a punching bag anymore': Inside Michael Cohen's break with Trump
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Vox, Politico, HuffPost, Associated Press, USA Today, New York Times, Bangor Daily News, Daily Kos, Talking Points Memo, Raw Story, Axios, First Draft, The Week, Washington Times, Observer and Fox News
Robert Donachie / The Daily Caller:
Sources: Jim Jordan Officially Announcing Bid For Speaker — House Freedom Caucus co-founder Jim Jordan will formally announce his campaign for speaker of the House Thursday at noon, The Daily Caller News Foundation has learned. — TheDCNF confirmed the announcement with two sources with direct knowledge of Jordan's plans.
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Townhall, ThinkProgress, Politico, The Hill, Vox, Washington Times, Conservative Review, Hit & Run, Hot Air, Chicks On The Right, The Gateway Pundit, The Week, Daily Wire and NPR
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Politico:
Ryan rejects conservative push to impeach Rosenstein — The move underscores divisions within his party — and even his own leadership team. — Speaker Paul Ryan on Thursday firmly rejected an effort by House conservatives to impeach Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein …
Doina Chiacu / Reuters:
Sessions defends deputy Rosenstein after impeachment move — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Thursday defended his deputy, Rod Rosenstein, and took a swipe at fellow Republicans in Congress who moved to impeach Rosenstein, who oversees the federal probe of Russia's role in the 2016 presidential election.
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Fox News and The Gateway Pundit
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Trump intervenes to save the House — President Donald Trump is intensifying his involvement in the midterm elections amid rising Republican fears that the party is confronting a November wave. — The president has signed off on plans for his reelection campaign to funnel contributions …
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RedState, New York Magazine, CNBC and Political Wire, more at Techmeme »
Washington Post:
Ryan says he opposes conservatives' effort to impeach Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein — House Speaker Paul D. Ryan said Thursday that he opposes an effort by conservatives to impeach Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein, as Republican leaders of the chamber sought to avert a vote on the volatile issue later in the day.
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Politico, ABC News, National Review, New York Times, Political Wire, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Roll Call, Outside the Beltway, Breitbart, The Week and Vox
CNN:
Conservative Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan to run for House speaker
Conservative Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan to run for House speaker
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New Republic, NPR, KTLA and Right Wing Watch
Jack Crowe / National Review:
Jim Jordan Announces Bid for Speakership
Jim Jordan Announces Bid for Speakership
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Power Line and The Week
Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
White House press corps showing unity after reporter barred from Rose Garden event — White House bans network pool reporter from Rose Garden event — The ultra-competitive White House press corps is displaying something rare and refreshing: Solidarity. — Journalists reacted with dismay …
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ABC News, Washington Post, The Hill, Talking Points Memo, Raw Story, Bustle, TVNewser, The Daily Beast and Washington Times, more at Mediagazer »
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Toledo Blade:
DeVos' $40 million yacht vandalized at Huron dock — HURON, Ohio — A boat owned by the family of U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos was vandalized over the weekend while moored at a Huron dock, according to the Huron Police Department. — The Seaquest was moored at the Huron Boat Basin …
New York Times:
An Extremely Detailed Map of the 2016 Election — Start exploring the map by searching for a place you know.
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Mother Jones, Power Line and Scripting News
Monica Hesse / Washington Post:
The heiress has no clothes. — I once flew to Germany for 19 hours to watch Ivanka Trump sit on a panel with a bunch of female leaders, and to be summoned by her later that evening for an off-the-record chat in her hotel lobby, where she ordered red wine in a white dress, which seems …
Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Omarosa's surprise book: ‘Unhinged’ will come out in August — The publishing house Gallery Books has an August surprise for the president and the public: A “tell-all” book by former Trump administration aide, Omarosa Manigault-Newman. — The former “Apprentice” star worked in the White House Office …
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CANNONFIRE and Chicks On The Right
Eve Peyser / Rolling Stone:
The Summer's Hottest Trend Is Owning the Libs — Conservatives love it earnestly, liberals love it ironically. How did we get here? — “Raise your hand if you've ever posted anything online to quote unquote own the libs,” President Trump's Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley recently asked a crowd of high schoolers.
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Washington Monthly
David Byler / Weekly Standard:
Can Stacey Abrams Turn Georgia Blue? — On Tuesday night, Brian Kemp—the Georgia secretary of state and self-proclaimed “politically incorrect conservative” who owns a truck, talks about standing for the national anthem and happily supports President Trump—beat Lieutenant Gov. Casey Cagle …
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Molly Ball / TIME:
Stacey Abrams Could Become America's First Black Female Governor—If She Can Turn Georgia Blue
Stacey Abrams Could Become America's First Black Female Governor—If She Can Turn Georgia Blue
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The Week
Carrie Dann / NBC News:
Migrant family separations have earned Trump the ire of a powerful group: Moms — There's a message for the White House in our latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll when it comes to the issue of family separations at the nation's southern border: Mom is mad.
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Washington Monthly and POLITICUSUSA
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New York Times:
A Kushner Ally Was Up for a Federal Post. Then the F.B.I. Began Digging. — Ken Kurson is a confidant of Rudolph W. Giuliani. He is a onetime speechwriter for Donald J. Trump. And he is a close friend of Jared Kushner, Mr. Trump's son-in-law, who appointed Mr. Kurson to run his weekly newspaper, The New York Observer.
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The Daily Beast and Raw Story
Daniel Horowitz / Conservative Review:
Top committee Republicans vote for border provision WORSE than amnesty — We already know that most Republicans support amnesty just as passionately as Democrats, much as they support the key elements of Obamacare. We learned yesterday, in one of the most spectacular acts of perfidy ever …
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Dan Levin / New York Times:
'I'm Not the Only Young Conservative' — About 700 teenage conservatives visited the nation's capital this week for a four-day leadership conference organized by Turning Point USA, a group founded in 2012 to promote activism skills among high school and college students and help young conservatives network with leaders in the movement.
Carrie Johnson / NPR:
Legal Opinions Or Political Commentary? A New Judge Exemplifies The Trump Era — Less than a year into a lifetime appointment, a 45-year-old federal appeals court judge named James Ho may embody President Trump's most enduring legacy. — Ho has shaken up the staid world of appellate law …
Politico:
Trump and Juncker: The art of the no-deal — Nothing the two men agreed to reflects a shift in policy. — For all the love and kisses, all U.S. President Donald Trump and European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker agreed on was to leave things as they are.
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ThinkProgress, Breitbart and Washington Post
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David M. Herszenhorn / Politico:
Why the Trump-Juncker love-in is bad news for Britain
Why the Trump-Juncker love-in is bad news for Britain
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One America News Network and Politico
James Arkin / Politico:
West Virginia officials deny Blankenship a spot on Senate ballot — West Virginia's secretary of state on Thursday denied Don Blankenship's bid to appear on the Senate ballot as a third-party candidate, a victory for Republicans hoping to consolidate votes against Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin in the general election.
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WV Secretary of State Website and The Daily Caller
Alison Young / USA Today:
Routine failures — For more than a decade, the experts who guide medical practices in the U.S. have been pushing doctors and hospitals to change how they treat pregnant women. — At least as far back as 2010, researchers in California began promoting “tool kits” of childbirth safety practices to reduce deaths and injuries.
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The Week
David French / TIME:
What Democrats Don't Get About the South — Trump's 2016 victory continued the GOP's dominance of Southern politics Luke Sharrett—Bloomberg/Getty Images — There is no accent quite like the southern accent, and there is no Southern accent quite like the Southern politician's.
Matthew Boyle / Breitbart:
Exclusive — Establishment-Backed Leah Vukmir Falsely Claims She Drives ‘Ford’ on Campaign Trail; Actually Drives Toyota — Establishment-backed GOP U.S. Senate candidate Leah Vukmir falsely claimed in a fundraising letter that she drives a Ford, when, in reality, she drives a Toyota, Breitbart News has learned.
Roque Planas / HuffPost:
A Single Trump Appointee Was Responsible For Keeping Hundreds Of Kids Locked Up Longer — He's the same guy who blocked a teenage migrant who'd been raped from obtaining an abortion. — A Trump appointee's decision to personally review requests to release migrant children from jail-like …
Fran Brennan / NTK Network:
REVEALED: NYT Targets Kavanaugh's Wife, Looking For ‘Abortion,’ ‘Gun,’ ‘Gay,’ ‘Federalist’ Emails — The New York Times and Associated Press both filed requests under the Maryland Public Information Act (PIA) seeking e-mails that Ashley Kavanaugh, the wife of President Trump's Supreme Court nominee …
A.J. Katz / TVNewser:
Vice News Tonight Leads All Nightly Newscasts With 9 News and Documentary Emmy Nominations — HBO's nightly newscast Vice News Tonight has earned 9 News and Documentary Awards nominations for 2018. That's more nominations than any other nightly news program on a major network.
RFA:
North Korea's Ruling Party Informs Officials Kim Regime Will Not Give Up Nukes — The Central Committee of the ruling Workers' Party has decreed that North Korea will not relinquish its nuclear arsenal, which it termed a “precious legacy” of the country's late leaders, according to local sources …
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Test Feed Using Fields and The American Conservative
Kashmir Hill / Gizmodo:
When a Stranger Decides to Destroy Your Life — Monika Glennon has lived in Huntsville, Alabama, for the last 12 years. Other than a strong Polish accent, she fits a certain stereotype of the All-American life. She's blonde. Her husband is a veteran Marine.
Michael Wines / New York Times:
New Emails Show Michigan Republicans Plotting to Gerrymander Maps — WASHINGTON — Newly disclosed emails show Michigan Republicans angling to give their party a dominant position through gerrymandered maps and celebrating the plight of their Democratic rivals.
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Shakesville, MSNBC, HuffPost, Political Wire, IJR, Daily Kos, Law & Crime, Eclectablog and Bridge Magazine
Jacob Snow / ACLU:
Amazon's Face Recognition Falsely Matched 28 Members of Congress With Mugshots — Amazon's face surveillance technology is the target of growing opposition nationwide, and today, there are 28 more causes for concern. In a test the ACLU recently conducted of the facial recognition tool …
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Adiel Kaplan / miamiherald:
'That's ... ridiculous.' Florida domestic violence chief is paid $761,000 a year. — Tiffany Carr runs the state's top domestic violence organization, a nonprofit that uses public money — state and federal — to finance shelters and other essential services. And she makes a good living.
Washington Post:
Death notices for Syrian prisoners are suddenly piling up. It's a sign Assad has won the war. — BEIRUT — The Syrian government has begun issuing death notices for political detainees at an unprecedented rate, according to groups that monitor the prisons, in an effort to resolve the fate …
Alexander Burns / New York Times:
To Take the Senate, Democratic Group Will Spend Big in Red States — A heavily funded Democratic group will spend tens of millions of dollars to mobilize voters in the Republican-leaning states where control of the Senate is likely to be decided this November, stepping in to fill a void left …
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NTK Network, Daily Kos and CNN
New York Post:
Dead body found near Trump golf course — A body washed up on the shore of the Trump Golf Links near the Whitestone Bridge in The Bronx Wednesday evening, sources said. — The corpse was discovered at Ferry Point on the grounds of the public course — run by President Trump's private company …
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The Daily Caller and CBS New York