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Aidan McLaughlin / Mediaite:
GOP Rep. Issa: 'Nobody's Going to be Surprised' If Trump Lied About Russia Meeting — Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) appeared on Fox News for an interview with Neil Cavuto Saturday, and trashed former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen as a “turncoat,” before downplaying the potential that President Donald Trump lied …
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Brent D. Griffiths / Politico:
Giuliani: Cohen and Trump's legal teams have severed ties — Rudy Giuliani signaled on Saturday that President Donald Trump and his legal team are severing ties to Michael Cohen, the president's longtime former personal attorney. — “We have complained to them that he's violated …
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Political Wire and Mediaite
Tara Palmeri / ABC News:
Joint defense with Cohen over, experts hired to analyze Trump-Cohen tape: Giuliani — President Trump's legal team warned his former lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen, both publicly and privately, that he's in violation of attorney client privilege and has cautioned him against talking, Trump's lawyer Rudy Giuliani told ABC News.
John Bowden / The Hill:
GOP lawmaker: 'Nobody's going to be surprised' if Trump approved Russia meeting
GOP lawmaker: 'Nobody's going to be surprised' if Trump approved Russia meeting
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Joe.My.God. and The Resurgent
Natasha Bertrand / The Atlantic:
The Case for a Trump-Russia Conspiracy Just Got a Little Stronger
The Case for a Trump-Russia Conspiracy Just Got a Little Stronger
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Maegan Vazquez / CNN:
Trump's ex-lawyer: Giuliani hurt Trump's case by flip-flopping on Cohen
Trump's ex-lawyer: Giuliani hurt Trump's case by flip-flopping on Cohen
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The Resurgent, Joe.My.God., POLITICUSUSA, Raw Story, Political Wire and The Week, more at Mediagazer »
New York Times:
Still Standing, Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump Step Back in the Spotlight — They have waited out, and in some cases ground down, their critics, and are ready to make a more visible push for their priorities. — WASHINGTON — They disappointed climate change activists who thought …
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Mallory Moench / NBC News:
U.S. citizen's family was denied visas under Trump's travel ban. Then he died by suicide. — Salem was one of thousands of Yemeni-Americans separated from non-U.S. citizen family members by Trump's travel ban. — In the early morning hours of July 18, Mahmood Salem told his family …
Scott Barrett / The Newport Daily News:
Trump supporters, opponents clash at Spicer book signing | VIDEO — WARNING: This video contains strong language. — MIDDLETOWN — Supporters and opponents of President Donald Trump verbally clashed inside and outside Barnes & Noble on Friday evening during a book signing …
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Associated Press:
Black man accuses Sean Spicer of hurling racial slur at him — MIDDLETOWN, R.I. (AP) — A black man yelled at former White House press secretary Sean Spicer in a bookstore and accused Spicer of calling him a racial slur when they were students at a prep school decades ago.
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Mediaite, Political Wire and Splinter
George F. Will / Washington Post:
Our socialist president — For three months in 1917, Leon Trotsky lived in the Bronx, just south of the congressional district where Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently defeated a 10-term incumbent in a Democratic primary. Because she calls herself a democratic socialist, the word “socialism” …
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Raw Story and Cafe Hayek
Wendy Siegelman:
‘US Person 2’ in the case of alleged Russian agent Maria Butina is George O'Neill—his daughter interned for Dana Rohrabacher and helped with an anti-Magnitsky event — New research reveals another link between alleged Russian agent Maria Butina and Pro-Russia congressman Dana Rohrabacher.
@thebudgetguy:
House Republicans Are In Almost Total Disarray As Summer Recess Begins — Consider all of the following now that the House of Representatives has left Washington until after Labor Day. — Paul Ryan (R-WI) is a lame duck speaker who no longer seems to care about supporting Donald Trump or Trump's legislative agenda.
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Hugh Bronstein / Reuters:
U.S. says farmers could get cash aid by October but will not be made whole — BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - U.S. farmers could receive cash payments from a planned $12 billion aid package as soon as late September, U.S. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue told Reuters on Saturday …
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Talking Points Memo and Raw Story
Lori Rozsa / Washington Post:
Immigrant girl hides in auto shop after escaping attendants from Florida detention facility — The 15-year-old Honduran girl couldn't take it anymore. She had been held in the Florida detention facility for three weeks, and it felt like a prison. — So when she saw an opportunity …
Megan McArdle / Washington Post:
Venezuela's inflation will hit 1 million percent. Thanks, socialism. — According to the International Monetary Fund, by the end of the year, the annual inflation rate in Venezuela will reach 1 million percent. — A number like that is hard to grasp. Simply put, a candy bar …
Washington Post:
‘Deleted’ families: What went wrong with Trump's family-separation effort — When a federal judge ordered the Trump administration to reunify migrant families separated at the border, the government's cleanup crews faced an immediate problem. — They weren't sure who the families were, let alone what to call them.
Kimberley A. Strassel / Wall Street Journal:
Devin Nunes, Washington's Public Enemy No. 1 — What did the FBI do in the 2016 campaign? The head of the House inquiry on what he has found—and questions still unanswered. — Tulare, Calif. — It's 105 degrees as I stand with Rep. Devin Nunes on his family's dairy farm.
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John S. Martin / Washington Post:
The baseless, shameful campaign to discredit Rod Rosenstein
Eve Peyser / New York Times:
I Wanted a Dog. I Bake Bread Instead. — I wanted a dog. But my boyfriend claims to be “extremely allergic.” So I settled for sourdough starter instead. — Unlike a puppy, my pet starter doesn't provide me with sweet kisses or especially cute Instagram content. But like a dog, it is a living organism.
Anne Applebaum / Washington Post:
Maria Butina is just the tip of the Russia iceberg — By day, he ran a travel agency. Off hours, Jacob Golos worked for the Soviet Union. Unlike some of his fictional successors, he did not pretend to be a native. But from the time of its founding in 1927 until his death in 1943 …
Joyce Karam / The National:
EXCLUSIVE: US plans to host GCC summit in October — Working groups will meet in August to discuss framework and agenda — The United States plans to host a summit for the Gulf Co-operation Council and plans are in place to hold the meeting in mid October.
New York Times:
He Was Dow's ‘Dioxin Lawyer.’ Now He's Trump's Choice to Run the Superfund Program. — The lawyer nominated to run the Superfund toxic cleanup program is steeped in the complexities of restoring polluted rivers and chemical dumps. He spent more than a decade on one of the nation's most extensive cleanups …
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Agence France-Presse:
Amsterdam ‘lawless jungle’ at night, ombudsman warns — Tourist hotspot Amsterdam transforms into a “lawless jungle” after dark with the police powerless to intervene against crime and violence, the city ombudsman has warned — Tourist hotspot Amsterdam turns into a “lawless jungle” …
Jay McKenzie:
Dustin Giebel and Russia's Controlled Opposition in Action: How Unwitting and Controlled Actors on the Left Are Helping Putin Win the Information War. — It's easy for even casual observers of Russian active measures and disinformation efforts to note the similarities between the Alt-Right and the Kremlin.
Andrew Kaczynski / CNN:
HHS official who made anti-Muslim comments and spread conspiracy theories resigns — (CNN)Ximena Barreto, a far-right political pundit who was appointed in December to a communications post at the Department of Health and Human Services, resigned on Friday, an HHS official confirmed to CNN.
Asawin Suebsaeng / The Daily Beast:
War Between Kimberly Guilfoyle and Fox News Explodes Over Dueling ‘D*ck Pics’ Claims … The bitter, long-brewing war between Fox News and former Fox host Kimberly Guilfoyle has taken a very public detour into territory strangely familiar for the conservative media behemoth: hotly disputed dick-pic allegations.
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Dan Diamond / Politico:
Trump policy shop filters facts to fit his message — 'It's just another example of how we're moving to a post-fact era,' a former official says. — President Donald Trump's appointees in the health department have deleted positive references to Obamacare, altered a report that undermined …
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New York Times:
In Georgia Governor's Race, a Defining Moment for a Southern State — ATLANTA — The Republican won the nomination Tuesday after branding himself a politically incorrect conservative who would “round up criminal illegals” and haul them to the border in his very own pickup.
Washington Post:
Actually, guns do kill people, according to a new study — A new study published in the journal JAMA Network Open underscores an often overlooked factor in gun-policy debates: When it comes to lethality, not all guns are created equal. — Analyzing data on hundreds of shootings in Boston …
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