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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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John Bowden / The Hill:
GOP lawmaker: 'Nobody's going to be surprised' if Trump approved Russia meeting — (R-Calif.) on Saturday downplayed renewed scrutiny over whether President Trump — knew in advance about his son's meeting with a Russian lawyer offering dirt on Hillary Clinton
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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
Joint defense with Cohen over, experts hired to analyze Trump-Cohen tape: Giuliani
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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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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Lawyers, Guns & Money, Raw Story, Talking Points Memo, AOL, Mediaite and CBS Boston
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.
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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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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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.
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 …
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Anne Applebaum / Washington Post:
Maria Butina is just the tip of the Russia iceberg
@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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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 …
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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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.
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.
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.
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.
Associated Press:
‘Koch brothers’ rebrand underway, still a conservative force — The conservative Koch brothers are no more — even if they remain a political powerhouse. — The Democrats' super villains for much of the last decade have quietly launched a rebranding effort that may vanquish the “Koch brothers” moniker from American politics.
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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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Avery Anapol / The Hill:
Therapists say they've seen a rise in anxiety under Trump: report — Therapists in the U.S. say they have seen a rise in politically-related anxiety under the Trump presidency. — Though a condition has not been officially named, therapists and patients have referred to it as …
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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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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