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CBS News:
Omarosa reveals audio of Trump campaign aides allegedly discussing potential fallout of N-word  —  President Trump says former White House staffer Omarosa Manigault-Newman lied when she called him a racist who has said the N-word on tape.  The president tweeted Monday night, “I don't have that word in my vocabulary and never have.
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Caleb Ecarma / Mediaite:
Ex-Trump Aide Seb Gorka is Giving Out Fake Fox News Business Cards  —  President Donald Trump's former aide Sebastian Gorka is giving out phony Fox News business cards, Mediaite has learned.  —  Gorka, who was fired from his nebulous role at the White House late last year …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Splinter
Chris Sommerfeldt / New York Daily News:
President Trump called Donald Jr. ‘a f—kup’ after he released emails about controversial meet with Russian lawyer, book says  —  President Trump blasted his firstborn son as a “f—kup” after learning he had released emails about a controversial Trump Tower meeting attended by a Kremlin-connected lawyer …
Discussion: Mediaite and Political Wire
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Omarosa puts Trump on his heels  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  AN OMAROSA OBSERVATION ... THIS IS the second time PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP has been entangled with a woman who is equally adept at playing the media.  First it was Stormy Daniels.  Now it seems like Omarosa has gotten in Trump's head.
Kaili Joy Gray / Shareblue Media:
Trump calls a black woman a ‘dog’ to prove he's not racist  —  Yes, Trump is racist.  Very, very racist.  And he always has been.  —  Trump is horribly racist.  But we've known that all along.  —  He launched his campaign in 2016 by calling Mexicans rapists.  He says predominantly Latino immigrants are “animals.”
Discussion: The Week, France 24 and Populist Media
Ben White / Politico:
Kudlow: Economy will help GOP keep its grip on House  —  NEW YORK — Larry Kudlow, President Donald Trump's top economic adviser, says Republicans will hold the House this fall and the economy will be a big reason why.  —  “These are very good times and the midterms will be a report card on that …
Politico:
Trump tried to ban top aides from penning tell-all books  —  Sources say top officials were asked to sign a non-disclosure agreement prohibiting such books without the express permission of the president.  —  Long before Omarosa Manigault Newman lodged explosive claims against her former boss …
Yashar Ali / HuffPost:
Exclusive: Omarosa Said Former TV Contestant Played Tape Of Racist Slur For Her In White House, Sources Say  —  The former White House aide and “Apprentice” contestant claims Trump could be heard using the “n-word” on the alleged audio recording, sources close to her confirm she told them in December.
Eliana Johnson / Politico:
Trump offers White House staffers a special perk at his golf club  —  There's an under-the-radar perk being offered to staffers in President Donald Trump's administration — discounts on Trump-branded merchandise sold at his Bedminster, New Jersey, golf club.
Haley Byrd / Weekly Standard:
Mark Zaid: ‘Any NDA that extends beyond classified information would be unconstitutional.’
Elaina Plott / The Atlantic:   Omarosa Slams Her Former Colleagues in Forthcoming Tell-All
Washington Post:
‘Everyone signed one’: Trump is aggressive in his use of nondisclosure agreements, even in government
Discussion: The Week and Weekly Standard
Linda Qiu / New York Times:
Trump Goes for Broke on Claim Military Received No Money Before His Watch.  (He's Still Wrong.)  —  While signing the annual funding bill, President Trump inaccurately claimed that the amount was “historic” and the military had “never” previously received funding.
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CNN:
President Trump visits upstate New York
Discussion: New York Times and POLITICUSUSA
Jonathan Allen / NBC News:
Trump snubs John McCain during bill signing intended to honor him
Discussion: MSNBC and Raw Story
CNN:
Manafort emailed Kushner with recommendations for senior administration posts  —  Banker testifies after unexplained recess  —  (CNN)Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner is now officially part of the trove of evidence in Paul Manafort's criminal trial, as part of an email exchange …
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA
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Bloomberg:
Manafort Turned to Kushner in Attempt to Get Banker a Trump Job
Discussion: Politico
Luppe B. Luppen / Yahoo:   3 missing men at the Manafort trial
Roger Stone / The Daily Caller:
The Witch Hunt Continues  —  One of Stone's Rules is “The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.”  Even I may have taken exception to that rule last Friday.  —  If you followed the news last Friday, you know that my longtime friend Kristin Davis testified …
Discussion: The Hill and emptywheel
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Morgan Chalfant / The Hill:
Signs grow that Mueller is zeroing in on Roger Stone  —  appears to be narrowing his focus on Roger Stone  —  in his investigation into Russian interference in the election, prompting widespread speculation that the longtime adviser to President Trump  —  is likely a target in the probe.
Discussion: Mother Jones
Avi Selk / Washington Post:
Antifa protesters couldn't find any fascists at Unite the Right — and harassed the press instead  —  Antifascists, according to their own doctrine, fight fascism.  Sounds simple enough.  —  Granted, members of the loosely organized Antifa movement define “fascism” vaguely …
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gofundme.com:
Support for FBI Veteran Pete Strzok  —  $25,031 of $150,000 goal Raised by 607 people in 3 hours  —  Friends Of Special Agent Peter Strzok  —  Peter Strzok, a man who has spent his entire life working to help keep us and our nation safe, has been fired.  He needs your help.
kob.com:
Judge denies motion to detain New Mexico compound suspects after hours-long hearing  —  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - State prosecutors' motion to detain five adults arrested after a raid in northern New Mexico earlier this month was denied by a judge on Monday.  —  Judge Sarah Backus made the determination …
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Matt Richardson / Fox News:
Horrifying details released in investigation of ‘extremist Muslim’ …
Discussion: Townhall, CNN and Daily Wire
BBC:
Westminster car crash: Man arrested on suspicion of terror offences  —  A man has been arrested on suspicion of terrorism offences after a car crashed outside the Houses of Parliament.  —  The vehicle swerved into cyclists and pedestrians shortly after 07:30 BST, injuring three people.
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Kim Hjelmgaard / USA Today:
British police say car crash outside British Parliament was terror attack
Discussion: Fox News and twitchy.com
Zoe Greenberg / New York Times:
What Happens to #MeToo When a Feminist Is the Accused?  —  The case seems like a familiar story turned on its head: Avital Ronell, a world-renowned female professor of German and Comparative Literature at New York University, was found responsible for sexually harassing a male former graduate student, Nimrod Reitman.
Luke Broadwater / Baltimore Sun:
Gonzales poll: Hogan leads Jealous by 16 points in Maryland governor's race  —  With less than three months until the general election, Republican Gov. Larry Hogan has a sizable lead over Democratic challenger Ben Jealousaccording to a new poll by Gonzales Research & Marketing Strategies.
Karol Markowicz / New York Post:
The media's blatant hypocrisy — even about media-bashing  —  Welcome to the age of self-congratulatory media.  “Democracy dies in darkness” goes the ridiculous tagline on The Washington Post's front page.  Reporters openly call themselves heroes and firefighters.
Discussion: The Tracinski Letter
Sarah Parvini / Los Angeles Times:
A growing number of California detainees are Indians crossing through Mexico to seek asylum  —  On a recent visit to the federal prison in Victorville, U.S. Rep. Mark Takano was caught by surprise.  Of the hundreds of immigrants detained there, he learned, possibly 40% had traveled from India seeking asylum.
Discussion: KTLA
Alexi McCammond / Axios:
Tom Steyer plans to register 100,000 millennials to vote  —  Tom Steyer's NextGen America organization is working to register 100,000 students in one month at college campuses across 11 states as part of its “Welcome Week” program launching this week.  —  Why it matters: This is the group's …
Discussion: Political Wire
William McGurn / Wall Street Journal:
Save Yourself, Mr. President  —  When it comes to overseeing the FBI and Justice, he's all tweet and no action.  —  Even a summer respite from Washington at his Bedminster golf club in New Jersey couldn't keep Donald Trump off Twitter .  —  Over the weekend the president went on a tear …
Marc Caputo / Politico:
Nelson's narrow lead with Florida Latinos worries Democrats  —  Sen. Bill Nelson holds a narrow 44-41 percent lead over Gov. Rick Scott among Latino voters in Florida's Senate race, according to a new poll that's raising fresh concerns among Democrats that the incumbent is in a dicey position …
 
 
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CNBC:
US reaps more than $1.4 billion from steel and aluminum tariffs, report finds
Annabelle Dickson / Politico:
UK foreign secretary to urge counterparts to strike ‘strategic’ Brexit deal
Susan Estrich / Boston Herald:
Donald Trump numbers not as bad as some believe
Discussion: Instapundit
Eric Felten / Weekly Standard:
Will Don Jr. Be Left Holding the Bag?
Discussion: Power Line
Carlo Muñoz / Washington Times:
Taliban blindsides U.S. forces with surprise Afghan offensive
John Verhovek / ABC News:
Governors' races take on an understated but outsize role in 2018 landscape
Discussion: Politico and New York Times
Aviva Shen / The Appeal:
NEW ORLEANS COURT ORDERED TO STOP FUNDING ITSELF ON THE BACKS OF THE POOR
 Earlier Items: 
Jonah Engel Bromwich / New York Times:
Today's Supreme Drop Is All Over the New York Post
Discussion: Observer
John Binder / Breitbart:
More Than Half of Foreign Refugees Are on Taxpayer-Funded Food Stamps
Kellen Browning / Sacramento Bee:
Two men identified in fatal fight on I-5; witnesses say one chased the other with a bat
Discussion: Daily Wire
Haiyang Zhang / Voice of America:
VOA Reporters Freed After Hours-long Detention by Chinese Authorities
Patrick Tucker / Defense One:
Russian Military Spy Software is on Hundreds of Thousands of Home Routers
Dan Alexander / Forbes:
New Report Uncovers (Even More) Ethical Issues For Wilbur Ross
Discussion: CNBC and CNN
Kate Taylor / Business Insider:
Rapper Azealia Banks claims she was at Elon Musk's house over the weekend as he was ‘scrounging for investors’
Discussion: Consequence of Sound and Gizmodo
Bloomberg:
Kushner's Ties to Russia-Linked Group Began With Kissinger Lunch
Discussion: Raw Story