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William K. Rashbaum / New York Times:
Trump's Former Fixer, Michael Cohen, Reaches a Plea Agreement Over Payments to Women  —  Michael Cohen, President Trump's former lawyer, reached a plea agreement with prosecutors investigating payments he made to women for Mr. Trump, a person familiar with the matter said.
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NBC News:
Ex-Trump lawyer Michael Cohen discussing plea deal with prosecutors  —  The deal could come as early as today, say sources familiar with the matter.  —  Michael Cohen, President Trump's former personal attorney, is discussing a possible guilty plea with federal prosecutors in Manhattan …
Kara Scannell / CNN:
Michael Cohen surrenders to FBI, plea deal expected soon  —  (CNN)Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump's former personal attorney, has surrendered to the FBI ahead of a 4 p.m. court proceeding, where the government is expected to disclose a plea deal, according to a law enforcement source.
Matt Zapotosky / Washington Post:
Manafort convicted of 8 counts, judge will declare mistrial in 10 others  —  A jury has found former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort guilty after a three-week trial on tax and bank fraud charges — a major if not complete victory for special counsel Robert S. Mueller III as he continues to investigate the president's associates.
Pierre Thomas / ABC News:
Manafort found guilty on 8 counts in tax fraud trial  —  After nearly four days of deliberation, a jury found former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort guilty on eight counts of financial crimes, marking the first major prosecution won by special counsel Robert Mueller in his investigation …
Discussion: Politico, Vox, Axios and Breitbart
Devlin Barrett / Washington Post:
Trump's longtime lawyer Michael Cohen has surrendered to FBI as he prepares to plead guilty in federal investigation  —  President Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen has surrendered to the FBI in New York as he prepares to plead guilty Tuesday afternoon in an investigation into his activities …
CNN:
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Sharon LaFraniere / New York Times:
Paul Manafort Convicted in Fraud Trial  —  ALEXANDRIA, Va. — Paul Manafort, President Trump's former campaign chairman, was convicted on Tuesday in his financial fraud trial, bringing a dramatic end to a politically charged case that riveted the capital.  —  The verdict was a victory …
Discussion: National Review and Bloomberg
Wall Street Journal:
Michael Cohen to Plead Guilty to Criminal Charges  —  Trump's longtime ‘fixer’ reaches plea deal with federal prosecutors  —  Michael Cohen, President Trump's former lawyer, is expected to plead guilty to criminal charges Tuesday afternoon in Manhattan federal court, according to people familiar …
Bloomberg:
Cohen Says He Violated Law at Behest of Candidate: Plea Update
Luke Harding / The Guardian:
Author of Trump-Russia dossier wins libel case in US court  —  Suit against Christopher Steele by three Russian oligarchs thrown out by judge  —  The former MI6 officer Christopher Steele has won a legal battle in the United States against three Russian oligarchs who sued him over allegations …
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New York Times:
New Russian Hacking Targeted Republican Groups, Microsoft Says  —  BOSTON — The Russian military intelligence unit that sought to influence the 2016 election appears to have a new target: conservative American think tanks that have broken with President Trump and are seeking continued sanctions …
Stephen F. Hayes / Weekly Standard:
Rand Paul, Russian Stooge
Discussion: New York Times and The Week
Niels Lesniewski / Roll Call:   Rand Paul Suggests Talking to Russia About the Size of NATO
Charlie Kirk / The Hill:   President Trump is making diplomacy great again
Gabriel Sherman / Vanity Fair:
“They're Squeezing Don Jr. Right Now”: As the Mueller Siege Tightens, Trump's Twitter Rage Crests  —  White House counsel Don McGahn's interviews with Mueller have rattled Trump to his core.  “Total meltdown,” one outside adviser said of his mood, while a Republican ally described him as “extremely frustrated.”
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emptywheel:
It Is False to Claim There Was No Follow-Up to the June 9 Meeting
Discussion: The Week
Paul Waldman / Washington Post:
A ‘perjury trap’ isn't the real reason Trump won't answer Mueller's questions
Discussion: CNN, Feeds and Raw Story
Reuters:
Exclusive: Trump worries that Mueller interview could be a ‘perjury trap’
Katherine Lam / Fox News:
Mollie Tibbetts, missing Iowa student, found dead, her father says  —  Two sources tell Fox News that the body of the missing Iowa student has been found; Matt Finn reports.  —  The body of missing college student Mollie Tibbetts was found Tuesday, her father and two sources told Fox News …
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Cleve R. Wootson Jr / Washington Post:
Investigators: Suspect in Mollie Tibbetts death is in custody, subject to immigration detainer  —  More than a month after Mollie Tibbetts went out for a jog and disappeared — and days after investigators searching for the missing Iowa college student said they were focusing their efforts …
Elizabeth Dwoskin / Washington Post:
Facebook is rating the trustworthiness of its users on a scale from zero to one  —  SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook has begun to assign its users a reputation score, predicting their trustworthiness on a scale from zero to one.  —  The previously unreported ratings system, which Facebook has developed …
Alexi McCammond / Axios:
How voting for Kavanaugh could hurt Susan Collins' re-election bid  —  Maine voters are less likely to support Republican Sen. Susan Collins for re-election if she votes to confirm President Trump's Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, according to a new Public Policy Polling survey.
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Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
Collins: Kavanaugh sees Roe v. Wade as ‘settled law’
Discussion: RedState and ABC News
Lisa Friedman / New York Times:
E.P.A.'s New Coal Pollution Rules Will Lead to More Deaths, Agency's Numbers Show  —  Want climate news in your inbox?  Sign up for our Climate Fwd: newsletter.  —  WASHINGTON — The Trump administration on Tuesday made public the details of its new pollution rules governing coal-burning power plants …
Amanda Macias / CNBC:
Russia is preparing to search for a nuclear-powered missile that was lost at sea months ago after a failed test  — Moscow is preparing to recover a nuclear-powered missile lost at sea, according to sources with direct knowledge of a U.S. intelligence report.
Discussion: Task & Purpose
McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Two Republicans want to be called farmers on the ballot.  Democrats say they're not  —  WASHINGTON  —  Reps. Jeff Denham and Devin Nunes say they're farmers, and that's how they're going to be described on this fall's California election ballots.  —  But are they farmers?
Steven L. Hall / Washington Post:
CIA officers learn to keep quiet.  Why are so many of us speaking out about Trump?  —  And why is the White House so eager to retaliate for it?  —  Former head of Russian operations for the CIA  —  Here's what is really going on when President Trump rescinds the security clearances …
Discussion: Hit & Run and Daily Wire
Sally Jenkins / Washington Post:
Prehistoric college football coaches are killing players.  It's past time to stop them.  —  Heatstroke didn't kill Jordan McNair, the berserk excesses of coach DJ Durkin and his staff did.  No amount of “honoring” McNair can pretty up that fact.  The investigation into what Maryland did wrong after McNair collapsed is misplaced.
Kevin Breuninger / CNBC:
Sen. Elizabeth Warren's new reform bill would ban members of Congress from owning individual stocks  — Sen. Elizabeth Warren proposes a new bill that would ban members of Congress and the White House staff from owning individual stocks.  — As an apparent alternative, the legislation would create …
Discussion: IJR, Daily Kos and Political Wire
Kelly Conaboy / The Cut:
Do Men Enter Bathtubs on Hands and Knees So Their Balls Hit the Water Last?  —  The bathroom is a mysterious place.  What goes on inside varies for everyone, or maybe it doesn't; we simply do not know.  The question has prompted some discussion in the past, and I suspect it will continue …
Discussion: Althouse
The Guardian:
Arctic's strongest sea ice breaks up for first time on record  —  Usually frozen waters open up twice this year in phenomenon scientists described as scary  —  The oldest and thickest sea ice in the Arctic has started to break up, opening waters north of Greenland that are normally frozen, even in summer.
Natasha Bertrand / The Atlantic:
Christopher Steele's Victory in a D.C. Court  —  The author of the explosive dossier outlining the president's alleged ties to Russia won an important legal victory on Monday, when a judge dismissed a defamation lawsuit brought against his firm by the co-founders of Russia's largest private bank.
New York Times:
Facebook Fueled Anti-Refugee Attacks in Germany, New Research Suggests  —  ALTENA, Germany — When you ask locals why Dirk Denkhaus, a young firefighter trainee who had been considered neither dangerous nor political, broke into the attic of a refugee group house and tried to set it on fire, they will list the familiar issues.
Jeremy Barr / Hollywood Reporter:
Amid Threats of Violence, White House Reporter April Ryan Fights for the Press  —  The CNN contributor says she recently hired a bodyguard on her own dime.  —  Few reporters have lived the Trump administration's war against the press more vividly than April Ryan, a 21-year veteran …
Robert Silverman / HuffPost:
How An Elite New York City Prep School Created A Safe Space For Angry Zionists  —  Influential parents accused Riverdale Country School of leftist “indoctrination,” and now two teachers are gone.  A parable about the real political correctness.  —  On the morning of May 15 …
Alexi McCammond / Axios:
Trump's September rally schedule ahead of the midterms  —  President Trump will campaign in Nevada, Kentucky, and Tennessee next month to support Republican candidates ahead of the 2018 midterm elections in November, according to a person familiar with his thinking — they did not specify which candidates.
Discussion: Washington Post
William Booth / Washington Post:
Chef Jamie Oliver accused of ‘cultural appropriation’ for his Jamaican ‘Punchy Jerk Rice’  —  LONDON — Jamie Oliver, the popular British chef and global food entrepreneur, is caught in a very British tussle over “cultural appropriation.”  —  His international conglomerate recently released …
Discussion: Hit & Run and The Guardian
 
 
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FIRE:
Rutgers caves to outrage mob: Professor faces punishment for Facebook posts about white people, Harlem gentrification
Discussion: Gothamist, Breitbart and Law & Crime
Darren J. Beattie / American Greatness:
Read the Paper CNN Says Is ‘White Supremacist’
Discussion: Washington Post
Ryan Cooper / The Week:
Fact checkers have a Medicare-for-all problem
Discussion: twitchy.com, Observer and Jacobin
Megan Keller / The Hill:
Flynn sentencing hearing delayed
Discussion: Political Wire
Richard Florida / CityLab:
The Geography of Urban Violence
Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
The Mueller investigation is showing how badly we've failed to prosecute white-collar crime
Glenn Harlan Reynolds / USA Today:
Hypocritical politically motivated feminism is killing #MeToo. Just ask Keith Ellison.
Discussion: New Republic and Weekly Standard
Pratheek Rebala / TIME:
The State Department Hired Cambridge Analytica's Parent Company to Target Terrorist Propaganda
Discussion: Gizmodo
 Earlier Items: 
John Tibbetts / Washington Post:
Sea level rise is eroding home value, and owners might not even know it
Kelly Marie Tran / New York Times:
I Won't Be Marginalized by Online Harassment
Michael Wilson / New York Times:
A New Wife, a Secret Past and a Trail of Loss and Blood
Mitchell P. Brook / USA Today:
Donald Trump should sue John Brennan to bring civility back to our politics
Tara Palmeri / ABC News:
Nazi death camp guard arrested by ICE, deported to Germany: Authorities
Emily Badger / New York Times:
The Bipartisan Cry of ‘Not in My Backyard’
Discussion: ThinkProgress and CityLab
Elizabeth Dwoskin / Washington Post:
Microsoft says it has found a Russian operation targeting U.S. political institutions
Shane Dixon Kavanaugh / Oregonian:
He brought an American flag to protest fascism in Portland. Then antifa attacked him
 

 
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is working on a smart doorbell system with advanced facial recognition that can wirelessly connect and unlock third-party smart locks

Financial Times:
Sources: Palantir and Anduril are in talks with OpenAI, SpaceX, and more to form a consortium to bid for US defense contracts and plan to announce it in January

Wall Street Journal:
Gina Raimondo says holding back China in the chips race is a “fool's errand”, and investment, more than export controls, will keep US ahead of Beijing
 
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