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Eli Watkins / CNN:
Chris Christie: I warned Trump about Flynn  —  Source: Michael Flynn to plead the Fifth  —  Washington (CNN)New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said on Monday that if it were up to him, retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn never would have had a White House job.  —  After ending his own presidential bid …
NBC News:
Flynn ‘Lied to Investigators’ About Russia Trip, Says Top House Dem
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Raw Story
John Wagner / Washington Post:
Chris Christie: 'I wouldn't let General Flynn in the White House, let alone give him a job'
Adam Entous / Washington Post:
Trump asked intelligence chiefs to push back against FBI collusion probe after Comey revealed its existence  —  President Trump asked two of the nation's top intelligence officials in March to help him push back against an FBI investigation into possible coordination between his campaign …
Rick Hasen / electionlawblog.org:
Breaking and Analysis: Supreme Court on 5-3 Vote Affirms NC Racial Gerrymandering Case, with Thomas in Majority and Roberts in Dissent  —  The Supreme Court has issued this 5-3 opinion in Cooper v. Harris.  Justice Kagan wrote the opinion for the Court, with Justice Thomas making the fifth vote for affirmance.
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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Justices Reject 2 Gerrymandered North Carolina Districts, Citing Racial Bias  —  WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday struck down two North Carolina congressional districts, ruling that lawmakers had violated the Constitution by relying too heavily on race in drawing them.
Richard Wolf / USA Today:
Supreme Court strikes down North Carolina maps for Congress
Discussion: Bloomberg, CNN, The Week and Political Wire
CNN:
First on CNN: Mueller briefed on secret Comey memos, source says  —  Special counsel to lead Russia investigation  —  (CNN)Robert Mueller — the former FBI director now overseeing the Department of Justice's investigation into Russia's election-year meddling and contact with the Trump campaign …
Discussion: Mediaite
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Simon Maloy / The Week:
The Trump White House is collapsing  —  Donald Trump certainly seems like he's having a lovely time on his first international trip as president.  He touched down in Saudi Arabia over the weekend and was given an over-the-top reception by his hosts.  The Saudis presented him with a medal …
Austin Wright / Politico:
Chaffetz postpones Wednesday hearing after speaking with Comey
Josh Dawsey / Politico:
Escalating probes rattle Trump and his aides
Discussion: Politicus USA
Seung Min Kim / Politico:   Sessions' Senate testimony canceled this week
Angela Hart / Sacramento Bee:
The price tag on universal health care is in, and it's bigger than California's budget  —  It would cost $400 billion per year to remake California's health insurance marketplace and create a publicly funded universal heath care system, according to a state financial analysis released Monday.
Discussion: Power Line, Instapundit and twitchy.com
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Dylan Scott / Vox:
California's single-payer plan costs $400 billion — twice the state's entire budget  —  The state's ambitious bid to establish a single-payer health care system has a hefty price tag.  —  California is undertaking an ambitious bid to establish a single-payer health care system, and now its plan has a price tag: $400 billion a year.
Discussion: MattBruenig
Melanie Mason / Los Angeles Times:
Single-payer healthcare could cost $400 billion to implement in California
Discussion: Hot Air
The Daily Beast:
Fox News Staffers ‘Embarrassed’ by Hannity's Conspiracy Theory Crusade … Fox News staffers are growing increasingly dismayed as network star Sean Hannity and others continue to promote the unfounded conspiracy theory that Seth Rich, a Democratic National Committee staffer was murdered last year for talking to WikiLeaks.
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Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed:
How One Pro-Trump Site Keeps A Debunked Conspiracy Theory Alive  —  The top story on pro-Trump media last week was a conspiracy about a murdered Democratic National Committee staffer and his alleged connection to WikiLeaks.  —  A typical Gateway Pundit headline.
Tampa Bay Times:
Suspect tells police he killed Tampa Palms roommates for disrespecting his Muslim faith  —  TAMPA — A man accused of shooting his roommates in a New Tampa apartment told police he shared neo-Nazi beliefs with the two men until he converted to Islam then killed them because they disrespected his faith.
Andrew Rafferty / NBC News:
Trump Becomes First Sitting U.S. President to Visit Western Wall  —  President Donald Trump placed a note in the Western Wall in Jerusalem on Monday, becoming the first sitting U.S. president to visit one of Judaism's holiest sites.  —  Trump later called it a “great honor” to visit the wall …
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Ben Mathis-Lilley / Slate:   The President Just Told a Room of Israelis That He “Just Got Back From the Middle East”
Washington Post:
Trump close to choosing outside counsel for Russia investigation  —  President Trump is moving rapidly toward assembling outside counsel to help him navigate the investigations into his campaign and Russian interference in last year's election, and in recent days he and his advisers …
Discussion: Axios, Talking Points Memo and CNBC
Monica Lewinsky / New York Times:
Roger Ailes's Dream Was My Nightmare  —  This is not another obituary for Roger Ailes, who died last week a year after being ousted at Fox News.  It is, I hope, instead an obituary for the culture he purveyed — a culture that affected me profoundly and personally.
Discussion: Mediaite, The Week and Raw Story
Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
The case for impeaching Trump — and fast  —  This is the exact situation impeachment was meant for.  Let's hurry up.  —  Impeachment of an American president is a weighty measure that's only been used a handful of times in our history.  And on two of those occasions, the judgment of history has come down against the impeachers.
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Charles M. Blow / New York Times:
Blood in the Water  —  Donald Trump has left the country …
Discussion: Daily Kos
Dennis Romboy / Deseret News:
Frustrated Utah Republicans, Democrats form new centrist political party  —  SALT LAKE CITY — Some disaffected Republicans and Democrats who say extreme views are co-opting their parties have decided to carve out a middle ground in Utah politics.  —  Taking a centrist approach …
Discussion: Political Wire
Angela Hart / Sacramento Bee:
California Democrats flip off Donald Trump  —  The anti-Trump fervor at California's Democratic Party convention this weekend can be summarized in choice words from outgoing chair of the California Democratic Party, John Burton: “F*%!  Donald Trump.”  —  The always foul-mouthed Burton …
Eric Lipton / New York Times:
White House Moves to Block Ethics Inquiry Into Ex-Lobbyists on Payroll  —  The Trump administration, in a significant escalation of its clash with the government's top ethics watchdog, has moved to block an effort to disclose the names of former lobbyists who have been granted waivers to work in the White House or federal agencies.
Jenni Fink / IJR:
Sheriff Clarke Denies Plagiarism Claim as His Supporters Go After the Reporter Who Broke the Story  —  On Saturday, CNN KFILE writers Andrew Kaczynski, Christopher Massie, and Nathan McDermott accused Milwaukee Sheriff David Clarke of plagiarizing his master's thesis.
CNN:
Trump's casino was a money laundering concern shortly after it opened  —  (CNN)The Trump Taj Mahal casino broke anti-money laundering rules 106 times in its first year and a half of operation in the early 1990s, according to the IRS in a 1998 settlement agreement.
Kate Royals / Mississippi Today:
Rep. Karl Oliver: Those removing Confederate monuments ‘should be lynched’  —  A state representative from Winona who urged in a weekend Facebook post that those who support the removal of Confederate monuments be lynched has apologized.  —  Rep. Karl Oliver, R-Winona, wrote …
Washington Post:
Behold!  President Trump and the mysterious glowing orb.  —  When President Trump laid hands on the glowing Saudi mystery orb, he pledged allegiance to “Its Luminescence,” summoned the forces of Sauron to take over Middle-earth and created an “army of Moderate Muslims to fight terror.”
Palm Beach, FL:
Sinkhole in front of Mar-a-Lago  —  A 4' x 4' sinkhole has formed on Southern Boulevard directly in front of Mar-a-Lago.  It appears to be in the vicinity of the newly installed water main.  West Palm Beach Utilities distribution crews have secured the area and will most likely need to do some exploratory excavation today.
Hank Berrien / Daily Wire:
Surprise, San Francisco Restaurant Workers!  Minimum Wage Hike Is Killing Restaurants By The Dozens  —  If you're a leftist in San Francisco or Oakland, California (highly likely), you probably cheered as the city implemented a minimum wage hike last summer raising the wage to $13 an hour …
Discussion: RedState
 
 
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Robert Samuels / Washington Post:
In a struggling factory town, residents want Washington to cut the ‘drama’ and get to work
Discussion: Raw Story
Alan Gomez / USA Today:
More than 600K foreigners overstayed visas in 2016
Chris Ariens / TVNewser:
For 1st Time in 17 Years, Fox News Was 3rd in Prime Time Demo
Fredreka Schouten / USA Today:
Tomi Lahren lands job with a pro-Trump Great America Alliance
Gregory Korte / USA Today:
Trump's views on Islam ‘continue to evolve,’ Secretary of State Rex Tillerson says
Discussion: Daily Wire
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Bryan Bender / Politico:
Israeli Officers: You're Doing ISIS Wrong
Patrick Svitek / The Texas Tribune:
Texas GOP Chairman Tom Mechler resigns
Nicholas Bagley / The Incidental Economist:
Taking the Nuclear Option Off the Table
Dave Mosher / Business Insider:
Scientists have found a way to photograph people in 3D through walls using Wi-Fi
Discussion: Infowars
Mallory Shelbourne / The Hill:
Report: Girl in Weiner sexting case lied to damage Clinton
Discussion: WhoWhatWhy and CANNONFIRE
Ryan Lizza / New Yorker:
Why Sally Yates Stood Up to Trump
Discussion: Fusion, Above the Law and The Week
Washington Post:
Poll: Democrats have edge over Republican front-runner in Va. governor's race