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New York Times:
Trump Pondered Firing Mueller; His Aides Pushed Back  —  WASHINGTON — Last month's appointment of Robert S. Mueller III as a special counsel to investigate possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia enraged President Trump.  Yet, at least initially, he holstered his Twitter finger and publicly said nothing.
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Alan Fram / AP News:
AP sources: Trump tells senators House health bill ‘mean’  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump told Republican senators Tuesday that the House-passed health care bill he helped revive is “mean” and urged them to craft a version that is “more generous,” congressional sources said.
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Andrew Restuccia / Politico:   Trump tries to master the art of the tiny
Josh Dawsey / Politico:
Trump knocks House health care bill as too harsh
Peter Sullivan / The Hill:
Trump calls House healthcare bill ‘mean’
Discussion: Politicus USA
USA Today:
Trump property buyers make clear shift to secretive LLCs  —  Since President Trump won the Republican nomination, the majority of his companies' real estate sales are to secretive shell companies that obscure the buyers' identities, a USA TODAY investigation has found.
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Tom Hamburger / Washington Post:
Congressional Democrats to file emoluments lawsuit against Trump  —  Nearly 200 Democratic members of Congress agreed to file a lawsuit Wednesday against President Trump alleging that by retaining interests in a global business empire he has violated constitutional restrictions on taking gifts and benefits from foreign leaders.
Steve Reilly / USA Today:
Democrats in Congress suing Trump, citing conflicts
Discussion: Political Wire
Mike Isaac / New York Times:
David Bonderman Resigns From Uber Board After Sexist Remark  —  SAN FRANCISCO — David Bonderman, an Uber board member and partner at private equity firm TPG, is resigning from the board of the ride-hailing company after he made a disparaging remark about women at an Uber meeting on Tuesday …
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Yahoo! Finance:
LEAKED AUDIO: Uber's all-hands meeting had some uncomfortable moments  —  Uber held an all-hands meeting on Tuesday, during which the board announced that CEO  —  Travis Kalanick would take a leave of absence.  Furthermore, management shared  —  recommendations from the law firm Covington & Burling …
Mike Allen / Axios:
Sessions could earn a ticket to the grand jury  —  Dems smell blood, but it's not necessarily Jeff Sessions'.  The attorney general held his own at his high-stakes Senate hearing, at one point raising his voice to declare he was “not stonewalling,” and resented the “secret innuendo being leaked out there about me.”
Discussion: Political Wire
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
A Few Thoughts on the Sessions' Hearing  —  Let me share a few quick thoughts on today's Sessions hearing.  —  The big and overriding takeaway from this hearing is that Sessions declined to answer almost all the pertinent questions - in most cases because they involved his discussions …
Associated Press:
Sessions vigorously denies improper Russia contacts
Carlos Greer / Page Six:
NBC holding crisis meetings over Megyn Kelly … As families of the Sandy Hook victims continue to pressure NBC to ax Megyn Kelly's Sunday interview with conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, the network has been holding crisis meetings about how to handle the backlash.
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Daily Mail:
London fire: 6 confirmed dead after Grenfell Tower blaze  —  A woman with six children who was attempting to escape from the 21st floor of the London tower block fire this morning got to the bottom to discover two of them were missing, it has been claimed.  —  Dozens of horrific eyewitness accounts …
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Danny Boyle / Telegraph:
Live London fire latest: At least six die in Grenfell Tower blaze but death toll expected to rise
Discussion: New York Times and NPR
New York Times:
Live Election Results: Virginia Primaries  —  Ralph S. Northam, the current lieutenant governor has won the Democratic primary to replace Gov. Terry McAuliffe.  He defeated Tom Perriello, a former congressman who counts Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren as big-name backers.
Discussion: Vox
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Gregory S. Schneider / Washington Post:
Northam wins Democratic gubernatorial primary in Virginia  —  Lt. Gov. Ralph Northam won the Democratic nomination for governor of Virginia Tuesday by an unexpectedly wide margin, and Republican Ed Gillespie held off a surprising challenge from Donald Trump acolyte Corey A. Stewart for that party's nomination.
Discussion: Balloon Juice and The Daily Caller
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Sessions's testimony highlights Trump's deep lack of interest in what Russia did in 2016  —  Sen. James E. Risch (R-Idaho) made a comment during the Senate Intelligence Committee's questioning of Attorney General Jeff Sessions that has an obvious exception.  —  “I don't think there's any American …
Discussion: Power Line
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Frank Bruni / New York Times:
The Mortification of Jeff Sessions
Discussion: Balloon Juice
Vice:
Arctic Climate Change Study Canceled Because of Climate Change  —  Isn't it ironic?  Don't you think?  —  A multi-million dollar study on the impact of climate change which was set to take place in the Hudson's Bay had to be cancelled due to, you guessed it, climate change.
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James Delingpole / Breitbart:
A global warming research study in Canada has been cancelled because of “unprecedented” thick summer ice.
Discussion: New York Times
William Wan / Washington Post:
America's new tobacco crisis: The rich stopped smoking, the poor didn't  —  MARTINSVILLE, VA. — After decades of lawsuits, public campaigns and painful struggles, Americans have finally done what once seemed impossible: Most of the country has quit smoking, saving millions of lives and leading to massive reductions in cancer.
Fox News:
Steve Scalise shot in Virginia, aide also hit  —  House Majority Whip Steve Scalise was shot in the hip and at least one other aide was also hit in the chest by a gunman with a rifle who opened fire at a baseball practice in Virginia Wednesday morning, Fox News confirmed.
Discussion: The Hill, RedState, Axios and Instapundit
Yahoo! News:
Cultural appropriation: Make it illegal worldwide, Indigenous advocates say  —  Indigenous advocates from around the world are calling on a UN committee to ban the appropriation of Indigenous cultures — and to do it quickly.  —  Delegates from 189 countries, including Canada …
Niv Elis / The Hill:
Mnuchin: ‘At times there could be a good shutdown’  —  Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin said Tuesday that there could be good reasons for shutting down the government, echoing a statement President Trump made in a Tweet in May.  —  Mnuchin was asked a direct question about Trump's tweet earlier …
Discussion: Political Wire
Carol Vaughn / Delmarva Daily Times:
President Trump chats on phone with Tangier mayor  —  The President of the United States took time out of his schedule on Monday afternoon to place a telephone call to Tangier Island Mayor James “Ooker” Eskridge, after viewing a CNN report about the island that aired last week.  —  “It was unreal,” said Eskridge.
Discussion: The Week
Daniel Lippman / Politico:
BREAKING OVERNIGHT: Massive fire in west London — WITH FRIENDS LIKE THESE: TRUMP slaps down House Republicans' health care bill — POLITICO/MORNING CONSULT POLL: Voters trust Comey over Trump — B'DAY: Brian Fallon  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MR. PRESIDENT.
Discussion: Morning Consult
David French / National Review:
The Big Collusion Narrative Keeps Melting Down  —  After two days and almost six hours of high-stakes public testimony, I'm struck by the total lack of any compelling claims supporting the “big” collusion narrative, that Russia conspired with Trump or Trump officials to “hack” election.
Discussion: RedState
 
 
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Reuters:
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John Bresnahan / Politico:
Pelosi predicts Trump will ‘self-impeach’
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‘Broad City’ will bleep Donald Trump's name in Season 4
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Senate Republicans crack down on press access