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Ashley Parker / Washington Post:
Pence hires outside counsel to deal with Russia probe inquiries  —  Vice President Mike Pence has hired outside legal counsel to help with both congressional committee inquiries and the special counsel investigation into possible collusion between President Trump's campaign and Russia.
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Mike Allen / Axios:
Mueller's revenge: “Can't fire him now”  —  Most White House officials feared Robert Mueller would go after President Trump for obstruction of justice.  —  The signs were everywhere: James Comey's testimony that Trump urged him to drop the FBI probe of Michael Flynn; Trump's forceful denial …
Manu Raju / CNN:
Senate intel panel to steer clear of Trump obstruction question  —  Washington Post: Mueller investigating Trump  —  (CNN)The Senate intelligence committee won't probe whether President Donald Trump obstructed justice over the FBI's investigation into his former associates and their contacts …
Graham Lanktree / Newsweek:
TRUMP TRIED TO CONVINCE NSA CHIEF TO ABSOLVE HIM OF ANY RUSSIAN COLLUSION: REPORT  —  U.S. DONALD TRUMP RUSSIA INVESTIGATION NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY  —  A recent National Security Agency memo documents a phone call in which U.S. President Donald Trump pressures agency chief Admiral Mike Rogers …
Diamond Naga Siu / Politico:
Putin offers James Comey asylum  —  Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday said his country is ready to offer James Comey asylum if the former FBI director should face political persecution.  —  “If Comey will be under the threat of political persecution, we are ready to accept him here …
Bill Chappell / NPR:
YouTube  —  “What's the difference between the FBI director and Mr. Snowden?”
Discussion: TASS and The Resurgent
Michelle Ye Hee Lee / Washington Post:
The bogus claim that a map of crosshairs by Sarah Palin's PAC incited Rep. Gabby Giffords's shooting  —  “Was this attack evidence of how vicious American politics has become?  Probably.  In 2011, Jared Lee Loughner opened fire in a supermarket parking lot, grievously wounding Representative Gabby Giffords …
Discussion: The Daily Caller
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New York Times:
America's Lethal Politics  —  America's elected representatives enjoying America's pastime on a ball field just across the Potomac from the Capitol: A particularly American form of terror changed that idyll early Wednesday morning into what Senator Rand Paul, who was there, called “basically a killing field.”
Eddie Scarry / Washington Examiner:
Sarah Palin may sue New York Times for tying her to Gabby Giffords shooting  —  Sarah Palin indicated on Thursday that she might sue the New York Times over editorial that suggested she was in some way responsible for the 2011 shooting of then-Democratic Rep. Gabby Giffords.
New York Times:
Secrecy Surrounding Senate Health Bill Raises Alarms in Both Parties  —  WASHINGTON — As they draft legislation to repeal the Affordable Care Act, Senate Republican leaders are aiming to transform large sections of the American health care system without a single hearing on their bill and without a formal, open drafting session.
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Sarah Kliff / Vox:
I've covered Obamacare since day one.  I've never seen lying and obstruction like this.  —  Republicans do not want the country to know what is in their health care bill.  —  This has become more evident each day, as the Senate plots out a secretive path toward Obamacare repeal …
Discussion: Mother Jones
Ezra Klein / Vox:
Republicans are about to make Medicare-for-all much more likely  —  If Republicans strike down Obamacare, the “Medicare for all” movement will become more powerful than they can imagine.  —  The details of the Senate GOP's Obamacare replacement plan remain a mystery.
Russell Berman / The Atlantic:
How Democrats Would Fix Obamacare
Discussion: Vox
Stephanie Kirchgaessner / The Guardian:
Lobbyist for Russian interests says he attended dinners hosted by Sessions  —  Richard Burt contradicts Jeff Sessions' testimony that he didn't believe he had contacts with lobbyists working for Russian interests during Trump's campaign … An American lobbyist for Russian interests …
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Alice Ollstein / Talking Points Memo:
Report: Sessions Dined With Lobbyist For Russian Corps, Omitted It In Testimony
Discussion: Death and Taxes and The Week
Lenny Bernstein / Washington Post:
Why a single gunshot to Steve Scalise's hip could be life-threatening  —  For those of us who experience gun violence via movies or television, the single bullet wound to the hip that House Majority Whip Steve Scalise suffered in a ballfield shooting Wednesday would seem less serious than what could have happened to him.
Discussion: Axios and New York Magazine
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Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Trump: Scalise in ‘some trouble’ after shooting
Discussion: ABC News, Politico and Axios
Rachael Bade / Politico:
Lawmakers struggle with emotions as Scalise remains in critical condition
Jerome Hudson / Breitbart:
Home Depot Co-Founder Bernie Marcus: I'm ‘So Worried About the Life’ of President Trump
Caitlin Dewey / Washington Post:
The surprising number of American adults who think chocolate milk comes from brown cows  —  Seven percent of all American adults believe that chocolate milk comes from brown cows, according to a nationally representative online survey commissioned by the Innovation Center of U.S. Dairy.
Justin Sink / Bloomberg:
Trump Orders Government to Stop Work on Y2K Bug, 17 Years Later  —  The White House is eliminating paperwork for federal agencies  —  Federal workers still report on preparedness for year 2000  —  Seventeen years after the Year 2000 bug came and went, the federal government will finally stop preparing for it.
9news.com.au:
Leaked audio reveals Malcolm Turnbull roasting Donald Trump over ‘fake polls’ and Russia  —  Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull isn't known for being a comedian but he tried some daring Donald Trump material on a room full of journalists in Canberra last night.
CNN:
Ex-North Korea detainee Otto Warmbier has ‘severe neurological injury’  — His dad rejects Pyongyang's explanation of his son's coma, criticizes Obama administration's handling of the case  —  (CNN)Recently released North Korea detainee Otto Warmbier has suffered severe neurological damage …
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Andrew Kaczynski / CNN:
GOP congressman: Trump may lack language ‘discipline’ to avoid appearance of investigation interference  —  (CNN)Republican Rep. David Schweikert said in a radio interview Thursday that President Donald Trump might lack the language discipline to avoid giving the appearance of interfering in an investigation .
Jonathan V. Last / Weekly Standard:
Camille Paglia: On Trump, Democrats, Transgenderism, and Islamist Terror  —  In a wide-ranging interview Paglia talks about Donald Trump's successes, how Chuck Schumer emboldened the “resistance,” why the left can't condemn Islamist terrorism, and “the cold biological truth that sex changes are impossible.”
Discussion: TheBlaze, Althouse and Climate Depot
EndPlay / WSB-TV:
Karen Handel, neighbors receive envelopes with ‘white powdery substance’ inside  —  ROSWELL, Ga. - Authorities were called to the neighborhood where Karen Handel lives in Roswell after suspicious envelopes were found in mailboxes Thursday afternoon.  —  Police say Roxburg Drive off Old Alabama Road …
Justin McCarthy / Gallup:
Seventeen-Point Drop in US Satisfaction Among Republicans  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — Republicans' satisfaction with the way things are going in the U.S. took a hit since last month.  Forty-one percent of Republicans say they are satisfied with the way things are going in the U.S., down 17 percentage points since May.
Alex Acquisto / Bangor Daily News:
Maine woman attacked by raccoon drowns rabid animal in puddle  —  HOPE, Maine — While jogging on a familiar, overgrown, wooded trail near her home on a recent warm afternoon, Rachel Borch thought to herself.  “What a beautiful day.”  —  Little did she know she was about to be attacked …
Samantha Schmidt / Washington Post:
Graduating senior refused to read speech written by administrators, so they withheld his diploma  —  Marvin Wright, president of his high school senior class, spent two weeks working on his graduation speech, staying up till 5 on the morning of the event to finish.
Discussion: theGrio and The Root
 
 
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Trump visits Supreme Court for Gorsuch installation
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Terrence Dopp / Bloomberg:
Senate Votes to Limit Trump's Power to Lift Russia Sanctions
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Trent Baker / Breitbart:
ESPN's Kellerman: NFL Is ‘Injecting Politics’ by Playing the National Anthem at Games
Naomi Jagoda / The Hill:
Auto industry leaders raise concerns about border tax in White House meeting
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Sahil Kapur / Bloomberg:
GOP Momentum Builds to Change Rules for Longer-Lasting Tax Cuts
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DOJ seizes Jim Carrey movie as part of Malaysian corruption probe
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Bloomberg:
Trump Administration Prepares a Drug Pricing Executive Order, Sources Say
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PenFed blimp, deflated, bursts into flames and crashes near U.S. Open at Erin Hills
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Rural America Is Stranded in the Dial-Up Age
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Alex Sherman / CNBC:
Sources: Paramount Global's board is preparing to fire CEO Bob Bakish as soon as Monday, after he lost the trust of controlling shareholder Shari Redstone

Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
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Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch:
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