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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 …
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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 …
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 …
The Daily Beast:
Even Trump's Aides Blame Him for Obstruction Probe: ‘President Did This to Himself’ … It's exactly the circumstance Donald Trump tried to avoid.  But Trump's own actions have made an FBI investigation into the president himself a reality.  —  Firing James Comey, the FBI director, was …
Devlin Barrett / Washington Post:
Special counsel is investigating Trump for possible obstruction of justice, officials say
Graham Lanktree / Newsweek:
TRUMP TRIED TO CONVINCE NSA CHIEF TO ABSOLVE HIM OF ANY RUSSIAN COLLUSION: REPORT
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.”
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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
Peter Hasson / The Daily Caller:
NYT Uses GOP Shooting To Falsely Attack Sarah Palin With Debunked Conspiracy Theory
Eddie Scarry / Washington Examiner:
Sarah Palin may sue New York Times for tying her to Gabby Giffords shooting
Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
Fake News Watch, or, Live From The Media Cocoon
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.
Discussion: Political Wire and Shareblue
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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.
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
NBC News:
The Senate's Health Care Bill Remains Shrouded in Secrecy
Russell Berman / The Atlantic:   How Democrats Would Fix Obamacare
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 …
Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Trump: Scalise in ‘some trouble’ after shooting  —  President Trump said Thursday that House Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) is “in some trouble” following the shooting Wednesday at a GOP congressional baseball practice in Virginia.  —  “It's been much more difficult than people even thought at the time …
Discussion: ABC News, Politico and Axios
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Lenny Bernstein / Washington Post:
Why a single gunshot to Steve Scalise's hip could be life-threatening
Discussion: Axios and New York Magazine
Rachael Bade / Politico:
Scalise faces third surgery after being wounded in mass shooting
Jerome Hudson / Breitbart:
Home Depot Co-Founder Bernie Marcus: I'm ‘So Worried About the Life’ of President Trump
Joshua Berlinger / CNN:
Dennis Rodman gifts Trump's ‘Art of the Deal’ to North Korean minister  —  CNN on the ground: Waiting for Dennis Rodman  —  (CNN)Dennis Rodman may not have been sent to North Korea by US President Donald Trump, but that's not stopping the former basketball star from promoting his former reality TV co-star.
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CNN:
Ex-North Korea detainee Otto Warmbier has ‘severe neurological injury’
Discussion: Death and Taxes and IJR
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.
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.
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.
Discussion: Axios and Washington Free Beacon
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.
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Ronald Brownstein / The Atlantic:   The GOP's Risky Calculation for 2018
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 …
Discussion: Daily Wire
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: Climate Depot and Althouse
Sahil Kapur / Bloomberg:
GOP Momentum Builds to Change Rules for Longer-Lasting Tax Cuts  —  Senate Finance chief supports extending budget window  —  Treasury secretary said open to exploring longer timeline too  —  The push to change congressional budget rules and enact tax cuts for longer than 10 years …
Discussion: Political Wire
Jim Nelson / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
PenFed blimp, deflated, bursts into flames and crashes near U.S. Open at Erin Hills  —  ERIN - A PenFed blimp deflated, burst into flames and crashed late Thursday morning near the U.S. Open at Erin Hills.  —  The blimp went down about 11:15 a.m. near Highway 83 and Highway 167.
 
 
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