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1:20 PM ET, June 24, 2017

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Rob Tornoe / Philly.com:
CNN deletes, retracts story linking Trump and Russia  —  On Thursday evening, CNN investigative reporter Thomas Frank published a potentially explosive report involving an investigation of a Russian investment fund with potential ties to several associates of President Donald Trump.
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CNN:
Editor's Note  —  On June 22, 2017, CNN.com published a story connecting Anthony Scaramucci with investigations into the Russian Direct Investment Fund.  —  That story did not meet CNN's editorial standards and has been retracted.  Links to the story have been disabled.  CNN apologizes to Mr. Scaramucci.
Max Greenwood / The Hill:
Kennedy considering retiring from Supreme Court: reports  —  Speculation is swirling that Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy could announce his retirement as early as this term, The Associated Press and CNN reported Saturday.  —  Kennedy is considered the most pivotal justice on the Supreme Court …
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AP Story / Associated Press:
Big cases, retirement rumors as Supreme Court nears finish … WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court enters its final week of work before a long summer hiatus with action expected on the Trump administration's travel ban and a decision due in a separation of church and state case that arises from a Missouri church playground.
Ariane de Vogue / CNN:
Anthony Kennedy retirement watch at a fever pitch  —  Washington (CNN)Justice Anthony Kennedy, the man who so often determines the outcome of the most controversial Supreme Court cases, is himself the center of brewing speculation.  —  Will he stay or will he go?
Discussion: Political Wire
Anne Applebaum / Washington Post:
Why ‘Mattis in charge’ is a formula for disaster  —  “It's all under control: Mattis is in charge.”  That, or words to that effect, is what U.S. national security officials have been telling European allies in recent days.  Don't worry.  There won't be any surprises.
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David Rank / Washington Post:
Why I resigned from the Foreign Service after 27 years  —  David Rank served in the U.S. Foreign Service from 1990 to 2017.  The opinions expressed here are his own.  —  This month, I resigned from the State Department's Foreign Service, stepping down as the senior U.S. diplomat in China and ending a 27-year career.
CBS News:
Bernie and Jane Sanders, under FBI investigation for bank fraud, hire lawyers  —  Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and his wife, Jane Sanders have hired prominent defense attorneys amid an FBI investigation into a loan Jane Sanders obtained to expand Burlington College while she was its president, CBS News confirms.
Melanie Mason / Los Angeles Times:
California won't be passing a single-payer healthcare system any time soon — the plan is dead for this year  —  A high-profile effort to establish a single-payer healthcare system in California sputtered on Friday when Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon (D-Paramount) decided to shelve the proposal.
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Katy Murphy / Mercury News:
Single-payer health care put on hold in California as leader calls bill ‘woefully incomplete’
Sarah Kliff / Vox:
Senate GOP expected to add new penalties for the uninsured into their health bill  —  Senate Republicans are expected to revise their health bill early next week, adding in a provision that could lock Americans out of the individual market for six months if they fail to maintain continuous insurance coverage.
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Kamala D. Harris / Los Angeles Times:
Op-Ed Kamala Harris: I can help you understand Trumpcare, but I can't defeat it alone
Discussion: Raw Story
Timothy Egan / New York Times:
Our Fake Democracy  —  We tell ourselves stories in order to live, as Joan Didion said.
Discussion: The Mahablog
Bruce Bartlett / Politico:
‘Trump Is What Happens When a Political Party Abandons Ideas’  —  Almost two years ago, I wrote an article for Politico endorsing Donald Trump for president.  It was a tongue-in-cheek effort—I “supported” Trump only because I thought he would lose to Hillary Clinton, disastrously …
Brandon Carter / The Hill:
Trump called Cruz to press him on ObamaCare repeal bill: report  —  President Trump has joined the effort led by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell  —  (R-Ky.) to get the 50 votes needed for the Senate GOP bill to repeal ObamaCare, according to a new report.
Discussion: Axios, RedState, Politico and ABC News
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Sean Sullivan / Washington Post:
Trump joins the effort to pass a health-care bill, but another GOP senator is opposed
Discussion: The Hill
New York Times:
T r u m p ' s L i e s  —  Many Americans have become accustomed to President Trump's lies.  But as regular as they have become, the country should not allow itself to become numb to them.  So we have catalogued nearly every outright lie he has told publicly since taking the oath of office.
Bret Stephens / New York Times:
How Twitter Pornified Politics  —  This is the column in which I formally forswear Twitter for good.  I'll keep my Twitter handle, and hopefully my followers, but an editorial assistant will manage the account from now on.  I'll intercede only to say nice things about the writing I admire, the people I like and the music I love.
Discussion: Althouse
Tom Dart / The Guardian:
Dallas officer charged with aggravated assault for killing of 21-year-old woman  —  Genevive Dawes was shot and killed in January when police officer Christopher Hess fired into her moving vehicle  —  A grand jury has indicted a Dallas police officer on a charge of aggravated assault …
Susan Hogan / Washington Post:
Illinois Catholic bishop decrees no Holy Communion, funerals for same-sex couples  —  The bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Springfield, Ill., is calling on priests there to deny Holy Communion and even funeral rites to people in same-sex unions unless they show “some signs of repentance” for their relationships before death.
Brian Beutler / New Republic:
There's a Health Care Lesson for Republicans in the Shooting of Steve Scalise  —  The GOP is attempting to expose millions of Americans to the kind of financial ruin that he has avoided—for now.  —  It has been nine days since a gunman opened fire on Republican members of Congress during …
Discussion: twitchy.com, IJR, WDTN-TV and Daily Kos
Kristina Wong / Breitbart:
Senate Judiciary Chairman Grassley: Chuck Schumer Knew Trump Wasn't Under Investigation but Said He Was Anyway  —  Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) blasted Democrats on Thursday — particularly Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) — for fueling media hysteria …
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Judiciary Committee Probes Reported Lynch Assurances to Stifle Clinton Email Investigation
Tracy Wilkinson / Los Angeles Times:
Number of refugees admitted to U.S. drops by almost half  —  The number of refugees admitted to the United States was cut by nearly half in the first three months of the Trump administration compared with the final three months of the Obama presidency, reflecting the new president's skepticism toward immigration.
Scott Shane / New York Times:
Maritime Mystery: Why a U.S. Destroyer Failed to Dodge a Cargo Ship  —  There should have been lookouts on watch on the port, starboard and stern of the destroyer Fitzgerald — sailors scanning the horizon with binoculars and reporting by headsets to the destroyer's bridge.
Discussion: USNI News
Kristian Coates Ulrichsen / The Atlantic:
The Gulf's Demands on Qatar Look Designed to Be Rejected  —  Now, Qatar has a list.  —  On Thursday evening, news reports surfaced of 13 demands from Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, and four other nations that, if fulfilled by Doha, will resolve their ongoing standoff with the tiny Gulf nation.
Discussion: The Week
 
 
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Catherine Thorbecke / ABC News:
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Victoria Colliver / Politico:
California activist Tom Steyer adds health care to his brand
Nick Bilton / Vanity Fair:
Is The Handmaid's Tale the Allegory of the Trump Era?
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Hamed Aleaziz / San Francisco Chronicle:
Bay Area family's choice: Apart in US or together in Mexico?
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Justice Department, FBI seem at odds over budget
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Pence meets with Koch brother in Colorado
Sally Q. Yates / Washington Post:
Making America scared again won't make us safer
John Harwood / CNBC:
Trump's core voters could suffer most under GOP health bill, but they may not punish him for it
Bloomberg:
Canada Ponders an Unusual Drug Problem: a Shortage of Marijuana
David Frum / The Atlantic:
What Happens When a Presidency Loses Its Legitimacy?
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