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3:30 AM ET, June 25, 2017

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Kerry Picket / The Daily Caller:
Grassley: Schumer Knew Trump Was Not Under Investigation When He Publicly Claimed Otherwise [VIDEO]  —  Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley called out Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer Thursday for lying when the New York Democrat claimed that President Donald Trump was under investigation and Schumer knew otherwise.
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and Power Line
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Mark Berman / Washington Post:
Schumer: ‘Unseemly’ to confirm Gorsuch amid FBI probe of Trump campaign  —  While Judge Neil Gorsuch answered questions during his confirmation hearings, the Senate's top Democrat on Tuesday questioned whether he should be confirmed at all amid an FBI investigation into President Trump's campaign.
AP Story / Associated Press:
Big cases, retirement rumors as Supreme Court nears finish
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Ariane de Vogue / CNN:
Anthony Kennedy retirement watch at a fever pitch
Discussion: The Week and Political Wire
Max Greenwood / The Hill:
Kennedy considering retiring from Supreme Court: reports
Discussion: SARAH PALIN and RedState
Michael Hechtman / New York Post:
100-year-old crime boss beats the odds, is released from prison  —  John “Sonny” Franzese in 1966 (left) and 2010 (right). … Geriatric gangster John “Sonny” Franzese — the oldest guest of the federal prison system — is a free man at the age of 100.  —  The Colombo family underboss …
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Joel B. Pollak / Breitbart:
In Health Care Attacks, Democrats Risk Inciting Further Violence  —  Democrats have settled on a grisly theme in their attacks on the Republicans' new legislation to repeal and replace Obamacare: death.  —  Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) tweeted on Thursday: “I've read the Republican ‘health care’ bill.
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United States Senator Mike Lee:
The Missing Ingredient in BCRA: Humility
Discussion: CNN, RedState and Weekly Standard
Sean Sullivan / Washington Post:
Trump joins the effort to pass a health-care bill, but another GOP senator is opposed
Discussion: Raw Story, RedState and The Hill
New York Times:
Why Grenfell Tower Burned: Regulators Put Cost Before Safety  —  LONDON — The doorbell woke Yassin Adam just before 1 a.m. A neighbor was frantically alerting others on the fourth floor of Grenfell Tower about a fire in his apartment.  “My fridge blew up,” the man shouted.
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Jeff Brady / NPR:
Some U.S. States Relax Restrictions On Cladding Suspected In Grenfell Tower Fire
Discussion: Gizmodo and The Atlantic
Business Insider:
Evidence is mounting that Russia took 4 clear paths to meddle in the US election  —  It was September 2015 when the FBI first noticed that Russian hackers had infiltrated a computer system belonging to the Democratic National Committee.  —  It was the first sign that Moscow was attempting to meddle in the presidential election.
Discussion: AOL
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.
Discussion: VTDigger
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The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation:
Premiums and Tax Credits under the Affordable Care Act vs. the Senate Better Care Reconciliation Act: Interactive Maps
Discussion: Balkinization
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
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.
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Matthew Boyle / Breitbart:   Very Fake News: CNN Pushes Refurbished Russia Conspiracy, Inaccurately Claims Investment Fund Under Investigation
Matthew Boyle / Breitbart:   Very Fake News: After Breitbart Investigation, CNN Retracts Conspiracy Theory Hit Piece Attacking …
Oliver Milman / The Guardian:
Actor who played assassin of Trump-like Caesar tells of cast ‘exhaustion and fear’  —  Corey Stoll, who took role of Marcus Brutus in New York production of Julius Caesar targeted by rightwing protesters, ‘exhaled and sobbed’ after final show … Corey Stoll, the actor who played …
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
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Corey Stoll / Vulture:
What It Was Like to Star in the Trump-Themed Julius Caesar
Discussion: Althouse and Mediaite
John Hayward / Breitbart:
Islamic State Poster Shows Car Crushing Skulls: ‘Run Over Them Without Mercy’  —  A pro-Islamic State media operation called the Nashir News Agency published a poster calling for more vehicular jihad in the last few days of the Ramadan holiday season, depicting an SUV driving across a mountain …
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.
Scott Johnson / Power Line:
An epidemic of lawlessness  —  Yesterday's Washington Post carried the Russia story of the day.  Post reporters Greg Miller, Ellen Nakashima and Adam Entous purport to deliver the goods on “Obama's secret struggle to punish Russia for Putin's election assault.”
Discussion: The Hill, NBC News and National Review
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Tracy Wilkinson / Los Angeles Times:
Number of refugees admitted to U.S. drops by almost half
Discussion: The Guardian, IJR, Fox News and SARAH PALIN
Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Beyond opposing Trump, Democrats keep searching for a message  —  The loss in last week's special congressional election in Georgia produced predictable hand-wringing and finger-pointing inside the Democratic Party.  It also raised anew a question that has troubled the party through a period in which they have lost ground political.
Discussion: IJR
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Mike Lillis / The Hill:
Dems push leaders to talk less about Russia
Discussion: TheBlaze, Power Line and Scared Monkeys
Kevin Robillard / Politico:
Koch network ramps up political spending while trying to push Trump team  —  COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — The leadership of the Koch brothers' network is brushing off its occasionally chilly attitude toward President Donald Trump, trying to nudge the administration in its direction …
Discussion: ABC News
Scott Schwebke / Orange County Register:
Man believed dead is alive - family buries wrong person after mix-up  —  “Your son is alive.”  —  Frank J. Kerrigan, 82, couldn't believe what he was hearing.  It was May 23, at night, and he clutched the phone at his home in Wildomar.  —  On the line was Bill Shinker, a long-time family friend.
Discussion: The Guardian and NBC News
 
 
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John Shinal / CNBC:
Mark Zuckerberg's snub of White House could backfire as Europe goes after US Internet giants
Jerusalem Post:
Reports that Trump considering pulling out of peace talks ‘nonsense,’ US official says
Discussion: Raw Story and Political Wire
Oshrat Carmiel / Bloomberg:
A Second, Even Bigger Foreclosure Reaches NYC Billionaires' Row
Washington Post:
D.C. Council member condemns Park Police for detaining youths selling water on Mall
Discussion: ThinkProgress and NBC4 Washington
 Earlier Items: 
Kristian Coates Ulrichsen / The Atlantic:
The Gulf's Demands on Qatar Look Designed to Be Rejected
Discussion: The Week
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
Tom Dart / The Guardian:
Dallas officer charged with aggravated assault for killing of 21-year-old woman
Discussion: Fusion, The Root and Associated Press
Bruce Bartlett / Politico:
‘Trump Is What Happens When a Political Party Abandons Ideas’
Discussion: Raw Story
Anne Applebaum / Washington Post:
Why ‘Mattis in charge’ is a formula for disaster
 

 
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Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Ofcom rules that five GB News programs presented by Conservative politicians have broken its due impartiality rules and puts the channel “on notice”

Todd Spangler / Variety:
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