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3:45 PM ET, July 5, 2017

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Andrew Kaczynski / CNN:
How CNN found the Reddit user behind the Trump wrestling GIF  —  (CNN)The Reddit user who initially claimed credit for President Donald Trump's tweet that showed Trump tackling CNN issued an apology Tuesday for the video and other offensive content he posted — one day after CNN identified …
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Greg P. / twitchy.com:
If BuzzFeed is correct, it appears CNN's Andrew Kaczynski outed the wrong guy … According to an analysis by BuzzFeed, the CNN-WWE GIF that President Donald Trump tweeted last week was not the same as the one created by HanAssholeSolo, which means CNN's Andrew Kaczynski outed the wrong guy:
Becket Adams / Washington Examiner:
What the hell were you thinking, CNN? … CNN has screwed up royally this time.  —  The news group published a report Tuesday, titled “How CNN found the Reddit user behind the Trump wrestling GIF,” and we're not even sure where to start.  —  But we'll try:
Keegan Hankes / Southern Poverty Law Center:
Daily Stormer Troll Army Threatens CNN Staffers Over Reddit User Behind Trump/CNN GIF  —  Andrew Auernheimer, the notorious hacker and Internet troll known as ‘Weev,’ rallied the neo-Nazi Daily Stormer's troll army for its latest campaign this morning, claiming that CNN was blackmailing a “teen shitposter.”
Choe Sang-Hun / New York Times:
‘Self-Restraint’ Is Only Thing Stopping War With North Korea, U.S. General Says  —  SEOUL, South Korea — “Self-restraint” is all that is keeping the United States and South Korea from going to war with the North, the top American general in South Korea said on Wednesday.
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Emily Rauhala / Washington Post:
As U.S. and South Korea conduct military exercises, North Korea's leader taunts Trump over ICBM  —  BEIJING — Tensions over North Korea's July 4 missile test mounted Wednesday, with U.S. and South Korean forces conducting military exercises and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un appearing to taunt the president of the United States.
Julia Reinstein / BuzzFeed:
NPR Tweeted The Declaration Of Independence And Some Trump Supporters Were Offended  —  In celebration of the 4th of July, National Public Radio tweeted out the Declaration of Independence in a series of more than 100 tweets on Tuesday. … Many people responded with praise for the historic document, and thanked NPR for sharing it.
Discussion: Washington Post, Raw Story and NPR
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Ed Mazza / HuffPost:
NPR Tweeted Declaration Of Independence, And Trump Supporters Flipped Out  —  They didn't recognize the words and thought NPR was calling for revolution.  —  National Public Radio tweeted out the Declaration of Independence on Tuesday to mark the July Fourth holiday, but not everyone understood what it was doing.
Bob Collins / NewsCut:
NPR's tweets expose a thin grasp of American history
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David Filipov / Washington Post:
What Russia hopes to gain from this week's Putin-Trump meeting
David Weigel / Washington Post:
At parades and protests, GOP lawmakers get earful about health care  —  EASTPORT, Maine — For the 15th year, Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) spent July 4 marching through this town of 1,331, a short boat ride away from Canada.  She walked and waved, next to marching bands and Shriner-driven lobster boats.
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Sewell Chan / New York Times:
Police Officer Is Shot and Killed in ‘Unprovoked Attack’ in the Bronx  —  A police officer was shot and killed early Wednesday while sitting in a police vehicle in the Bronx, in what the New York City police commissioner called an “unprovoked attack” and an assassination.  The gunman was killed, the police said.
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Steven Shepard / Politico:
Poll: Majority of voters back Trump travel ban  —  A clear majority of voters support President Donald Trump's travel ban on visitors from six predominantly Muslim countries, according to a new POLITICO/Morning Consult poll.  —  Polling on the travel restrictions has varied wildly since …
Christopher Ingraham / Washington Post:
White House gender pay gap more than triples under Trump  —  The pay gap between male and female White House staffers has more than tripled in the first year of the Trump administration, according to an analysis by economist Mark Perry of the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank.
Discussion: The Week and The Daily Banter
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Mark J. Perry / American Enterprise Institute:
Based on median salaries, gender pay gap at Trump White House is almost 2X (37%) what the media are reporting (20%)
Julian Borger / The Guardian:
Investigators explore if Russia colluded with pro-Trump sites during US election  —  Questions raised as to whether Trump supports coordinated with Moscow to spread bogus stories aimed at discrediting Hillary Clinton  —  The spread of Russian-made fake news stories aimed at discrediting Hillary Clinton …
NBC4 Washington:
NJ Sand Sculpture Mocks Gov. Christie's Viral Beach Outing  —  The sand sculpture appeared in the wake of a state government shutdown largely blamed on the governor  —  Jersey Shore Sand Sculpture Mocks Gov. Chris Christie  —  A giant sand sculpture of Gov. Chris Christie lounging in a chair …
Discussion: The Hill and Daily Wire
Kimberly Dozier / The Daily Beast:
U.S. Commandos Running Out of ISIS Targets … U.S. special operations forces have removed roughly 50 top ISIS leaders off the battlefield since President Donald Trump took office, down from 80 killed in the last six months of the Obama administration, according to figures obtained by The Daily Beast.
Discussion: Mother Jones and The Daily Caller
Wall Street Journal:
Ivanka Trump Replies on Paid Family Leave  —  Providing a national guaranteed paid-leave program isn't an entitlement, it's an investment in America's working families.  —  In a rejoinder to your May 26 editorial “The Ivanka Entitlement” on President Trump's family-leave proposal …
Discussion: CNN, Politico, IJR, Axios and The Daily Caller
Robert Leonard / New York Times:
Want to Get Rid of Trump?  Only Fox News Can Do It  —  KNOXVILLE, Iowa — President Trump's administration is in crisis, consumed by fears of what Robert Mueller, the special counsel investigating Russia's meddling in the election, might find.  Everyone's lawyering up — even the lawyers have lawyers.
Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
Bernie Sanders is the Democrats' real 2020 frontrunner  —  He's staffing up, touring the country, and still drawing record crowds.  —  Amid a swirl of speculation about Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Kirsten Gillibrand, Cory Booker, and practically everyone else under the sun …
Discussion: New York Magazine
Nikil Saval / New York Times:
Hated by the Right.  Mocked by the Left.  Who Wants to Be ‘Liberal’ Anymore?  —  “Liberal” has long been a dirty word to the American political right.  It may be shortened, in the parlance of the Limbaugh Belt, to “libs,” or expanded to the offensive portmanteau “libtards.”  But its target is always clear.
Discussion: Mother Jones
Jon Levine / Mediaite:
A GOP Congressman Made a Selfie Video From Inside Auschwitz — It's as Bad as You Think  —  There are few places more hallowed than the Nazi death camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau.  More than a million people, mostly Jews, were killed there during the second world war, many in the camp's infamous gas chambers.
Lachlan Markay / The Daily Beast:
Seth Rich Murder Conspiracy Is Being Used to Sell Face Cream … Trump campaign email vendors are marketing an anti-aging cream with the help of conspiracy theories surrounding the 2016 murder of a Democratic Party staffer.  —  The ad hawking the wrinkle-fighting formula is very clearly a scam.
Discussion: Raw Story
 
 
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Mollie Hemingway / The Federalist:
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