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5:05 PM ET, July 6, 2017

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Nicholas Fandos / New York Times:
U.S. Government Ethics Chief Will Resign, Casting Uncertainty Over Agency  —  WASHINGTON — Walter M. Shaub Jr., the government's top ethics watchdog who has repeatedly gone head-to-head with the Trump administration over conflicts of interest, said on Thursday that he was calling it quits.
Discussion: Politico and The Week
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Washington Post:
Federal ethics chief who clashed with White House announces he will step down  —  The director of the independent Office of Government Ethics, who has been the federal government's most persistent critic of the Trump administration's approach to ethics, announced Thursday …
Peter Overby / NPR:
Ethics Office Director Walter Shaub Resigns, Saying Rules Need To Be Tougher  —  Office of Government Ethics Director Walter Shaub Jr. turned in his resignation on Thursday.  —  The move follows months of clashes with the White House over issues such as President Trump's refusal to divest …
Marcus Engert / BuzzFeed:
President Trump Apparently Couldn't Find A Hotel To Book For The G20 Summit  —  He is one of the most powerful people in the world.  He is coming to the meeting of 20 powerful countries.  And he has a problem: no hotel room for the G20.  —  White House officials apparently waited too long …
Caitlin Owens / Axios:
Mike Lee takes harder stance on conservative health care amendment  —  Sen. Mike Lee won't vote for the Senate GOP health care bill without the addition of a controversial amendment he's championing with Sen. Ted Cruz — a position he has made clear to the White House and Senate Republican leaders.
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Talking Points Memo:   McConnell: Limited Bill Needed If GOP Senate Obamacare Repeal Bill Dies
Paul Kane / Washington Post:
One reason the GOP health bill is a mess: No one thought Trump would win
Discussion: WHTM-TV, Political Wire and The Week
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Trumpcare Is Having a Very Bad Day
Discussion: Fox News
Annie Karni / Politico:
Trump hands a victory to Polish nationalists  —  President Donald Trump is unlikely to suffer politically at home for making history abroad as the first sitting American president in decades to visit Warsaw while forgoing a stop at the city's monument to the Jewish Ghetto Uprising.
Discussion: New York Times and NBC News
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Matthew Continetti / Washington Free Beacon:
President Trump's Remarkable Warsaw Speech
Discussion: Althouse
New York Times:
Back to the Center, Democrats  —  The path back to power for the Democratic Party today, as it was in the 1990s, is unquestionably to move to the center and reject the siren calls of the left, whose policies and ideas have weakened the party.  —  In the early 1990s, the Democrats relied …
Bloomberg:
Trump Cites Russian Election Meddling But Blames Others Too  —  Says intelligence community's failings on Iraq raise doubts  —  Trump makes remarks ahead of meeting with Russia's Putin  —  President Donald Trump said he believes Russia meddled in the 2016 election but maintained that the U.S …
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John Hudson / BuzzFeed:
Bannon Ally Leaves White House As McMaster Consolidates Power  —  Former Breitbart writer Tera Dahl has exited the National Security Council in a blow to the Trump White House's nationalist wing.  —  Reporting From Washington, D.C.  —  As rival factions inside the White House continue …
Discussion: Raw Story and The Stranger …
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Tara Palmeri / Politico:
Trump's aides build their own empires in the West Wing
Discussion: Shareblue
Mike Cherry / KHVO:
United takes seat away from 2-year-old; resells ticket  —  With tickets in hand, Shirley Yamauchi - a teacher at Kapolei Middle school and her 27-month old son were on the final leg of an 18-hour flight from Hawaii to Boston.  —  “He and I, we had both our tickets scanned, we both went on board no problem,” Yamauchi said.
Nathan L. Gonzales / Roll Call:
One Reason Why Republicans Don't Have More Women in the Senate  —  GOP misses a rare opportunity in Missouri  —  GOP Campaign Tracker Violates Bipartisan Truce (Again) Chris Van Hollen Had His Own Fake Time Magazine Cover 11 Things I Think I Think After the Special Elections
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Stacy Cowley / New York Times:
18 States Sue Betsy DeVos Over Student Loan Protections  —  Democratic attorneys general from 18 states and the District of Columbia filed a lawsuit on Thursday against the Education Department and its secretary, Betsy DeVos, challenging the department's move last month to freeze new rules …
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Molly Hensley-Clancy / BuzzFeed:
18 States Are Suing Betsy DeVos Over For-Profit College Rules
Discussion: Politico, Talking Points Memo and Axios
Jessica Huseman / ProPublica:
Election Experts See Flaws in Trump Voter Commission's Plan to Smoke Out Fraud  —  Vice President Mike Pence's office has confirmed the White House commission on voter fraud intends to run the state voter rolls it has requested against federal databases to check for potential fraudulent registration.
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Spencer S. Hsu / Washington Post:
Trump voter commission to store data on White House computers under Pence staff direction
Discussion: Daily Kos
Joe Flint / Wall Street Journal:
In TV Ratings Game, Networks Try to Dissguys Bad Newz from Nielsen  —  In a game largely sanctioned by TV-ratings firm Nielsen, television networks try to hide shows' poor performances on any given night by forgetting how to spell.  That can dramatically improve a show's average viewership.
Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
The Network Against the Leader of the Free World  —  Jeffrey A. Zucker hasn't been getting a lot of sleep lately.  But he says that's nothing new.  —  “I don't sleep that much anyway,” Mr. Zucker, the president of CNN, said on Wednesday in his fifth-floor office, just off the network's glassy Midtown Manhattan newsroom.
Tom Burgis / Financial Times:
Russia-born dealmaker linked to Trump assists laundering probe  —  Felix Sater, who worked on Trump Soho, turns against Kazakh former business partners  —  Read next … Donald Trump faces renewed scrutiny of the riches that flowed into his real estate empire from the former Soviet Union …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Raw Story
CBS News:
Are sleeveless dresses “appropriate attire”?  Congress doesn't think so  —  A young, female reporter recently tried to enter a guarded room known as the Speaker's lobby outside the House chamber, but her outfit was considered inappropriate because her shoulders weren't covered.  She was wearing a sleeveless dress.
Discussion: Joe.My.God., Mashable and Raw Story
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Inside the Trump-Putin meeting  —  There will likely only be six people in the room when President Trump meets President Putin on Friday at the sidelines of the G-20 meeting in Hamburg, Germany.  —  According to an official familiar with the meeting's planning, it will be Trump, Putin …
Julia Manchester / The Hill:
Pence: ‘We will put American boots on the face of Mars’ … Vice President Pence pledged during a tour of the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Thursday that the U.S. would put humans on Mars.  —  “Here the Hubble Space Telescope, the New Horizons, and so many other technological wonders lifted off …
Kurt Schlichter / Townhall.com:
We Should Cheer CNN's Ritual Suicide  —  If you ever had any doubt that Donald Trump was right that the mainstream media is the enemy of the American people, CNN corrected your inexplicable inability to comprehend this painfully obvious truth by choosing July 4th to threaten some guy for daring to make fun of Its Medianess Holiness.
Linda Greenhouse / New York Times:
Trump's Life-Tenured Judicial Avatar  —  So Neil M. Gorsuch, the aw-shucks humble servant of the law whom the country encountered during his mind-numbing confirmation hearing, turns out to be a hard-right conservative.  No real surprise there, and by now, no real news either …
Discussion: Balkinization
Richard Shears / Daily Mail:
Photo ‘showing Amelia Earhart’ is not the US aviator  —  A photo of a woman claimed to be missing US aviator Amelia Earhart is said today to be proof that she survived a crash into the Pacific Ocean 80 years ago - but the picture has a major flaw, it can be revealed.
Joshua Green / Bloomberg:
The Remaking of Donald Trump  —  In the multicultural days of The Apprentice, he rose to a level of popularity with minorities that the GOP could only dream of.  Then he torched it all to prepare for a hard-right run at the presidency.  —  Donald Trump had been thinking about running …
 
 
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Hunter Walker / Yahoo:
In wake of shooting, Trump gives $5,000 to Congressional baseball game charity
Discussion: Washington Times
Associated Press:
The Latest: Vote delayed amid report of hazardous material
Discussion: Politico
David Dayen / The Intercept:
Donald Trump Keeps Missing His Own Deadlines
Jack O'Brien / Washington Examiner:
Man arrested outside Jeff Flake's office said liberals will get ‘better aim’ to solve ‘Republican problem’: Report
Discussion: RedState and The Gateway Pundit
Nigel Jaquiss / Willamette Week:
An 18-Year-Old Girl Died From a Synthetic Opioid She Bought Online.  Here's How Portland Police Cracked the Case.
Discussion: The Daily Caller
David Gelernter / Wall Street Journal:
The Conservative ‘Resistance’ Is Futile
 Earlier Items: 
Peter Schweizer / New York Post:
Uncovering the Russia ties of Hillary's campaign chief
Discussion: Power Line
Sarah Harris / Daily Mail:
Winning is banned at more than half of primary school sports days: Pupils compete in teams despite 82% …
Bret Stephens / New York Times:
Conservatives Go Third ‘I’ Blind
Discussion: IJR and No More Mister Nice Blog
Eric Whitney / MTPR:
Rep Gianforte Responds To Trump Bodyslam Tweet
Discussion: The Guardian and The Daily Caller