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New York Times:
Russian Government Sought to Aid Trump's Candidacy, According to Email  —  WASHINGTON — Before arranging a meeting with a Kremlin-connected Russian lawyer he believed would offer him compromising information about Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump Jr. was informed in an email that the material …
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Darren Samuelsohn / Politico:
Donald Trump Jr. in legal danger for Russia meeting about Clinton dirt  —  Donald Trump Jr. is in a legal danger zone following his acknowledgment that he met during the heat of the 2016 presidential campaign with a Russian lawyer with Kremlin ties who offered to deliver damaging information about Hillary Clinton.
Karen Freifeld / Reuters:
Exclusive: Donald Trump Jr. hires N.Y. lawyer for Russia probes  —  Donald Trump Jr., the president's son, has hired New York lawyer Alan Futerfas to represent him in connection with Russia-related investigations, the lawyer and Trump Jr.'s office said on Monday.
Andrew Prokop / Vox:
The latest Trump/Russia leaks came from inside the White House
Bob Bauer / Just Security:
Open Door to Moscow?  New Facts in the Potential Criminal Case of Trump Campaign Coordination with Russia
Zoe Tillman / BuzzFeed:
Donald Trump Jr. Has Hired A Lawyer Who Has Handled Organized Crime And Cybercrime Cases
Washington Post:
Meeting between Trump Jr. and Russian lawyer was requested by Russian pop star whose family is close to Putin
Pew Research Center:
Sharp Partisan Divisions in Views of National Institutions  —  Republicans increasingly say colleges have negative impact on U.S.  —  Republicans and Democrats offer starkly different assessments of the impact of several of the nation's leading institutions - including the news media …
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Josh Dawsey / Politico:
GOP struggles to revamp ailing Obamacare repeal bill  —  Republican leaders are frantically pushing for a vote on the Senate's ailing Obamacare repeal bill next week, with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell racing to placate warring moderates and conservatives with a new draft due within days, according to senators and aides.
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New York Times:
The Senate Health Care Charade
Discussion: US News, New York Magazine and NPR
Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Senate GOP eyes ObamaCare repeal vote next week
Jacob Sullum / Hit & Run:
NRA Breaks Its Silence on Philando Castile Shooting  —  Spokeswoman Dana Loesch calls the incident “a terrible tragedy that could have been avoided.”  But by whom?  —  Yesterday the National Rifle Association broke its recent silence on the shooting of Philando Castile …
Ben Cohen / Algemeiner.com:
Award-Winning Journalist Who Broke Story of Jewish Women Barred From Chicago ‘Dyke March’ Removed From Reporting Duties  —  An award-winning journalist who broke the story of the group of Jewish women ejected from an LGBTQ march in Chicago last month has been reassigned to non-journalistic duties …
Discussion: Geller Report
Bloomberg:
One of the Biggest Reasons Republicans Stick by Trump  —  They blocked Obama's court nominees for years.  Now they're filling those seats, starting a huge shift rightward for the judiciary.  —  Although he's been thwarted so far on his legislative agenda before Congress, most notably on health care …
Discussion: neo-neocon
Jonathan O'Connell / Washington Post:
Federal government cancels costly, decade-long search for a new FBI headquarters  —  The federal government is canceling the search for a new FBI headquarters, according to officials familiar with the decision, putting a more than decade-long search by the bureau to move out of the crumbling J. Edgar Hoover Building back at square one.
Shawn Boburg / Washington Post:
Federal prosecutors step up probe of land deal pushed by wife of Bernie Sanders  —  A federal investigation into a land deal led by Jane Sanders, the wife and political adviser of Sen. Bernie Sanders, has accelerated in recent months — with prosecutors hauling off more than a dozen boxes …
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Olivia Beavers / The Hill:   FBI investigation of Jane Sanders' land deal picks up: report
David Siders / Politico:
California Democrats plunge into ‘civil war’  —  LOS ANGELES — Long-standing tensions between the Democratic Party's moderate and liberal wings have ignited in California, where progressive activists are redirecting their anger over Donald Trump and congressional Republicans toward Democratic leaders at home.
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:   Could Donald Trump Have Been Elected As a Democrat?
John Solomon / The Hill:
Comey's private memos on Trump conversations contained classified material  —  More than half of the memos former FBI Director James Comey wrote as personal recollections of his conversations with President Trump about the Russia investigation have been determined to contain classified information …
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Jake Tapper / CNN:
Comey friend: No memos given to me were marked classified
The Intercept:
Jared Kushner Tried and Failed to Get a Half-Billion Dollar Bailout From Qatar  —  Not long before a major crisis ripped through the Middle East, pitting the United States and a bloc of Gulf countries against Qatar, Jared Kushner's real estate company had unsuccessfully sought …
Monmouth University:
Monmouth University Polling Institute  —  New Jersey  —  Choice Words for “Beachgate”  —  Most think state is now worse off because of Gov. Christie  —  West Long Branch, NJ - The past few weeks have been no day at the beach for New Jersey's governor... except for that day at the beach, of course.
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Mollie Reilly / HuffPost:   Chris Christie Trades Insults With Callers During Sports Radio Audition
Greg Wilford / The Independent:
Young Japanese people are not having sex  —  Nearly half of Japanese people are entering their 30s without any sexual experience, leaving the country facing a steep population decline  —  Nearly half of Japanese people are entering their 30s without any sexual experience, according to new research.
Discussion: neo-neocon
New York Times:
Trump Aides Recruited Businessmen to Devise Options for Afghanistan  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump's advisers recruited two businessmen who profited from military contracting to devise alternatives to the Pentagon's plan to send thousands of additional troops to Afghanistan …
Foreign Policy:
Trump's Trolls Are Waging War on America's Civil Servants  —  Alt-right bloggers are singling out government employees deemed hostile to the president's agenda.  —  On June 11, alt-right blogger Mike Cernovich published an article attacking an assistant to National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster …
Discussion: Raw Story
Therese Apel / USA Today:
Military plane crashes in Mississippi; 5 dead … JACKSON, Miss. — A military refueling aircraft crashed Monday afternoon in a soybean field in LeFlore County, claiming at least five lives, officials said.  —  Sheriff Ricky Banks said there were five confirmed dead as of 6:15 p.m. CT …
Mark K. Matthews / Denver Post:
Ed Perlmutter to drop out of Colorado governor's race, sources say  —  Decision coming just weeks after entry of fellow Democratic congressman Jared Polis into the race  —  WASHINGTON — U.S. Rep. Ed Perlmutter plans to announce Tuesday that he will end his run for Colorado governor …
Discussion: Political Wire
Ryan J. Reilly / HuffPost:
Woman Who Laughed At Jeff Sessions Could Face Jail Time This Week  —  The government argues that the jury that convicted a Code Pink protester may have believed her laugh “was a deliberate disruption” and “intentional.”  —  WASHINGTON A woman convicted after laughing during a confirmation hearing …
Discussion: Raw Story and The Slot
Hadley Freeman / The Guardian:
Is Paul Ryan scared of shoulders?  The Republican dress code is straight out of The Handmaid's Tale  —  The party is already making women's lives miserable with its healthcare bill - now it's kicking them out of the speaker's lobby for baring their arms.  In her weekly advice column …
Matthew Boyle / Breitbart:
Exclusive — Mark Meadows Draws Line in the Sand: Next Spending Bill Must Fund President Trump's Border Wall  —  House Freedom Caucus chairman Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC) told Breitbart News exclusively that the next government spending bill must fund President Donald Trump's promised border wall …
Anthony Capaccio / Bloomberg:
F-35 Program Costs Jump to $406 Billion in New Pentagon Estimate  —  After declines, bill for Lockheed Martin fighter to rise 7%  —  Trump has publicly lobbied to get jet's contract costs down  —  The cost of the F-35 jet program, already the most expensive U.S. weapons program ever …
 
 
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ACLU:
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