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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
Joshua Green / New York Magazine:
Steve Bannon Is Out of Trump's Doghouse and Leading the Charge Against Mueller
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Donald Trump Jr. just contradicted a whole bunch of White House denials of Russian contacts
Washington Post:
Meeting between Trump Jr. and Russian lawyer was requested by Russian pop star whose family is close to Putin
Josiah Ryan / CNN:
CNN's Cuomo, Conway clash over Donald Trump Jr.'s meeting with Russian lawyer
Bob Bauer / Just Security:
Open Door to Moscow?  New Facts in the Potential Criminal Case of Trump Campaign Coordination with Russia
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:
Senate GOP aims to release new health bill by week's end  —  Senate Republicans are hoping to unveil a revamped draft of their legislation to repeal and replace Obamacare by the end of this week, though there are major questions about how it will address roiling GOP disagreement over a proposal touted by conservative senators.
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Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Senate GOP eyes ObamaCare repeal vote next week
Discussion: Vox, Talking Points Memo and Fusion
Brian Beutler / New Republic:
How Trumpcare Dies  —  Republicans' health care legislation is on the fritz.
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Trump accuses James Comey of breaking the law — based on a misleading Fox News report  —  President Trump's first day back in the office after his brief trip to Europe began, as so many do, with a flurry of tweets.  It seems that Trump, as he so often does, tuned into “Fox and Friends” …
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Jake Tapper / CNN:
Comey friend: No memos given to me were marked classified
Discussion: Axios and twitchy.com
John Solomon / The Hill:
Comey's private memos on Trump conversations contained classified material
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 …
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Could Donald Trump Have Been Elected As a Democrat?  —  During the Republican presidential primary, the traditional conservative Republican counterattack on Donald Trump defined him as an ideologically alien figure.  Trump, conservatives insisted, was a “liberal Republican,” or …
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David Siders / Politico:
California Democrats plunge into ‘civil war’
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 …
Discussion: The Hill, Political Wire and AOL
David Wallace-Wells / New York Magazine:
When Will the Planet Be Too Hot For Humans?  Much, Much Sooner Than You Imagine.  —  Famine, economic collapse, a sun that cooks us: What climate change could wreak — sooner than you think. … It is, I promise, worse than you think.  If your anxiety about global warming is dominated …
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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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ACLU:
ACLU Files Federal Lawsuit Over Trump Election Commission Secrecy
Discussion: Fusion
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
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
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
President Trump's enemies list  —  Donald Trump is less than six months into his presidency, yet one of the organizing principles of his political operation is already becoming clear: payback.  —  In private, Trump has spoken of spending $10 million of his own money to defeat an incumbent senator …
Discussion: Vox, The Hill and Daily Kos
Owen Bennett / HuffPost UK:
Tory MP Anne Marie Morris Recorded Saying Brexit No Deal Is A ‘N***** In A Woodpile’  —  No reaction from other Tory MPs on the panel.  —  Deputy Political Editor, HuffPost UK  —  A Tory Brexiteer has described the UK leaving the EU without a deal as a “real n*****r in the woodpile” at a meeting of eurosceptics in Central London.
Judy Kurtz / The Hill:
Lena Dunham selling the dress she wore the night Trump won  —  Lena Dunham is selling the dress she says she cried in on election night last year, when President Trump defeated Hillary Clinton  —  The Kenzo ruffle-accented printed dress is one of more than a hundred items up for grabs from the former …
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 …
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 …
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Ryan Parker / Hollywood Reporter:
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Jon N. Hall / The Federalist:
Obamacare's Basket Of Insurance Mandates Should Be The First Thing To Go
Anthony Capaccio / Bloomberg:
F-35 Program Costs Jump to $406 Billion in New Pentagon Estimate
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Andrew Desiderio / The Daily Beast:
Trump Admin. Lobbied Lawmakers to Weaken Russia Sanctions
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China Tells Carriers to Block Access to Personal VPNs by February
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