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CNN:
Trump Tower Russia meeting: At least eight people in the room  —  CNN Special Report “The First Son: The Life of Donald Trump Jr.” airs Friday at 9:30 p.m. ET/PT.  —  Washington (CNN)The June 2016 meeting at Trump Tower with Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner and Paul Manafort included at least eight people.
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NBC News:
Former Soviet Counter Intelligence Officer at Meeting With Donald Trump Jr. and Russian Lawyer  —  WASHINGTON — The Russian lawyer who met with the Trump team after a promise of compromising material on Hillary Clinton was accompanied by a Russian-American lobbyist — a former Soviet counter …
Sam Biddle / The Intercept:
Just Six Days After Trump Jr.'s Meeting, Guccifer 2.0 Emailed Me — But There Was One Key Difference  —  After 39 years of operating without an apparent conceptual understanding of “consequences,” this week Donald Trump Jr. tweeted out an email thread admitting to soliciting the help …
The Daily Beast:
Trump Team Met Russian Accused of International Hacking Conspiracy … The alleged former Soviet intelligence officer who attended the now-infamous meeting with Donald Trump Jr. and other top campaign officials last June was previously accused in federal and state courts of orchestrating an international hacking conspiracy.
Rolf Mowatt-Larssen / Washington Post:
Trump Jr.'s Russia meeting sure sounds like a Russian intelligence operation  —  Rolf Mowatt-Larssen is the director of the Intelligence and Defense Project at Harvard's Belfer Center.  He served for three years as director of intelligence and counterintelligence at the Department of Energy …
Wall Street Journal:
Russian Lawyer Who Trump Jr. Met Says She Was in Contact With Top Russian Prosecutor  —  In interview, Natalia Veselnitskaya says she talked with Kremlin-appointed official about U.S. sanctions law  —  WASHINGTON—The Russian lawyer whom Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner and Paul Manafort met …
Jack O'Donnell / Vox:
Trump put family first when I worked for him. It was disastrous.
Discussion: Hullabaloo and Raw Story
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Dems want scrutiny of Ivanka Trump over Kushner's Russian contacts
Grace Wyler / BuzzFeed:
Trump Blamed Loretta Lynch For Letting A Russian Lawyer Into The US.  Here's How She Actually Got In.
Kaili Joy Gray / Shareblue:
Trump campaign adviser admits they'd have erased Russian emails if they'd broken the law
Discussion: IJR and The Guardian
Michael Isikoff / Yahoo:
White House shakes up legal team as probe gathers steam … Under intensifying fire over its handling of the Russia investigations, the White House is shaking up its legal team, bringing on board a veteran Washington criminal defense lawyer just as another high-profile attorney turns …
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Jennifer Jacobs / Bloomberg:
Trump to Hire Lawyer Ty Cobb to Respond to Russia Probes  —  Cobb to join White House to oversee legal and media responses  —  Attorney is relative of baseball legend of same name  —  President Donald Trump plans to put a veteran Washington lawyer, Ty Cobb, in charge of overseeing …
John Bowden / The Hill:
Kushner's lawyer dropping out of representing him: report
Discussion: RedState
Brian Eason / Denver Post:
More than 3,000 Colorado voters have canceled their registrations since Trump election integrity commission request  —  The withdrawals began in earnest earlier this month, after a presidential advisory commission on election integrity requested publicly available voter information from all 50 states.
Discussion: Political Wire
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Christopher Ingraham / Washington Post:
White House releases sensitive personal information of voters worried about their sensitive personal information  —  The White House on Thursday made public a trove of emails it received from voters offering comment on its Election Integrity Commission.  The commission drew widespread criticism …
Peter Beinart / The Atlantic:
The Projection President  —  In Paris on Thursday, Donald Trump said, “A lot of people don't know” that “France is America's first and oldest ally.”  That may be true.  But commentators noted that when Trump uses the “a lot of people don't know” formulation, it's usually a sign that he didn't know himself.
Discussion: BostonGlobe.com
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Lisa Boothe / Washington Examiner:
Spare me your Donald Jr. indignation
Discussion: Instapundit
Jennifer Scholtes / Politico:
House Republicans weigh massive partisan spending bill  —  House GOP leaders will decide next week whether to brave an ugly floor fight over a massive GOP spending bill — a proposal applauded by some rank-and-file Republicans but that risks embarrassment if it fails.
Discussion: Washington Monthly
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Associated Press:
Top House Republican says budget plan to move ahead
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Chris Cillizza / CNN:
A second-by-second analysis of the Trump-Macron handshake  —  (CNN)President Donald Trump added to the growing lore of his handshakes with world leaders on Friday in France when he and French president Emmanuel Macron spent 29 seconds in a shake that turned into something much, much more.
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Daniella Diaz / CNN:
Watch never-ending handshake between Trump and Macron
Wall Street Journal:
Startup That Got a Seat at White House Roundtable Is Part-Owned by Kushner Family  —  Venture-capital firm run by Kushner's brother partly owns OpenGov, whose CEO last month attended summit with Donald Trump, leaders of Apple, Amazon, Microsoft  —  Prominent technology-industry leaders …
Vox:
Even the intellectual left is drawn to conspiracy theories about the right.  Resist them.  —  How not to write about “radical” libertarians.  —  It's always hard in politics for people to take their opponents' views seriously, but it has become ever harder in Trump's America.
Discussion: EconLog and Cafe Hayek
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David Bernstein / Washington Post:
Duke professor Georg Vanberg on ‘Democracy in Chains’
Discussion: Cafe Hayek
Alexandra Petri / Washington Post:
A 39-year-old man is mysteriously still a ‘kid’  —  All children, except two, grow up: Peter Pan and Donald Trump Jr.  —  “He's a good boy,” President Trump said of his scandal-engulfed son, in remarks that started off the record and then became on the record, apparently because he liked them so much.
CNN:
London acid attacks: 5 victims assaulted in 70 minutes  —  London (CNN)Five men were attacked with acid in London on Thursday night with one man suffering life-changing facial injuries in what police are treating as linked assaults.  —  The five attacks, which took place over 70 minutes …
Evelyn Cheng / CNBC:
Jamie Dimon blows up at DC's dysfunction, says he's tired of ‘listening to the stupid s—’  — On the bank's earnings call, CEO Jamie Dimon answered a question about his view on Washington's impact on the economy.  —  JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon expressed frustration …
Foreign Policy:
Private Email of Top U.S. Russia Intelligence Official Hacked  —  As concerns about cyberattacks grow, hackers are going after Russia wonks.  —  On Tuesday morning, a hacker going by the name Johnnie Walker sent a group email to an unknown number of recipients claiming to have a trove …
Discussion: Shakesville, Hullabaloo and Mediaite
Rachana Pradhan / Politico:
Nevada governor undecided on health bill, will meet with Pence  —  PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval on Friday expressed deep reservations about Senate Republicans' latest Obamacare repeal bill, but he wouldn't go as far as to say he opposes the revised legislation.
Ellen Mitchell / The Hill:
Pentagon announces death of ISIS leader in Afghanistan  —  The Pentagon announced Friday that U.S. forces killed a senior member of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria's Afghanistan branch, known as ISIS-K.  —  A July 11 airstrike in the country's Kunar province killed Abu Sayed …
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Jim Tankersley / Vox:
The Senate health care bill is getting dangerous for Donald Trump  —  It's alienating a crucial chunk of his supporters.  —  There have been, for most of the past six months, two kinds of Americans: one group that was confident that President Trump was going to make their lives better, and one group that never believed that.
Ryan J. Reilly / HuffPost:
Judge Tosses Jury's Conviction Of Woman Who Laughed At Jeff Sessions, Orders New Trial  —  A D.C. judge tossed out the conviction of a woman arrested after laughing during Sessions' Senate confirmation hearing.  —  WASHINGTON A D.C. judge has tossed out a jury's conviction of a protester …
Discussion: Mediaite and Joe.My.God.
 
 
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Max Greenwood / The Hill:
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Julia Manchester / The Hill:
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