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9:25 PM ET, July 15, 2017

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Lachlan Markay / The Daily Beast:
Trump Campaign Paid Don Jr.'s Lawyer $50,000 Two Weeks Before Email Scandal … About two weeks before the release of emails showing Donald Trump Jr. seeking opposition research from attorneys representing the Russian government, his father's reelection campaign began paying the law firm …
Discussion: NPR, Axios and New York Magazine
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Tom Boggioni / Raw Story:
MSNBC interview goes off the rails when Joy Reid holds Trump supporter's feet to the fire on Russia  —  DON'T MISS STORIES.  FOLLOW RAW STORY!  —  An interview on AM Joy grew heated Saturday morning when host Joy Reid refused to let a defender of President Donald Trump duck answering questions …
Maggie Severns / Politico:
Trump campaign and fundraising committees raise $13.9 million in second quarter
Discussion: Fox News Insider
Alexandra Alter / New York Times:
Comey's Writing a Book, and Publishers Are Eager to Pay Big Money for It  —  James B. Comey, the former F.B.I. director who was fired in May by President Trump, is writing a book about his experience in public service, including his tumultuous and brief tenure in the Trump administration.
Jonathan Cohn / HuffPost:
‘Simply Unworkable’: Insurers Blast New Provision In Senate Health Bill  —  The industry sounds just as angry as the patient advocates.  —  Two organizations representing the U.S. health insurance industry just called a new provision of the Senate Republicans' health care proposal …
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Anna Wilde Mathews / Wall Street Journal:   Insurers Oppose Cruz Amendment to Republican Health-Care Bill
Emily Smith / Page Six:
Kamala Harris meets with Democratic elite in Hamptons  —  MORE FROM: … The Democrats' “Great Freshman Hope,” Sen. Kamala Harris, is heading to the Hamptons to meet with Hillary Clinton's biggest backers.  —  The California senator is being fêted in Bridgehampton on Saturday …
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Stanford News:
Maryam Mirzakhani, Stanford mathematician and Fields Medal winner, dies  —  Stanford mathematics professor Maryam Mirzakhani, the first and to-date only female winner of the Fields Medal since its inception in 1936, died July 15 after a long battle with cancer.  Mirzakhani was 40 years old.
Discussion: Althouse
Dean Baker / cepr.net:
Lessons on Labor Economics for the Owner of a Roofing Company in Nebraska  —  The NYT shows us that the skills shortage is real in an interview with Sarah M. Smith, the owner of a roofing company in Nebraska.  In the interview, Ms. Smith explains why she needs foreign workers, on H2-B visas …
Discussion: New York Times
Andrew E. Kramer / New York Times:
Huge Manafort Payment Reflects Murky Ukraine Politics  —  KIEV, Ukraine — Paul J. Manafort, President Trump's former campaign chairman, recently filed financial reports with the Justice Department showing that his lobbying firm earned nearly $17 million for two years of work for a Ukrainian political party with links to the Kremlin.
Delia Gallagher / CNN:
Catholic journal criticizes Trump ‘value voters’  —  Things Donald Trump has said about the Pope  —  STORY HIGHLIGHTS  —  (CNN)Two close confidants of Pope Francis have written an article in a Jesuit journal that strongly criticizes some American religious supporters of President Donald Trump …
Discussion: The Hill
Michelle Rindels / The Nevada Independent:
Sandoval unmoved on health bill after meeting with White House officials; Price advises governors to disregard CBO  —  Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval said a closed-door breakfast meeting on Saturday between Trump Administration officials and a large number of governors hasn't changed his position …
New York Post:
Teen who blasted ‘F-k Tha Police’ at cop's funeral booted from apartment  —  Julien Rodriguez (left) and Miosotis Familia  —  A cop-hating Bronx teen has been kicked out of his apartment for repeatedly blasting the rap song “F-k Tha Police” from the window as thousands of NYPD cops gathered …
Tim Arango / New York Times:
Iran Dominates in Iraq After U.S. ‘Handed the Country Over’  —  BAGHDAD — Walk into almost any market in Iraq and the shelves are filled with goods from Iran — milk, yogurt, chicken.  Turn on the television and channel after channel broadcasts programs sympathetic to Iran.  —  A new building goes up?
 
 
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Tom Phillips / The Guardian:
Liu Xiaobo: dissident's friends angry after hastily arranged sea burial
Discussion: New York Times
Sopan Deb / New York Times:
Oops! A Gallery Selfie Gone Wrong Causes $200,000 in Damage.
Discussion: Althouse and Mediaite
Bryan Logan / Business Insider:
Idaho news station apologizes for using photo of Black Lives Matter activist DeRay McKesson …
Discussion: Raw Story and theGrio
Chris Tomlinson / Breitbart:
Gay Couple Brutally Attacked in German Asylum Home
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and PinkNews
Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
The Playboy President and Women's Health
Discussion: Politicus USA
Associated Press:
Venus Williams falls in Wimbledon final to Garbine Muguruza
Discussion: NBC News
George F. Will / Washington Post:
Congress is fleeing its warmaking responsibilities
Fox News:
Acid becoming weapon of choice among teens in London amid growing attacks
Discussion: Vox Popoli
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Karen DeYoung / Washington Post:
Russia says it's ‘ready to take reciprocal measures’ if U.S. does not return compounds
Gail Collins / New York Times:
Couldn't We Just Trade Presidents?  —  Why can't Emmanuel Macron be our president?
Discussion: IJR
New York Times:
Dropping the Bluster, Trump Revives Banter With Reporters
Steve Annear / BostonGlobe.com:
Someone complained about Dunkin' Donuts hot cups on Facebook and a war broke out
 

 
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