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1:50 AM ET, July 17, 2017

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Reuters:
U.S. Secret Service rejects suggestion it vetted Trump son's meeting  —  4 MIN READ  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Secret Service on Sunday denied a suggestion from President Donald Trump's personal lawyer that it had vetted a meeting between the president's son and Russian nationals during the 2016 campaign.
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Asawin Suebsaeng / The Daily Beast:
Team Trump Excuses for the Don Jr. Meeting Go from Bad to Worse … In the week since the Donald Trump Jr. Russia-email scandal broke, the excuses from the White House, the president's legal team, and top Trump associates have gone from bad to worse.  —  On Sunday, Jay Sekulow …
Discussion: Raw Story
Brandon Carter / The Hill:
Fox News host defends Trump Jr.: I'd meet with the Devil for opposition research … Fox News host Jeanine Pirro defended Donald Trump  —  Jr.'s meeting with a Russian lawyer during the 2016 election who promised him damaging information on then-Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton
Discussion: Raw Story
Josh Israel / ThinkProgress:
Did Donald Trump's lawyer accidentally make a huge confession about the meeting with the Russian lawyer?
Discussion: Business Insider and IJR
Mark Moore / New York Post:   Secret Service: We didn't clear Don Jr.'s Russian lawyer
Rebecca Morin / Politico:   Secret Service: Trump Jr. not under protection during meeting with Russian lawyer
Julia Manchester / The Hill:
Secret Service responds to Trump lawyer: Russian lawyer meeting not screened
Discussion: Raw Story and RedState
Fox News Insider:
FIERY Judge Jeanine: Any Politician Would Take ‘First Trolley to Hell’ if the Devil Offered Opposition Research
Alicia Cohn / The Hill:
Trump lawyer: Secret Service wouldn't have let Trump Jr. take ‘nefarious’ meeting
Discussion: ABC News and The Gateway Pundit
New York Times:
McCain's Surgery May Be More Serious Than Thought, Experts Say  —  The condition for which Senator John McCain had surgery on Friday may be more serious than initial descriptions have implied, and it may delay his return to Washington by at least a week or two, medical experts said on Sunday.
Igor Bobic / HuffPost:
Tom Price Says Insurers Should ‘Dust Off How They Did Business Before Obamacare’  —  Worked before, right?  —  Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price suggested Sunday that the nation's health insurance system ought to operate as it did before the Affordable Care Act was passed.
Discussion: New York Magazine
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Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Health care on a scalpel's edge
Discussion: ABC News
Noam N. Levey / Los Angeles Times:
Obamacare repeal bills could put coverage out of reach for millions of sick Americans
Discussion: RedState
Saisha Talwar / ABC News:   8 to 10 Republican senators concerned about GOP bill: Collins
Joe Scarborough / Washington Post:
Trump is killing the Republican Party  —  I did not leave the Republican Party.  The Republican Party left its senses.  The political movement that once stood athwart history resisting bloated government and military adventurism has been reduced to an amalgam of talk-radio resentments.
Discussion: Mediaite
Karen DeYoung / Washington Post:
UAE orchestrated hacking of Qatari government sites, sparking regional upheaval, according to U.S. intelligence officials  —  The United Arab Emirates orchestrated the hacking of Qatari government news and social media sites in order to post incendiary false quotes attributed to Qatar's emir …
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Declan Walsh / New York Times:   Qatar Opens Its Doors to All, to the Dismay of Some
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
How ‘Neoliberalism’ Became the Left's Favorite Insult of Liberals  —  A generation ago, “neoliberalism” was the chosen label of a handful of moderately liberal opinion journalists, centered around Charles Peters, then-editor of the Washington Monthly.  Some neoliberals started calling traditional liberals “paleoliberals.”
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
Julia Manchester / The Hill:
Carville: It would be ‘very, very difficult’ for Dems to retake Senate in 2018  —  Democratic operative James Carville is expressing doubt that his party will take back the Senate in 2018, saying Saturday that it would be “very, very difficult,” to do so.  —  “I think right now most Democrats …
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Pam Key / Breitbart:
Carville: ‘No One’ Is in Charge of the Democratic Party
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Trump hasn't forgiven Sessions for Russia recusal  —  Attorney General Jeff Sessions' administration allies were hoping President Trump could, as he himself might say, see his way clear to letting it go.  But that's not happening.  —  Trump's initial fury about Sessions' recusal …
The Seattle Times:
Seattle Mayor Ed Murray sexually abused foster son, child-welfare investigator found in 1984  —  Records previously thought destroyed provide the clearest picture yet of the investigation of claims Ed Murray sexually abused his foster son.  —  An Oregon child-welfare investigator concluded …
Cyra Master / The Hill:
Break-in reported at GOP Senator's office  —  DON'T MISS A BRIEF.  SIGN UP FOR OUR DAILY EMAIL.
Discussion: LASVEGASNOW and Raw Story
Julia Manchester / The Hill:
Nearly 150,000 attempts to hack SC voter registration system on Election Day: report  —  Hackers tried to infiltrate South Carolina's voter registration system nearly 150,000 times on Election Day 2016, according to a South Carolina State Election Commission report that was reported on by The Wall Street Journal.
Discussion: Raw Story
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Alexa Corse / Wall Street Journal:
South Carolina May Prove a Microcosm of U.S. Election Hacking Efforts
Discussion: Hullabaloo and New York Times
Tre'vell Anderson / Los Angeles Times:
George A. Romero, ‘Night of the Living Dead’ creator, dies at 77  —  Legendary horror movie director George A. Romero, pictured here in 2008, died Sunday.  (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times)  —  Legendary filmmaker George A. Romero, father of the modern movie zombie and creator of the groundbreaking …
Sam Levine / HuffPost:
Head Of Trump Voter Fraud Probe Wanted To Change Law To Make Registering More Difficult  —  Kris Kobach sought to make it acceptable to impose a proof-of-citizenship requirement, according to newly public emails.  —  Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach (R), the official leading President …
 
 
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Barak Ravid / Haaretz:
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