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5:05 PM ET, July 18, 2017

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Rosalind S. Helderman / Washington Post:
Eighth person in Trump Tower meeting is identified  —  An American-based employee of a Russian real estate company took part in a June 2016 Trump Tower meeting between a Russian lawyer and Donald Trump Jr., bringing to eight the number of known participants at the session that has emerged …
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Pamela Brown / CNN:
First on CNN: Special Counsel investigators seeking info from ‘eighth man’ at Trump Tower meeting  —  Washington (CNN)Special counsel investigators are seeking information from the still-publicly unidentified eighth person who attended the June 2016 meeting with Donald Trump Jr. at Trump Tower …
Wall Street Journal:
The Trumps and the Truth  —  The best defense against future revelations is radical transparency.  —  Even Donald Trump might agree that a major reason he won the 2016 election is because voters couldn't abide Hillary Clinton's legacy of scandal, deception and stonewalling.
Andrew E. Kramer / New York Times:
The Master of ‘Kompromat’ Believed to Be Behind Trump Jr.'s Meeting  —  MOSCOW — The salacious video, of a naked man in bed with two women, was one of the most prominent examples of “kompromat,” the Russian art of spreading damaging information to discredit a rival or an enemy, in recent Russian history.
Malia Zimmerman / Fox News:
Hillary Clinton sided with Russia on sanctions as Bill made $500G on Moscow speech
Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Trump calls on Senate to end filibuster after healthcare defeat  —  President Trump on Tuesday called on the Senate to end the legislative filibuster after the collapse of the Republican healthcare plan.  —  “The Senate must go to a 51 vote majority instead of current 60 votes.
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Thomas Kaplan / New York Times:
‘Plan C’ on Obamacare, Repeal Now and Replace Later, Has Collapsed  —  WASHINGTON — With their bill to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act in tatters, Senate leaders on Tuesday pushed to vote on a different measure that would repeal major parts of President Barack Obama's health law without …
Josh Dawsey / Politico:
Trump blindsided by implosion of GOP health care bill  —  President Donald Trump convened a strategy session over steak and succotash at the White House with senators Monday night, trying to plot an uphill path to repealing Obamacare and replacing it with a GOP alternative.
Sarah K. Burris / Raw Story:
WATCH: Mitch McConnell whines about people celebrating the defeat of his unpopular Trumpcare bill  —  Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) attempted to blame Democrats for the failure of the law known as Trumpcare that would repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act.
Molly Ball / The Atlantic:
Republicans Aren't Turning on Trump—They're Turning on Each Other
Dan Balz / Washington Post:   A Republican Party at war with itself hits the wall on health care
The Hill:
GOP's repeal-only plan quickly collapses in Senate
Discussion: Daily Kos
Rebecca Harrington / Business Insider:
A Republican senator jumped subway tracks to try to get away from reporters asking about the healthcare bill
Discussion: Raw Story and twitchy.com
Sam Baker / Axios:
The fallout: Admit defeat, move on to bigger defeat?
Dylan Scott / Vox:
The last-ditch Obamacare repeal plan looks dead in the Senate
Stan Collender / Forbes:
The GOP's Arrogance Was Thinking That 52 Votes Is A Majority
Discussion: Mediaite, The Hill, CNN and WREG-TV
Thomas Kaplan / New York Times:
Health Care Overhaul Collapses as Two Republican Senators Defect
Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Two GOP senators to vote against ObamaCare repeal-only bill
Discussion: Mother Jones and Refinery29
Jennifer Steinhauer / New York Times:
Old Truth Trips Up G.O.P. on Health Law: A Benefit Is Hard to Retract
Marina Fang / HuffPost:
Steve Bannon Reportedly Attacked Paul Ryan As ‘A Limp-D**k Motherf**ker’  —  What?  —  Steve Bannon reportedly called House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) “a limp-dick motherf**ker who was born in a petri dish at the Heritage Foundation,” referring to the think tank whose fiscal conservative policies the representative espouses.
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Bloomberg:
Paul Ryan's Approval Suffers as Republican Agenda Stalls
Eli Lake / Bloomberg:
Trump Just Came Very Close to Killing the Iran Deal  —  At the last minute, the president nearly told Tillerson not to certify Iranian compliance.  —  Under President Barack Obama this kind of thing was routine.  Since the Iran nuclear deal was reached in 2015, every few months …
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Peter Baker / New York Times:
Trump Recertifies Iran Nuclear Deal, but Only Reluctantly
John McCormick / Bloomberg:
Finally, a Poll Trump Will Like: Clinton Is Even More Unpopular  —  Views on Democratic nominee harden since exit from spotlight  —  Obama now as popular as he was in first year in White House  —  For a president with historically low poll numbers, Donald Trump can at least find solace in this: Hillary Clinton is doing worse.
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Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Poll: Clinton more unpopular than Trump
Cameron Easley / Morning Consult:
America's Most and Least Popular Governors — July 2017  —  Never miss the latest political data and news from Morning Consult.  Subscribe to Morning Consult's Washington email brief here.  —  Familiar faces remain affixed the top and bottom of the new Morning Consult Governor Approval Rankings …
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Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
As Party Drifts Left, Pragmatic Democratic Governors Have Eye on White House
Discussion: JustOneMinute
Oliver Darcy / CNNMoney:
Fox News' Sean Hannity calls colleague Shep Smith ‘so anti-Trump’  —  Is the chief news anchor at Fox News anti-Trump?  Sean Hannity thinks so.  —  Speaking on his radio show Monday afternoon with White House official Sebastian Gorka, Hannity said Shepard Smith was “a friend,” but someone who was no fan of President Donald Trump.
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Mike DeBonis / Washington Post:
House GOP unveils budget plan that attaches major spending cuts to coming tax overhaul bill  —  House Republicans unveiled a 2018 budget plan Tuesday that would pave the way for ambitious tax reform legislation — but only alongside a package of politically sensitive spending cuts that threaten …
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Chris Jacobs / USA Today:   What killed Senate health care bill? Liberal Medicaid alarmism
Ben Strauss / Politico:
Is the President Fit?  —  Few props have been more indispensable to Donald Trump's presidency than the golf cart.  He drives them on his frequent weekend trips to the links (invariably at Trump-owned clubs, where he rolls onto the greens, too—normally a no-no).
KHQ-TV:
17-year-old Spokane girl pulls gun on home intruder on the run from Spokane County deputies  —  A 17-year-old north Spokane County girl protected herself and her home with her dad's gun when a suspected car thief on the run from Spokane County deputies came into her house Monday morning.
Damian Paletta / Washington Post:
Steven Mnuchin, Trump's treasury secretary, is hurtling toward his first fiasco  —  Shortly before he was sworn in as treasury secretary, Steven Mnuchin spoke with his predecessor to get some advice.  —  Pay attention to the debt problems in Puerto Rico, Treasury Secretary Jack Lew warned Mnuchin …
Discussion: Politico and Eschaton
 
 
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Jesse Paul / Denver Post:
Thousands of Democrats, hundreds of Republicans among Coloradans who canceled their registrations …
Mike Murillo / WTOP:
DC allows doctors to prescribe life-ending medications
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Tegna / KARE-TV:
Mpls. police officer who shot, killed woman identified
WHOTV:
Planned Parenthood Suing State Over Abortion Laws
Discussion: TheBlaze and The Stream
Edward-Isaac Dovere / Politico:
Can Roy Cooper Show Democrats How to Win Again?
Discussion: Apple Podcasts
CNN:
Exclusive: CNN witnesses US Navy's drone-killing laser
Lydia Wheeler / The Hill:
Kamala Harris slams Sessions on criminal justice
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Alexi McCammond / Axios:
Exclusive: She Should Run launches 250k by 2030 campaign
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Refinery29
Greg Toppo / USA Today:
A's on the rise in U.S. report cards, but SATs founder
Discussion: Daily Wire and Mediaite
Hadas Gold / Politico:
Sinclair executive defends company from ‘biased’ media in internal memo
David Brooks / New York Times:
Getting Radical About Inequality
Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post:
Former Clinton and Romney campaign chiefs join forces to fight election hacking
Michael Rothfeld / Wall Street Journal:
New York Seeks Bank Records of Former Trump Associate Paul Manafort
The Daily Beast:
Trump's Campaign Conceded in a Memo That Comey Was Having Major Impact
Discussion: IJR and Mother Jones
 

 
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