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5:20 PM ET, July 21, 2017

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Glenn Thrush / New York Times:
Sean Spicer Resigns as White House Press Secretary  —  WASHINGTON — Sean Spicer, the White House press secretary, resigned on Friday morning, telling President Trump he vehemently disagreed with the appointment of the New York financier Anthony Scaramucci as communications director.
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Dana Bash / CNN:
Exclusive: Mueller asks WH staff to preserve all documents relating to June 2016 meeting  —  WaPo, NYT: Trump legal team trying to undercut Mueller  —  STORY HIGHLIGHTS  —  (CNN)Special counsel Robert Mueller has asked the White House to preserve all documents relating to the June 2016 meeting …
Reuters:
Exclusive: Moscow lawyer who met Trump Jr. had Russian spy agency as client  —  5 MIN READ  —  MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Russian lawyer who met Donald Trump Jr. after his father won the Republican nomination for the 2016 U.S. presidential election counted Russia's FSB security service among …
Josh Dawsey / Politico:
Spicer quits amid White House feud  —  White House press secretary Sean Spicer resigned on Friday following his disagreement with President Donald Trump's decision to appoint Anthony Scaramucci, a Wall Street financier, as the new communications director, according to multiple White House officials.
The Daily Beast:
Spicey Bails, White House Flails, As Mooch Prevails … President Donald Trump finally pushed his Press Secretary Sean Spicer to the breaking point on Friday after he chose to hire Wall Street personality Anthony Scaramucci as his next communications director.
Discussion: Mother Jones and Politicus USA
Annie Karni / Politico:
Steve Bannon's disappearing act  —  Steve Bannon has largely disappeared from the White House's most sensitive policy debates — a dramatic about-face for an operative once characterized as the most powerful man in Washington.  —  Bannon, chastened by internal rivalries …
Mike Allen / Axios:
Inside the room at Sean Spicer's resignation announcement
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Trump expected to make Scaramucci communications director
Washington Post:   White House taps new acting ethics chief, elevating general counsel over chief of staff
David A. Graham / The Atlantic:   Anthony Scaramucci Is the Right Answer to the Wrong Question
Amy Harder / Axios:
Top coal lobbyist expected to be No. 2 at EPA
Discussion: ABC News and The Daily Caller
Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:   After Colorful Run, the Spicer Show Gets Canceled
Andrew Prokop / Vox:
Inside Steve Bannon's apocalyptic ideology: “Like [Karl] Rove on an acid trip”
Discussion: Raw Story
Laura Jarrett / CNN:   President has rare meeting with US attorney nominee
Washington Post:
Trump's lawyers seek to undercut Mueller's Russia investigation  —  Some of President Trump's lawyers are exploring ways to limit or undercut special counsel Robert S. Mueller III's Russia investigation, building a case against what they allege are his conflicts of interest and discussing …
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Zoe Tillman / BuzzFeed:
Trump's New Lead Lawyer Denies The Legal Team Is Looking Into Pardons  —  John Dowd, the lawyer now leading President Trump's personal legal team, denied on Friday that the outside legal team has been looking into the president's pardon power.  —  In a phone interview with BuzzFeed News on Friday …
Brian Beutler / New Republic:
We're on the Brink of an Authoritarian Crisis
New York Times:
Trump Aides, Seeking Leverage, Investigate Mueller's Investigators
Jake Tapper / CNNMoney:
Sean Hannity will no longer receive Buckley Award after controversy  —  Bernstein: ‘We are in a cold civil war’  —  Fox News Channel star anchor Sean Hannity will no longer receive the conservative Media Research Center's William F. Buckley Award for Media Excellence at its September 21 gala …
New York Times:
These Americans Hated the Health Law.  Until the Idea of Repeal Sank In.  —  DOYLESTOWN, Pa. — Five years ago, the Affordable Care Act had yet to begin its expansion of health insurance to millions of Americans, but Jeff Brahin was already stewing about it.  —  “It's going to cost a fortune,” he said in an interview at the time.
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Carla K. Johnson / Talking Points Memo:
Doctors' Group To Senate: Don't Repeal, But Fix Obamacare
Discussion: Daily Kos
Manu Raju / CNN:
First on CNN: Rice privately meets with Senate Intel on Russia probe  —  (CNN)Susan Rice, who served as former President Barack Obama's national security adviser, quietly met behind closed doors Friday with Senate intelligence committee investigators probing Russian meddling in the elections …
NBC News:
Russia's Lavrov Says Trump May Have Met Putin More Times  —  MOSCOW — President Donald Trump may have held more meetings with Vladimir Putin at the G-20 summit earlier this month, Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Friday — but he shrugged off the importance of the encounters.
Florida Today:
Teens filmed, mocked drowning man, Cocoa police say  —  COCOA - Police and prosecutors say little can be done legally after the revelation that a group of teens filmed the dying moments of a 32-year-old disabled man last week, with the teens mocking, cursing and laughing while the man drowned in a fenced-off pond.
Thomas Frank / The Guardian:
The media's war on Trump is destined to fail.  Why can't it see that?  —  hese are the worst of times for the American news media, but they are also the best.  The newspaper industry as a whole has been dying slowly for years, as the pathetic tale of the once-mighty Chicago Tribune reminds us.
New York Times:
Breaking From Campaign Rhetoric, Trump Brings Terrorism Suspect to U.S. for Trial  —  WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has brought an Al Qaeda suspect to the United States to face trial in federal court, backing off its hard-line position that terrorist suspects should be sent …
Discussion: Political Wire
Shaun Walker / The Guardian:
Vladimir Putin: ‘I may not leave Russian presidency’  —  A question-and-answer session at a Sochi school was designed to make Putin seem youth-friendly after recent youth demonstrations … Asked what he plans to do when he leaves the presidency, Vladimir Putin paused and smiled.
Discussion: Political Wire
Mike Allen / Axios:
Trump 101: How to speak his language  —  One of the more elusive skills in this White House is the ability to communicate effectively with President Trump.  It's no secret he likes things short, simple, graphical.  — Someone who was doing it all wrong (although better lately) …
Discussion: Bloomberg and Raw Story
Josef Adalian / Vulture:
The Producers of HBO's Confederate Respond to the Backlash and Explain Why They Wanted to Tell This Story  —  Game of Thrones showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss are no strangers to controversy, be it serious (questions about the show's handling of sexual violence) or trivial (Ed Sheeran cameos).
Discussion: EW.com, IndieWire, The Root, IJR and Mashable
Adam White / Telegraph:
Justin Bieber banned from China in order to ‘purify’ nation  —  Canadian pipsqueak Justin Bieber may have successfully turned around his reputation by staying out of the headlines and converting millions of cynical pop fans by releasing uncomfortably decent music, but his good behaviour tour …
 
 
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Andre Spicer / Telegraph:
My five-year-old daughter was fined £150 ... for selling lemonade
James Doubek / NPR:
To Shrink Mosquito Population, Scientists Are Releasing 20 Million Mosquitoes
Andrew Roth / Washington Post:
Lawyer who met with Trump Jr. had Russian intelligence connections
Discussion: The Atlantic and NPR
Los Angeles Times:
As Trump wages war on legal marijuana, military veterans side with pot
Discussion: Hit & Run and The Daily Caller
New York Times:
A Broader Sweep  —  RIVERSIDE, Calif. — Just after dawn …
Discussion: Fusion
Fox News:
Stuart Varney: Trump has already made America $4 trillion richer (with just six months in office)
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Pence renews his health care push
Discussion: Political Wire
Raphael Minder / New York Times:
Mustache Intact, Salvador Dalí's Remains Are Exhumed in Paternity Suit
Discussion: The Guardian and Hyperallergic
 Earlier Items: 
ESPN:
Ole Miss coach Hugh Freeze resigns; escort-service calls cited
Discussion: USA Today and SI.com
Washington Examiner:
Ben Carson's quiet life in a chaotic Cabinet
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Trump can usually make it about a third of the way through an interview without mentioning Hillary Clinton
Colby Hall / Mediaite:
Did Kellyanne Conway Just Hold Up a Fox & Friends Interview With a Phone Call From Trump?
Discussion: AOL
Lance Williams / Mother Jones:
“The Alt-Right Side of History Will Prevail”
Discussion: Raw Story
Victor Davis Hanson / Hoover Institution:
America's Media Meltdown
Discussion: neo-neocon and JustOneMinute
Jennifer Haberkorn / Politico:
Under fire for opposing health bill, Mike Lee hits back
 

 
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Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Ben Sherwood and Joanna Coles take minority stakes in The Daily Beast; Sherwood will be CEO and publisher, and Coles will be chief creative and content officer

David Folkenflik / NPR:
NPR suspended Uri Berliner for five days without pay, starting on April 12, after he wrote an essay accusing NPR of losing the public's trust

Jake Kanter / Deadline:
Sources: the BBC plans to stop automatic annual pay increases for its highest-paid employees and instead hand them raises based on their performance

 
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