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Axios:
Exclusive: Peter Navarro pushed Stefan Halper for Trump job  —  President Trump's top trade adviser, Peter Navarro, recommended appointing Stefan Halper, an academic and suspected FBI informant on the Trump campaign, to a senior role in the Trump administration, Axios has learned.
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Timothy L. O'Brien / Bloomberg:
Donald Trump Wants You to Hate Robert Mueller, Too  —  The president takes on the Justice Department.  —  Back in 2011, Donald Trump published “Midas Touch,” one of his many how-to books offering secrets for financial success.  This is where Trump, a lifelong performance artist …
Peter Baker / New York Times:
Trump Team's Mueller Strategy: Limit the Investigation and Attack the Investigators  —  WASHINGTON — Frustrated and impatient, fed up with waiting and eager to fight back, President Trump has embarked on what amounts to a two-prong strategy to contain the threat and undercut the credibility …
Washington Post:
Who is Stefan A. Halper, the FBI source who assisted the Russia investigation?
Darren Samuelsohn / Politico:
Meet Mueller's new spokesman: Rudy Giuliani
The Daily Beast:
Trump's Latest FBI Attack Stuns Justice Dept. Officials: 'We're in Venezuela'
Discussion: Washington Post and New York Times
Byron York / Washington Examiner:   When did Trump-Russia probe begin? Investigators focus on mystery months
The Washington / Mercury News:   GOP lawmaker, intel officials will meet to discuss FBI source
Wall Street Journal:
U.S., China Agree on Outline to Settle ZTE Controversy  —  Deal would lift the sales ban on ZTE and require the Chinese telecom giant to make significant changes to its management and board  —  Lingling Wei in Beijing and Bob Davis in  —  The U.S. and China have agreed on the broad outline …
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Axios:
3 factors behind Trump's cave on his China trade war  —  Who knows how the chest-bumping over China ends.  But for now, President Trump's anti-China advisers are right: The president is buckling on his threats to punish China with fundamental, lasting changes to trade tariffs and rules.
New York Times:
Chances of China Trade Win Undercut by Trump Team Infighting  —  WASHINGTON — By the time American negotiators wrapped up high-level talks with a visiting Chinese delegation last week, President Trump's ambitions for a multibillion-dollar trade agreement had, for the time being …
Associated Press:
Can the ‘dealmaker’ president deliver on North Korea?  —  Weeks before his planned North Korea summit, President Donald Trump is staring down a dealmaker's worst nightmare: overpromising and under-delivering.  —  As the Singapore meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un draws near …
Greg Ip / Wall Street Journal:   In Trade War With U.S., China Gets the Upper Hand
Bloomberg:
China Makes Massive Cut to Car Tariffs After Truce With Trump
Discussion: BloombergQuint
Annie Linskey / BostonGlobe.com:
Trump's tweets include grammatical errors.  And some are on purpose  —  WASHINGTON — The hallmark of President Trump's Twitter feed is that it sounds like him — grammatical miscues and all.  —  But it's not always Trump tapping out a Tweet, even when it sounds like his voice.
Associated Press:
The princes, the president and the fortune seekers  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — After a year spent carefully cultivating two princes from the Arabian Peninsula, Elliott Broidy, a top fundraiser for President Donald Trump, thought he was finally close to nailing more than $1 billion in business.
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
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Bloomberg:   Kushners' Startup Cadre Seeking Saudi-Backed Softbank Funds
Justin Glawe / The Daily Beast:
Elliott Broidy's Company Got Its Biggest U.S. Government Contract Ever While He Pitched Trump Administration
Discussion: Raw Story
Daniel Lippman / Politico:
‘Too inconvenient’: Trump goes rogue on phone security  —  The president has kept features at risk for hacking and resisted efforts by staff to inspect the phones he uses for tweeting.  —  President Donald Trump uses a White House cell phone that isn't equipped with sophisticated security features designed …
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Trump Is Doing Same Thing He Demanded Clinton Be Locked Up For  —  While serving as secretary of State, Hillary Clinton disregarded an instruction from the Foreign Affairs Manual directing her to use State Department equipment for day-to-day operations.  Clinton almost certainly …
Agence France-Presse:   Commemorative Coin Struck for Trump-Kim Summit
Jamie Lovegrove / Post and Courier:
Top South Carolina candidate refuses to quit congressional race after abuse discovery  —  Archie Parnell, a Democratic congressional hopeful who earned national attention after nearly winning in deep red South Carolina last year, is resisting pleas to withdraw after his campaign staff discovered …
Sean Davis / The Federalist:
BREAKING: E-mails Show FBI Brass Discussed Dossier Briefing Details With CNN  —  New e-mails show former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe was surprisingly knowledgeable about CNN's understanding of and deliberation about a dossier briefing given to Donald Trump days before CNN ever reported on the matter.
Eugene Scott / Washington Post:
Will Stacey Abrams and other black women candidates finally make the ‘backbone of the Democratic party’ its face?  —  Anyone paying attention to politics knows that black women are the backbone of the Democratic Party electorate.  —  This was obvious in 2016 when 94 percent of black women voted …
Discussion: Raw Story and Politico
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Associated Press:
Voters choose nominees in Arkansas, Georgia, Kentucky, Texas
Discussion: Politico
Dennis Baron / Washington Post:
Antonin Scalia was wrong about the meaning of ‘bear arms’  —  Dennis Baron is a professor of English and linguistics at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.  —  For most of its history, the Second Amendment protected a collective right to gun ownership connected to service in the militia.
Gerry Smith / Bloomberg:
The Hard Truth at Newspapers Across America: Hedge Funds Are in Charge  —  From Miami to Denver, financial firms are playing a bigger role at local papers struggling to adapt in digital age  —  A group of journalists protesting outside the offices of a New York City hedge fund recently shined …
Tennessean.com:
U.S. Sen. Bob Corker turns down offer to become next U.S. ambassador to Australia  —  Michael Patrick/Knoxville News Sentinel  —  The Trump administration wanted U.S. Sen. Bob Corker to join its diplomatic ranks.  —  But the retiring Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman declined …
Joe Jervis / Joe.My.God.:
Tony Perkins: School Shootings Happen Because Liberal Society Has Created A “Moral Vacuum” By Expelling God  —  Via press release from hate group leader Tony Perkins:  —  As the first bodies of those eight students and two teachers are laid to rest, America returns to the question burned on everyone's mind: why?
Brian M. Rosenthal / New York Times:
From the E.R. to the Garden, M.T.A. Chief Holds Unusually Powerful Perch  —  Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo was in a bind.  —  The New York City subway system was falling apart and taking the governor's approval rating down with it.  Looming construction at Pennsylvania Station was sparking fears of a “summer of hell” for commuters.
Alec Luhn / Telegraph:
Putin's ‘unlimited range’ nuclear missile crashed after 22 miles, US intelligence sources claim  —  The Kremlin has denied US claims that Russia's nuclear-powered cruise missile with “unlimited” range crashed after only 22 miles.  —  The weapon was one of a range of “invincible” …
Travis Clark / Business Insider:
People are threatening to boycott Netflix after the Obamas signed a deal with the streaming service  — Former President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama have signed a multi-year deal with Netflix to produce original shows.  — It's not the first time: In March …
Jason Rezaian / Washington Post:
Mike Pompeo gives a silly speech on Iran  —  Mike Pompeo used his first speech as secretary of state Monday to send a message directly to the Iranian leadership and its people: “Do what we want, or else!”  —  Speaking at the Heritage Foundation, a conservative Washington think tank …
Discussion: Associated Press
Emily Stewart / Vox:
Harley-Davidson took its tax cut, closed a factory, and rewarded shareholders  —  The motorcycle maker in January told Kansas City workers it would close a plant there.  Days later, it announced a nearly $700 million stock buyback plan.  —  In September 2017, House Speaker Paul Ryan traveled …
Discussion: Raw Story and CNNMoney
Ronald Brownstein / CNN:
Beating Republicans in November will be harder than Democrats thought  —  CNN Poll: Trump approval holding steady  —  (CNN)It's become a numbing Washington ritual.  Donald Trump shatters a traditional boundary on the exercise of presidential power.  Or he uses inflammatory language that stirs racial animosities.
Discussion: Hullabaloo and Raw Story
 
 
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Sebastian Rotella / ProPublica:
The U.S. Considered Declaring Russia a State Sponsor of Terror, Then Dropped It
Discussion: Washington Post
Rebecca Drago / DCCC:
New DCCC Data - GOP Tax Bill Support Dropping Fast
Sean Sullivan / Washington Post:
Trump and McConnell, once adversaries, have realized they need each other
Discussion: The Daily Caller
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Jon Henley / The Guardian:
Sweden distributes ‘be prepared for war’ leaflet to all 4.8m homes
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Discussion: Breitbart, The Daily Caller and Variety
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FBI agents asking Missouri lawmakers about tactics by Greitens associates
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