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NBC News:
Mattis is out of the loop and Trump doesn't listen to him, say officials  —  On Iran, North Korea and other major issues, the defense secretary has been out of the loop  —  WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary James Mattis learned in May from a colleague that President Donald Trump had made the decision …
Amie Tsang / New York Times:
Harley-Davidson to Move Some Production From U.S. Because of E.U. Tariffs  —  Harley-Davidson, the American motorcycle manufacturer, said on Monday that it was shifting some of the production of its bikes outside the United States to avoid European Union tariffs imposed as part of a widening trade dispute.
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Associated Press:
Harley, stung by tariffs, shifts some production overseas  —  MILWAUKEE (AP) — Harley-Davidson, up against spiraling costs from tariffs, will begin shifting the production of motorcycles headed for Europe from the U.S. to factories overseas.  —  The European Union on Friday began rolling …
Anthony Palazzo / Bloomberg:
Harley-Davidson Moves Some Production Out of U.S. After Tariffs
Peter Wells / Financial Times:
Harley-Davidson to shift some production outside US over EU tariffs
Discussion: The Week
Ana Swanson / New York Times:
Trump's Trade War Could Shut Cheesemakers Out of Foreign Markets
Discussion: Raw Story
Nathaniel Meyersohn / CNNMoney:
Harley-Davidson will move some production out of US after retaliatory tariffs
New York Times:
How an Affair Between a Reporter and a Security Aide Has Rattled Washington Media  —  The pearl bracelet arrived in May 2014, in the spring of Ali Watkins's senior year in college, a graduation gift from a man many years her senior.  It was the sort of bauble that might imply something …
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Greg P. / twitchy.com:   ‘Pick-and-choose ethics’: NY Times says reporter Ali Watkins had ‘multiple’ relationships with sources she covered
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Supreme Court won't hear North Carolina partisan redistricting case for now  —  The Supreme Court on Monday said it is declining, for now, to wade into a dispute over a North Carolina redistricting plan that a lower court had found violated the Constitution by overly favoring Republicans.
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Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Supreme Court sends case on North Carolina gerrymandering back to lower court
Discussion: Politico
Josh Gerstein / Politico:   SCOTUS punts in another fight over denial of services for same-sex wedding
Rebecca Everett / New Jersey Online:
N.J. restaurant harassed after Va. eatery with same name boots Sarah Huckabee Sanders  —  At The Red Hen restaurant in Swedesboro Saturday morning, staff was preparing for a private event when Operating Manager Elizabeth Pope noticed something strange on the restaurant's Facebook page: tons of angry comments and reviews.
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Mary Jordan / Washington Post:
The latest sign of political divide: Shaming and shunning public officials  —  Anger and division in American politics are creating a rising phenomenon: the public shaming and shunning of political figures while they are going about their private lives.  —  Few laws expressly prohibit …
Matt Phillips / New York Times:
What's the Yield Curve?  ‘A Powerful Signal of Recessions’ Has Wall Street's Attention  —  You can try and play down a trade war with China.  You can brush off the impact of rising oil prices on corporate earnings.  —  But if you're in the business of making economic predictions …
Discussion: Mother Jones
Politico:
The left loses its cool  —  'When you're violent and cursing and screaming and blocking me from walking into a movie, there's something wrong,' said one top GOP official.  —  Two senior Trump administration officials were heckled at restaurants.  A third was denied service.
James Gordon Meek / ABC News:
Special counsel obtains Trump ally Erik Prince's phones, computer  —  Special Counsel Robert Mueller is digging deeper into Trump ally and Blackwater founder Erik Prince, according to multiple sources with knowledge of the matter.  —  Prince, America's most famous private military contractor …
Discussion: Raw Story
Associated Press:
In sign of detente, North Korea skips annual anti-US rally  —  PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — In another sign of detente following the summit between leader Kim Jong Un and U.S. President Donald Trump, North Korea has decided to skip one of the most symbolic and politically charged events of its calendar …
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Phil Stewart / Reuters:   U.S. to give North Korea post-summit timeline with ‘asks’ soon: official
Hannah Dreier / ProPublica:
I've Been Reporting on MS-13 for a Year.  Here Are the 5 Things Trump Gets Most Wrong.  —  The gang is not invading the country.  They're not posing as fake families.  They're not growing.  To stop them, the government needs to understand them.  —  There's one thing everyone can agree …
New York Times:
Why We Are Leaving the G.O.P.  —  When the obituary for the Republican Party is written, the year 1980 will be cited as the beginning of the end.  Reaganism was in full flower, but the big tent was already folding.  Republican leaders endorsed a constitutional ban on abortion at the convention that summer …
Timothy L. O'Brien / Bloomberg:
Trump's Race-Baiting Has Infested the GOP  —  Mike Huckabee's MS-13 tweet shows how the Republican Party has remade itself in the president's image.  —  Early Saturday morning, Mike Huckabee, the former governor of Arkansas and the father of President Donald Trump's press secretary …
Steve Vockrodt / Kansas City Star:
Kander confirms bid for Kansas City mayor in a move already shaking up the ballot  —  Jason Kander, the former Missouri secretary of state whose growing nationwide profile as a Democrat led to speculation about his presidential ambitions, confirmed on Sunday his unexpected decision to run for mayor of Kansas City.
Charles M. Blow / New York Times:
White Extinction Anxiety  —  Last week Pat Buchanan was on “The Laura Ingraham Show” to discuss the humanitarian crisis Donald Trump has created at the border by ripping children away from their parents.  —  He was not particularly sympathetic to these families' plights …
Discussion: twitchy.com
Sharyl Attkisson / The Hill:
What did Peter Strzok do?  —  As former top FBI official Peter Strzok faces congressional requests to testify, it's worth examining who he is.  —  Strzok is the subject of what I see as one of the most damaging conclusions in the Department of Justice (DOJ) inspector general report …
Discussion: Instapundit
Gabriel Debenedetti / New York Magazine:
Where Is Barack Obama?  —  Barack Obama was six months into his post-White House life when Donald Trump found a new way to grab his attention.  It was a Tuesday morning deep in the mid-Atlantic summer, and, feeling a world away from the Pennsylvania Avenue grind, the former president was reading the New York Times on his iPad.
Betsy Woodruff / The Daily Beast:
Robert Mueller Wants to Talk to Roger Stone's Comedian Frenemy … Bob Mueller has some questions for comedian Randy Credico, according to the comedian himself.  Credico told radio host Jimmy Dore on Sunday evening that the special counsel has reached out to him for a voluntary interview.
Steven Erlanger / New York Times:
Javier Solana, Ex-Chief of NATO, Is Denied Permission to Travel to U.S.  —  BRUSSELS — Javier Solana, a former secretary general of NATO who played a central role in negotiations over Iran's nuclear program when he was the European Union's foreign policy chief, has been denied electronic authorization …
Discussion: Washington Post
Caitlin Byrd / Post and Courier:
Katie Arrington expected to make full recovery after car crash: 'She's a fighter' … Rep. Katie Arrington won the GOP primary for the 1st Congressional District just weeks before being involved in a serious car crash.  She is expected to make a full recovery.  Grace Beahm Alford/ Staff
USA Today:
Secret data: Most VA nursing homes have more residents with bed sores, pain, than private facilities  —  An analysis of internal documents shows residents at more than two-thirds of Department of Veterans Affairs nursing homes last year were more likely to have serious bed sores …
Matt O'Brien / Washington Post:
For the last time: Trump inherited a good economy, and he hasn't made it better  —  President Trump, who came into office when unemployment was at a then-10-year low, thinks that he was “given a very tough hand,” because when he “came up here, we had an economy that was going down.”
Kyle Swenson / Washington Post:
'They're lucky we aren't executing them': National Guardsman faces punishment for Facebook post on migrants  —  With a steady pipeline of unsettling images and reports coming from the border related to the Trump administration's child separation policy, more than half a million Facebook users have opened their digital wallets to help.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Victor Davis Hanson / American Greatness:
Why This Immigration Psychodrama Will Also Pass  —  A month from now there will be a new manufactured news story that Donald Trump is savage, represents an existential danger, or is unhinged.  We will hear of another Trump official cornered and driven out from a liberal-owned Beltway or New York City restaurant.
Discussion: Power Line
Kimberly Veklerov / San Francisco Chronicle:
Black firefighter on inspection duty in Oakland hills gets videotaped, reported to police  —  A black firefighter conducting city-mandated inspections around homes in the Oakland hills was reported to police and, on a separate occasion, questioned and videotaped by a resident who found him suspicious …
Discussion: Raw Story and The Root
RightWisconsin:
Ryan & Sensenbrenner: We Choose Leah  —  By: House Speaker Paul Ryan (WI-01) & Congressman Jim Sensenbrenner (WI-05)  —  Over the last 18 months, we have passed more than 700 bills in the House of Representatives aimed at growing this economy, expanding opportunity, and putting …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
The Intercept:
The NSA's Hidden Spy Hubs In Eight U.S. Cities  —  The secrets are hidden behind fortified walls in cities across the United States, inside towering windowless skyscrapers and fortress-like concrete structures that were built to withstand earthquakes and even nuclear attack.
Rolf Mowatt-Larssen / Just Security:
Trump as a Russian Target - Through the Eyes of a former CIA Russian Expert  —  Donald Trump would have been an active target of Russian intelligence since the moment they laid eyes on him for two reasons that come straight from the classical espionage textbook: He has influence …
Discussion: Raw Story
 
 
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Nicole Darrah / Fox News:
Laura Ingalls Wilder's name pulled from library award over ‘stereotypical attitudes’ in her popular books
Discussion: Townhall and Daily Wire
Bloomberg:
The Dems Take Obamacare on the Road
New York Times:
One Building, One Bomb: How Assad Gassed His Own People
Wendy Siegelman:
Social Media and Influence Companies Related to the Trump Russia Story
McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Two races - one in SC and one in NY - will put Trump to the test on Tuesday
Niels Lesniewski / Roll Call:
Flake Confirms He's Stalling Trump's Judicial Nominees Over Tariffs
 Earlier Items: 
Tim Hains / RealClearPolitics:
Obama DHS Sec. Jeh Johnson: I Freely Admit We Detained Children, “It Was Necessary”
Ross Ramsey / The Texas Tribune:
Ted Cruz leads Beto O'Rourke by 5 points in Texas Senate race, UT/TT poll finds
Discussion: The Week and Off the Kuff
Caleb Howe / Mediaite:
Morning Joe Debates Sarah Sanders Meal Mess: ‘Should Someone Who Lies Constantly’ be ‘Welcome in Open Society?’
Axios:
Trump's winning, cynical plan
Natasha Korecki / Politico:
'We're riding a tiger': The Iowa GOP bets it all on Trump
Julie Bykowicz / Wall Street Journal:
Trump Associates Facing Mounting Legal Bills Turn to Financial Backers for Help
Associated Press:
Stormy Daniels meeting with prosecutors on Michael Cohen cancelled
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and The Week
Bruce Japsen / Forbes:
Poll: 66% Of Voters Oppose Trump DOJ's Move To Gut Patient Protections