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Lili Loofbourow / Slate:
The America We Thought We Knew Is Gone — Because countries are not people, it's tricky to translate whatever “loving one's country” means—it's quite abstract—into the language of heartbreak. It sounds melodramatic. What can heartbreak mean as a civic matter? And yet it is what I feel.
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BREAKING NEWS: Trump says he's cut his Supreme Court short-list down to five candidates including TWO women and he'll announce a nominee July 9 - but he doesn't plan to ask any of them about Roe v. Wade — President is under pressure from conservatives to pick a reliably right-wing Supreme Court justice …
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Bloomberg:
Trump Says He'll Announce Supreme Court Nominee July 9 — President says his Supreme Court finalists include two women — Five top candidates said to be federal appeals court judges — President Donald Trump said Friday he has narrowed down his search for a nominee to fill …
Washington Post:
Top Supreme Court prospect has argued presidents should not be distracted by investigations and lawsuits — U.S. Circuit Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh, a former clerk for Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy who is viewed as one of the leading contenders to replace him, has argued that presidents …
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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
An explosion is coming — Eight years ago, when Congress was about to pass Obamacare, John A. Boehner, leader of a powerless Republican congressional minority, gave a passionate, prescient speech on the House floor. — “This is the People's House, and the moment a majority forgets this …
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Wall Street Journal:
Trump Says He Has Narrowed List of Possible Supreme Court Picks to Five
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Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Trump says he is considering two women for Supreme Court, will announce pick July 9
Paul Schiff Berman / New York Times:
A Better Reason to Delay Kennedy's Replacement
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NBC News:
North Korea has increased nuclear production at secret sites, say U.S. officials — “Work is ongoing to deceive us on the number of facilities, the number of weapons, the number of missiles,” said one U.S. official — WASHINGTON — U.S. intelligence agencies believe that North Korea …
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Robbie Gramer / Foreign Policy:
U.S. Ambassador to Estonia Resigns in Disgust After Trump Anti-Europe Rants — James Melville is the latest in a string of career diplomat resignations over Trump's comments and policies. — The U.S. ambassador to Estonia, James D. Melville Jr., a career diplomat and member …
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Tiffany Hsu / New York Times:
G.M. Says New Wave of Trump Tariffs Could Force U.S. Job Cuts — General Motors warned Friday that if President Trump pushed forward with another wave of tariffs, the move could backfire, leading to “less investment, fewer jobs and lower wages” for its employees.
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John Harwood / CNBC:
Trump's White House has been a money-making machine — Although Donald Trump handed over control of his businesses to his sons, the president still collects on their profits. Here's how Trump's White House is a money-making machine.
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Toluse Olorunnipa / Bloomberg:
Trump Apparently Duped by Prankster on Air Force One Phone Call
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Alexi McCammond / Axios:
Prank caller patched through to Trump on Air Force One
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Daily Mail:
Comedian John Melendez 'hoax calls President Trump on Air Force One and chats with him about …
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Louis Nelson / Politico:
White House scrambles to figure out how prankster got on the phone with Trump
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Bradford Betz / Fox News:
Reporter resigns after false tweet that Maryland shooting suspect had MAGA hat — A reporter in Springfield, Mass., resigned from his job Friday after posting a Twitter message falsely stating that Maryland shooting suspect Jarrod Ramos had brought a “Make America Great Again” hat to the office of the Capital Gazette.
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Laura Lippman / New York Times:
At the Capital Gazette, the Death of a Reporter's Reporter — I believe there are two kinds of reporters — ones who can find a story by pointing to a random name in the phone book, and those who would rather impale themselves on an old-fashioned newsroom spike than do business that way.
Hadas Gold / CNNMoney:
Fundraisers set up for Capital Gazette shooting victims
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Rebecca Traister / The Cut:
Summer of Rage — It shouldn't have been such a shock. After all, many of those most painfully poleaxed by the news of Anthony Kennedy's retirement on Wednesday were the same ones who'd always understood the stakes; we knew that this was the risk, we've been scared for a long time.
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New York Times:
‘Shaken’ Rosenstein Felt Used by White House in Comey Firing — WASHINGTON — In the days after the F.B.I. director James B. Comey was fired last year, the deputy attorney general, Rod J. Rosenstein, repeatedly expressed anger about how the White House used him to rationalize the firing …
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Washington Post:
U.S. assessing cost of keeping troops in Germany as Trump battles with Europe — The Pentagon is analyzing the cost and impact of a large-scale withdrawal or transfer of American troops stationed in Germany, amid growing tensions between President Trump and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, according to people familiar with the work.
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New York Times:
Russians Offered Business Deals to Brexit's Biggest Backer — LONDON — Arron Banks, a British financier who bankrolled the campaign for Britain to leave the European Union, has long bragged about his “boozy six-hour lunch” with the Russian ambassador eight months before the vote.
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Adam Davidson / New Yorker:
The Inconvenient Legal Troubles That Lie Ahead for the Trump Foundation — Barring an unexpected change, the Donald J. Trump Foundation will be defending itself in a New York courtroom shortly before this fall's midterm elections. The proceedings seem unlikely to go well for the institution …
Charles S. Clark / GovExec.com:
Former ICE General Counsel Heads to Prison for Identity Theft — By angelo gilardelli / Shutterstock.com — A former top legal adviser to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement bureau was sentenced to 48 months in prison for wire fraud and identity theft affecting aliens, the Justice Department announced on Thursday.
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Natasha Korecki / Politico:
Ted Cruz: ‘Vote for the Democrat’ over the GOP Nazi — CHICAGO — Texas GOP Sen. Ted Cruz on Friday urged residents of a Chicago-area congressional district to vote for a Democrat if they must, to avoid giving even one vote to an avowed Nazi who won the GOP nomination.
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Devlin Barrett / Washington Post:
Trump administration may detain migrant families longer than previously allowed — The Trump administration plans to detain migrant families together in custody rather than release them, according to a new court filing that suggests such detentions could last longer than the 20 days envisioned by a court settlement.
The Daily Beast:
Abolish ICE? Not So Fast, Says Congressional Hispanic Caucus in New Talking Points. … The preeminent coalition of Hispanic lawmakers on Capitol Hill is pushing back against mounting calls for abolishing Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, arguing that lawmakers should instead focus …
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Margaret Harding McGill / Politico:
Man charged with threatening to kill Ajit Pai's family — A California man is charged with threatening to kill FCC Chairman Ajit Pai's children because he was “angry” about the repeal of net neutrality regulations, the Justice Department said today. — Markara Man, 33, of Norwalk was arrested …
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Seth Abramovitch / Hollywood Reporter:
Death in a Hollywood Sex Dungeon: How a Top Agency Executive's “Mummification” Ritual Ended in Tragedy — For years, WME vp Skip Chasey has led an openly double life as a “master” in L.A.'s BDSM community. But a role-playing encounter involving plastic wrap went horrifically wrong …
Politico:
Spain, Greece and Germany seal migrant swap deal — Spain, Greece and Germany struck a trilateral migration deal of “reciprocal cooperation” in addition to a wider EU migration deal reached at an EU summit Friday, the Spanish and Greek governments confirmed.
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Kate Rooney / CNBC:
Canada makes retaliatory tariffs official: ‘We will not back down’ — Canada's plan taking effect next week will include imports of U.S. products such as yogurt, caffeinated roasted coffee, toilet paper and sleeping bags. — Canada's foreign minister announced Friday that Ottawa plans …
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