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10:00 AM ET, July 2, 2018

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George Stephanopoulos / ABC News:
Michael Cohen says family and country, not President Trump, is his ‘first loyalty’  —  Michael Cohen — President Donald Trump's longtime personal attorney and a former executive vice president at the Trump Organization — has always insisted he would remain loyal to the president.
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Associated Press:   Trump's former personal lawyer says he'll put family first
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Exclusive: A leaked Trump bill to blow up the WTO  —  Axios has obtained a leaked draft of a Trump administration bill — ordered by the president himself — that would declare America's abandonment of fundamental World Trade Organization rules.  —  Why it matters: The draft legislation is stunning.
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Ginger Gibson / Reuters:
Exclusive: Largest U.S. business group attacks Trump on tariffs  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the nation's largest business group and customarily a close ally of President Donald Trump's Republican Party, is launching a campaign on Monday to oppose Trump's trade tariff policies.
Discussion: Townhall and The Week
Heather Long / Washington Post:
Trump stands firm on trade, even as foreign tariffs begin kicking in
Chuck Schumer / New York Times:
Our Rights Hang in the Balance  —  Justice Anthony Kennedy's retirement has created the most important vacancy on the Supreme Court in our lifetimes.  Whoever fills Justice Kennedy's seat will join an evenly divided court with the ability to affect the laws of the United States and the rights of its citizens for generations.
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Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Inside the Democratic strategy to oppose Trump's Supreme Court pick
Discussion: ABC News and Raw Story
New York Times:
Susan Collins, Pivotal Moderate, Says ‘Hostility’ to Roe Would Sway Her Vote
Jeffrey Toobin / New Yorker:
How Trump's Supreme Court Pick Could Undo Kennedy's Legacy
Discussion: Maggie's Farm
New York Times:
Leftist Wins Mexico Presidency in Landslide With Mandate to Reshape Nation  —  MEXICO CITY — Riding a wave of populist anger fueled by rampant corruption and violence, the leftist Andrés Manuel López Obrador was elected president of Mexico on Sunday, in a landslide victory …
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Rebecca Fishbein / Jezebel:
Mexico City Will Elect Its First Woman Mayor
Discussion: New York Times and The Week
Joshua Partlow / Washington Post:   Andrés Manuel López Obrador wins Mexican presidential race
Matthew Schmitz / New York Times:
Trump's ‘Purple’ Family Values  —  In the months leading up to Donald Trump's election, I noticed a divide in how my acquaintances spoke about his family values — or lack thereof.  —  People I knew from college or had met in New York expressed distaste for Mr. Trump's behavior.
Richard Johnson / Page Six:
Ex co-worker no fan of Democrat darling Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez  —  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is being hailed as the new face of the Democratic party after vanquishing Queens party boss Joe Crowley in Tuesday's primary, but one former co-worker isn't jumping on her bandwagon.
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The Intercept:
Data Suggest That Gentrifying Neighborhoods Powered Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Victory
Discussion: NY State of Politics
New York Times:
In Denmark, Harsh New Laws for Immigrant ‘Ghettos’  —  COPENHAGEN — When Rokhaia Naassan gives birth in the coming days, she and her baby boy will enter a new category in the eyes of Danish law.  Because she lives in a low-income immigrant neighborhood described by the government as a …
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
Jonathan Cheng / Wall Street Journal:
North Korea Expands Key Missile-Manufacturing Plant  —  New satellite imagery indicates Pyongyang is pushing ahead with weapons programs even as it pursues dialogue with Washington  —  SEOUL—North Korea is completing a major expansion of a key missile-manufacturing plant …
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Peter Whoriskey / Washington Post:
‘A way of monetizing poor people’: How private equity firms make money offering loans to cash-strapped Americans  —  The check arrived out of the blue, issued in his name for $1,200, a mailing from a consumer finance company.  Stephen Huggins eyed it carefully.  —  A loan, it said.
Avi Selk / Washington Post:
Man arrested after shouting ‘womp, womp’ and pulling a gun on immigration protesters … The gathering at a park gazebo in Huntsville, Ala., was by no means the largest of Saturday's nationwide protests against President Trump's “zero tolerance” border policies, though it was memorable for other reasons.
Tom Fish / Dailystar.co.uk:
Holy smoke: Jesus used cannabis oil to perform ‘miracles’  —  JESUS used cannabis and was an early champion of its medicinal properties, a growing consensus of experts agree.  —  And acceptance of this theory could help promote the controversial drug's use in treating a range of illnesses.
USA Today:
How Donald Trump could speed up Robert Mueller's Russia investigation: Talk to him.  —  Executive privilege claim is more political theater than legal firewall as Donald Trump tries to avoid a Robert Mueller interview on Russia.  It's likely to fail.  —  CONNECT
Sharyl Attkisson / The Hill:
Rosenstein conflicts undermine legitimacy of Mueller's investigation  —  In his recent testimony to Congress, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein  —  undoubtedly intended to sound reassuring.  “I am quite confident,” he proclaimed, “about my conduct throughout this investigation.”
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Jonathan Turley / The Hill:   If Rod Rosenstein feels conflicted, he should simply recuse himself
Rachael Bade / Politico:
Immigration storm bears down on Republicans  —  GOP lawmakers can't hide from a debate that continues to fracture the party.  —  House Republicans left Washington last week relieved that their ugly, months-long fight over immigration was behind them.  —  The reality?  It's far from over.
Discussion: Washington Post
Matt Zapotosky / Washington Post:
FBI arrests man it says was plotting July 4 attack in downtown Cleveland  —  The FBI in Cleveland has arrested a 48-year-old man it says was planning a July 4 attack in the city's downtown, authorities said.  —  The man — who lived in Maple Heights, a southeastern suburb of Cleveland …
Brad Wilmouth / NewsBusters:
Rubin: Sarah Huckabee Sanders Should Be Harassed Publicly As a ‘Life Sentence’  —  On Sunday's AM Joy, MSNBC contributor and Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin declared that Sarah Huckabee Sanders deserves a “life sentence” of being harassed publicly as she asserted that the White House press secretary …
Discussion: twitchy.com
Deb Riechmann / Associated Press:
I never said that!  High-tech deception of ‘deepfake’ videos  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Hey, did my congressman really say that?  Is that really President Donald Trump on that video, or am I being duped?  —  New technology on the internet lets anyone make videos of real people appearing to say things they've never said.
Jesse Newman / Wall Street Journal:
Trade Fight Threatens Farm Belt Businesses  —  Many farmers, who depend on shipments overseas for one-fifth of the goods they produce, say they are anxious  —  The U.S. Farm Belt helped deliver Donald Trump to the White House, drawn to his promises to revive rural America and deregulate industry.
Michael Scherer / Washington Post:
A bad week for Democrats gives rise to a big problem: Outrage could become an obstacle in midterms  —  Growing liberal agitation over a pivotal Supreme Court retirement and a simmering crisis about immigrant child separation have left Democratic leaders scrambling to keep the political outrage …
Discussion: CNN, Booman Tribune and New York Times
 
 
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Dion Nissenbaum / Wall Street Journal:
Ex-Trump Adviser McMaster to Take on ‘Infected’ National Security Discourse
Jaclyn Peiser / New York Times:
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Tommy Christopher / Shareblue Media:
Intel expert: Trump ‘clearly in debt to Moscow in some way’
Roger Kimball / American Greatness:
The Left Is Slipping into Terminal Irrelevance
Discussion: Breitbart
MarketWatch:
Oil prices ease on concerns about higher global production
Discussion: Axios, Wall Street Journal, CNBC and Reuters
Sarah Ellison / Washington Post:
Rupert Murdoch: The media mogul says goodbye to much of the company he built
Discussion: The Big Picture
Associated Press:
APNewsBreak: Border Patrol Arrests Drop Sharply in June
Discussion: Axios
Garrett M. Graff / Wired:
Did Satoshi Nakamoto Write This Book Excerpt? A Wired Investigation
 Earlier Items: 
Lucille Holt / Washington Post:
A white woman called police on a black 12-year-old — for mowing grass
Discussion: KTLA and New York Times
John Fund / National Review:
Librarians Airbrush Laura Ingalls Wilder's Name from Award
Clarice Feldman / American Thinker:
Is Trump the Most Fun President Ever?
Ann Marlowe / Fast Company:
How Cambridge Analytica fueled a shady global passport bonanza
Los Angeles Times:
The Trump administration says it's a ‘myth’ …
Discussion: Raw Story
Miriam Jordan / New York Times:
Sponsors of Migrant Children Face Steep Transport Fees and Red Tape
Discussion: AOL and Mother Jones
Ericka Cruz Guevarra / OPB:
Man Killed By Armed PSU Officers Had Valid Concealed Carry Permit
 

 
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple has renewed discussions with OpenAI about using its technology to power some features in iOS 18; talks with Google on using Gemini remain ongoing

Karen Weise / New York Times:
Microsoft, Meta, and Alphabet disclosed that they had spent $32B+ combined on data centers and other capital expenses in Q1, as they accelerate AI spending

 
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