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2:35 PM 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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NBC News:
News media paid Melania Trump thousands for use of photos in ‘positive stories only’  —  The First Lady earned six figures from an agreement with Getty Images that paid royalties to the Trumps and mandated photos be used in positive coverage.  —  Since her husband took office Melania Trump …
Blair Guild / CBS News:
Two federal judges seen as Trump's leading contenders for Supreme Court  —  President Trump says he will begin interviewing potential Supreme Court justices today and that he intends to officially nominate his candidate to the nation's highest court in just one week.
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Chuck Schumer / New York Times:
Our Rights Hang in the Balance
Discussion: NY State of Politics, Daily Kos and CNN
Emily Tillett / CBS News:   Blumenthal says Trump's Supreme Court pick “ought to recuse” themselves from Russia decisions
Matthew Nussbaum / Politico:
White House reorganizing staff as Supreme Court fight looms
Discussion: Weekly Standard and Breitbart
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.
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Reuters:
Iran diplomat among four arrested over suspected plot against Iranian opposition meeting
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Deborah Yetter / Courier-Journal:
Bevin cuts dental, vision benefits to nearly 500K Medicaid recipients  —  Gov. Matt Bevin's administration has abruptly cut Medicaid dental and vision benefits to nearly half a million Kentuckians, prompting an outcry from Democrats who called the Republican governor's decision “rash.”
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Peter Sullivan / The Hill:
Ky. governor cancels Medicaid dental, vision benefits after losing work requirement ruling
Discussion: RedState
Summer Concepcion / Talking Points Memo:   KY GOP Cuts Dental, Vision Coverage For 460K After Medicaid Overhaul Rejection
Mara Siegler / Page Six:
Brian Ross is leaving ABC after botched Michael Flynn report  —  ABC News' Brian Ross — who was suspended last year as chief investigative correspondent for a faulty report on Michael Flynn — is leaving the network, Page Six has exclusively learned.  —  ABC suspended Ross last December …
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ABC News Public Relations:   Brian Ross and Rhonda Schwartz
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 …
McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Russia investigators likely got access to NRA's tax filings, secret donors  —  WASHINGTON  —  For months, the National Rifle Association has had a stock answer to queries about an investigation into whether Russian money was funneled to the gun rights group to aid Donald Trump's presidential campaign.
Discussion: IJR and POLITICUSUSA
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Avery Anapol / The Hill:
Legal experts say Mueller team likely gained access to NRA tax filings: report
Discussion: Joe.My.God. and POLITICUSUSA
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.
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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Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Axios Sneak Peek
Discussion: Breitbart and Wall Street Journal
Kasia Klimasinska / Bloomberg:
‘A Little Premature’ to Discuss U.S. Exit From WTO, Ross Says
Discussion: Axios, VICE News, Hullabaloo and CNBC
Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
In U.S., Record-Low 47% Extremely Proud to Be Americans  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — This Fourth of July marks a low point in U.S. patriotism.  For the first time in Gallup's 18-year history asking U.S. adults how proud they are to be Americans, fewer than a majority say they are “extremely proud.”
Discussion: NBC News
Dominic Patten / Deadline:
Harvey Weinstein Faces Life In Prison From New Sex Crime Charges By NYC D.A. From 3rd Victim  —  Already facing rape and criminal sex act charges and a potential 25-years behind bars, Harvey Weinstein today was hit with even heavier legal weight from the Manhattan D.A. - that could see him in jail for life.
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.
Discussion: Common Dreams, Shakesville and Splinter
Bloomberg:
A Morgan Stanley Star Wants You to Back His Political Movement  —  Eric Grossman doesn't look like he would want to do anything drastic.  The top lawyer at Morgan Stanley is a 51-year-old homeowner in the New York suburbs with twin sons and a seat on the firm's management committee.
Associated Press:
Russian charged with Trump's ex-campaign chief is key figure  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — During the special counsel's Russia investigation, Konstantin Kilimnik has been described as a fixer, translator or office manager to President Donald Trump's ex-campaign chairman Paul Manafort.
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 …
Discussion: Fox News and Daily Wire
Tim Stickings / Daily Mail:
The one result he didn't see coming: Rabiot the octopus - who correctly predicted every outcome of Japan's World Cup group matches - is chopped up and eaten before knockout stages  —  An octopus who had predicted all three of Japan's group stage results at the World Cup has been turned into seafood.
Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
Eric Trump rushes into NYC traffic to save ailing woman  —  An ordinary morning in New York City last week for President Trump's son Eric Trump abruptly turned frantic when he rushed to the aid of a woman who passed out near a train station, dodging rush-hour traffic to chase down a passing ambulance.
Douglas MacMillan / Wall Street Journal:
Tech's ‘Dirty Secret’: The App Developers Sifting Through Your Gmail  —  Software developers scan hundreds of millions of emails of users who sign up for email-based services  —  Google said a year ago it would stop its computers from scanning the inboxes of Gmail users for information …
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Melissa Korn / Wall Street Journal:
You Graduated Cum Laude?  So Did Everyone Else  —  With more students boasting flashy GPAs, academic honors lose their luster  —  Nearly half of students who graduated from Lehigh University, Princeton University and the University of Southern California this year did so with cum laude …
Courier-Journal:
Man allegedly threatens to chop up Rand Paul and his family with an ax  —  Matt Stone/Louisville Courier Journal  —  A man is accused of threatening to chop up U.S. Sen. Rand Paul and his family with an ax.  —  The man has been arrested.  He allegedly called in the threats to Paul's Bowling Green office.
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and Roll Call
Alexander Heffner / TIME:
The American Historical Record Includes Court Cases, Famous Speeches—And Trump's Tweets.  Here's Why That Matters  —  Jaap Arriens—NurPhoto via Getty Images  —  When my grandfather Richard Heffner published a collection of pivotal documents from United States history in 1952 …
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: Daily Wire and twitchy.com
 
 
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Andrew Roth / The Guardian:
A wild night: Russia win and Moscow parties as never before
Katrin Bennhold / New York Times:
Trump's Ancestral Village Abounds With His Relatives. Few Will Admit It.
Discussion: IJR and Raw Story
Marlow Stern / The Daily Beast:
Hollywood Keeps Getting Into Bed With Trump Pariahs
Discussion: Washington Press
Patterico's Pontifications:
Would a Justice Amy Barrett Recuse Herself in Abortion Cases?
Discussion: The Week and Right Wing Watch
Danielle Kurtzleben / NPR:
Life As A Young Woman Candidate: Fending Off ‘Older Men’ And Being An Outsider
Teresa Wright / Canadian Press:
Trudeau addresses groping allegation from 2000, says he doesn't recall ‘negative interactions’
Discussion: Daily Wire
 Earlier Items: 
Charles M. Blow / New York Times:
Trump's Rage Junkies
Discussion: The Mahablog and twitchy.com
Fred Hiatt / Washington Post:
The Trump administration's extraordinary cruelty will always find opponents
USA Today:
How Donald Trump could speed up Robert Mueller's Russia investigation: Talk to him.
Rachael Bade / Politico:
Immigration storm bears down on Republicans
Discussion: Daily Kos
Tom Fish / Dailystar.co.uk:
Holy smoke: Jesus used cannabis oil to perform ‘miracles’
Michael Scherer / Washington Post:
A bad week for Democrats gives rise to a big problem: Outrage could become an obstacle in midterms
Avi Selk / Washington Post:
Man arrested after shouting ‘womp, womp’ and pulling a gun on immigration protesters
 

 
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
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Chance Miller / 9to5Mac:
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Ryan Vlastelica / Bloomberg:
Alphabet closes above a $2T market cap for the first time, reaching a valuation of $2.15T after rising 10% on April 26, its biggest one-day jump since July 2015
 
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