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2:00 PM ET, July 5, 2018

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Washington Post:
Schumer urges Trump to tap Merrick Garland for Supreme Court  —  Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) privately urged President Trump in a phone call earlier this week to nominate federal Judge Merrick B. Garland, then President Barack Obama's third nominee to the Supreme Court …
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Mike Allen / Axios:
How Trump will make his Supreme Court pick  —  It'll be more about personality than pedigree.  —  What we're hearing: A White House official involved in the vetting process tells me that President Trump's Supreme Court pick will come down to “who he feels most comfortable with in a personal setting.”
Dara Lind / Vox:
Trump's reported Supreme Court finalists: Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett, and Raymond Kethledge  —  The president will announce his nominee Monday night (unless he tweets it out first).  He'll probably pick one of these three.  —  President Donald Trump plans to announce his pick …
Sen. Ted Cruz / Fox News:
Mike Lee is the best choice for the Supreme Court  —  President Trump is scheduled to announce one of the most important decisions of his presidency on Monday: the name of his second nominee to the Supreme Court, to replace retiring Justice Anthony Kennedy.  —  This will be a defining moment for President Trump's legacy.
Susan Faludi / New York Times:   Senators Collins and Murkowski, It's Time to Leave the G.O.P.
Jonathan Zimmerman / New Republic:
Overturning Roe v. Wade Could Remake American Politics
Discussion: National Review, Daily Wire and AOL
Kevin Wallevand / WDAY-TV:
Ed Schultz, former Fargo radio personality, has died  —  Ed Schultz listens to a caller during a broadcast of his nationally syndicated liberal talk show on Feb. 9, 2006.  There's no reason a left-leaning show can't be successful, he says.  “The last time I checked, liberals drive vehicles,” he says.
Ali Winston / FRONTLINE:
He is a Member of a Violent White Supremacist Group; So Why is He Working for a Defense Contractor with a Security Clearance?  —  In partnership with: … There likely isn't such a thing as a “typical” violent white extremist in America in 2018.  Still, Michael Miselis — a University of California …
Joe Galli / WOAI:
Viral video: Teen says he was attacked for wearing ‘Make American Great Again’ hat  —  Police are investigating after a teen says he was verbally attacked and assaulted at a Whataburger for wearing a Make America Great Again hat.  —  In the video, you can see a man throw a drink …
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Marlene Lenthang / Daily Mail:
Anti-Trump man is fired from his job after video emerges of him angrily ripping a MAGA hat …
Neetu Chandak / The Daily Caller:
Texas Bar Fired Man Who Ran Off With Teen's MAGA Hat And Threw Drink At Trump Supporters
Discussion: Zero Hedge and RedState
Chris Strohm / BloombergQuint:
Mueller Taps More Prosecutors to Help With Growing Trump Probe  —  (Bloomberg) — Special Counsel Robert Mueller is tapping additional Justice Department resources for help with new legal battles as his year-old investigation of Russian interference with the 2016 election continues to expand.
Bethany Minelle / Sky News:
Trump ‘angry baby’ blimp gets green light to fly over London during president's visit  —  A giant balloon dubbed “Trump baby” has been given the green light to fly near parliament during the president's UK visit.  —  London mayor Sadiq Khan's Greater London Authority has approved a request …
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John Bowden / The Hill:
London mayor approves baby Trump blimp to fly over city during visit
Discussion: CNN, WIS-TV and KTLA
NBC New York:
Mom Shoots Man Trying to Steal SUV With Kids Inside: Cops  —  The mother shot the man in the head when he refused her orders to stop the vehicle, police say  —  Mom Shoots Kidnapper in the Head: Police  —  A mother shot a man who tried to steal her SUV while her two toddlers were still inside …
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KDFW:
Mom shoots man who took her car with kids inside
Discussion: 10NEWS and Bearing Arms
BuzzFeed:
Trump Just Hired A Controversial Former Fox News Executive  —  “It's extraordinary that the president of the United States could hire someone like this.”  —  Former Fox News copresident Bill Shine, who was ousted over the network's mishandling of sexual harassment, just took …
Discussion: Joe.My.God., Political Wire and MSNBC
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Matthew Nussbaum / Politico:
Trump hires former Fox News executive Bill Shine as communications chief
Discussion: Mother Jones
Mike Allen / Axios:
Scoop: Confident Trump not planning for Dem House takeover
Discussion: Raw Story
Jeff Daniels / CNBC:
‘We are the casualty:’ US pig farmers brace for second round of pork tariffs from China, Mexico  — U.S. pork producers are about to be hit by a second batch of hefty retaliatory tariffs from China and Mexico that has some large producers predicting they will lose big money.
Discussion: Washington Post
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Sabrina Rodriguez / Politico:
Mexico imposes retaliatory tariffs on dozens of U.S. goods
Discussion: Axios
Jenny Jarvie / Los Angeles Times:   Workers in this town may become victims of Trump's trade war, but they're behind him ‘no matter what’
Kelly Weill / The Daily Beast:
Far-Right Twitter Keeps Falling for the Same Liberal Troll … The tweet was an obvious troll, by a fake doctor with a profane name.  —  “When Trump supporters come to my office at the Mayo Clinic, I love misdiagnosing their healthy pregnancies as ectopic so they have to abort their white fetuses …
Discussion: Raw Story
Washington Post:
Trump's trade war with China is finally here — and it won't be pretty, analysts say  —  BEIJING — Some said the day would never come, that it was all a bluff.  But as the Independence Day fireworks cool in Washington, the eve of the trade war has arrived in China's capital …
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NPR:
Star Spangled Indicator
Tara Francis Chan / Business Insider:
As Trump targets trade, a Chinese factory says it's been hired to make flags for Trump's 2020 campaign
Discussion: IJR and Talking Points Memo
Jamelle Bouie / Slate:
White Fight  —  Under the Trump administration, even naturalized citizens are now a target.  The government agency that oversees immigration applications is hiring lawyers and immigration officers to review cases of immigrants suspected of obtaining citizenship through fake identities or other false information on their applications.
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
Daily Mail:
Three poachers are EATEN by lions after the men broke into South African nature reserve to slaughter rhinos for their horns  —  A gang of poachers who broke into a South African game reserve to hunt rhinos came off second best when they were attacked and eaten by a pride of hungry lions.
Ezra Klein / Vox:
The messy reality of Donald Trump's poll numbers  —  He's playing a strong hand, poorly.  —  On June 25, Axios's Mike Allen and Jim VandeHei took readers inside Donald Trump's “winning, cynical plan.”  They argued that “the more President Trump does, says and tweets outrageous things …
Associated Press:
Life in Trump Cabinet: perks, pestering, power, putdowns  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross came in for an Oval Office tongue-lashing after he used a mundane soup can as a TV prop.  Defense Secretary Jim Mattis got overruled by President Donald Trump's announcement that a new “Space Force” is in the offing.
George F. Will / Washington Post:
Trump's summit with Kim could foretell catastrophe with Putin  —  “There is no longer a Nuclear Threat from North Korea.”  —  “North Korea is upgrading its nuclear research center at a rapid pace, new satellite imagery analysis suggests.”  —  As the president prepares, if this time he does prepare …
Victor Morton / Washington Times:
Facebook flags Declaration of Independence as hate speech  —  In the week of America's Independence Day, the algorithms of Facebook decided that the Declaration of Independence was hate speech.  —  The Liberty County Vindicator, a community newspaper between Houston and Beaumont …
Josh Kraushaar / National Journal:
Democrats Underperforming With Hispanic Voters  —  Despite the president's hard-line immigration policies, Republican candidates are running competitively in many Hispanic-heavy states and congressional districts.  —  Democrats counting on President Trump's hard-line immigration policies …
Brendan O'Connor / Splinter:
The Eugenicist Doctor and the Vast Fortune Behind Trump's Immigration Regime  —  Last month, as parents arrested at the U.S.-Mexico border were separated from their children and transferred to detention centers more than a thousand miles away in the Pacific Northwest, as a father of two languished …
Washington Post:
Senate, House GOP at odds over rare rebuke of Trump on national security  —  GOP lawmakers went to the White House last month to hear President Trump's case for lifting U.S. sanctions on the Chinese telecommunications giant ZTE.  But even as Trump tried to convince his skeptical listeners …
Discussion: MSNBC
Caroline O. / Arc Digital:
Pro-Trump & Russian-Linked Twitter Accounts Are Posing As Ex-Democrats In New Astroturfed Movement  —  #WalkAway from this deceptive propaganda campaign  —  As pundits, politicians, and other Very Serious People spent last weekend admonishing “the left” for not being civil enough in their approach …
 
 
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CNN:
A woman climbed the base of the Statue of Liberty on the Fourth of July to protest migrant family separations
Dan Diamond / Politico:
HHS says hundreds more migrant kids may have been separated than earlier count
Lachlan Markay / The Daily Beast:
Inside the Online Campaign to Whitewash the History of Donald Trump's Russian Business Associates
Discussion: Political Wire
consilium.europa.eu:
Russia: EU prolongs economic sanctions by six months
Discussion: Politico
Ted Nesi / WPRI-TV:
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Discussion: Political Wire
Goldman Sachs:
Drew Faust Joins Goldman Sachs Board of Directors
Eddie Cruz / KAJA-TV:
Mugshot of mother accused of selling children released
Discussion: The Daily Caller
New York Times:
How Trump's Policy Decisions Undermine the Industries He Pledged to Help
 Earlier Items: 
Roger Meyers / National Review:
Judge Kethledge Faithfully Applies Immigration Laws
David M. Drucker / Vanity Fair:
“The House Is Tired of Getting Burned”: As the Border Crisis Festers, Republicans Fear Trump …
Discussion: Mother Jones and The Week
Washington Post:
Is it great to be a worker in the U.S.? Not compared with the rest of the developed world.
Discussion: Common Dreams
John Merline / Investor's Business Daily:
The Left Can't Come To Grips With The Loss Of Power
Canadian Press:
U.S. Border Patrol questions crews of at least 10 fishing vessels in Canadian waters
Discussion: Shakesville, Politico and The Week
Dan Lyman / NewsWars:
San Francisco Logs Over 16,000 Feces Complaints in One Week
David Cay Johnston / New York Times:
How to Make Trump's Tax Returns Public
Discussion: Raw Story