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5:30 AM ET, July 6, 2018

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New York Times:
E.P.A. Aide Questioned Deleting Sensitive Meeting Details.  Then She Was Fired.  —  WASHINGTON — Scott Pruitt, the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency and the subject of numerous investigations into claims that he used agency resources for personal benefit …
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The Daily Beast:
How Scott Pruitt's Disloyalty to His Own Staff Brought Him Down in the End … Minutes before President Donald Trump announced the resignation of Scott Pruitt, his top environmental regulator, one of his former aides accused him of firing another for questioning a potentially illegal purge of official agency records.
Coral Davenport / New York Times:
How the New Acting E.P.A. Chief Differs From Scott Pruitt  —  WASHINGTON — The departure of Scott Pruitt, the scandal-plagued former head of the Environmental Protection Agency, means that the agency will be led in the coming months by Mr. Pruitt's deputy, Andrew Wheeler …
Ramesh Ponnuru / National Review:
Pruitt Blew It  —  EPA administrator Scott Pruitt had enemies who were out to get him because he is a Republican, a conservative, a high-ranking member of the Trump administration, and an environmental deregulator.  But it wasn't liberals, the media, or deep staters who made him get large raises …
Discussion: CBS News, MSNBC and Power Line
Wall Street Journal:   Pruitt Drowns in the Swamp
Scott Pruitt / Fox News:
Scott Pruitt's full resignation letter to President Trump
Washington Post:
Move to omit controversial cardinal's name from Pruitt's schedule prompted protests
Associated Press:
AP NewsBreak: US Army quietly discharging immigrant recruits  —  SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Some immigrant U.S. Army reservists and recruits who enlisted in the military with a promised path to citizenship are being abruptly discharged, the Associated Press has learned.
Corky Siemaszko / NBC News:
Fourth Ohio State wrestler says Rep. Jim Jordan knew about sexual abuse when he was coach  —  The wrestler said Jordan, a former assistant coach at Ohio State, took part in locker-room conversations where athletes discussed the abuse.  —  A fourth former Ohio State University wrestler came forward Thursday …
Nina Totenberg / NPR:
Trump Narrows Supreme Court Shortlist To 3 — With 2 On The Inside Track  —  President Trump has narrowed his list of Supreme Court candidates to three, according to two sources close to the process.  —  The three are Judges Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett and Raymond Kethledge with Kavanaugh …
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Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Political Polarization Takes Hold of the Supreme Court  —  WASHINGTON — As President Trump prepares to name a new justice, one reality is increasingly clear about the Supreme Court — it has become another polarized institution in the polarized capital of a polarized nation.
Washington Post:
Schumer urges Trump to tap Merrick Garland for Supreme Court
Caitlin Dickerson / New York Times:
Trump Administration in Chaotic Scramble to Reunify Migrant Families  —  Faced with a court-imposed deadline to reunite families separated at the southwest border, federal authorities are calling in volunteers to sort through records and resorting to DNA tests to match children with parents.
Discussion: The Week
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Julia Ainsley / NBC News:
U.S. has nearly 3,000 separated migrant kids, will use DNA to find parents
Discussion: MSNBC
Karoun Demirjian / Washington Post:
Republicans on Russia trip face scorn and ridicule from critics at home  —  Republican lawmakers who went to Russia seeking a thaw in relations received an icy reception from Democrats and Kremlin watchers for spending the Fourth of July in a country that interfered in the U.S. presidential election and continues to deny it.
John Parkinson / ABC News:
Trump stumps in Montana: 'It's time to retire liberal Democrat Jon Tester'  —  President Donald Trump fired up thousands of supporters at a campaign rally - taking on perhaps this fall's most-endangered Senate Democrat, Sen. Jon Tester - as he touted his administration's actions since he took office.
Discussion: CNN, The Week, Washington Post and Breitbart
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MJ Lee / CNN:
Michael Cohen tells friends he doesn't think Trump would pardon him  —  Berman: Is Michael Cohen ready to sing?  —  (CNN)Michael Cohen has recently told friends that he is pessimistic that President Donald Trump will offer him a pardon — one more indication that Cohen does not believe his former boss will have his back.
Discussion: Joe.My.God. and VICE News
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Betsy Woodruff / The Daily Beast:
Michael Cohen Hires Former Clinton Aide Lanny Davis
Discussion: Politico, The Week and CNN
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.
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Helmut Schmidt / WDAY-TV:
Ed Schultz, local and national broadcast personality, died at Washington, D.C., home from natural causes
Discussion: Politico, TheBlaze and Townhall
Yahoo:
Trade Wars: Trump loads decisive volley against China  —  Heather Scott with Ryan McMorrow in Beijing  —  Washington (AFP) - Steep American tariffs on Chinese goods worth tens of billions of dollars are due to take effect at midnight Thursday, as US President Donald Trump fires the decisive salvo …
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Elaine Lies / Reuters:
Hundreds of thousands evacuated in Japan as ‘historic’ rain falls; two dead  —  TOKYO (Reuters) - Hundreds of thousands of people across a wide swathe of western and central Japan were evacuated from their homes on Friday as torrential rains pounded the nation, flooding rivers …
Jeff Cox / CNBC:
The U.S. labor shortage is reaching a critical point  — Private payrolls grew less than expected in June, likely due not just to a slowdown in hiring but also a decline in the labor pool.  —  America's labor shortage is approaching epidemic proportions, and it could be employers who end up paying.
Discussion: New Republic
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Fred Imbert / CNBC:   Private payrolls miss expectations as companies can't find enough people to hire
Kang In-sun / Digital Chosunilbo:
Pompeo Brings ‘Rocket Man’ CD for Kim Jong-un  —  U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo left for North Korea on Thursday for denuclearization talks and brought two gifts for leader Kim Jong-un.  —  One is a letter from U.S. President Donald Trump and the other an Elton John CD with his song “Rocket Man.”
BuzzFeed:
Trump's Mar-A-Lago Wants To Hire 40 More Foreign Workers  —  With the latest filing, the club has now sought to hire more than 240 foreign workers since Donald Trump launched his presidential campaign.  —  Mar-a-Lago, President Donald Trump's private club in Palm Beach, Florida …
Discussion: Axios
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David A. Fahrenthold / Washington Post:   Trump's Mar-a-Lago Club in Florida seeks to hire 40 foreign workers
Colleen Wright / miamiherald:
Mom's secret recording catches kindergarten teacher calling 5-year-old a ‘loser’  —  By the second week of school last fall, Kandy Escotto knew something was amiss with her 5-year-old.  —  Her son, Aaron, complained about going to school.  He brought home poor grades.
Discussion: Raw Story
Jillian Jorgensen / New York Daily News:
EXCLUSIVE: City nixes property tax break for Trump's NYC apartment … New York City has nixed a $48,000 tax break President Trump was set to receive on his Trump Tower condo following inquiries from the Daily News about whether he is still eligible for the savings.
New York Times:
Brett Kavanaugh, Supreme Court Front-Runner, Once Argued Broad Grounds for Impeachment  —  WASHINGTON — Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh, the front-runner to replace Justice Anthony M. Kennedy on the Supreme Court, once argued that President Bill Clinton could be impeached for lying to his staff …
Jessica McBride / Heavy.com:
Kino Jimenez, Accused MAGA Attacker, Fired by Rumble Bar  —  Kino Jimenez, who is accused of attacking a teen wearing a MAGA hat, has been fired by Rumble, a San Antonio bar, which wrote that its employee's alleged actions “go against everything that this establishment stands for.”
Discussion: CBS Los Angeles, WIS-TV, KENS, Daily Wire and IJR
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Brittany De Lea / Fox Business:
Germany willing to cut tariffs on US cars, lifting automakers' shares  —  Germany's chancellor said Thursday she's willing to back lower tariffs on U.S. auto imports as a potential European Union (EU) concession to the Trump administration - just one day after CEOs of Germany's biggest carmakers …
Financial Times:
EU rigidity on Brexit putting lives at risk, says German minister  —  Germany's interior minister has warned Brussels it risks putting lives at risk with a dogmatic approach to Brexit that would hamper reaching an “unlimited” security deal with Britain.  —  The letter from Horst Seehofer …
Discussion: Politico and Bloomberg
Brian Slodysko / Associated Press:
Indiana governor, legislative leaders call for AG to resign  —  INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb and the two GOP Statehouse leaders on Thursday called for Republican Attorney General Curtis Hill to resign amid what they called credible claims that Hill drunkenly groped four women …
 
 
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EU considers eliminating car tariffs to avoid trade war
Discussion: ABC News
John Myers / Los Angeles Times:
Federal judge denies Trump administration effort to block California's ‘sanctuary’ law
Claire Cain Miller / New York Times:
Americans Are Having Fewer Babies. They Told Us Why.
Discussion: Splinter and The Week
Spencer Ackerman / The Daily Beast:
Trump Ready to Turn Away Another 20,000 Refugees
Jacqueline Thomsen / The Hill:
Trump: I would offer Warren $1M to prove her Native American heritage
Discussion: Washington Press
Drew Musto / The Cornell Daily Sun:
19 Cornell Law Professors: Dismiss Title IX Complaint Against Graduate Student and Give Him His Ph.D.
Discussion: Breitbart and The College Fix
 Earlier Items: 
Adam Kelsey / ABC News:
NC congressional candidate once questioned whether careers were ‘healthiest pursuit’ for women
Discussion: Political Wire
Michael Neibauer / Washington, D.C. Business Journal:
Smithsonian planning for permanent security checkpoints at the National Zoo
Discussion: DCist
Brendan O'Connor / Splinter:
The Eugenicist Doctor and the Vast Fortune Behind Trump's Immigration Regime
Lachlan Markay / The Daily Beast:
Inside the Online Campaign to Whitewash the History of Donald Trump's Russian Business Associates
 

 
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Tom McArthur / BBC:
RSF publishes its World Press Freedom Index and places Norway, Denmark, and Sweden in the top three, the US down 10 spots at 55, and Eritrea in last place

Reuters:
Al Jazeera source and Israeli official: police raided a Jerusalem hotel room used by Al Jazeera as its de facto office, following a government shutdown order

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Swiss public broadcasters RTS and SRF plan to drastically reduce their communications on X, saying they aren't reaching their target audience on the platform
 
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