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Andrew Jacobs / New York Times:
U.S. Opposition to Breast-Feeding Resolution Stuns World Health Officials  —  A resolution to encourage breast-feeding was expected to be approved quickly and easily by the hundreds of government delegates who gathered this spring in Geneva for the United Nations-affiliated World Health Assembly.
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Cabot Phillips / Campus Reform:
VIDEO: Students hate Trump's SCOTUS pick... before he made it  — This month, Justice Anthony Kennedy announced he would be retiring from the Supreme Court of the United States, giving President Donald Trump an opportunity to nominate a potential replacement.
Bob Egelko / San Francisco Chronicle:   Trump has ‘outsourced’ his Supreme Court picks to this conservative group
Catherine Lucey / Yahoo:
Trump still pondering Supreme Court pick as big reveal nears
Discussion: Mediaite
Domenico Montanaro / NPR:
'It's Insane': Trump Still Hasn't Decided On His Supreme Court Pick
Discussion: Fox News, Breitbart and Law & Crime
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
A journalist's conscience leads her to reveal her source to the FBI.  Here's why.  —  It's pretty much an inviolable rule of journalism: Protect your sources.  —  Reporters have gone to jail to keep that covenant.  —  But Marcy Wheeler, who writes a well-regarded national security blog …
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
What to watch as Trump heads to Europe  —  I fly to Europe this week to cover President Trump as he meets with NATO allies in Brussels, Theresa May in London, then Helsinki for his first one-on-one summit with Russia's Vladimir Putin.  —  What we're hearing: Senior European officials …
Discussion: Breitbart
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Associated Press:   Off to Europe: Trump to meet worried NATO heads, then Putin
Washington Post:
Trump is bent on wrecking NATO. Prepare for catastrophe.
Krishnadev Calamur / The Atlantic:
Trump's Message to NATO
Discussion: RT
Glenn Greenwald / The Intercept:
MSNBC Does Not Merely Permit Fabrications Against Democratic Party Critics.  It Encourages and Rewards Them.  —  During the 2016 primary and general election campaigns, various MSNBC hosts were openly campaigning for Hillary Clinton.  One of the network's programs featured Malcolm Nance …
Mynewsdesk:
Woman dies following exposure to nerve agent in Amesbury  —  BST  —  Detectives have launched a murder inquiry after a woman who was exposed to the nerve agent Novichok in Amesbury, Wiltshire, died in hospital this evening, Sunday, 8 July.  —  She has been formally identified as 44-year-old Dawn Sturgess, from Durrington.
Discussion: Politico, CNN, NPR and The Daily Caller
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Patrick Greenfield / The Guardian:
UK woman dies after being exposed to nerve agent novichok
Discussion: Raw Story
The Guardian:
Revealed: Arron Banks met Russian ambassador 11 times  —  The Leave.EU founder was offered lucrative deals in talks with the envoy  —  Brexit's biggest funder, Arron Banks, met the Russian ambassador at least 11 times in the run-up to the EU referendum and in the two months beyond …
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Carole Cadwalladr / The Guardian:   Electoral law has been broken - this is a fight for the soul of our democracy
ABC News:
‘This Week’ Transcript 7-8-18: Trump Adviser on Judicial Nominations Leonard Leo, Sen. Richard Blumenthal and President Trump's Personal Attorney Rudy Giuliani  —  A rush transcript of “This Week with George Stephanopoulos” airing on Sunday, July 1, 2018 on ABC News is below.
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Louis Nelson / Politico:
Giuliani: Mueller probe ‘most corrupt investigation I have ever seen’
Discussion: CNN
Tim Dodson / Richmond Times-Dispatch:
Richmond bookstore owner says he called police after woman confronted Steve Bannon in his shop  —  A bookstore owner in Richmond said he called the police after a woman confronted Steve Bannon, former White House chief strategist for President Donald Trump, in his shop Saturday.
Montana Standard:
Priests' attendance at Trump rally causes furor  —  The attendance of four Roman Catholic priests from Montana at President Donald Trump's political rally in Great Falls Thursday has created a social media firestorm and apparently incurred the displeasure of the priests' superiors in the church.
Michael Goodwin / New York Post:
Is Hillary Clinton secretly planning to run in 2020?  —  The messages convey a sense of urgency, and are coming with increasing frequency.  They are short, focused reactions to the latest “outrage” committed by President Trump.  —  Some end by asking for money, some urge participation in protests.
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Salena Zito / Washington Examiner:   Will #resistance summer dampen the Democrats' big autumn?
Nick Wadhams / Bloomberg:
Inside Pompeo's Fraught North Korea Trip  — Secretary of state struggled for clarity on visit's schedule  — Regime issued harsh statement after Pompeo left country  —  As U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo touched down in Pyongyang at 10:54 a.m. on Friday he had few details …
Discussion: BloombergQuint and Washington Post
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New York Times:
HBO Must Get Bigger and Broader, Says Its New Overseer  —  Change is coming to HBO, now that it is part of the AT&T corporate family.  That much was clear to the 150 employees who attended a recent town hall meeting at the network's headquarters in Midtown Manhattan.
Jeff D'Alessio / News-Gazette:
Supreme Court vacancy: Prepare for a game-changer, experts say  —  In this partisan-as-ever country we call home, there's one thing even the far, far left and far, far right agree on.  —  The conservative judge President Donald Trump tabs to replace the retiring Anthony Kennedy in the ninth seat …
Josh Meyer / Politico:
The secret story of how America lost the drug war with the Taliban  —  A high-stakes plan to indict Afghan drug lords and insurgency leaders on criminal conspiracy charges ran afoul of the Obama team.  Five years later, it remains buried under Trump.  —  As Afghanistan edged ever closer …
Jack Khoury / Haaretz:
Syria: Israel Behind Attack on Iranian Air Force Base Near Homs  —  Reports say Syrian air defense systems fired at planes, coming in from Jordan, and heading towards the T4 airbase used by Iran  —  Does Iran really want to nuke Israel?  Is Israel stronger than Iran?  A top security expert explains
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Details emerge on Justice Department meeting with reporters on Manafort  —  Lawyers for former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort are crying foul over a meeting Justice Department prosecutors held with four Associated Press reporters last year as news organizations and the FBI bore …
Discussion: The Daily Caller
The Guardian:
Four boys taken to hospital; operation to resume later - as it happened  —  First boy emerged at 5:40pm local time, operation chief confirms, as up to 90 divers are involved in getting the children to safety  —  Play Video  —  Mattha Busby (now), Kate Lyons (earlier)
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Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Trump and women: The big disconnect in American politics
Discussion: Marginal REVOLUTION
The Columbus Dispatch:
Endorsement: For 12th District: Danny O'Connor favored for open seat
Discussion: Shareblue Media
Kevin McCullough / Townhall:
Tomi Lahren's Six Lies About SCOTUS & the Right To Life
Discussion: twitchy.com, RedState and Hot Air
Least Dangerous Blog:
Textualism is not Strict Constructionism is not Originalism
Miranda Green / The Hill:
Ex-aide says he'll take credit for Pruitt's downfall
Discussion: The Daily Caller and RedState
Derek Hunter / Townhall:
Liberal Outrage Is All The Rage
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Jay Weaver / miamiherald:
Fake sultan was scamming a Miami billionaire. Then he ate pork
New York Times:
Yet Another Book Takes on Impeachment: This Time, the Case Against
Josh Boak / Associated Press:
Trump's economic gamble: Solid job gains vs. risky trade war
Martin Cizmar / Raw Story:
Devin Nunes calling for a ‘task force’ to investigate officials and activists who exposed Russian election meddling
Robert Pear / New York Times:
Health Insurers Warn of Market Turmoil as Trump Suspends Billions in Payments
Discussion: Joe.My.God., TheBlaze and Reuters