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4:50 AM ET, July 8, 2018

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New York Times:
McConnell Tries to Nudge Trump Toward Two Supreme Court Options  —  Senator Mitch McConnell, the Republican leader, told President Trump this past week that Judges Raymond M. Kethledge and Thomas M. Hardiman presented the fewest obvious obstacles to being confirmed to replace Justice Anthony M. Kennedy …
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Philip Elliott / TIME:
Inside Donald Trump's Supreme Court Deliberations  —  White House officials had an appointment with their television remotes at 9 p.m. on Saturday.  At that hour, they worried, Fox News' “Justice with Judge Jeanine” might sway Donald Trump's pick for the Supreme Court and undo everything officials have spent weeks working on.
Denise Petski / Deadline:   Broadcast Networks Adjust Monday Schedules For Donald Trump's Primetime Supreme Court Announcement
Washington Post:
Rep. Jim Jordan faces new accusation that he must have known about alleged sexual abuse at Ohio State  —  A seventh former Ohio State University wrestler said Saturday that he believes Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) knew about inappropriate behavior that allegedly took place in the school's athletic …
Discussion: Raw Story and Mediaite
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Jacqueline Thomsen / The Hill:
Seventh former Ohio State wrestler claims Jordan knew of alleged sexual abuse  —  A seventh former Ohio State University wrestler came forward Saturday with claims that Rep. Jim Jordan  —  (R-Ohio) knew about alleged sexual abuse taking place on the wrestling team while he was an assistant coach.
Bob Brigham / Raw Story:
GOP Freedom Caucus members refuse to back Jim Jordan on the record as more abuse accusers come forward
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA and CNN
Morgan Gstalter / The Hill:
Protesters confront McConnell leaving Kentucky restaurant  —  Protesters confronted Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell  —  (R-Ky.) as he was leaving a restaurant in his home state on Saturday.  —  The group threatened to vote McConnell out of office as he walked out of the Bristol Bar & Grille …
Discussion: The Right Scoop
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Courier-Journal:
Protesters confront Mitch McConnell over immigration on Bardstown Road
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Mediaite
Danielle Ohl / capitalgazette.com:
‘Wendi Winters saved my life’: Capital Gazette staff say their fallen colleague charged the shooter  —  Capital Gazette reporter Wendi Winters has been identified as victim of a shooting at the newspaper.  —  dohl@capgaznews.com  —  When a man with a shotgun shattered the glass door …
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Althouse
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Hannah Natanson / Washington Post:
Wendi Winters, victim of Annapolis Capital Gazette shooting, rushed at gunman  —  Wendi Winters stood as soon as she heard the bangs.  —  A man with a gun had broken the glass doors leading to the newsroom of the Capital Gazette and was shooting at her colleagues, many of whom dropped to the floor or dove under their desks.
Stewart Paterson / Daily Mail:
Leading Putin critic was found strangled to death at his London home on the day he was due in court to fight an £87m legal case against Russian state-run airline Aeroflot  —  An exiled critic of Vladimir Putin was found strangled to death on the day he was due in court to fight a $99 million compensation claims, it has emerged.
Associated Press:
Trump lawyers call Comey ‘Machiavellian’ in note to Mueller  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawyers for President Donald Trump unleashed a blistering attack on former FBI Director James Comey in a confidential memo last year to the special counsel, casting him as “Machiavellian,” dishonest and …
Discussion: Hill Reporter, Mediaite and Axios
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Associated Press:   Text of Trump team memos to special counsel assailing Comey
Washington Post:
The mess of migrant family reunifications  —  IN LATE June, Alex Azar, secretary of Health and Human Services, assured migrant parents whose children had been snatched away by U.S.border officials that there was “no reason” they could not find their toddlers, tweeners and teenagers.
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Adolfo Flores / BuzzFeed:   Court Order To Reunite Migrant Children And Parents Reveals How Little Planning Went Into Separation Policy
Matthew Lee / Associated Press:
After talks, NKorea accuses US of ‘gangster-like’ demands  —  TOKYO (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has delivered a dose of harsh reality to Donald Trump, bashing hopes for a quick denuclearization deal in a pointed rebuke to the president's top envoy while accusing the U.S. of making “gangster-like” demands.
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Idrees Ali / Reuters:
Cost of one of those ‘expensive’ U.S.-South Korea military exercises? $14 million
Discussion: Axios
John Ziegler / Mediaite:
Shhhh... Don't Tell the Media but the Bizarre Broidy-Playmate-Trump Saga Is In the Process of Exploding  —  This week, a giant political volcano has been showing signs that it is about to erupt, though most of the news media, and almost all of the public, are blissfully unaware of it.
Discussion: CANNONFIRE and Wall Street Journal
Carl Hulse / New York Times:
'It's a Terrible Vote': Red-State Democrats Face an Agonizing Supreme Court Choice  —  WASHINGTON — Democratic senators running for re-election in Trump Country face an agonizing choice over President Trump's coming Supreme Court nominee: Vote to confirm the pick and risk demoralizing Democratic voters ahead …
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Chuck Ross / The Daily Caller:
Mueller WILL NOT Present Collusion Evidence At Manafort Trial  —  Special counsel Robert Mueller said in a court filing Friday that his prosecutors will not present evidence regarding Trump campaign collusion with Russia at an upcoming trial for former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort.
Annie Lowrey / New York Times:
Trump Should Just Give People Money  —  The Trump administration, Republicans in Congress and conservative governors across the country want the government to be simpler, smaller and more effective — unless, that is, the government is dealing with the poor.
Susan Wright / Susan Wright on the Right:
Trump's Eagerness to Befriend Russia's Putin Should Worry Us All  —  What could go wrong?  —  Everything.  —  We're just above a week away from the Helsinki, Finland summit between President Trump and Russia's President Vladimir Putin.  Many (myself included) see this as the absolute worst of ideas.
Discussion: CNN, POLITICUSUSA and Mother Jones
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Anne Applebaum / Washington Post:   Trump is hinting at concessions to Putin. So what do we get back?
Bill Frist / Washington Post:
The Senate I led put country over party. This one must do the same for Robert Mueller.
Discussion: HuffPost and Mediaite
Dan Merica / CNN:
GOP candidate in Kansas: ‘Outside of Western civilization, there is only barbarism’  —  (CNN)A Republican congressional candidate in a Kansas race Democrats are targeting in November told an audience at a party meeting this month that “outside of Western civilization there is only barbarism.”
Discussion: American Greatness
Astrid Galvan / Associated Press:
Kids as young as 1 in US court, awaiting reunion with family  —  PHOENIX (AP) — The 1-year-old boy in a green button-up shirt drank milk from a bottle, played with a small purple ball that lit up when it hit the ground and occasionally asked for “agua.”  —  Then it was the child's turn …
New York Times:
Seriously, Juice Is Not Healthy  —  Obesity affects 40 percent of adults and 19 percent of children in the United States and accounts for more than $168 billion in health care spending each year.  Sugary beverages are thought to be one of the major drivers of the obesity epidemic.
Bradford Betz / Fox News:
Democratic Socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez draws Bronx cheer for misleading campaign bio  —  The Democratic Socialist candidate seeking to represent New York's 14th Congressional District is facing backlash over her working class “Bronx girl” campaign narrative.
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Bret Stephens / New York Times:
Democratic Socialism Is Dem Doom
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
 
 
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ProPublica:
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James Freeman / Wall Street Journal:
Ivanka Checks the ‘Fact Checker’
Chris Glorioso / NBC New York:
Immigrant NYC Grandparents Detained While Visiting Son-in-Law at Fort Drum, Family Says
Discussion: AOL and Mother Jones
TMJ4:
George Webb employee seriously injured after attack from man who went behind counter [VIDEO]
Discussion: TheBlaze, Breitbart and IJR
Associated Press:
Philippine president says he'll resign if anybody can prove God exists
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Eight Republicans pick the worst possible place to celebrate July 4
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA