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12:50 AM ET, July 9, 2018

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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.
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Will Trump Be Meeting With His Counterpart — Or His Handler?  —  On June 14, 2016, the Washington Post reported that Russian hackers had broken into the Democratic National Committee's files and gained access to its research on Donald Trump.  A political world already numbed by Trump's astonishing rise barely took notice.
Discussion: Raw Story
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Bob Egelko / San Francisco Chronicle:   Trump has ‘outsourced’ his Supreme Court picks to this conservative group
Wall Street Journal:   Trump Weighs Supreme Court Candidates as Decision Nears
Catherine Lucey / Yahoo:
Trump still pondering Supreme Court pick as big reveal nears
Discussion: Japan Times and Mediaite
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 …
BBC:
Brexit Secretary David Davis resigns  —  Brexit Secretary David Davis has resigned from the UK government.  —  His resignation comes days after Theresa May secured the cabinet's backing for her Brexit plan despite claims from critics that it was “soft”.  —  Mr Davis was appointed to the post …
Discussion: Telegraph, BBC and The Guardian
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Politico:
David Davis resigns as UK's Brexit secretary  —  LONDON — David Davis resigned Sunday as the U.K.'s Brexit secretary amid ongoing tensions within Prime Minister Theresa May's Cabinet.  —  In his resignation letter to May, Davis wrote that “As you know there have been a significant number …
Chuck Ross / The Daily Caller:
Mueller's ‘Pit Bull’ Arranged Meeting With Reporters To Discuss Manafort Investigation  —  Justice Department documents released on Friday confirm that the DOJ attorney known as Robert Mueller's “pit bull” arranged a meeting with journalists in April 2017 to discuss an investigation into Paul Manafort.
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:   Details emerge on Justice Department meeting with reporters on Manafort
Carole Cadwalladr / The Guardian:
Electoral law has been broken - this is a fight for the soul of our democracy  —  Despite inadequate rules and toothless regulators, we must battle to safeguard our voting system  —  Seven years ago, during a night of rioting in London, a 23-year-old student popped into his local Lidl and carried out the …
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.
The Independent:
Trump supporters enraged by ‘angry baby’ balloon to fly over London during president's UK trip  —  Protest called ‘cringeworthy’ and ‘juvenile’, while counter-campaign to fly a similar Sadiq Khan blimp has now reached its funding target  —  POPULAR VIDEOS  —  Plans to fly a giant balloon …
Mark Moore / New York Post:
De Blasio spends weekend at Bernie Sanders' summer home  —  Well at least it didn't involve a dead guy.  —  Mayor de Blasio, his wife, Chirlane, and their two kids spent a couple of days at Sen. Bernie Sanders' summer home on Lake Champlain in Vermont.  —  Photos show the progressive pols …
Discussion: Front Page Magazine
Patrick Greenfield / The Guardian:
UK woman dies after being exposed to nerve agent novichok  —  Dawn Sturgess taken ill last weekend with a 45-year-old man, who remains in hospital  —  A woman who was exposed to the nerve agent novichok in Amesbury, Wiltshire, died in hospital on Sunday evening.  The Met police have launched a murder investigation.
Discussion: Raw Story
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Mynewsdesk:
Woman dies following exposure to nerve agent in Amesbury
Discussion: CNN, The Daily Caller, Politico and NPR
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 …
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.
Emily Heil / Washington Post:
Former Trump lawyer Ty Cobb rocks out at the punk show of a band called Copstabber  —  Here's one way to relieve the stress of defending the president from that pesky Russia investigation: Former Trump lawyer Ty Cobb was spotted pumping his fists to the musical stylings of a punk band called Copstabber …
Discussion: Splinter
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
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 East Bay Times
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Wendy Siegelman:
Brexit “Bad Boy” Arron Banks' partner Jim Mellon invested in Russian diamond company Alrosa in 2016 and in their 2013 IPO with Russian Direct Investment Fund  —  Jim Mellon's company Regent Pacific was also involved in a 2012 deal with Andrei Pannikov, a former KGB spy expelled from Sweden in 1988 …
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The Guardian:   Revealed: Arron Banks met Russian ambassador 11 times
Louis Nelson / Politico:
Giuliani: Mueller probe ‘most corrupt investigation I have ever seen’  —  The Russia investigation led by special counsel Robert Mueller is “the most corrupt investigation I have ever seen,” President Donald Trump's attorney Rudy Giuliani told ABC News on Sunday morning.
Discussion: CNN, IJR and ABC News
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ABC News:   ‘This Week’ Transcript 7-8-18: Trump Adviser on Judicial Nominations Leonard Leo, Sen. Richard …
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?
 
 
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Leonard Pitts Jr / miamiherald:
The Republican Party is no longer the party of conservatism. It's the party of fear.
Discussion: Daily Kos
Annie Karni / Politico:
Shine to join Trump in Helsinki for Putin meeting
John Sexton / Hot Air:
Tucker Carlson: If Democratic Socialism Works, Why Doesn't Venezuela Have Toilet Paper?
Discussion: Power Line
The Columbus Dispatch:
Endorsement: For 12th District: Danny O'Connor favored for open seat
Discussion: Shareblue Media
Jeff D'Alessio / News-Gazette:
Supreme Court vacancy: Prepare for a game-changer, experts say
Kevin McCullough / Townhall:
Tomi Lahren's Six Lies About SCOTUS & the Right To Life
Discussion: twitchy.com, RedState and Hot Air
Jack Khoury / Haaretz:
Syria: Israel Behind Attack on Iranian Air Force Base Near Homs
Josh Meyer / Politico:
The secret story of how America lost the drug war with the Taliban
 Earlier Items: 
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
Martin Cizmar / Raw Story:
Devin Nunes calling for a ‘task force’ to investigate officials and activists who exposed Russian election meddling
Tim Dodson / Richmond Times-Dispatch:
Richmond bookstore owner says he called police after woman confronted Steve Bannon in his shop
Robert Pear / New York Times:
Health Insurers Warn of Market Turmoil as Trump Suspends Billions in Payments
Discussion: Joe.My.God., TheBlaze and Reuters
The Guardian:
Four boys taken to hospital; operation to resume later - as it happened
Discussion: BBC
 

 
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Ashley Carman / Bloomberg:
How MowPod, which sells podcast advertising tools, uses mobile game ads to incentivize gamers to follow shows on Apple Podcasts in order to earn in-game tokens

New York Times:
The NBC News-Ronna McDaniel saga highlights the perks and perils of partisan talk TV; a source says McDaniel is now seeking $600K+ for her two year deal

 
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