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Julie O'Brien / Washington Post:
I don't know Kavanaugh the judge.  But Kavanaugh the carpool dad is one great guy.  —  Julie O'Brien lives in Chevy Chase.  —  Much has been written about Brett Kavanaugh as President Trump's nominee for the Supreme Court, but the discussion has focused on his record as a federal judge and in his legal career.
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Akhil Reed Amar / New York Times:
A Liberal's Case for Brett Kavanaugh  —  The nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to be the next Supreme Court justice is President Trump's finest hour, his classiest move.  Last week the president promised to select “someone with impeccable credentials, great intellect, unbiased judgment …
David Brooks / New York Times:
It Took a Village to Raise Kavanaugh  —  In the weeks ahead, we're going to spend a lot of time going over Brett Kavanaugh's biography — where he's from and what he's written.  But that's not the most important way to understand the guy.  —  Kavanaugh is the product of a community.
Discussion: Hot Air and Althouse
Politico:
How a private meeting with Kennedy helped Trump get to ‘yes’ on Kavanaugh  —  While he was eager to keep the suspense alive, the president was always leaning toward Kennedy's former clerk.  —  After Justice Anthony Kennedy told President Donald Trump he would relinquish his seat on the Supreme Court …
Louis Nelson / Politico:
Schumer lays out path to block Kavanaugh  —  Senate Democrats can successfully orchestrate the rejection of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said Tuesday morning, if they can convince the American people that his confirmation will lead to the undoing …
Ella Nilsen / Vox:
Activists want to turn Brett Kavanaugh's nomination into another health care debate
Discussion: Politico, Weekly Standard and Forbes
Anna Palmer / Politico:   POLITICO Playbook Power Briefing: The Kavanaugh reality
Julie Bykowicz / Wall Street Journal:
Mike Flynn Joins Global Consulting Firm  —  Former Trump adviser is awaiting sentencing for lying to federal investigators  —  Former national security adviser Mike Flynn has a new job: He has joined a global lobbying and investment advisory firm.  —  As he awaits sentencing for lying …
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Chris Megerian / Los Angeles Times:
Judge again delays sentencing for Michael Flynn, Trump's former national security advisor
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Just Security:   Timeline: Trump's Acts of Accommodation/Engagement with Russia, Nov. 2016-July 2018
Allegra Kirkland / Talking Points Memo:   Flynn Back In Biz With New Lobbying Firm: ‘His Experience Speaks For Itself’
Alexi McCammond / Axios:
Brutal poll: Democrats' Senate dream slips away  —  To win the Senate, Democrats need to keep all 10 seats they're defending in states that President Trump won in 2016 — plus pick up two more seats.  —  Why it matters: That's not happening.  A new Axios/SurveyMonkey poll of key states shows Dems …
Andrew Desiderio / The Daily Beast:
GOP Senators Tell Contradictory Stories About Moscow Trip … A top Republican senator shocked his colleagues when he suggested, after returning from a trip to Moscow with fellow GOP lawmakers, that U.S. sanctions targeting Russia were not working and the Kremlin's election interference was really no big deal.
Discussion: Raw Story and Law & Crime
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Adam Entous / New Yorker:
Israeli, Saudi, and Emirati Officials Privately Pushed for Trump to Strike a “Grand Bargain” with Putin
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and emptywheel
Gabriel Sherman / Vanity Fair:
“Trump Is Too Chickenshit to Fire Kelly Himself”: With Bill Shine Producing His West Wing Reality Show, Trump Prepares to Dump His Chief of Staff  —  Now that Shine is in the saddle, it's Mooch 2.0: Kelly is being humiliated, Sarah Sanders has been deemed low energy, and the biggest winner of all is, naturally, Sean Hannity.
Discussion: Mediaite
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Steven Perlberg / BuzzFeed:
Bill Shine's White House Job Isn't Good News For Fox
Discussion: Raw Story
Mark Joseph Stern / Slate:
Trump's Office of Refugee Resettlement Is Budgeting for a Surge in Child Separations  —  The Office of Refugee Resettlement is preparing for the possibility of another surge in family separations.  Internal documents obtained by Slate show that ORR has modeled a scenario …
Wall Street Journal:
GOP Nears Selection of Charlotte for 2020 Convention  —  David Bossie and Ronald Kaufman are said to be among the top choices for Republican convention chairman  —  WASHINGTON—Republican officials were finalizing details Tuesday on a deal to bring the party's 2020 convention to Charlotte …
Maxwell Tani / The Daily Beast:
Business Insider Pulls Conservative Column About Scarlett Johansson Playing Trans Man … Business Insider removed a post about portrayals of trans individuals in Hollywood after staff complained internally about the column, saying the article did not meet the publication's standards.
USA Today:
Shopping struggles: These 11 retailers may not survive 2018  —  The retail apocalypse isn't over yet.  —  The retail apocalypse is entering its ninth year.  —  Many North American retailers were wiped out in the “retail apocalypse” which started in 2010.
Discussion: Daily Wire
Timothy Cama / The Hill:
Trump pardons Oregon ranchers at center of 40-day standoff  —  on Tuesday pardoned a pair of Oregon ranchers whose arson conviction became a focus for opponents of federal government land ownership.  —  Dwight Hammond, 76, and his son Steven Hammond, 49, were convicted in 2012 and sent to prison on arson charges.
Meagan Flynn / Washington Post:
In honor of Trump visit, Brits launch campaign to lift ‘American Idiot’ to top of the charts  —  President Trump loved seeing “American Idiot,” the Green Day Broadway musical, on its opening night in 2010, calling it “an amazing theatrical experience!” on Twitter.
Matthew Shaer / New York Times:
The Fast and Furious Michael Avenatti  —  In representing the porn star Stormy Daniels, the lawyer thinks he can bring down a president — one cable-news hit at a time.  —  The attorney Michael Avenatti stands just under six feet tall, with blatant blue eyes and thinning hair he shaves down to stubble …
Discussion: Mediaite and Raw Story
Andrew Van Dam / Washington Post:
What we buy can be used to predict our politics, race or education — sometimes with more than 90 percent accuracy  —  The cultural divide is real, and it's huge.  Americans live such different lives that what we buy, do or watch can be used to predict our politics, race, income …
Discussion: New Republic
Washington Post:
Giuliani works for foreign clients while serving as Trump's attorney  —  Rudolph W. Giuliani continues to work on behalf of foreign clients both personally and through his namesake security firm while serving as President Trump's personal attorney — an arrangement experts say raises conflict …
Lorne Cook / Associated Press:
EU official criticizes Trump over attitude toward allies  —  BRUSSELS (AP) — A senior European Union official lashed out Tuesday at President Donald Trump, lambasting the U.S. leader for his constant criticism of European allies and urging him to remember who is friends are when he meets Russian President Vladimir Putin next week.
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Trump Is Training His Base to Hate NATO and Like Putin  —  President Trump tweeted today that America's NATO allies have been “delinquent for many years in payments” and should “reimburse the U.S.” That is not how NATO works.  It is not a protection scheme where the allies pay the United States.
Washington Post:
Anatomy of a Trump rally: 76 percent of claims are false, misleading or lacking evidence  —  We're doing something new: analyzing every factual claim from President Trump's campaign rally in Montana on Thursday.  —  According to The Fact Checker's database, the president had made 3,251 false …
Discussion: Booman Tribune
The Smoking Gun:
A Distinction Without A Difference  —  Driver told cops he only drank bourbon at stop signs, signals  —  An inebriated motorist assured Florida police that he was not drinking while driving, but only swigging from a bottle of Jim Beam bourbon when his vehicle paused at stop signs and traffic signals, according to a police report.
Andy Greenberg / Wired:
A Landmark Legal Shift Opens Pandora's Box for DIY Guns  —  Cody Wilson makes digital files that let anyone 3-D print untraceable guns.  The government tried to stop him.  He sued—and won.  —  FIVE YEARS AGO, 25-year-old radical libertarian Cody Wilson stood on a remote central Texas gun range …
Madeleine Thompson / CNN:
Another former OSU wrestler says Jim Jordan knew about alleged abuse  —  (CNN)A fifth former OSU wrestler has told CNN that Jim Jordan knew about the actions of Dr. Richard Strauss, the former Ohio State University medical doctor who treated athletes, and called Jordan, who is now a US Congressman …
Tim Dickinson / Rolling Stone:
ICE Officers to Asylum Seekers: 'Don't You Know That We Hate You People?'  —  New court documents reveal the cruelty of Trump's family separations  —  The Trump child-separation horror is far from over.  According to the government's own numbers, released late last week …
NBC News:
Secret tape recordings rock Georgia governor race  —  Georgia GOP gubernatorial candidate Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle can be heard saying the Republican primary had devolved into “who could be the craziest.”  —  ATLANTA — Another secret recording is shaking up Georgia's Republican primary runoff in the governor's race.
Discussion: MSNBC
Joe Coscarelli / New York Times:
How One Tweet About Nicki Minaj Spiraled Into Internet Chaos  —  Wanna Thompson, 26, has long considered herself a Nicki Minaj fan.  —  As a freelance writer living in Toronto, Ms. Thompson also counts herself as a cultural critic with a focus on hip-hop, and with her insights …
Louis Nelson / Politico:
Judge orders Manafort to be moved to detention center in Alexandria, Va.  —  A federal judge on Tuesday ordered that former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, currently jailed while awaiting trial, be moved to a detention center in Alexandria, Virginia.  —  Manafort had been held …
Timothy Cama / The Hill:
2 EPA nominees start working at agency before Senate confirmation votes  —  The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has hired two officials nominated for senior positions to work at the agency before the Senate has had a chance to vote on them.  —  Peter Wright and Chad McIntosh …
Discussion: ThinkProgress and Politico
Eleanor Mueller / Politico:
NFL players union files grievance challenging national anthem policy  —  The National Football League Players Association filed a grievance Tuesday challenging the NFL's newly imposed national anthem policy, the union said.  —  The complaint is “on behalf of all players challenging …
Jim Geraghty / National Review:
Er, No, Washington Post, It's Not That Russia's ‘Not Used’ to Ethnic Diversity  —  The print version of today's Washington Post features an article in the sports section about Russians and visiting foreigners starting romantic flings during the World Cup, and the article has a curious …
Discussion: Washington Post
 
 
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The Times of Israel:
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CIS.org:
2018 Shaping Up to Be Another Bad Summer for Teen Employment
Laura Zhou / South China Morning Post:
China pledges US$23 billion in loans and aid to Arab states as it boosts ties in Middle East
Discussion: en.people.cn, ewn.co.za and Breitbart
Reid Wilson / The Hill:
Judge boots Green Party from Montana ballot in boost to Tester
Post and Courier:
BMW increasing production in China, raising prices on SC-made SUVs in response to tariffs
Discussion: Axios and Wall Street Journal
Lisa Hagen / The Hill:
Puerto Ricans in Florida play key role in Senate race
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Dems mull whether Warren is the one to take on Trump
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