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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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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 …
Akhil Reed Amar / New York Times:
A Liberal's Case for Brett Kavanaugh
Rebecca Traister / The Cut:
With Brett Kavanaugh, Trump Passes Up the Chance to Have a Woman Do His Dirty Work
Discussion: Bustle and HuffPost
Washington Post:
He's to the right of, and much more political than, his peers on the federal bench.
Discussion: BuzzFeed and News Releases
Mark Joseph Stern / Slate:
How Brett Kavanaugh Will Gut Roe v. Wade
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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Just Security:   Timeline: Trump's Acts of Accommodation/Engagement with Russia, Nov. 2016-July 2018
Chris Megerian / Los Angeles Times:
Judge again delays sentencing for Michael Flynn, Trump's former national security advisor
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
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
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 …
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.
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Bloomberg:
Trump Says Seeing Putin Easier Than Meeting Theresa May  — U.S. President remarks on eve of visit to Nato meeting, U.K.  — Trump says he ‘likes’ Boris Johnson, who resigned over Brexit  —  Donald Trump hasn't even arrived in Europe, but he's already making life difficult …
Lorne Cook / Associated Press:
EU official criticizes Trump over attitude toward allies
Discussion: MSNBC, NBC News and POLITICUSUSA
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: Raw Story and Mediaite
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Steven Perlberg / BuzzFeed:
Bill Shine's White House Job Isn't Good News For Fox
Discussion: Raw Story
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
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
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.
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 …
New York Times:
Elon Musk Leaves Unused Mini-Sub in Thai Cave  —  THAM LUANG CAVE, THAILAND — As the world watched rescuers struggle to save 12 boys and their soccer coach trapped in a cave in northern Thailand, the tech billionaire Elon Musk dreamed up a “kid-size” submarine to help.  It turns out they didn't need it.
Discussion: Breitbart, The Atlantic and RT
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.
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The White House:
Statement from the Press Secretary Regarding Executive Clemency for Dwight and Steven Hammond
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
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: Raw Story and Mediaite
Washington Post:
Facebook is slapped with first fine for Cambridge Analytica scandal  —  Facebook is staring down its first fine for allowing Cambridge Analytica to improperly access data about millions of people, potentially opening the door for governments around the world to slap the social media giant …
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 …
Discussion: Hit & Run
Donald J. Trump / The White House:
Executive Order Excepting Administrative Law Judges from the Competitive Service  —  By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including sections 3301 and 3302 of title 5, United States Code, it is hereby ordered as follows:
Discussion: Daily Kos
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
Erik Ortiz / NBC News:
Man, 92, beaten with brick on street, told to ‘go back’  —  “A 92-year-old senior citizen, what can he do to anybody?  There's no harm that he meant,” the grandson of Rodolfo Rodriguez asked.  —  A 92-year-old man who was thrown to the ground, stomped on by strangers on the Fourth of July …
Discussion: Sacramento Bee
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 …
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 …
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 …
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.
Reid Wilson / The Hill:
Judge boots Green Party from Montana ballot in boost to Tester  —  A Montana judge has ordered state elections officials to remove the Green Party from the November ballot, a boost to Sen. Jon Tester  —  (D) in his bid for reelection.  —  Helena District Court Judge James Reynolds invalidated …
 
 
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Michael Wines / New York Times:
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Timothy Cama / The Hill:
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The Times of Israel:
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Tim Dickinson / Rolling Stone:
ICE Officers to Asylum Seekers: 'Don't You Know That We Hate You People?'
Post and Courier:
BMW increasing production in China, raising prices on SC-made SUVs in response to tariffs
Discussion: Wall Street Journal and Axios
Lisa Hagen / The Hill:
Puerto Ricans in Florida play key role in Senate race
Jim Geraghty / National Review:
Er, No, Washington Post, It's Not That Russia's ‘Not Used’ to Ethnic Diversity
Discussion: Washington Post
 Earlier Items: 
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The reinvention of Ted Cruz
Joe Coscarelli / New York Times:
How One Tweet About Nicki Minaj Spiraled Into Internet Chaos
NBC News:
Secret tape recordings rock Georgia governor race
Discussion: MSNBC
Courier-Journal:
Hecklers spoil another Mitch McConnell meal by blaring ‘Fight The Power’
Discussion: Eater