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8:15 PM ET, July 10, 2018

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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.
Discussion: Mediaite
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David Brooks / New York Times:
It Took a Village to Raise Kavanaugh
Discussion: Hot Air and Althouse
Politico:
How a private meeting with Kennedy helped Trump get to ‘yes’ on Kavanaugh
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
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: New York Times and Raw Story
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VICE News:
EXCLUSIVE: The Russian pop star who set up Don Jr.'s infamous Trump Tower meeting tells all  —  In an exclusive interview with VICE News Tonight on HBO, airing Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. EST, Emin Agalarov, a Moscow-based real estate developer and pop star, responds for the first time to allegations …
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Donald Trump Jr. said he didn't recall talking to Emin Agalarov.  Agalarov remembers it.  —  Once the world learned that representatives of Donald Trump's campaign for president — led by Donald Trump Jr. — had met with a Russian lawyer linked to the Kremlin in June 2016, the timeline for the meeting was revealed quickly.
Discussion: VICE News
ABC News:   George Stephanopoulos interview with Russian pop star Emin Agalarov, who was behind Trump Tower meeting: Full transcript
Benjamin Wittes / Lawfare:
Brett Kavanaugh and the Mueller Investigation: What Do His Writings Really Say?  —  I think I am on safe ground in saying that when Brett Kavanaugh and I presented our papers at the Minnesota Law Review symposium in October 2008—his on separation of powers and mine on (of all things) …
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Washington Post:
He's to the right of, and much more political than, his peers on the federal bench.
Discussion: News Releases and BuzzFeed
CNNMoney:
Russian company had access to Facebook user data through apps  —  Not just another Facebook data scandal  —  A Russian internet company with links to the Kremlin was among the firms to which Facebook gave an extension which allowed them to collect data on unknowing users of the social network …
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Washington Post:
Facebook is slapped with first fine for Cambridge Analytica scandal
Mark Scott / Politico:   Facebook to be fined £500,000 in Cambridge Analytica data scandal
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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Lorne Cook / Associated Press:
EU official criticizes Trump over attitude toward allies
Discussion: MSNBC, NBC News and POLITICUSUSA
Bloomberg:
U.S. Poised to Publish $200 Billion China Tariff List  — Trump on Friday imposed duties on $34 billion of Chinese goods  — President has threatened duties on virtually all China imports  —  President Donald Trump is preparing to release a list of an additional $200 billion …
Discussion: RedState, Axios and The Right Scoop
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Doug Palmer / Politico:
Trump proposes tariffs on another $200B in Chinese goods
Post and Courier:
BMW increasing production in China, raising prices on SC-made SUVs in response to tariffs
Discussion: Wall Street Journal and Axios
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: Splinter, 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
Robert Pear / New York Times:
Trump Officials Slash Funds to Help Consumers Sign Up for Health Insurance  —  WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has announced, for the second year in a row, that it is slashing grants to nonprofit organizations that help people get health insurance under the Affordable Care Act.
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Amy Goldstein / Washington Post:
Administration slashes grants to help Americans get Affordable Care Act coverage
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
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 …
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
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
Susan Mustapich / Village Soup:
Senator King: US lacks defense against Russian cyber attacks  —  CAMDEN — U.S. Senator Angus King cited threats posed to American democracy by Russia's cyber interference in the 2016 Presidential Election, the likelihood Russia will interfere with U.S. elections again, and President Donald Trump's lack …
The Daily Beast:
Government Told Immigrant Parents to Pay for DNA Tests to Be Reunited With Kids: Advocate … DALLAS—The government recently told four immigrant women that they must pay for DNA tests to prove they are related to the children they were separated from in order to be reunited, according to the shelter that housed the women.
Washington Post:
Democrats ready ‘Abolish ICE’ legislation  —  A Democratic proposal to abolish Immigration and Customs Enforcement would shutter the agency, probe whether its agents had flouted international law, and create a special commission to rethink how the federal government handles asylum seekers and undocumented immigrants.
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, RT and Mashable
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
Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Univision flip flops on digital strategy, explores sale of Gizmodo and The Onion  —  Univision is making a U-turn in its digital media strategy.  —  The Spanish language media company said Tuesday that it is looking to sell most of the online properties that it has acquired in the past few years.
Michael Wines / New York Times:
Why Was a Citizenship Question Put on the Census?  ‘Bad Faith,’ a Judge Suggests  —  From the moment it was announced in March, the decision to add a question about citizenship to the 2020 census was described by critics as a ploy to discourage immigrants from filling out the form and improve Republican political fortunes.
 
 
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Molly K. McKew / Politico:
‘They Will Die in Tallinn’: Estonia Girds for War With Russia
Discussion: New York Times
Zoe Tillman / BuzzFeed:
The Government's Struggle To Reunify Children With Their Families Is About To Get More Complicated
Discussion: Outside the Beltway and CNN
Michael Doran / The Federalist:
The Anti-Trump Conservative Firing Circle Is Wildly Out Of Touch With The American Electorate
Discussion: American Greatness
Jimmy Vielkind / Politico:
Cynthia Nixon: I'm a democratic socialist
Donald J. Trump / The White House:
Executive Order Excepting Administrative Law Judges from the Competitive Service
Discussion: Daily Kos
Wall Street Journal:
GOP Nears Selection of Charlotte for 2020 Convention
Andy Greenberg / Wired:
A Landmark Legal Shift Opens Pandora's Box for DIY Guns
Discussion: Hit & Run
The Times of Israel:
Israeli spacecraft aims for historic moon landing... within months
Discussion: Instapundit
 Earlier Items: 
Tim Dickinson / Rolling Stone:
ICE Officers to Asylum Seekers: 'Don't You Know That We Hate You People?'
Discussion: Shareblue Media
Reid Wilson / The Hill:
Judge boots Green Party from Montana ballot in boost to Tester
Louis Nelson / Politico:
Judge orders Manafort to be moved to detention center in Alexandria, Va.
The Smoking Gun:
A Distinction Without A Difference
Madeleine Thompson / CNN:
Another former OSU wrestler says Jim Jordan knew about alleged abuse
Meagan Flynn / Washington Post:
In honor of Trump visit, Brits launch campaign to lift ‘American Idiot’ to top of the charts
Washington Post:
Anatomy of a Trump rally: 76 percent of claims are false, misleading or lacking evidence
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New York Times:
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