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11:20 PM ET, July 21, 2018

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Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Justice Dept. Releases Secret Carter Page Surveillance Documents at Center of Partisan Clash  —  WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has disclosed a previously top-secret set of documents related to the wiretapping of Carter Page, the onetime Trump campaign adviser who was at the center …
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Chuck Ross / The Daily Caller:
DOJ Releases Carter Page FISA Applications  —  In an unprecedented move, the Department of Justice has released 412 pages of top-secret documents related to surveillance conducted against former Trump campaign chairman Carter Page.  —  The documents include an October 2016 application …
Christopher Cadelago / Politico:
Justice Department releases Carter Page surveillance documents  —  New documents related to the wiretapping of Carter Page - the former Trump campaign adviser at the center of the Russia investigation and bias allegations at the FBI — were released by the Trump administration on Saturday.
Discussion: ABC News and POLITICUSUSA
David Kris / Lawfare:   What to Make of the Carter Page FISA Applications
Mark Sherman / Associated Press:
Kavanaugh: Watergate tapes decision may have been wrong  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh suggested several years ago that the unanimous high court ruling in 1974 that forced President Richard Nixon to turn over the Watergate tapes, leading to the end of his presidency, may have been wrongly decided.
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Andrea Chang / Los Angeles Times:
Los Angeles Times restaurant critic Jonathan Gold dies at 57  —  Jonathan Gold, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Los Angeles Times restaurant critic who richly chronicled the city's vast culinary landscape and made its food understandable and approachable to legions of fans, has died.  He was 57.
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Robin Abcarian / Los Angeles Times:   Jonathan Gold didn't just elevate the art of food writing and restaurant criticism …
Pete Wells / New York Times:   Jonathan Gold, Food Critic Who Celebrated L.A.'s Cornucopia, Dies at 57
Washington Post:
In private, Trump vents frustration over lack of progress on North Korea  —  When he emerged from his summit with Kim Jong Un last month, President Trump triumphantly declared that North Korea no longer posed a nuclear threat and that one of the world's most intractable geopolitical crises had been “largely solved.”
Glenn Greenwald / The Intercept:
Ecuador Will Imminently Withdraw Asylum for Julian Assange and Hand Him Over to the UK.  What Comes Next?  —  Ecuador's President Lenin Moreno traveled to London on Friday for the ostensible purpose of speaking at the 2018 Global Disabilities Summit (Moreno has been confined to a wheelchair since being shot in a 1998 robbery attempt).
Discussion: HuffPost, RT, Mother Jones and Raw Story
New York Times:
Tabloid Company, Aiding Trump Campaign, May Have Crossed Line Into Politics  —  Federal authorities examining the work President Trump's former lawyer did to squelch embarrassing stories before the 2016 election have come to believe that an important ally in that effort …
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Washington Post:
Trump's Putin fallout: Inside the White House's tumultuous week of walk-backs  —  Executive time began early on Thursday, just after sunrise.  —  Feeling exasperated and feisty as he awoke in the White House residence, President Trump fired off his grievances on Twitter about how the media had been covering his Helsinki summit.
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Steve Holland / Reuters:
U.S. intelligence chief Coats says no disrespect intended toward Trump over Russia summit news
Discussion: Breitbart and The Daily Caller
New York Times:   Trump Doubles Down on Russia. The Spies Shake Their Heads in Disbelief.
Salt Lake Tribune:
By Ambassador Jon M. Huntsman  —  • In the wake of President Donald Trump's recent summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Salt Lake Tribune columnist Robert Gehrke wrote a column arguing why U.S. Ambassador to Russia Jon M. Huntsman, Utah's former governor, should resign his diplomatic post immediately.
CBS Los Angeles:
Woman Dies During Standoff At Silver Lake Trader Joe's, Suspect Taken Into Custody  —  STUDIO CITY (CBSLA) — One woman is dead after a gunman entered the Trader Joe's grocery store in Silver Lake.  —  The suspect, described initially as a man in his late teens, was taken into custody following …
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Los Angeles Times:   Tense standoff at Trader Joe's in Silver Lake after gunman opens fire; he and bystanders inside store
Luke O'Brien / HuffPost:
How Pizzagate Pusher Mike Cernovich Keeps Getting People Fired  —  He just took down director James Gunn.  Now he's using a trollish rumor about a sex tape to go after journalists.  —  Mike Cernovich was celebrating on Friday, at least for a few hours.  Disney had just fired James Gunn …
Alexander Burns / New York Times:
There Is a Revolution on the Left.  Democrats Are Bracing.  —  DETROIT — For Rachel Conner, the 2018 election season has been a moment of revelation.  —  A 27-year-old social worker, Ms. Conner voted for Hillary Clinton in the 2016 primaries, spurning the more liberal Bernie Sanders, whom many of her peers backed.
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Steve Peoples / Associated Press:   Democratic socialism rising in the age of Trump
Alex Roarty / McClatchy Washington Bureau:   Centrist Dems begin arguing against far-left agenda as 2020 play
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Michael Cohen privately questions Trump's fitness to be president  —  Friends of Michael Cohen have noticed that since Trump's Helsinki press conference with Vladimir Putin he's been more openly questioning Trump's fitness to be president.  “It's one thing for him [Cohen] …
Discussion: Mediaite and CNBC
Vladimir Soldatkin / Reuters:
Lavrov tells Pompeo: free Russian woman accused in U.S. of espionage  —  MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's foreign minister told his U.S. counterpart on Saturday that a woman arrested in the United States on accusations she was a Russian agent had been detained on “fabricated charges” and should be released.
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Morgan Gstalter / The Hill:
Conservative columnist: ‘I would take Obama back in a nanosecond’  —  A conservative columnist for The Washington Post on Friday wrote that the current political climate makes him miss former President Obama, saying he would take the Democrat back in a “nanosecond.”
Andrew O'Reilly / Fox News:
Nazis and anti-Semites slip through GOP primaries, causing headaches for party  —  Arthur Jones is an avowed member of the American Nazi Party, a Holocaust denier and a sympathizer of the Ku Klux Klan.  —  He also is the Republican candidate challenging Democratic Rep. Dan Lipinski …
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
Courier-Journal:
Report: Rand Paul spent donor money on trips abroad, clothes shopping  —  Sen. Rand Paul spent hundreds of donor dollars on shopping trips and thousands on meals, travel and other expenses abroad, according to a report from nonpartisan watchdog groups released this week.
Discussion: Raw Story
Charles J. Sykes / New York Times:
Republicans, Don't Just Tweet About It.  Do Something.  —  Enough with the indignant press releases, strongly worded emails, disapproving tweets and mournful cable television appearances.  —  Republicans in Congress need to realize that they are not merely constitutional potted plants.
 
 
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Max Jaeger / New York Post:
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Paul Kane / Washington Post:
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