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10:40 AM ET, July 22, 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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David Stamp / Reuters:
Trump says Carter Page documents show DoJ and FBI misled courts  —  (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Twitter on Sunday that documents about his former presidential campaign adviser Carter Page confirmed with little doubt that the Department of Justice and FBI had misled the courts.
David Kris / Lawfare:
What to Make of the Carter Page FISA Applications  —  The Carter Page FISAs are out via the Freedom of Information Act.  Here are a few observations, relatively brief but still just a bit too long for Twitter.  —  First, a huge amount of information is redacted in these FISA applications …
Discussion: New York Times
Scott Johnson / Power Line:
Saturday night document dump  —  We are familiar with the Friday afternoon document dump.  It's a standard tool of political scandal management.  What are we to make of the Saturday night document dump by which the Department of Justice delivered the heavily redacted documents comprising …
John Hinderaker / Power Line:
First Thoughts On the Carter Page FISA Application
Discussion: Washington Times
Chuck Ross / The Daily Caller:
DOJ Releases Carter Page FISA Applications
Discussion: Mediaite and Breitbart
Ashe Schow / Daily Wire:
The FISA Documents Used To Wiretap Carter Page Just Dropped
Discussion: Instapundit, Power Line and Mediaite
Philip Bump / Washington Post:   With the release of new documents, Devin Nunes's memo on Carter Page has gotten even less credible
Christopher Cadelago / Politico:
Justice Department releases Carter Page surveillance documents
Jfarrell / Judicial Watch:
Judicial Watch Obtains Carter Page FISA Court Documents
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and Breitbart
Brad Heath / USA Today:
FBI releases FISA records on Carter Page surveillance
Discussion: HuffPost
Sarah N. Lynch / Reuters:
Exclusive: Accused Russian agent Butina met with U.S. Treasury, Fed officials  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Accused Russian agent Maria Butina had wider high-level contacts in Washington than previously known, taking part in 2015 meetings between a visiting Russian official and two senior officials …
Discussion: News Agency UNIAN
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Rosalind S. Helderman / Washington Post:
Russian billionaire with U.S. investments backed alleged agent Maria Butina, according to a person familiar with her Senate testimony  —  Maria Butina, the Russian woman charged in federal court last week with acting as an unregistered agent of her government, received financial support …
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Why is Mueller handing off key cases?  —  Something has been going on with Robert Mueller's investigation of people thought to have played significant roles in the Trump-Russia affair.  The special counsel, assigned to investigate “any links and/or coordination between the Russian government …
Discussion: National Review
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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Pete Wells / New York Times:   Jonathan Gold, Food Critic Who Celebrated L.A.'s Cornucopia, Dies at 57
Robin Abcarian / Los Angeles Times:   Jonathan Gold didn't just elevate the art of food writing and restaurant criticism …
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.
Discussion: Washington Monthly and LAW.com
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.”
Discussion: Axios
Stephanie McCrummen / Washington Post:
Judgment days  —  In a small Alabama town, an evangelical congregation reckons with God, President Trump and the meaning of morality  —  Clay Crum opened his Bible to Exodus Chapter 20 and read verse 14 one more time.  —  “Thou shalt not commit adultery,” it said.  —  He prayed about what he was going to do.
Discussion: Raw Story
Washington Post:
Americans give Trump negative marks for Helsinki performance, poll finds  —  By wide margins, Americans give President Trump negative marks for his conduct during a summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin last week and for his casting doubt on U.S. intelligence conclusions that Russia interfered …
Discussion: Political Wire
Panos Mourdoukoutas / Forbes:
Amazon Should Replace Local Libraries to Save Taxpayers Money  —  Amazon should open their own bookstores in all local communities.  They can replace local libraries and save taxpayers lots of money, while enhancing the value of their stock.   —  There was a time local libraries offered …
Barnini Chakraborty / Fox News:
The dating swamp: How finding love in DC may be impossible for young Trump and GOP staffers  —  Trying to find love in D.C. can be tricky.  If you're a young Trump administration staffer, it might be near impossible.  —  GOP employees and other right-wingers have been complaining that dating …
Discussion: Raw Story and Instapundit
Will Parsons / ABC News:
Top House Intel Democrat: 'The president acts like he's compromised' by Russian government  —  Responding to the way President Donald Trump conducted himself during a summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee said Trump “acts like he's compromised” by the Kremlin.
Discussion: Politico
Matt Viser / BostonGlobe.com:
Trump's judicial legacy will last for decades — and not solely because of his Supreme Court picks  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump is not only poised to put his conservative imprint on the Supreme Court, but he's restocking vacancies throughout lower US courts at a historic clip, ensuring a judicial legacy that will last decades.
Sacramento Bee:
US fighter jet intercepts small plane near Trump golf resort  —  WASHINGTON  —  A U.S. Air Force F-16 fighter jet on Saturday intercepted a small plane near Donald Trump's private golf resort in New Jersey, where the president is currently staying.  —  Continental U.S. North American …
USA Today:
The super rich boost political giving ahead of November's tough midterm elections  —  WASHINGTON - Super-wealthy donors escalated their political giving this spring, led by Republicans racing to protect their party's hold on Congress in the Nov. 6 midterm elections, a USA TODAY analysis of newly filed campaign reports shows.
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, barricading himself inside with multiple hostages.  —  The suspect, described initially …
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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
 
 
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Reuters:
Iran's Rouhani warns Trump about ‘mother of all wars’
Gabriel Pogrund / Washington Post:
Dependent on trade, Mike Pence's hometown takes a hit due to Trump's tariffs
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA and Joe.My.God.
Philip Elliott / TIME:
Koch Brothers Mount Grassroots Effort to Support Immigration
Emily Cochrane / New York Times:
Dan Coats Denies Criticism of Trump Over Putin White House Visit
Peter Beinart / The Atlantic:
The U.S. Needs to Face Up to Its Long History of Election Meddling
John Eligon / New York Times:
Nine of Her Family Members on a Missouri Duck Boat Died. Somehow, She Survived.
Grace Carr / The Daily Caller:
Woman Decides To Become A Man.  Now She's Accused Of ‘Mansplaining’ And ‘Male Heterosexual Privilege’
 Earlier Items: 
Marc Morano / Climate Depot:
New Gallup Poll: Americans do not even mention global warming as a problem - 36 ‘problems’ cited, but not climate
Charles J. Sykes / New York Times:
Republicans, Don't Just Tweet About It. Do Something.
Morgan Gstalter / The Hill:
Conservative columnist: ‘I would take Obama back in a nanosecond’
Courier-Journal:
Report: Rand Paul spent donor money on trips abroad, clothes shopping
Discussion: Raw Story
Salt Lake Tribune:
By Ambassador Jon M. Huntsman
Discussion: Politico, The Hill and Political Wire
Andrew O'Reilly / Fox News:
Nazis and anti-Semites slip through GOP primaries, causing headaches for party
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Michael Cohen privately questions Trump's fitness to be president
Discussion: Mediaite