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9:40 PM ET, July 23, 2018

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Politico:
Trump advisers quietly begin thinking about ‘life after Sarah’  —  The press secretary says she has no plans to step down, but a shortlist of potential replacements is starting to take shape.  —  White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders says publicly that she has no plans to leave …
Discussion: Washington Post
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Washington Post:
White House says Trump wants to revoke security clearances for former intelligence officials critical of him over Russia
Jill Colvin / Associated Press:
Trump considering revoking 6 ex-Obama officials' clearance
Discussion: The Week
Ken Dilanian / NBC News:   Trump looking at revoking security clearances of Brennan, Clapper, Hayden, Rice, Comey, McCabe
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:   The Trump White House's hypocritical, slippery slope on purging its critics' security clearances
Max Boot / Washington Post:
Sorry, Trump.  Your misdirection won't work this time.  —  “In order to get elected, @BarackObama will start a war with Iran.”  That was Donald Trump tweeting in 2011.  —  This was President Trump tweeting late Sunday night: “To Iranian President Rouhani: “NEVER, EVER THREATEN …
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Associated Press:   Analysis: Trump's Iran threat latest combative global move
Christine Todd Whitman / Los Angeles Times:
Calling my fellow Republicans: Trump is clearly unfit to remain in office
Discussion: IJR, POLITICUSUSA and Raw Story
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Ignore Trump's clueless bluster on Iran
Alex Vatanka / Axios:
On Iran, Trump administration offers heated rhetoric but vague strategy
Discussion: Politico
Carrie Dann / NBC News:
NBC/WSJ poll: Support for Roe v. Wade hits new high  —  A majority of Republicans — 52 percent — say the Supreme Court decision should not be overturned.  —  As President Donald Trump's Supreme Court pick readies for his eventual confirmation hearing, support for the court's landmark ruling in Roe v. Wade has hit an all-time high.
Bob Van Voris / Bloomberg:
Michael Cohen Prosecutors Get 12 Audio Recordings to Review  — There's no longer dispute over recordings, retired judge says  — Michael Cohen secretly recorded Trump discussing hush payments  —  U.S. prosecutors probing Michael Cohen are reviewing 12 audio recordings seized …
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Emily Jane Fox / Vanity Fair:
“Did They Think I Was Just Going to Roll Over and Die?”:  The Cohen vs. Trump Battle Ratchets Up  —  What might Cohen know about the June 2016 meeting in Trump Tower between Don Jr., Kushner, Manafort, and a Russian lawyer with ties to the Kremlin who promised to provide them with “dirt” on Hillary Clinton?
Rebecca Smith / Wall Street Journal:
Russian Hackers Reach U.S. Utility Control Rooms, Homeland Security Officials Say  —  Blackouts could have been caused after the networks of trusted vendors were easily penetrated  —  Hackers working for Russia claimed “hundreds of victims” last year in a giant and long-running campaign …
Bloomberg:
Trump to Seek Repeal of California's Smog-Fighting Power  — Proposed revision to auto emission standards to come out soon  — Will propose end of state's waiver from federal standards  —  The Trump administration will seek to revoke California's authority to regulate automobile emissions …
David Kurtz / Talking Points Memo:
REVEALED: Identities Of 5 Witnesses Immunized To Testify Against Manafort  —  A federal judge Monday unsealed the names of five witnesses granted immunity by special counsel Robert Mueller to testify at the upcoming trial of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort.
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Rebecca Ballhaus / Wall Street Journal:
Donald Trump's Legal Team Submits Counteroffer for Possible Interview in Mueller Probe  —  Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani says president open to questions on possible collusion, less willing to discuss possible obstruction of justice  —  WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump's legal team has submitted …
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Elizabeth Brown-Kaiser / ABC News:
2020 buzz builds around Rep. Tim Ryan
Discussion: Vox
New York Post:
Layoffs at the Daily News mark a grim day for New York City  —  SEE ALSO  —  Monday's mass layoffs at the Daily News are bad news for New York: This town needs more good reporters, not fewer.  —  The numbers are brutal: a newsroom staff slashed in half; no staff photographers at a place …
Discussion: Politico and AOL
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Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
The city that never sleeps finds that it's running out of reporters to report
Nik DeCosta-Klipa / Boston Globe:
Fox News mistakenly booked a Massachusetts state senator, and got an unexpected message  —  Someone in the Fox News booking department might be in need of a second cup of coffee.  —  Fox & Friends First, the network's early morning show, thought they had booked former Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick …
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Deadspin:
How Is This Shit Legal  —  This past spring, Michael Ferro resigned as chairman of publicly traded media-looting hell-company Tronc, Inc., just ahead of the publication of sexual harassment allegations against him.  As a parting gift, Tronc paid him $15 million, voluntarily bundling …
Doug Bock Clark / GQ:
The Untold Story of Otto Warmbier, American Hostage  —  President Trump hailed him as a catalyst of the summit with Kim Jong-Un.  But what happened to Warmbier—the American college student who was sent home brain-damaged from North Korea—is even more shocking than anyone knew.  —  1. Homecoming
38 North:
North Korea Begins Dismantling Key Facilities at the Sohae Satellite Launching Station  —  A 38 North exclusive with analysis by Joseph S. Bermudez Jr.  —  In an important first step towards fulfilling a commitment made by Kim Jong Un at the June 12 Singapore Summit, new commercial satellite imagery …
Maya Lora / The Hill:
Haley tells high schoolers to avoid 'own the libs'-style online behavior  —  U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley  —  kicked off a conservative conference of high school students on Monday by urging attendees to avoid inflammatory language in favor of demonstrating real leadership.
Jerry Iannelli / Miami New Times:
Florida Cops Ship 24-Year-Old Mom to ICE After She Paid Traffic Ticket … Maria, an undocumented, 24-year-old mother of three from Guatemala, showed up to the Martin County Jail earlier this year to voluntarily pay a $150 traffic fine.  —  Instead, she wound up handcuffed and thrown inside that jail.
Discussion: ThinkProgress and Splinter
Josh Meyer / Politico:
How U.S. intelligence agencies can find out what Trump told Putin  —  A top-secret Special Collection Service has extraordinary capabilities to hoover up intel from foreign adversaries.  —  President Donald Trump's insistence on holding a one-on-one meeting with Russian President Vladimir …
Discussion: Axios
Kansas City Star:
‘True definition of evil’: Alleged Shawnee murderer is white supremacist, family says  —  Those who knew Ronald Lee Kidwell were not surprised to learn he was charged with the murder of a black woman — her body discovered in the Shawnee home where he lived.  —  “This was a hate crime,” said his neighbor Kathleen Brown.
Discussion: Law & Crime and Raw Story
Jacob Bunge / Wall Street Journal:
2.5 Billion Pounds of Meat Piles Up in U.S. as Production Grows, Exports Slow  —  Profits, prices are threatened as record amounts of red meat and poultry fill U.S. warehouses  —  Meat is piling up in U.S. cold-storage warehouses, fueled by a surge in supplies and trade disputes that are eroding demand.
Jennifer Bendery / HuffPost:
GOP Congressman Calls Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez ‘This Girl ... Or Whatever She Is’  —  Rep. Ron DeSantis was referring to a full-grown woman who is a New York Democratic congressional nominee.  —  WASHINGTON Rep. Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.) on Saturday referred to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez …
Zennie Abraham / Oakland News Now:
The Proud Boys, Racist Alt-Right Group, Plan Meeting At Oakland's Make Westing Bar For July 23rd  —  The Proud Boys, seen as a racist, alt-right group that was founded in 2016 by Gavin McInnes, the Vice Media co-founder, are coming to Oakland's Make Westing Bar to start trouble.
Andrew Rosati / Bloomberg:
Venezuela's Inflation to Reach 1 Million Percent, IMF Forecasts  — IMF compares Venezuela with Germany in 1923, Zimbabwe in 2000s  — Venezuelan economy seen contracting 18% this year, 5% in 2019  —  Venezuela's inflation will skyrocket to 1 million percent by the end of the year …
 
 
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NBC News:
Over 460 migrants separated from their children have potentially been deported by U.S.
Julia Nista / The Daily Caller:
Katy Tur Calls Out Daily Caller, Fox News — Says They Aren't Journalists
Media Matters for America:
Alex Jones pantomimes shooting Robert Mueller: “You're going to get it, or I'm going to die trying, bitch.
San Francisco Chronicle:
BART killing in Oakland: Stabbing suspect identified, manhunt continues
Discussion: The Root
Matt Laslo / The Daily Beast:
GOP to Silicon Valley: Promote the Far Right or Else
Robert Costa / Washington Post:
McFaul expected to meet with Trump's top adviser on Russia at White House
Discussion: CNN
Travis Gettys / Raw Story:
Conservatives clash on MSNBC's Morning Joe over GOP response to Trump's embrace of Putin
 Earlier Items: 
Thomas Kaplan / New York Times:
A Supreme Court Vote Is Just One of Heidi Heitkamp's Headaches
Discussion: Washington Free Beacon and YouTube
Matt Sedensky / Associated Press:
'I'm ashamed': Americans blame Trump after mom's deportation
Discussion: Raw Story
Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:
FISA Applications Confirm: The FBI Relied on the Unverified Steele Dossier
Juliet Eilperin / Washington Post:
Trump administration officials dismissed benefits of national monuments
Barry Petchesky / Deadspin:
Sounds Like Everyone Should Lay Off That Cubs Fan Who “Stole” A Baseball From A Kid
Greg Bluestein / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Ga. lawmaker urged to resign after using racial slurs, dropping pants in TV show
Daniel W. Drezner / Washington Post:
Anton's creed is not just racist; it is patently un-American.
Discussion: Vox, Raw Story and The Federalist
 

 
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