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The Verge:
A note from the editorial leadership of The Verge  —  Newsrooms must stand up to targeted campaigns of harassment  —  Since announcing her new job with The New York Times, a widespread campaign of harassment has targeted Verge reporter Sarah Jeong for a number of tweets she wrote years ago.
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Kevin D. Williamson / National Review:
The Times Can Hire and Fire Whomever It Likes  —  For some mysterious reason, my name keeps coming up in connection with that of Sarah Jeong, a writer recently hired by the New York Times editorial board.  I am not familiar with her work, but there is a social-media campaign currently under way …
Ben Shapiro / Daily Wire:
IRONY: Social Media Mob Comes For Sarah Jeong, Who Cheered Social Media Mobbing Of Others
Discussion: twitchy.com
Wall Street Journal:
Top Trump Donor Agreed to Pay Michael Cohen $10 Million for Nuclear Project Push  —  Consulting deal with Franklin L. Haney could have been among the most lucrative struck by president's then-personal attorney  —  A major donor to President Trump agreed to pay $10 million to the president's …
Nick Hopkins / The Guardian:
Exclusive: suspected Russian spy found working at US embassy in Moscow  —  Russian is understood to have had full access to secret data during decade at embassy  —  US counter-intelligence investigators discovered a suspected Russian spy had been working undetected in the heart …
Discussion: Axios, KTLA and Political Wire
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Elise Labott / CNN:
Suspected Russian spy caught working inside US embassy in Moscow
Discussion: twitchy.com
Associated Press:
Trump trashes media as ‘fake, fake disgusting news’ at rally  —  WILKES-BARRE, Pa. (AP) — Thundering that the media is the “fake, fake disgusting news,” President Donald Trump unleashed a torrent of grievances Thursday at a Pennsylvania campaign rally in which he cast journalists as his true political opponent.
Discussion: AOL and HuffPost
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NBC News:
Hours after White House warns of new election meddling, Trump again points to ‘Russian hoax’  —  Earlier Thursday, several of Trump's top lieutenants took to the White House briefing room to warn of the latest threat.  —  WILKES-BARRE, Pa. — It's still a “hoax” to President Donald Trump.
Hazel Jones / Daily Mail:
'Many didn't notice it as keenly as I did because I knew him way back when.  They thought Trump was being Trump, off the cuff,' Omarosa writes.  'But I knew something wasn't right'  —  Omarosa was beside herself when the president contradicted the White House party line that FBI head James Comey …
Discussion: Political Wire, Raw Story and Mediaite
Washington Post:
Manafort's bookkeeper testifies against him, alleging efforts to inflate income  —  Paul Manafort's longtime bookkeeper testified against him Thursday, telling a Virginia jury that his seven-figure lifestyle lasted until about 2015 when the cash ran out, the bills piled up …
Discussion: Crooks and Liars and The Week
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Saagar Enjeti / The Daily Caller:
EXCLUSIVE: Roger Stone Reviews Paul Manafort's Fashion
Discussion: CNN and RedState
Sarah Polus / Washington Post:
Donald Trump Jr. co-hosts Dinesh D'Souza's very conservative D.C. film premiere  —  The red carpet for the screening of far-right filmmaker Dinesh D'Souza's new documentary was all business.  There's no time for chitchat about who is wearing what when you've got an entire liberal ideology to topple.
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Eli Watkins / CNN:
Trump Jr. says the Democratic Party platform is similar to the Nazis'  —  Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump's eldest son said the platform of the Democratic Party is similar to that of the Nazi Party in Germany during the early 1930s and that history classes are biased against conservatives.
Discussion: YouTube
Seung Min Kim / Washington Post:
National Archives says it won't be able to produce all Kavanaugh documents until end of October  —  The National Archives said Thursday it won't be able to produce the full cache of documents requested by Senate Republicans on Supreme Court nominee Brett M. Kavanaugh until the end of October …
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Politico:
GOP plans to blow past new Kavanaugh confirmation obstacle
Sara Murray / CNN:
Alleged Russian agent's infiltration of GOP circles anything but subtle  —  Alleged spy met with US officials in 2015  —  Washington (CNN)As far as spy craft goes, Maria Butina's skills didn't seem particularly impressive.  —  The alleged covert Russian agent liked to communicate via Twitter messages and WhatsApp.
Discussion: Raw Story
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Giuliani: Trump to make Mueller sit-down call within 10 days
Discussion: CNN, POLITICUSUSA and The Week
Axios:
The Tennessee primary: Live results  —  Tennessee voters are selecting nominees for at least 128 state and federal seats tonight, but there are to two races most worthy of your time — the gubernatorial and the U.S. Senate:  —  Go deeper  —  112 WORDS  —  What to watch: Two Republican incumbents …
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Christopher Donato / ABC News:
Results now official in Tennessee primary elections
Discussion: Axios
New York Times:
Tennessee Primary Election Results 2018
Aaron Rodriguez / CREW:
CREW Files Hatch Act Complaints Against 10 Trump Administration Officials  —  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  —  Washington— In the months since President Donald Trump announced his candidacy for re-election, ten White House officials appear to have violated the Hatch Act by using …
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VICE:
What Goes on Outside Trump Rallies Is an American Nightmare  —  The coral of Tampa's Florida State Fairgrounds entrance arcs against an ominously graying Tuesday evening sky.  Everyone waits for Donald Trump outside, even though it smells like rain.  The Secret Service checkpoint doesn't help …
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
RNC warns donors to steer clear of Kochs  —  The move escalates the fight between President Donald Trump and the powerful network.  —  The Republican National Committee is sending a warning shot to major GOP donors not to play ball with the powerful Koch political network …
Arizona Republic:
Last Slide  —  A Southwest Key employee accused of molesting eight teenage boys at a migrant shelter in Mesa is scheduled to go on trial this month, according to court documents.  —  Levian Pacheco, a youth care worker at the Mesa facility, is alleged to have abused two of the teens …
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ProPublica:
Worker Charged With Sexually Molesting Eight Children at Immigrant Shelter
Discussion: ThinkProgress and Arizona Republic
James Hibberd / EW.com:
Tim Allen breaks silence on Roseanne firing: ‘Who makes up these rules?’  —  Tim Allen is opening up about the other conservative sitcom star whose show was canceled by ABC — Roseanne Barr.  —  Asked whether the network was right to fire Barr over her racist tweet last May, Allen replied …
Discussion: Breitbart
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Mariah Haas / Fox News:
Tim Allen's ‘Last Man Standing’ return will include character's conservative views, exec says
Ben Jacobs / The Guardian:
New Age author Marianne Williamson ‘looking into’ 2020 presidential run  —  A presidential bid by the author would mark the first celebrity campaign for the White House against Donald Trump  —  New Age author Marianne Williamson was in Iowa earlier this week meeting with Democratic activists …
Discussion: Hot Air and Political Wire
Foreign Policy:
Internal Documents Show How Trump Administration Misled Public on Poverty  —  Economic advisors questioned the administration's data but were ignored.  —  After a U.N. agency issued a report in May on the state of poverty in the United States, concluding that 40 million Americans are poor …
Discussion: Splinter
Josh Rogin / Washington Post:
Ethnic cleansing makes a comeback — in China  —  If ethnic cleansing takes place in China and nobody is able to hear it, does it make a sound?  That's what millions of Muslims inside the People's Republic are asking as they watch the Chinese government expand a network of internment camps …
Alberto Nardelli / BuzzFeed News:
Remember Trump's Tweet Saying He Was Pulling Out Of The G7 Summit Agreement?  No One Ever Did Anything About It.  —  “It's like there's a reality TV president, in his own bubble, thinking he controls stuff.  It's like The Truman Show.”  —  Reporting From  —  London
Ted Hesson / Politico:
Trump administration tells ACLU to find deported parents  —  The Trump administration on Thursday informed a federal judge that it isn't responsible for locating deported parents separated forcibly from their children at the southern border.  —  DOJ said in a court filing …
Paul Musgrave / Washington Post:
Conspiracy theories are for losers.  QAnon is no exception.  —  Paul Musgrave is an assistant professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.  —  In the 2014 book “American Conspiracy Theories,” political scientists Joseph Uscinski and Joseph Parent said that conspiracy theories appealed …
Peter Suderman / New York Times:
How Republican Hypocrisy Lifts Social Democrats  —  By its astoundingly cynical approach to deficits and debt, the G.O.P. has opened the door to an expansive left.  —  Mr. Suderman is the managing editor at Reason.com.  —  To be a Republican is to oppose socialism.
Daily Mail:
Wright was driving in Hyannis, Massachusetts, on June 30 when she saw this silver Jeep in front of her sporting a ‘Make America Great Again’ decal  —  The incident took place on June 30, but Wright was only taken into custody a month later after being pulled over during a traffic stop.
Robert Harding / Citizen:
Poll: Balter holds 4-point lead over Katko in House race  —  A poll released in the 24th Congressional District general election race shows Democratic challenger Dana Balter with a narrow lead over incumbent Republican U.S. Rep. John Katko.  —  A survey of 785 voters conducted by Public Policy Polling …
Discussion: Balloon Juice and Political Wire
Carl Zimmer / New York Times:
Bodies Keep Shrinking on This Island, and Scientists Aren't Sure Why  —  The Indonesian island of Flores has given rise to smaller hominins, humans and even elephants.  —  In 2003, researchers digging in a mountain cave on the Indonesian island of Flores discovered astonishing fossils of a tiny …
Discussion: Science News
Emily Williams / BostonGlobe.com:
A black Smith College student was eating her lunch when an employee called police  —  The rising sophomore at Smith College was quietly eating her lunch in a campus common room when a police officer approached her Tuesday afternoon.  —  A college employee had called police to report someone who …
 
 
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Corey Davis / WFLA-TV:
Deputies: Pasco man fired gun into man's car window during road rage incident
WNYW-TV:
Man attacked on bus for ‘being white’
Discussion: Breitbart and Daily Wire
Committee on the Judiciary:
NADLER & LOFGREN DEMAND ANSWERS AFTER DOJ ANNOUNCEMENT REVEALS TRUMP APPEARS TO HAVE LIED …
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Blake Apgar / Las Vegas Review-Journal:
4 dentists accused of raping woman at Las Vegas Strip hotel
Discussion: Breitbart
Shannon Vavra / Axios:
U.S. intel chief confirms Russians hacking candidates, government officials
Discussion: Vox and Politico
Fredreka Schouten / USA Today:
Exclusive: Fired-up liberals raise $1 billion on website for candidates, causes ahead of midterms
Discussion: Axios
Mike Fleming / Deadline:
Fox, Ben Affleck & Matt Damon Win Hot Package On Multi-Million Dollar Theft Of McDonald's Monopoly Game
Discussion: Eater and The Week
Washington Post:
Aide to Trump-confidant Roger Stone ordered to appear before Mueller grand jury
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Raw Story
 

 
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