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William K. Rashbaum / New York Times:
Trump's Former Fixer, Michael Cohen, Reaches a Plea Agreement Over Payments to Women  —  Michael Cohen, President Trump's former lawyer, reached a plea agreement with prosecutors investigating payments he made to women for Mr. Trump, a person familiar with the matter said.
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NBC News:
Ex-Trump lawyer Michael Cohen discussing plea deal with prosecutors  —  The deal could come as early as today, say sources familiar with the matter.  —  Michael Cohen, President Trump's former personal attorney, is discussing a possible guilty plea with federal prosecutors in Manhattan …
Matthew Mosk / ABC News:
Michael Cohen, President Trump's former longtime personal attorney, tentatively reaches a plea deal: Sources  —  ABC News has learned that Michael Cohen has entered into a plea agreement with federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York.
Kara Scannell / CNN:
Michael Cohen surrenders to FBI, plea deal expected soon  —  (CNN)Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump's former personal attorney, has surrendered to the FBI ahead of a 4 p.m. court proceeding, where the government is expected to disclose a plea deal, according to a law enforcement source.
Wall Street Journal:
Michael Cohen to Plead Guilty to Criminal Charges  —  Trump's longtime ‘fixer’ reaches plea deal with federal prosecutors  —  Michael Cohen, President Trump's former lawyer, is expected to plead guilty to criminal charges Tuesday afternoon in Manhattan federal court, according to people familiar …
CNN:
Michael Cohen surrenders to the FBI … GO DEEPER  —  CONTENT BY LENDINGTREE  —  Forget your 401k if you own a home (Do This)  —  Need $50k for a renovation?  Try a cash-out refi  —  How To Pay Off Your House ASAP (It's So Simple)  —  How much money are people really getting from reverse mortgages?
Matthew Yglesias / Vox:   The Mueller investigation is showing how badly we've failed to prosecute white-collar crime
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Luke Harding / The Guardian:
Author of Trump-Russia dossier wins libel case in US court  —  Suit against Christopher Steele by three Russian oligarchs thrown out by judge  —  The former MI6 officer Christopher Steele has won a legal battle in the United States against three Russian oligarchs who sued him over allegations …
Discussion: Politico, Vox and Raw Story
Stephen F. Hayes / Weekly Standard:
Rand Paul, Russian Stooge  —  What does the kooky libertarian see in the authoritarian Putin regime?  —  Senator Rand Paul has been making the rounds in recent days touting deeper U.S. engagement with Vladimir Putin's Russia.  It's often the case when Senator Paul talks about foreign policy …
Discussion: New York Times and The Week
Niels Lesniewski / Roll Call:   Rand Paul Suggests Talking to Russia About the Size of NATO
Charlie Kirk / The Hill:   President Trump is making diplomacy great again
Gabriel Sherman / Vanity Fair:
“They're Squeezing Don Jr. Right Now”: As the Mueller Siege Tightens, Trump's Twitter Rage Crests  —  White House counsel Don McGahn's interviews with Mueller have rattled Trump to his core.  “Total meltdown,” one outside adviser said of his mood, while a Republican ally described him as “extremely frustrated.”
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emptywheel:
It Is False to Claim There Was No Follow-Up to the June 9 Meeting
Discussion: The Week
Associated Press:
Watergate wisdom? Cohen lawyer turns to Nixon turncoat
Discussion: ABC News, Politico and POLITICUSUSA
Lisa Friedman / New York Times:
E.P.A.'s New Coal Pollution Rules Will Lead to More Deaths, Agency's Numbers Show  —  Want climate news in your inbox?  Sign up for our Climate Fwd: newsletter.  —  WASHINGTON — The Trump administration on Tuesday made public the details of its new pollution rules governing coal-burning power plants …
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Joe Romm / ThinkProgress:
EPA admits Trump would sacrifice thousands of U.S. lives to save a few coal plants
Kate Mishkin / Charleston Gazette-Mail:
Experts: Coal's decline imminent, with or without Trump's regulatory changes
Discussion: Common Dreams
Bloomberg:
Trump Promised to Bring Back Coal. It's Declining Again
Discussion: Shareblue Media
Elizabeth Dwoskin / Washington Post:
Facebook is rating the trustworthiness of its users on a scale from zero to one  —  SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook has begun to assign its users a reputation score, predicting their trustworthiness on a scale from zero to one.  —  The previously unreported ratings system, which Facebook has developed …
Alexi McCammond / Axios:
How voting for Kavanaugh could hurt Susan Collins' re-election bid  —  Maine voters are less likely to support Republican Sen. Susan Collins for re-election if she votes to confirm President Trump's Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, according to a new Public Policy Polling survey.
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Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
Collins: Kavanaugh sees Roe v. Wade as ‘settled law’
Discussion: ABC News
Steven L. Hall / Washington Post:
CIA officers learn to keep quiet.  Why are so many of us speaking out about Trump?  —  And why is the White House so eager to retaliate for it?  —  Former head of Russian operations for the CIA  —  Here's what is really going on when President Trump rescinds the security clearances …
Discussion: Hit & Run and Daily Wire
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Kevin Breuninger / CNBC:
Sen. Elizabeth Warren's new reform bill would ban members of Congress from owning individual stocks  — Sen. Elizabeth Warren proposes a new bill that would ban members of Congress and the White House staff from owning individual stocks.  — As an apparent alternative, the legislation would create …
Discussion: IJR, Daily Kos and Political Wire
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Zachary Warmbrodt / Politico:
Warren proposes sweeping crackdown on lobbying
Discussion: Axios and The Daily Beast
Katherine Lam / Fox News:
Mollie Tibbetts, missing Iowa student, found dead, her father says  —  Two sources tell Fox News that the body of the missing Iowa student has been found; Matt Finn reports.  —  The body of missing college student Mollie Tibbetts was found Tuesday, her father and two sources told Fox News …
Amanda Macias / CNBC:
Russia is preparing to search for a nuclear-powered missile that was lost at sea months ago after a failed test  — Moscow is preparing to recover a nuclear-powered missile lost at sea, according to sources with direct knowledge of a U.S. intelligence report.
Elizabeth Dwoskin / Washington Post:
Microsoft says it has found a Russian operation targeting U.S. political institutions  —  SAN FRANCISCO — A group affiliated with the Russian government created phony versions of six websites — including some related to public policy and to the U.S. Senate — with the apparent goal of hacking …
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Brad Smith / Microsoft on the Issues:
We are taking new steps against broadening threats to democracy
Kelly Conaboy / The Cut:
Do Men Enter Bathtubs on Hands and Knees So Their Balls Hit the Water Last?  —  The bathroom is a mysterious place.  What goes on inside varies for everyone, or maybe it doesn't; we simply do not know.  The question has prompted some discussion in the past, and I suspect it will continue …
Discussion: Althouse
The Guardian:
Arctic's strongest sea ice breaks up for first time on record  —  Usually frozen waters open up twice this year in phenomenon scientists described as scary  —  The oldest and thickest sea ice in the Arctic has started to break up, opening waters north of Greenland that are normally frozen, even in summer.
Robert Silverman / HuffPost:
How An Elite New York City Prep School Created A Safe Space For Angry Zionists  —  Influential parents accused Riverdale Country School of leftist “indoctrination,” and now two teachers are gone.  A parable about the real political correctness.  —  On the morning of May 15 …
Alexi McCammond / Axios:
Trump's September rally schedule ahead of the midterms  —  President Trump will campaign in Nevada, Kentucky, and Tennessee next month to support Republican candidates ahead of the 2018 midterm elections in November, according to a person familiar with his thinking — they did not specify which candidates.
Discussion: Washington Post
Megan Keller / The Hill:
Flynn sentencing hearing delayed  —  has again delayed scheduling a sentencing hearing for former national security adviser Michael Flynn.  —  “Due to the status of its investigation, the Special Counsel's Office does not believe that this matter is ready to be scheduled for a sentencing hearing …
Discussion: Political Wire
New York Times:
Facebook Fueled Anti-Refugee Attacks in Germany, New Research Suggests  —  ALTENA, Germany — When you ask locals why Dirk Denkhaus, a young firefighter trainee who had been considered neither dangerous nor political, broke into the attic of a refugee group house and tried to set it on fire, they will list the familiar issues.
Tara Palmeri / ABC News:
Nazi death camp guard arrested by ICE, deported to Germany: Authorities  —  A man who authorities believe is the last known Nazi collaborator living in the U.S. has been arrested and deported to Germany.  —  At the order of President Donald Trump, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents …
Michael Wilson / New York Times:
A New Wife, a Secret Past and a Trail of Loss and Blood  —  A widower met a younger woman on the street in 2013.  They married soon after.  Then he got to know her.  —  FORT LEE, N.J. — A young man wearing a baseball cap sat alone in his convertible at the drive-through lane of a Dunkin' Donuts here …
 
 
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Darren J. Beattie / American Greatness:
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Donovan Slack / USA Today:
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Discussion: Axios
Art Moore / WND:
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Ryan Cooper / The Week:
Fact checkers have a Medicare-for-all problem
Discussion: twitchy.com, Observer and Jacobin
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Discussion: Hit & Run and The Guardian
Reuters:
U.S. imposes fresh sanctions for Russian cyber-related activity
 Earlier Items: 
David Bossie / Fox News:
Bruce Ohr and the anti-Trump activities of Obama officials — what will his testimony reveal?
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Glenn Harlan Reynolds / USA Today:
Hypocritical politically motivated feminism is killing #MeToo. Just ask Keith Ellison.
Discussion: New Republic and Weekly Standard
Pratheek Rebala / TIME:
The State Department Hired Cambridge Analytica's Parent Company to Target Terrorist Propaganda
Discussion: Gizmodo
John Tibbetts / Washington Post:
Sea level rise is eroding home value, and owners might not even know it
Mitchell P. Brook / USA Today:
Donald Trump should sue John Brennan to bring civility back to our politics
Discussion: IJR and Washington Free Beacon
Emily Badger / New York Times:
The Bipartisan Cry of ‘Not in My Backyard’
Discussion: ThinkProgress and CityLab
Elena Schneider / Politico:
Once-safe GOP seats threatened by blue wave
Discussion: Daily Kos
Shane Dixon Kavanaugh / Oregonian:
He brought an American flag to protest fascism in Portland. Then antifa attacked him