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Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Trump Narrows Supreme Court Field as Advice Pours In  —  Signaling he has not yet settled on his pick for the Supreme Court, President Trump on Monday morning worked the phones primarily seeking input about two judges who are apparently the finalists, Brett Kavanaugh and Thomas Hardiman, people familiar with the discussions said.
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Ezra Klein / Vox:
The Supreme Court vs. democracy  —  Even those most invested in the Court's grandeur are finding it hard to defend its reality.  —  Tonight, at 9 pm Eastern, President Donald Trump will announce his pick to replace Justice Anthony Kennedy on the Supreme Court.
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Trump's delusions are about to blow up in his own voters' faces  —  THE MORNING PLUM:  —  With the exception of the big, beautiful wall that is already being built on the southern border (in President Trump's mind, anyway), the issue that taps most directly into the most visceral strains …
The Daily Beast:
Trump Creates a Supreme Court Guessing Game That Would ‘Make P. T. Barnum Proud’
Discussion: Political Wire
Noah Feldman / Bloomberg:
Be Smart About Trump's Supreme Court Pick
Michael Graham / CBS News:
Commentary: Don't destroy the Supreme Court to save it from Trump
Washington Post:
‘Viciousness’: Trump aides endure public fury toward president's policies  —  Just after arriving in Washington to work for President Trump, Kellyanne Conway found herself in a downtown supermarket, where a man rushing by with his shopping cart sneered, “You ought to be ashamed of yourself!
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Justin Wise / The Hill:
Bartender cursed at Stephen Miller as he picked up takeout sushi: Washington Post  —  A Washington, D.C., bartender once followed White House Senior Adviser Stephen Miller out of a sushi restaurant and cursed at him, according to the Washington Post.  —  In a story that detailed numerous cases …
BuzzFeed:
Pregnant Women Say They Are Being Mistreated In Immigration Detention, Despite The Administration's Claims  —  Pregnant women in immigration detention under the Trump administration say they have been denied medical care, shackled around the stomach, and abused.  —  Reporting From Washington, DC
Lloyd Grove / The Daily Beast:
New York Times Executive Editor Dean Baquet: Yes, We Did Too Many Alan Dershowitz Stories … Even publicity-savvy, Alan Dershowitz is astonished at the flood-the-zone coverage that The New York Times has been devoting to his social sufferings on Martha's Vineyard.
Christie Smythe / Bloomberg:
Trump's Personal Driver for 25 Years Sues for Unpaid Overtime  — Noel Cintron says he's owed 3,300 hours in back pay for years  — Wage bump in 2010 came with a catch, loss of health insurance  —  Donald Trump's personal driver for more than 25 years says the billionaire real estate developer …
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David A. Fahrenthold / Washington Post:
Trump's longtime personal driver sues for overtime wages
Discussion: Politico
Dara Lind / Vox:
Trump's about to miss a court-ordered deadline to reunite young immigrant kids with their parents  —  But in a twist, the ACLU is working with the government to try to reunify families as quickly as possible.  —  The federal government is definitely not going to meet a court-imposed July 10 deadline …
Discussion: ABC News, New York Times and Bustle
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Claire Parker / The Texas Tribune:   Facing a Tuesday deadline to reunite about 100 migrant toddlers with their parents, feds say they've reunited 2
Julia Ainsley / NBC News:
Judge extends deadline as U.S. struggles to reunify migrant families
Discussion: Axios, VICE News and AOL
Alice Ollstein / Talking Points Memo:
Trump Admin Tells Court It Has Only Returned 2 Out Of 102 Immigrant Kids Under 5 Years Old
BBC:
Boris Johnson quits to add to pressure on May over Brexit  —  Boris Johnson has resigned as Foreign Secretary amid a growing political crisis over the UK's Brexit strategy.  —  He is the second senior cabinet minister to quit within hours following Brexit Secretary David Davis's exit.
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Tim Dickinson / Rolling Stone:
Nancy Pelosi: 'They Come After Me Because I'm Effective'  —  The House Minority Leader on the midterms, impeachment, her own party, sexism and the sexist-in-chief  —  As the countdown to November commences, with Democrats desperate for a moonshot, Nancy Pelosi sits atop a three-stage rocket, full of possibility and danger.
Jane Coaston / Vox:
Nazis and white supremacists are running as Republicans across the country.  The GOP is terrified.  —  The racist candidates are expected to lose, but they could drag their party down with them.  —  In at least five state and national races across the country, the Republican Party is dealing with an uncomfortable problem.
Discussion: Washington Monthly
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Andrew Prokop / Vox:
Why does Michael Cohen keep publicly hinting that he'll flip on Trump?  —  There have been some reports that Cohen wants Trump to pay his legal fees.  —  Michael Cohen really, really wants everyone to know that he's willing to flip on President Donald Trump.
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Julie Hirschfeld Davis / New York Times:
Trump Poised to Enter NATO Meeting as Wild Card Among Allies  —  WASHINGTON — As he heads into this week's North Atlantic Treaty Organization summit meeting, President Trump is widely seen as a wild card among allies who are seeking to show solidarity against Russian threats …
Adiel Kaplan / miamiherald:
Miami grandma targeted as U.S. takes aim at naturalized immigrants with prior offenses  —  The United States government has long reserved its power to revoke citizenship for the rarest of cases, going after the likes of war criminals, child rapists and terrorist funders.  —  Norma Borgono is none of those.
Discussion: Law & Crime
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Page testimony not yet finalized, lawyer says  —  House Republicans say Lisa Page — the former FBI attorney whose anti-Trump text messages have become the centerpiece of President Donald Trump's claims of a “witch hunt” against him — is scheduled to appear Wednesday for a closed-door deposition on Capitol Hill.
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Jay Michaelson / The Daily Beast:
The Secrets of Leonard Leo, the Man Behind Trump's Supreme Court Pick … When President Donald Trump nominates a justice to the Supreme Court on Monday night, he will be carrying out the agenda of a small, secretive network of extremely conservative Catholic activists already responsible …
Rachel Frazin / The Daily Beast:
Journalist Held by ICE Speaks: ‘Without a Doubt’ I Was Targeted for My Work … What started out as a “just another day” in Memphis-based journalist Manuel Duran's life ended in his arrest by local police and transfer to Immigration and Customs Enforcement.  —  The arrest, Duran claims …
Issie Lapowsky / Wired:
YouTube Debuts Plan to Promote and Fund ‘Authoritative’ News  —  FOLLOWING A YEAR in which YouTube has repeatedly promoted conspiracy theory videos during breaking news events like the shootings in Parkland, Florida, and Las Vegas, on Monday the company announced a slew of new features it hopes …
Don Sweeney / Sacramento Bee:
‘Go back to your own country.’ 92-year-old man beaten with a brick, L.A. cops say  —  Rodolfo Rodriguez, 92, set out about 8 p.m. on Independence Day on his regular evening walk around his Los Angeles neighborhood, relatives told KTLA.  But what happened next was anything but routine.
Discussion: Raw Story, theGrio, The Hill, The Root and AOL
Antonio García Martínez / Wired:
How Silicon Valley Fuels an Informal Caste System  —  CALIFORNIA IS THE future of the United States, goes the oft-cited cliché.  What the US is doing now, Europe will be doing in five years, goes another.  Given those truthy maxims, let's examine the socioeconomics of the “City by the Bay” as a harbinger of what's to come.
Matthew Dessem / Slate:
Michelle Wolf Gets Patriotic For a Red, White, and Blue Salute to Abortion  —  With the country more polarized than ever, it's been hard for Americans to find common ground this Fourth of July.  As columnist Megan McArdle recently argued in the Washington Post, to find our way back, we'll need …
Luke Henriques-Gomes / The Guardian:
Scientists discover world's oldest colour - bright pink  —  Pigments found in 1.1bn-year-old rocks beneath the Sahara desert shed light on ‘major puzzle’ about early life  —  Scientists have discovered what they say are the world's oldest colours - and they are bright pink.
Discussion: Daily Wire
Mary Papenfuss / HuffPost:
Trump Tariffs Spare Clothing Industry — Including Ivanka's Chinese-Made Products  —  The first daughter doesn't appear to believe in “made in America.”  —  President Donald Trump enacted tariffs Friday morning on $34 billion worth of Chinese goods, affecting hundreds of products from boats to medical devices and auto parts.
Nacha Cattan / Bloomberg:
Mexico's Next President Plans His Own Border Police Force  — Lopez Obrador's security chief Durazo to create border force  — Humanitarian, development program to be big part of policy  —  After months of Donald Trump's controversial clampdown on immigration, Mexico's President …
 
 
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Bob Brigham / Raw Story:
Cambridge Analytica whistleblower connects ousted UK Foreign Secretary to Russia meddling in America
Wall Street Journal:
Uber Hires Former Top Justice Department Lawyer for Compliance Post
Discussion: BloombergQuint
Steven Mufson / Washington Post:
Wilbur Ross admits to another tardy stock sale
The Babylon Bee:
Resistance Movement Vows To Do Anything To Stop Trump Short Of Treating Other Half Of Country With Respect
Daily Mail:
Police chiefs are looking at recording misogyny as a hate crime …
Discussion: Daily Wire
Nomaan Merchant / Associated Press:
AP Exclusive: How an ordinary ICE raid left behind a crisis
Anthony G. Attrino / New Jersey Online:
Grandmother on oxygen dies after PSE&G cuts off her power, grieving family says
Discussion: The Root and ThinkProgress
Christopher Roach / American Greatness:
What Does the Democratic Party Stand For?
 Earlier Items: 
Brian K. Sullivan / BloombergQuint:
Hurricanes Fell Silent as African Dust Clouded Skies in the U.S.
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Karol Markowicz / New York Post:
San Francisco's crisis looks like New York's future
Discussion: Instapundit and Breitbart
Ben Schreckinger / Politico:
Beto-mania Sweeps Texas
Discussion: Breitbart
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Sasse tempts Trump's wrath by refusing to bow
Discussion: Splinter
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Will Trump Be Meeting With His Counterpart — Or His Handler?
 

 
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Matt Donnelly / Variety:
Internal email: Participant Media, which backed films like Green Book and Spotlight, is shutting down; sources: almost all of its 100 employees will be let go

Abner Li / 9to5Google:
YouTube strengthens its “enforcement on third-party apps” violating its ToS, “specifically ad-blocking apps”, leading to error messages and “buffering issues”

Richard Stengel / The Atlantic:
Publications should suspend paywalls for all 2024 US election coverage, as they get in the way of the public being informed, the foundation of democracy

 
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