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CNN:
Cohen claims Trump knew in advance of 2016 Trump Tower meeting  —  (CNN)Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump's former personal attorney, claims that then-candidate Trump knew in advance about the June 2016 meeting in Trump Tower in which Russians were expected to offer his campaign dirt on Hillary Clinton …
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Politico:
Spotted: Mueller and Trump Jr. at DCA  —  Special counsel Robert Mueller and Donald Trump Jr. were spotted both waiting for their flights this morning at the 35X gate at DCA.  This image first appeared in POLITICO Playbook PM — sign up below.  —  Sign up here for POLITICO Playbook.
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook PM: Open to see the best ‘spotted’ in Playbook history  —  SPOTTED — ROBERT MUELLER and DONALD TRUMP JR. both waiting for their flights this morning at the 35X gate at DCA.  And yes, there is a photo.  Picture of the two waiting at America's worst gate
Ben Casselman / New York Times:
G.D.P. Grew at 4.1% Rate in U.S. in Latest Quarter.  Here's What That Means.  —  The Commerce Department released its initial estimate of second-quarter economic growth on Friday, providing the latest snapshot of the American economy.  —  The Numbers  —  United States gross domestic product rose …
Andrew Sullivan / New York Magazine:
Portrait of the President As a Con Man  —  The leaked tape recording of Michael Cohen and Donald Trump discussing how to handle the payoff to silence yet another extracurricular paramour, Karen McDougal, is more important, it seems to me, than has been generally acknowledged.
The Daily Beast:
‘Dead to Each Other’: Team Trump Prepares to ‘Bury’ Michael Cohen, ‘Weakling’ and ‘Traitor’ … As President Donald Trump absorbed the news that Michael Cohen, his former personal attorney and notorious “fixer,” had released a secret recording of the two of them, he did what he usually does in such situations: swore and groused loudly.
abc7.com:
Stormy Daniels' attorney, Michael Avenatti, says 3 other women claim they were paid by AMI, Donald Trump, Michael Cohen
Associated Press:
Avenatti: 3 women paid ‘hush money’ for Trump relationships
Brian Beutler / Crooked Media:
Donald Trump Knew, Even If Michael Cohen Is Lying
Yashar Ali / HuffPost:
Exclusive: Kimberly Guilfoyle Left Fox News After Investigation Into Misconduct Allegations, Sources Say  —  Sources tell HuffPost that Guilfoyle, who is dating Donald Trump Jr., engaged in emotionally abusive behavior and showed colleagues personal photos of male genitalia.
Kim Masters / Hollywood Reporter:
Leslie Moonves Accused of Sexual Misconduct in Ronan Farrow Exposé  —  The CBS CEO, one of the most powerful men in Hollywood, is accused of unwanted kissing and touching in a New Yorker article set to be published Friday.  —  The New Yorker is poised to publish an article by Ronan Farrow …
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Sara Salinas / CNBC:   CBS shares skid 7 percent after Les Moonves is accused of sexual misconduct in upcoming Ronan Farrow expose
New York Times:
At Prayer Breakfast, Guests Seek Access to a Different Higher Power  —  WASHINGTON — With a lineup of prayer meetings, humanitarian forums and religious panels, the National Prayer Breakfast has long brought together people from all over the world for an agenda built around the teachings of Jesus.
Discussion: New Republic
CNN:
GOP Rep. Jason Lewis called people on government assistance ‘parasites,’ said blacks on welfare ‘plantation’  —  GOP rep. said blacks have ‘entitlement mentality’  —  (CNN)Republican Rep. Jason Lewis has repeatedly demeaned recipients of welfare and government assistance, calling them …
Discussion: New Republic and Eschaton
Alex Griswold / Washington Free Beacon:
Twitter's Statement About How They Don't Shadow Ban Kinda Sounds Like They Shadow Ban  —  While others are distracted by recent news that the U.S. economy grew by 4.1% this quarter, or that Donald Trump's once-loyal lawyer now claims, without evidence, that the then-presidential candidate …
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Twitter:
Setting the record straight on shadow banning
John Sexton / Hot Air:
Twitter: Of Course We Don't Shadow Ban (Okay, Maybe A Little)
Discussion: Daily Wire and twitchy.com
Ken Dilanian / NBC News:
Trump admin has no central strategy for election security, and no one's in charge  —  After two years of calling Russian election meddling a hoax, President Trump will preside over a meeting about election security.  —  WASHINGTON — After nearly two years of calling Russian election interference …
Discussion: Political Wire
ProPublica:
Immigrant Youth Shelters: “If You're a Predator, It's a Gold Mine”  —  We obtained police reports and call logs from more than two-thirds of the shelters housing immigrant children.  Here's what they show.  —  Just five days after he reached the United States, the 15-year-old Honduran boy awoke …
Discussion: Mediaite
Rebecca Morin / Politico:
Putin invites Trump to Moscow for a second meeting  —  Russia President Vladimir Putin on Friday said he invited President Donald Trump to Russia for another face-to-face meeting — a meeting the White House says Trump is open to.  —  “We are ready to invite President Trump to Moscow.
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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
What can CNN do to stop Trump's abuse?
Discussion: twitchy.com and HuffPost
Des Moines Register:
New political movement seeks members from left, right and center to find solutions  —  The Republican Party was born in the mid-1800s, a coalition of northern Democrats and other anti-slavery factions dedicated to equality and the Union.  —  Over time, Republican adherence …
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Help us identify Trump's unknown golf partners  —  In the flood of stories about how people close to President Trump sought to leverage their relationships for personal gain earlier this year, one story didn't attract as much attention as it might otherwise have.
Jeff Cox / CNBC:
Second-quarter GDP jumps 4.1% for best pace in nearly four years  —  Gross domestic product grew at a solid 4.1 percent pace in the second quarter, its best pace since 2014, boosting hopes that the economy is ready to break out of its decade-long slumber.  —  The number matched expectations …
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Alexi McCammond / Axios:
How five key voter groups view Trump  —  President Trump's approval rating among five key voter groups shows how tough it will be for Republicans to keep control of the House in the midterm elections.  —  Data: SurveyMonkey online poll among a total sample of 52,211.  Margin of error of ±1.5 percentage points.
Discussion: Political Wire
James Hohmann / Washington Post:
The Daily 202: Puerto Ricans who fled to Florida after Hurricane Maria are not registering to vote  —  THE BIG IDEA: Hurricane Maria ravaged Puerto Rico last September and prompted a mass exodus of more than 100,000 residents to the mainland United States.  The Category 4 storm destroyed …
The White House:
Statement from the Press Secretary on the Repatriation of Remains from North Korea  —  At their historic meeting in Singapore, President Donald J. Trump and Chairman Kim Jong Un took a bold first step to achieve the complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, transform relations between …
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Justin C. Dearborn / ClickHole:
While I Don't Relish Gutting Newspaper Payrolls, Unfortunately Sometimes It's Necessary So That I Can Have Slightly More Money  —  In today's increasingly difficult media landscape, there aren't always easy solutions to the challenges publishers face.  Earlier this week, Tronc …
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Putting Tonight's Revelation Into Perspective  —  Let me briefly try to place the significance of tonight's news in a fuller context.  We seem to have the first positive evidence that President Trump knew in advance about the Trump Tower meeting.  That's hardly shocking.
David Wasserman / The Cook Political Report:
The Bottom Line in Republicans' 42 Open Seats  —  With 102 days to go, Democrats remain substantial favorites for House control.  A big reason: Republicans are defending 42 open or vacant seats, a record since at least 1930.  The retirements of Speaker Paul Ryan (WI-01) …
Discussion: The Resurgent
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Why didn't FBI tell court about Christopher Steele bias?  —  There has been bitter debate about the release of a heavily-redacted version of the FBI's application for a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrant to wiretap onetime Trump foreign policy adviser Carter Page.
Discussion: American Greatness
Cabot Phillips / Campus Reform:
VIDEO: Do Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez supporters understand socialism? … - People in New York's 14th Congressional District seem to love Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, right down to her neo-Marxist platform.  — They were less confident when I asked them how they thought we should pay for free healthcare …
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Role reversal: Architect of 2010 GOP House takeover in trouble  —  Texas Rep. Pete Sessions is at risk of losing his seat to a Trump-fueled wave.  —  DALLAS — The man who engineered the 2010 Republican takeover of the House is racing to save himself in his own election this year …
Discussion: Washington Post and Political Wire
BBC:
Egypt zoo accused of painting donkey to look like a zebra  —  A zoo in Egypt has denied painting black stripes on a donkey to make it look like a zebra after a photo of the animal appeared online.  —  Student Mahmoud Sarhan put the images on Facebook after visiting Cairo's International Garden municipal park.
Discussion: CBS News, Fox News, Breitbart and AOL
 
 
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Media Matters for America:
Fox segment dismisses racial justice protests, guest claims “there is nothing worse than being called a racist”
Bob Brigham / Raw Story:
‘Yep, it was mine’: Man admits growing weed but Georgia jurors refuse to convict him
John Harwood / CNBC:
This is the cost of President Trump's ‘America first’ policy
Molly Redden / HuffPost:
Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Will Pay Its Interns
Discussion: Roll Call and Splinter
Marc Caputo / Politico:
Governor's race could pit Trump surrogate vs. #MeToo supporter, poll shows
Discussion: Breitbart
Jim Tankersley / New York Times:
Trump Owns the Booming Economy. Republicans on the Trail Barely Mention It
Paula Ramon / Yahoo:
Behold the Amazonian eco-warrior drag queen
Discussion: The Daily Caller
The Loyal Opposition:
Friday, July 27th is National Collusion Call-In Day
Discussion: The Hill, The Resurgent and Mediaite
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Seung Min Kim / Washington Post:
Top Senate Democrat presses former president George W. Bush for Kavanaugh documents
Discussion: CNN
Daniel Horowitz / Conservative Review:
Government data shows the entire ‘family separation’ crisis was built of lies
Bari Weiss / YouTube:
Bari Weiss at Chautauqua: “The New Seven Dirty Words”
José Olivares / The Intercept:
ICE Detainee Diagnosed With Schizophrenia Spent 21 Days in Solitary Confinement, Then Took His Own Life
Discussion: ThinkProgress
Jonathan Kauffman / San Francisco Chronicle:
SF coffee shop turns down Salesforce contract in immigration protest
Malia Wollan / New York Times:
How to Have Sex in a Canoe  —  “Three words: center of gravity …
Discussion: Althouse
Zach Dorfman / Politico:
How Silicon Valley Became a Den of Spies
Discussion: East Bay Times and Breitbart