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Putin and Trump are meeting in this July week of 2017. From his heavenly chair, a craggy American hero is beaming them to collaborate and build an alliance of troopers.
Interpretation of the news based on evidence, including data, as well as anticipating how events might unfold based on past events President Trump waves as he arrives Saturday on Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland. Plausible deniability is a politician's best friend.
Al Jazeera reports that the Syrian Democratic Forces supported by the US Air Force and other international allies, has breached the walls around the old city of al-Raqqa in eastern Syria and managed to get into the old city itself. Al-Raqqa is the capital of Daesh and the seat of its phony "caliphate," a reference to a long-lapsed medieval Muslim institution analogous to the papacy in Christianity.
Scott Pruitt sued the EPA more than a dozen times before he was named as the agency's head this year. As new and worrying evidence of global warming's destructive impacts mount around the globe, climate experts are saying efforts by the Trump administration's EPA chief to discredit decades of climate science research should be seen as a deceitful-and dangerous-tactic.
Trumpcare has turned single payer opponents into unwitting proponents; nonpartisan journalism may be on its way out, and maybe that's a good thing; meanwhile, much media coverage of the war in Syria has been questionable. These discoveries and more below.
Interpretation of the news based on evidence, including data, as well as anticipating how events might unfold based on past events Supreme Court Associate Justice Anthony M. Kennedy speaks during a swearing-in ceremony for Judge Neil M. Gorsuch on April 10. In a story that was ostensibly about new Supreme Court Justice Neil M. Gorsuch's voting record, NPR legal affairs reporter Nina Totenberg dropped this tantalizing piece of news about Justice Anthony M. Kennedy's potential retirement : Kennedy may also have thought it best to ensure that there is a full complement of nine justices for at least a year. He could even have been put off by President Trump's tweets about the judiciary.
While the rest of the Sunday shows spent the bulk of their time focusing on Trump's tweets , Joy Ann Reid had on writer Ari Berman to discuss Trump's voter fraud commission, headed by Kris Kobach. Kobach's own history with voter fraud should tip off all Americans that placating Trump's delusional lies about non-citizens voting making up the three million more votes that Hillary got over him is not really the purpose of the panel.
Christie, his wife, his children and his son's friends have the run of a 10-mile public island, where police are turning away all others: https://t.co/osCezmdRqa
Chad Nelsen, Surfrider Foundation: The small cove in San Mateo County known as Martins Beach, just south of Half Moon Bay, was used regularly by the public for at least a century -- until 2010, when the Silicon Valley billionaire and co-founder of Sun Microsystems Vinod Khosla locked a gate on the only road that provides public access to it. ... Public access to Martins Beach, and to all land seaward of the mean high tide line in California, is guaranteed in the state's constitution and mandated within the Coastal Act of 1976.
A day after defending his use of social media as befitting a "modern day" president, President Trump appeared to promote violence against CNN in a tweet. Trump, who is on vacation at his Bedminster golf resort, posted on Twitter an old video clip of him performing in a WWE professional wrestling match, but with a CNN logo superimposed on the head of his opponent.
For many Americans, Sunday morning is a time for prayer, reflection, and a way forward to make the world a better place. For many, the Fourth of July weekend represents a time to celebrate America's freedoms.
On Sunday, Gov. John Kasich dismissed the $45 billion fund for opioid treatment that some Republicans have floated as a potential " sweetener " for moderates as completely insufficient to address the problem. In an interview with Martha Raddatz for ABC's This Week , the Ohio Republican and unsuccessful 2016 presidential candidate slammed an attempt by his party's leaders to "buy people off" to ensure 51 votes for its Obamacare repeal proposal.
Emily Ekins pushes back against the idea of one type of Trump voter. Her research for the Voter Study Group reveals the coalition that delivered President Trump the White House.
NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks with three Democratic voters about their opinions of their party, their suggestions for party leaders in Washington, and how they think Democrats can win upcoming elections.
Virginia Republican gubernatorial nominee Ed Gillespie is getting questions about health care on the campaign trail. His Democratic rival, Ralph Northam, is also making it a campaign issue.
Jonathan Chait, New York magazine: Most of the commentary surrounding the Russia scandal has treated the possibility that Donald Trump's campaign deliberately colluded with Moscow as remote, unfounded speculation. The new reporting that has broken this weekend suggests instead that this collusion likely did take place.
I think I'm starting to see the brilliance of the conservative Republican market driven, outsourced delivery model. For example, consider a massive heart attack strikes a 55 year old man without a health insurance policy but a HSA with 6 month's of contributions.
A new study has investigated what patients themselves prefer when it comes to managing pain -- opioids, which are widely distributed for intense pain relief, or medical marijuana. The researchers found that the patients themselves much prefer medical marijuana, and many believe it is just as effective for their pain.
The Russian state-sponsored news outlet Sputnik is entering the Washington, D.C., radio market in an effort to push back against what it called "constant attacks" by U.S. media companies. Sputnik Radio announced Friday that it has taken over 105.5 FM, which previously aired bluegrass music.
Matt Tait, Lawfare: [R]ight around the time the DNC emails were dumped by Wikileaks -- and curiously, around the same time [Donald] Trump called for the Russians to get Hillary Clinton's missing emails -- I was contacted out the blue by a man named Peter Smith, who had seen my work going through these emails. Smith implied that he was a well-connected Republican political operative.