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US taking stock of NATO as Trump heads to Turkey for summit

(ABC News) President Donald Trump will head to the NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey, this week as an unstable ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran and Trump's feud with his NATO allies continue. The summit will be held Tuesday and Wednesday at the Beştepe Presidential Compound and chaired by NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte. The formal opening is scheduled for Tuesday and the event is expected to conclude the following day, when Trump will hold a news conference.

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Putin Is On The Verge Of Losing Crimea

(National Security Journal) The damage done to Crimea has spilled into civilian life - and that was always inevitable. Ukraine first targeted fuel storage facilities serving Crimea before expanding those attacks to ferries and transport routes used to carry petroleum products into the peninsula. Supplies soon tightened, prompting Russian-installed authorities to introduce fuel rationing measures for civilian motorists. The effort ensured that the Russian military had access to fuel as it continued to supply the front lines. But as long queues formed outside gas stations, the attacks continued, and authorities abandoned the system altogether when fuel sales were suspended completely on June 21.

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Johnson Says Congress Must Address Birthright Citizenship After SCOTUS Loss

(Newsweek) House Speaker Mike Johnson said Sunday that Congress must take up the legislative fight over birthright citizenship after the Supreme Court struck down an executive order by President Donald Trump that sought to restrict the practice. The comments by the Louisiana Republican signal that party leaders are pivoting to a new legislative strategy following one of the most significant legal defeats of Trump’s second term.

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Trump posts a doctored photo of the Obamas and Air Force One with graffiti spray-painted on plane

(AP) President Donald Trump on Sunday posted a falsified image of former President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle Obama, waving before boarding an Air Force One that had been spray-painted with graffiti. It came months after another racist post by the president that showed the couple as primates in a jungle. That one was deleted after stiff, bipartisan backlash.

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Florida Republican says deporting Haitians with TPS would be 'huge mistake'

(The Guardian) Carlos Giménez, a Republican congressman from Florida, broke with the Trump administration on Sunday, calling on the White House to reconsider its push to eliminate temporary protected status (TPS) for Haitian migrants. Returning some 350,000 Haitians to their chaotic, dangerous homeland following the US supreme court’s ruling that the Trump administration can cut off temporary legal protections, would be a grave error, Giménez said.

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Trump Suggests Italy's Giorgia Meloni Is a Stalker

(Political Wire) “President Donald Trump took a moment on Sunday to keep his feud with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni going by posting a picture of her gazing at him longingly. The president used the picture to suggest she was a stalker,” Mediaite reports. Read the caption at the top of the photo: “RESTRAINING ORDER NEEDED.”

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Nebraska Secretary of State says RNC lawsuit over state election law is 'a little baffling'

(Nebraska Examiner) Outgoing Nebraska Secretary of State Bob Evnen said he’s baffled by a lawsuit that seeks to eliminate a provision in state law that allows U.S. citizens who’ve never lived in the country to vote in Nebraska elections. The Republican top election official, who lost his party’s primary in May, spoke with the Examiner about a lawsuit filed by the Republican National Committee over a Nebraska state election law.

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Conservative fight against license renewals for ABC stations heats up

(The Guardian) A group of prominent conservative organizations has petitioned the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to deny license renewal requests from the eight local television stations owned and operated by ABC, accusing the network of political, racial and sexual bias and supporting the Chinese communist party.

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Trump's administration won't seek new bids to repair the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool

(AP) The Trump administration will not seek new bids to repair the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said Sunday as he faced new questions about the troubled project and the taxpayer money involved. Like President Donald Trump, Burgum said he was 100% sure that vandals caused the damage to the century-old Reflecting Pool on the National Mall.

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