| No Images? Click here  Tuesday, July 17TRUMP PICKS PUTIN OVER AMERICA When asked to choose between the Russian dictator who helped him win the White House and the American prosecutors investigating Moscow’s election meddling, Donald Trump dismissed his own country and sided with Vladimir Putin. That was the nadir of Trump’s Helsinki meeting with the Russian president — a press conference so “shameful,” “calamitous” and “unprecedented” that even members of the GOP and some Fox News personalities refused to defend him. [HuffPost] [Tweet | Share on Facebook]TRUMP TELLS HANNITY RUSSIA-U.S. RELATIONS ARE NOW FIXED In an interview after the meeting, Trump told the eternally servile Sean Hannity that the U.S. is “doing really well with Russia as of today.” Hannity’s Fox News coworker Chris Wallace showed far more integrity during his later sit-down with Putin, pushing the Russian leader on election hacking. [HuffPost]N.Y. DAILY NEWS: ‘OPEN TREASON’ Reacting to Monday’s events, the New York Daily News spelled out Trump’s Helsinki performance on the front page: “Open Treason.” [HuffPost]EUROPEAN LEADERS STUNNED BY HELSINKI European lawmakers were left stunned by the Trump-Putin news conference, which they said sent a message to other democratic political systems similarly targeted for interference by Moscow that they cannot count on the U.S. to stand with them. [HuffPost]RUSSIAN OPERATIVE WITH NRA LINKS ARRESTED While Trump was in Finland, Mariia Butina, a 29-year-old Russian national in the U.S. with close ties to the NRA and a GOP operative, was indicted on charges of acting as an unregistered agent of the Russian Federation. Remarkably, an early campaign video has surfaced showing then-presidential candidate Trump telling an activist at the libertarian FreedomFest in Las Vegas that he’d likely drop sanctions against Russia if elected. The activist? Mariia Butina. [HuffPost]JUDGE: STOP DEPORTATIONS FOR AT LEAST A WEEK A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to temporarily stop deporting families for at least a week after reuniting them. [HuffPost] FACEBOOK ‘PROTECTED FAR-RIGHT PAGES’ A U.K. Channel 4 documentary says Facebook moderators deliberately protected the pages of far-right activists because “they generate a lot of revenue.” [The Guardian]CLIMATE ALARM OVER SUPERSONIC BUSINESS JETS A new fleet of supersonic business jets is in the works to fly wealthy travelers around the world. But the climate change alarms are already going off. [HuffPost]TESLA TANKS AFTER ‘PEDO’ TWEET Tesla shares fell more than 3.5 percent following CEO Elon Musk’s outburst calling a British Thai cave rescue diver a “pedo” on Twitter. [Reuters]FLYING LAVA INJURES 23 An explosion off the coast of Big Island in Hawaii injured 23 people after a scrap of lava ripped through the roof of a tour boat. [HuffPost]PAPA JOHN’S EXTORTION CLAIM Papa John’s founder John Schnatter, who resigned as chairman of the company’s board last week after using a racial slur in a call with a marketing agency, is now accusing that company of attempting to extort $6 million from the pizza chain. [HuffPost]BREXIT CAMPAIGN ‘BROKE THE LAW’ Britain’s Vote Leave campaign has been reported to the police after a watchdog found “significant evidence” it broke electoral law. [HuffPost]
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