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Article snippet: (Want to get this briefing by email? Here’s the sign-up.) Good morning. Here’s what you need to know: • We dug deeper into the meeting Donald Trump Jr. set up in June last year with a Russian lawyer after he had been offered damaging information about Hillary Clinton. Also there was a Soviet veteran, who in earlier interactions with our reporters had shown himself to be a skilled operator in the muscular Russian version of opposition research. And here’s a profile of Aras Agalarov, a Russian property developer whose name appeared in emails about arranging the meeting. Above, Mr. Agalarov with Vladimir Putin, the Russian president. President Trump spent the weekend watching a golf tournament at one of his clubs. There, he turned to Twitter to excoriate Mrs. Clinton and the news media. _____ • Thousands took to the streets in Poland to denounce measures by the governing Law and Justice party that the European Union and the opposition say risk undermining the independence of the judiciary. Parliament passed a bill that gives it greater say in appointing judges. And the governing party introduced another bill that would replace Supreme Court judges. _____ • “We will rip off the heads of those traitors.” That was Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the Turkish president, at a rally commemorating a failed coup last year, reiterating his threat to reinstate the death penalty. An elaborate day of pageantry implicitly portrayed Mr. Erdogan as a national hero. Turkey’s row with Germany ... Link to the full article to read more