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Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
'It's a hard problem': Inside Trump's decision to send more troops to Afghanistan — President Trump was frustrated and fuming. Again and again, in the windowless Situation Room at the White House, he lashed out at his national security team over the Afghanistan war, and the paucity of appealing options gnawed at him.
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New York Times:
Angry Trump Grilled His Generals About Troop Increase, Then Gave In — WASHINGTON — President Trump's skepticism about America's involvement in Afghanistan was no secret to his staff. But his top national security officials were still taken aback at a meeting in the Situation Room on July 19 …
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Henry C. Jackson / Politico:
Bannon's Breitbart tears into Trump after Afghanistan speech — Articles liken the president's approach to Obama's, and blame the national security adviser for the tone of the address. — Breitbart seems ready for one of Steve Bannon's famed “wars.” — Just minutes after President …
The Daily Beast:
Team Trump Worried He'll Change His Mind Again on Afghanistan War Plan … President Donald Trump is expected to endorse an Afghan strategy that keeps U.S. troops on the ground, but overturns what the military sees as two Obama-era mistakes: announcing a deadline for U.S. troop withdrawal …
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New York Times:
Trump Sets U.S. Strategy but No ‘Blank Check’ for Afghan War
Trump Sets U.S. Strategy but No ‘Blank Check’ for Afghan War
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Spencer Ackerman / The Daily Beast:
Trump's Afghanistan War Plan: Fight Forever and Call It ‘Victory’
The White House:
Remarks by President Trump on the Strategy in Afghanistan and South Asia
Remarks by President Trump on the Strategy in Afghanistan and South Asia
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Kristina Wong / Breitbart:
Trump Debuts Afghanistan Strategy: ‘We Are Not Nation-Building Again, We Are Killing Terrorists’
Trump Debuts Afghanistan Strategy: ‘We Are Not Nation-Building Again, We Are Killing Terrorists’
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NPR:
Full Text And Analysis: Trump's Address On Afghanistan, Plans For U.S. Engagement
Full Text And Analysis: Trump's Address On Afghanistan, Plans For U.S. Engagement
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Politico:
Full text: Trump's speech on Afghanistan
Full text: Trump's speech on Afghanistan
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Trump's Afghanistan speech: Full of sound and fury, signifying very little
Trump's Afghanistan speech: Full of sound and fury, signifying very little
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Trump's Afghanistan flip-flop
Trump's Afghanistan flip-flop
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New York Times:
Mnuchin's Wife Mocks Oregon Woman Over Lifestyle and Wealth — WASHINGTON — The wife of the Treasury secretary on Monday night took a page from President Trump's social media playbook for punching down. — Louise Linton, the labels-loving wife of Steven Mnuchin, replied condescendingly …
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Damian Paletta / Washington Post:
Treasury secretary's wife boasts of travel on government plane, touts Hermes and Valentino fashion — U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin's wife, Louise Linton, boasted of flying on a government plane with her husband to Kentucky on Monday and then named the numerous fashion brands she wore …
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Chris Perez / New York Post:
Mnuchin's wife unleashes Instagram fit after backlash
Mnuchin's wife unleashes Instagram fit after backlash
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YouTube:
Senate Leadership Fund: “ChemtrailKelli” AZ — Arizonans rejected Chemtrail Kelli Ward's embarrassing behavior and dangerous ideas just one year ago. But she's back at it again. — Chemtrail Kelli supported wacky conspiracy theories and even spent taxpayer money on a town-hall about chemtrails.
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Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
GOP on eggshells as Trump storms into Phoenix — PHOENIX — President Donald Trump faces a decision on Tuesday evening with profound implications for his already strained relationship with the GOP: whether to attack a vulnerable Republican senator on his home turf.
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Ayesha Rascoe / Reuters:
Big protests expected as Trump goes to Phoenix for rally
Big protests expected as Trump goes to Phoenix for rally
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massincpolling:
Virginia voters divided on blame for Charlottesville violence — About half see at least equal blame for violence at the Charlottesville white nationalist rally. Many Virginia voters (47 percent) believe the counter protesters in Charlottesville deserve at least equal blame for the violence at last week's white nationalist rally.
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Gary Langer / ABC News:
Only 28% approve of Trump's response to Charlottesville (POLL)
Only 28% approve of Trump's response to Charlottesville (POLL)
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Rasmussen Reports:
Voters Side With Trump In Defense of Historic Monuments
Voters Side With Trump In Defense of Historic Monuments
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Ford Springer / The Daily Caller:
It's High Time Barron Trump Starts Dressing Like He's In the White House — I've been on the Barron Trump train from the start, but it's about time the president's son starts dressing the part. — Barron is the youngest son of Donald Trump and the only child the president shares with Melania Trump.
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Frances Robles / New York Times:
Chaos Breaks Out at Charlottesville City Council Meeting — CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — They shouted down the mayor and City Council members, took over the Council chambers for about a half-hour, and gave more than four hours of impassioned testimony about how city officials had botched the response …
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Chris Suarez / Daily Progress:
Councilors vote to shroud Confederate statues at meeting overwhelmed by anger
Councilors vote to shroud Confederate statues at meeting overwhelmed by anger
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Alec MacGillis / New York Magazine:
Is Anybody Home at HUD? — A long-harbored conservative dream — the “dismantling of the administrative state” — is taking place under Secretary Ben Carson. — In mid-May, Steve Preston, who served as the secretary of Housing and Urban Development in the final two years …
Associated Press:
The Latest: Ryan defends tax breaks for Taiwan company — The Latest on House Speaker Paul Ryan town hall (all times local): — House Speaker Paul Ryan says Foxconn Technology Group's plan to construct a factory in his southeastern Wisconsin congressional district that could employ thousands is a …
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Dave Lawler / Axios:
Paul Ryan: tax reform “far easier” than health care
Paul Ryan: tax reform “far easier” than health care
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Lauren Fox / CNN:
Paul Ryan: Trump ‘messed up’ Charlottesville response
Paul Ryan: Trump ‘messed up’ Charlottesville response
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Jim DeRogatis / BuzzFeed:
A Woman Who Says She Had Underage Sex With R. Kelly Is Finally Telling Her Story — Jerhonda Pace was just 15 when she met her musical idol, R. Kelly, outside his child pornography trial. The alleged underage sexual relationship with him that followed and subsequent payouts mirror decades of allegations against the star.
Amy B Wang / Washington Post:
‘20 seconds of burning’: Friends partly blinded after watching solar eclipse warn of dangers — It was a clear day when Louis Tomososki's science teacher mentioned that a partial solar eclipse would be visible from their hometown of Portland, Ore., that afternoon.
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Jason Silverstein / New York Daily News:
President Trump stares straight into solar eclipse without glasses
President Trump stares straight into solar eclipse without glasses
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Anita Kumar / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Trump aides plot a big immigration deal — that breaks a campaign promise — Donald Trump's top aides are pushing him to protect young people brought into the country illegally as children — and then use the issue as a bargaining chip for a larger immigration deal — despite the president's campaign vow to deport so-called Dreamers.
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Gabriel Debenedetti / Politico:
Dems prep for Trump primary challengers in 2020 — The Democratic National Committee is conducting full-scale opposition research on multiple Republicans it believes could challenge President Donald Trump for reelection — or are likely to run if he does not.
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Joseph Flaherty / Phoenix New Times:
Antifas, Bikers for Trump, and Other Groups Planning to Protest Trump's Phoenix Rally … Fresh off his defense of the white supremacists and violent racists who gathered in Charlottesville, Virginia, President Trump is returning to Phoenix tomorrow. — Trump's opponents, however, are ready for him.
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Greg Stanton / Washington Post:
Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton: Now is not the time for Trump to visit my city
Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton: Now is not the time for Trump to visit my city
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Michelle Nichols / Reuters:
North Korea shipments to Syria chemical arms agency intercepted: U.N. report — UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Two North Korean shipments to a Syrian government agency responsible for the country's chemical weapons program were intercepted in the past six months, according to a confidential United Nations report …
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