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Leftist Wins Mexico Presidency in Landslide With Mandate to Reshape Nation — MEXICO CITY — Riding a wave of populist anger fueled by rampant corruption and violence, the leftist Andrés Manuel López Obrador was elected president of Mexico on Sunday, in a landslide victory …
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Sabrina Rodriguez / Politico:
Mexican populist López Obrador triumphs in presidential race — The winning candidate promised to demand respect from President Donald Trump. — MEXICO CITY — Andrés Manuel López Obrador — a populist representing a left-wing political party that he founded four years ago …
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Joshua Partlow / Washington Post:
Andrés Manuel López Obrador wins Mexican presidential race — MEXICO CITY — Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who rallied voters with his battle cry against corruption and promises to the poor, won a resounding victory Sunday night in Mexico's presidential election, after the concession of his two top rivals.
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Rebecca Fishbein / Jezebel:
Mexico City Will Elect Its First Woman Mayor
Mexico City Will Elect Its First Woman Mayor
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Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Exclusive: A leaked Trump bill to blow up the WTO — Axios has obtained a leaked draft of a Trump administration bill — ordered by the president himself — that would declare America's abandonment of fundamental World Trade Organization rules. — Why it matters: The draft legislation is stunning.
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Heather Long / Washington Post:
Trump stands firm on trade, even as foreign tariffs begin kicking in
Trump stands firm on trade, even as foreign tariffs begin kicking in
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Alanna Petroff / CNNMoney:
Canada hits $13 billion of US goods with new tariffs
Canada hits $13 billion of US goods with new tariffs
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George Stephanopoulos / ABC News:
Michael Cohen says family and country, not President Trump, is his ‘first loyalty’ — Michael Cohen — President Donald Trump's longtime personal attorney and a former executive vice president at the Trump Organization — has always insisted he would remain loyal to the president.
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Michael Scherer / Washington Post:
A bad week for Democrats gives rise to a big problem: Outrage could become an obstacle in midterms — Growing liberal agitation over a pivotal Supreme Court retirement and a simmering crisis about immigrant child separation have left Democratic leaders scrambling to keep the political outrage …
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Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Inside the Democratic strategy to oppose Trump's Supreme Court pick — Democrats plan to make health care the central issue in their fight to oppose whomever Trump picks to replace Anthony Kennedy on the Supreme Court. — What they're saying: Here's Democratic leader Chuck Schumer framing …
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Jeffrey Toobin / New Yorker:
How Trump's Supreme Court Pick Could Undo Kennedy's Legacy
How Trump's Supreme Court Pick Could Undo Kennedy's Legacy
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Tara Palmeri / ABC News:
After eyeing the exits, White House officials will likely stay through Supreme Court confirmation: Sources
After eyeing the exits, White House officials will likely stay through Supreme Court confirmation: Sources
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Richard Johnson / Page Six:
Ex co-worker no fan of Democrat darling Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is being hailed as the new face of the Democratic party after vanquishing Queens party boss Joe Crowley in Tuesday's primary, but one former co-worker isn't jumping on her bandwagon.
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The Intercept:
Data Suggest That Gentrifying Neighborhoods Powered Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Victory — When canvassers for the campaign of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez reconvened in the Bronx last Tuesday evening, they swapped stories about what they'd seen. With no exit polling, anecdotes were all they had …
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Jonathan Cheng / Wall Street Journal:
North Korea Expands Key Missile-Manufacturing Plant — New satellite imagery indicates Pyongyang is pushing ahead with weapons programs even as it pursues dialogue with Washington — SEOUL—North Korea is completing a major expansion of a key missile-manufacturing plant …
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Matthew Schmitz / New York Times:
Trump's ‘Purple’ Family Values — In the months leading up to Donald Trump's election, I noticed a divide in how my acquaintances spoke about his family values — or lack thereof. — People I knew from college or had met in New York expressed distaste for Mr. Trump's behavior.
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Avi Selk / Washington Post:
Man arrested after shouting ‘womp, womp’ and pulling a gun on immigration protesters … The gathering at a park gazebo in Huntsville, Ala., was by no means the largest of Saturday's nationwide protests against President Trump's “zero tolerance” border policies, though it was memorable for other reasons.
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Brad Wilmouth / NewsBusters:
Rubin: Sarah Huckabee Sanders Should Be Harassed Publicly As a ‘Life Sentence’ — On Sunday's AM Joy, MSNBC contributor and Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin declared that Sarah Huckabee Sanders deserves a “life sentence” of being harassed publicly as she asserted that the White House press secretary …
Wall Street Journal:
Top GOP Fundraiser to Stop Hush Payments Over Affair — Elliott Broidy says ex-model's lawyer breached $1.6 million deal that was arranged by Michael Cohen — A top Republican fundraiser will stop making payments to a former mistress who signed a hush-money agreement that was negotiated …
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Peter Whoriskey / Washington Post:
‘A way of monetizing poor people’: How private equity firms make money offering loans to cash-strapped Americans — The check arrived out of the blue, issued in his name for $1,200, a mailing from a consumer finance company. Stephen Huggins eyed it carefully. — A loan, it said.
Ericka Cruz Guevarra / OPB:
Man Killed By Armed PSU Officers Had Valid Concealed Carry Permit — Jason Erik Washington, the man killed by armed Portland State University officers early Friday morning, had a valid concealed carry permit at the time of his death. — Two of Washington's colleagues and at least one witness say Washington, 45, was black.
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John Fund / National Review:
Librarians Airbrush Laura Ingalls Wilder's Name from Award — Who's next? Mark Twain, Shakespeare, Hemingway? — Politically correct radicals are now beating up on Laura Ingalls Wilder, the author of the beloved “Little House on the Prairie” children's books, which inspired …
Deb Riechmann / Associated Press:
I never said that! High-tech deception of ‘deepfake’ videos — WASHINGTON (AP) — Hey, did my congressman really say that? Is that really President Donald Trump on that video, or am I being duped? — New technology on the internet lets anyone make videos of real people appearing to say things they've never said.
Miriam Jordan / New York Times:
Sponsors of Migrant Children Face Steep Transport Fees and Red Tape — LOS ANGELES — Marlon Parada, a construction worker in Los Angeles, already was worried when he got an urgent call from his cousin in Honduras, asking if he would agree to take in the cousin's 14-year-old daughter.
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Associated Press:
APNewsBreak: Border Patrol Arrests Drop Sharply in June — APNewsBreak: Border Patrol arrests drop sharply in June to lowest since February, ending 4 months of increases. — FILE - In this Aug. 11, 2017 file photo a U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agent escorts an immigrant suspected …
New York Times:
In Denmark, Harsh New Laws for Immigrant ‘Ghettos’ — COPENHAGEN — When Rokhaia Naassan gives birth in the coming days, she and her baby boy will enter a new category in the eyes of Danish law. Because she lives in a low-income immigrant neighborhood described by the government as a …
Garrett M. Graff / Wired:
Did Satoshi Nakamoto Write This Book Excerpt? A Wired Investigation — YEARS HAVE GONE by since any new piece of writing has appeared by Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonymous creator of bitcoin. But on Friday night, someone claiming to be Nakomoto published 21 pages of new material …