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New York Times:
Ohio Special Election Results: 12th Congressional District — CandidatePartyVotesPct. — Dem. — 14,211 — Rep. — 6,114 — Green — 20,481 votes, <1% reporting (0 of 591 precincts) — What to watch: Voters in Ohio's 12th District are choosing a replacement for Representative Pat Tiberi …
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Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Republicans' dueling political pictures — DRIVING THE DAY — GOOD MORNING from COLUMBUS, OHIO. — HOUSE REPUBLICANS, who appear to be the narrow winners of last night's special election here, face a conflicting political picture. Here's the picture many of them want to see …
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Li Zhou / Vox:
August 7 primary: live results for Ohio, Michigan, Kansas, Missouri, and Washington — There's a key special election in Ohio and other races that are central to Democrats' efforts to spur a “blue wave.” — All eyes are on a critical special election in Ohio's 12th District as voters in five states head to the polls on Tuesday.
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Associated Press, ABC News, The Daily Caller and HuffPost
New York Times:
5 Takeaways From Tuesday's Election Results — Republicans had a brush with trouble in Ohio, where a result had still not been declared in a special election to fill a House vacancy. Elsewhere, an activist sweep on the left failed to materialize. — Suburbanites are more fired up than rural voters
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The Daily Beast
CBS News:
2018 elections: Polls closed in Ohio, Missouri, Michigan and Kansas — On Tuesday, the last special election before Election Day in the nation takes place in Ohio, and four states are holding primary elections — Kansas, Michigan, Missouri, and Washington. Many analysts see the race …
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Breitbart, Raw Story, The Daily Caller, POLITICO Playbook Audio …, Washington Post and Townhall
Alexi McCammond / Axios:
Troy Balderson claims victory in Ohio special election
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Cincinnati.com, Congressional Leadership Fund, Vox and Politico
New York Times:
Republican Holds Slim Lead in Ohio Special Election for House Seat
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The Gateway Pundit
Nathaniel Rakich / FiveThirtyEight:
Everything You Need To Know About The Ohio 12th Special Election
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Raw Story, Axios, The Daily Signal, BuzzFeed News, Townhall, HuffPost, Sludge and New York Times
David Weigel / Washington Post:
Democratic Party's liberal insurgency hits a wall in Midwest primaries
Benny Johnson / The Daily Caller:
Ocasio-Cortez On Soccer Moms In Minivans: 'That's Not America Anymore!'
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Chicks On The Right
Andrea González-Ramírez / Refinery29:
Is The Michigan Gubernatorial Race The Hillary Clinton vs. Bernie Sanders Of 2018?
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The Daily Caller, Common Dreams, ThinkProgress and American Thinker
Sam Stein / The Daily Beast:
The Democratic Party Has Entered Its No Bullsh*t Phase
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Hullabaloo
The Daily Beast:
CEOs Who Cut White House Ties After Charlottesville Just Dined With Trump — President Trump is having dinner Tuesday night with five CEOs who distanced themselves from the White House after last year's white supremacist Charlottesville rally. CNBC reports that the companies that are attending …
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New York Times:
Missouri Primary Election Results — What to watch: Senator Claire McCaskill is believed to be one of the most vulnerable Democrats in the Senate because of her low approval rating and Mr. Trump's victory in Missouri by 18 percentage points. Six years ago, she managed to win re-election largely …
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New York Times:
Kansas Primary Election Results — What to watch: The biggest race in Kansas is for governor, a job held by Jeff Colyer since Sam Brownback resigned to accept an ambassadorship. Mr. Colyer is running against Secretary of State Kris W. Kobach, the face of President Trump's voter fraud panel, in the Republican primary.
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The Daily Beast and Daily Kos
Isaac Arnsdorf / ProPublica:
The Shadow Rulers of the VA — Last February, shortly after Peter O'Rourke became chief of staff for the Department of Veterans Affairs, he received an email from Bruce Moskowitz with his input on a new mental health initiative for the VA. “Received,” O'Rourke replied.
New York Times:
Top Trump Campaign Aides Are Portrayed as Corrupt at Manafort Trial — ALEXANDRIA, Va. — The trial of Paul Manafort turned into a referendum on the character of two of President Trump's top campaign aides on Tuesday, as prosecutors cast Mr. Manafort as the architect of a sprawling swindle …
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Matt Ferner / HuffPost:
St. Louis Voters Oust Prosecutor Who Didn't Bring Charges In Cop Killing Of Michael Brown — In a remarkable win for reformers, Wesley Bell, a city council member in Ferguson, Missouri, upset Robert McCulloch in Tuesday's Democratic primary. — Wesley Bell, who cast himself as a reformer committed …
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Sam Stein / The Daily Beast:
New Poll: 43% of Republicans Want to Give Trump the Power to Shut Down Media … Freedom of the press may be guaranteed in the Constitution. But a plurality of Republicans want to give President Trump the authority to close down certain news outlets, according to a new public opinion survey conducted Ipsos …
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John Solomon / The Hill:
How a senior DOJ official helped Dem researchers on Trump-Russia case — Hundreds of pages of previously unreported emails and memos provide the clearest evidence yet that a research firm, hired by Hillary Clinton — 's campaign and the Democratic National Committee (DNC) …
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The Daily Caller, The Gateway Pundit, Politically Short and Front Page Magazine
Jonah Goldberg / National Review:
Three Cheers for David French — I am very grateful for David French's essay in the Times today, because it cuts the Gordian knot of my own thinking about Alex Jones. — David writes: … David's alternative: Use the standards already enshrined in law and custom, specifically prohibitions against libel and slander.
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Weekly Standard, The Verge, Betsy's Page and Mother Jones
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Cale Guthrie Weissman / Fast Company:
Amazon seems to have quietly stopped recommending Alex Jones products
Los Angeles Times:
Judge is the undisputed center of attention at Paul Manafort's trial … Every big trial has a star — a crusading prosecutor or a slick defense attorney, a red-faced defendant or an emotional witness. For the trial of Paul Manafort, President Trump's former campaign chairman, it's none of the above.
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Raw Story
Bryan Bender / Politico:
Leaked document: Putin lobbied Trump on arms control — A list of issues he shared with Trump in Helsinki suggests Russia wants to continue traditional nuclear talks with the U.S. — but doesn't answer all questions about their meeting. — Vladimir Putin presented President Donald Trump …
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Political Wire
Rick Maese / Washington Post:
A sports reporter took a new job. Now his former newspaper is suing over a Twitter account. — The Roanoke Times spells it out right in its handbook: Employees who have been issued “Company-owned information assets, keys or other access items must return them to the Company upon termination of employment …
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Deadspin, more at Mediagazer »
Burgess Everett / Politico:
Key red-state Democrat sides with Trump on wall funding — 'I'm fine with providing him some more,' Indiana's Joe Donnelly said of the president's funding request. — INDIANAPOLIS — One of the most vulnerable Democratic senators said he supports giving President Donald Trump billions …
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Political Wire
Niels Lesniewski / Roll Call:
Lindsey Graham Quips That Trump Brought Up Mueller and Russia ‘About 20 Times’ — Sen. Lindsey Graham said Monday night that he has told President Donald Trump that ending the special counsel investigation of Robert S. Mueller III would undermine GOP chances in November.
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POLITICUSUSA, CNN, Mediaite and Political Wire
Wall Street Journal:
Former Trump Lawyer Michael Cohen Under Investigation for Tax Fraud — As legal pressures mount, Cohen's bank loans are also under scrutiny by prosecutors — The legal pressures facing Michael Cohen are growing in a wide-ranging investigation of his personal business affairs and his work …
John Harwood / CNBC:
Why Trump's GOP fears this midterm election — Midterm elections have always given voice to Americans' discontent with incumbent presidents, which means the opposition party almost invariably gains ground. — Strategists in both parties now consider Democrats likely to gain the 23 seats …
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The Hill
Sarah Jones / New Republic:
Trump's New Strategy to Demonize Immigrants — Donald Trump's antipathy to immigrants has been a defining feature of his rise to power and his presidency. He's focused much of that ire, personally and in his policies, on undocumented immigrants. But there are signs he wants to target documented immigrants, too.
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Refinery29, ImmigrationProf Blog and Mother Jones
Jonathan O'Connell / Washington Post:
GSA chief may have misled Congress about White House involvement in FBI headquarters, according to draft of inspector general report — The administrator of the General Services Administration, which manages the FBI headquarters project, may have misled Congress about White House involvement in the project …
Dell Cameron / Gizmodo:
Here's the Internal Report Proving the FCC Made Up a Cyberattack — An investigation carried out by Federal Communication Commission's own inspector general officially refutes controversial claims that a cyberattack was responsible for disrupting the FCC's comment system in May 2017 …
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