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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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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
David Weigel / Washington Post:
Democratic Party's liberal insurgency hits a wall in Midwest primaries — The Democratic Party's left-wing insurgency found its limits Tuesday night, with voters favoring establishment candidates over more liberal challengers in almost every closely watched race across several states.
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New York Times:
Republican Holds Slim Lead in Ohio Special Election for House Seat — • Gretchen Whitmer won the Democratic nomination for governor of Michigan, joining women in Georgia, Texas, South Dakota and elsewhere who are competing in November to lead their states.
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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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Alexi McCammond / Axios:
Troy Balderson claims victory in Ohio special election
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Wichita Eagle:
Colyer, Kobach wait as Republican governor's race hinges on Johnson County results
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Politico
Mike DeBonis / Washington Post:
Ohio special election shows Democrats remain on the march — even if they don't win Tuesday
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Kyle Olson / The American Mirror:
Socialist star Ocasio-Cortez strikes out: All endorsed candidates lose Tuesday primaries
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Li Zhou / Vox:
August 7 primary: live results for Ohio, Michigan, Kansas, Missouri, and Washington
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Politico, One America News Network, ABC News, Conservative News Today and HuffPost
Benny Johnson / The Daily Caller:
Ocasio-Cortez On Soccer Moms In Minivans: 'That's Not America Anymore!'
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Conservative News Today and Chicks On The Right
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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Darren Samuelsohn / Politico:
Trump surges to fore of Manafort trial — President Donald Trump says that the criminal trial of his former campaign aide, Paul Manafort, has nothing to do with him. — But jurors in a Virginia courtroom heard his name repeatedly on Tuesday. — Trump's name, his 2016 campaign …
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
What's even worse than the swamp? The company that Trump kept.
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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.
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Wall Street Journal:
'It's Fantastic!' Trump Warms to Rosenstein — Nearly fired by the president, the No. 2 Justice official—the man in charge of the Mueller probe—builds a rapport — Before President Trump headed to meet Vladimir Putin last month, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein requested a meeting in the Oval Office.
Darren Samuelsohn / Politico:
Obstruction questions still on table for Mueller-Trump interview, Giuliani says — President Donald Trump's lawyers plan to send a letter to special counsel Robert Mueller later this week signaling they remain open to allowing the president to sit for an interview and be questioned …
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Joseph A. Wulfsohn / Mediaite:
Colbert Refers to National Review's Jonah Goldberg as One of 'Trump's Allies' (He's Not)
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Niels Lesniewski / Roll Call:
Lindsey Graham Quips That Trump Brought Up Mueller and Russia ‘About 20 Times’
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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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CNBC:
CEOs who quit Trump advisory boards after Charlottesville now among his dinner guests
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Jeremy Wallace / Houston Chronicle:
Ted Cruz asks Trump to campaign for him in Texas
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Political Wire and The Week
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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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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C. J. Chivers / New York Times:
War Without End — The Pentagon's failed campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan left a generation of soldiers with little to fight for but one another. — Second Platoon did not hide its dark mood as its soldiers waded across the Korengal River in the bright light of afternoon.
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Axios
Aamer Madhani / USA Today:
Why Chicago PD can't get more residents to identify gun violence suspects — CHICAGO — Earlier this year, Romell Young got into a fist fight on the street near his home on the city's West Side, pummeling a man in a brawl that was spurred by an argument he can't even remember.
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
Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:
Can I Ruin Your Dinner Party? — One of the two pillars of the West is in jeopardy. — ROME — I've found lately that I can ruin any dinner party. It's like magic. Just get me going on Trump or Putin or climate change and I can put a frown on every face and a furrow in every brow.
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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Talking Points Memo and 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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David Sirota / Newsweek:
Why Does Betsy DeVos's Family Yacht Fly a Foreign Flag? Donald Trump's ‘America First’ Administration and the Cayman Islands — When someone untied a yacht owned by U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos's family, the episode was portrayed as an example of anti-Trump harassment.
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Alexis C. Madrigal / The Atlantic:
What Does It Mean to Ban Alex Jones? — The inconsistent embargo on Infowars demonstrates the breadth of tools tech companies have to police speech. — On Monday, Apple, Facebook, YouTube, and Spotify “banned” the conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and his media company, Infowars, from their platforms.
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Jonah Goldberg / National Review:
Three Cheers for David French
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