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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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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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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, Chicago Tribune and Associated Press
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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Alexi McCammond / Axios:
Troy Balderson claims victory in Ohio special election — Republicans eked out a win by less than 2,000 votes in the Ohio special election. — Data: Associated Press; Chart: Axios Visuals — Why it matters: Troy Balderson may have beat Democrat Danny O'Connor (who's not conceding yet) …
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New York Times:
Ohio Special Election Too Close to Call, as Republican Holds Slim Lead
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Kyle Olson / The American Mirror:
Socialist star Ocasio-Cortez strikes out: All endorsed candidates lose Tuesday primaries
Aubree Eliza Weaver / Politico:
Balderson leads in Ohio
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Amber Phillips / Washington Post:
Winners and losers from Tuesday's elections
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Hullabaloo
Mike DeBonis / Washington Post:
Ohio special election shows Democrats remain on the march — even if they don't win Tuesday
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Noam Scheiber / New York Times:
Missouri Voters Reject Anti-Union Law in a Victory for Labor
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BloombergQuint and Vox
Kevin Breuninger / CNBC:
New York GOP Rep. Chris Collins arrested over insider trading charges — Rep. Chris Collins, R-N.Y., has been arrested on insider trading charges lodged by the Justice Department, law enforcement officials said Wednesday morning. — The indictment obtained from a federal grand jury …
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NBC News:
New York Rep. Chris Collins indicted on insider trading charges — The case is related to Innate Immunotherapeutics, an Australian biotech company, on which the elder Collins served on the board. — Chris Collins, a Republican congressman from upstate New York, surrendered to the FBI …
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New York Times:
New York Congressman Chris Collins Is Charged With Insider Trading — Representative Chris Collins, a New York Republican who was one of President Trump's earliest and most vocal supporters, was charged with insider trading on Wednesday. He was accused of having sold his stock …
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Second Nexus
Kansas City Star:
Kansas Dems choose Sharice Davids to challenge Rep. Kevin Yoder for seat in Congress — Sharice Davids could make history in November after Kansas Democrats selected the Johnson County attorney as their nominee for a race that could help decide control of the U.S. House.
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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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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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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.
Simeon Kerr / Financial Times:
Saudi Arabia sells off Canadian assets as dispute escalates — Saudi Arabia is selling Canadian assets as the kingdom escalates its response to Ottawa's criticism of the arrest of a female activist. — The Saudi central bank and state pension funds have instructed their overseas asset managers …
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Abbas Al Lawati / BloombergQuint:
Saudi Arabia Carries Out Rare Crucifixion for Murder, Theft
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The Daily Caller
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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Talking Points Memo and IJR
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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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The Week and Law & Crime
Alex Pareene / The Daily Beast:
Donald Trump Talks About a War on the Press. Andrew Cuomo Is Waging One. … On July 19, Zack Fink, the Albany reporter for New York City's local cable news channel, NY1, asked Gov. Andrew Cuomo about the glaring lack of legitimate small donors to his reelection campaign.
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New York Times
Fred Imbert / CNBC:
China announces 25% tariffs on $16 billion worth of US goods, including certain vehicles, fuel and fiber optics — The Chinese Ministry of Commerce announces a 25 percent charge on $16 billion worth of U.S. goods, including auto and crude oil. — China's announcement comes …
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KMOV-TV:
‘We shocked the world;’ Wesley Bell upsets 27-year incumbent McCulloch in STL Co. Prosecutor's race — In a monumental upset, Wesley Bell has unseated longtime St. Louis County Prosecutor Bob McCulloch in Tuesday's Democratic primary. McCulloch, trailing by 10 points with 90 percent of precincts reporting …
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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
Sharon Coolidge / USA Today:
Police use Taser on 11-year-old girl accused of stealing from supermarket … Here's a short video about how tasers work. Wochit — CONNECT — CINCINNATI - A Cincinnati police officer used a Taser to stun an 11-year-old girl allegedly stealing from a supermarket Monday, according to police.
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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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Business Wire:
The New York Times Company Reports 2018 Second-Quarter Results — NEW YORK—(BUSINESS WIRE)— The New York Times Company (NYSE:NYT) announced today second-quarter 2018 diluted earnings per share from continuing operations of $.14 compared with $.09 earnings per share in the same period of 2017.
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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Raw Story and Capital & Main
Catherine Rampell / Washington Post:
How America stopped prosecuting white-collar crime and public corruption, in charts — Memo to all those supposed law-and-order fans out there, including in the White House: The United States is currently on track to notch the fewest prosecutions of white-collar and public corruption crimes on record.
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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