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Daniel Marans / HuffPost:
Democrats Strip Superdelegates Of Power In Historic Reform Vote — The Democratic National Committee's changes aim to heal the lingering divisions of the 2016 presidential primary. — CHICAGO In a long-awaited bid to reinvigorate the Democratic Party and heal the divides of the 2016 presidential primary …
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Politico:
Democrats strip superdelegates of power in picking presidential nominee — Party officials voted at a meeting to strip the party insiders of much of their influence, a big win for the party's base. — CHICAGO - Democratic Party officials voted Saturday to strip superdelegates …
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David Weigel / Washington Post:
Democrats weaken ‘superdelegates’ in effort to avoid another bitter presidential primary — CHICAGO — The Democratic National Committee voted Saturday to neutralize the votes of unpledged convention delegates, part of a package of hard-fought reforms designed to prevent a repeat …
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Bill Barrow / Associated Press:
APNewsBreak: DNC, TV networks discuss presidential debates
APNewsBreak: DNC, TV networks discuss presidential debates
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Adam Levy / CNN:
Democrats adopt gender nonbinary language to charter
Democrats adopt gender nonbinary language to charter
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Ruby Cramer / BuzzFeed News:
Democrats Voted To Strip Power From Superdelegates
Democrats Voted To Strip Power From Superdelegates
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Jennifer Epstein / Bloomberg:
Democrats Cut Party Leaders' Power to Pick Presidential Nominee
Democrats Cut Party Leaders' Power to Pick Presidential Nominee
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Maxwell Strachan / HuffPost:
David Pecker's DARKEST TRUMP SECRETS: A National Enquirer Insider Tells All! — Jerry George, a former senior editor at AMI, opens up about the company's CEO, the evolution of the Enquirer and the role it played in reshaping Trump's image. — By the time David Pecker arrived at American Media Inc …
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Sonia Moghe / CNN:
Exclusive: Ex-Trump World Tower doorman releases ‘catch-and-kill’ contract about alleged Trump affair — (CNN)A former Trump World Tower doorman who says he has knowledge of an alleged affair President Donald Trump had with an ex-housekeeper, which resulted in a child, is now able to talk …
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
The three illegal acts that may have helped Trump win the presidency
The three illegal acts that may have helped Trump win the presidency
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Matt Apuzzo / New York Times:
What Will Mueller Do? The Answer Might Lie in a By-the-Book Past — The special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, has approached law enforcement consistently for decades: leading aggressive investigations marked by adherence to precedent and higher office. — WASHINGTON — Long …
The Hill:
Trump Org. CFO's immunity deal is new problem for Trump — Prosecutors are edging closer and closer to President Trump — 's business empire, a fact underlined by the news Friday of an immunity deal reportedly given to the Trump Organization's longtime chief financial officer (CFO).
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Noam Scheiber / New York Times:
Trump's Power to Fire Federal Workers Curtailed by Judge — A federal district judge in Washington struck down most of the key provisions of three executive orders that President Trump signed in late May that would have made it easier to fire federal employees.
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Grace Segers / CBS News:
Beto O'Rourke says “nothing more American” than NFL players protesting the national anthem — Rep. Beto O'Rourke, the Democratic candidate challenging Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, was featured in a viral video posted to Twitter on Tuesday giving an answer at a town hall defending NFL players who kneel during the national anthem before games.
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Ariel Edwards-Levy / HuffPost:
We Asked 1,000 People What Happened On Tuesday. Here's What Some Of Them Said. — Paul Manafort, Michael Cohen, someone's lost cat and Post Malone. — On Tuesday, President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman Paul Manafort was convicted of federal charges, and former Trump lawyer …
Anne Gearan / Washington Post:
Bad blood between McCain and Trump lingers, even as the Arizona Republican nears the end — It got off to a bad start, and President Trump's venomous relationship with Sen. John McCain probably won't end well either. — The president was reportedly disinvited to McCain's funeral months ago …
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Senator Brown's Press Feed:
After Careful Consideration, Brown Decides To Oppose Kavanaugh Nomination — Senator: ‘Special interests already have armies of lobbyists and lawyers on their sides, working people need judges who will put their rights first’ — WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) …
Paul Sonne / Washington Post:
McMorris Rodgers says she is open to Jordan as speaker — The highest-ranking Republican woman in Congress said she is open to supporting a long-shot bid by Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) to replace House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.), giving a boost to the conservative insurgency seeking to take over the House Republican caucus.
Associated Press:
Conor Daly loses Lilly Diabetes sponsorship over remark his father made over 30 years ago — ELKHART LAKE, Wis. (AP) — Lilly Diabetes has pulled its sponsorship of Conor Daly's No. 6 car in the NASCAR Xfinity race at Road America, citing a racially insensitive remark made by the driver's father in the 1980s that surfaced this week.
Michael Schwirtz / New York Times:
For Rohingya, Years of Torture at the Hands of a Neighbor — THAINGKHALI REFUGEE CAMP, Bangladesh — Mohammad Hossain knows the man who led the attack on his village, joining with Myanmar soldiers to seize his Rohingya neighbors and, as he put it, “cut them into pieces.”
David Wasserman / The Cook Political Report:
August House Overview: The Bottom Line in the 66 Most Competitive Races — The most critical phase of the battle for the House isn't October; it's right now. Republicans' only hope of defying a “Blue Wave” and saving their 23-seat House majority is to personally disqualify Democratic nominees …