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Reid Wilson / The Hill:
Biden slumps, Buttigieg soars: 6 takeaways from benchmark Iowa poll — Just hours before presidential candidates will pitch themselves to Iowa Democratic activists in the first-in-the-nation caucus state, a new poll of likely caucusgoers is rattling the race — and hinting that a formidable front-runner …
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Politico, Breitbart and Des Moines Register
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Dan Guild / Bleeding Heartland:
Joe Biden will probably lose Iowa — Dan Guild examines what history tells us about how to interpret the latest Iowa Democratic caucus poll by Selzer & Co for the Des Moines Register, Mediacom, and CNN. -promoted by Laura Belin — It has been two months since the last good Iowa caucus poll.
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The Guardian
Brianne Pfannenstiel / Des Moines Register:
Iowa Poll: Joe Biden leads, followed by Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren and Pete Buttigieg
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Newsweek, The Guardian, Breitbart, Daily Wire, Washington Monthly, Bloomberg, Mediaite and Political Wire
Des Moines Register:
How proposed Democratic caucus rules make polling even harder, and how we crafted our best shot
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CNN, Talking Points Memo, The Week and Axios
John Verhovek / ABC News:
Beto O'Rourke shrugs off early polls, says importance of Trump's trade deal with Mexico ‘overblown’
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Washington Times, Breitbart and IJR
Peter Baker / New York Times:
A Drama of Trump's Own Making Ends With a Familiar Hero — WASHINGTON — For nine days, he had his finger on the trigger and threatened to pull. For nine days, he put two countries, entire multinational industries, vast swaths of consumers and workers and even his own advisers and Republican allies …
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JustOneMinute, The Daily Caller, Mediaite and New York Post
Murtaza Hussain / The Intercept:
An Iranian Activist Wrote Dozens of Articles for Right-Wing Outlets. But Is He a Real Person? — In 2018, President Donald Trump was seeking to jettison the landmark nuclear deal that his predecessor had signed with Iran in 2015, and he was looking for ways to win over a skeptical press.
Ben LaBolt / The Atlantic:
I Helped Obama Win in 2012. Now Trump Is Using the Same Playbook. — The general-election campaign is happening today. And Donald Trump is running unopposed. — Presidents who have recently won reelection seeded their victories not in the final sprint before Election Day …
Jennifer Creery / Hong Kong Free Press HKFP:
Over a million attend Hong Kong demo against controversial extradition law, organisers say — Over a million people have joined a mass protest against the Hong Kong government's controversial extradition bill, according to organisers. — Jimmy Sham, a spokesperson for organisers …
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Austin Ramzy / New York Times:
A Million March in Hong Kong Over Eroding Freedoms, Organizers Say
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Vox, Mother Jones, Reuters, Outside the Beltway, UPI and Hong Kong Free Press HKFP
David Cohen / Politico:
Trump says there's more in Mexico deal but doesn't say what — There's more to the U.S.-Mexico tariff agreement than meets the eye, President Donald Trump said on Sunday, as critics continued to suggest that the deal didn't accomplish much. — “Importantly, some things. …
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Patterico's Pontifications
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Associated Press:
US-Mexico deal offers few new solutions, political victory
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Washington Post, Politico, KTLA, Splinter and New York Times
Andrew O'Reilly / Fox News:
Acting DHS secretary praises White House deal with Mexico on immigration, defends Trump's tariff threat
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Washington Times and Breitbart
Peter Hermann / Washington Post:
A Foreign Service couple's contentious divorce ends in deadly violence — They were scheduled to be in D.C. Superior Court Friday morning to work out the final details of a fiercely contested divorce. — But Lola Gulomova and Jason Rieff never made it. — Shortly before the 10 a.m. hearing …
Virginia Heffernan / Los Angeles Times:
The cheater in the Oval Office should be banished from the tribe — The Mueller report amply chronicles President Trump's staggering, decades-long crime spree. Like an iron skillet to the head, the extent of Trump's corruption seems to have stupefied voters, legal scholars and, of course …
Mary Clare Jalonick / Associated Press:
Case opened: Democrats begin public airing of Mueller report — WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump says it's “case closed .” But Democrats are just getting started with Robert Mueller . — House Democrats have scheduled a series of hearings this coming week on the special counsel's report …
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Alex Horton / Washington Post:
ICE deported veterans while ‘unaware’ it was required to carefully screen them, report says — On the same day the White House heralded veterans on the 75th anniversary of D-Day, a federal watchdog said the government had violated its own rules on deporting former service members …
Mary Papenfuss / HuffPost:
Former White House Ethics Chief Proposes ‘Golf On Your Own Damn Dime Act’ — Walter Shaub thinks Donald Trump's nearly $106 million golf tab is getting way out of hand. — The former White House ethics chief is sarcastically proposing a “Golf on Your Own Damn Dime Act of 2019.”
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Hullabaloo and Splinter
Astead W. Herndon / New York Times:
Kamala Harris, Seeking a Campaign Jolt, Defends Record as Prosecutor — WEST COLUMBIA, S.C. — Senator Kamala Harris of California has, for months, faced criticism from activist Democrats who have said her record as California attorney general was at odds with her progressive reputation.
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Meg Kinnard / Associated Press:
Kamala Harris says prosecutor past will help defeat Trump
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Los Angeles Times and Axios
Christopher Cadelago / Politico:
Kamala Harris leans into prosecutor record in South Carolina
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TalkLeft
Jonathan Cohn / HuffPost:
Elizabeth Warren Has A Plan — And A Story — Campaigning on policy doesn't work for every Democrat. Here's why it seems to be working for her. — DETROIT ― Elizabeth Warren took her presidential campaign to the Midwest this week, starting with two stops in Michigan where she unveiled …
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The Guardian
Will Bunch / Inquirer.com:
George Nader's abuse of kids is disgusting. His abuse of U.S. democracy should alarm us all — Meet George Nader, millionaire. He owns mansions — in Abu Dhabi and his native Lebanon — and $1 million in Bitcoin cryptocurrency. He also, according to the U.S. government, has some very unusual things on his cell phones.
Nick Valencia / CNN:
A veteran died in police custody. His body was returned to his family with some organs missing — (CNN)Two days before he died, Everett Palmer Jr. called his brother, Dwayne, to tell him he was on his way from Delaware to New York to visit him and their sick mother.
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The Root
Connor Mannion / Mediaite:
Mexico Reportedly Didn't Agree to New Farm Deal Despite Trump Tweeting About One — MEXICO HAS AGREED TO IMMEDIATELY BEGIN BUYING LARGE QUANTITIES OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCT FROM OUR GREAT PATRIOT FARMERS! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 8, 2019 — The U.S.-Mexico Joint Declaration …
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Outside the Beltway, Bloomberg and KTLA
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