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Josh Dawsey / Washington Post:
Former White House aide Hicks agrees to testify to House panel investigating Trump — Hope Hicks is scheduled to answer questions from the House Judiciary Committee behind closed doors next week. — Josh Dawsey, Rosalind S. Helderman - · - 30 minutes ago - · — The Fix
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ABC News:
ABC News travels with President Donald Trump from Iowa to the White House — With his re-election bid set to officially kick off next week, President Donald Trump granted ABC News an exclusive, wide-ranging interview over the course of two days, offering an unprecedented behind-the-scenes lens …
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Politico
Elizabeth McLaughlin / ABC News:
Marine Corps F-35 stealth fighter conducts flyover of White House during Polish president's visit
Marine Corps F-35 stealth fighter conducts flyover of White House during Polish president's visit
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Politico, One America News Network and Breitbart
Nikki Schwab / New York Post:
House panel unanimously passes 9/11 victims fund bill after Jon Stewart shaming
House panel unanimously passes 9/11 victims fund bill after Jon Stewart shaming
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Task & Purpose
Jeff McDonald / San Diego Union-Tribune:
Margaret Hunter to plead out in case against congressman husband — Details of deal not clear, Rep. Duncan Hunter's attorney declined to discuss whether she might be cooperating with the prosecution — Margaret Hunter, the wife of longtime East County Congressman Duncan Hunter who was co-indicted …
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Political Wire and Joe.My.God.
Washington Post:
House panel votes to hold attorney general, commerce secretary in contempt over census probe, the next step toward a court battle — The House Oversight Committee voted on Wednesday to hold Attorney General William P. Barr and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross in contempt for failing to turn …
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Axios:
House Oversight holds Barr, Ross in contempt over Census documents
House Oversight holds Barr, Ross in contempt over Census documents
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New York Times:
Trump Asserts Executive Privilege on Census Documents Ahead of House Committee Contempt Vote
Trump Asserts Executive Privilege on Census Documents Ahead of House Committee Contempt Vote
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Andrew Desiderio / Politico:
House panel votes to hold Barr, Ross in contempt
House panel votes to hold Barr, Ross in contempt
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Ari Berman / Mother Jones:
House Democrats Hold Trump Officials in Contempt for Withholding Census Documents
House Democrats Hold Trump Officials in Contempt for Withholding Census Documents
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USA Today
Amanda Terkel / HuffPost:
Howard Schultz Announces Campaign Staff Cuts, Summer Hiatus — The Starbucks billionaire won't make a decision on running for president until after Labor Day — and he's still eyeing Joe Biden as his biggest competition. — Starbucks billionaire Howard Schultz told campaign staff …
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Daily Mail:
Don Jr. IGNORES his own lawyers who objected to senators' questions in tense three-hour grilling about Michael Cohen's testimony - and answers them all so Democrats couldn't say he was slippery — Donald Trump Jr. gave Senate Intelligence Committee members a three-hour interview on Wednesday …
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Marianne LeVine / Politico:
Don Jr. ‘not at all’ worried about perjury charges
Don Jr. ‘not at all’ worried about perjury charges
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Steven Graboski / Polls:
Biden, Warren, Sanders Lead 2020 Field — Immigration joins healthcare and environment as top issues for Nevada Dems — West Long Branch, NJ - Former Vice President Joe Biden is the front-runner among likely Democratic caucusgoers in Nevada while Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren takes second place …
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Politico, Political Wire and Washington Times
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Zach Montellaro / Politico:
Debate deadline: Prominent governor still out on final day to qualify
Debate deadline: Prominent governor still out on final day to qualify
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Washington Post, FiveThirtyEight and Political Wire
NPR:
Harris: Justice Dept. ‘Would Have No Choice’ But To Prosecute Trump After Presidency — California Sen. Kamala Harris says that if she's elected president, her administration's Department of Justice would likely pursue criminal obstruction of justice charges against a former President Donald Trump.
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The Permanent Select Committee …:
Nunes Opening Statement for HPSCI Hearing on Mueller Report — f t # e — Thank you Mr. Chairman. — Here we are, more than two years since Democrats from this committee publicly claimed to have “more than circumstantial” evidence that the Trump campaign colluded with Russians to hack …
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Morgan Chalfant / The Hill:
Schiff threatens to subpoena FBI
Schiff threatens to subpoena FBI
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Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Trump looks to squash Amash — The president has discussed with aides backing a primary challenge against the lone Republican impeachment supporter. — Donald Trump and his top allies are moving to make Justin Amash pay for becoming the sole Republican congressman to call for the president's impeachment.
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Freedom Caucus Expels Amash for Being Too Pro-Freedom
Freedom Caucus Expels Amash for Being Too Pro-Freedom
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Star Tribune:
Ilhan Omar's credibility takes another hit — Tax return irregularities are just the latest misstep by the first-term congresswoman. — By Editorial Board Star Tribune — TEXT SIZE — U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar is back in the news again, and not in a good way.
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Ryan Mac / BuzzFeed News:
This Picture Featuring 15 Tech Men And 2 Women Looked Doctored. The Women Were Photoshopped In. — Last week, men's lifestyle magazine GQ published this photo of Silicon Valley executives including LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman and Dropbox CEO Drew Houston from their pilgrimage to a small village …
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The Daily Dot
Kelly Weill / The Daily Beast:
Daily Beast Contributor Wins $4.1 Million From Neo-Nazi for ISIS Smear — Dean Obeidallah was falsely accused of being behind a terrorist attack by The Daily Stormer, whose on-the-run founder just lost big in court. — After Dean Obeidallah wrote a Daily Beast article condemning President Trump's approach …
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Jay Weaver / Miami Herald:
Trump cheered Patriots to Super Bowl victory with founder of spa where Kraft was busted — For the first time, federal prosecutors have disclosed they are developing a potential national security case against Yujing Zhang, the 33-year-old Chinese woman charged with unlawfully entering Mar-a-Lago with a stash of electronic equipment.
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Washington Post:
Trump's latest court filing is an invitation to begin impeachment proceedings — George T. Conway III is a lawyer in New York. Neal Katyal, a law professor at Georgetown University, previously served as the acting solicitor general of the United States. — Much ink has been spilled …
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Washington Monthly and ThinkProgress
Alexander Heffner / USA Today:
Be bold: Democrats must reject failed, boring electability notions to beat Trump in 2020 — Obama and Trump showed freshness and novelty matter more than centrism or swing state roots. Boring candidates who play it safe are bad 2020 bets. — CONNECT — The conventional definition …
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Amber Phillips / Washington Post:
Should Democrats embrace socialism? The 2020 primary, in four factions.
Should Democrats embrace socialism? The 2020 primary, in four factions.
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Politico, New Republic, Breitbart, Slate and National Review
Saagar Enjeti / The Hill:
Michael Flynn hires Sidney Powell as new counsel — Former national security advisor Mike Flynn has hired attorney Sidney Powell as his new counsel, Hill.TV has learned. — “I'm honored to be representing General Flynn, who i've long considered an American hero.
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Wall Street Journal:
Facebook Worries Emails Could Show Zuckerberg Knew of Questionable Privacy Practices — Internal exchanges uncovered in response to FTC probe could cast doubt on founder's commitment to user privacy, people familiar with the matter say — Facebook Inc. uncovered emails that appear …
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NBC News:
Reps of 22 foreign governments have spent money at Trump properties — The number of foreign governments hints at a significant foreign cash flow to the U.S. president that critics say violates the Constitution. — WASHINGTON — Representatives of at least 22 foreign governments appear …
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Joe.My.God.
USA Today:
Republican attempts to defend Trump and Barr's ‘no obstruction’ decree are pathetic — Donald Trump's allies can argue that he didn't obstruct justice, but the facts say otherwise. Their real rationale: He's the president, end of story. — CONNECT — Perhaps the most surprising takeaway …
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Washington Post and The Guardian
Kevin Sieff / Washington Post:
‘The migration problem is a coffee problem’ — In western Guatemala, cultivating coffee was once a way out of poverty. As prices fall, growers are abandoning their farms for the United States. — HOJA BLANCA, Guatemala — From his wooden hut in the foothills of the Sierra Madre …
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Ezra Klein / Vox:
Elizabeth Warren's plan to pass her plans — The 2020 candidate on how she'd get rid of the filibuster, curb political corruption, and persuade Americans that government can work for them. — Oligarchic capitalism? Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) has a plan for that. Opioid deaths?
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Axios and Washington Post
David M. Drucker / Washington Examiner:
Fear of a blue Texas: New GOP group to spend millions registering Republicans — Wealthy Republican donors are preparing a multimillion-dollar effort to register more than 1 million new GOP voters in Texas for 2020 amid anxiety that President Trump could be in more trouble in this reliably red state than some in the party realize.
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QU Poll:
Release Detail — June 12, 2019 - A Sitting President Should Face Charges, U.S. Voters Say, Quinnipiac University National Poll Finds; But Voters Still Say Don't Impeach Trump — Any sitting president should be subject to criminal charges, 69 percent of American voters …
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Rick Noack / Washington Post:
With the help of his boyfriend, a German reporter asked Iran's foreign minister why the country executes people for being gay — BERLIN — When Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif faced questions from foreign journalists on Monday in Tehran after a meeting with his German counterpart …
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Matt Dixon / Politico:
‘Erased’: DeSantis hit for omitting LGBTQ from Pulse proclamation — TALLAHASSEE — Gov. Ron DeSantis faced a torrent of criticism from the LGBTQ community after removing mention of the group from a proclamation commemorating the third anniversary of the shooting at a gay nightclub that left 49 dead.
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