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New York Times:
House Passes Senate Border Bill in Striking Defeat for Pelosi  —  WASHINGTON — The House on Thursday passed a Senate humanitarian aid package without any of the House's strict protections for migrant children in overcrowded border shelters after Speaker Nancy Pelosi capitulated to Republicans …
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Andrew Desiderio / Politico:
‘Everyone hates this place’: Border bill tears apart Democratic caucus  —  Democrats broke into open warfare Thursday over Speaker Nancy Pelosi's surrender to the Senate's emergency border aid package, with the caucus' long-simmering divide between progressives and centrists playing out in dramatic fashion on the House floor.
Burgess Everett / Politico:
House clears border aid bill after Pelosi bows to McConnell  —  The House cleared a $4.6 billion emergency aid package Thursday to address the humanitarian crisis at the southern border, sending the bill to President Donald Trump for his signature after Speaker Nancy Pelosi bowed to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.
Washington Post:
House passes $4.6 billion border bill as leaders cave to moderate Democrats and GOP
Discussion: Vox, Washington Monthly and The Week
CNN:
House passes border funding bill after Pelosi reversal outrages progressives
Washington Post:
Transcript: Night 2 of the first Democratic debate  —  For the second night in a row, a field of 10 Democrats who want to be their party's nominee will debate.  Tonight's slate includes the candidates performing best in the polls, former vice president Joe Biden and Sen. Bernie Sanders …
Discussion: Breitbart
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New York Times:
Democratic Debate: Will Biden and Sanders Face Off?
Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
Kamala Harris breaks out
Washington Post:
Who talked most during the first night of the Democratic debate
Joseph Wulfsohn / Fox News:
Eric Swalwell swipes at Biden's age: I'll be a president that will ‘actually have to live with the decisions I make’
Discussion: Axios and Washington Post
ABC News:
Democratic debate night 2: Fact checking the candidates on the issues
Discussion: Axios
Orion Rummler / Axios:
Debate night: 3 top candidates back abolishing private health insurance
Discussion: ABC News and Breitbart
Richard L. Hasen / Slate:
Donald Trump Is Promising to Fight the Census Case.  That Might Actually Work.  —  Despite a favorable ruling for opponents of the census citizenship question on Thursday, the Supreme Court did not definitively decide to exclude the citizenship question from the 2020 census.
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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Supreme Court Bars Challenges to Partisan Gerrymandering  —  WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled against the challengers opposed to partisan gerrymandering, the practice in which the party that controls the state legislature draws voting maps to help elect its candidates.
Richard L. Hasen / New York Times:
The Gerrymandering Decision Drags the Supreme Court Further Into the Mud  —  Ignoring the racial redistricting problem won't make it go away.  —  Mr. Hasen is a law professor and a political scientist.  —  The Supreme Court decision on Thursday in Rucho v. Common Cause purports …
Discussion: Washington Post
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Why the Supreme Court's split decisions may not mean what you think
Discussion: Politico, Slate and Talking Points Memo
Noah Feldman / Bloomberg:
Roberts Won't Let Trump Get Away With a Lie in Census Case
NBC News:
Trolls target online polls following first Democratic presidential debate  —  Users from pro-Trump communities on 4chan and Reddit implored fellow members to vote for lower-polling candidates, specifically Tulsi Gabbard and Bill de Blasio.  —  Users from pro-Trump communities on 4chan …
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Rosie Gray / BuzzFeed News:
Tulsi Gabbard Is Having A MAGA Moment After Her Debate Performance  —  “I think a lot of people would vote for her over Trump,” Mike Cernovich said.  “MAGA people.”  Ann Coulter is considering it.  —  Among some conservative pundits there was one clear winner of Wednesday night's Democratic primary debate …
Ariel Zilber / Daily Mail:
First poll has Tulsi Gabbard as the shock winner of the first Democratic debate and Beto O'Rourke as the clear loser  —  Tulsi Gabbard is the winner of the first Democratic debate in Miami on Wednesday, according to a Drudge Report poll.  —  The popular news aggregation internet site took …
Washington Post:
Twitter adds labels for tweets that break its rules — a move with potentially stark implications for Trump's account  —  The social media site will also down-rank such tweets via its algorithms to reduce circulation  —  SAN FRANCISCO — Twitter has long said it is unlikely to take down politicians …
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Twitter:
Defining public interest on Twitter  —  Our highest priority is to protect the health of the public conversation on Twitter, and an important part of that is ensuring our rules and how we enforce them are easy to understand.  In the past, we've allowed certain Tweets that violated our rules …
The Daily Beast:
‘He Is Not Going To Like This’: Twitter Will Downgrade Trump Tweets That Break Site's Rules
Discussion: Observer and Shareblue Media
Jerry Iannelli / Miami New Times:
Bill De Blasio Roasted for Quoting Che Guevara at Miami Campaign Stop … New York politics and Miami politics are not the same.  This may seem like an obvious statement.  But at a rally today for striking workers at the Miami International Airport, New York City mayor and 2020 presidential …
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Sally Goldenberg / Politico:
De Blasio apologizes for quoting Che Guevara as Florida Dems pounce  —  MIAMI — Presidential candidate and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio apologized Thursday for what he said was an inadvertent quoting of Marxist Revolutionary Ernesto “Che” Guevara in Miami, home to hundreds of thousands …
Financial Times:
Vladimir Putin says liberalism has ‘become obsolete’  —  Vladimir Putin has trumpeted the growth of national populist movements in Europe and America, crowing that liberalism is spent as an ideological force.  —  In an FT interview in the Kremlin on the eve of the G20 summit in Osaka …
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Financial Times:
Transcript: ‘All this fuss about spies ... it is not worth serious interstate relations’
Discussion: Politico
Darren Samuelsohn / Politico:   Senate's Russia reports to start publishing in July
Washington Post:
Tillerson told House panel that Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner left him in the dark on conversations with foreign nations  —  Former secretary of state Rex Tillerson met privately with members of the House Foreign Affairs Committee last month to discuss the Trump administration's foreign policy, including issues related to Russia.
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Wall Street Journal:
China to Insist U.S. Lift Huawei Ban as Part of Trade Truce  —  Xi to present Trump with terms for settling trade fight, including asking the U.S. to lift all punitive tariffs  —  OSAKA, Japan—Chinese President Xi Jinping plans to present President Trump with a set of terms the U.S …
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Gerry Shih / Washington Post:   As U.S.-China relations fray, Beijing directs its fury at one target: Mike Pompeo
Owen Daugherty / The Hill:
Matt Gaetz says he will press charges against woman who threw drink at him  —  Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) said this week that he plans to press charges against the person who threw a drink at him earlier this month as he was leaving a town hall event.  —  Gaetz said during a Fox News appearance Wednesday …
NBC News:
Trump hotel in Washington charged Secret Service $200,000 in president's first year  —  The hotel five blocks from the White House has been used by Trump and his supporters for events that require the agency's protection.  —  During the first year of Donald Trump's presidency …
Leigh Cuen / CoinDesk:
Trump Administration in Talks With Crypto Startup on Israeli-Palestinian Peace Plans  —  The Trump administration has tapped Israeli crypto startup Orbs to develop blockchain solutions for the region's longstanding political conflicts.  —  The disclosure comes this week from a summit convened …
Discussion: Mother Jones and New York Times
Emma Green / The Atlantic:
Pete Buttigieg Takes Aim at Religious Hypocrisy  —  Pete Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, called out Republicans for what he described as moral hypocrisy during the second night of the first Democratic presidential debates, in Miami.  The conversation had turned to the border …
 
 
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Should 2020 presidential candidates try to speak Spanish?
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Roger Stone's lawyers punch back at DOJ over charges of violating gag order
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Michigan Republicans Tune In to Democratic Debate. No Conversions Reported.
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Associated Press:
Cold, cramped, filthy: Migrants describe border centers
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The Marshall Project:
Decoding the Border Law Democrats are Debating
Discussion: Politico
Veritas / Project Veritas:
EXAMPLE CHANT: “From Palestine to Mexico, All the walls have got to go”
Franco Ordoñez / NPR:
Trump Wants To Withdraw Deportation Protections For Families Of Active Troops
Discussion: Slate, ThinkProgress and TheBlaze
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