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Michael Wines / New York Times:
Trump Administration Drops Effort to Add Citizenship Question to 2020 Census  —  The Trump administration said Tuesday that it would be printing forms for the 2020 census without a question asking about citizenship, abandoning its quest to add the query after being blocked last week by the Supreme Court.
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Sam Levine / HuffPost:
Trump Administration Drops Bid To Put Citizenship Question On 2020 Census  —  The decision comes days after the Supreme Court temporarily blocked the administration from adding the question.  —  There will not be a question asking about citizenship on the 2020 census, the Trump administration said Tuesday.
Michael Wines / New York Times:
2020 Census Won't Have Citizenship Question as Trump Administration Drops Effort  —  WASHINGTON — The Trump administration said Tuesday that it had ordered the Census Bureau to start printing forms for the 2020 census without a question asking about citizenship, abandoning its quest to add …
Associated Press:   2020 Census to be printed without citizenship question
Jordan Fabian / The Hill:   Trump looking ‘very strongly’ at delaying census
Lauren Egan / NBC News:
Tanks arrive in D.C. for Trump's Fourth of July celebration  —  NBC News spotted the tanks in the southeast section of the city on Tuesday, just days before the event.  —  WASHINGTON — Tanks for President Donald Trump's “Salute to America” Fourth of July celebration were seen arriving …
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Washington Post:
Park Service diverts $2.5 million in fees for Trump's July Fourth extravaganza  —  The National Park Service is diverting nearly $2.5 million in entrance and recreation fees primarily intended to improve parks across the country to cover costs associated with President Trump's Independence …
Michael Calderone / Politico:
MSNBC not planning to air Trump's July Fourth celebration live
Discussion: Political Flare
Hamed Aleaziz / BuzzFeed News:
These Pictures Reveal How Immigrants Are Crammed Into Small Spaces At Border Patrol Facilities  —  The Department of Homeland Security's Office of Inspector General on Tuesday released its final report on overcrowding at several border facilities in the Rio Grande Valley …
Discussion: Mother Jones and Denver Post
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Adolfo Flores / BuzzFeed News:
Nurses Say Border Patrol Is Delaying Treatment To Sick Immigrant Kids, With Dire Consequences
Discussion: Splinter and Shareblue Media
Stef W. Kight / Axios:   DHS watchdog flags severe overcrowding at border facilities
Quinn Owen / ABC News:   Border Patrol packed migrants in facilities, held kids beyond legal limit: Watchdog
Harry Enten / CNN:
Bernie Sanders 2020 is in big trouble  —  (CNN)Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders' presidential campaign is in trouble.  —  While much of the attention in post-debate polling has focused on the drop of former Vice President Joe Biden, Sanders' polling looks far worse.
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Susan Page / USA Today:
Poll: Kamala Harris surges in Iowa as Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders suffer after debate  —  In night two of the Democratic debate, candidates bore down into issues, and each other.  Kamala Harris went after Joe Biden for his past on busing.  —  CONNECT  —  The first Democratic debate …
Ross K. Baker / USA Today:
Dear Kamala Harris, here's why Joe Biden worked with segregationists in the Senate
Discussion: Washington Post
Jeff Stein / Washington Post:
House Democrats sue Trump administration over president's tax returns  —  House Democrats filed a lawsuit Tuesday against the Trump administration seeking access to President Trump's tax returns.  —  Rep. Richard E. Neal (D-Mass.), chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee …
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Arthur Delaney / HuffPost:
Democrats In No Hurry To Get Trump's Tax Returns
Maegan Vazquez / CNN:
Pence cancels New Hampshire event to return to White House  —  Washington (CNN)Vice President Mike Pence canceled a previously scheduled event in New Hampshire on Tuesday to return to the White House, White House officials told CNN, though the reason for scrapping the event was not immediately clear.
Discussion: Daily Kos and Mediaite
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NBC10 Boston:
Mike Pence Called Back to White House, NH Visit Canceled
Discussion: Washington Press and Daily Wire
Alex Pappas / Fox News:
Pence's plane called back to DC for unspecified emergency
Sue Bird / The Players' Tribune:
So the President F*cking Hates My Girlfriend  —  Hi!!  Sue here.  This is my World Cup Semifinals preview.  The title was supposed to be “So the President F*cking Hates My Girlfriend (and 10 Other Things I Want You to Know Before the World Cup Semifinals)” but we ran out of space.  My bad.
Washington Post:
Trump paints a dark picture of homelessness in cities: ‘We may intercede’  —  President Trump said Monday that he wanted to address the crisis of people on the streets, telling Fox News in an interview that his administration “may intercede” to clean up cities such as Washington, San Francisco and Los Angeles.
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Eliana Johnson / Politico:
The Fox News general who ‘spooked’ Trump out of attacking Iran
Discussion: Mediaite
Zack Ford / ThinkProgress:
Trump believes the ‘filth’ of homelessness is ‘destroying a whole way of life’
Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
Democrats are learning the wrong lesson from Donald Trump  —  He ran as a moderate — and it worked.  —  Many progressives have what they believe to be a knock-down answer to nervous Nellies who fret that talking about desegregation busing, decriminalizing illegal entry into the United States …
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Brian Beutler / Crooked Media:
An Unnecessary Primary Panic?
Discussion: Washington Post and Hullabaloo
Russ Read / Washington Examiner:
Jury finds Navy SEAL Eddie Gallagher not guilty of war crimes  —  The jury assigned to the case of accused Special Warfare Chief Edward Gallagher has found the decorated Navy SEAL not guilty of murder and attempted murder after a whirlwind trial that included bombshell revelations and twists.
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Megan Brenan / Gallup:
American Pride Hits New Low; Few Proud of Political System  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — As Americans prepare to celebrate the Fourth of July holiday, their pride in the U.S. has hit its lowest point since Gallup's first measurement in 2001.  While 70% of U.S. adults overall say they are proud to be Americans …
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Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
Hickenlooper campaign in shambles  —  Former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper's senior team urged him last month to withdraw from the presidential race gracefully and run for Colorado's Senate seat or pursue other opportunities, a source familiar with the situation told POLITICO.
New York Times:
Trump Raises $105 Million, Much of It in Small Donations  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump's re-election campaign and the Republican National Committee on Tuesday said they had raised $105 million in the second quarter of this year, outraising President Barack Obama in the equivalent period during …
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Conrad Duncan / The Independent:
June was hottest month ever recorded on Earth, European satellite agency announces  —  Experts say climate change contributed to record-breaking temperatures across Europe  —  June was the hottest month ever recorded on Earth, the EU's satellite agency has announced.
Yvonne Wingett Sanchez / Arizona Republic:
Mark Kelly raised $4.2 million during his second quarter, exceeding first quarter haul  —  Democrat Mark Kelly, the retired astronaut who is hoping to unseat Republican Sen. Martha McSally in Arizona's 2020 Senate race, raised $4.2 million during April, May and June, exceeding his first-quarter fundraising.
Discussion: Political Wire
Will Sommer / The Daily Beast:
Proud Boys and Allies to Rally in D.C. to Capitalize on ‘Trumpstravaganza’  —  ‘We are expecting a lot of Trump supporters, and especially battle-ready Trump supporters,’ All Out D.C. organizer Jesse Sparks said.  —  Washington, D.C.'s Fourth of July week will go from a sweaty fete of fireworks …
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Shira Feder / The Daily Beast:
Broward County Sheriff's Office Loses Law-Enforcement Accreditation  —  The Broward County Sheriff's Office, the largest sheriff's office in Florida, will have its law enforcement accreditation revoked after a unanimous vote by a state panel.  After the BSO's mishandling of the 2018 Parkland shooting …
Caleb Parke / Fox News:
Hispanic pastors tour border facility lambasted by AOC and say they are ‘shocked by misinformation’  —  Rev. Samuel Rodriguez: President Trump may surprise the world and succeed in passing immigration reform  —  Rev. Samuel Rodriguez was “full of indignation” when he saw the reports and heard …
 
 
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Associated Press:
Charlottesville scraps Jefferson's birthday as holiday
Discussion: RedState
John Solomon / The Hill:
Russian oligarch's story could spell trouble for Team Mueller
John Parkinson / ABC News:
Lawmakers demand change after scrutinizing conditions at immigrant detention centers
Washington Post:
Trump fixates on drug prices as campaign looms
Discussion: Raw Story
CBS Miami:
Rep. Frederica Wilson Leads Congressional Delegation During Homestead Migrant Facility Inspection
Discussion: Daily Wire
David French / National Review:
Unmask Antifa and Watch the Cowards Retreat
Heather Heyer / Mad Dog PAC:
Fields Sentenced to Life in Prison - Charlottesville. VA
Hal Brands / Bloomberg:
Progressives Don't Know How to End the ‘Forever War’
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Carrie Cordero / Washington Post:
Why Ivanka Trump didn't belong anywhere near the DMZ or the G-20 summit
Discussion: New York Times
John Koblin / New York Times:
Netflix Has a Talk Show Problem
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
The Moochers of Middle America
Charles Sykes / The Bulwark:
Whose Flag Is It Anyway?
Discussion: CNN, Arizona Republic and Fox News
Greg P. / twitchy.com:
The Hill keeps using photos from 2014 (who was president then?) to hit Trump on migrant detentions
Discussion: The Daily Caller
 

 
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