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11:35 PM ET, July 2, 2019

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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.
Jeremy Stahl / Slate:
Trump's Apparent Decision to Drop the Citizenship Question Is the Biggest Legal Defeat of His Presidency  —  On Thursday, after a 15-month legal battle, officials from the Department of Justice informed opposing counsel in the census case that the Trump administration would be printing …
Discussion: Law & Crime and CNN
Washington Post:   2020 Census will not include citizenship question, Justice Department confirms
Associated Press:   2020 Census to be printed without citizenship question
Ted Hesson / Politico:
Census to leave citizenship question off 2020 questionnaire
Discussion: BuzzFeed News and ThinkProgress
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 …
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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 …
Michael Calderone / Politico:
MSNBC not planning to air Trump's July Fourth celebration live  —  President Donald Trump's takeover of the Fourth of July celebration at the National Mall won't completely take over the cable airwaves.  —  MSNBC, for one, doesn't plan to carry his “Salute to America” live …
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA and 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
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Washington Post:
At border, grim realities of crisis collide with 2020 campaign politics  —  Homeland Security officials thought they finally were getting a handle on the crisis at the Mexican border, after warning for months that agents and holding cells were beyond “the breaking point.”
Discussion: New York Post, IJR and The Federalist
Zolan Kanno-Youngs / New York Times:   Government Watchdog Finds Squalid Conditions in Border Centers
Joel Rose / NPR:   DHS Inspector General Finds ‘Dangerous Overcrowding’ in Border Patrol Facilities
Adolfo Flores / BuzzFeed News:
Nurses Say Border Patrol Is Delaying Treatment To Sick Immigrant Kids, With Dire Consequences
Discussion: Splinter and Shareblue Media
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
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
All of the various ways this new national poll is particularly bad for Joe Biden
Discussion: Breitbart, Politico and TheBlaze
Hunter Walker / Yahoo News:
The U.S. is ‘headed to fascism,’ says Ocasio-Cortez after tour of detention facilities at southern border  —  EL PASO, Texas — Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez called the conditions at U.S.  —  migrant detention facilities “horrifying” in an interview Monday evening and doubled down on her comparisons …
Discussion: NBC News, Breitbart and America's Voice
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Caleb Parke / Fox News:
Hispanic pastors tour border facility lambasted by AOC and say they are ‘shocked by misinformation’
Donald Woutat / Los Angeles Times:
Lee Iacocca, father of the Ford Mustang who later rescued Chrysler, dies at 94  —  Lee A. Iacocca, an ambitious immigrant's son and salesman extraordinaire whose blunt and swaggering persona dominated the automobile industry like nobody since Henry Ford, died Tuesday.  He was 94.
New York Times:
Teenager Accused of Rape Deserves Leniency Because He's From a ‘Good Family,’ Judge Says  —  The family court judge also said the victim should have been told that pressing charges would destroy the accused's life.  —  The 16-year-old girl was visibly intoxicated, her speech slurred …
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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Paul Krugman / New York Times:   The Moochers of Middle America
Brian Beutler / Crooked Media:
An Unnecessary Primary Panic?
Discussion: Hullabaloo
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
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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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.
Andy Ngo / Wall Street Journal:
A Leftist Mob Attacked Me in Portland  —  I have been targeted by Antifa and its allies for my critical reporting of their violent extremism.  —  Portland, Ore.  —  'No hate!  No fear!" chanted the left-wing crowd as they marched downtown Saturday.  I walked to the front of the line …
Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Mike Pence Cancels a Trip to New Hampshire, and a Mystery Ensues  —  Within the Trump administration, Vice President Mike Pence is known as a port of calm and stability amid the churn of chaos.  So on Tuesday, when he abruptly abandoned a planned trip to New Hampshire after he had already boarded Air Force …
Discussion: Hot Air, CNN and BostonGlobe.com
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Maegan Vazquez / CNN:
Pence cancels New Hampshire event to return to White House
Discussion: Daily Kos and Mediaite
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.
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.
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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Bernard Condon / Associated Press:
Trump Facebook ads use models to portray actual supporters  —  NEW YORK (AP) — A series of Facebook video ads for President Donald Trump's re-election campaign shows what appears to be a young woman strolling on a beach in Florida, a Hispanic man on a city street in Texas and a bearded hipster …
John Solomon / The Hill:
Russian oligarch's story could spell trouble for Team Mueller  —  Sometimes it is the quiet, elusive ones who come back to haunt you.  And for ex-special prosecutor Robert Mueller, one of those might be a Russian billionaire named Oleg Deripaska.  —  The oligarch who once controlled Russia's …
CNN:
CNN Poll: Three-quarters of Americans say there's a crisis at the border  —  Ocasio-Cortez visits border facility: ‘I was not safe’  —  WASHINGTON (CNN)Nearly three-quarters of Americans say the situation at the southern border with Mexico is a crisis (74%), up from less than half who felt …
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Kartikay Mehrotra / Bloomberg:
U.S. Blocked on Plan to Deny Bail to Jailed Asylum Seekers
Discussion: Splinter
BostonGlobe.com:
Protesters shut down traffic in Boston over detention centers
Shira Feder / The Daily Beast:
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