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5:40 PM ET, July 2, 2019

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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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New York Times:
House Files Lawsuit Seeking Disclosure of Trump Tax Returns  —  WASHINGTON — The House filed a lawsuit on Tuesday to force the Treasury Department to turn over President Trump's tax returns, escalating a fight with an administration that has repeatedly dismissed as illegitimate the Democrats' attempt …
Arthur Delaney / HuffPost:
Democrats In No Hurry To Get Trump's Tax Returns
Wall Street Journal:   You Filed Returns. The IRS Compiled the Data. Here's How the New Tax Law Is Working.
Washington Post:   House Democrats are filing a lawsuit for Trump's tax returns, seeking access to financial records
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 …
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Stef W. Kight / Axios:   DHS watchdog flags severe overcrowding at border facilities
Adolfo Flores / BuzzFeed News:
Nurses Say Border Patrol Is Delaying Treatment To Sick Immigrant Kids, With Dire Consequences
Discussion: Shareblue Media
Quinn Owen / ABC News:   Border Patrol packed migrants in facilities, held kids beyond legal limit: Watchdog
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.
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  —  A spokesperson for the vice president originally said Air Force 2 was turned around due to an “emergency,” but the organizers of the event are now characterizing it as a “diversion”  —  Vice President Mike Pence's New Hampshire event …
Discussion: Daily Wire
Alex Pappas / Fox News:
Pence's plane called back to DC for unspecified emergency
Discussion: Washington Post
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 …
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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.
Ross K. Baker / USA Today:
Dear Kamala Harris, here's why Joe Biden worked with segregationists in the Senate
Discussion: Washington Post
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:
White House gives tickets to Trump's July Fourth extravaganza to GOP donors  —  The White House is distributing tickets for President Trump's July Fourth speech on the Mall to Republican donors and political appointees, prompting Democratic lawmakers to question whether the administration's …
Discussion: CNN, Slate, The Daily Caller and Politico
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: Hullabaloo
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’
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
Jordan Fabian / The Hill:   Trump looking ‘very strongly’ at delaying census
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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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 …
Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
The Welcome Humiliation of John Bolton  —  A warmonger is the latest to lose his dignity to Donald Trump.  —  Say this for Donald Trump.  He may be transforming American politics into a kleptocratic fascist reality show and turning our once-great country into a global laughingstock …
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Peter Baker / New York Times:
Trump in Asia: 'We're the Hottest Show in Town'
Discussion: New York Magazine
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.
Discussion: Political Wire
Charles Sykes / The Bulwark:
Whose Flag Is It Anyway?  —  It's ours.  All of ours.  —  Mark this down as Peak Corporate Performative Wokeness.  The Wall Street Journal reports: … The backlash was quick and harsh.  Arizona Governor Doug Ducey fired off a Twitter thread, announcing that he has …
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.
Heather Heyer / Mad Dog PAC:
Fields Sentenced to Life in Prison - Charlottesville.  VA  —  Fields sentenced to Life...  “If you're not outraged, then you're not paying attention”  —  It is hard to believe that Heather Heyer was murdered by a White Nationalist nearly two years ago.
Joseph Cox / VICE:
China Is Forcing Tourists to Install Text-Stealing Malware at its Border  —  The malware downloads a tourist's text messages, calendar entries, and phone logs, as well as scans the device for over 70,000 different files.  —  Foreigners crossing certain Chinese borders into the Xinjiang region …
 
 
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Washington Post:
Trump advisers pursue Democratic drug-price ideas as campaign looms
Discussion: Raw Story
CBS Miami:
Rep. Frederica Wilson Leads Congressional Delegation To Inspect Homestead Migrant Facility
Discussion: Daily Wire
David French / National Review:
Unmask Antifa and Watch the Cowards Retreat
David Brooks / New York Times:
Moderates Have the Better Story
Discussion: American Prospect
Hal Brands / Bloomberg:
Progressives Don't Know How to End the ‘Forever War’
Michelle Cottle / New York Times:
Hey, Democrats, What About the Senate?
 Earlier Items: 
Carrie Cordero / Washington Post:
Why Ivanka Trump didn't belong anywhere near the DMZ or the G-20 summit
Discussion: New York Times and Vanity Fair
John Koblin / New York Times:
Netflix Has a Talk Show Problem
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Gabe Bullard / DCist:
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Nick Givas / Fox News:
‘Morning Joe’ guest hits Trump for planning ‘obscene’ Fourth of July military parade
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
The Moochers of Middle America
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
Dino Grandoni / Washington Post:
The Energy 202: DNC will consider holding a climate debate amid protests
Discussion: New York Times and VICE
 

 
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Brian Stelter / CNN:
Brendan Carr promises to “enforce” broadcast media's “public interest obligation” as FCC chair and has recently singled out NewsGuard for “censorship”

New York Times:
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