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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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House Democrats are filing a lawsuit for Trump's tax returns, seeking access to financial records — House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal is filing a lawsuit in federal court Tuesday seeking to compel the Internal Revenue Service to turn over President Trump's tax returns …
Benjamin Siegel / ABC News:
House Democrats sue Trump administration for president's tax returns — House Democrats on Tuesday filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration seeking six years of President Donald Trump's tax returns, escalating their standoff with the Trump administration for the president's financial records …
New York Times:
House Files Lawsuit Seeking Disclosure of Trump Tax Returns
House Files Lawsuit Seeking Disclosure of Trump Tax Returns
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Wall Street Journal:
You Filed Returns. The IRS Compiled the Data. Here's How the New Tax Law Is Working.
Arthur Delaney / HuffPost:
Democrats In No Hurry To Get Trump's Tax Returns
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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Ross K. Baker / USA Today:
Dear Kamala Harris, here's why Joe Biden worked with segregationists in the Senate — Harris criticized Biden for working with segregationist senators. But she would have done the same. It was then the only way to advance civil rights. — CONNECT — After hearing Sen. Kamala Harris …
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Nearly half of Democrats say they're extremely enthusiastic about the 2020 election
Nearly half of Democrats say they're extremely enthusiastic about the 2020 election
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Politico, Fortune, Political Wire and CNN
Tess Bonn / The Hill:
Harris surges past Warren to claim third place in post-debate poll
Harris surges past Warren to claim third place in post-debate poll
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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.
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Eliana Johnson / Politico:
The Fox News general who ‘spooked’ Trump out of attacking Iran — As President Donald Trump wrestled on the evening of June 20 with how to respond to Iran's downing of a U.S. drone, Jack Keane was making his second appearance of the day on the Fox News Channel.
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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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Reason, Daily Kos, Balloon Juice, Washington Post and The Atlantic
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Trump is incapable of accepting that most Americans don't like him
Trump is incapable of accepting that most Americans don't like him
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Politico, Roll Call, POLITICUSUSA and Shareblue Media
Zack Ford / ThinkProgress:
Trump believes the ‘filth’ of homelessness is ‘destroying a whole way of life’
Trump believes the ‘filth’ of homelessness is ‘destroying a whole way of life’
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Washington Post, VICE and The Daily Beast
New York Times:
Trump Says Tanks Will Be on Display in Washington for July 4 — WASHINGTON — President Trump said on Monday that the Pentagon would put military tanks on display on Thursday in Washington as part of his plans to turn the annual Fourth of July celebration in the nation's capital into a salute to the country's military prowess.
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HuffPost:
RNC Giving Out Tickets To Trump's Hijacked Fourth Of July Celebration
RNC Giving Out Tickets To Trump's Hijacked Fourth Of July Celebration
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Jennifer Bendery / HuffPost:
Vets To Give Out Thousands Of USS John McCain Shirts At Trump's July 4 Event
Vets To Give Out Thousands Of USS John McCain Shirts At Trump's July 4 Event
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Wall Street Journal:
Nike Nixes ‘Betsy Ross Flag’ Sneaker After Colin Kaepernick Intervenes — Sneaker maker pulls Independence Day-themed shoe after NFL star raised concerns about its symbolism — Nike Inc. is yanking a U.S.A.-themed sneaker featuring an early American flag after former NFL star-turned …
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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 …
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Arizona Republic, Patterico's Pontifications and Bloomberg
New York Times:
Trump and R.N.C. Raised $105 Million in 2nd Quarter, Outdoing Obama — 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, dwarfing what President Barack Obama raised …
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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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Yusra Murad / Morning Consult:
Majority Backs ‘Medicare for All’ Replacing Private Plans, if Preferred Providers Stay
Majority Backs ‘Medicare for All’ Replacing Private Plans, if Preferred Providers Stay
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The Guardian
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
The Moochers of Middle America
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 …
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Alex Pappas / Fox News:
Pence's plane called back to DC for unspecified emergency
Pence's plane called back to DC for unspecified emergency
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Andy Campbell / HuffPost:
Far-Right Extremists Wanted Blood In Portland's Streets. Once Again, They Got It. — It's not a surprise a conservative writer was bloodied in a street brawl in Portland ― far-right extremists have been freely hosting skirmishes there for years. — A conservative writer was injured …
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Ali Breland / Mother Jones:
How a Dubious Claim of Cement Milkshakes in Portland Became a Right-Wing Meme
How a Dubious Claim of Cement Milkshakes in Portland Became a Right-Wing Meme
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The Root, Althouse, VICE and Portland Mercury
The Daily Beast:
Ivanka's North Korea Photobombs Perplex White House Officials — Multiple officials in Washington were caught off guard by the news that Ivanka Trump had found her way into a conversation about nuclear weapons between her father and Kim Jong Un. — When Donald Trump and his advisors crossed …
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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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James Hohmann / Washington Post:
The Daily 202: Racist Facebook posts point to cultural problems inside the Border Patrol that money alone cannot fix — THE BIG IDEA: Something is rotten in the Border Patrol, but is it a few bad apples or has a fungal disease infected the whole orchard? — That's the nub of a debate between …
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Emily Cochrane / New York Times:
‘It Feels Like a Jail’: Lawmakers Criticize Migrant Holding Sites on Border
‘It Feels Like a Jail’: Lawmakers Criticize Migrant Holding Sites on Border
Anna Giaritelli / Washington Examiner:
AOC screamed at Border Patrol agents in ‘threatening manner’ during tour: Witnesses
AOC screamed at Border Patrol agents in ‘threatening manner’ during tour: Witnesses
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Amanda Arnold / The Cut:
How Much Did Ivanka Embarrass Herself at the G20 Summit? — The rumor that Ivanka Trump somehow thinks she has what it takes to one day be president has become even more believable, as she spent her weekend attempting to rub elbows with world leaders at the annual G20 summit in Osaka.
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Bess Levin / Vanity Fair:
White House Demands G20 “Haters” Leave Ivanka Alone
White House Demands G20 “Haters” Leave Ivanka Alone
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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 …
Daniel Lippman / Politico:
Spies fear a consulting firm helped hobble U.S. intelligence — America's vast spying apparatus was built around a Cold War world of dead drops and double agents. Today, that world has fractured and migrated online, with hackers and rogue terrorist cells, leaving intelligence operatives scrambling to keep up.