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Maggie More / NBC4 Washington:
RNC Receives VIP Tickets to Trump's Fourth of July Celebration; DNC Does Not — Tanks for July 4th Celebration Come in on Trains — An official with the Democratic National Convention told NBC News the organization has not received tickets to the VIP section for President Donald Trump's Fourth …
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No More Mister Nice Blog, Media Matters for America, NBC News, Daily Wire, Washington Post, Daily Kos and Mediaite
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Jonathan Bernstein / Bloomberg:
How Is Trump's Parade Offensive? Let Me Count the Ways
How Is Trump's Parade Offensive? Let Me Count the Ways
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Washington Post and Slate
Matt Shuham / Talking Points Memo:
Chaos, Fireworks, Political VIPs On Tap For Trump's Last-Minute July 4 Bash
Chaos, Fireworks, Political VIPs On Tap For Trump's Last-Minute July 4 Bash
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The Hill, Fox News, WFMJ-TV and POLITICUSUSA
Wesley Morgan / Politico:
Trump's Fourth of July extravaganza troubles former military leaders
Trump's Fourth of July extravaganza troubles former military leaders
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Washington Post, Shareblue Media, Reason, CNN, ABC News, NPR, Axios, Slate and Defense One
Tamara Keith / NPR:
Patriotism To Partisanship: Trump Inserts Himself Into July 4th Celebrations
Patriotism To Partisanship: Trump Inserts Himself Into July 4th Celebrations
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The Atlantic and USA Today
Prynard / Iowa Starting Line:
New Iowa Poll: Warren Leads, Harris And Biden Close Behind, Sanders Falls To 4th — Home- 2019- July- 3- New Iowa Poll: Warren Leads, Harris And Biden Close Behind, Sanders Falls To 4th — We have a shakeup in Iowa. — Elizabeth Warren leads the pack in the Iowa Caucus …
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Gary Langer / ABC News:
Harris scores in debate performance while electability keeps Biden in front
Harris scores in debate performance while electability keeps Biden in front
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Washington Post
Focus on Rural America:
July 2019 Poll Results
July 2019 Poll Results
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The Hill, Political Wire and Washington Times
Lisa Lerer / New York Times:
It's a Question No One Says They Want to Ask. But the Women Running for President Keep Hearing It. — GREENVILLE, S.C. — Some people whisper it, some apologize for it, and some are very careful to mention their neighbors — their neighbors would be the ones to ask.
Lloyd Grove / The Daily Beast:
Meghan McCain, Feeling Like an ‘Exhausted, Defeated... Caged Animal,’ May Exit ‘The View’ — Sources close to McCain tell The Daily Beast she feels like ‘a caged animal’ on the ABC talk show. 'It's getting to the point where it's not worth the emotional toll every week.'
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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 …
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The Guardian, New York Post, Law & Crime, Boing Boing, Fox News and Slate
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
NRA meltdown has Trump campaign sweating — The National Rifle Association aired an avalanche of TV ads and pushed its 5 million-plus members to the polls for Donald Trump in 2016, propelling him in the Rust Belt states that delivered him the presidency. — Now, the gun rights group …
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Tom Nichols / The Atlantic:
Trump Wants Tanks on the National Mall. What Could Go Wrong? — Hello, comrades! Happy Fourth of July, or should I say, Happy 45th President of July! How fortunate we are to see our Tremendous Nation's military hardware as we celebrate the 240th-ish anniversary of something or the other …
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Washington Post, Politico and ThinkProgress
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Dan Lamothe / Washington Post:
Pentagon grapples with how to move tanks from a Washington rail yard to the National Mall
Pentagon grapples with how to move tanks from a Washington rail yard to the National Mall
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Roll Call, Slate, New York Post, POLITICUSUSA and Patterico's Pontifications
Gillian Brockell / Washington Post:
The tanks for Trump's July Fourth ‘Salute to America’ have rolled through Washington before
The tanks for Trump's July Fourth ‘Salute to America’ have rolled through Washington before
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Politico, National Review, CNN and Shareblue Media
Daniel Strauss / Politico:
Buttigieg introduces national service plan — SIOUX CITY, Iowa — Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg will unveil his proposal to dramatically expand national service programs during a town hall here on Wednesday. — The plan, which Buttigieg's campaign is calling …
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Washington Post, Reuters, One America News Network and Shakesville
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Pete For America:
A New Call to Service — Policy Proposal — Pete often says that his time as a Navy Lieutenant in Afghanistan was a life-changing experience, in large part because he got to serve alongside people from every conceivable background. — “In many ways, we had nothing in common except the fact that we were all American.
EJ Dickson / Rolling Stone:
Why Is Everyone So Upset About the Betsy Ross Flag? — There's a pretty long history of the flag being used by extremist right-wing movements — and a recent move by Nike has brought that into the spotlight — Conservatives absolutely love to hate Colin Kapernick, and a recent controversy …
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The Ring of Fire Network, VICE, Daily Wire and Wall Street Journal
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David Rutz / Washington Free Beacon:
MSNBC Guest Compares Betsy Ross Flag to Swastika, Burning Cross
Eric Levitz / New York Magazine:
Colin Kaepernick Just Showed How We Can End Corporate Welfare
Colin Kaepernick Just Showed How We Can End Corporate Welfare
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Fox News, Breitbart and Daily Wire
Ursula Perano / Axios:
Joe Biden's campaign says it raised $21.5 million in Q2 — Former Vice President Joe Biden's 2020 campaign said Wednesday that it raised $21.5 million during the second quarter of 2019 from over 256,000 donors. — The big picture: Biden's haul falls solidly in the middle of the Democratic heavy-hitters …
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Thomas Kaplan / New York Times:
Joe Biden Raises $21.5 Million for 2020 Presidential Bid
Joe Biden Raises $21.5 Million for 2020 Presidential Bid
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Political Wire
Zach Montellaro / Politico:
Bennet raised $2.8 million to start presidential campaign
Bennet raised $2.8 million to start presidential campaign
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Washington Post, Axios, The Colorado Independent, PJ Media Home, Vanity Fair and The Colorado Sun
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 …
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Shareblue Media, Talking Points Memo, Rolling Stone, Political Wire, Gizmodo and Mediaite
The Hill:
Trump appears to contradict officials, says census citizenship question not abandoned — President Trump stirred confusion on Wednesday by saying that reports his administration is halting its effort to include a citizenship question in the 2020 census are “FAKE,” even though multiple departments …
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Washington Post, Politico, RedState, Townhall, Mother Jones, Mediaite and Political Wire
Meredith Lerner / CREW:
Nauert Reported Earning Fox Salary While at State Department — Heather Nauert, a former State Department spokesperson and President Trump's original pick to replace Nikki Haley as the United States Representative to the United Nations, reported in her termination financial disclosure report …
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Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
Whatever happened to Breitbart? The insurgent star of the right is in a long, slow fade — In January 2017, Breitbart.com was flying high. Donald Trump, the candidate it had backed during the 2016 campaign, was sworn in as president. Its former executive chairman, Stephen K. Bannon …
Jonathan O'Connell / Washington Post:
Justice Department watchdog to investigate decision to cancel FBI headquarters plan — The Justice Department's inspector general will investigate the FBI's role in dropping plans a decade in the making to move its headquarters to the Washington suburbs, he told Congress in a letter Tuesday.
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Politico
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Democratic Presidential Candidates Need to Stop Taking Unpopular Stances — The Democratic presidential primary has worked to the party's disadvantage by maneuvering its candidates into unpopular positions. This is not quite a crisis, but it is a serious danger that, if not redressed, could blow up in the party's face.
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Jeremy Barr / Hollywood Reporter:
Fox News Streaming Service Reeling After Misconduct Claim Goes Public — The network said it has “resolved” a claim that host Britt McHenry leveled against co-host Tyrus. She has hired an employment lawyer. — Late last year, Fox News launched its ambitious foray into the future of digital media …
Jim Sciutto / CNN:
Military chiefs have concerns about politicization of Trump's July 4th event — (CNN)Military chiefs have concerns about the politicization of President Donald Trump's July 4 event, a source with direct knowledge told CNN. — In the planning for the event, they had reservations …
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Mediaite
Adam Serwer / The Atlantic:
A Crime by Any Name — The horrors detailed in the press were hard to believe. — Detainees described overcrowding so severe that “it was difficult to move in any direction without jostling and being jostled.” The water provided them was foul, “of a dark color, and an ordinary glass would collect a thick sediment.”
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Lydia Saad / Gallup:
Trump Approval Remains in Low 40s — WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Donald Trump's job approval rating, which has been fluctuating between 40% and 43% since early May, was 41% in the second half of June, and includes 29% who strongly approve. Fifty-four percent of Americans disapprove …
Brianna Hamblin / WHSV-TV:
Charlottesville City Council votes to remove Thomas Jefferson holiday — CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (CBS19 NEWS) — Charlottesville City Council voted to officially remove Thomas Jefferson's birthday, April 13, as a holiday. — At a city council meeting on Monday evening, councilors voted to to remove the day as a city holiday.
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Zolan Kanno-Youngs / New York Times:
Federal Judge Blocks Barr's Attempt to Deny Asylum Seekers Bail — WASHINGTON — A federal judge in Seattle on Tuesday blocked an order by Attorney General William P. Barr that would have kept thousands of migrants detained indefinitely while waiting for their asylum cases to be decided.
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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.
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Washington Post and The Daily Caller
Jon Murray / Denver Post:
New poll has good news for Gov. Jared Polis but says Sen. Cory Gardner faces an uphill climb in 2020 — Republican senator's favorability lags Trump's among registered Republicans — A new poll says more than half of Colorado voters are happy with how things are going under new Gov. Jared Polis …
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