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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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Matt Shuham / Talking Points Memo:
Chaos, Fireworks, Political VIPs On Tap For Trump's Last-Minute July 4 Bash — Tanks and politicos are streaming into D.C. for Trump's July 4 celebration. — But with two days to go, it's chaos. — Vendors and officials involved with organizing Trump's “Salute to America” event …
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The Hill, Washington Post, WFMJ-TV and POLITICUSUSA
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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George Washington Memorial Parkway / NPS.gov:
Stationary Map of July 4th Events Areas
Stationary Map of July 4th Events Areas
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Talking Points Memo and Axios
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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Slate, POLITICUSUSA and Associated Press
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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Shareblue Media, Reason, CNN, ABC News, Axios, Defense One and Slate
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.
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Bloomberg, CNN, American Prospect and Vanity Fair
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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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Focus on Rural America
Washington Post:
Biden holds lead in Democratic presidential contest as Harris is praised for debate performance …
Biden holds lead in Democratic presidential contest as Harris is praised for debate performance …
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Politico, The Daily Caller, Talking Points Memo, KTLA, Shareblue Media, CNN and Outside the Beltway
Harry Enten / CNN:
Bernie Sanders 2020 is in big trouble
Bernie Sanders 2020 is in big trouble
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Vox, Bloomberg, Washington Post, New York Times, Politico, TheBlaze, The Hill, Mediaite, National Review and Breitbart
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 and Political Wire
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 …
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.
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Axios
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Barbara Rodriguez / Des Moines Register:
Buttigieg to roll out national service policy during Iowa visit, including ‘Climate Corps’
Buttigieg to roll out national service policy during Iowa visit, including ‘Climate Corps’
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Washington Times
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.'
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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Washington Post:
At border, grim realities of crisis collide with 2020 campaign politics
At border, grim realities of crisis collide with 2020 campaign politics
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Fox News, New York Post, Grabien News and IJR
Zolan Kanno-Youngs / New York Times:
Squalid Conditions at Border Detention Centers, Government Report Finds
Squalid Conditions at Border Detention Centers, Government Report Finds
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Baltimore Sun, American Prospect, CNN, The Daily Beast, BuzzFeed News, UPI, No More Mister Nice Blog, CNBC, Queens Daily Eagle, PRI and ProPublica
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.
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 …
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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Talking Points Memo and Political Wire
Matt Ford / New Republic:
The Kids Aren't Alright — The annual G20 summit is a dry, diplomatic affair that rarely offers viral moments. This year's gathering in Japan was an exception, thanks to Ivanka Trump. The French government posted a clip last weekend that shows British Prime Minister Theresa …
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Frank Bruni / New York Times:
Oh, to Be Ivanka! — So many hot spots, so little time.
Oh, to Be Ivanka! — So many hot spots, so little time.
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Political Flare and Washington Post
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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Michael Calderone / Politico:
MSNBC not planning to air Trump's July Fourth celebration live
MSNBC not planning to air Trump's July Fourth celebration live
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The Hill, Daily Wire, POLITICUSUSA and Political Flare
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 …
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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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.
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The Hill, Conservative News Today, RedState, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion and Hullabaloo
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Michael Wines / New York Times:
Trump Administration Drops Effort to Add Citizenship Question to 2020 Census
Trump Administration Drops Effort to Add Citizenship Question to 2020 Census
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Mother Jones, Townhall and Lawyers, Guns & Money
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
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 …
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Matt Wilstein / The Daily Beast:
Kellyanne Conway Calls AOC a Liar for Claim That Migrants Are ‘Drinking Out of Toilets’
Kellyanne Conway Calls AOC a Liar for Claim That Migrants Are ‘Drinking Out of Toilets’
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New York Post, Fox News, RedState, twitchy.com, Rolling Stone, The Root, Washington Press, The Daily Caller, Slate and Vox
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 …
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Margot Sanger-Katz / New York Times:
Some Democrats Talk About Cosmetic Surgery Insurance. It Doesn't Exist. — ‘Medicare for all’ would essentially do away with private insurance, a fact that some politicians seem reluctant to emphasize. — The “Medicare for all” bill written by Senator Bernie Sanders would cover …
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Trump Is Packing the July 4 Fireworks Because He's Afraid of Getting Booed — President Trump has yearned to combine his political rallies with militaristic displays that visually conflate support for American troops with his political identity. After some false starts …
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CODEPINK and New York Times
Alexandra Chaidez / CBS News:
Ruth Bader Ginsburg praises Brett Kavanaugh and reflects on gender equality — Supreme Court justice and liberal icon Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Tuesday praised newly-confirmed Justice Brett Kavanugh for appointing an entirely female staff. Ginsburg spoke about her own history in the fight …