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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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Zolan Kanno-Youngs / New York Times:
Government Watchdog Finds Squalid Conditions in Border Centers  —  WASHINGTON — Overcrowded, squalid conditions are more widespread at migrant centers along the southern border than initially revealed, the Department of Homeland Security's independent watchdog said Tuesday.
Joel Rose / NPR:   DHS Inspector General Finds ‘Dangerous Overcrowding’ In Border Patrol Facilities
Washington Post:
At border, grim realities of crisis collide with 2020 campaign politics
Discussion: New York Post, IJR and The Federalist
Geneva Sands / CNN:   Watchdog finds extreme overcrowding in Border Patrol facilities in unannounced inspections
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.
Discussion: Hullabaloo, Vox, The Intercept, KTLA and RedState
Jeremy Stahl / Slate:
Trump's Apparent Decision to Drop the Citizenship Question Is the Biggest Legal Defeat of His Presidency
Discussion: Law & Crime
Washington Post:   2020 Census will not include citizenship question, Justice Department confirms
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
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 …
Discussion: Fox News
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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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
All of the various ways this new national poll is particularly bad for Joe Biden
Discussion: Politico, Breitbart and Mediaite
Susan Page / USA Today:
Poll: Kamala Harris surges in Iowa as Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders suffer after debate
Matt Wilstein / The Daily Beast:
Kellyanne Conway Calls AOC a Liar for Claim That Migrants Are ‘Drinking Out of Toilets’  —  The White House counselor told ‘Fox & Friends’ that ‘everybody who has control over that facility’ has ‘not heard of this.’  —  Kellyanne Conway deftly pivoted from defending President Donald Trump's photo-op …
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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.
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Charlotte W. Craig / Detroit Free Press:
Lee Iacocca dies: Father of Mustang, rescuer of Chrysler was 94
Discussion: Detroit News
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 …
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 …
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Maegan Vazquez / CNN:
Pence cancels New Hampshire event to return to White House
Discussion: Daily Kos and Mediaite
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 …
Joseph Wulfsohn / Fox News:
Mitch McConnell tells Nike he'll buy first order of ‘Betsy Ross’ sneakers if they released after Kaepernick controversy  —  Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-KY, expressed his support for the Betsy Ross flag shoes that Nike pulled from the shelves, saying he'd “make the first order” if they were on sale again.
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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 …
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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 …
Discussion: The Last Refuge
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.
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.
BostonGlobe.com:
Protesters shut down traffic in Boston over detention centers  —  More than 1,000 Jewish activists and others shut down traffic in the heart of the city during rush hour Tuesday evening, chanting, singing, and drumming to protest immigrant detention in the city and across the country.
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
The Moochers of Middle America  —  The Democrats aren't radical, but Republicans are.  —  Last week's debates clearly weakened Joe Biden and increased the odds that a more definitively progressive candidate — probably Kamala Harris or Elizabeth Warren — will win the nomination.
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John Hinderaker / Power Line:
Corporate America Tilts Left
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George Washington Memorial Parkway / NPS.gov:
Stationary Map of July 4th Events Areas
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Tarbell:
Journalists, Pundits And Retired Politicians Put On A Show For Lobbyists
Axios:
Scoop: Trump's negotiator signals flexibility in North Korea talks
Kartikay Mehrotra / Bloomberg:
U.S. Blocked on Plan to Deny Bail to Jailed Asylum Seekers
Discussion: Splinter
Shira Feder / The Daily Beast:
Broward County Sheriff's Office Loses Law-Enforcement Accreditation
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Carrie Cordero / Washington Post:
Why Ivanka Trump didn't belong anywhere near the DMZ or the G-20 summit
Discussion: New York Times
John Koblin / New York Times:
Netflix Has a Talk Show Problem
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Gabe Bullard / DCist:
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Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
Hickenlooper campaign in shambles
Sue Bird / The Players' Tribune:
So the President F*cking Hates My Girlfriend
 

 
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Brian Stelter / CNN:
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New York Times:
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