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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Trump just admitted something he probably shouldn't have about the census citizenship question — President Trump just explained why he thinks we need a citizenship question on the census. But in doing so, he seems to have said the quiet part out loud — and conceivably could have undercut the Justice Department's legal case.
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Michael Wines / New York Times:
Trump Administration Pressing Ahead in Efforts to Add Citizenship Question to Census — Justice Department lawyers told a federal judge on Friday that they would press ahead in their efforts to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census, but indicated they did not know yet what kind of rationale they would put forward.
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New York Times:
Trump Considering an Executive Order to Allow Citizenship Question on Census — President Trump on Friday said he is “thinking of” issuing an executive order to allow for a citizenship question on the 2020 census, as his administration faced a midafternoon court deadline to say how it planned to move forward.
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The Atlantic, The Guardian, Daily Kos, Pacific Standard, Splinter and Mediaite
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Trump rages over his latest failure to corrupt our democracy — Earlier this week, President Trump abruptly declared that his administration will keep up its efforts to rig the 2020 Census — which appears driven by naked partisan purposes — even after Justice Department lawyers waved the white flag.
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Daily Kos, Vox and American Greatness
Associated Press:
Trump weighs executive order to add census citizenship query — President Donald Trump said Friday he is “very seriously” considering an executive order to try to force the inclusion of a citizenship question as part of the 2020 Census. — Speaking to reporters as he departed the White House …
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Townhall, Axios and Washington Post
Mike Scarcella / National Law Journal:
Trump Hasn't Surrendered on Citizenship Question, DOJ Tells Maryland Judge
Trump Hasn't Surrendered on Citizenship Question, DOJ Tells Maryland Judge
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Slate, Mother Jones, Law & Crime and Common Dreams
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
DOJ says it will continue to explore path for citizenship question as Trump considers executive order
DOJ says it will continue to explore path for citizenship question as Trump considers executive order
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PJ Media Home and Fox Business
Prynard / Iowa Starting Line:
Joe Biden Interview: “Talk About The Future” In Dem Primary — Former Vice President Joe Biden closed out his busy 4th of July day in Iowa with a trip to a baseball stadium, greeting newly-naturalized U.S. citizens and taking in the I-Cubs game with Iowa activists.
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Politico, The Daily Caller, Washington Times, Political Wire, Mediaite, CNN and New York Post
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Dan Merica / CNN:
CNN Exclusive: Joe Biden says he wasn't prepared for Kamala Harris to confront him the way she did — Des Moines, Iowa (CNN)Former Vice President Joe Biden said in an exclusive interview with CNN airing Friday that he wasn't prepared for California Sen. Kamala Harris to confront him on issues …
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Dylan Stableford / Yahoo News:
Trump blames rain and teleprompter for his July 4 speech gaffe — President Trump on Friday blamed inclement weather and a malfunctioning teleprompter for flubbing part of his Independence Day speech. During the rain-soaked “Salute to America” event, Trump
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David Jackson / USA Today:
Trump faults rain, teleprompter for flub about ‘airports’ during American Revolution
Trump faults rain, teleprompter for flub about ‘airports’ during American Revolution
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Shero and a Scholar:
Breakdown of Trump's 4th of July Failures — A lot of people decided to ignore Trump's planned “festivities” yesterday in protest of him commandeering the holiday for his own campaign and ego purposes. I was planning on ignoring everything, too, but so many ridiculous and concerning things happened …
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Political Flare and Washington Press
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Eugene Robinson / Washington Post:
Trump tried to make Independence Day all about him. He ended up looking small.
Trump tried to make Independence Day all about him. He ended up looking small.
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Financial Times, Daily Kos, Popular Mechanics, Political Flare and Breitbart
Thomas Wright / The Atlantic:
Trump Couldn't Ignore the Contradictions of His Foreign Policy Any Longer — Vyacheslav Molotov served in senior positions in the Soviet Union for more than a quarter century, including 10 years as Stalin's foreign minister. He was dismissed in 1949 when he fell out of favor with Stalin …
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The American Conservative
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HuffPost:
Trump Begins Long Golf Weekend, Bringing Taxpayers' Tab To $108 Million — The candidate who used to hammer Barack Obama for golfing too much is on track to play two and a half times as much as his predecessor and at three times the cost to taxpayers. — President Donald Trump began a three …
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Ryan Grim / Washington Post:
Haunted by the Reagan era — Past defeats still scare older Democratic leaders — but not the younger generation — Newly elected Democrats in the House of Representatives spent June 27 with the sinking feeling that it was happening again: Their party was going to cave to President Trump …
Marc A. Thiessen / Washington Post:
Trump made his critics look small during his ‘Salute to America’ — The “Resistance” warned us that if we elected an authoritarian such as Donald Trump, eventually there would be tanks in the streets of our nation's capital. Well, on Thursday, their predictions finally came true.
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The New Neo, Common Dreams and PJ Media Home
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Stephen Collinson / CNN:
Trump calls bluff of critics in July 4th speech
Trump calls bluff of critics in July 4th speech
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USA Today, No More Mister Nice Blog, On Point, FOX59, Power Line, KTLA and 6abc
Kelsey Piper / Vox:
Mississippi is forbidding grocery stores from calling veggie burgers “veggie burgers” — Proponents of the law say it's necessary to avoid confusing consumers. That...doesn't sound right. — It's been a good few months for the plant-based meat movement — so good that opponents of the fledgling industry are starting to mobilize.
Peter Wehner / The Atlantic:
The Deepening Crisis in Evangelical Christianity — Last week, Ralph Reed, the Faith and Freedom Coalition's founder and chairman, told the group, “There has never been anyone who has defended us and who has fought for us, who we have loved more than Donald J. Trump. No one!”
Cameron LeBlanc / Fatherly:
Border Pediatrician Says “Severe Trauma” Is Being Done to Kids in Custody There — A pediatrician on the front lines says that terrible conditions in Border Patrol facilities are causing long-term psychological damage. — The physical danger of overcrowded, underresourced detention …
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Jeff Cox / CNBC:
Strong job growth is back: Payrolls jump in June well above expectations — KEY POINTS — Nonfarm payrolls rose 224,000 in June, well above market expectations of 165,000, according to the Labor Department. — US adds 224,000 jobs in June, vs 165,000 expected
Ellen Ioanes / Business Insider:
Russian state TV hosts mocked Trump's July 4 event as ‘low energy’ — President Donald Trump's July 4 festivities featured military flyovers, Bradley fighting vehicles, and M1A2 tanks. — Russian state media mocked President Donald Trump's “Salute to America” July 4th event, The Washington Post reported Thursday.
Heather Long / Washington Post:
'This doesn't look like the best economy ever': 40% of Americans say they still struggle to pay bills — Sommer Johnson thought everything was finally coming together for her last year. She was engaged, working full time and doing well in online college classes when her fiance's mother died …
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Wall Street Journal:
Bernie Sanders, Outraised and Lagging in Polls, Plays the Long Game — Senator's base of committed supporters, small donors likely to keep campaign afloat even if overtaken by rivals — IOWA CITY, Iowa—Bernie Sanders may be falling behind some of his rivals in the crowded Democratic presidential field …
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Political Wire
Fox News:
Reluctant witnesses in FISA abuse probe agree to talk to DOJ inspector general — Key witnesses sought for questioning by Justice Department Inspector General Michael E. Horowitz early in his investigation into alleged government surveillance abuse have come forward at the 11th hour, Fox News has learned.
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The Gateway Pundit
Tom Perkins / The Guardian:
Facebook ads funded by ‘dark money’ are the right's weapon for 2020 — The right and conservative media are using the untraceable ads to push a rightwing agenda and get Donald Trump re-elected — In the weeks leading up to a tightly contested 2018 midterm election in Virginia …