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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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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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New York Times:
Trump Considering an Executive Order to Allow Citizenship Question on Census
Trump Considering an Executive Order to Allow Citizenship Question on Census
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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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Associated Press:
Trump weighs executive order to add census citizenship query
Trump weighs executive order to add census citizenship query
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New York Times:
Two Years Into Trump's Presidency, Obama Remains a Top Target for Criticism
Two Years Into Trump's Presidency, Obama Remains a Top Target for Criticism
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Washington Post, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, Political Wire, twitchy.com, The Guardian, Daily Kos, The Atlantic, Pacific Standard, Mediaite and Splinter
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, Law & Crime, Common Dreams and Mother Jones
Mark Joseph Stern / Slate:
The Trump Administration Spent July Fourth Creating a New Lie to Justify the Census Citizenship Question
The Trump Administration Spent July Fourth Creating a New Lie to Justify the Census Citizenship Question
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Associated Press:
Williamson warns US elections could become more like Iran's — DOVER, N.H. (AP) — Democratic presidential candidate Marianne Williamson on Friday warned that American elections could become more like voting in countries like Iran. — Speaking at a campaign event in Dover, New Hampshire …
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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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Naomi Lim / Washington Examiner:
Biden warns Democratic rivals he's got 'all this information about other people's pasts' — Joe Biden let slip that his campaign was collecting dirt on his rivals for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination. — “I mean, I get all this information about other people's pasts, and what they've done and not done.
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Nicole Gaudiano / Politico:
Biden would name a teacher as education secretary, wouldn't appoint his wife
Biden would name a teacher as education secretary, wouldn't appoint his wife
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Elena Schneider / Politico:
Buttigieg campaign multiplies in size after huge cash haul — Before the first Democratic presidential debates kicked off last week, close to 100 Pete Buttigieg supporters and donors sheltered from the Miami heat in a Hilton hotel conference room, where Buttigieg's senior staff briefed …
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Julia Arciga / The Daily Beast:
Trump on Ivanka's G-20 Appearances: ‘The Foreign Leaders Loved Her’ — President Donald Trump has said his daughter Ivanka Trump's high-profile appearances at the G-20 summit in Japan were “amazing,” despite widespread criticism of her presence among top world leaders.
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Anna Giaritelli / Washington Examiner:
Democratic congresswoman secretly sending staff into Mexico to coach asylum-seekers — A Democratic congresswoman is sending staff to Mexico's northern border town of Ciudad Juárez to find migrants returned from El Paso, Texas, under the “remain in Mexico” policy …
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Ryan Devereaux / The Intercept:
Border Patrol Agents Tried to Delete Racist and Obscene Facebook Posts. We Archived Them.
Border Patrol Agents Tried to Delete Racist and Obscene Facebook Posts. We Archived Them.
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DW.COM:
US denies German-Iranian father visa needed to attend son's funeral — The US consulate accused a German-Iranian father of using his late son's funeral as an excuse to migrate to the US. Seyed Shahram Iranbomy was denied the visa he needed to attend. He's lived in Germany for 40 years.
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 …
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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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Marianne LeVine / Politico:
2020 Dems' opposition builds against Trump judges — Sen. Amy Klobuchar once supported a majority of President Donald Trump's nominees to the federal judiciary. But this year, the Minnesota Democrat's backing of them plummeted. — Klobuchar isn't alone.
Mirror.co.uk:
Moment white supremacist is engulfed in flames after pouring petrol on synagogue — Tristan Morgan splashed fuel through a window at Exeter Synagogue but took the full blast of the explosion in his face — Terrorist firebomber blasted by flames during arson attack on synagogue
G-Had / Duffel Blog:
US Army to drop ‘US’ from name over past links to slavery — WASHINGTON—Since 1775, the United States has had an Army, and for most of those 244 years it has been called the “United States Army.” — But now the service will drop the words and initials from its title, calling itself simply …
Chuck Jones / Forbes:
Trump Is Falling Almost 1 Million Jobs Short Vs. Obama — I cover technology companies, worldwide economies and the stock market — The U.S. Bureau of Labor announced that the economy added 224,000 jobs in June vs. expectations of 160,000 and May's revised result of 72,000.
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