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10:10 AM ET, July 6, 2019

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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.
New York Times:
Trump Considering an Executive Order to Allow Citizenship Question on Census
Discussion: Daily Kos
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
DOJ says it will continue to explore path for citizenship question as Trump considers executive order
Discussion: PJ Media Home and Fox Business
New York Times:
Two Years Into Trump's Presidency, Obama Remains a Top Target for Criticism
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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Sam Kestenbaum / New York Times:   The Curious Mystical Text Behind Marianne Williamson's Presidential Bid
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
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
Discussion: Breitbart
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 …
Discussion: Washington Post
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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CNN:
Fact-checking Trump's South Lawn remarks on Obama and China tariffs
Discussion: Political Flare
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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 …
Discussion: Eschaton
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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Colby Itkowitz / Washington Post:   Trump says he doesn't know if his golf clubs still have undocumented workers
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.
Discussion: Mother Jones and UPI
 
 
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Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
American Restoration: 30% of judges will be Trump picks
Discussion: Instapundit and twitchy.com
David Frum / The Atlantic:
Trump's Recessional  —  In the days when I helped people …
New York Times:
The Dominance of the White Male Critic
Paul Kane / Washington Post:
Sen. Collins's declaration as New England moderate challenged in Trump era
Will Sommer / The Daily Beast:
Proud Boys Rally Rocked by Sex, Cocaine Allegations
Cameron LeBlanc / Fatherly:
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Wall Street Journal:
Bernie Sanders, Outraised and Lagging in Polls, Plays the Long Game
 Earlier Items: 
Ellen Ioanes / Business Insider:
Russian state TV hosts mocked Trump's July 4 event as ‘low energy’
Bloomberg:
Libya Uncovers Alleged Russian Plot to Meddle in African Votes
Zachary Cohen / CNN:
Parents of Otto Warmbier file claim for seized North Korean cargo ship
Discussion: Fox News
Alex Wickham / BuzzFeed:
Boris Johnson Backed A Singapore-Style Tax Free Port At Bristol 6 Weeks After Receiving £25,000 …
New York Times:
Kamala Harris Raised Close to $12 Million in 3 Months, Lagging Top Rivals
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
New York Times:
For Recording Her Boss's Lewd Call, She, Not He, Will Go to Jail
Discussion: Al Jazeera and Fox News
Jeff Cox / CNBC:
Strong job growth is back: Payrolls jump in June well above expectations