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Julie K. Brown / Miami Herald:
With Jeffrey Epstein locked up, these are nervous times for his friends, enablers — Jeffrey Epstein spent a second night in a New York jail cell Sunday, with a federal indictment expected to be unsealed Monday, charging him with sex offenses involving underage girls he and others allegedly trafficked …
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Lawyers, Guns & Money and Spectator USA
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Vivian Wang / New York Times:
Why the Trump White House Is Caught Up in the Jeffrey Epstein Scandal — In the years since Mr. Epstein was first accused of sexually abusing minors, one of Mr. Trump's Cabinet officials has been accused of letting him off easy. — By the time Jeffrey Epstein, the billionaire financier and felon …
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The Daily Beast, Salon, Common Dreams and The Gateway Pundit
New York Times:
Jeffrey Epstein Is Accused of Luring Girls to His Manhattan Mansion and Abusing Them — The billionaire financier is charged with running a sex-trafficking operation that brought dozens of girls as young as 14 to his opulent Upper East Side home. — Federal prosecutors appear to have resurrected …
Gregg Re / Fox News:
Christine Pelosi warns it's ‘quite likely that some of our faves are implicated’ in ‘horrific’ Epstein case — Christine Pelosi, a Democratic National Committee official and daughter of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, warned conspicuously on Saturday evening that it is “quite likely …
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LewRockwell, RedState, twitchy.com, RealClearPolitics and Daily Wire
Alexander Kacala / Newsweek:
Miami Herald Investigative Reporter: ‘Quite A Few Powerful, Important People’ May Be Named in Jeffrey Epstein Case
Miami Herald Investigative Reporter: ‘Quite A Few Powerful, Important People’ May Be Named in Jeffrey Epstein Case
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twitchy.com and RedState
Matt Zapotosky / Washington Post:
Justice Department changing lawyers on census case — The Justice Department is swapping out the lawyers who had been representing the administration in its legal battle to put a question about citizenship on the 2020 Census, possibly signaling career attorneys' legal or ethical concerns …
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Edward-Isaac Dovere / The Atlantic:
Tom Steyer Is Telling Allies He's Running for President — The presidential campaign announcements may not be over yet—with the latest potentially coming from a person who'd ruled out a run just a few months ago. — Billionaire investor Tom Steyer, who in the last decade …
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Gwendolyn Oxenham / ESPN:
Why Megan Rapinoe's brother, Brian, is her greatest heartbreak, and hope — Editor's note: Megan Rapinoe gave her brother, Brian, a birthday shout-out on national TV after winning the 2019 Women's World Cup, the Golden Boot as the tournament's top scorer and the Golden Ball as its top player.
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Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
US Soccer Star and Trump-Basher Megan Rapinoe REFUSES to Sing National Anthem in Protest Before Final Game of World Cup
US Soccer Star and Trump-Basher Megan Rapinoe REFUSES to Sing National Anthem in Protest Before Final Game of World Cup
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Daily Mail
Andrew Das / New York Times:
U.S. Wins Record Fourth World Cup Title
U.S. Wins Record Fourth World Cup Title
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Breitbart, Outside the Beltway, Vox, BBC and CNN
Las Vegas Review-Journal:
MIRIAM ADELSON: A time of miracles — Miriam Adelson, a Las Vegas philanthropist, researcher, physician and expert in drug addiction, owns the Las Vegas Review-Journal and Israel Hayom newspapers with her husband, Sheldon Adelson. — Cherishing, promoting and safeguarding the U.S.-Israeli alliance …
Courtney Kube / NBC News:
In surprise move, admiral tapped to lead U.S. Navy declines job, retires instead — Bill Moran said he turned down the job of Chief of Naval Operations because of a probe of his ties to an officer investigated for inappropriate conduct. — WASHINGTON — The man set to take over as the head …
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Axios, Washington Post, Associated Press, Wall Street Journal, USNI News and UPI
Nikki Schwab / New York Post:
Melania Trump reportedly told Donald that Christine Blasey Ford was ‘lying’ — A new book says that first lady Melania Trump told her husband she thought Christine Blasey Ford was lying when she testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee against Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
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Townhall
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Catie Edmondson / New York Times:
ICE Used Facial Recognition to Mine State Driver's License Databases — WASHINGTON — Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials have mined state driver's license databases using facial recognition technology, analyzing millions of motorists' photos without their knowledge.
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Drew Harwell / Washington Post:
FBI, ICE find state driver's license photos are a gold mine for facial-recognition searches
FBI, ICE find state driver's license photos are a gold mine for facial-recognition searches
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Axios, Fox News and Splinter, more at Techmeme »
Errin Haines Whack / Associated Press:
AP Interview: Kamala Harris on race and electability in 2020 — NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Kamala Harris can't forget the older black woman she met in Iowa while campaigning for Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama before the state's 2008 caucus. — “I remember her saying to me …
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Penelope Green / New York Times:
Do Americans Need Air-Conditioning? — Summer's great indoor-temperature debate rages on. — Modernity was born 116 years, 11 months, two weeks and two days ago, at a printing plant in the East Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, when a junior engineer named Willis Carrier devised a contraption …
Nahal Toosi / Politico:
Trump wants to talk. Iran isn't interested. — When it comes to nuclear negotiations, Iran is not North Korea. — President Donald Trump wants to sit down with Iranian leaders — but they don't share his eagerness to talk, revealing the limits of the president's personal diplomatic overtures.
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The American Conservative and New York Times
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Bloomberg:
The Trump Tariff Twist That's Cost U.S. Steel $5.5 Billion — Older mills unable to compete as output soared, demand fell — Nucor's cheaper-to-run electric-arc furnaces hold their own — President Donald Trump's tariffs on foreign steel have sped the decline of some of the U.S. mills he vowed to help.
Robert Costa / Washington Post:
Tensions flare over Pelosi's comments about four House Democratic women and border bill — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) faced sharp criticism Sunday from some liberal lawmakers and activists over her latest comments about a group of House Democratic women who opposed …
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Fox News and The Guardian
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Mehdi Hasan / The Intercept:
Nancy Pelosi Has Chosen Her War, and it's With Her Own Party's Future
Nancy Pelosi Has Chosen Her War, and it's With Her Own Party's Future
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Townhall, Inquirer.com, The Mahablog and CNN