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Matthew Haag / New York Times:
Inside Epstein's $56 Million Mansion: Photos of Bill Clinton, Woody Allen and Saudi Crown Prince  —  The townhouse where the financier Jeffrey Epstein is accused of abusing girls is one of the largest private homes in Manhattan.  —  The townhouse where the financier Jeffrey Epstein is accused …
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Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
Jeffrey Epstein Is the Ultimate Symbol of Plutocratic Rot  —  Powerful elites enabled the financier accused of trafficking underage girls.  —  In 2003, the journalist Vicky Ward profiled Jeffrey Epstein, the financier indicted Monday on charges of sexually abusing and trafficking underage girls, for Vanity Fair.
Vicky Ward / The Daily Beast:
Jeffrey Epstein's Sick Story Played Out for Years in Plain Sight  —  How did the New York financier stay nearly untouchable for decades?  Vicky Ward—who has reported extensively on Epstein, on efforts to rehabilitate him—finds out what's changed.  —  A couple of years ago …
Discussion: Vox, New York Times and Observer
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Alexander Acosta must go
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Trump team sure liked to party with the British ambassador
Washington Post:
Epstein indictment renews questions about earlier case handled by Trump Cabinet official
Discussion: Fox News and VICE
Politico:
‘The next 72 hours are critical for Acosta’
Catherine Rampell / Washington Post:
Alex Acosta gave a pass to Epstein years ago. He's still at it as labor secretary.
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
Gregg Re / Fox News:
Bill Clinton ‘knows nothing’ about financier Jeffrey Epstein's ‘terrible crimes,’ former president's spokesman says
Michael Isikoff / Yahoo News:
Exclusive: The true origins of the Seth Rich conspiracy theory.  A Yahoo News investigation.  —  WASHINGTON — In the summer of 2016, Russian intelligence agents secretly planted a fake report claiming that Democratic National Committee staffer Seth Rich was gunned down by a squad …
Discussion: Mediaite
Alexander Burns / New York Times:
Tom Steyer Will Run for President and Plans to Spend $100 Million on His Bid  —  Tom Steyer, the former hedge fund investor turned impeachment activist, announced on Tuesday that he would challenge President Trump in 2020, reversing a previous decision not to enter the race.
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Chelsea Janes / Washington Post:
Billionaire Tom Steyer says he will run for president after spurning the race earlier this year
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Courier-Journal:
Amy McGrath says she will take on Mitch McConnell in 2020 US Senate race  —  Kentucky Democrat Amy McGrath is suiting up to enter the 2020 U.S. Senate race against Republican Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.  —  The former Marine fighter pilot ended months of speculation over whether …
Jill Lawrence / USA Today:
Republicans are eating our lunch.  I want a 2020 Democrat tough enough to eat theirs.  —  Democrats can talk about political deals after they're running the table.  That won't happen unless they use the tactics that got Republicans this far.  —  CONNECT  —  I wrote a book about political …
Discussion: Althouse
Michael Tackett / Associated Press:
Amy McGrath to run for Mitch McConnell's US Senate seat  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Amy McGrath, a Marine combat aviator who narrowly lost a House race to an incumbent Republican in Kentucky, has set her sights on an even more formidable target: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.
Cheryl Hall / Dallas Morning News:
Ross Perot, self-made billionaire, patriot and philanthropist, dies at 89  —  Ross Perot, self-made billionaire, renowned patriot and two-time independent candidate for U.S. president, has died after a five-month battle with leukemia.  —  He was 89.  —  The pioneer of the computer services industry …
Discussion: Mediaite
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Why Trump will likely lose the census citizenship fight  —  President Donald Trump's fight to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census is one he seems likely to lose.  —  Eleven days after an unfavorable Supreme Court ruling, a new team of Justice Department attorneys must persuade …
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Katie Benner / New York Times:
Barr Says House Subpoenaed Mueller to Create ‘Public Spectacle’
Discussion: Washington Post
John Bresnahan / Politico:
Dems to pursue criminal contempt for William Barr, Wilbur Ross over census
Corky Siemaszko / NBC News:
Sen. Mitch McConnell's great-great-grandfathers owned 14 slaves, bringing reparations issue close to home  —  McConnell has opposed paying reparations to descendants of slaves, though census records show his family, like many others, benefited from their labor.
Sarah Longwell / The Bulwark:
The Breakup  —  It was bound to happen.  —  Like a summer romance, this relationship always felt doomed to fail.  Brought together by little more than the maxim “the enemy of my enemy is my friend,” Never Trumpers and Democrats seem like they're on the verge of a break up.
Discussion: twitchy.com
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Mona Charen / Politico:   How a Democrat Can Win Over a Never-Trumper
Noam N. Levey / Los Angeles Times:
Obamacare returns to court, creating new uncertainty about health coverage for millions … The future of the Affordable Care Act, and the health coverage it has delivered to millions of Americans, is once again in doubt as a federal appeals court in New Orleans convenes Tuesday to hear arguments …
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Jonathan Cohn / HuffPost:
Obamacare Is Going Back On Trial, With Insurance For 20 Million At Stake
Fox News:
Trump calls Theresa May ‘foolish’ on Brexit, blasts ‘wacky’ and ‘pompous’ UK ambassador  —  President Trump on Tuesday said Prime Minister Theresa May was “foolish” in her handling of Brexit, as he doubled down on the feud with Britain's ambassador to the U.S. Kim Darroch — whom he called “wacky,” “stupid” and a “pompous fool.”
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Sarah Ruiz-Grossman / HuffPost:
British Government Stands By Ambassador After Leaked Criticism Of Trump
Discussion: Washington Monthly, Hullabaloo and BBC
Daniel Marans / HuffPost:
Republican Compared Anti-LGBTQ Proposal To Saving Jews From Holocaust  —  State Sen. Dan Bishop, who faces Democrat Dan McCready in a special election, used an Oskar Schindler analogy to characterize his advocacy against gay rights.  —  The Republican candidate for an open House seat …
Darren Samuelsohn / Politico:
'What's the point?'  Lawmakers fess up to not fully reading the Mueller report  —  Time for a Mueller report reality check: Only a small segment of America's most powerful have read it.  —  President Donald Trump can't give a straight answer about the subject.
Mark Hosenball / Reuters:
Trump ‘dossier’ author grilled by Justice Department watchdogs: sources  —  (Reuters) - Federal lawyers probing the origins of the investigation of ties between Russia and President Donald Trump's campaign have interviewed the author of a “dossier” that alleged misconduct between Trump and Moscow …
Discussion: Political Wire
Alex Thompson / Politico:
Elizabeth Warren shuns conventional wisdom for a new kind of campaign  —  When Elizabeth Warren said earlier this year she was swearing off fundraisers, many Democratic strategists saw it as a sign of desperation from a flailing candidate.  —  But that gamble against conventional wisdom …
Discussion: Rolling Stone
Aussie Dave / Israellycool:
US Presidential Candidate Elizabeth Warren Has Got a Problem.  He's Called Max Berger  —  Recently, Max Berger, one of the founders of Israel-hating organization IfNotNow, announced on Twitter he had joined US Presidential Candidate Elizabeth Warren's team.  —  Warren has a serious problem on her hands now.
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Ross Douthat / New York Times:
The Meaning of Marianne Williamson  —  There's more in heaven and earth than what's dreamed of by normal politicians.  —  One of the pleasures of the Democratic primary season so far has been watching some of my colleagues in the press have their first exposure to Marianne Williamson …
 
 
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CNN:
CNN debuts new polling standards as 2020 race heats up
Quint Forgey / Politico:
Kellyanne Conway mocks ‘catfight’ between Pelosi and freshmen congresswomen
Discussion: CNN, Slate, Roll Call and Political Wire
Nick Timiraos / Wall Street Journal:
Fed Chairman Jerome Powell's Approach to Interest-Rate Policy Wins Bipartisan Backing
Emerson College Polling:
July National Poll: Biden extends lead in Democratic Primary, Trump Closes the Gap in the General Election.
Discussion: Political Wire
Laura Barrón-López / Politico:
North Carolina runoff tests GOP efforts to boost female candidates
Discussion: Political Wire
Lisa Lerer / New York Times:
Farewell, Swalwell: As One 2020 Democrat Drops Out, Will Others Follow?
Elizabeth Williamson / New York Times:
New Scandals Rock Government's Foreign Broadcasting Service
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Tom Newton Dunn / The Sun:
FROM RUSSIA WITH BUGS? …
Holly Otterbein / Politico:
Trump campaign plunges into brawl to control Pennsylvania GOP
Kenneth P. Vogel / New York Times:
Investigation Intensifies Into Top Trump Fund-raiser
Discussion: Balloon Juice, Vox and Vanity Fair
Natasha Bertrand / Politico:
Felix Sater to testify after missing previously scheduled appearance
Anna Peele / Washington Post:
The Ignoring of Kirsten Gillibrand
Michael Kranish / Washington Post:
Trump has referred to his Wharton degree as ‘super genius stuff.’ An admissions officer recalls it differently.
 

 
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Max Tani / @maxwelltani:
Memo: WaPo's Matt Murray lays out plans for WP Ventures, the “third newsroom”; Krissah Thompson will be editor and Samantha Henig will be general manager

Jack Dunn / Variety:
Trump appoints Mark Burnett, the British TV executive who created and produced the reality show The Apprentice, as a special envoy to the UK

Stephen Alpher / CoinDesk:
Rumble announces a $775M investment from Tether and plans to use $525M to fund a tender offer for ~70M shares of its common stock; RUM jumped 50%+ after hours
 
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