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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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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 …
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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.
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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Alexander Acosta must go
Alexander Acosta must go
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Marianne LeVine / Politico:
Republicans — and some Dems — stand by Acosta amid Jeffrey Epstein charges
Republicans — and some Dems — stand by Acosta amid Jeffrey Epstein charges
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Washington Post, Power Line, The Guardian and ThinkProgress
Miami Herald:
Alex Acosta made an ethically compromised decision 10 years ago. …
Alex Acosta made an ethically compromised decision 10 years ago. …
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Mediaite, Fox News, Florida Politics and The Daily Caller
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Trump team sure liked to party with the British ambassador
POLITICO Playbook: Trump team sure liked to party with the British ambassador
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Talking Points Memo, courthousenews.com, Political Wire and Washington Post
Washington Post:
Epstein indictment renews questions about earlier case handled by Trump Cabinet official
Epstein indictment renews questions about earlier case handled by Trump Cabinet official
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Washington Post:
Trump called Epstein a ‘terrific guy’ who enjoyed ‘younger’ women before denying relationship with him
Trump called Epstein a ‘terrific guy’ who enjoyed ‘younger’ women before denying relationship with him
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Fox News, USA Today, Rolling Stone, Politico, Conservative News Today and Breitbart
Politico:
‘The next 72 hours are critical for Acosta’
‘The next 72 hours are critical for Acosta’
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Talking Points Memo, Mother Jones and Wall Street Journal
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 …
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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 — Tom Steyer, the billionaire activist who considered a run for the Democratic presidential nomination earlier this year only to decide against it, will enter the race after all.
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YouTube:
Fundamental Change. — Tom Steyer Announces Candidacy for President: “I am running to end corruption of our democracy by corporations and give more power to the American people. Jo...
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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 …
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Kevin Breuninger / CNBC:
Billionaire and former presidential candidate Ross Perot is dead at 89
Billionaire and former presidential candidate Ross Perot is dead at 89
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Amy McGrath / YouTube:
“The Letter” — Amy McGrath for U.S. Senate … I'm running for Senate in Kentucky against Mitch McConnell. Defeat Mitch. Defend Democracy.
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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 …
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Jill Lawrence / USA Today:
Republicans are eating our lunch. I want a 2020 Democrat tough enough to eat theirs.
Republicans are eating our lunch. I want a 2020 Democrat tough enough to eat theirs.
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Althouse
Michael Tackett / Associated Press:
Amy McGrath to run for Mitch McConnell's US Senate seat
Ann E. Marimow / Washington Post:
President Trump cannot block his critics on Twitter, federal appeals court rules — President Trump cannot block his critics from the Twitter feed he regularly uses to communicate with the public, a federal appeals court said Tuesday, in a case with implications for how elected officials nationwide interact …
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Political Wire
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.
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Mona Charen / Politico:
How a Democrat Can Win Over a Never-Trumper
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.
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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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No More Mister Nice Blog, Daily Kos, Daily Wire, The Hill and Washington Post
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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.
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
Obamacare Is Going Back On Trial, With Insurance For 20 Million At Stake
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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
British Government Stands By Ambassador After Leaked Criticism Of Trump
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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 …
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Emerson College Polling:
July National Poll: Biden extends lead in Democratic Primary, Trump Closes the Gap in the General Election. — The first Democratic debate has shaken up the race for the Democratic nomination. Compared to June's national poll, former VP Joe Biden extended his lead, Sen. Bernie Sanders lost ground …
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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 …
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Rolling Stone
Maggie Astor / New York Times:
'It Can't Be Worse': How Republican Women Are Trying to Rebuild — NEW HAVEN — For Republican women, 2018 was rock bottom. At least, that's how Julie Conway, a Republican consultant, described it to students attending the Women's Campaign School at Yale.
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Laura Barrón-López / Politico:
North Carolina runoff tests GOP efforts to boost female candidates
North Carolina runoff tests GOP efforts to boost female candidates
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CNN:
CNN debuts new polling standards as 2020 race heats up — (CNN)Today, CNN is launching new standards for reporting on polling. These standards will serve to elevate research conducted by the most skilled pollsters and will make it easier for readers and viewers to understand what a poll says.
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 …
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 …
Quint Forgey / Politico:
Kellyanne Conway mocks ‘catfight’ between Pelosi and freshman congresswomen — Counselor to the president Kellyanne Conway called the spat between Speaker Nancy Pelosi and four female freshman Democrats a “major meow moment,” mocking the “huge catfight” over border aid spending between …
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