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8:40 PM ET, July 11, 2019

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Katherine Faulders / ABC News:

Trump announces end of fight to add citizenship question to census — President Donald Trump announced Thursday he is backing down from his effort to include a citizenship question on the 2020 census, and will instead take executive action that instructs the Commerce Department to obtain …

Discussion: National Review, Talking Points Memo, New York Post and Politico

Jordyn Phelps / ABC News:
Trump expected to announce executive action on adding citizenship question to census

Zoe Tillman / BuzzFeed News: Trump Has Backed Down On Adding A Citizenship Question To The 2020 Census

Washington Post:
Trump retreats on adding citizenship question to 2020 Census

Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money, Balloon Juice, Slate, Politico and The Week

John T. Bennett / Roll Call: Trump drops census effort, announces new plan to ‘count’ noncitizens

New York Times:
Trump Says He Will Seek Citizenship Information From Existing Federal Records, Not the Census

Discussion: Mother Jones, Washington Post, USA Today, Vox, Financial Times, Splinter, Washington Monthly, Outside the Beltway, The Root and The Guardian

John Bresnahan / Politico:
House to vote next week on criminal contempt against Barr and Ross

Discussion: Washington Post, One America News Network, Axios and POLITICUSUSA

NBC News:
Trump expected to back off census citizenship question, will collect data in other ways

Discussion: Fox News, Politico, CNN and Townhall

Allan Smith / NBC News:
Trump expected to order citizenship question added to the census

Discussion: The Daily Caller, CNBC, Bloomberg, ThinkProgress, Townhall, Shakesville, NB Blog, twitchy.com, The Week, The Daily Signal, Splinter and RedState, more at Mediagazer »

Mark Murray / NBC News:

NBC/WSJ poll: Biden, Warren top 2020 Democratic field — Kamala Harris and Bernie Sanders round out the top four candidates in the first NBC/WSJ post-debate poll. — WASHINGTON — Former Vice President Joe Biden and Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., lead the Democratic presidential field …

Discussion: Political Wire and Bloomberg

Dana Blanton / Fox News:

Fox News Poll: Biden holds commanding lead among South Carolina Democrats — South Carolina Democratic primary voters, more than half of whom are expected to be African American, say former Vice President Joe Biden is the best candidate to handle racial issues.

Discussion: Political Wire and Politico

CBS News: Biden answer's Trump's “America first” with his own foreign policy plan

Jonathan Easley / The Hill:

Democratic lawmaker unloads on Ocasio-Cortez, chief of staff for ‘using the race card’ — Rep. Wm. Lacy Clay (D-Mo.) unloaded on Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) on Wednesday for “using the race card” after Ocasio-Cortez accused Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) of being racially insensitive.

Discussion: Fox News, Conservative Christian News, The Daily Caller, Daily Wire, Splinter, Patterico's Pontifications and Mediaite

David Montgomery / Washington Post:

AOC's Chief of Change — Saikat Chakrabarti isn't just running her office. He's guiding a movement. — On a Wednesday morning in late May, emissaries of two of the strongest political voices on climate change convened at a coffee shop a few blocks from the U.S. Capitol.

Discussion: The Daily Caller, Washington Free Beacon and Instapundit

John Bresnahan / Politico:
Democratic unity threatened as clash between Pelosi and Ocasio-Cortez drags on

Discussion: Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, Breitbart, Splinter and Axios

The Hill:
Dems rush to support Pelosi amid fight with Ocasio-Cortez

Discussion: Power Line, Common Dreams, CNN, KTLA and Althouse

Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Ocasio-Cortez: I Wonder Why Pelosi's Attacking “Women Of Color”? Update: War

Discussion: Washington Post, Fox News, New York Post, The Daily Beast, Daily Wire and Instapundit

Washington Post:
Pelosi defends handling of 4 House women as Democrats fume about Ocasio-Cortez's top aide

Discussion: Balloon Juice, NPR, American Thinker, RedState, Fox News and Breitbart

Sam Dorman / Fox News:
House Dem blasts ‘juvenile’ Ocasio-Cortez, chief of staff: ‘Ignorance is beyond belief’

Discussion: Townhall and Daily Wire

Caleb Howe / Mediaite:

Trump Says It's Not Free Speech to ‘Write Bad’ About ‘Something Good’: That's ‘Dangerous Speech’ — President Donald Trump had a lot to say at the White House Social Media Summit on Thursday, including offering his take on what does and does not constitute free speech.

The Daily Beast:

Trump's Social Media Summit Mortifies White House, Enrages Far-Right Allies — No one who is invited to the summit has actually been banned from social platforms. — Donald Trump has invited personalities from across the right-wing internet to the White House on Thursday for a …

Will Sommer / The Daily Beast:

Trump Praises Right-Wing Conspiracy Theorists at White House: ‘The Crap You Think of Is Unbelievable’ — The social media summit at the White House featured a who's who of the right wing fringe, but the president was the one who made it a truly bizarre affair.

Discussion: Politico and Breitbart

Tony Romm / Washington Post:

Trump accuses social media companies of ‘terrible bias’ at White House summit decried by critics — President Trump assailed Facebook, Google and Twitter on Thursday for exhibiting “terrible bias” and silencing his supporters at a White House “social media summit” that critics chastised …

Discussion: NPR, The Daily Caller, Big League Politics, Breitbart, Political Wire, The Verge, Mother Jones and The Week, more at Techmeme »

Charlie Warzel / New York Times:
Uncle Trump Wants You! (To Join His Troll Army)

Discussion: The Daily Beast, Politico and The Verge, more at Techmeme »

Colby Hall / Mediaite:
Trump Launches New Attacks on Dem Candidates, Dubs Himself ‘So Great Looking and Smart, A True Stable Genius!’

Discussion: Politico, Washington Post and twitchy.com

Miami Herald:

New victims come forward as Epstein asks to be released from jail to his Manhattan mansion — At least a dozen new victims have come forward to claim they were sexually abused by Jeffrey Epstein even as the multimillionaire money manager tries to convince a federal judge to allow him to await …

Discussion: Crooks and Liars, Slate, New York Times, ThinkProgress, Townhall and VICE, more at Mediagazer »

The Daily Beast:
Acosta's Epstein Excuses Are Nonsensical and Self-Serving

Discussion: Breitbart

Howard Kurtz / Fox News:
Trump moves into damage control mode (just like every other politician)

Discussion: New York Times, One America News Network, Essence, Instapundit and Axios

Josh Dawsey / Washington Post:

New book details how Republican leaders learned to stop worrying and love Trump — Few people have more power in President Trump's White House than Madeleine Westerhout, his executive assistant who controls access to the Oval Office, delivers the president's marker-scribbled messages …

Grace Panetta / Business Insider:
Former House Speaker Paul Ryan said he wanted to ‘scold’ …

Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money and National Review

New York Times:

Thousands Are Targeted as ICE Prepares to Raid Migrant Families — Nationwide raids to arrest thousands of members of undocumented families have been scheduled to begin Sunday, according to two current and one former homeland security officials, moving forward with a rapidly changing operation …

Alex Thompson / Politico: Elizabeth Warren takes on Trump with immigration overhaul

Elizabeth Warren / Team Warren:
A Fair and Welcoming Immigration System

Discussion: Fox News, Breitbart, UPI, Boston Globe, The Week, VICE, Washington Times, Daily Kos and Observer

Cassandra Sweetman / KFOR-TV:

Logan Co. man allegedly driving stolen vehicle filled with uranium, a rattlesnake, and Kentucky Deluxe — GUTHRIE, Okla. - Two people were arrested after a traffic stop of a stolen car revealed the two had a rattlesnake, radioactive uranium, and an open bottle of Kentucky Deluxe.

Discussion: KTLA, New York Post, Metro.co.uk, Fox17 and Associated Press

Hunter Walker / Yahoo News:

Republican campaign committee darkened Colin Kaepernick's skin for a fundraising ad — WASHINGTON—Former NFL star Colin Kaepernick did not look like himself in a fundraising email that was sent by the National Republican Congressional Committee on Wednesday.

Discussion: The Root, Mercury News, Daily Kos and Mediaite

Mack Lamoureux / VICE:

People Tell Us How QAnon Destroyed Their Relationships — We spoke to people who told us how the QAnon conspiracy theory ruined their marriage, turned their parents into completely different people, and otherwise made their lives miserable. — One of the most disheartening signs …

Washington Post:

Pelosi says she is seeking to finalize deal to raise debt ceiling and resolve budget impasse before August recess — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday she will attempt to finalize a deal that would raise the debt ceiling in the next few weeks instead of delaying until fall …

Discussion: Political Wire

Luke Rosiak / The Daily Caller:

TV Ignores Conservative Authors of No. 1 Book In The Country, While Putting Liberal Author of No. 3,421 Book On Major Tour — Author E. Jean Carroll claimed President Donald Trump raped her as part of a book launch, and the national TV shows put her the air non-stop.

Jennifer Bendery / HuffPost:

All Female Senators Ask U.S. Women's National Soccer Team To Meet — The 25 Democratic and GOP senators want to “discuss the challenges women face on and off the field.” Hmm, like equal pay? — WASHINGTON ― All 25 female senators on Wednesday invited the U.S. women's national soccer team …

Discussion: The Hill, Politico, Washington Examiner, Reason, Washington Post and The Nation

Josh Gerstein / Politico:

‘You are asking my client to lie’: Flynn lawyers fought with prosecutor — During a tense exchange last month, Michael Flynn's new legal team accused a federal prosecutor of trying to coerce the former Trump national security adviser to lie under oath, new court documents revealed on Thursday.

David Choi / Business Insider:

Video appears to show Trump embracing a 2016 campaign staffer. She's now suing and claims he forcibly kissed her. — Alva Johnson, who worked for the 2016 Trump presidential campaign, is suing President Donald Trump over what she says was an unwanted attempted kiss “on the mouth.”

Discussion: The Daily Caller, Politico, Daily Wire, The Gateway Pundit and PJ Media Home