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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 …
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Allan Smith / NBC News:
Trump expected to order citizenship question added to the census — Trump and A.G. William Barr have said they'd soon announce how the administration intends to ask the citizenship question as part of the census process. — President Donald Trump is expected to announce an executive action …
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Oliver Darcy / CNN:
Trump invites right-wing extremists to White House ‘social media summit’ — New York (CNN Business)Some of the right-wing media universe's biggest stars are set to descend on the White House Thursday for what has been billed as a “social media summit” and will likely become a forum …
Anita Kumar / Politico:
Trump to take exec action to add citizenship question to census
Trump to take exec action to add citizenship question to census
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Peter Suderman / Reason:
Trump Is Hosting a Very Weird Social Media Summit at the White House
Trump Is Hosting a Very Weird Social Media Summit at the White House
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Margaret Talev / Bloomberg:
Trump to Take Executive Action on Census Citizenship Question
Trump to Take Executive Action on Census Citizenship Question
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Quint Forgey / Politico:
Trump invokes social media platforms, 2020 Dems and Deutsche Bank in Twitter tear
Trump invokes social media platforms, 2020 Dems and Deutsche Bank in Twitter tear
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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 …
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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 …
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.
Jordyn Phelps / ABC News:
Trump expected to announce executive action on adding citizenship question to census — President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he would have an announcement later in the day related to “the Census and Citizenship” and a senior administration official told ABC News the president was expected …
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Jill Colvin / Associated Press:
Trump plans new move to force citizenship question on census
Trump plans new move to force citizenship question on census
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New York Times:
Trump Turns to Executive Action to Press Citizenship Question on Census
Trump Turns to Executive Action to Press Citizenship Question on Census
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David Jackson / USA Today:
Trump to order citizenship question on census, despite Supreme Court ruling
Trump to order citizenship question on census, despite Supreme Court ruling
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New York Post:
NYPD let convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein skip judge-ordered check-ins — Convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein never once checked in with city cops in the eight-plus years since a Manhattan judge ordered him to do so every 90 days — and the NYPD says it's fine with that.
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New York Times:
Jeffrey Epstein's ‘Infinite Means’ May Be a Mirage — When federal prosecutors announced sex-trafficking charges against Jeffrey Epstein this week, they described him as “a man of nearly infinite means.” They argued that his vast wealth — and his two private jets — made him a flight risk.
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Nicholas Fandos / New York Times:
House Democrats Subpoena a Who's Who of Mueller Witnesses — WASHINGTON — The House Judiciary Committee on Thursday approved a dozen new subpoenas targeting a who's who of witnesses cited in Robert S. Mueller III's report as Democrats sought to elevate their showdown with President Trump …
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John Wagner / Washington Post:
House panel votes to subpoena Kushner, former attorney general Sessions in investigation …
House panel votes to subpoena Kushner, former attorney general Sessions in investigation …
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Caitlin Oprysko / Politico:
Trump lashes out as House investigators prep more subpoenas
Trump lashes out as House investigators prep more subpoenas
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Washington Post:
‘Outright disrespectful’: Four House women struggle as Pelosi isolates them — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi admonished Democrats for personally attacking one another, warning in a closed-door meeting Wednesday that the party's fracturing was jeopardizing its majority.
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Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Ocasio-Cortez: I Wonder Why Pelosi's Attacking “Women Of Color”? Update: War
Ocasio-Cortez: I Wonder Why Pelosi's Attacking “Women Of Color”? Update: War
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Daniel Strauss / Politico:
How Pete Buttigieg would fight systemic racism — Pete Buttigieg's presidential campaign on Thursday rolled out an extensive plan to fight systemic racism and expand economic freedom for African Americans. — The South Bend, Ind., mayor has dubbed this set of proposals the “Douglass Plan …
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Rachel Martin / NPR:
Buttigieg Proposes Broad Plan To Counter Racial Inequality
Buttigieg Proposes Broad Plan To Counter Racial Inequality
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Errin Haines Whack / Associated Press:
AP Interview: Buttigieg discusses his plan to tackle racism
Jason Zinoman / New York Times:
Dave Chappelle on Broadway: The Joke Is Getting Old — The comic hasn't adjusted his material for the setting: he's still defending wealthy, famous peers and joking about transgender targets. — For those spending hundreds of dollars to see Dave Chappelle on Broadway, some advice: Don't leave your seats too quickly.
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
A Midsummer Overview Of The Democratic Field — When people ask me who I think is going to win the Democratic nomination, I shrug my shoulders and say, “I have no freaking idea.” It's worth keeping in mind that in a field of 20-something candidates with no runaway frontrunner, all of the candidates are fairly heavy underdogs.
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Tanya Somanader / Crooked Media:
Pollercoaster 2020: Who's Up, Who's Down?
Pollercoaster 2020: Who's Up, Who's Down?
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Political Wire
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.”
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Los Angeles Times:
FBI investigating tattooed deputy gangs in Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department — The FBI is investigating a secret society of tattooed deputies in East Los Angeles as well as similar gang-like groups elsewhere within the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, multiple people familiar with the inquiry said.
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Benjamin Oreskes / Los Angeles Times:
San Francisco homeless count goes from bad to worse, jumping 30% from 2017
San Francisco homeless count goes from bad to worse, jumping 30% from 2017
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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 …
Bill Haslam / The Tennessean:
Why I am not running for U.S. Senate in 2020 | Opinion — Bill Haslam: ‘This is a difficult decision because I have loved my time in public service and I believe so deeply in the importance of our political process.’ — To my fellow Tennesseans: — For the last several years …
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The Daily Beast:
Acosta's Epstein Excuses Are Nonsensical and Self-Serving — Three former prosecutors break down the labor secretary's explanation of the cushy plea deal he cut. — Alex Acosta took the podium Wednesday to try to put to rest a controversial plea deal he reached with accused child-sex …
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Jordain Carney / The Hill:
GOP frets over nightmare scenario for Senate primaries — Republicans are facing an early headache of nightmare primary fights as they plot to keep control of the Senate. — In Alabama and Kansas, two deep-red states that should be safe GOP seats, the party is facing bids from conservatives Roy Moore …
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Big League Politics and Political Wire
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.
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Karen DeYoung / Washington Post:
U.S. allies hold breakfast for departing British ambassador — and ‘the message is clear’ — In what one European diplomat called a subtle but “pretty clear” message of solidarity with departing British Ambassador Kim Darroch, his German counterpart hosted him and the French …
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CNN:
Fact check: Trump wrong on all 3 claims in tweet on Iran deal — Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump's Wednesday tweet on the Iran nuclear deal contained three inaccurate claims. — “Iran has long been secretly ‘enriching,’ in total violation of the terrible 150 Billion Dollar deal …