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12:25 PM ET, July 14, 2019

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David Cohen / Politico:
Trump tells Dem congresswomen: Go back where you came from  —  President Donald Trump on Sunday called out progressive Democratic congresswomen in xenophobic terms, saying: “Why don't they go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came.”
Discussion: NBC News and Slate
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Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Scaling Wokeback Mountain  —  WASHINGTON — I was feeling on edge.  Writing a column that sparks an internecine fight among the highest-profile women in the Democratic Party is nerve wracking.  —  So I went to the gym.  Alex Toussaint, the digital Peloton instructor inside the little screen …
New York Times:
Trump Tells Freshman Congresswomen to ‘Go Back’ to the Countries They Came From  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump on Sunday weighed in on the friction between a group of four freshman Democratic congresswomen and Speaker Nancy Pelosi: He suggested that the congresswomen — none of whom are white …
Felicia Sonmez / Washington Post:
Trump targets four liberal congresswomen with tweets that Pelosi denounces as ‘xenophobic’
Catie Edmondson / New York Times:
Top Ocasio-Cortez Aide Becomes a Symbol of Democratic Division
Discussion: Power Line, Hot Air and New York Post
Mark Murray / NBC News:
Trump trails Biden, Warren and Sanders in new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll  —  Joe Biden holds largest lead against Trump due to better performance among Independents and suburban voters.  —  WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump trails the top Democratic contenders in hypothetical matchups …
Discussion: BostonGlobe.com and The Atlantic
BBC:
New leak claims Trump scrapped Iran nuclear deal ‘to spite Obama’  —  Donald Trump abandoned the Iran nuclear deal to spite Barack Obama, according to a leaked memo written by the UK's former ambassador to the US.  —  Sir Kim Darroch described the move as an act of “diplomatic vandalism”, according to the Mail on Sunday.
Discussion: Bloomberg
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Daily Mail:
Britain's Ambassador to Washington Sir Kim Darroch claimed that Donald Trump abandoned the Iran nuclear deal as an act of ‘diplomatic vandalism’ to spite his predecessor Barack Obama  —  Responding to Assistant Commissioner Neil Basu's incendiary claim that publishing the contents of the documents …
James Ludden / Bloomberg:
Trump Nixed Iran Deal for ‘Personality Reasons,’ Mail Says
Discussion: Hullabaloo
New York Times:
Power Restored to Manhattan's West Side After Major Blackout  —  A power failure plunged a stretch of the West Side of Manhattan into darkness on Saturday night, trapping people in subway cars and elevators for a time, leaving drivers to fend for themselves at intersections with no traffic signals …
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Wall Street Journal:
Immigration-Enforcement Raids Begin in New York  —  ICE agents attempt raids in at least two city neighborhoods; President Trump says roundups will focus on criminals  —  Federal immigration authorities attempted raids in at least two neighborhoods in New York City on Saturday …
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Will Bunch / Inquirer.com:
Netroots Nation was the day Elizabeth Warren became president of the American left  —  She had them at “hello.”  —  No, seriously.  After applauding performatively for anti-Trump red meat tossed out by New York Sen. Kirsten Gillbrand ("We all have a responsibility to fight as hard …
Discussion: The Guardian
Burgess Everett / Politico:
Republicans ready to dive off a cliff on Obamacare  —  Republicans have no real plan to establish a new health care system if the courts strike down the Affordable Care Act before the 2020 election.  But plenty of them are rooting for its demise anyway — even if it means plunging the GOP …
William A. Jacobson / Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion:
Attacker on Tacoma ICE Detention Center identified as “anarchist and antifascist”  —  Willem Van Spronsen attacked the center with incendiary devices before being shot dead.  In an earlier 2018 protest outside the facility, Van Spronsen “was accused of lunging at a police officer's neck …
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Mariel Padilla / New York Times:   Man Attacking ICE Detention Center Is Fatally Shot by the Police
Brian Contreras / The Seattle Times:
Armed man attacking Tacoma's ICE detention center killed in officer-involved shooting
Jackie Wattles / CNN:
Fallout over offensive Buttigieg article: Magazine's owner apologizes but a sponsor cuts ties  —  New York (CNN Business)The League of Conservation Voters is cutting ties with an upcoming forum on climate change after its co-host for the event, The New Republic, published an “offensive” …
Rachel Frazin / The Hill:
Inslee says he'll ask soccer player Megan Rapinoe to be secretary of state  —  Washington Gov. Jay Inslee (D) said Saturday that if he is elected president, he will ask soccer player Megan Rapinoe to be his secretary of state.  —  He said at the progressive Netroots Nation conference …
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Marianna Brady / BBC:
Megan Rapinoe: Can a pink-haired lesbian be an American hero?
Discussion: The Guardian
Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
Pete Buttigieg's Life in the Closet  —  And why it took him until he was 33 to come out.  —  The closet that Pete Buttigieg built for himself in the late 1990s and 2000s was a lot like the ones that other gay men of his age and ambition hid inside.  He dated women, deepened his voice …
Discussion: Breitbart and New Republic
Maria Sacchetti / Washington Post:
Former Southwest Key leader who ran migrant child shelters for U.S. government earned $3.6 million in 2017  —  The former leader of a nonprofit organization that shelters migrant children for the U.S. government resigned this year after it was publicly disclosed that he earned nearly $1.5 million in 2016.
Jeffrey Cimmino / Washington Free Beacon:
Review: ‘Justice on Trial’  —  We won't be fooled again  —  With tensions high as the Senate Judiciary Committee prepared to vote on advancing Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation, senators packed into an anteroom—and turmoil ensued.  —  In their new book Justice on Trial, Mollie Hemingway …
 
 
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Salena Zito / New York Post:
Why America's tariff-hit farmers still support Trump
Marisa Fernandez / Axios:
Trump official Ken Cuccinelli blames Congress for border crisis
Discussion: Politico
Aaron Mehta / Defense News:
Turkey has the S-400. The Trump administration is silent.
Christian Vasquez / Politico:
Trump: Republicans like Paul Ryan are ‘weak, ineffective & stupid’
Discussion: New York Times
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Arizona Dems want Ducey, AG to investigate child abuse allegations at Yuma Border Patrol facility
Julie K. Brown / Miami Herald:
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Discussion: Washington Post and USA Today
Washington Post:
They used to be Beto O'Rourke fans.  But Texans' allegiance to him has vanished as quickly as ‘Beto-mania.’
Lloyd Green / The Guardian:
American Carnage: a masterful must-read on Trump's Republican takeover
Discussion: Political Wire
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Mandy Dalugdug / Music Business Worldwide:
UMG, ABKCO, and Concord sue Believe and its subsidiary TuneCore for $500M+, alleging Believe built its business via “industrial-scale copyright infringement”

Reuters:
French judicial source: investigators searched Netflix's offices in France and the Netherlands as part of a preliminary investigation into tax fraud laundering

Manish Singh / TechCrunch:
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