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Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:
We need someone who can lift us up again. Enter President Obama. — An open letter to Barack Obama: — Mr. President, it is time. You must speak. Your country needs you. — Eleven summers ago, as you accepted the Democratic nomination for president, you announced: “Tonight …
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Alexi McCammond / Axios:
Trump's new impeachment problem — President Trump's racist tweets had an unintended consequence: They gave House Democrats a new rationale for impeachment. — Why it matters: This has the potential to fundamentally change the conversation around impeachment, which has so far mostly focused …
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Politico, The Hill and Rep. Al Green
Ken Meyer / Mediaite:
CNN Panel on Trump's Demagoguery Goes Off the Rails: ‘The White Nationalists Will Never Love You’ — CNN went wild on Monday night when former Trump adviser Steve Cortes and New York Times columnist Wajahat Ali collided over President Donald Trump's racist attacks on Congresswomen Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez …
Gabby Orr / Politico:
How Trump aides rushed to repackage the ‘go back’ tweets — Within hours of President Donald Trump's radioactive tweets on Sunday urging several Democratic congresswomen to “go back” to other countries, his campaign was scrambling to repackage the attack on the four women of color into a broader patriotic message.
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POLITICUSUSA, The Intercept and The Week
Ishaan Tharoor / Washington Post:
Trump's racism cements his party's place among the West's far right
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New York Times, New Yorker and The Guardian
David Moye / HuffPost:
Rep. Ilhan Omar Has Been A U.S. Citizen Longer Than Melania Trump
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POLITICUSUSA and Raw Story
Adam Serwer / The Atlantic:
Trump Tells America What Kind of Nationalist He Is
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New York Times, Washington Post, Vox and Mediaite, more at Mediagazer »
Rich Lowry / New York Post:
Woke assimilation: Teaching our politicians to hate America
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National Review, Washington Post and Washington Free Beacon
George T. Conway III / Washington Post:
George Conway: Trump is a racist president — George T. Conway III is a lawyer in New York. — To this day, I can remember almost the precise spot where it happened: a supermarket parking lot in eastern Massachusetts. It was the mid-1970s; I was not yet a teenager, or barely one.
New York Times:
Trump Campaign Invests Big in Small Donors, and Reaps Rewards — WASHINGTON — Democrats have traditionally trounced Republicans when it comes to raising money from small donors, but President Trump's 2020 re-election campaign is spending heavily to try to change that.
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Shane Goldmacher / New York Times:
Beto O'Rourke's Fund-Raising Falters as 2020 Democrats Announce Finances — The gap between the rich and the poor in the Democratic presidential primary is growing — and Beto O'Rourke has landed on the worrisome side of the dividing line. — Mr. O'Rourke, who had entered the race in March …
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Washington Post:
Low-polling Democratic presidential candidates spent almost all the money they raised in the second quarter
Foster Klug / Associated Press:
North Korea suggests it might lift weapons test moratorium — PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — North Korea on Tuesday suggested it might call off its 20-month suspension of nuclear and missile tests because of summertime U.S.-South Korean military drills that the North calls preparation for an eventual invasion.
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Min Joo Kim / Washington Post:
North Korea hints it may resume nuclear testing, accuses U.S. of reneging on pact
Jacqueline Alemany / Washington Post:
Power Up: Trumpworld says attacks on minority congresswomen are actually good politics
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Annie Karni / New York Times:
Trump's Aides, Not Eager to Defend His Tweets, Also Don't Condemn Them — WASHINGTON — When President Trump defended neo-Nazi protesters in Charlottesville, Va., in 2017, one of his top aides took the rare step of publicly condemning what he said. — Gary D. Cohn, who served …
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Politico, Daily Kos and Media Matters for America
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Stef W. Kight / Axios:
It's taking longer and longer to become a legal immigrant — The number of immigrants waiting on a judge to decide whether they can stay in the U.S. keeps climbing, according to Justice Department data. — Why it matters: Immigration-court backlogs “are basically crippling the whole system …
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Washington Post:
Pelosi torpedoes White House debt limit plan, throwing budget talks into chaos — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi late Monday said the House of Representatives would not raise the debt ceiling unless it is part of a broader budget deal, putting extreme pressure on the White House and congressional leaders to cut a deal within days.
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Salvador Hernandez / BuzzFeed News:
A Neo-Nazi Blogger Was Ordered To Pay $14 Million To A Woman Who Was Targeted In A Racist “Troll Storm” — A federal judge awarded more than $14 million to a woman who was barraged with anti-Semitic and threatening messages online after a neo-Nazi blogger instructed his followers to target her and her family with a “troll storm.”
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New York Times:
After 2016 Bible Slip, Trump Lashed Out at ‘So-Called Christians,’ Book Says — Furious after he was criticized by evangelicals for stumbling in his reference to a book of the Bible during the 2016 campaign, Donald J. Trump lashed out at “so-called Christians” and used an epithet in describing …
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Mediaite
Charles Creitz / Fox News:
Peter Thiel tells Tucker Carlson which 2020 Dem has him ‘most scared’ — Billionaire Silicon Valley investor Peter Thiel says there is one Democratic presidential candidate who makes him most concerned ahead of the 2020 elections. — Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., is the only Democratic …
Yashar Ali / HuffPost:
BBC Accepts Iran's Demand Of Blackout On Its Persian Sites Amid Regime's Attacks On Press — A deal to not share reporting from Iran on BBC Persian has angered staffers who see it as complicity with a government that imprisons, tortures and kills journalists.
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RedState, more at Mediagazer »
CNN:
Exclusive: Security reports reveal how Assange turned an embassy into a command post for election meddling — Watch this story on The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer at 6 p.m. ET and on Anderson Cooper 360 at 8 p.m. ET. — Atlanta (CNN)New documents obtained exclusively by CNN reveal …
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Niv Elis / The Hill:
WH projects $1 trillion deficit for 2019 — The White House projects that the federal deficit will surpass $1 trillion this year, the only time in the nation's history the deficit has exceeded that level, excluding the four-year period following the Great Recession.
Brian Slodysko / Associated Press:
Harris blasts, and takes money from, Epstein's law firm — WASHINGTON (AP) — Kamala Harris bemoaned the influence of the powerful and connected elite last Tuesday when she called on top Justice Department officials to recuse themselves from any matter related to Jeffrey Epstein.
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Townhall, twitchy.com and New York Post
Eric Felten / RealClearInvestigations:
The Labyrinthine Ways and Wages of Stefan Halper — Stefan Halper, the shadowy Cambridge academic who may have helped the FBI spy on the Trump campaign, was paid more than $1 million by a U.S. agency for research papers of dubious value, according to a new government report.
Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg / The Appeal:
Philadelphia D.A. Asks Court to Declare Death Penalty System Unconstitutional — Larry Krasner says the punishment is ‘really about poverty’ and race. — Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner—who vowed as a candidate not to seek the death penalty—has asked the Pennsylvania Supreme Court …
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The Intercept and Reason
New York Times:
Tariffs on China Don't Cover the Costs of Trump's Trade War — WASHINGTON — President Trump on Monday portrayed America as being on the winning end of his trade war, saying tariffs are punishing China's economy while generating billions of dollars for the United States …
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