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Kellyanne Conway Snaps Back at Reporter: 'What's Your Ethnicity?' — “My ethnicity is not relevant to the question I'm asking you,” the reporter replied. — When White House reporter Andrew Feinberg posed a question to Kellyanne Conway on Tuesday about the president's racist tweets …
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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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Trump feeds his voters another scam, wrapped in racist packaging — In the closing days of the 2018 elections, President Trump's political guru, Brad Parscale, rolled out a massive TV ad campaign featuring a worried suburban mom fussing over her daughter. The woman told herself that everything …
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House divided: Vote temporarily halted after Pelosi calls Trump comments ‘racist’ on the floor — The resolution would rap Trump for racist tweets, but Collins said denigrating the president violates House rules. He moved to have Pelosi's remarks stricken.
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Strawman Elegy — I like and admire our friend J. D. Vance, but I do want to throttle him just a little bit — just a little! — when he says things like this: “The question conservatives confront at this key moment is this: Whom do we serve? Do we serve pure, unfettered commercial freedom?


Scaramucci: Trump ‘turning into’ a racist
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Why Donald Trump is thrilled about this fight with the ‘Squad’
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A Racist in the White House
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Washington Post, The Atlantic and WCCO | CBS Minnesota

The American Right Defines Patriotism As Complacency About Racism
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Media Matters for America and Politico

'That's all I've got': Romney fails his own test on Trump's racist tweets
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Daily Kos, NB Blog, The Daily Caller, Salt Lake Tribune and Balloon Juice


Planned Parenthood Removes Leana Wen as President — Planned Parenthood on Tuesday removed its president after less than a year in the job, seeking new leadership at a time when abortion rights have come under increasing attack from statehouses and Republicans in Washington.
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Head of Planned Parenthood forced out after eight months — The president of Planned Parenthood was forced out of her job Tuesday in a dispute over the direction of the the nation's largest women's reproductive rights organization amid growing political and legal challenges to abortion.
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RedState, Associated Press and Students For Life

Trump abortion rule deals ‘devastating blow’ to Planned Parenthood, group says
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Mark Sanford, SC Republican, former US Rep considers presidential run against Trump — Mark Sanford, the former South Carolina congressman ousted from office after President Donald Trump urged voters to reject him, is considering a run for president. — Sanford, in an exclusive interview Tuesday …
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EXCLUSIVE: Former Trump Aide Jason Miller Admits to Hiring Prostitutes in 2015 and 2017 — Republican operative Jason Miller, the former communications chief for the Trump campaign and transition team, said he hired numerous prostitutes and visited “hand job” massage parlors as recently …
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Political Wire


Eric Garner's Death Will Not Lead to Federal Charges for N.Y.P.D. Officer — The decision came five years after Mr. Garner's dying words — “I can't breathe” — became a rallying cry. — The Justice Department will not bring federal charges against a New York City police officer in the death …
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A Judge Has Banned Roger Stone From Posting Anything On Instagram, Facebook, Or Twitter — WASHINGTON — A federal judge on Tuesday issued an order prohibiting Roger Stone, a longtime ally and adviser of President Donald Trump, from posting anything on Instagram, Facebook …
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Judge finds longtime Trump confidante Roger Stone in violation of gag order
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Ex-CNN commentator at progressive summit: Major news outlets are ‘Zionist orgs’ — PHILADELPHIA — Former CNN commentator Marc Lamont Hill claimed that news outlets like NBC and ABC were “Zionist organizations” that produced “Zionist content,” during a panel on Friday at the annual Netroots Nation summit held …
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What Would It Cost for Republicans to Condemn Trump? — Anything you will have to do eventually, you should do immediately. — This is the passage that struck me most in the George Conway piece everyone is talking about: … What is it, exactly, that we want from elected Republicans?
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Caller Wants to Nominate a “Normal” Republican Instead of Trump — RUSH: Let's grab Douglas on line 4, San Diego. Douglas, it's great to have you on the EIB Network, sir. Hello. — CALLER: Well, thanks. It's wonderful to be here. Of course, I often... I listen to your show.


Peter Thiel Says Elizabeth Warren Is Most ‘Dangerous’ Candidate — Peter Thiel, the technology industry's most prominent supporter of President Donald Trump, called Elizabeth Warren the most “dangerous” Democratic presidential candidate. — In a rare television interview …
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Trump's threat to investigate Google isn't based on evidence. It's based on Fox News.
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In 2020 Democratic Fund-Raising, Five Candidates Stand Out — Five Democratic presidential candidates raised a combined $96 million from individual donors in the last three months — about three-quarters of the total fund-raising by the entire Democratic field, according to reports filed with the Federal Election Commission on Monday.
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The 25 Most Influential People on the Internet — For our fifth annual roundup of the most influential people on the Internet, TIME evaluated contenders by looking at their global impact on social media and their overall ability to drive news. Here's who made this year's unranked list.


Steve Scalise says House Republicans didn't disrespect Obama's position. Let's go to the tape. — House Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) made quite an assertion Tuesday about how Republicans treated President Barack Obama while he was in office. — “We had disagreements with a lot …
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Jeffrey Epstein Abused Victims While Serving Time in Florida, Accuser's Lawyer Says — Attorney Brad Edwards says a new accuser has come forward to say Epstein took advantage of work release to prey on young women. — An attorney representing Jeffrey Epstein accusers said Tuesday that at least …
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Freshmen Dems Fortify House Advantage With Massive Q2s — More than 30 newly elected members raised over $500,000 each in the second quarter. — Swing-seat freshman Democrats raised a collective $24 million in the second quarter of 2019, a staggering sum that will provide an early fortification …
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Loose threads in the curious case (10) — Given the elevated attention President Trump has showered on Ilhan Omar, the Drudge Report now links to the June 23 page-one Star Tribune story by Patrick Coolican and Stephen Montemayor under the awkward headline “New documents revisit questions about Rep. Ilhan Omar's marriage history.”
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A Border Patrol Agent Reveals What It's Really Like to Guard Migrant Children — With the agency under fire for holding children in deplorable conditions and over racist and misogynistic Facebook posts, one agent speaks about what it's like to do his job. “Somewhere down the line people just accepted what's going on as normal.”
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Judge Decides Neo-Nazi Owes Woman Over $14M After ‘Storming’ Her Family — A federal judge in Montana decided Monday that Daily Stormer founder Andrew Anglin owes real estate agent Tanya Gersh more than $14 million after rallying other white supremacists on his site to inundate her and her family with a barrage of threats and vitriol.
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Rep. Al Green says he will file articles of impeachment against Trump tonight, despite pushback from Democratic leaders — The Texas Democrat told The Washington Post that he has notified Democratic leaders of his move to file the articles Tuesday night. Under House rules …


Ikea is closing its only US factory and moving production to Europe — London (CNN Business)Ikea is shutting down its only furniture factory in the United States. — The Swedish company will end production this December at its plant in Danville, Virginia. Operations will move to Europe, where the company says it can cut costs.
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Sebastian Gorka says that Obama was our first celebrity president — Sebastian Gorka was a deputy assistant to President Trump. He left the White House in August 2017, a week after Steve Bannon was forced out. Now he hosts a daily three-hour radio show on the conservative Salem Radio Network.
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The extraordinary trek of George Takei — The cult icon is on a mission to make sure America doesn't forget a shameful legacy — NEW YORK — As a child, he believed the camp to be a magical oasis, where mythical dinosaurs prowled the woods at night. A native of Los Angeles, he marveled at the …


Exclusive: Trump to order drive for improved flu vaccine — President Donald Trump is readying an executive order that would direct HHS to overhaul the development of flu vaccine and encourage more Americans to get vaccinated, say nine people with knowledge of the plan and according to internal documents reviewed by POLITICO.