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John Bresnahan / Politico:
House Dems warn Omar in ‘imminent danger’ after Trump rally chants — House Democrats erupted in fury Thursday over President Donald Trump's attacks on freshman Rep. Ilhan Omar at his reelection rally, fearful that crowd chants of “send her back” have personally endangered her and her family.
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Christopher Mathias / HuffPost:
A Fascist Trump Rally In Greenville — Scholars say the rally — where Trump supporters chanted “Send her back!” about Muslim Rep. Ilhan Omar — is an escalation in America's slide toward fascism. — GREENVILLE, N.C. — Mark and Nancy Dawson think Muslims should be removed from the United States.
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Ashley Feinberg / Slate:
Jake Tapper Appears to Have Taken a Break From Truth-Telling — Late this afternoon, after increasing tensions among the House Democratic caucus seemed to pause in the wake of Donald Trump's racist tweets about Reps. Ilhan Omar, Ayanna Pressley, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and Rashida Tlaib, CNN anchor Jake Tapper had some news.
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Associated Press:
Trump leans on issue of race in bid for a 2nd term in 2020 — NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump has placed racial animus at the center of his reelection campaign, and even some of his critics believe it could deliver him a second term. — Every successful modern presidential campaign …
Steven Shepard / Politico:
House Republican campaign chairman says there's no place for ‘send her back’ language — The chairman of House Republicans' campaign arm on Thursday criticized the “send her back” chant that animated the crowd at Donald Trump's Wednesday night rally and added a dimension to the president's attacks on four Democratic freshman women.
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Quint Forgey / Politico:
McConnell: Trump ‘on to something’ with attacks on four congresswomen — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Thursday that Donald Trump is “on to something” with his inflammatory attacks against four congresswomen, attempting to frame the president's racist rhetoric as rooted …
Quint Forgey / Politico:
Trump disavows ‘send her back’ chant from his rally
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Colby Hall / Mediaite:
Trump Disavows ‘Send Her Back’ Chant, Claims He Tried to Stop It: ‘I Was Not Happy’
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Shifting demographics are the biggest threat to Republicans' long-term viability
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Washington Post:
Trump says he disagrees with ‘send her back’ …
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Daily Mail:
Flirting with fascism: This was the most sickening moment of your presidency, Mr Trump …
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Andrew Egger / The Bulwark:
Send Her Back! Send Her Back! — In recent days …
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NBC News:
FBI believed Trump was closely involved in hush-money scheme, unsealed documents show — The release of the previously redacted documents came one day after the judge in the case disclosed that prosecutors had concluded their probe into Cohen's campaign finance crimes.
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Lucien Bruggeman / ABC News:
New Cohen documents reveal calls with Trump, National Enquirer publisher before payment — President Donald Trump and his campaign may have had prior knowledge of a deal to silence Stormy Daniels, the adult film actress who allegedly engaged in an extra-marital affair with the then-presidential candidate …
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Adam Klasfeld / courthousenews.com:
Michael Cohen Files Implicate Trump, Hope Hicks and David Pecker — MANHATTAN (CN) - Three years after the “Access Hollywood” tapes sent shot waves of panic through the Trump campaign and the publishers of the National Enquirer, hundreds of pages of new search warrant materials unsealed on Thursday catalogue the cover-up that ensued.
Grant Stern / Washington Press:
Unsealed warrants just directly implicated Trump in porn star hush money felony — Newly unsealed documents from the search warrants used to break open the case against Trump's personal lawyer have finally implicated President Trump directly in his illegal efforts to cover up his extramarital affair …
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Ursula Perano / Axios:
FBI believed Trump was in contact with Cohen, Hope Hicks over hush money payments
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Jon Swaine / The Guardian:
Trump directly involved in talks that led to Stormy Daniels payment, FBI says
Adam Rawnsley / The Daily Beast:
Cohen Called Trump and Hope Hicks During Stormy Daniels Deal, According to FBI Documents
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Jackie Kucinich / The Daily Beast:
Pentagon Contractor Allegedly Threatened to Kill Congresswoman Over Vaccine Bill — Feds charged Darryl Varnum in late June after he told a member he was ‘gonna kill your ass if you do that bill.’ — A Pentagon cybersecurity contractor has been charged with threatening to kill a member …
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Miami Herald:
Leaked documents show Jeffrey Epstein kept funds offshore. Can the money even be tracked? — Jeffrey Epstein's attorneys, hoping to persuade a judge to release the accused sexual predator on bail while awaiting trial, submitted a bare bones accounting of his financing this week.
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Wall Street Journal:
Judge Denies Jeffrey Epstein's Bail Request
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Matt Zapotosky / Washington Post:
Judge to decide whether Jeffrey Epstein can be released from jail
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Adam Serwer / The Atlantic:
What Americans Do Now Will Define Us Forever — The conservative intelligentsia flocked to the Ritz-Carlton in Washington, D.C., this week for the National Conservatism Conference, an opportunity for people who may never have punched a time clock to declare their eternal enmity toward elites …
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Elizabeth Warren / Team Warren:
End Wall Street's Stranglehold On Our Economy — Last month, I announced my economic patriotism agenda — a commitment to fundamentally change the government's approach to the economy so we put American workers and middle-class prosperity ahead of multinational profits and Wall Street bonuses.
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Noa Landau / Haaretz:
Democratic U.S. Congresswomen Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib are planning a visit to Israel and the West Bank in the coming weeks, but Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will have to decide whether they...
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Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
Just a random group of ‘Republicans’? CNN doesn't tell the whole story about a Trump-loving panel — There's no question that the panel of women CNN interviewed about President Trump liked him a lot and don't think he's a racist, despite a congressional resolution to the contrary on Tuesday.
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Julian Borger / The Guardian:
Iran makes ‘substantial’ nuclear offer in return for US lifting sanctions — Iran has offered a deal with the US in which it would formally and permanently accept enhanced inspections of its nuclear programme, in return for the permanent lifting of US sanctions.
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Quartz:
William Barr's donations to Senate Republicans spiked just before they confirmed him as attorney general — In between stints as US attorney general for George HW Bush in the early 90s and now for Donald Trump, while making millions as an executive at Verizon and a lawyer at Kirkland & Ellis …
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Kyle Hopkins / Anchorage Daily News:
The Alaska village where every cop has been convicted of domestic violence — Dozens of convicted criminals have been hired as cops in Alaska communities. Often, they are the only applicants. In Stebbins, every cop has a criminal record, including the chief.
Wall Street Journal:
Epstein Scandal Brings Legal Titans to Blows — Four-year battle between David Boies, Alan Dershowitz turns uglier following financier's arrest — The arrest of Jeffrey Epstein is escalating a long-simmering fight between two of the nation's best-known lawyers, Alan Dershowitz and David Boies.
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Politico
Ryan Mac / BuzzFeed News:
Grindr Had Dreams To Make The World Better For Queer People. Then A Chinese Gaming Company Bought It. — Over the last 18 months, Grindr has faced a federal investigation, layoffs, mismanagement, and internal turmoil. Now the popular gay dating and hookup app is looking for a new owner.
Jim Geraghty / National Review:
Stop Chanting ‘Send Her Back.’ Citizenship Isn't Conditional. — Don't ‘Send Her Back.’ Investigate the Criminal Allegations Surrounding Her. — I suppose we should consider it a small miracle that the crowd at Trump's rally last night chanted “send her back” and not “send them back.”
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Marc Caputo / Politico:
Scaramucci disinvited from Florida GOP fundraiser for bashing Trump's ‘racially charged’ attacks — The Palm Beach County GOP disinvited Anthony Scaramucci from addressing its annual fundraising event after the short-lived White House communications director criticized President Trump's …
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Sarah Maslin Nir / New York Times:
Mt. Vernon Has 2 Mayors, and Its Police Commissioner Was Just Arrested — Things are really not O.K. in this New York suburb. — MOUNT VERNON, N.Y. — On one side of City Hall, Richard Thomas, the former and possibly still-current mayor of Mount Vernon was in his office on Tuesday, the door guarded by two police officers.
Agence France-Presse:
‘You had the Nobel Prize?’ Trump learns of Yazidi activist Murad — Washington (AFP) - US President Donald Trump on Wednesday appeared unfamiliar with the work and cause of Nobel laureate Nadia Murad as she pleaded with him to help the Yazidis of Iraq. — Murad, one of thousands of women …
Maggie Severns / Politico:
Obama and Clinton's bundlers are betting on these 3 candidates — Big-money Democratic donors have jumped off the sidelines of the presidential race, and three candidates are the clear winners of their support: Joe Biden, Pete Buttigieg and Kamala Harris. — Each of those three candidates received …
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