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David Wasserman / NBC News:
How Trump could lose by 5 million votes and still win in 2020 — Analysis: The nation's two most populous states, California and Texas, are at the heart of Democrats' geography problem. — In the wake of President Donald Trump's tweets suggesting several nonwhite progressive congresswomen …
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Nate Cohn / New York Times:
Trump's Electoral College Edge Could Grow in 2020, Rewarding Polarizing Campaign — Re-election looks plausible, with an even bigger loss in the national popular vote. — President Trump's approval ratings are under water in national polls. His position for re-election, on the other hand, might not be quite so bleak.
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Outside the Beltway, Althouse and twitchy.com
Daniel Dale / CNN:
Fact check: Trump falsely accuses Ocasio-Cortez of calling Americans ‘garbage’ — Washington (CNN)During an exchange with reporters as he left the White House on Friday afternoon, President Donald Trump made false accusations against both Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Rep. Ilhan Omar …
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Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
Defenders of a Racist President Use Jews as Human Shields
Defenders of a Racist President Use Jews as Human Shields
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The Federalist
Erin Banco / The Daily Beast:
George Nader, Witness in Mueller Probe, Hit With New Charges of Sex Trafficking — The key cooperator faces additional child-porn charges in a new indictment to be unsealed Friday. — George Nader, who was a key witness in Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation …
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Rachel Weiner / Washington Post:
George Nader indicted on child sex transportation charges
George Nader indicted on child sex transportation charges
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CNN
Dan Mangan / CNBC:
Mueller witness George Nader charged with transporting 14-year-old boy for sex, child porn
Mueller witness George Nader charged with transporting 14-year-old boy for sex, child porn
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Daily Wire
Leana S. Wen / New York Times:
Why I Left Planned Parenthood — I believe abortion is about health care, not politics. Many of my colleagues disagreed. — Dr. Wen is an emergency physician. — This week, I left my position as the president and chief executive of Planned Parenthood.
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Fox News
Andrew Rice / New York Magazine:
Alan Dershowitz Cannot Stop Talking Accused of a slew of terrible things, the defense has no intention of resting. — One morning in July, days after his onetime client Jeffrey Epstein was arrested on sex-trafficking charges, the famed attorney Alan Dershowitz was reminiscing as he drove the winding roads of Martha's Vineyard.
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Devoun Cetoute / Miami Herald:
Palm Beach sheriff opens internal affairs investigation into handling of Jeffrey Epstein
Palm Beach sheriff opens internal affairs investigation into handling of Jeffrey Epstein
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Big League Politics and The Daily Caller
Kevin Drum / Mother Jones:
Racial Resentment Is Down Since 2016 — Recent polling on race relations is pretty grim reading. Ever since Ferguson, both blacks and whites have agreed that race relations in America are getting worse. No matter how you ask the question, you get the same result.
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Cabot Phillips / Campus Reform:
VIDEO: Students say Obama immigration quote racist...when they think it's from Trump
VIDEO: Students say Obama immigration quote racist...when they think it's from Trump
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Breitbart and Daily Wire
Timothy L. O'Brien / Bloomberg:
Trump Can't Just Walk Away From ‘Send Her Back’
CNN:
Trump campaign and RNC spend more than $600,000 on law firm representing Hope Hicks — Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump's campaign and the Republican National Committee have paid more than $600,000 in legal fees to the law firm that represents Hope Hicks, according to reports filed with the Federal Election Commission.
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Will Sommer / The Daily Beast:
How the Ilhan Omar Marriage Smear Went From Fever Swamp to Trump — The curious journey of the unproven rumor that Omar married her brother to get him citizenship—from an obscure Somali diaspora forum to the president. — When Donald Trump suggested on Wednesday that Rep. Ilhan Omar …
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Katelyn Polantz / CNN:
Judge halts Democrats' subpoenas of Trump Org docs in emoluments case — Washington (CNN)A federal judge Friday paused congressional Democrats' subpoenas of Trump Organization financial records, 10 days before the records were due in a lawsuit over whether President Donald Trump is violating the Constitution.
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Andrew Sullivan / New York Magazine:
Trump Is Betting That Indecency Can Win in America — In the deeply disturbing moments after Donald Trump invoked a three-minutes-of-hate session toward Congresswoman Ilhan Omar Wednesday night, and the crowd erupted with chants of “Send Her Back! Send Her Back!”, a protester yelled something inaudible, and caused a commotion.
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The Intercept, The Week, Bloomberg and Summit News
Liz Sly / Washington Post:
Iran seizes British tanker in Strait of Hormuz; denies Trump's claim on drone downing — DUBAI — Iran's Revolutionary Guard seized at least one British tanker in the Strait of Hormuz on Friday, according to Iranian state media, setting up a new showdown with the West and demonstrating …
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Farnaz Fassihi / New York Times:
As Conflict With U.S. Grows, Some Iran Hard-liners Suggest Talking to Trump
As Conflict With U.S. Grows, Some Iran Hard-liners Suggest Talking to Trump
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Washington Post and The National Interest
Brianne Pfannenstiel / Des Moines Register:
Bernie Sanders defends staff compensation after complaints his campaign isn't paying $15 an hour — U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders defended his campaign's compensation package Friday after a Washington Post story highlighted concerns among staffers that they were not receiving the $15-an-hour wages Sanders champions on the campaign trail.
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James Comey / Lawfare:
What I Would Ask Robert Mueller — If I were a member of Congress with five minutes to question Robert Mueller, I would ask short questions drawn from the report's executive summaries. — Volume One: Russia — Did you find that there were a series of contacts between the Trump campaign …
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Law & Crime
James Queally / Los Angeles Times:
LAPD informant infiltrated left-wing activists during Trump protests, records show — The Los Angeles Police Department ordered a confidential informant to monitor and record meetings held by a political group that staged protests against President Trump in 2017, a move that has drawn concern …
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The Guardian
David Marchese / New York Times:
Graydon Carter on Vanity Fair, Jeffrey Epstein and an Editor's Power — “I didn't invent the system. I just lived by the system.” — Graydon Carter on Vanity Fair, Jeffrey Epstein and an editor's power. — During his 25-year run as editor in chief of Vanity Fair …
HuffPost:
Trump Puts More GOP Money In His Own Pocket During Another Million-Dollar Golf Trip — An RNC fundraiser could put hundreds of thousands of dollars into his own business, while the getaway will bring his taxpayer-paid golf tab to $109.2 million. — WASHINGTON ― President Donald Trump …
Jamelle Bouie / New York Times:
The Joy of Hatred — Trump and “his people” reach deep into the violent history of public spectacle in America. — The chanting was disturbing and the anger was frightening, but what I noticed most about the president's rally in Greenville, N.C., on Wednesday night was the pleasure of the crowd.
Washington Post:
Internal drug company emails show indifference to opioid epidemic — In May 2008, as the opioid epidemic was raging in America, a representative of the nation's largest manufacturer of opioid pain pills sent an email to a client at a wholesale drug distributor in Ohio.
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WBUR News, Bangor Daily News and Law & Crime
Tucker Higgins / CNBC:
Pete Buttigieg hires former Goldman Sachs executive as national policy director — KEY POINTS — Democratic presidential contender Pete Buttigieg has hired a former Goldman Sachs vice president and Google executive to run his policy shop, his campaign announced Thursday.
New York Times:
16,000 Readers Shared Their Experiences of Being Told to ‘Go Back.’ Here Are Some of Their Stories. — “Go back to where you came from.” — These seven words are seared into the minds of countless Americans — a reminder that they haven't always been welcome in the country where they were born …
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Boing Boing
The Intercept:
Democrat-Backed Centrist PAC Is Supporting a Republican Against a Vulnerable Swing-District Incumbent — The political action committee affiliated with a bipartisan caucus on Capitol Hill is spending money to back a Republican challenge to Rep. Katie Hill of California …
Rafael Carranza / Arizona Republic:
Sen. Kyrsten Sinema pushes program to streamline removal of migrant families without valid asylum claims — TUCSON — Sen. Kyrsten Sinema is pushing for the implementation of a pilot program along the U.S.-Mexico border that aims to more quickly screen and remove migrant families without valid legal claims …
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National Review, Daily Wire and The Daily Caller
Meghan McCain / New York Times:
What I Learned From My Miscarriage — I loved my baby, and I always will. — Ms. McCain is a co-host of “The View.” — A few weeks ago, I was part of the photo shoot for The New York Times Magazine's cover story about ABC's “The View.” It should have been a moment of triumph …
MJ Lee / CNN:
Donald Trump's accusers: ‘The forgotten’ women of the #MeToo movement — Donald Trump's accusers say they feel forgotten — Watch CNN's The Lead with Jake Tapper at 4 p.m. ET to see the full interviews. — (CNN)Each woman remembers without a shadow of a doubt exactly what they were wearing …
Rosie Gray / BuzzFeed News:
There's A New Movement Trying To Create An Intellectual Strain Of Trumpism. It Just Doesn't Know What Exactly That Means. — WASHINGTON — Amy Wax, a law professor whose hard-right pronouncements have made her an object of outrage among students and led to censure at the University of Pennsylvania …
Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
“I'm Winning”: Donald Trump's Calculated Racism — On Tuesday, President Trump convened his Cabinet in the White House. First to speak after a long, rambling, and inaccuracy-filled monologue by Trump himself was Ben Carson, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.
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Daily Kos
Gerry Smith / Bloomberg:
BuzzFeed Reaches Agreement to Voluntarily Recognize Union — Employees had staged walkout in June to pressure company — Agreement is part of wave of unioning at digital-media sites — BuzzFeed Inc. has agreed to voluntarily recognize its union, ending months of negotiations between management …
John Binder / Breitbart:
Twitter Suspends Angel Mom for Posting About Illegal Immigration — Angel Mom Mary Ann Mendoza, who heads the Angel Families organization, has been suspended from Twitter after posting about illegal immigration and raising awareness about the harms of sanctuary city policies.
Weijia Jiang / CBS News:
Trump took heat from Melania and Ivanka over racist chants at rally — Washington — CBS News has learned President Trump took a lot of heat from his family over the racist chants at a campaign rally in North Carolina on Wednesday. He heard from first lady Melania Trump, his daughter Ivanka and Vice President Mike Pence.
U.S. Department of Justice:
Three Members of California-Based White Supremacist Group Sentenced on Riots Charges Related to August 2017 “Unite the Right” Rally in Charlottesville — Charlottesville, VIRGINIA - Benjamin Daley, Michael Miselis, and Thomas Gillen, members of the white-supremacist organization formerly known …
James Poniewozik / New York Times:
The Night Democracy Became the Lotto — CNN's hourlong debate-lineup revelation had the appearance of a Powerball drawing and just as much depth. — Democracy, as a certain other news outlet has famously observed, dies in darkness. But if you just want to beat it up and humiliate it for an hour, simply stick it in a box.
Alexi McCammond / Axios:
Scoop: John Delaney's staffers have asked him to drop out — On July 9, John Delaney's senior team sat him down and told him to drop out of the presidential race by mid-August, according to three sources close to the campaign. — Why it matters: He's been running for president for 721 days.
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