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Julie Hirschfeld Davis / New York Times:
Trump Disavows ‘Send Her Back’ Chant as G.O.P. Frets Over Ugly Phrase — WASHINGTON — President Trump on Thursday disavowed the “send her back” chant that broke out at his re-election rally Wednesday night when he railed against a Somali-born congresswoman, as Republicans in Congress rushed …
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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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David M. Drucker / Washington Examiner:
‘Send her back’ a worst-case scenario for Trump — A reelection campaign dominated by incendiary chants of “send her back” is a worst-case scenario for President Trump, warn senior Republicans who are moving swiftly to douse a political prairie fire sparked by the commander-in-chief's use …
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Toluse Olorunnipa / Washington Post:
Trump supporters' newest rallying cry — ‘Send her back!’ — reverberates across a nation fraught with racial tension
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Lindsay Wise / Wall Street Journal:
Republicans Lay Out 2020 Strategy to Paint Democrats as Radicals
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Jim Geraghty / National Review:
Stop Chanting ‘Send Her Back.’ Citizenship Isn't Conditional.
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John Bresnahan / Politico:
House Dems warn Omar in ‘imminent danger’ after Trump rally chants
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Salvador Rizzo / Washington Post:
Trump falsely claims he tried to stop ‘Send her back!’ chants about Rep. Ilhan Omar
John Parkinson / ABC News:
Trump says he disagrees with ‘send her back’ chants, despite fanning flames for days
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USA Today:
Prosecutors weighed DOJ policy blocking indictment of a sitting president in closing Trump hush-money probe — WASHINGTON — Federal prosecutors' decision to end an investigation into hush money payments to women claiming affairs with Donald Trump relied at least in part …
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CNN:
House Judiciary asks Hope Hicks to clarify testimony about Stormy Daniels — Hope Hicks' House committee testimony released — (CNN)The House Judiciary Committee is examining the truthfulness of former White House communications director and Trump confidante Hope Hicks' statements …
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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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Darren Samuelsohn / Politico:
House Democrats demand Hope Hicks clarify testimony after Cohen document dump
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Adam Klasfeld / courthousenews.com:
Michael Cohen Files Implicate Trump, Hope Hicks and David Pecker
Lucien Bruggeman / ABC News:
New Cohen documents reveal calls with Trump, National Enquirer publisher before payment
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Maria Ines Zamudio / WBEZ:
O'Hare Standoff: Federal Officials Detaining Three Children Of Undocumented Parents — Chicago lawyers, a representative from the Mexican Consulate and a congresswoman from Illinois have all met with U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials to find out why three American citizen children are being detained at O'Hare Airport.
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Manny Ramos / Chicago Sun-Times:
Feds detain 3 sisters at O'Hare for 12 hours; officials accused of setting trap for undocumented parents — Supporters of the family had gathered at the airport, fearing border officials were using children as bait to lure their undocumented parents. — Three girls were detained by U.S. Customs …
Vanessa Romo / NPR:
Acting Head Of Customs and Border Protection Says New Asylum Rule In ‘Pilot’ Phase
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Alejandra Reyes-Velarde / Los Angeles Times:
Customs agent at Long Beach port admits selling guns illegally
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New York Times:
Trump to Nominate Eugene Scalia for Labor Secretary Job — President Trump said he would name Eugene Scalia as his next secretary of labor, tapping the son of the former Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia for a position with vast responsibility over the American work force.
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Ian Kullgren / Politico:
Trump taps Scalia's son for Labor secretary — President Donald Trump plans to nominate Eugene Scalia, son of the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, to be the next Labor secretary. — The president announced the decision on Twitter after POLITICO first reported his plans earlier Thursday.
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Sean Sullivan / Washington Post:
Labor fight roils Bernie Sanders campaign, as workers demand the $15 hourly pay the candidate has proposed for employees nationwide — Unionized campaign organizers working for Sen. Bernie Sanders's presidential effort are battling with its management, arguing that the compensation and treatment …
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Colby Itkowitz / Washington Post:
It's Biden v. Harris Part 2 at next Democratic presidential debate — Former vice president Joe Biden and California Sen. Kamala Harris, who clashed at the first Democratic debate, will face off again on July 31, leaving the ideologically aligned Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and Massachusetts …
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Orion Rummler / Axios:
CNN sets lineups for second round of Democratic debates — CNN has determined the schedule for the second round of 2020 Democratic debates, which will take place July 30-31 in Detroit. — Details: A live, random drawing during a “special edition” of Anderson Cooper 360 kicked off the debate lineup on Thursday.
Nicholas Watt / BBC:
Brexit: Scheme to block no deal ‘could involve Queen’ — Senior Tories seeking to block a no-deal Brexit are examining a radical plan involving the Queen, Newsnight has learned. — Highly placed figures in the rebel group are so concerned that the next prime minister could ignore …
Ted Hesson / Politico:
Trump officials pressing to slash refugee admissions to zero next year — The Trump administration is considering a virtual shutdown of refugee admissions next year — cutting the number to nearly zero — according to three people familiar with the plan. — During a key meeting …
David Corn / Mother Jones:
Donald Trump's Politics of Hate Began With a “Cynical and Evil” GOP Memo — Donald Trump's outburst of nativistic racism—viscerally and putridly displayed by his “go back” tweet-attack on four congresswoman who are people of color and the subsequent and shocking (even for Trump) “send her back” …
Madeline Peltz / Newsweek:
I'm Paid to Watch Tucker Carlson Each Night. Don't Tell Me This Rant About Ilhan Omar Isn't Shocking | Opinion — Tucker Carlson raced to the defense of President Donald Trump and his racist tweets against “the Squad” this week, accusing the four non-white Democratic congresswomen …
Madeline Holcombe / CNN:
Gendered language like ‘manhole’ will soon be banned from Berkeley's city codes — (CNN)Soon, there will be no more manholes in the city of Berkeley, California. There will also be no chairmen, no manpower, no policemen or policewomen. — No, that doesn't mean a whole city will be without committee leaders and law enforcement.
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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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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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Stuart Stevens / Washington Post:
Trump chooses open racism. What does his party choose? — In the American political system, parties have a certain “circuit breaker” role to play. Seven years ago, the Republican National Committee withdrew support from Senate candidate Todd Akin of Missouri after he tried to distinguish between …
Lisa Friedman / New York Times:
E.P.A. Won't Ban Chlorpyrifos, Pesticide Tied to Children's Health Problems — WASHINGTON — The Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday announced it would not ban a widely-used pesticide associated with developmental disabilities and other health problems in children.
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Ryan Prior / CNN:
The 200th firefighter just died from a World Trade Center-related illness — New York Mayor Bill de Blasio tweeted images of FDNY firefighters Richard Driscoll and Kevin Nolan, saying, “200 members of the FDNY have now succumbed to WTC-related illness. They didn't hesitate to run into danger.
David Brooks / New York Times:
Donald Trump Hates America — The rest of us can love America well. — So apparently Donald Trump wants to make this an election about what it means to be American. He's got his vision of what it means to be American, and he's challenging the rest of us to come up with a better one.
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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