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Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: How to think about today's Mueller extravaganza — DRIVING THE DAY — THERE'S NO WAY to adequately encapsulate the gravity of today's pair of hearings with ROBERT MUELLER. They're absolutely huge politically, substantively and optically.
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Talking Points Memo, Axios, Political Wire and Mediaite
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Mueller scrambles hearing by tapping top deputy as counsel — Robert Mueller's top deputy will appear alongside him for his highly anticipated testimony on Wednesday, according to congressional aides familiar with the preparations, a last-minute curveball that came despite the Justice Department's demand …
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Axios, Reuters, Fox News, Taylor Marsh, Vanity Fair, Breitbart, VICE and RedState
Timothy L. O'Brien / Bloomberg:
How Bill Barr Ran Circles Around Bob Mueller — The special counsel is likely to wind up as just another person with good intentions who got body-slammed by a savvier political operative wearing a sheriff's badge. — Robert Mueller, an unusually honorable and admirable law-enforcement official …
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Washington Post, Common Dreams, Fox News and Townhall
Rachael Bade / Washington Post:
‘A lack of urgency’: Democrats frustrated as House investigators struggle to unearth major revelations about Trump — Democratic frustrations with the House majority's oversight of President Trump are beginning to boil over, as longtime party strategists and liberals alike decry what they view …
New York Times:
Fireworks, Maybe, but Will Mueller Hearing Be a Turning Point? — WASHINGTON — After all the swearing at, finally comes the swearing in. When Robert S. Mueller III takes the oath on Wednesday morning in the wood-paneled Room 2141 of the Rayburn House Office Building …
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Outside the Beltway and Politico
Bradford Betz / Fox News:
Trump blasts decision to let counsel accompany Mueller to testimony: ‘VERY UNFAIR’
Trump blasts decision to let counsel accompany Mueller to testimony: ‘VERY UNFAIR’
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PJ Media Home, Politico and Breitbart
Nicholas Fandos / New York Times:
Key Aide Will Appear Alongside Mueller During Hearings
Key Aide Will Appear Alongside Mueller During Hearings
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Talking Points Memo, Mother Jones, Inquirer.com, VICE, Rolling Stone, CNN, Slate, Washington Post, Vox, The Week, The National Interest and Mediaite
Washington Post:
The administration's last-minute attempt to bully Mueller is offensive
The administration's last-minute attempt to bully Mueller is offensive
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Vox and The Guardian
New York Times:
Robert Mueller's Testimony Is Tomorrow. Here's What You Need to Know.
Robert Mueller's Testimony Is Tomorrow. Here's What You Need to Know.
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Media Matters for America
Chuck Ross / The Daily Caller:
Mueller Makes Last-Minute Request Ahead Of Testimony, And Republicans Aren't Happy About It
Mueller Makes Last-Minute Request Ahead Of Testimony, And Republicans Aren't Happy About It
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CNN, Townhall, fox13now.com, JONATHAN TURLEY and RedState
Chase Madar / BuzzFeed News:
Ilhan Omar's Anti-Semitism Is Becoming A Load-Bearing Myth For American Politics — When House Rep. Ilhan Omar's comments about the Israel lobby took over the news cycle earlier this year, they struck some as innocuously accurate, others as impolitic, while for others they were outrageous and inflammatory.
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Kadia Goba / BuzzFeed News:
The House Voted To Condemn The Boycott Israel Movement Over Protests From Reps. Ilhan Omar And Rashida Tlaib — The measure to formally condemn the BDS movement passed the House overwhelmingly Tuesday night. “Dissent is how we nurture democracy,” Tlaib said. — Reporting From — Washington, DC
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Jewish Insider, CNN, The Resurgent, Breitbart, JNS.org, New York Times, Townhall and Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion
Sarah Ferris / Politico:
House condemns Israel boycott over liberal objections
House condemns Israel boycott over liberal objections
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Common Dreams
David Rutz / Washington Free Beacon:
Tlaib: BDS Movement Against Israel Like American Boycott of Nazi Germany
Tlaib: BDS Movement Against Israel Like American Boycott of Nazi Germany
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The Daily Caller, Daily Wire and Townhall
Nina Totenberg / NPR:
Justice Ginsburg: ‘I Am Very Much Alive’ — Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said in an interview Tuesday that she does not favor proposals put forth by some Democratic presidential candidates who have advocated changing the number of Supreme Court justices if the Democrats win the presidency.
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Talking Points Memo, Politico, Quartz and CNN
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Ariane de Vogue / CNN:
Former Justice John Paul Stevens traveled to Portugal at age 99, Ginsburg reveals at his funeral
Former Justice John Paul Stevens traveled to Portugal at age 99, Ginsburg reveals at his funeral
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The Week
Michael Brice-Saddler / Washington Post:
While bemoaning Mueller probe, Trump falsely says the Constitution gives him ‘the right to do whatever I want’ — President Trump believes the Constitution gives him a wide breadth of power. That's the message he delivered ― not for the first time — on Tuesday while addressing a crowd …
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Slate, Axios, Washington Press, ThinkProgress, The Week and The Independent
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Jacqueline Alemany / Washington Post:
Power Up: Democrats worry Mueller will be a ‘snooze fest,’ while Trump claims falsely he can ‘do whatever I want’
Power Up: Democrats worry Mueller will be a ‘snooze fest,’ while Trump claims falsely he can ‘do whatever I want’
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Political Wire
Hannah Gilberstadt / Pew Research Center:
For the first time, majority of Republicans express confidence in the fairness of Mueller's investigation
For the first time, majority of Republicans express confidence in the fairness of Mueller's investigation
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Politico
New York Times:
Neil Armstrong's Death, and a Stormy, Secret $6 Million Settlement — When Neil Armstrong died in a Cincinnati hospital two weeks after undergoing heart surgery in 2012, his family released a touching tribute addressing the astronaut's millions of admirers around the globe.
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New York Post and Fox News
Joseph Zeballos-Roig / Business Insider:
Joe Biden says he didn't think anyone thought Trump ‘would be as bad as he is’ during the 2016 presidential election — Former Vice President Joe Biden said in an interview that he didn't believe anyone thought during the 2016 presidential election that President Trump would be as divisive as he turned out to be.
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New York Times, Washington Examiner, Breitbart and IJR
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Nomaan Merchant / Associated Press:
ICE releases US citizen, 18, wrongfully detained near border — HOUSTON (AP) — A U.S.-born 18-year-old was released from immigration custody Tuesday after wrongfully being detained for more than three weeks. — Francisco Erwin Galicia left a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center in Pearsall, Texas, on Tuesday.
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The Week, Axios, Common Dreams, Heavy.com and Washington Monthly
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Tim Miller / The Bulwark:
We Jailed An American Citizen for Having Brown Skin
We Jailed An American Citizen for Having Brown Skin
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Dallas Morning News, The Texas Tribune, fox8.com, Talking Points Memo and Splinter
John Solomon / The Hill:
Robert Mueller soon may be exposed as the ‘magician of omission’ on Russia — While most of the political world focused its attention elsewhere, special prosecutor John Durham's team quietly reached out this summer to a lawyer representing European academic Joseph Mifsud …
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Politico, RedState and The Gateway Pundit
Toby Young / Quillette:
Cometh the Hour, Cometh the Man: A Profile of Boris Johnson — I first set eyes on Boris Johnson in the autumn of 1983 when we went up to Oxford at the same time. I knew who he was since my uncle Christopher was an ex-boyfriend of his mother's and he had told me to keep an eye out for him …
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The Federalist, Washington Post, New York Times and BBC
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Kera Bolonik / The Cut:
The Most Gullible Man in Cambridge A Harvard Law professor who teaches a class on judgment wouldn't seem like an obvious mark, would he? — It was just supposed to have been a quick Saturday-morning errand to buy picture hooks. On March 7, 2015, Harvard Law professor Bruce Hay, then 52 …
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New York Times
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Rod Dreher / The American Conservative:
Bonfire Of The Trannities
Bloomberg Law:
Sanders White House Campaign Hit with Federal Labor Complaint — Sen. Bernie Sanders' (I-Vt.) 2020 presidential campaign has been hit with an unfair labor practice complaint alleging illegal employee interrogation and retaliation against staffers. — The July 19 complaint …
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Politico, Townhall, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, CNBC, TheBlaze, Axios, Mediaite, Daily Wire and Washington Post
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Anna Bauman / Detroit Free Press:
Dearborn burger franchise founded in Israel delays opening after backlash, threats — A franchisee has delayed the scheduled opening of his Burgerim restaurant in Dearborn amid backlash from the Arab-American community over the popular burger company's Israeli roots.
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JNS.org, Washington Free Beacon and Mercury News
New York Times:
Trump Sues New York and Congress to Shield His State Tax Returns — WASHINGTON — President Trump sued New York State officials and the House Ways and Means Committee on Tuesday to try to block congressional Democrats from using a recently enacted New York law to obtain his state tax returns.
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The Week
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Kevin Breuninger / CNBC:
Trump sues House Ways and Means panel to block disclosure of his tax returns
Trump sues House Ways and Means panel to block disclosure of his tax returns
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The Gateway Pundit, Law & Crime, VICE and Pirate's Cove
New York Sun:
Senator Franken Regrets — Al Franken's regrets over resigning from the Senate add up to a tragedy for our times. They are relayed by Jane Mayer in an illuminating scoop in the New Yorker. It's a long, reported dispatch to which it's hard to do justice in a short editorial.
Brent Kendall / Wall Street Journal:
Justice Department to Open Broad, New Antitrust Review of Big Tech Companies — Inquiry signals Barr's deep interest in tech sector, poses threat to companies such as Facebook, Google, Amazon, Apple — WASHINGTON—The Justice Department is opening a broad antitrust review …
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Talking Biz News, New York Times, Breitbart, Vanity Fair, RedState, Daily Wire, The Week, CNBC, Engadget, CNN and fox13now.com, more at Techmeme »
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Jack Crowe / National Review:
DOJ Opens Sweeping Anti-Trust Probe of Big Tech Firms
DOJ Opens Sweeping Anti-Trust Probe of Big Tech Firms
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Washington Post, U.S. Department of Justice and KTLA
CNN:
Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rosselló is expected to resign today, source says — (CNN)Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rosselló is expected to resign Wednesday after more than a week of protests that rocked the island's capital city, a source familiar with the situation told CNN.
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Talking Points Memo, The Week, Political Wire and Townhall
Alex Kantrowitz / BuzzFeed News:
The Man Who Built The Retweet: “We Handed A Loaded Weapon To 4-Year-Olds” — Developer Chris Wetherell built Twitter's retweet button. And he regrets what he did to this day. — “We might have just handed a 4-year-old a loaded weapon,” Wetherell recalled thinking as he watched the first Twitter mob use the tool he created.
CBS News:
Thousands of unaccompanied migrant children could be detained indefinitely — An unprecedented number of unaccompanied migrant children are at risk of spending the rest of their childhoods in federal custody, CBS News learned in an exclusive interview with the head of the Office of Refugee Resettlement …