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Nicholas Fandos / New York Times:
Key Aide Will Appear Alongside Mueller During Hearings — WASHINGTON — Robert S. Mueller III's longtime right-hand aide will appear beside him at the witness table during Wednesday's hearing with the House Judiciary Committee to assist as needed as the former special counsel answers questions …
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CNN:
Mueller makes last minute ask to swear in deputy for hearing
Mueller makes last minute ask to swear in deputy for hearing
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The Daily Caller, The National Interest, Law & Crime and New York Post
Josh Campbell / CNN:
Robert Mueller will frustrate the hell out of Congress
Robert Mueller will frustrate the hell out of Congress
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National Review
Martin Matishak / Politico:
Ahead of Mueller testimony, Democrats rip into McConnell on election security
Ahead of Mueller testimony, Democrats rip into McConnell on election security
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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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Emily Guskin / Washington Post:
How Americans view Mueller and impeachment, in five charts — Former special counsel Robert S. Mueller III will testify before Congress on Wednesday about his investigation into Russia's interference in the 2016 presidential campaign and possible obstruction of justice by President Trump.
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Politico
Hannah Gilberstadt / Pew Research Center:
For the first time, majority of Republicans express confidence in the fairness of Mueller's investigation
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Here's how Mueller's testimony could damage Trump
Here's how Mueller's testimony could damage Trump
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Vox, The Mahablog, CBS Boston, Hullabaloo and New York Times
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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The American Conservative
Washington Post:
'We're like Thelma and Louise': Republicans shrug at deficits under Trump — In 2011, with the nation still climbing back from the Great Recession, Republicans threatened global markets by refusing to raise the federal debt limit unless President Obama and the Democrats agreed to steep, across-the-board spending cuts for years to come.
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Democratic Progressives and Centrists Are Both Committing Strategic Suicide
Democratic Progressives and Centrists Are Both Committing Strategic Suicide
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Center for American …, Washington Post, The American Conservative and NPR
Brian Beutler / Crooked Media:
The Case for A More Fighting Democratic Party
Philip Klein / Washington Examiner:
With budget deal, Trump drains the swamp — of the Tea Party
With budget deal, Trump drains the swamp — of the Tea Party
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Kevin Breuninger / CNBC:
Trump sues House Ways and Means panel to block disclosure of his tax returns — KEY POINTS — President Trump filed a lawsuit against the House Ways and Means Committee, the New York state's attorney general and tax chief to block the disclosure of years of his tax returns.
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Jared Holt / Right Wing Watch:
This GOP Challenger to Ilhan Omar ‘100%’ Stands with QAnon — Danielle Stella, a Republican candidate seeking to unseat Rep. Ilhan Omar from the U.S. House of Representatives in 2020, firmly supports the QAnon conspiracy theory, according to someone identifying themselves as communications volunteer …
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Will Sommer / The Daily Beast:
Rep. Ilhan Omar's Republican Challenger Appears to be a QAnon Conspiracy Theorist
Rep. Ilhan Omar's Republican Challenger Appears to be a QAnon Conspiracy Theorist
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Washington Monthly and Progress Pond
Tim Miller / The Bulwark:
We Jailed An American Citizen for Having Brown Skin — That's not “populism” and it's sure as hell not “patriotism.” — We needed to jail Francisco Galicia until our country's representatives could figure out what the hell was going on. — This was the position of the Trump administration …
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Obed Manuel / Dallas Morning News:
Francisco Galicia, U.S. citizen held by CBP, ICE for three weeks, has been released — Francisco Erwin Galicia, the Dallas-born U.S. citizen who spent three weeks in U.S. Customs and Border Protection and Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody, was released Tuesday afternoon.
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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Fox News helped radicalize domestic terrorist Cesar Sayoc, say his lawyers — Cesar Sayoc pleaded guilty in March to mailing improvised explosive devices to 13 people, including many prominent Democratic figures, among them former president Barack Obama, former vice president Joe Biden …
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Kelly Weill / The Daily Beast:
MAGA Bomber's Lawyers Blame Trump, Sean Hannity for His Radicalization
Ryan J. Reilly / HuffPost:
Lawyers For Trump ‘Super Fan’ Cesar Sayoc Say Trump's Rhetoric Inspired Terrorist Plot On Democrats
Lawyers For Trump ‘Super Fan’ Cesar Sayoc Say Trump's Rhetoric Inspired Terrorist Plot On Democrats
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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.
Maria Sacchetti / Washington Post:
Trump vowed millions of immigration arrests in dramatic raids. ICE caught 18 family members. — When President Trump vowed to deport “millions” of immigrants from the United States, he was telegraphing an Immigration and Customs Enforcement operation that targeted migrants with final deportation orders.
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Antonia Noori Farzan / Washington Post:
‘We stuck together like neighbors are supposed to do’: A community thwarts a father's ICE arrest
‘We stuck together like neighbors are supposed to do’: A community thwarts a father's ICE arrest
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CNN, ABC News, WHOTV and Common Dreams
Brooklyn Dance / The Tennessean:
ICE agents back down in Nashville after neighbors, activists link arms to help man, boy avoid feds
ICE agents back down in Nashville after neighbors, activists link arms to help man, boy avoid feds
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Big League Politics, Nashville Scene and WTVF-TV
Ben Terris / Washington Post:
Who is Kamala Harris, really? Ask her sister Maya. — DES MOINES — It was the Fourth of July, Independence Day, and Kamala Harris was explaining to her sister, Maya, that campaigns are like prisons. — She'd been recounting how in the days before the Democratic debate in Miami life had actually slowed down to a manageable pace.
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Jeffrey Cimmino / Washington Free Beacon:
Gabbard: ‘Kamala Harris is Not Qualified to Serve as Commander in Chief’
Gabbard: ‘Kamala Harris is Not Qualified to Serve as Commander in Chief’
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The Hill, National Review, Hot Air, PJ Media Home and The Federalist
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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New York Times:
Jeffrey Epstein Moved Money Overseas in Transactions His Bank Flagged to U.S. — As Deutsche Bank officials this year scrambled to extricate themselves from a yearslong relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, the wealthy financier charged this month with sex trafficking, they uncovered suspicious transactions …
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Financial Times, Florida Politics and Boing Boing
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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New York Times:
Trump Relies on Populist Language, but He Mostly Sides With Corporate Interests — WASHINGTON — History will record last week as a moment when President Trump turned to raw racial appeals to attack a group of nonwhite lawmakers, but his attacks also underscored a remarkable fact of his first term …
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Washington Post, Politico, Lawyers, Guns & Money and Mediaite
Maxwell Strachan / HuffPost:
The Fall Of Mic Was A Warning — “I don't need a pair of Nikes. I need a 401(k)” — and other lessons from the death of a venture-backed, Facebook-dependent, millennial-focused news site. — Esther Bergdahl felt invigorated. How could she not? It was 2014, and she had just joined …
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CNN:
Warplanes from four countries face off in Asian confrontation — Seoul (CNN)Warplanes from four countries faced off Tuesday in a chaotic and unprecedented confrontation above a small, disputed island off the coast of South Korea and Japan. — South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff issued …
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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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Just Security
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 …
Miami Herald:
He's a Chinese billionaire and a member of Trump's Mar-a-Lago. Is he also a communist spy? | Miami Herald — He's a Chinese billionaire and a member of Trump's Mar-a-Lago. Is he also a communist spy?
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Florida Politics
Joe Biden for President:
Justice - Joe Biden for President — The Biden Plan for Strengthening America's Commitment to Justice Equality, equity, justice - these ideas form the American creed. We have never lived up to it and we haven't always gotten it right, but we've never stopped trying.
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Trump transition adviser convicted on foreign-agent charges — A federal jury on Tuesday convicted Bijan Rafiekian, a former business partner of Michael Flynn, on a pair of foreign-agent felony charges stemming from work the two men did for Turkish interests during the final months of the Trump presidential campaign in 2016.
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