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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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RedState and The Gateway Pundit
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Washington Post:
Live: ‘The president was not exculpated for the acts that he allegedly committed,’ Mueller tells House Judiciary Committee — This live story is being reported by Matt Zapotosky, Karoun Demirjian, Rachael Bade, Rosalind S. Helderman, Tom Hamburger, Shane Harris, Devlin Barrett, John Wagner and Rachel Weiner.
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CNN, Shareblue Media, Political Wire, USA Today, Quartz and Deadline
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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Detroit News, Talking Points Memo, Mediaite and Political Wire
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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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, The Week, ThinkProgress and The Independent
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
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 …
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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Politico, PJ Media Home, Townhall and Breitbart
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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Reason and Political Wire
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Mueller refutes Trump's ‘no collusion, no obstruction’ line
Mueller refutes Trump's ‘no collusion, no obstruction’ line
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ABC News, Talking Points Memo and Associated Press
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
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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Mother Jones, Inquirer.com, The Daily Caller, VICE, Rolling Stone, Slate, RedState, CNN, Vox, Washington Post, The Week, The National Interest, Mediaite and Talking Points Memo
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
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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Washington Free Beacon, The Resurgent, JNS.org, Breitbart, 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
Nina Totenberg / NPR:
Justice Ginsburg: ‘I Am Very Much Alive’ — Toggle more options — 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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Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Talking Points Memo, Politico, Quartz, Washington Free Beacon, New York Post 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
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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Washington Examiner, Breitbart, New York Times and IJR
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Steven Overly / Politico:
FTC strikes $5B Facebook settlement against fierce Democratic objections — The FTC on Wednesday officially unveiled its $5 billion data privacy settlement with Facebook — adding to the outrage of Democratic lawmakers and regulators who called the provisions far too mild to hold …
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Facebook, TechCrunch and One America News Network, more at Techmeme »
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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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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, Pacific Standard, Axios, Dallas Morning News and Common Dreams
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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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VICE, Dallas Morning News, New York Times, ImmigrationProf Blog and fox8.com
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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RedState, Big League Politics, Politico, Washington Examiner, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, TheBlaze, Townhall, CNBC, Axios, Daily Wire, Washington Post and Mediaite
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Rod Dreher / The American Conservative:
Bonfire Of The Trannities — Sit down, my people, and read the craziest true story you will read this year or maybe even this decade. — It is written by a journalist named Kera Bolonik, who has made an extremely complicated story comprehensible, in the sense that she recalls a logical progression of events.
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National Review
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Kera Bolonik / The Cut:
The Most Gullible Man in Cambridge A Harvard Law professor who teaches a class on judgment …
The Most Gullible Man in Cambridge A Harvard Law professor who teaches a class on judgment …
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New York Times
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, VICE, The Week, Political Wire and Townhall
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
Project Veritas:
Current Sr. Google Engineer Goes Public on Camera: Tech is “dangerous,” “taking sides” — Insider: “It's time to decide, do we run the technology, or does the technology run us?” — “I really don't buy the idea that big tech is politically neutral.” — “Are we going to just let the …
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Breitbart and Daily Wire
Elizabeth Spiers / New Republic:
Beyond Pelosi — Every time I see Nancy Pelosi patiently spell out the higher political wisdom of refraining from impeachment proceedings against Donald Trump, I think of Alan Greenspan. That's obviously not because the speaker of the House and the famously tight-lipped former Fed chair …
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.
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, JONATHAN TURLEY and Fox News