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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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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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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’
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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ABC News
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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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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Sarah Ferris / Politico:
House condemns Israel boycott over liberal objections
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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Rod Dreher / The American Conservative:
Bonfire Of The Trannities
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 Galicia, U.S. citizen held by CBP, ICE for three weeks, has been released
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Nomaan Merchant / Associated Press:
ICE releases US citizen, 18, wrongfully detained near border
ICE releases US citizen, 18, wrongfully detained near border
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Axios
Manny Fernandez / New York Times:
An American Citizen Is Released From Immigration Custody After Nearly a Month
An American Citizen Is Released From Immigration Custody After Nearly a Month
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Obed Manuel / Dallas Morning News:
A Dallas-born citizen picked up by the Border Patrol has been detained for three weeks, his lawyer says
A Dallas-born citizen picked up by the Border Patrol has been detained for three weeks, his lawyer says
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Riane Roldan / The Texas Tribune:
ICE has released this Dallas-born U.S. citizen detained for more than three weeks
ICE has released this Dallas-born U.S. citizen detained for more than three weeks
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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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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
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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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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Michael Steinberger / New York Times:
Joe Biden Wants to Take America Back to a Time Before Trump
Joe Biden Wants to Take America Back to a Time Before Trump
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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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John Harwood / CNBC:
Why the GOP keeps losing the fight in budget deals
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
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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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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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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The Gateway Pundit and Just Security
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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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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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 …
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Axios
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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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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Washington Free Beacon and Mercury News
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.
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
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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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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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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