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11:45 PM ET, July 25, 2019

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New York Times:
Russia Targeted Elections Systems in All 50 States, Report Finds  —  WASHINGTON — The Senate Intelligence Committee concluded Thursday that election systems in all 50 states were targeted by Russia in 2016, largely undetected by the states and federal officials at the time …
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CNN:
Treasury pick Monica Crowley spread Obama smears: ‘Can he be both loyal to Islam and loyal to the United States?’  —  Trump security pick plagiarized in 2012 book  —  (CNN)President Donald Trump's pick for the top spokeswoman job at the Treasury Department repeatedly spread conspiracy theories …
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Caleb Howe / Mediaite:
CNN Photo Editor Resigns From Network Over Vicious Anti-Semitic Tweets on Deaths of ‘Jewish Pigs’  —  A CNN photo editor resigned from the network Thursday after his past, vicious tweets about Jews and Israel, including posts apparently celebrating the deaths of “Jewish pigs,” were unearthed.
New York Times:
How Jeffrey Epstein Used the Billionaire Behind Victoria's Secret for Wealth and Women  —  In May 1997, Alicia Arden, a model in California, was introduced to a man who identified himself as a talent scout for Victoria's Secret.  He invited her to his Santa Monica hotel room to audition for the brand's catalog.
Washington Post:
Meet the man who created the fake presidential seal — a former Republican fed up with Trump  —  Charles Leazott hadn't thought about the seal in months.  —  The 46-year-old graphic designer threw it together after the 2016 presidential election — it was one part joke, one part catharsis.
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Betsy Klein / CNN:
Trump appeared in front of this doctored seal and now a TPUSA aide is fired
Donald Trump / Associated Press:   Trump gave speech in front of hoax presidential seal
Isaac Chotiner / New Yorker:
Neal Katyal Has One More Question for Robert Mueller After His Testimony  —  On Wednesday, the former special counsel Robert Mueller testified before the House Judiciary and Intelligence committees about his report on Russian interference in the 2016 Presidential election.
Discussion: Washington Post and Common Dreams
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CNN:   Andrew McCabe: Time for Congress to pursue impeachment inquiry - CNN Video
Elie Mystal / Above the Law:   Imagine Mueller Just Said All That About A Black President
Reuters:
Reuters photo captures Guatemalan mother begging soldier to let her enter U.S  —  MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Lety Perez fell to her haunches, a clenched hand covering her face as she wept, an arm clutching her small 6-year-old son, who glared defiantly at the Mexican National Guard soldier blocking …
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Obed Manuel / Dallas Morning News:
A Border Patrol chief testifies that Francisco Galicia never claimed U.S. citizenship, but document says otherwise  —  A U.S. Border Patrol chief on Thursday testified before the House Judiciary Committee that 18-year-old Francisco Erwin Galicia never claimed to be a U.S. citizen when he was in Border Patrol custody for 23 days.
Los Angeles Times:
Trump's latest immigration outrage would turn the U.S. into a ‘papers, please’ nation
Discussion: New York Times
Fox News:
Fox News Poll, July 25  —  Joe Biden is the lone top tier candidate in the Democratic nomination race, according to the latest Fox News Poll.
Discussion: Splinter
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Dana Blanton / Fox News:
Fox News Poll: Biden holds commanding lead for Democratic nomination  —  Joe Biden is the lone top tier candidate in the Democratic nomination race, according to the latest Fox News Poll.  —  The former vice president captures 33 percent support among Democratic primary voters (up one point since June).
Congresswoman Katherine Clark:
Vice Chair of the House Democratic Caucus Congresswoman Katherine Clark Calls for Impeachment Inquiry  —  July 25, 2019, Washington, D.C. - Today, Vice Chair Congresswoman Katherine Clark issued the below statement:  —  Throughout his life and presidency, Donald Trump has proven himself unfit to serve.
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Congressman Peter DeFazio:
Statement from Rep. Peter DeFazio on Opening an Impeachment Inquiry
Discussion: CNN
Andrew Donnelly / U.S. Representative Lisa …:   Blunt Rochester Announces Support for Beginning Impeachment Proceedings
Kate Sullivan / CNN:
Dem lawmaker to her party: ‘Take action’ on impeachment by September or ‘shut it down’
Discussion: RedState and Vox
Jerry Mitchell / ProPublica:
We Found Photos of Ole Miss Students Posing With Guns in Front of a Shot-Up Emmett Till Memorial.  Now They Face a Possible Civil Rights Investigation.  —  OXFORD, Miss. — Three University of Mississippi students have been suspended from their fraternity house and face possible investigation …
Daisuke Wakabayashi / New York Times:
Tulsi Gabbard, Democratic Presidential Candidate, Sues Google for $50 Million  —  Representative Tulsi Gabbard, the long-shot presidential candidate from Hawaii, said in a federal lawsuit that Google infringed on her free speech when it briefly suspended her campaign's advertising account after the first Democratic debate in June.
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Jack Crowe / National Review:
Tulsi Gabbard Sues Google for $50 Million, Alleging Censorship
Jon Swaine / The Guardian:
Pro-Trump Republican aiming to unseat Ilhan Omar charged with felony theft  —  Exclusive: Danielle Stella, reported to support baseless QAnon conspiracy theory, held twice this year over alleged shoplifting  —  A pro-Trump Republican candidate for Congress who is aiming to unseat Ilhan Omar …
New York Times:
Mueller Testimony Deepens Democratic Divide on Impeachment  —  WASHINGTON — Robert S. Mueller III's long-awaited testimony has inflamed divisions among Democrats over impeachment, with some senior lawmakers pushing on Thursday to begin formal impeachment hearings soon, and vulnerable moderates pleading …
Discussion: Florida Phoenix
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Laurie Kellman / Associated Press:   Donald who? Pelosi, Democrats vow to ‘own August’ on issues
Grant Stern / Washington Press:
Speaker Pelosi just laid out the roadmap to impeachment
Discussion: Politico, Breitbart and LifeZette
Justin Baragona / The Daily Beast:
Meghan McCain Confronts Adam Schiff: Show Me Your ‘Smoking Gun’ on Trump Collusion Now  —  “The Russians offered dirt on Hillary Clinton in writing and sent it to [Donald Trump Jr.],” Schiff stated.  “And Don Jr's response was in writing.”  —  The View's Meghan McCain pressed House …
Discussion: Breitbart and Washington Post
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Mueller Testifies Russia Had Blackmail on Trump
Discussion: RedState and Wall Street Journal
Yvonne Wingett Sanchez / Arizona Republic:
Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren to host town hall in Tempe  —  Elizabeth Warren will host a town hall in Tempe next week after the second round of presidential candidate debates in Detroit.  —  The senator from Massachusetts is among the top Democratic contenders in early states and national polls.
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Joshua Green / Bloomberg:
Elizabeth Warren Has a Radical Plan to Beat Trump at His Own Game
Discussion: Washington Post and Politico
Aidan McLaughlin / Mediaite:
Fox's Napolitano Says Trump Has Changed: He Has ‘Unleashed a Torrent of Hatred’  —  Fox News legal analyst Andrew Napolitano lamented that President Donald Trump is a changed man in a new op-ed accusing his old friend of unleashing a “torrent of hatred.”  —  “I have known President Trump personally since 1986.
Discussion: Fox News
Ronald Brownstein / The Atlantic:
Will Trump's Racist Attacks Help Him?  Ask Blue-Collar White Women.  —  Donald Trump's turn toward more overt racism in his “go back” attacks on four Democratic congresswomen of color rests on an unspoken bet: that the women who are part of his core constituencies will respond to his acrimony as enthusiastically as the men.
Sarah K. Burris / Raw Story:
Susan Collins might back out of 2020 election as her approval rating plummets  —  It's been one week to the day since Sen. Susan Collins' (R-ME) public job approval ratings showed she was in trouble.  As a result, she may be rethinking running at all in 2020.
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Mueller didn't fail.  The country did.  —  Being thousands of miles away from home in Portugal, a country that 45 years ago was in the grasp of a brutal dictatorship, gives me an interesting perspective on former special counsel Robert S. Mueller III's Wednesday testimony and on the now nearly forgotten …
David M. Drucker / Vanity Fair:
“She's Dangerous”: GOP Insiders Fear Kamala Could Be the Next Obama  —  Rattled by her deft vivisection of Joe Biden at the last debate, Republicans wonder how Harris might do against a real villain like Trump.  “She doesn't come across as a nutjob,” worries one GOP operative.
NBC News:
Active-duty U.S. troops are now just feet away from migrants in Texas  —  The troops “monitor” migrants at a Texas facility.  One congressman said they shouldn't be prison guards, and are close to breaking the posse comitatus law.  —  WASHINGTON — Active-duty U.S. troops are now stationed inside …
Discussion: Axios
Noreen Nasir / Associated Press:
In a small Arkansas town, echoes of a century-old massacre  —  ELAINE, Ark. (AP) — J. Chester Johnson never heard about the mass killing of black people in Elaine, a couple hours away from where he grew up in Arkansas.  Nobody talked about it, teachers didn't mention it in history classes …
New York Times:
Automakers, Rejecting Trump Pollution Rule, Strike a Deal With California  —  WASHINGTON — Four of the world's largest automakers have struck a deal with California to reduce automobile emissions, siding with the state in its fight with President Trump over one of his most consequential regulatory rollbacks.
Discussion: The Week and VICE
Thomas Colson / Business Insider:
‘Cabinet from hell’: Boris Johnson hires ministers who backed hanging, called feminists ‘obnoxious bigots,’ and opposed same-sex marriage  — Opponents are accusing UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson of appointing a “Cabinet from hell” after he hired a home secretary who supported the death penalty …
Discussion: Power Line
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Adam Shaw / Fox News:
Republicans hope for recharge in US-UK ties as Boris Johnson takes power
Wall Street Journal:
A Prince's $500 Billion Desert Dream: Flying Cars, Robot Dinosaurs and a Giant Artificial Moon  —  Saudi Arabia's crown prince turned to U.S. consultants for help imagining a massive new city-state in a barren section of his kingdom.  What emerged was a Jetsons-style world of automation.  —  TEXT
 
 
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Steve Lohr / New York Times:
Chris Hughes Worked to Create Facebook. Now, He Is Working to Break It Up.
Discussion: CNN, more at Techmeme »
Akbar Shahid Ahmed / HuffPost:
Why 5 Freshman Democrats Sided With Trump And Saudi Arabia On A Key Yemen Vote
Alex Daugherty / Miami Herald:
TPS for Venezuelans passes House of Representatives, heads to U.S. Senate
Discussion: Politico
Jeff Stein / Washington Post:
IRS turned over Nixon's tax returns the same day that a congressional panel asked for them
Discussion: Fox News
Scott Bland / Politico:
Dems launch secret-money ad blitz to back House majority
Discussion: YouTube
Burgess Everett / Politico:
Trump's good week  —  In a 72-hour stretch this week …
Discussion: Daily Kos
Heather Caygle / Politico:
Black, Latino Dems torch campaign arm for lack of diversity
Abby Livingston / The Texas Tribune:
U.S. Rep. Pete Olson announces retirement
Discussion: Fort Bend Herald and Politico
 Earlier Items: 
Washington Post:
It's not just the Russians anymore as Iranians and others turn up disinformation efforts ahead of 2020 vote
Discussion: Vox and The Week
House Committee on Oversight and Reform:
Committee Approves Subpoena to White House for Emails Sent on Personal Accounts in Violation of Federal Law
Discussion: Townhall, POLITICUSUSA and Splinter
Ryan Cooper / The Week:
GOP Sen. Josh Hawley grossly mischaracterized the views of 4 academics in his ‘cosmopolitan elites’ speech
Erik Larson / Bloomberg:
Giuliani Says He Had to Borrow From Trump Lawyer to Pay Taxes
Discussion: New York Post and The Daily Caller
Katie Bo Williams / Defense One:
Graham: I Told Turkey They Can Avoid Sanctions If They Don't Activate Russian Radar
Discussion: CNN
U.S. Department of Justice:
Federal Government to Resume Capital Punishment After Nearly Two Decade Lapse
Will E. Young / Washington Post:
Inside Liberty University's ‘culture of fear’
 

 
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Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
A New York judge finds Sirius XM liable for a difficult subscription cancellation process; Sirius says it will appeal but abide by a new “click-to-cancel” rule

Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Sources: NBCUniversal Vice Chairman Bonnie Hammer plans to leave the company at the end of the year; she has been with the company since 2004

Ashley Carman / Bloomberg:
A growing number of podcasters, including Tim Ferriss, are moving away from interviews to monologues or co-hosts, as some well-known guests can be overexposed

 
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