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11:25 PM ET, July 27, 2019

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Baltimore Sun:
Better to have a few rats than to be one  —  In case anyone missed it, the president of the United States had some choice words to describe Maryland's 7th congressional district on Saturday morning.  Here are the key phrases: “no human being would want to live there,” it is a …
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Wilborn P. Nobles III / Baltimore Sun:
Trump calls Baltimore ‘disgusting ... rodent infested mess,’ rips Rep. Elijah Cummings over border criticism  —  President Donald Trump took to Twitter on Saturday morning to demand an investigation into Maryland's 7th congressional district in a series of tweets criticizing U.S. Rep. Elijah Cummings of Maryland.
Discussion: Slate, RedState, Breitbart and LifeZette
David Zurawik / Baltimore Sun:
Trump's Twitter attack on Cummings and Baltimore: undiluted racism and hate  —  After three years of denouncing President Trump's use of media to attack, denigrate and, yes, spew racist hate, there are days when I think I do not have a drop of vitriol left for Trump and what he's doing to this country.
Discussion: RedState, Breitbart and Daily Wire
Washington Post:
Trump campaign sees political advantage in a divisive appeal to working-class white voters  —  President Trump launched another broadside Saturday on a Democratic political opponent, calling a prominent black congressman's Baltimore district a “disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess.”
Discussion: New York Times
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Spare Me the Purity Racket  —  WASHINGTON — After I interviewed Nancy Pelosi a few weeks ago, The HuffPost huffed that we were Dreaded Elites because we were eating chocolates and — horror of horrors — the speaker had on some good pumps.  —  Then this week, lefty Twitter erected …
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money and Althouse
Oliver Carroll / The Independent:
Russia protests: Riot police violently break up Moscow demonstration as thousands take to streets in defiance of Kremlin  —  Hundreds arrested during protest calling for free elections  —  The arrests began even before the protest started.  A woman was prised from a street bench.
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CBS News:
More than 1,000 arrested at Moscow election protest: “Russia will be free!”  —  Russian police wielding batons wrestled with demonstrators and arrested hundreds of people in central Moscow on Saturday at a protest demanding that opposition candidates be allowed to run for the Moscow city council.
Washington Post:
Mueller's team told Congress his acuity was not an issue.  Some lawmakers privately worry it was.  —  The whispers started in 2018, though where they originated remains unclear: Robert S. Mueller III, the taciturn Marine veteran leading an investigation of the president of the United States, might not be as sharp as he once was.
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Conrad Black / American Greatness:
Robert Mueller Can't Recall
Discussion: RedState and Fox News
Gillian Brockell / Washington Post:
You know who was into Karl Marx?  No, not AOC.  Abraham Lincoln.  —  The two men were friendly and influenced each other  —  It was December 1861, a Tuesday at noon, when President Abraham Lincoln sent his first annual message ⁠ — what later became the State of the Union ⁠— to the House and Senate.
New York Times:
The Roots of Boeing's 737 Max Crisis: A Regulator Relaxes Its Oversight  —  SEATTLE — In the days after the first crash of Boeing's 737 Max, engineers at the Federal Aviation Administration came to a troubling realization: They didn't fully understand the automated system that helped send …
New York Times:
Anti-Gay Brutality in a Polish Town Blamed on Poisonous Propaganda  —  BIALYSTOK, Poland — The marchers at the first gay pride parade here in the conservative Polish city of Bialystok expected that they would be met with resistance.  —  But last week when Katarzyna Sztop-Rutkowska saw …
Dana Hunsinger Benbow / Indianapolis Star:
Dan Quayle: If Democrats ‘put up some total left winger’ Donald Trump will be re-elected  —  With Mike Pence's election as vice president, Indiana now has six veeps, second only to New York state.  Here's a peek at the Hoosiers who have held the No. 2 position in the land.  (Dwight Adams/IndyStar)
Alexander Burns / New York Times:
What Kamala Harris Believes  —  The Democratic candidate wants relevant policy, not “a beautiful sonnet.”  Is that enough for voters?  —  LOS ANGELES — At her strongest, Senator Kamala Harris is forceful and pragmatic.  She elates crowds in Iowa and South Carolina with her denunciations …
Discussion: The Week and UPI
Tal Axelrod / The Hill:
Washington Post columnist accuses McConnell of doing 'Putin's bidding'  —  Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank slammed Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Friday after the GOP leader blocked two election security measures this week.  —  In an op-ed published by The Post …
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National Review:
No, McConnell Isn't ‘Moscow Mitch’
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
 
 
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Mandy Dalugdug / Music Business Worldwide:
UMG, ABKCO, and Concord sue Believe and its subsidiary TuneCore for $500M+, alleging Believe built its business via “industrial-scale copyright infringement”

Christopher Palmeri / Bloomberg:
Sources: Shari Redstone does not plan to stay on the board of Paramount Global after the company completes its planned merger with Skydance Media

Manish Singh / TechCrunch:
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