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10:45 AM ET, July 28, 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.
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.
Kendall Karson / ABC News:
Partisan differences on impeachment remain after Mueller testimony, as nearly half of Americans show little movement: POLL  —  Following more than six hours of questioning of former special counsel Robert Mueller before two different congressional committees, Democrats and Republicans remain largely splintered …
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Adia Robinson / ABC News:
‘Important’ that Mueller investigation info get to Americans: Rep. Jerry Nadler  —  When asked about former special counsel Robert Mueller's testimony this week, Rep. Jerry Nadler, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee said, “it's very important that that information get out to the American people” on ABC's “This Week” Sunday.
Nataliya Vasilyeva / Associated Press:
Nearly 1,400 detained in Moscow protest; largest in decade  —  MOSCOW (AP) — Nearly 1,400 people were detained in a violent police crackdown on an opposition protest in Moscow, a Russian monitoring group said Sunday, adding that was the largest number of detentions at a rally in the Russian capital this decade.
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CBS News:   More than 1,000 arrested at Moscow election protest: “Russia will be free!”
Oliver Carroll / The Independent:   Russia protests: Riot police violently break up Moscow demonstration as thousands take to streets in defiance of Kremlin
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 …
Jake Pearson / Salon:
Donald Trump Jr.'s buddy can help you meet Trump  —  Tommy Hicks Jr. isn't in government, but he's a longtime pal of the president's son.  And he has some power.  —  Over the past two years, the Trump administration has been grappling with how to handle the transition to the next generation of mobile broadband technology.
Reis Thebault / Washington Post:
A red state is plastering ‘In God We Trust’ on the walls of public schools.  It's mandatory.  —  South Dakota's Republican lawmakers said it was about history — the motto appears on money, on license plates and in the fourth stanza of “The Star-Spangled Banner.”
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Robert Moore / Washington Post:
Senator intervenes at border to help Mexican family apply for asylum  —  CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — A pregnant Mexican woman suffering complications was told by immigration officers that they couldn't process her family's asylum claim at the U.S. border on Saturday before a U.S. senator intervened …
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Rebecca Falconer / Axios:
Boris Johnson forms “war cabinet” to prepare for no-deal Brexit  —  Boris Johnson, the United Kingdom's newly installed prime minister, has set up a “war cabinet” to deliver Britain's exit from the European Union “by any means necessary” by Oct. 31, the Sunday Times first reported.
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Why Trump Spent His Summer Vacation Sending Racist Tweets  —  For the second July weekend, President Trump has tweeted offensive slanders about nonwhite Democratic House members who anger him.  The latest installment involves claims that Representative Elijah Cummings, chairman …
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.
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)
 
 
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