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The Daily Beast:
Gilroy Garlic Festival Shooting Suspect Posted About Far-Right Book Moments Before Shooting — Santino Legan allegedly told an eyewitness he was “really angry” and ranted in white supremacist fashion on Instagram from the event. — The gunman who murdered three people at a food festival …
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‘Dilbert’ Creator Scott Adams Tries to Sell Interviews With Gilroy Garlic Festival Shooting Survivors — After the mass shooting, he advertised his new app that would somehow let people set a price for their stories—and give him a 20 percent cut. — As police in Gilroy, California …
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Mercury News
Ben Collins / NBC News:
Instagram account connected to Gilroy shooter pushed staple of white supremacist internet forums
Washington Post:
House Republicans plan yearly retreat in Baltimore despite Trump's attacks — President Trump on Saturday called Baltimore a “very dangerous & filthy place” and suggested that Democratic politicians, including Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, had made the city all but uninhabitable.
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Associated Press:
Analysis: Trump's political and policy guardrails fall away — WASHINGTON (AP) — An unrepentant President Donald Trump has been testing the limits of the nation's tolerance from the day he took office. Now he has cast off one of the few remaining voices trying to curtail his at times mercurial impulses.
Washington Post:
‘Looking for a reason to attack’: How Trump seized on a Fox News broadcast to go after Cummings — President Trump was already seething about Rep. Elijah E. Cummings. — He was frustrated that the oversight committee Cummings (D-Md.) chairs authorized a subpoena last week that could sweep up emails from his daughter and son-in-law.
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Breitbart, Rolling Stone, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, The Week, Fox News, Mediaite, Baltimore Sun and CBS Baltimore
Michael Warren / CNN:
Meadows' lackluster defense of Cummings speaks volumes
Meadows' lackluster defense of Cummings speaks volumes
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Political Wire, KTLA, fox8.com and The Week
Jelani Cobb / New Yorker:
Donald Trump, Elijah Cummings, and the Definition of a Rodent
Donald Trump, Elijah Cummings, and the Definition of a Rodent
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Dan Froomkin's White …, The Atlantic and Bloomberg, more at Mediagazer »
Nancy Cook / Politico:
Trump's race playbook: Excoriate the left and enthrall his base
Trump's race playbook: Excoriate the left and enthrall his base
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Washington Post, Vox, Spectator USA and The Guardian
QU Poll:
Release Detail — July 29, 2019 - Biden Bounces Back As Harris Slumps Among U.S. Dems, Quinnipiac University National Poll Finds; 54 Percent Of All U.S. Voters Say Never Trump — Former Vice President Joseph Biden reverses his slump following the first Democratic presidential debate …
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Blue-collar white women are turning on Trump — The other day, Ron Brownstein served up a comprehensive, detailed analysis that suggested President Trump's base may be fracturing. In particular, Brownstein looked at an array of data that suggests blue-collar white women may be turning on Trump.
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POLITICUSUSA, Salon and Hullabaloo
Peter Hamby / Vanity Fair:
“You Know Where She Stands”: Is Elizabeth Warren the One?
“You Know Where She Stands”: Is Elizabeth Warren the One?
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Washington Free Beacon
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Trump's new racist tweetstorm is actually a sign of weakness
Trump's new racist tweetstorm is actually a sign of weakness
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Shareblue Media, PJ Media Home, Talking Points Memo, POLITICUSUSA, Deadline and Mediaite
Ken Dilanian / NBC News:
Intel officials worry Trump's pick for top spy will politicize the job — Although Ratcliffe's website says he “put terrorists in prison,” there is no evidence he ever prosecuted a terrorism case. — WASHINGTON — Hours before President Donald Trump announced him as the pick to be the new director …
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New York Times:
Republican Senators Are Cool to Trump's Choice for Top Intelligence Post
Republican Senators Are Cool to Trump's Choice for Top Intelligence Post
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Bloomberg, The Hill, ThinkProgress and Daily Kos
David Ignatius / Washington Post:
Trump's intelligence shake-up could be his most dangerous move yet
Trump's intelligence shake-up could be his most dangerous move yet
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The Daily Caller, Talking Points Memo and Lawyers, Guns & Money
David Rohde / New Yorker:
Trump's Message to U.S. Intelligence Officials: Be Loyal or Leave
Trump's Message to U.S. Intelligence Officials: Be Loyal or Leave
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Washington Post, CNN and Slate
Benjamin Siegel / ABC News:
Trump aide submitted drafts of 2016 ‘America First’ energy speech to UAE for edits, emails show — When candidate Donald Trump prepared to give a major energy speech during the 2016 campaign, one of his closest advisers provided a pre-speech review to senior United Arab Emirates officials …
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Erin Banco / The Daily Beast:
Trump Pals Pushed Nuke Firm That Wanted to Undercut Protections Against a Saudi Bomb
Trump Pals Pushed Nuke Firm That Wanted to Undercut Protections Against a Saudi Bomb
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ProPublica, CNN and Washington Post
Erin Banco / The Daily Beast:
Inside the Secret Campaign to Export U.S. Nuclear Tech to Saudi Arabia
Inside the Secret Campaign to Export U.S. Nuclear Tech to Saudi Arabia
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Fox News, Politico, Axios and New York Times
Douglas Belkin / Wall Street Journal:
College Financial-Aid Loophole: Wealthy Parents Transfer Guardianship of Their Teens to Get Aid — Education Department, universities are investigating the practice, which has been used in the Chicago area — CHICAGO—Amid an intense national furor over the fairness of college admissions …
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ProPublica:
Parents Are Giving Up Custody of Their Kids to Get Need-Based College Financial Aid — First, parents turn over guardianship of their teenagers to a friend or relative. Then the student declares financial independence to qualify for tuition aid and scholarships.
Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
An Impeachment Inquiry Is Coming. It Might Have Already Begun. — Robert Mueller's testimony may have lacked thrills, but it marked a turning point in the case against the president. — Last Wednesday, after Robert Mueller's terse and sometimes halting congressional testimony …
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Katie Rogers / New York Times:
Fact-Checking Trump's Claim He ‘Spent a Lot of Time’ With 9/11 Responders — The president repeated claims about his presence at ground zero during the signing ceremony for legislation to ensure health care funding for emergency workers who rushed to help. — WASHINGTON — President Trump walked …
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Washington Post
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Chris Cillizza / CNN:
You'll never believe what Donald Trump just said about 9/11
You'll never believe what Donald Trump just said about 9/11
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Vanity Fair, Talking Points Memo and The Week
Zachary Basu / Axios:
McConnell lashes out at media, Democrats over “Moscow Mitch” label — Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) took to the Senate floor Monday to angrily defend himself against allegations that he is doing the bidding of Russian President Vladimir Putin by blocking a series of election security bills proposed by Democrats.
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Julia Ainsley / NBC News:
Stephen Miller wants Border Patrol, not asylum officers, to determine migrant asylum claims — Officials say Miller has long seen asylum officers as soft and believes Border Patrol agents would be tougher critics of asylum seekers. — WASHINGTON — White House adviser Stephen Miller wants …
U.S. Department of Justice:
Two Men Arrested for Conspiring to Provide Material Support to ISIS — John Demers, Assistant Attorney General for National Security, Michael Bailey, the United States Attorney for the District of Arizona, Michael McGarrity, Assistant Director of the FBI's Counterterrorism Division …
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The Gateway Pundit, Big League Politics, Front Page Magazine and The Last Refuge
Will Sommer / The Daily Beast:
Trump Intel Pick John Ratcliffe Started Theory of FBI Anti-Trump ‘Secret Society’ — The congressman debuted the mysterious text messages on Fox News. It became a mini-scandal before the full context became known. — Donald Trump's new pick for Director of National Intelligence played …
Zack Budryk / The Hill:
GOP senator introduces resolution to formally condemn socialism — Sen. Steve Daines (R-Mont.) on Monday introduced a resolution condemning socialism, taking to the Senate floor to blast Democratic policies he said would lead to “complete government control.”
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Gregg Re / Fox News:
Daines introduces resolution condemning socialism, saying ‘pivotal’ moment has arrived
Daines introduces resolution condemning socialism, saying ‘pivotal’ moment has arrived
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Daily Wire
Laura Barrón-López / Politico:
DCCC faces mass staff upheaval after uproar over diversity — The top echelon of staffers at the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee left their jobs Monday, a shakeup following a pair of POLITICO stories detailing deep unease with the party's campaign apparatus over a lack of diversity.
Stuart Rothenberg / Roll Call:
How third-party votes sunk Clinton, what they mean for Trump — Libertarians and Greens may try to convince you that higher turnout reflects growing support for their parties. It doesn't — Republicans want an election about socialism. They likely won't get one When Trump attacks …
Andrew Beaujon / Washingtonian:
Is Sally Quinn an Aristocrat? Let's Ask Sally Quinn — Despite not completely miserable DC-area weather, a segment of journalism Twitter users spent part of their weekends debating whether Sally Quinn is an aristocrat. How did we get here? It involves Maureen Dowd, Howard Fineman …
Jamelle Bouie / New York Times:
The Trump Strain in American History — White supremacy has its own peculiar logic, to which the president is peculiarly attuned. — President Trump has done nothing for his white working-class voters. His signature tax cut was a giveaway to powerful business interests and wealthy heirs.