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New York Times:
Jeffrey Epstein Hoped to Seed Human Race With His DNA  —  Jeffrey E. Epstein, the wealthy financier and accused sex trafficker, had an unusual dream: He hoped to seed the human race with his DNA by impregnating women at his vast New Mexico ranch.  —  Mr. Epstein over the years confided …
Discussion: Mediaite
Eric Levitz / New York Magazine:
Here's Who Won (and Lost) the Second Democratic Debate, Night One  —  Days after a heavily armed sociopath unleashed hell on yet another American community — and the president directed yet another racist tantrum at his nonwhite constituents — ten of the Democratic Party's top 2020 hopefuls gathered …
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Ian Schwartz / RealClearPolitics:
Axelrod: “Large Numbers Of People” Oppose Medicare For All, Healthcare For Illegals, Decriminalizing Border  —  Former chief strategist for former President Obama's presidential campaign and advisor to the president David Axelrod said the agenda presented by Democratic presidential candidates …
James Hohmann / Washington Post:
The Daily 202: The realists attacked the revolutionaries, and the revolutionaries won, in the Democratic debate
Discussion: Fox News, National Review and Mediaite
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
The debate format is an embarrassment. Here's how to make it better.
Megan Garber / The Atlantic:
CNN Was Ill-Equipped for This  —  “Tonight: a fight for the heart of the party.
Discussion: NBC News, Breitbart and Splinter
Vox:
3 winners and 4 losers from the first night of the July Democratic debates
John Wagner / Washington Post:
Delaney says Warren's put-down of him on the debate stage was ‘dishonest’ and ‘lazy’
Cary Aspinwall / Dallas Morning News:
'You're gonna kill me!':  Dallas police body cam footage reveals the final minutes of Tony Timpa's life  —  Tony Timpa wailed and pleaded for help more than 30 times as Dallas police officers pinned his shoulders, knees and neck to the ground.  —  “You're gonna kill me!  You're gonna kill me!
Courtney Kube / NBC News:
U.S. has intel that Osama bin Laden's son and heir Hamza is dead, say officials  —  The officials would not provide details of how Hamza bin Laden died, or if the U.S. played a role.  It is unclear if the U.S. has confirmed his death.  —  WASHINGTON — The U.S. has obtained intelligence …
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New York Times:
Hamza bin Laden, Son and Heir to Qaeda Founder, Is Dead  —  The United States had a role in the operation that killed the younger Mr. bin Laden, officials said.  But other details, including where he died, remained unknown.  —  WASHINGTON — Osama bin Laden's son Hamza bin Laden …
Katherine Miller / BuzzFeed News:
Why People Like Marianne Williamson  —  On some level, we all seem to know that Marianne Williamson shouldn't exactly be on the debate stage.  Even she seems to know it, because she operates like she's performing a commentary on the rest of the stage, speaking from a different stage about the debate taking place.
Discussion: Spectator USA and Reason
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John Podhoretz / New York Post:
New Age Marianne Williamson is breakout winner of Democratic debate
Jonathan Merritt / Washington Post:
I've worked for Marianne Williamson. She is no kook.
Discussion: Mediaite and Quartz
Avi Selk / Washington Post:
Marianne Williamson's fans made her the ‘orb queen’ of the 2020 campaign
Jeanna Smialek / New York Times:
Fed Cuts Interest Rates for First Time Since 2008 Crisis  —  WASHINGTON — The Federal Reserve cut interest rates for the first time in more than a decade, an effort to guard the record-long economic expansion against mounting global risks.  —  The widely expected quarter-point move …
Discussion: Vox, Board of Governors …, Quartz and NPR
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Jeff Cox / CNBC:
FED CUTS RATE BY A QUARTER POINT, CITES ‘GLOBAL DEVELOPMENTS,’ ‘MUTED INFLATION’
Discussion: The Daily Beast
Theodoric Meyer / Politico:
Ex-McConnell staffers lobbied on Russian-backed Kentucky project  —  Two former top staffers to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell have lobbied Congress and the Treasury Department on the development of a new Kentucky aluminum mill backed by the Russian aluminum giant Rusal, according to a new lobbying disclosure.
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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
NeverTrumpers skewer ‘Moscow Mitch’
Yahoo:
Mario Lopez: It's ‘dangerous’ for parents to support transgender kids  —  Mario Lopez claims that parents who allow their children to live according to their  —  self-identified genders are setting a “dangerous” example.  —  Lopez, a father of three, shared his opinions during a June interview …
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Ramesh Ponnuru / Bloomberg:
How Long Can Real Conservatives Make Excuses for Trump?  —  Republicans who made the so-called transactional case for Trump didn't anticipate the full cost.  —  During each week of the Donald Trump presidency, but especially the last few, liberals and conservatives have been splitting further apart on race.
Discussion: Mother Jones
Baltimore Sun:
HUD Sec. Ben Carson decries Baltimore ‘animosity’ after church boots news conference from property  —  U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson came to Baltimore Wednesday to tout the Trump administration's efforts to improve urban areas.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
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Rachel Frazin / The Hill:
Ocasio-Cortez says marginalized communities ‘have no choice but to riot’  —  Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) said this week during an appearance on Ebro in the Morning that marginalized communities have “no choice but to riot.”  —  “Once you have a group that is marginalized. …
Discussion: The Stream and The Daily Caller
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Lukas Mikelionis / Fox News:
AOC says Palestinians ‘have no choice but to riot’ against Israel
Discussion: Algemeiner.com
John Archibald / al.com:
George Wallace's daughter: 'I've never seen anything like it'  —  This is an opinion column.  —  Peggy Wallace Kennedy went to political rallies with her dad - George Wallace - as he ran for president in the '60s and '70s.  —  She saw hate and anger that a child should not have to see.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Deena Prichep / Washington Post:
Even one of Trump's favorite foods has a hidden Russia connection  —  It's high summer — hamburger season.  The char, the fat, the squishy perfection of processed bread sopping up the overflowing juices — doesn't it somehow seem like Americans' birthright?
Washington Post:
Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein partied together.  Then an oceanfront Palm Beach mansion came between them.  —  For the better part of two decades starting in the late 1980s, Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump swam in the same social pool.  They were neighbors in Florida.
Discussion: The Week
Jeremy Herb / CNN:
Ratcliffe questioned intelligence community's role in Russia investigation  —  CNN security analyst sounds the alarm on Trump's pick 03:47  —  (CNN) — President Donald Trump's pick to be the next director of national intelligence, which has oversight over the CIA, has pushed …
Associated Press:
Trump ‘rodent’ tweets ring true at Kushner-owned apartments  —  BALTIMORE (AP) — Davon Jones doesn't have to look far to see the irony in President Donald Trump's tweets that Baltimore is a “rat and rodent infested mess.”  His apartment owned by the president's son-in-law has been invaded by mice since he moved in a year ago.
Glenn C. Loury / New York Times:
Why Are Democrats Defending Al Sharpton?  —  They've handed Trump an easy win and yoked themselves to a genuine bigot.  —  Mr. Loury is a professor of economics at Brown University.  —  When I first heard that President Trump had gone after the Rev. Al Sharpton — and that Mr. Sharpton …
Washington Post:
Reagan called President Nixon to slur Africans as ‘monkeys.’ Of course there are tapes.  —  It was October 1971, and the United Nations had just voted to recognize the People's Republic of China.  —  Then-California Gov. Ronald Reagan was infuriated that delegations from Africa …
Betsy Woodruff / The Daily Beast:
Nunes Ally Kash Patel Who Fought Russia Probe Gets Senior White House National Security Job  —  Patel was one of the leading staffers pushing back against FBI investigations of Trump-Russia.  He's now senior director of the National Security Council's terrorism directorate.
Discussion: Politico
 
 
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Jessica Campisi / The Hill:
Trump attacks CNN's Don Lemon over debate question
Mihir Zaveri / New York Times:
Much-Heralded Terrorism Conviction From 2006 is Overturned
Zachary Basu / Axios:
House Judiciary and DOJ agree to timeline for Mueller grand jury petition
Discussion: Politico
Chris D'Angelo / HuffPost:
Top Dem Puts Hold On Trump Interior Nominee, Requests DOJ Perjury Probe
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Roll Call
New York Times:
Winners and Losers of the Democratic Debate
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money, Slate and Vox
Thomas B. Edsall / New York Times:
The Heartland Is Moving in Different Directions
Washington Examiner:
Democrats just purged white party staffers, and it's a bigger deal than anyone wants to admit
Discussion: Instapundit
 Earlier Items: 
Conor Finnegan / ABC News:
Trump administration may end protected status for Syrians, leaving many fearing ‘a death sentence’
Discussion: Hullabaloo
Washington Post:
White House races to come up with health-care wins for Trump's campaign
Discussion: Daily Kos, Mother Jones and Eschaton
San Francisco Chronicle:
Search of Gilroy gunman's home finds items suggesting massive attack, white supremacy materials
Discussion: American Greatness and UPI
Lindsay Wise / Wall Street Journal:
Pompeo Says Senate Run Is ‘Off the Table.’ His Actions Are Suggesting Otherwise
 

 
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Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Anthropic raised another $4B from Amazon, will make AWS its primary training partner, and is working with Annapurna Labs to develop new Trainium accelerators

Andy Greenberg / Wired:
Researchers detail a “nearest neighbor attack” by Russia's APT28, which remotely breached a target's Wi-Fi by hijacking a laptop in a building across the street

Carly Page / TechCrunch:
Palo Alto Networks says it has observed exploitation of two zero-days in its PAN-OS firewall OS; researchers say hackers have compromised 2,000+ firewalls

 
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