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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 …
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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 …
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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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Hanna Trudo / The Daily Beast:
Tim Ryan, Who Believes Medicare for All Will Ruin the Democrats, is Co-Sponsoring a Medicare for All Bill
Tim Ryan, Who Believes Medicare for All Will Ruin the Democrats, is Co-Sponsoring a Medicare for All Bill
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James Hohmann / Washington Post:
The Daily 202: The realists attacked the revolutionaries, and the revolutionaries won, in the Democratic debate
The Daily 202: The realists attacked the revolutionaries, and the revolutionaries won, in the Democratic debate
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Megan Garber / The Atlantic:
CNN Was Ill-Equipped for This — “Tonight: a fight for the heart of the party.
CNN Was Ill-Equipped for This — “Tonight: a fight for the heart of the party.
John F. Harris / Politico:
It's a center-left party after all
It's a center-left party after all
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Vox:
3 winners and 4 losers from the first night of the July Democratic debates
3 winners and 4 losers from the first night of the July Democratic debates
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Chris Cillizza / CNN:
Winners and losers from the first night of the CNN debate
Winners and losers from the first night of the CNN debate
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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!
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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.
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New York Times:
Marianne Williamson Has Her Moment. And Republicans Are Gleefully Trumpeting It.
Marianne Williamson Has Her Moment. And Republicans Are Gleefully Trumpeting It.
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John Podhoretz / New York Post:
New Age Marianne Williamson is breakout winner of Democratic debate
New Age Marianne Williamson is breakout winner of Democratic debate
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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 …
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Jeff Cox / CNBC:
FED CUTS RATE BY A QUARTER POINT, CITES ‘GLOBAL DEVELOPMENTS,’ ‘MUTED INFLATION’
FED CUTS RATE BY A QUARTER POINT, CITES ‘GLOBAL DEVELOPMENTS,’ ‘MUTED INFLATION’
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Donna Borak / CNN:
The Fed cut rates for the first time since 2008
The Fed cut rates for the first time since 2008
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Victoria Guida / Politico:
Fed cuts rates for first time since crisis amid global slowdown
Fed cuts rates for first time since crisis amid global slowdown
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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’
NeverTrumpers skewer ‘Moscow Mitch’
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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.
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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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Rachel DeSantis / People.com:
Mario Lopez Apologizes for ‘Ignorant and Insensitive’ Comments About Parenting Transgender Kids
Mario Lopez Apologizes for ‘Ignorant and Insensitive’ Comments About Parenting Transgender Kids
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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.
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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. …
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Lukas Mikelionis / Fox News:
AOC says Palestinians ‘have no choice but to riot’ against Israel
AOC says Palestinians ‘have no choice but to riot’ against Israel
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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.
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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.
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?
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Washington Free Beacon
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.
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Jessica Campisi / The Hill:
Trump attacks CNN's Don Lemon over debate question — President Trump took aim at Don Lemon Wednesday, calling him “the dumbest man on television” over a question the CNN host asked during Tuesday night's Democratic presidential debate. — “CNN's Don Lemon, the dumbest man on television …
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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 …
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Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
The debate format is an embarrassment. Here's how to make it better. — About 40 minutes after the start of Tuesday night's Democratic debate, I got an email from a Washington Post reader with this subject line: “I don't care for this.” — He was complaining, of course …
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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.
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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 …
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