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Congressman Will Hurd:
Rep. Will Hurd: It's time to serve my country in a different way  —  There are many reasons why I love America.  I have learned over my three terms in Congress, by representing people that voted for me, didn't vote for me or didn't vote at all, that America is better than the sum of its parts.
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Robert Moore / Washington Post:
Texas Rep. Hurd, lone black Republican in House, won't seek reelection  —  Rep. Will Hurd, the lone black Republican in the House and the rare GOP lawmaker to criticize President Trump at times, will not seek reelection, he told The Washington Post.  —  Hurd's retirement is the third …
Abby Livingston / The Texas Tribune:
Republican U.S. Rep. Will Hurd to retire from Congress after holding on to a district Democrats are desperate to flip
Discussion: Off the Kuff, CBS Dallas and Politico
Orion Rummler / Axios:
Will Hurd, the only black GOP member of Congress, announces retirement
Discussion: Daily Kos and New York Post
Washington Post:
Why go to the trouble of running for president to promote ideas that can't work?  —  “I DON'T understand why anybody goes to all the trouble of running for president of the United States just to talk about what we really can't do and shouldn't fight for,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) …
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Jeff Mason / Reuters:
‘Lock Her Up!’ but no ‘Send her Back!’ chant at Trump rally in Ohio  —  CINCINNATI (Reuters) - This time, he didn't quite go there.  —  President Donald Trump on Thursday briefly renewed his criticism of four minority Democratic congresswomen at his first rally since controversy erupted …
Elaina Plott / The Atlantic:   'We're All Tired of Being Called Racists'
Washington Post:
Trump escalates attacks on Baltimore and other cities — says federal funds have been ‘stolen,’ ‘wasted’
New York Times:
Granddaughter of Robert F. Kennedy Dies After Overdose at Family's Compound  —  BOSTON — A granddaughter of Robert F. Kennedy died on Thursday afternoon after suffering an apparent overdose at the Kennedy compound in Hyannis Port, Mass., according to two people close to the family.
CBS Baltimore:
Rep. Elijah Cummings' Baltimore Home Burglarized, Police Say  —  BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Baltimore Police are investigating after the home of Rep. Elijah Cummings was broken into early Saturday morning.  —  The burglary occurred around 3:40 a.m. at his Baltimore home in the 2000 block of Madison Avenue.
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Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: A gutting few weeks for the GOP  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  IF YOU ARE A HOUSE REPUBLICAN, this has been an absolutely gutting few weeks.  And, truly, if someone is trying to spin you on how the political picture is not that bad for the House GOP right now — at this moment …
Discussion: NBC News, Fox News and UPI
New York Times:
Manhattan D.A. Subpoenas Trump Organization Over Stormy Daniels Hush Money  —  Cyrus R. Vance Jr., the Manhattan district attorney, is reviving an investigation into payments made to two women during the 2016 campaign.  —  State prosecutors in Manhattan subpoenaed President Trump's family business …
Associated Press:
Boris Johnson's party suffers defeat in UK special election  —  LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson's governing Conservative Party has a lost a special election, leaving it with a wafer-thin working majority in Parliament of just one vote.  —  Jane Dodds of the opposition …
Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Booker's claim that Democrats lost Michigan because of Russian and GOP suppression  —  “We lost the state of Michigan because everybody from Republicans to Russians were targeting the suppression of African American voters.”  —  These remarks jumped out at us during the second night of the debate …
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Washington Post:
John Ratcliffe, Trump's pick to lead U.S. intelligence claims he arrested 300 illegal immigrants in a single day.  He didn't.  —  President Trump's choice to lead the nation's intelligence community often cites a massive roundup of immigrant workers at poultry plants in 2008 as a highlight of his career.
Associated Press:
Landmark US-Russia arms control treaty is dead  —  A landmark arms control treaty that President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev signed three decades ago is dead, prompting fears of a new global arms race.  —  The United States and Russia both walked away from the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces treaty on Friday.
Discussion: Politico
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Michael R. Gordon / Wall Street Journal:
Lapse of Nuclear Treaty Throws Doubt on Future of Arms Control
Discussion: Defense One
Deb Riechmann / Associated Press:
US-Russia arms control treaty dies; US to test new weapon
Discussion: Mediaite
Jana Winter / Yahoo News:
Exclusive: FBI document warns conspiracy theories are a new domestic terrorism threat  —  The FBI for the first time has identified fringe conspiracy theories as a domestic terrorist threat, according to a previously unpublicized document obtained by Yahoo News.  (Read the document below.)
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Justin Hendrix / Just Security:
Trump's Encouraging QAnon May Result in Violence—Just ask the FBI
Discussion: Las Vegas Sun
Joe Mcdonald / Associated Press:
China threatens retaliation for Trump's planned tariff hike  —  BEIJING (AP) — China on Friday threatened retaliation if U.S. President Donald Trump's planned tariff hikes go ahead, while the renewed acrimony between the two biggest global economies sent stock markets tumbling.
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Bloomberg:
Trump Resisted Mnuchin's Proposal to Warn China of New Tariffs
Discussion: Political Wire
Eliana Johnson / Politico:
Trump to sanction Russia over chemical weapons use  —  President Donald Trump has signed an executive order imposing sanctions on Russia for its use of chemical weapons in the 2018 attack on the Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter, according to two U.S. officials.
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David Jackson / USA Today:
Donald Trump doubts Russian meddling in 2020 election, disputing Robert Mueller
Discussion: The Daily Beast
Washington Post:
After Trump cites Amazon concerns, Pentagon reexamines $10 billion JEDI cloud contract process  —  The White House has instructed newly installed Defense Secretary Mark T. Esper to reexamine the awarding of the military's massive cloud-computing contract because of concerns that the deal would go to Amazon …
Discussion: Mother Jones and TechCrunch
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Washington Post:
Trump's pick for national intelligence director is disengaged from committee work on Capitol Hill, officials say  —  President Trump's nominee to be the nation's next spy chief is regarded as a relatively disengaged member of the House Intelligence Committee and is little known across the ranks …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Ali Vitali / NBC News:
First on NBC: Klobuchar meets donor threshold, clinching spot in next Dem debate  —  WASHINGTON — Senator Amy Klobuchar has met the donor threshold to compete in September's third Democratic debate, her campaign said early Friday morning.  —  In an email to supporters less than forty-eight hours …
Ryan Broderick / BuzzFeed News:
A Christian Satire Site Says Fact-Checkers Are Helping Facebook De-Platform Conservatives  —  The Babylon Bee, a self-proclaimed Christian satire site with half a million followers on Facebook, has accused fact-checking site Snopes.com of unfairly debunking some of its satirical articles as fake news.
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David French / National Review:
BuzzFeed Publishes a Misleading Story About the Babylon Bee Controversy
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Josh Rogin / Washington Post:
Tulsi Gabbard's Syria record shows why she can't be president  —  Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii) talks often about her January 2017 trip to Syria, when she met Bashar al-Assad, toured Aleppo after it had been reduced to rubble (by the Assad regime), and interviewed Syrian civilians …
Tim Teeman / The Daily Beast:
Erick Erickson, It's Time to Get Out of Pete Buttigieg's Bedroom  —  Erick Erickson seems creepily focused on Pete Buttigieg's sexuality, and alleged hypocrisy.  He would do better to take on Buttigieg's message about Christian behavior and ethics.  —  Erick Erickson really doesn't like …
Michael Gerson / Washington Post:
Ignoring Trump's racism betrays our country's victims  —  I had fully intended to ignore President Trump's latest round of racially charged taunts against an African American elected official, and an African American activist, and an African American journalist and a whole city with a lot of African Americans in it.
Timothy L. O'Brien / Bloomberg:
Trump Makes 9/11 and Dad's Funeral All About Him  —  From his claims to first responders and his self-regarding Fred Trump eulogy to his bombastic Cincinnati rally, the narcissistic shtick is wearing thin.  —  President Donald Trump started the week with a Rose Garden ceremony …
Discussion: HuffPost
Erich Schwartzel / Wall Street Journal:
‘Fast & Furious’ Stars' Complicated Demand—I Never Want to Lose a Fight  —  Franchise leads Vin Diesel, Jason Statham and Dwayne Johnson wrestle for more ‘muscle’ time, forcing fight choreographers to get creative  —  LOS ANGELES—Vin Diesel didn't want to look like a wimp.
Discussion: The Independent and Vanity Fair
HuffPost:
Trump Supporters Cheer As Immigration Rights Sign Gets Torn At Rally  —  Protesters with banners that read “Immigrants Built America” and “Chinga La Migra” were escorted out of the event in Ohio.  —  CINCINNATI ― People at President Donald Trump's rally in Ohio grew rowdy as they clashed …
Jim Waterson / The Guardian:
Revealed: Johnson ally's firm secretly ran Facebook propaganda network  —  Sir Lynton Crosby's firm CTF has built unbranded disinformation pages for Saudi Arabia and major polluters  —  The lobbying firm run by Boris Johnson's close ally Sir Lynton Crosby has secretly built a network of unbranded …
Lachlan Markay / The Daily Beast:
Kris Kobach Uses Border Wall Group to Fund Senate Bid, Likely Illegally  —  The former Kansas secretary of state has used his perch at We Build the Wall to raise campaign money.  That's a no-no, experts say.  —  Former Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach is using a nonprofit group …
Washington Post:
U.S. preparing to withdraw thousands of troops from Afghanistan in initial deal with Taliban  —  The Trump administration is preparing to withdraw thousands of troops from Afghanistan in exchange for concessions from the Taliban, including a cease-fire and a renunciation of al-Qaeda …
Adam Eichen / New Republic:
Toward an Electoral College-Free Future  —  “Abolish the Electoral College,” Bernie Sanders recently tweeted.  The Senator's statement was in response to an op-ed authored by The Cook Political Report's Dave Wasserman, who posited that though President Donald Trump suffers …
Discussion: Washington Post
 
 
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Lily Kuo / The Guardian:
Hong Kong police arrest pro-independence figure amid further protests
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Peter Thiel / New York Times:
Good for Google, Bad for America
Kareem Fahim / Washington Post:
Saudi Arabia allows women to travel without permission from men
Gideon Resnick / The Daily Beast:
Bernie Sanders' First 2016 Congressional Endorser Explains Why He's Backing Warren Now
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As a Disabled Person, Marianne Williamson's Ideas Terrify Me
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Chris Sommerfeldt / New York Daily News:
N.Y. Rep. Eliot Engel says Pelosi's reluctance on impeachment will ‘change,’ predicts formal inquiry is imminent
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Three NRA board members resign in latest sign of upheaval at gun rights group
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