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4:45 AM ET, August 2, 2019

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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 …
Orion Rummler / Axios:
Will Hurd, the only black GOP member of Congress, announces retirement
Discussion: New York Post
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: CBS Dallas and Politico
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 …
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Wall Street Journal:   Trump Organization Subpoenaed for Documents Related to Stormy Daniels Hush Payment
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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Charles Hurt / Washington Times:   Trump is the least racist person in the world
Washington Post:
Pelosi says Trump should ask ‘slumlord’ Jared Kushner about Baltimore
Discussion: Fox News, Politico and The Root
Mike Lillis / The Hill:
Pelosi hits back at Trump's attacks on Cummings, calls Kushner a ‘slumlord’
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.)
Marc Caputo / Politico:
‘Stay away from Barack’: Dems seethe over criticism of Obama  —  Joe Biden is fair game.  Barack Obama is not.  —  Former Obama White House officials and allies responded in force Thursday to stress that message after several Democratic contenders criticized the former president in a debate …
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New York Times:   Debates Identify Plenty of Democratic Divisions, but Not a Consensus Favorite
Ed O'Keefe / CBS News:   Obama unfazed by criticism at Democratic debate, source says
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 …
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 …
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Washington Post:
Trump escalates attacks on Baltimore and other cities — says federal funds have been ‘stolen,’ ‘wasted’
Discussion: New York Post and Mediaite
Gregg Re / Fox News:
Trump urges rally attendees not to chant ‘send her back’; he also says Harris had ‘bad’ debate night
Discussion: Power Line
Felicia Sonmez / Washington Post:   'I don't know that you can stop people,' Trump says of potential ‘Send her back!’ chants at upcoming Cincinnati rally
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 …
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: TechCrunch and Mother Jones
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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 …
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David Ignatius / Washington Post:
The debaters eerily sounded like ‘America First’ Democrats
Discussion: The Hill and The Atlantic
Julia Marsh / New York Post:
Bill de Blasio makes fliers wait on tarmac so he can rush to ‘The View’  —  Mayor Bill de Blasio made Delta passengers wait in their seats on the tarmac at La Guardia Airport for 10 minutes Thursday after flying back from his less-than-stellar performance in the Detroit debate — so that he and his security detail could deplane first.
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: RedState and The Daily Caller
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: Vanity Fair
Chris Sommerfeldt / New York Daily News:
N.Y. Rep. Eliot Engel says Pelosi's reluctance on impeachment will ‘change,’ predicts formal inquiry is imminent  —  Eliot Engel believes it's only a matter of time before the House launches a formal impeachment inquiry into President Trump.  —  The Bronx-repping congressman …
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Washington Post:
Nearly half of House Democrats back impeachment inquiry of Trump, amplified by calls from presidential candidates
Discussion: Breitbart, New York Times and Axios
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 …
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 …
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.
Discussion: Above the Law
Beth Reinhard / Washington Post:
Three NRA board members resign in latest sign of upheaval at gun rights group  —  Three National Rifle Association board members who have raised concerns about reports of reckless spending and mismanagement by the group's leadership resigned Thursday, another sign of mounting dissent within the nation's most powerful gun-rights group.
Robby Soave / Reason:
Carleton College Suspended a Student for Drunken Sex.  He Appealed.  Then They Expelled Him.  —  Should continuing to assert your innocence be seen as a sign of guilt?  After issuing a three-semester suspension to football player “John Doe” for sexual assault, Carleton College in Minnesota gave …
Wall Street Journal:
Families Go Deep in Debt to Stay in the Middle Class  —  Wages stalled but costs haven't, so people increasingly rent or finance what their parents might have owned outright  —  The American middle class is falling deeper into debt to maintain a middle-class lifestyle.
David Brooks / New York Times:
Marianne Williamson Knows How to Beat Trump  —  We need an uprising of decency.  —  If only ...  If only Donald Trump were not president, we could have an interesting debate over whether private health insurance should be illegal.  If only Trump were not president, we could have an interesting debate …
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 …
Discussion: CNN
Rob Copeland / Wall Street Journal:
Fired by Google, a Republican Engineer Hits Back: 'There's Been a Lot of Bullying'  —  Search giant's culture wars flame anew; a senior executive contacts law enforcement over leaks  —  MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.—Kevin Cernekee was still a “Noogler”—Google's term for a new employee …
WNYW-TV:
Man says he was beaten in NYC for wearing MAGA hat  —  NEW YORK (FOX 5 NY) - A New York City art gallery owner says he was viciously beaten in Manhattan by a large group of teens for wearing a “Make America Great Again” hat.  —  Jahangir “John” Turan, 42, says it happened Tuesday evening on Canal Street.
 
 
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Nicole Darrah / New York Post:
TSA seizes rocket launcher in Baltimore — for second time this week
Zak Doffman / Forbes:
Cyber Warfare: Army Deploys ‘Social Media Warfare’ Division To Fight Russia
Levi Rickert / Native News Online:
Rep. Cheney Accuses Tribes of “Destroying our Western Way of Life” Over Sacred Grizzly Protections
Discussion: Daily Kos
Washington Post:
Japan has weaponized its trade relationship with South Korea
Eliana Johnson / Politico:
Trump to sanction Russia over chemical weapons use
Daniel Schlozman / n+1:
Old Donkeys, New Tricks
Matt Taibbi / Untitledgate:
The rise and fall of superhero Robert Mueller
Michael Gerson / Washington Post:
Ignoring Trump's racism betrays our country's victims
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New York Times:
She Was Arrested at 14. Then Her Photo Went to a Facial Recognition Database.
Elizabeth McLaughlin / ABC News:
North Korea launches another projectile, US official says
David Crary / Associated Press:
Leaders of religious right balk at labeling Trump a racist
David French / National Review:
Against the Republican Daddy State
MSNBC:
‘Moscow Mitch’ McConnell ‘fuming’ with trolling
 

 
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Financial Times:
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