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Philip Klein / Washington Examiner:
Trump's ‘disloyalty’ comment about American Jews who vote Democrat was disgusting and worrisome — President Trump, on a tirade about Reps. Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib on Tuesday, claimed that American Jews who voted Democrat were either ill-informed or were exhibiting “great disloyalty.”
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Jacob Kornbluh / Jewish Insider:
Jewish groups react to Trump's latest comments on American Jewish voters — On Tuesday, President Donald Trump dropped another bombastic claim in his campaign to paint Reps. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) and Ilhan Omar (D-MN) as the face of the Democratic Party. “I think Jewish people that vote for a Democrat …
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Raw Story, Washington Post, Informed Comment, Algemeiner.com and JNS.org
Julie Hirschfeld Davis / New York Times:
Trump Accuses Jewish Democrats of ‘Great Disloyalty’ — WASHINGTON — President Trump said on Tuesday that any Jewish person who votes for a Democrat is guilty of ignorance or “great disloyalty,” intensifying his efforts to drive in a partisan wedge over religion and support for Israel …
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Vanity Fair, Al Jazeera and Mediaite
Orion Rummler / Axios:
Trump says Jewish-Americans who vote Democrat show “great disloyalty”
Trump says Jewish-Americans who vote Democrat show “great disloyalty”
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CNN, NBC News, RealClearPolitics, Front Page Magazine, POLITICUSUSA and RedState
Dahlia Lithwick / Slate:
Donald Trump Is Bad for the Jews
Donald Trump Is Bad for the Jews
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Washington Post, Common Dreams and The Hill
Washington Post:
Trump says any Jewish people who vote for Democrats are showing ‘great disloyalty’ or ‘lack of knowledge’
Trump says any Jewish people who vote for Democrats are showing ‘great disloyalty’ or ‘lack of knowledge’
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Breitbart, Mediaite, PJ Media Home, Washington Press, The American Conservative, Jewish Journal, The Intercept and twitchy.com
Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:
How the Palestinian-Israeli Peace Process Became a Farce
How the Palestinian-Israeli Peace Process Became a Farce
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Politico, more at Mediagazer »
Batya Ungar-Sargon / The Forward:
This Week Proves It: Politicians Won't Call Out Anti-Semitism On Their Own Side
This Week Proves It: Politicians Won't Call Out Anti-Semitism On Their Own Side
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Above the Law, The New Arab and Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Elaina Plott / The Atlantic:
Trump's Phone Calls With Wayne LaPierre Reveal NRA's Influence — Three days after a pair of mass shootings in Ohio and Texas that left 31 people dead, President Donald Trump was preoccupied with visions of a Rose Garden ceremony. — His daughter and senior adviser, Ivanka Trump …
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Nancy Cook / Politico:
Trump team braces GOP donors for a potential ‘moderate and short’ recession — In public, President Donald Trump and top White House officials keep extolling the strength of the U.S. economy. In private, they're increasingly worrying about a global economic slowdown triggering a U.S. recession …
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Washington Post and Breitbart
Washington Post:
Of course Trump backtracks on gun reform. He lacks the courage.
Of course Trump backtracks on gun reform. He lacks the courage.
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Daily Kos
Morgan Chalfant / The Hill:
Trump seems to backtrack on gun control, warns of ‘slippery slope’
Trump seems to backtrack on gun control, warns of ‘slippery slope’
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The Daily Beast, New York Times, Politico and Political Wire
Annie Karni / New York Times:
Trump Scraps Trip to Denmark, as Greenland Is Not for Sale — WASHINGTON — President Trump on Tuesday night abruptly canceled a coming trip to Denmark, writing on Twitter that because the country's prime minister, Mette Frederiksen, “would have no interest in discussing the purchase of Greenland,” they would meet “another time.”
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Talking Points Memo, BBC, Mediaite, Slate, CNN, POLITICUSUSA, The Daily Caller, Earther, ABC News and The Local
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Rick Noack / Washington Post:
Danes furious over postponement of Trump's visit, call his behavior ‘insulting’ — BERLIN — Danish lawmakers on Wednesday reacted in fury to President's Trump's postponement of his two-day visit in early September to Denmark after its prime minister said she was not interested in selling him the autonomous island of Greenland.
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Just Security, UPI, Washington Press, WPIX 11 New York and The Week
Felicia Sonmez / Washington Post:
Trump postpones Denmark trip after prime minister declines to sell him Greenland — The move comes two days after President Trump told reporters that owning Greenland “would be nice” for the United States from a strategic perspective. — Felicia Sonmez, Anne Gearan, Damian Paletta - ·
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Associated Press, The American Conservative, The Week and Lawyers, Guns & Money
Matthew Choi / Politico:
Trump postpones visit after Denmark rejects Greenland sale
Trump postpones visit after Denmark rejects Greenland sale
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Politico, Foreign Policy, Fortune, RedState and Mother Jones
Hannah Sayle / Star Tribune:
Elizabeth Warren meets her lookalike at Minnesota rally: ‘We need to talk!’ — The presidential candidate was taking selfies at Monday's town hall when she came face to face with a familiar person. — TEXT SIZE — Stephanie Oyen is not Elizabeth Warren.
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Fox News and Boston Globe
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Michael Brice-Saddler / Washington Post:
Elizabeth Warren just met her look-alike at a rally. Can you tell them apart?
Elizabeth Warren just met her look-alike at a rally. Can you tell them apart?
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WCCO | CBS Minnesota
Ali Watkins / New York Times:
Man Arrested With 17 Guns, Grenade Launcher and Nazi Paraphernalia — The arrest in New Jersey comes amid a spate of mass shootings as officials grapple with a rising white supremacist threat. — Had Joseph Rubino not wrecked his car, he might still be living with a house full of guns in New Jersey.
Anne Flaherty / ABC News:
Trump administration to roll out plan for longer-term detention of migrant families — The Trump administration is expected to announce, as early as Wednesday, that it's moving ahead with new rules that would allow for the longer term detention of families traveling with children across …
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Politico, The Week, The Independent and New York Times
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Scott Bixby / The Daily Beast:
Trump Administration Launches Most Brazen Attack on Protections for Young Migrants
Trump Administration Launches Most Brazen Attack on Protections for Young Migrants
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Common Dreams, The Daily Caller and Fox News
Jessica Bursztynsky / CNBC:
The US won't provide flu vaccines to migrant families at border detention camps
The US won't provide flu vaccines to migrant families at border detention camps
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VICE, Splinter, The Independent, POLITICUSUSA, Daily Kos, The Week and Outside the Beltway
HuffPost:
Trump Inflating Scottish Golf Resorts' Value By $165 Million, Per UK Filings — The president told British authorities the properties are a combined $65 million in the red. His U.S. disclosures say they're worth at least $100 million. — WASHINGTON ― President Donald Trump …
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The Week
Tiffany Hsu / New York Times:
Tucker Carlson's Fox News Show Loses More Advertisers — In keeping with a monthslong trend, the exodus of advertisers from Tucker Carlson's prime-time Fox News program continued this month. — Over the last year, dozens of advertisers, including Pacific Life, Farmers Insurance and SodaStream …
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Talking Points Memo
David Ovalle / Miami Herald:
Jeffrey Epstein lawsuits offer sordid details, including sex while on work release — While serving a lenient jail sentence in Palm Beach County, wealthy financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein was allowed to leave jail for “work release” — at an office at his own organization, the Florida Science Foundation.
John Solomon / The Hill:
10 declassified Russia collusion revelations that could rock Washington this fall — Behind the scenes, some major events were set in motion last autumn that could soon change the tenor in Washington, at least as it relates to the debunked Russia collusion narrative that distracted America for nearly three years.
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The Gateway Pundit
Grace Sparks / CNN:
CNN Poll: Public's view on the economy dips for the first time in Trump's presidency — (CNN)Almost two-thirds of Americans (65%) say current economic conditions are good, but that's down since May, representing the first significant decline in public perception of the economy during Donald …
Rachel Premack / Business Insider:
Truckers voted for Trump in droves. Now they say his trade war is ‘killing’ their ability to make a living. — They say his trade wars and a slew of tax changes have ruined their ability to make a living. — Morris Coffman has been a truck driver for 35 years.
Jim Tankersley / New York Times:
Trump Says He's Exploring ‘Various Tax Reductions,’ and the Economic Data He Loves Shows Why — Some of the administration's favorite data points are now flashing warning signs about investment, jobs and growth. — Last fall, administration officials displayed a series of charts that showed …
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Morning Consult, The Daily Caller, The Week, Mediaite and Vanity Fair
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Annabelle Dickson / Politico:
Boris Johnson's not-so-grand tour — LONDON — Boris Johnson is heading to Europe, but his officials are heading out. — The U.K. prime minister will touch down in Berlin on Wednesday for talks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel as part of his pledge to work with “energy and determination” …
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One America News Network
Jim Geraghty / National Review:
What The 1619 Project Leaves Out — “The goal of The 1619 Project, a major initiative from The New York Times that this issue of the magazine inaugurates, is to reframe American history by considering what it would mean to regard 1619 as our nation's birth year,” The New York Times Magazine editors declare.
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twitchy.com
Washington Post:
Trump critics eye GOP primary race, even if defeating him seems ‘preposterous’ — Joe Walsh, a pugnacious former congressman, is preparing a Republican primary challenge to President Trump that he previewed as a daily “bar fight” with the incumbent over his morality and competency.
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Salt Lake Tribune
Scientific American Blog Network:
Scientists Have Been Underestimating the Pace of Climate Change — A book entitled Discerning Experts explains why—and what can be done about it — Recently, the U.K. Met Office announced a revision to the Hadley Center historical analysis of sea surface temperatures (SST) …
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Outside the Beltway
Justin Wise / The Hill:
Ocasio-Cortez blasts Electoral College as a ‘scam’ — First-term Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) is calling for the U.S. to abolish the Electoral College, saying that the voting system is a “scam” that negatively impacts minorities. — Ocasio-Cortez made her argument on Monday …
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The Gateway Pundit, Common Dreams, TheBlaze, National Review and twitchy.com
Dana Hedgpeth / Washington Post:
If you left your snake at the TSA checkpoint at Newark Airport, please go get it — The 15-inch ring-necked snake was left at a security checkpoint Monday night — If you left your pet snake at a security checkpoint at the Newark airport, please return to claim it.
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