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Hamed Aleaziz / BuzzFeed News:
The Justice Department Sent Immigration Judges A White Nationalist Blog Post With Anti-Semitic Attacks — An email sent from the Justice Department to all immigration court employees this week included a link to an article posted on a white nationalist website that “directly attacks sitting immigration judges …
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CNN, Above the Law, Slate, The Week, The Guardian, Mediaite, No More Mister Nice Blog, Splinter, Talking Points Memo, The New Civil Rights Movement and Boing Boing
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Reis Thebault / Washington Post:
Federal judges received a link to an anti-Semitic blog post. It came from the Justice Department. — The morning briefings come nearly every workday, seemingly chock-full of all the news fit to be seen by employees at the Justice Department's Executive Office for Immigration Review, which handles the country's immigration cases.
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Lawyers, Guns & Money
Sherman Smith / Topeka Capital-Journal:
U.S. Rep. Steve Watkins ducks reporters amid speculation he could resign — Sherman Smith sherman_newsTim Carpenter TimVCarpenter — FORT SCOTT — Kansas Republican U.S. Rep. Steve Watkins declined to answer news reporters' questions at a campaign event Thursday amid a flurry …
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Political Wire
Ishaan Tharoor / Washington Post:
Bolsonaro, Trump and the nationalists ignoring climate disaster — Sign up for the Today's WorldView newsletter. — President Trump and leaders of the other Group of Seven nations will meet at the seaside French town of Biarritz this weekend for a ritzy get-together that hopes to be defined by its eco-friendliness.
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The Guardian, Al Jazeera and Hullabaloo
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New York Times:
With Amazon Rain Forest Ablaze, Brazil Faces Global Backlash — RIO DE JANEIRO — As dozens of fires scorched large swaths of the Amazon, the Brazilian government on Thursday struggled to contain growing global outrage over its environmental policies, which have paved the way for runaway deforestation …
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The Guardian, NPR and The Week
Leah Asmelash / CNN:
The Amazon rainforest is on fire. Here's what that means for the environment
The Amazon rainforest is on fire. Here's what that means for the environment
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UPI, WPIX 11 New York, The Week and Slate
Michael Gerson / Washington Post:
The Trump presidency is not just unfolding, it is unraveling — Historians studying the Trump presidency will have a prodigious amount of digital material that demands examination but defies explanation. The president's Aug. 21, half-hour, South Lawn media availability deserves to be at the top of that list.
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The White House and Law & Crime
David Folkenflik / NPR:
A Dead Cat, A Lawyer's Call And A 5-Figure Donation: How Media Fell Short On Epstein — Toggle more options — Hear Part 1 — Toggle more options — Hear Part 2 — Toggle more options — A coterie of intimidating lawyers. A deployment of charm. An aura of invincibility.
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NBC News:
The Epoch Times begins hiding its connection to a huge pro-Trump ad buy on Facebook — By hiding its multimillion-dollar dark money ad spend, the organization is bypassing Facebook's political advertising transparency rules. — The Epoch Times, a conservative news outlet that has spent …
HuffPost:
Democratic National Committee Votes To Reject Climate Debate — The vote came a day after the 2020 climate candidate Jay Inslee, who had been pushing for the debate, dropped out of the race. — The Democratic National Committee has rejected a proposal to host a single-issue debate on the climate crisis.
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Casey Tolan / Mercury News:
Fireworks at San Francisco DNC meeting as committee votes down climate debate resolution
Fireworks at San Francisco DNC meeting as committee votes down climate debate resolution
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Shadowproof and TheBlaze
Washington Post:
The month a shadow fell on Trump's economy — Top White House advisers notified President Trump earlier this month that some internal forecasts showed that the economy could slow markedly over the next year, stopping short of a recession but complicating his path to reelection in 2020.
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Politico, CNBC, Wall Street Journal and The Week
The Daily Beast:
Trump Invited Himself to Denmark Before Canceling Trip, Danes Say — With a trip canceled over his proposal to buy Greenland, Danish officials tell State Dept. their leader wasn't actually being harsh when she called the idea “absurd.” — Speaking to reporters on the White House's South lawn in late July …
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Marc A. Thiessen / Washington Post:
Trump's idea of buying Greenland is far from absurd
Trump's idea of buying Greenland is far from absurd
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CBC News, Fox News, Just Security and The Week
Bess Levin / Vanity Fair:
Trump Has Told Friends That Gutting Medicare Could Be a Fun “Second-Term Project” — Republicans want Trump to deal with the exploding deficit by gutting the social safety net, and the president is reportedly receptive to the idea. — When Donald Trump was running for president …
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Hot Air and ThinkProgress
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Stephen Collinson / CNN:
Will Trump blow up the G7 summit? — Trump says he would like to see Russia rejoin G8 — (CNN)The biggest question clouding this weekend's G7 summit in France is whether the President of the United States will blow it up. — It is a measure of the gulf between America and its allies …
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International Business Times, CNBC and Radio Free Europe/Radio …
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New York Times:
Israeli Airstrike Hits Weapons Depot in Iraq — Israel has carried out an airstrike on a weapons depot in Iraq that officials said was being used by Iran to move weapons to Syria, an attack that could destabilize Iraq and thrust it deeper into the conflict between the United States and Iran.
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middleeastmonitor.com, Algemeiner.com and Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Jimmie E. Gates / The Clarion Ledger:
Mississippi prof, who went to Georgetown Prep with Brett Kavanaugh, sues HuffPost — A Gulfport professor and advocate is suing the national news website HuffPost alleging defamation involving a September 2018 story on U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh's days at Georgetown Prep school.
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BizPac Review and American Greatness
Charles Creitz / Fox News:
Ex-Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne says he got ‘fishy’ orders from Peter Strzok; former acting AG unsure of claims — Overstock founder and CEO Patrick Byrne, who resigned Thursday amid ties to a government probe related to the 2016 election, claimed he received “fishy” orders from former FBI official Peter Strzok.
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twitchy.com and Daily Wire
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Katie Schwartzmann / ACLU:
A Louisiana Parish Jailed a U.S. Citizen for Being Latinx. We're Suing. — Ramon Torres had been a U.S. citizen for nearly ten years when he was detained for four days on an immigration hold - despite having a U.S. passport, a Louisiana driver's license, and a Social Security card …
Associated Press:
Making a case to women: Trump female defenders go on offense — DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The Trump campaign has a message for its female supporters: It's time to come out of hiding. — “There's a lot of people that are fearful of expressing their support, and I want you ladies to know it's OK …
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National Review
Susan Davis / NPR:
Meltdown On Main Street: Inside The Breakdown Of The GOP's Moderate Wing — Three weeks after Democrats took control of the U.S. House in the 2018 midterm elections, about 40 reelected and recently defeated lawmakers in the centrist Republican Main Street Caucus gathered at the Capitol Hill Club to sift through the electoral wreckage.
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Politico and Political Wire
Liel Leibovitz / Tablet Magazine:
Ignore It at Your Peril — Earlier this week, my colleague, the wise and empathetic Carly Pildis, wrote a thoughtful and powerful piece about the political future of American Jews. In it, she argues that the Democratic Party, notwithstanding a handful of problematic and relatively …
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Elder Of Ziyon
Connor Mannion / Mediaite:
NYT: Trump's New Press Secretary Has Two DUI Arrests and Lost Two Jobs For Plagiarism and Cheating on Expenses — The New York Times reported President Donald Trump's new White House Press Secretary has two arrests for driving under the influence and lost two jobs over alleged charges of plagiarism and cheating expenses.
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Daily Kos, Political Wire and The Intellectualist, more at Mediagazer »
Steven Hsieh / Phoenix New Times:
Mesa College English Professor Showed QAnon Video in Class, Students Say … An English professor at Mesa Community College kicked off the fall semester by showing his classes a YouTube video spreading a far-right conspiracy theory, according to four students.
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Splinter
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Speak up, April Ryan. Speak up, CNN. — Ever since she joined CNN in 2017, April Ryan has distinguished herself as a vociferous and resilient advocate for press freedom. After the White House stripped CNN's Jim Acosta of his credentials, for example, she responded in grand terms …
Brianna Ehley / Politico:
How Pete Buttigieg would tackle the mental health and addiction crisis — Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg on Friday unveiled a plan to bolster mental health and addiction services his campaign estimates would cost about $300 billion to coincide with a campaign stop in Manchester …
John Solomon / The Hill:
The road not taken: Another FBI failure involving the Clintons surfaces — August in Washington can be the political equivalent of an elephant graveyard: One good rain can wash away the dirt and expose the bones of scandals past. — And this August did not disappoint.
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PJ Media Home and The Gateway Pundit
CNN:
Trump court pick denounced feminists, gay-rights groups and diversity efforts in 1990s, 2000s editorials — (CNN)A White House aide nominated by President Donald Trump for a federal appeals court seat has a history of denouncing women's marches against sexual assault, dismissing education …
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Breitbart
Trip Gabriel / New York Times:
Electoral College Members Can Defy Voters' Wishes, Court Rules — In a ruling that kicks at the foundation of how America chooses presidents, a federal appeals court on Tuesday said members of the Electoral College, who cast the actual votes for president, may choose whomever they please regardless of a state's popular vote.
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CNN
Polls:
Potential Impeachment Impact On 2020 — Democrats want inquiry despite little likelihood of ousting Trump — West Long Branch, NJ - President Donald Trump's approval rating may remain underwater, but a majority of the public continues to oppose removal by impeachment even as the House Judiciary Committee has started proceedings.
Monica Showalter / American Thinker:
Payback: Democrats rig Tulsi Gabbard right out of their next debate — Iconoclastic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard did the unforgiveable in the eyes of the hidebound Democratic Party establishment: She knocked down one their favorites, Kamala Harris. — Because right after this incident from the last debate:
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RedState