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Alexander Burns / New York Times:
Seth Moulton Ends 2020 Presidential Campaign With a Warning — Representative Seth Moulton of Massachusetts is dropping out of the presidential race, ending a candidacy that emphasized Mr. Moulton's centrist politics and military service but gained no traction with Democratic primary voters.
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Sunny Kim / CNBC:
Democrat Seth Moulton drops out of the 2020 White House race
Democrat Seth Moulton drops out of the 2020 White House race
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Monica Showalter / American Thinker:
Payback: Democrats rig Tulsi Gabbard right out of their next debate
Payback: Democrats rig Tulsi Gabbard right out of their next debate
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Robert Costa / Washington Post:
Rep. Seth Moulton of Massachusetts drops out of presidential race after failing to break through …
Rep. Seth Moulton of Massachusetts drops out of presidential race after failing to break through …
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Dan Merica / CNN:
Seth Moulton to end 2020 presidential campaign
Seth Moulton to end 2020 presidential campaign
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LifeNews.com, Breitbart and The Daily Caller
Fred Imbert / CNBC:
Dow drops more than 300 points after Trump orders US companies to look for ‘alternative to China’ — China plans to raise import tariffs on $75 billion worth of US goods — Stocks fell to their lows of the day on Friday after President Donald Trump ordered in a series tweets …
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Yun Li / CNBC:
China will retaliate with tariffs on $75 billion more of US goods and resume auto tariffs — KEY POINTS — The Chinese State Council says it's slapping tariffs ranging from 5% to 10% on $75 billion U.S. goods in two batches effective on Sept. 1 and Dec. 15.
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New York Times:
Trump Orders American Companies to ‘Start Looking for an Alternative to China’
Trump Orders American Companies to ‘Start Looking for an Alternative to China’
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Washington Post, The Bulwark, Mother Jones, Variety and The Week
Ben Gittleson / ABC News:
China announces tariffs on $75 billion of US goods as Trump heads to G7 summit in France
China announces tariffs on $75 billion of US goods as Trump heads to G7 summit in France
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Axios:
China announces retaliatory tariffs on $75 billion of U.S. goods
China announces retaliatory tariffs on $75 billion of U.S. goods
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Bloomberg:
China Hits Back at Trump With Higher Tariffs on Soy, Autos
China Hits Back at Trump With Higher Tariffs on Soy, Autos
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John Bowden / The Hill:
China announces new tariffs on $75B in US goods
China announces new tariffs on $75B in US goods
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Elisha Fieldstadt / NBC News:
David Koch, billionaire conservative activist and philanthropist, dies at 79 — He and his brother, Charles Koch, helped to build a massive conservative network of donors to support libertarian-leaning economic policies. — David Koch, billionaire conservative activist and philanthropist, has died.
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Wall Street Journal:
Billionaire David Koch, Who Spent Heavily to Back Conservative Causes, Dies — He also donated more than $1.3 billion of his fortune to charity — David Koch, the billionaire libertarian who gave more than $1 billion to charitable causes but was better known for using his money to reshape U.S. politics, has died.
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Robert D. McFadden / New York Times:
David Koch, Billionaire Who Fueled Right-Wing Movement, Dies at 79 — A man-about-town philanthropist, he and his brother Charles ran a business colossus while furthering a libertarian agenda that reshaped American politics. — David H. Koch, who joined his brother, Charles G. Koch …
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Politico:
POLITICO Playbook PM: Elizabeth Warren's human shield
POLITICO Playbook PM: Elizabeth Warren's human shield
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Brian Kahn / Earther:
David Koch Escaped the Climate Hell He Helped Create
David Koch Escaped the Climate Hell He Helped Create
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Isaac Chotiner / New Yorker:
A Penn Law Professor Wants to Make America White Again — Amy Wax, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, is the academic who perhaps best represents the ideology of the Trump Administration's immigration restrictionists. Wax, who began her professional life as a neurologist …
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Trump is set to blow up the G-7. In so doing, he'll reveal the worst. — With President Trump set to attend the Group of Seven this weekend, it's already emerging that he has “shaken up” the schedule. Trump has called for a special meeting focused on the global economy …
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Washington Post:
France tries to orchestrate a no-drama G-7 summit, but Trump is the X factor
France tries to orchestrate a no-drama G-7 summit, but Trump is the X factor
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Stephen Collinson / CNN:
Will Trump blow up the G7 summit?
Will Trump blow up the G7 summit?
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International Business Times, No More Mister Nice Blog and CNBC
Lynh Bui / Washington Post:
Innocent man spent months in jail for bringing honey back to United States — Leon Haughton likes honey in his tea. Which is why during his Christmas visit to relatives in Jamaica, he made his regular stop and bought three bottles from a favorite roadside stand before heading home to Maryland.
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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Wall Street Journal:
Amazon Has Ceded Control of Its Site. The Result: Thousands of Banned, Unsafe or Mislabeled Products — Just like tech companies that have struggled to tackle misinformation on their platforms, Amazon has proven unable or unwilling to effectively police third-party sellers on its site
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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Emily Yoffe / Reason:
'I'm Radioactive' — Until the spring of 2018, Jonathan Kaiman was the Beijing bureau chief of the Los Angeles Times. Today he is living at the home of his parents in Phoenix under conditions he describes as a form of psychological house arrest. There are no visitors, and his few remaining friends rarely call.
Ben Schreckinger / Politico:
The alt-right manifesto that has Trumpworld talking — The most important political book of the past year just might be a grammatically challenged manifesto in favor of nude sunbathing written under the pen name Bronze Age Pervert. — Where Ayn Rand's “Atlas Shrugged” …
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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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Jackie Smith / The Times Herald:
Racist comment shocks Marysville forum amid message of growth, momentum … Capitalizing on Marysville's current momentum — from redeveloping the old Mighty Marysville property to improvements at city parks — quickly became a common theme for city election candidates during a forum Thursday night.
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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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Antonia Noori Farzan / Washington Post:
Trump said doctors left operating rooms to greet him after mass shootings. Hospitals in Dayton and El Paso say that's not true. — Speaking to reporters on the White House's South Lawn on Wednesday, President Trump claimed he was warmly welcomed at hospitals in the wake of recent mass shootings …
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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.
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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Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System:
Challenges for Monetary Policy — Chair Jerome H. Powell — At the “Challenges for Monetary Policy” symposium, sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, Jackson Hole, Wyoming — This year's symposium topic is “Challenges for Monetary Policy,” and for the Federal Reserve …
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