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3-Way Lead as Dem 2020 Picture Shifts — Sanders and Warren rise; Biden drops — West Long Branch, NJ - Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, and former Vice President Joe Biden are currently bunched together in the national Democratic presidential preference contest.
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What Elizabeth Warren Is Quietly Telling Democratic Insiders — With phone calls, texts and handwritten notes, the Massachusetts senator is continuing an unusually determined outreach effort to show party officials she is aligned with them. — SAN FRANCISCO — When Senator Elizabeth Warren …
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The Week
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Monmouth poll: Bernie Sanders, Joe Biden and Elizabeth Warren in three-way lead for Democratic bid
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Lawyers, Guns & Money
Alex Thompson / Politico:
‘The rock star’ vs. ‘The rock’: Warren and Biden hurtle toward collision
‘The rock star’ vs. ‘The rock’: Warren and Biden hurtle toward collision
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The Seattle Times, Washington Post, The Daily Caller and Political Wire
Edward-Isaac Dovere / The Atlantic:
Elizabeth Warren Manages to Woo the Democratic Establishment
Elizabeth Warren Manages to Woo the Democratic Establishment
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The Federalist, Bloomberg, Washington Monthly and NBC News
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‘He was outsmarted’: Trump mocks Obama on world stage — President Donald Trump on Monday used the global stage of the G-7 conference to assert that former President Barack Obama was “outsmarted” and embarrassed by Russian President Vladimir Putin — a stinging rebuke of his White House predecessor before an international audience.
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Breitbart, The Daily Beast and Mediaite
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Sixty-eight minutes in Biarritz: A glimpse into Trump's unorthodox mind
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Breitbart
Felicia Sonmez / Washington Post:
After Trump claims first lady has ‘gotten to know’ Kim Jong Un, White House clarifies they've never met
After Trump claims first lady has ‘gotten to know’ Kim Jong Un, White House clarifies they've never met
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Political Wire
Caitlin Oprysko / Politico:
White House clarifies that Melania Trump has not met Kim Jong Un
White House clarifies that Melania Trump has not met Kim Jong Un
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POLITICUSUSA and Washington Post
Peter Baker / New York Times:
Rule 1 at the G7 Meeting? Don't Get You-Know-Who Mad
Rule 1 at the G7 Meeting? Don't Get You-Know-Who Mad
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Federal Election Commission to effectively shut down. Now what? — Federal Election Commission Vice Chairman Matthew Petersen announced his resignation today. — This means the agency that enforces and regulates the nation's campaign finance laws will effectively shut down …
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Axios, The Daily Caller and The Week
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Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
FEC vice chairman who fought internet regs resigns, leaves agency in limbo
FEC vice chairman who fought internet regs resigns, leaves agency in limbo
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CNN, Bloomberg, Politico, POLITICUSUSA, OpenSecrets.org and Political Wire
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Prosecutors Near Decision on Whether to Indict Andrew McCabe — WASHINGTON — Federal prosecutors in Washington appear to be in the final stages of deciding whether to indict Andrew G. McCabe, the former deputy F.B.I. director and a frequent target of President Trump, on charges of lying to federal agents …
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We Should Buy Greenland — Trump isn't the only one to recognize the country's strategic importance. Beijing does, too. — Mr. Cotton, a Republican, is a United States senator from Arkansas. — After news leaked last week that President Trump had expressed interest in acquiring Greenland …
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Johnson & Johnson ordered to pay $572 million for its role in Oklahoma's opioid crisis — NORMAN, Okla.— A judge Monday found Johnson & Johnson responsible for fueling Oklahoma's opioid crisis, ordering the health care company to pay $572 million to remedy the devastation wrought by the epidemic on the state and its residents.
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Vox
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Berkeley Lovelace Jr / CNBC:
Judge rules against Johnson & Johnson in landmark opioid case in Oklahoma
Judge rules against Johnson & Johnson in landmark opioid case in Oklahoma
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New York Times, Politico, Rolling Stone, Law & Crime, The Daily Caller and Political Wire
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GOP Rep. Sean Duffy resigning to help care for child with ‘complications’ — ‘This is the right time for me to take a break from public service in order to be the support my wife, baby and family need right now,’ Duffy says. — Rep. Sean Duffy (R-Wis.) will resign from Congress at the end of September …
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Breitbart burned the New York Times. And the Times really doesn't like it. — They are bad actors. They are driven to suppress legitimate inquiry. They are by no means journalists. — And they read Twitter very carefully! — Those are the contours of an alarm rung on Sunday by the New York Times.
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The Federalist, Townhall and THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS, more at Mediagazer »
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Hamilton Nolan / Splinter:
Journalism Is an Action
Journalism Is an Action
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Washingtonian, Hot Air, The Daily Caller, Daily Kos, Eschaton and twitchy.com, more at Mediagazer »
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Rudy Giuliani Jumps on the Seth Rich Conspiracy Bandwagon — Trump's lawyer says he's just pointing to “nagging coincidences,” even though Rich's family has begged people to stop speculating about their son's death. — Donald Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani promoted discredited conspiracy theories …
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Raw Story
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Trump claims serious trade negotiations with China to begin — BIARRITZ, France (AP) — President Donald Trump, under pressure to scale back a U.S.-China trade war partly blamed for a global economic slowdown, claimed Monday that the two sides will begin serious negotiations soon.
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Some Senate Democrats Value Susan Collins's Friendship More Than Power — Throughout the Trump presidency, the Democratic leadership has begged progressive activists to appreciate the limits of their party's power, and the wisdom of its strategic judgment. — When immigration advocates demanded …
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Lawyers, Guns & Money
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
Inside Susan Collins' reelection fight in the age of Trump
Inside Susan Collins' reelection fight in the age of Trump
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Law & Crime and Above the Law
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Secret Memos Show the Government Has Been Lying About Backpage — For nearly a decade, Backpage has been demonized by politicians, denounced in legislatures, and dramatically mischaracterized by the press, Hollywood, and well-funded activist groups. As early as 2010, top prosecutors …
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Op-Ed: Bernie Sanders on his plan for journalism — Walter Cronkite once said that “journalism is what we need to make democracy work.” He was absolutely right, which is why today's assault on journalism by Wall Street, billionaire businessmen, Silicon Valley, and Donald Trump presents a crisis—and why we must take concrete action.
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CNBC, more at Mediagazer »
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The Sisters Who First Tried to Take Down Jeffrey Epstein — Nine years before any police investigation, Maria and Annie Farmer reported the troubling behavior of Jeffrey Epstein and his companion, Ghislaine Maxwell. No one would act. — As more women have come forward in recent days …
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Law & Crime
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The Next Recession Will Destroy Millennials — The trade war is dragging on. The yield curve is inverting. Investors are fleeing to safety. Global growth is slowing. The stock market is dipping. The Millennials are screwed. — Recessions are never good for anyone.
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Mother Jones
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Why the CIA doesn't spy on the UAE — (Reuters) - The United Arab Emirates finances the military leader trying to topple a United Nations-recognized government in Libya. It helps lead a coalition of nations imposing an economic blockade of Qatar, despite U.S. calls to resolve the dispute.
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Front Page Magazine
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Undercover in Patriot Prayer: Insights From a Vancouver Democrat Who's Been Working Against the Far-Right Group from the Inside — Since 2017, far-right groups have flocked to notoriously liberal Portland to march, yell, and engage in violent clashes with left-wing activists.
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China says wants ‘calm’ resolution to U.S. trade war — BEIJING (Reuters) - China is willing to resolve its trade dispute with the United States through “calm” negotiations and resolutely opposes the escalation of the conflict, Vice Premier Liu He, who has been leading the talks with Washington, said on Monday.
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Joe Kennedy III:
Hi everyone — — I hope you're all having a great summer and getting a little break before fall kicks in. I wanted to take a minute to check in — and to make sure you're hearing directly from me about my plans for 2020. — Over the past few weeks I've begun to consider a run for the U.S. Senate.
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Politico, Roll Call, New York Post, Vanity Fair, Boston Globe, Washington Post, CBS Boston and The Daily Caller
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As Trump zigzags wildly at G-7, one ugly truth remains constant — It took three days, but amid President Trump's wild gyrations in his trade wars, his erratic efforts to spread confusion and lies about the utterances of other world leaders, and his unstable lapses of attention into matters unrelated …
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Fox News, Shareblue Media, Law & Crime, The Guardian and Mediaite
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A Former Trump Hotel Partner Is Charged With Felony Theft — A former business partner of President Trump's company was arrested last week on felony charges of stealing two pieces of luggage from the Memphis airport. — Dinesh Chawla and his brother were partners with the Trump Organization …
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The N.R.A. Has Trump. But It Has Lost Allies in Congress. — The N.R.A. has been assigning fewer A's and more F's to Democrats elected to Congress each cycle. — The National Rifle Association has significantly fewer allies in Congress than it did a decade ago, a decline driven …
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Daily Kos
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France's Macron accuses Brazil's Bolsonaro of ‘incredibly disrespectful’ comments about his wife — French President Emmanuel Macron issued a fiery response to Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro for social media comments that appeared to criticize the appearance of French first lady Brigitte Macron.
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