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11:55 PM ET, August 27, 2019

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Washington Post:
‘Take the land’: President Trump wants a border wall.  He wants it black.  And he wants it by Election Day.  —  President Trump is so eager to complete hundreds of miles of border fence ahead of the 2020 presidential election that he has directed aides to fast-track billions of dollars' worth …
Discussion: Mediaite
Julia Marsh / New York Post:
My husband dumped me for Ilhan Omar, DC mom says in divorce filing  —  A Washington, DC, mom says her political-consultant husband left her for Rep. Ilhan Omar, according to a bombshell divorce filing obtained by The Post.  —  Dr. Beth Jordan Mynett says her cheating spouse, Tim Mynett …
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Justin Wise / The Hill:
Alabama Republicans approve resolution calling for Omar to be expelled from Congress  —  Alabama's Republican Party is urging the state's congressional delegation to begin the process of expelling freshman Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) from Congress.  —  The state GOP supported a resolution calling …
Tiana Lowe / Washington Examiner:
Nearly one of every three dollars spent on Ilhan Omar's campaign has gone to her alleged lover's firm  —  The New York Post reported Tuesday on a high-profile divorce.  To be specific, a woman has claimed in court papers that her husband has been cheating on her, carrying on with married Rep. Ilhan Omar.
Andrew Kerr / The Daily Caller:
Ilhan Omar's Campaign Funded Travel For Man She's Alleged To Have An Affair With, Records Show  —  Rep. Ilhan Omar's campaign has disbursed tens of thousands of dollars in “travel expenses” to the company owned by the political strategist whose wife accused him Tuesday of having an affair with the Minnesota Democrat.
Discussion: New York Post and NB Blog
Star Tribune:   D.C. doctor alleges her husband left her for Rep. Ilhan Omar
Esme Murphy / WCCO | CBS Minnesota:
‘Focus On The Present’: Rep. Ilhan Omar Talks With Esme Murphy About ‘Shaking Things Up’ In Washington
Discussion: Power Line
Tim Nelson / MPR News:
Divorce filing claims woman's husband left her for Ilhan Omar
Discussion: twitchy.com
Washington Post:
Cheers!  Barr books Trump's hotel for $30,000 holiday party  —  Experts say private, 200-person party adds to questions about attorney general's independence from president.  —  U.S. Attorney General William P. Barr is planning a holiday treat for his boss.
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Reuters:
Exclusive: Falwell steered Liberty University land deal benefiting his personal trainer  —  LYNCHBURG, Va. (Reuters) - Evangelical leader and prominent Donald Trump backer Jerry Falwell Jr personally approved real estate transactions by his nonprofit Christian university that helped …
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David Karpf / Esquire:
I Called Bret Stephens a Bedbug. Then He Tried to Squelch My Freedom of Speech. What a Day.
Discussion: Mediaite
Sohrab Ahmari / New York Post:
In defense of Bret Stephens
Discussion: RedState
Washington Post:
A professor called Bret Stephens a ‘bedbug.’ The New York Times columnist complained to the professor's boss.
New York Times:
Deutsche Bank Tells Court It Has Some Tax Returns Related to Trump Inquiry  —  Deutsche Bank told a federal appeals court on Tuesday that it was in possession of some tax returns sought by congressional subpoenas issued earlier this year to President Trump, his family and his businesses.
Discussion: Political Wire and Law & Crime
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Brian Faler / Politico:
Deutsche Bank all but confirms it possesses some of Trump's tax returns  —  Lawyers for Deutsche Bank all but confirmed on Tuesday that the German lender possesses some of President Donald Trump's tax returns and those of his family members.  —  The financial giant was responding to an order …
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Ann E. Marimow / Washington Post:
Trump's bank has tax records Congress is seeking in subpoenas targeting the president's finances
Discussion: Bloomberg and Axios
Katelyn Polantz / CNN:
Deutsche Bank has tax returns but doesn't say publicly if they are Trump's
Benjamin Wittes / Lawfare:
Thoughts on the Impending Prosecution of Andrew McCabe  —  I confess that this story shocks me.  —  The New York Times reported yesterday that “Federal prosecutors in Washington appear to be in the final stages of deciding whether to seek an indictment of Andrew G. McCabe …
The Harvard Crimson:
Incoming Harvard Freshman Deported After Visa Revoked  —  While most Harvard freshmen settle into their dorms Tuesday, one new student, Ismail B. Ajjawi '23, faces ongoing negotiations with immigration officers to allow him to enter the United States and study at the College.
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Jaweed Kaleem / Los Angeles Times:   Harvard freshman denied U.S. entry after arriving from Lebanon
Ellie Hall / BuzzFeed News:
A Palestinian Harvard Student Said He Was Deported Because Of His Friend's Social Media Posts
Discussion: The Intellectualist
Mark Preston / CNN:
CNN announces details for climate crisis town hall  —  Washington (CNN)CNN on Tuesday announced the candidate lineup for its unprecedented prime-time event focused on the climate crisis.  —  Ten Democratic presidential hopefuls will appear in New York at back-to-back town halls on Wednesday …
Discussion: Townhall and Axios
NBC News:
Trump admin pulling millions from FEMA disaster relief to send to southern border  —  Combined with existing space, the funding would allow ICE to detain nearly 50,000 immigrants at one time.  —  WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is pulling $271 million in funding from the Department …
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Shannon Dooling / NPR:
Trump Administration Ends Protection For Migrants' Medical Care  —  Toggle more options  —  Dismaying immigrants and advocates, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has sent out letters saying the agency will no longer consider most deferrals of deportation for people with serious medical conditions, documents show.
Discussion: Raw Story, WBUR News and Mediaite
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Michael Levenson / BostonGlobe.com:   'I feel like I'm signing my son's death warrant.' Children at Boston hospitals face deportation
Business Insider:
‘I was working like a slave’: Exhausted Popeyes employees describe a harrowing situation amid chicken-sandwich chaos, including working 60-hour weeks and shifts with no breaks  — Popeyes and Chick-fil-A engaged in a Twitter battle last week over which chain's chicken sandwich was superior …
Discussion: Fox News, Splinter and Eater
Rebecca Falconer / Axios:
Rep. Steve King jokes China should sterilize Uighur women and force the Muslims to eat pork  —  Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) joked at a town hall in Audubon, Iowa, Tuesday about sterilizing Muslim women in China “so there's no more Uighurs to be born,” and “trying to force them to eat pork,” the Sioux City Journal reports.
Discussion: Raw Story and Splinter
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Bret Hayworth / Sioux City Journal:   At western Iowa town hall, Steve King jokes about forced feeding of pork to Muslims
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Trump is lying to farmers' faces, and they're finally getting angry about it  —  One of the worst habits among the D.C. commentariat is the tendency to treat President Trump's lies as if they possess magical qualities.  We are constantly told that Trump's lying “works,” …
Discussion: Raw Story and The Intellectualist
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Marissa Brostoff / Washington Post:
How white nationalists aligned themselves with the antiabortion movement  —  Last fall, speaking to a far-right Austrian magazine, the Iowa Republican congressman Steve King succinctly laid out his theory of Western decline.  The problem, he suggested, was a demographic born at the nexus of reproduction and immigration.
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Ramesh Ponnuru / National Review:
Smearing Pro-Lifers, Especially J. D. Vance
Discussion: TheBlaze and twitchy.com
Washington Post:
Trump pushes to allow new logging in Alaska's Tongass National Forest  —  President Trump has instructed Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue to exempt Alaska's 16.7 million-acre Tongass National Forest from logging restrictions imposed nearly 20 years ago, according to three people briefed on the issue …
Discussion: The Week
Leonard Pitts Jr / Miami Herald:
Conservative trolls allied with White House looking to ‘kill’ the wrong messenger |  Opinion  —  “The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.”  —  So says Dick the Butcher in Shakespeare's “Henry VI, Part 2.”  Though often regarded as a Renaissance-era lawyer joke …
Discussion: Breitbart
Peter Hamby / Vanity Fair:
“ARE WE REALLY GOING TO HAVE A GAFFE-FEST OVER JOE BIDEN?”:  HOW CLICKBAIT AND OUTRAGE PORN ARE HURTING READERS—AND ELEVATING TRUMP  —  Trump wants to drop a nuclear bomb into a hurricane, immigrant children are dying in U.S. custody, and the Amazon rainforest is burning.
Chris Johnson / Washington Blade:
Exclusive: Log Cabin executive director resigns over Trump endorsement  —  The executive director of the Log Cabin Republicans has resigned following a controversial decision by the organization's board to endorse President Trump, the Washington Blade has learned exclusively.
Associated Press:
Biden: Racism in US is institutional, 'white man's problem'  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Racism in America is institutional and it is a “white man's problem visited on people of color,” former Vice President Joe Biden said Tuesday, arguing that the way to attack the issue is to defeat President Donald Trump …
Discussion: Breitbart and Political Wire
Tess Bonn / The Hill:
Sanders: China has done more to address extreme poverty ‘than any country in the history of civilization’  —  Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) offered praise for China while stating in an interview that he believed the U.S. could have a positive relationship with the country, saying it had made …
 
 
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David J. Kramer / Washington Post:
Trump wants Russia to join the G-7. Here's why that's a terrible idea.
Astead W. Herndon / New York Times:
Biden Extols His Black Support: ‘I Think They Know Me’
Discussion: Political Wire
Washington Post:
Trump's promotion of Doral for next G-7 summit catches local officials by surprise
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA, Raw Story and The Week
Scott Stedman / FORENSIC NEWS:
Russian-linked company investing in Arizona has deeper ties to Russian mobsters than previously understood
Joel B. Pollak / Breitbart:
Beto O'Rourke Ejects Breitbart News Reporter from Event at Historically Black College
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Alana Goodman / Washington Examiner:
John Kerry's son cut business ties with Hunter Biden over Ukrainian oil deal
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Patrick Byrne / Deep Capture:
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Edward Wong / New York Times:
How China Uses LinkedIn to Recruit Spies Abroad
Mary Papenfuss / HuffPost:
Trump's Trade War Linked To Amazon Rainforest Destruction
Amy Graff / San Francisco Chronicle:
SF restaurant owner says Bernie Sanders was ‘cranky,’ rude to staff
Jonah Goldberg / Los Angeles Times:
Column: Has Trump's cheese finally slid off his cracker?
 

 
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Ankush Khardori / Politico:
Trump may erode press protections but the ABC case is not evidence of that as the decision to settle appears reasonable given Stephanopoulos' imprecise remarks

Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
A deep dive into Paramount's sale to Skydance; sources: Skydance may integrate Pluto into Paramount+, and CBS head George Cheeks is expected to be head of TV

Todd Spangler / Variety:
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