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7:40 AM ET, August 28, 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, Raw Story and The Week
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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Star Tribune:
D.C. doctor alleges her husband left her for Rep. Ilhan Omar  —  Divorce filings claim that Omar is in a romantic relationship with her campaign fundraiser.  —  TEXT SIZE  —  Washington - A Washington, D.C., physician alleged in divorce filings Tuesday that her husband …
Discussion: Political Wire
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.
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 …
Andrew Kerr / The Daily Caller:
Ilhan Omar's Campaign Funded Travel For Man She's Alleged To Have An Affair With, Records Show
Discussion: New York Post and NB Blog
Tim Nelson / MPR News:
Divorce filing claims woman's husband left her for Ilhan Omar
Discussion: twitchy.com
WCCO | CBS Minnesota:
‘Focus On The Present’: Rep. Ilhan Omar Talks With Esme Murphy About ‘Shaking Things Up’ In Washington
Discussion: Power Line
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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CNN:
Attorney General William Barr planning private holiday party at Trump's DC hotel
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 …
David Karpf / Esquire:
I Called Bret Stephens a Bedbug.  Then He Tried to Squelch My Freedom of Speech.  What a Day.  —  Bret Stephens is above me in the status hierarchy.  He knows this.  I know this.  He has won a Pulitzer Prize and has a regular op-ed column in the  —  New York Times  —  . I am just some professor.
Discussion: Fox News and Mediaite
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Rebecca Fishbein / Splinter:
An Interview with the Man Whose Bedbug Joke Made Bret Stephens Lose His Mind
Sohrab Ahmari / New York Post:
In defense of Bret Stephens
Discussion: RedState
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: Law & Crime
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Brian Faler / Politico:
Deutsche Bank all but confirms it possesses some of Trump's tax returns
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
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 …
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Astead W. Herndon / New York Times:   Biden Extols His Black Support: ‘I Think They Know Me’
Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:   Joe Biden took questions from black reporters for 90 minutes. He did not disappoint.
BBC:
Government asks Queen to suspend Parliament  —  The government has asked the Queen to suspend Parliament just days after MPs return to work in September - and only a few weeks before the Brexit deadline.  —  Boris Johnson said a Queen's Speech would take place after the suspension, on 14 October, to outline his “very exciting agenda”.
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BBC:
LIVEReaction to Parliament suspension plan
Jim Mattis / Wall Street Journal:
Duty, Democracy and the Threat of Tribalism  —  Lessons in leadership from a lifetime of service, from fighting in the Marines Corps to working for President Donald Trump  —  In late November 2016, I was enjoying Thanksgiving break in my hometown on the Columbia River in Washington state …
David J. Kramer / Washington Post:
Trump wants Russia to join the G-7.  Here's why that's a terrible idea.  —  David J. Kramer is a senior fellow in the Vaclav Havel Center for Human Rights & Diplomacy and director of European and Eurasian studies at Florida International University's Steven J. Green School of International & Public Affairs.
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USA Today:
Poll: Americans dread the 2020 election and have doubts about the outcome; Biden maintains his lead  —  Americans are facing the 2020 presidential election with a dominant feeling: Dread.  —  A nationwide USA TODAY/Suffolk University Poll found a sharply divided country …
Discussion: Politico and Political Wire
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 …
Holly Otterbein / Politico:
Bernie Sanders won't kiss your baby, but he feels your pain  —  The famous curmudgeon shows his emotional side.  —  SIOUX CITY, Iowa — Bernie Sanders is getting warm and fuzzy.  —  The Democratic presidential candidate who wouldn't be caught dead kissing babies or flipping burgers …
Discussion: New York Times
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Tess Bonn / The Hill:
Sanders: China has done more to address extreme poverty ‘than any country in the history of civilization’
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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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 …
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
Discussion: Fox News and Mediaite
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
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, Mediaite and WBUR News
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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
Jaweed Kaleem / Los Angeles Times:
Harvard freshman denied U.S. entry after arriving from Lebanon  —  Ismail Ajjawi made headlines in Lebanon as a 14-year-old growing up in a ramshackle camp for Palestinian refugees — for being one of the top scorers on the country's primary school exams.  This year he aced the secondary school exam …
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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: Slate, Raw Story, Earther and The Week
 
 
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Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
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BBC:
Berlin Chechen shooting: Russian assassination suspected
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Kyle Jaeger / Marijuana Moment:
Top House Democrat Peddles Gateway Theory To Justify Marijuana Legalization Opposition
Washington Post:
Trump's promotion of Doral for next G-7 summit catches local officials by surprise
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA, The Week and Raw Story
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Conservative trolls allied with White House looking to ‘kill’ the wrong messenger | Opinion
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Russian-linked company investing in Arizona has deeper ties to Russian mobsters than previously understood
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Beto O'Rourke Ejects Breitbart News Reporter from Event at Historically Black College
Peter Hamby / Vanity Fair:
“ARE WE REALLY GOING TO HAVE A GAFFE-FEST OVER JOE BIDEN?”: …
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