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Hannah Gais / Splinter:
Leaked Emails Show How White Nationalists Have Infiltrated Conservative Media  —  Conservative institutions in the Donald Trump era have often sought to portray themselves as shocked and appalled by the so-called “alt-right.”  White nationalists have also engaged in their own efforts …
Washington Post:
As he campaigns for president, Joe Biden tells a moving but false war story  —  HANOVER, N.H. — Joe Biden painted a vivid scene for the 400 people packed into a college meeting hall.  A four-star general had asked the then-vice president to travel to Kunar province in Afghanistan …
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Jamie Lovegrove / Post and Courier:
Biden says in SC that ‘essence’ of war story is accurate despite report of false details  —  ROCK HILL — Former Vice President Joe Biden pushed back on a report in The Washington Post that he recently told an inaccurate story in New Hampshire about traveling to Afghanistan to reward a heroic Navy captain.
Benjamin Wittes / Lawfare:
What that Comey Email Report Really Says  —  The Inspector General of the Justice Department has determined that it is misconduct for a law enforcement officer to publicly disclose an effort to shut down his investigation.  —  Michael Horowitz would probably not describe his findings that way.
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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
New report details Comey plan to ambush Trump with Moscow sex allegation  —  A just-released Justice Department inspector general's report provides new details on a January 2017 plan by then-FBI Director James Comey, top bureau officials, and the nation's intelligence chiefs to spring …
Discussion: Fox News, RedState and twitchy.com
David Harsanyi / New York Post:
James Comey is proof the ‘deep state’ is something to fear
Discussion: Breitbart
Jeffrey Goldberg / The Atlantic:
The Man Who Couldn't Take It Anymore  —  On December 19 of last year, Admiral Michael Mullen, the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, met James Mattis for lunch at the Pentagon.  Mattis was a day away from resigning as Donald Trump's secretary of defense, but he tends to keep his own counsel …
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NBC News:
Ex-aide to James Mattis claims Pentagon is holding up his memoir
Discussion: Raw Story, The Atlantic and CNN
Wall Street Journal:   Pentagon Sued Over Holding Up Former Official's Book
Mike Cason / al.com:
Gov. Kay Ivey apologizes for racist skit from time at Auburn  —  Gov. Kay Ivey is contacting state legislators, and apologizing for her role in a racist student skit from her time as an Auburn student.  —  Ivey was president of her Alpha Gamma Delta pledge class at Auburn.
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Daniel Strauss / Politico:   Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey apologizes for participating in blackface skit in college
Brian Lyman / The Montgomery Advertiser:
Gov. Kay Ivey apologizes for appearing in racist sketch as Auburn undergrad
Eve Fairbanks / Washington Post:
Conservatives say we've abandoned reason and civility.  The Old South said that, too.  —  Conservatives say we've abandoned reason and civility.  The Old South used the same language to defend slavery.  —  After the El Paso shooting, Ben Shapiro — a popular conservative podcaster …
Discussion: RedState, Commentary and The Resurgent
Felicia Sonmez / Washington Post:
Trump cancels trip to Poland, says he is staying in the U.S. to monitor Hurricane Dorian  —  President Trump announced Thursday that he is canceling a planned trip to Poland and will remain in the United States to monitor Hurricane Dorian, which is headed toward a potential landfall in Florida …
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Jennifer Jacobs / Bloomberg:
Trump Cancels Poland Trip as Hurricane Bears Down on Florida  — Vice president will travel in Trump's place, president says  — Duda expected visit to demonstrate close ties before election  —  President Donald Trump said he canceled a trip to Poland this weekend because Hurricane Dorian …
Brian Niemietz / New York Daily News:
Mugshots show White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham after drunk driving arrests in 2013 and 2015  —  Being Donald Trump's spokeswoman can drive a person to drink, but Stephanie Grisham had a record of drunk driving long before she got the job in June.
Brett Samuels / The Hill:
Trump says it would be ‘disloyal to my followers’ to do a CNN interview  —  President Trump on Thursday said he's not inclined to do an interview with CNN because he thinks it would be “disloyal” to his supporters.  —  “They are begging me to do an interview, and I just think it would be disloyal …
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Peter Caterina / FOX News Radio:
President Donald Trump Responds To Fox News Criticism With Brian Kilmeade On Fox News Radio
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Jessica Campisi / The Hill:
Fox News's Shepard Smith pushes back on Trump: 'There's no new wall ... not true'
Discussion: Fox News and Breitbart
ESPN:
No distractions: An NFL veteran opens up on his sexuality  —  Ryan Russell is a three-year NFL veteran.  He was drafted by the Dallas Cowboys in 2015 after a successful college career at Purdue.  He played one season with the Cowboys and two for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.  He started seven games for the Bucs in 2017.
Chris Cillizza / CNN:
The Trump team is now lying about lying  —  Cuomo to Trump press secretary: He lies and you know it  —  (CNN)On Wednesday night, Trump reelection campaign press secretary Kayleigh McEnany did an interview with CNN's Chris Cuomo.  It was, uh, contentious.  But one part of the back-and-forth between …
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Mark Joseph Stern / Slate:
Arizona's Governor Is Leading Republicans' Quiet, Radical Takeover of State Supreme Courts  —  Democratic presidential candidates are mostly tiptoeing around the idea of court-packing, toying with the idea of adding seats to the U.S. Supreme Court without committing to a real plan.
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republicanleader.senate.gov:   Senate Republicans Send Unified Message Against Democrats' Court-Packing Threat
Andy Metzger / CommonWealth Magazine:
Kennedy holds 17-point lead over Markey in poll  —  MORE THAN A YEAR out from the 2020 US Senate primary, Massachusetts Democratic voters strongly favor Congressman Joe Kennedy over Sen. Ed Markey, according to an online poll conducted last weekend.  —  When respondents were pressed to make a choice …
Discussion: Political Wire
Nate Cohn / New York Times:
Two Polling Methods, Two Views of Trump's 2020 Re-election Chances  —  Is the president basically like other presidents, or is he uniquely divisive?  —  There are two major theories about President Trump's standing heading into his re-election campaign.  Over the last few months …
BuzzFeed News:
Pete Buttigieg Has Cooled Off But His Campaign Says It's Time For “Phase Three”  —  When Pete Buttigieg walked onstage at this month's Iowa Democratic Wing Ding dinner, the crowd exploded into perhaps their loudest cheer for any of the 20 presidential candidates there that night.
Hamed Aleaziz / BuzzFeed News:
The Trump Administration Wants To Start DNA Testing Undocumented Immigrants In Government Custody  —  The Trump administration wants to expand its DNA testing program by enabling Customs and Border Protection officials to extract genetic material from undocumented immigrants in its custody …
New York Times:
How a Ring of Women Allegedly Recruited Girls for Jeffrey Epstein  —  After Mr. Epstein's suicide, his inner circle of girlfriends, employees and other associates is now under scrutiny by prosecutors.  —  Haley Robson was a 16-year-old South Florida high school student when an acquaintance …
Discussion: New York Post, Gothamist, Breitbart and NPR
Connor Mannion / Mediaite:
(UPDATED) To Absolutely No One's Surprise, MSNBC Ends Saturday Night Politics With Donny Deutsch  —  MSNBC's Saturday Night Politics with Donny Deutsch has ended after airing just 13 episodes.  —  Deutsch, an ad exec turned political commentator, led the show on 8 p.m. Saturday nights which launched on May 4.
Lisa Friedman / New York Times:
E.P.A. to Roll Back Regulations on Methane, a Potent Greenhouse Gas  —  WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is set to announce on Thursday that it intends to sharply curtail the regulation of methane emissions, a major contributor to climate change, according to an industry official with knowledge of the plan.
Tim Dickinson / Rolling Stone:
The Washington Post's Latest Fact Check of Bernie Sanders Is Really Something  —  Why is did the paper's fact checker call Bernie Sanders's accurate claim about medical bankruptcies “false”?  —  Medical debt is a major driver of personal bankruptcy.  This is a fact that Bernie Sanders highlights …
Discussion: Washington Post
New York Times:
Sick Migrants Undergoing Lifesaving Care Can Now Be Deported  —  LOS ANGELES — Maria Isabel Bueso was 7 years old when she came to the United States from Guatemala at the invitation of doctors who were conducting a clinical trial for the treatment of her rare, disfiguring genetic disease.
Discussion: Axios
Geoff Brumfiel / NPR:
Iranian Rocket Launch Ends In Failure, Imagery Shows  —  Satellite imagery shared exclusively with NPR shows that an Iranian rocket appears to have exploded on the launch pad Thursday.  —  The imagery from the commercial company Planet and shared via the Middlebury Institute …
Discussion: CNN and The Week
Kendall Karson / ABC News:
Final lineup set for sole night of ABC Democratic primary debate  —  The final lineup for the third Democratic debate is set for a single night in Houston in two weeks on Sept. 12.  —  Eight months into the campaign season, the third matchup in a series of Democratic National Committee …
Caleb Ecarma / Mediaite:
Fox News Host Jeanine Pirro Accuses Democrats of Vast Plot to ‘Replace American Citizens with Illegals’  —  Fox News host Jeanine Pirro repeated a conspiracy theory held by some White Supremacists on Thursday while claiming that Democrats are waging a vast “plot” to “replace American citizens with illegals.”
Elena Schneider / Politico:
Why Gillibrand crashed and burned  —  On Tuesday night, Kirsten Gillibrand gathered her family and her campaign manager, Jess Fassler, at her home in Troy, N.Y., for a reality check.  —  The New York senator had barely registered in polls all year despite burning through a $10 million campaign war chest.
U.S. Department of Justice:
U.S. Attorney Justin Herdman's comments on recent Ohio cases involving political violence  —  Remarks as prepared announcing federal criminal charges against James Reardon:  —  Good morning.  Thank you for coming today and thank you to all of the local police chiefs who are here.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and ABC News
Saba Imtiaz / New York Times:
A Plague of Flies Descends on Karachi: 'They're Hounding People'  —  KARACHI, Pakistan — First came the floods, as weeks of monsoon rains deluged neighborhoods across Karachi, sending sewage and trash through Pakistan's largest city.  Then came the long power outages, in some cases for 60 hours and counting.
Ann-Christine Diaz / Ad Age:
Cadbury's Unity Bar promotes diversity with four different kinds of chocolate  —  Candy brand debuted limited-edition product to celebrate India's Independence Day  —  Editor's Pick  —  Marketers are embracing diversity in myriad ways, from bringing to the fore stories of underrepresented groups …
 
 
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Jacqueline Feldscher / Politico:
Trump establishes new military Space Command
Discussion: CNN and Breitbart
Andy Surabian / Breitbart:
Jerome Powell's Never-Ending War on the Trump Economy Gives China the Upper Hand
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and CNN
Alex Seitz-Wald / NBC News:
Kamala Harris out of running for progressive group's endorsement
Farnaz Fassihi / New York Times:
In Iran's Hierarchy, Talks With Trump Are Now Seen as Inevitable
Sam Stein / The Daily Beast:
‘A Racist Narrative’: Biden Warned of Welfare Moms Driving Luxury Cars
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Veronica Stracqualursi / CNN:
West Virginia GOP state senator accused of soliciting prostitution
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Rebecca Ballhaus / Wall Street Journal:
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Molly Jong-Fast / The Daily Beast:
The Five Distinct Levels of Donald Trump Ass-Kissing, Explained
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Scoop: Netanyahu tried to reach Trump to block Zarif meeting
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