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Stephen Castle / New York Times:
Brexit Vote Goes Against Boris Johnson, and He Calls for an Election — LONDON — British lawmakers on Tuesday rose up against Prime Minister Boris Johnson, moving to prevent him from taking the country out of the European Union without a formal agreement. The epic showdown has Britain on the verge of a snap general election.
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BBC:
Brexit: Tory MP defects ahead of crucial no deal vote — Conservative MP Phillip Lee has defected to the Liberal Democrats ahead of a showdown between Boris Johnson and Tory rebels over Brexit. — Dr Lee, the MP for Bracknell, took his seat on the opposition benches as the PM addressed the Commons.
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CNBC, The Guardian, Splinter, The Week and PoliticsHome.com
BBC:
LIVEBrexit: Government loses Commons majority ahead of key vote — Read our main story Tory MP defects ahead of crucial no-deal vote | Who are Tory rebels set to defy Boris Johnson? Leo Varadkar says Ireland must stand its ground | Could there be an early general election? Can a no-deal Brexit be stopped?
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The Guardian, ABC News, Axios and BBC
Washington Post:
Britain may face snap elections after Prime Minister Boris Johnson suffers major loss in Parliament
Britain may face snap elections after Prime Minister Boris Johnson suffers major loss in Parliament
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National Review, Vanity Fair and Hot Air
Bloomberg Law:
Trump Labor Aide Quits After Anti-Semitic Facebook Posts Surface — A recently appointed Trump Labor Department official with a history of advancing controversial conservative and faith-based causes in court has resigned after revelations that he wrote a 2016 Facebook post suggesting the Jewish-controlled media “protects their own.”
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Philip Klein / Washington Examiner:
Shameful: Trump Labor appointee forced to resign after Bloomberg portrays sarcastic Facebook post as anti-Semitic — In one of the most shameful, egregious, media failures of the year, a Trump appointee to the Department of Labor was forced to resign after a Bloomberg reporter started asking officials …
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twitchy.com, Mediaite, Instapundit and Patterico's Pontifications
Yair Rosenberg / Tablet Magazine:
How A Media Outlet Turned a Trump Appointee Who Mocked Alt-Right Anti-Semites Into an Anti-Semite
How A Media Outlet Turned a Trump Appointee Who Mocked Alt-Right Anti-Semites Into an Anti-Semite
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Josh Blackman / Reason:
Bloomberg Law's False and Misleading Report about Leif Olson
Bloomberg Law's False and Misleading Report about Leif Olson
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twitchy.com and Leif Olson
Dylan Matthews / Vox:
How mocking anti-Semitism got a Trump official falsely accused of actual anti-Semitism
How mocking anti-Semitism got a Trump official falsely accused of actual anti-Semitism
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Front Page Magazine, National Review and twitchy.com
Walmart Inc.:
McMillon to Associates: Our Next Steps in Response to the Tragedies in El Paso and Southaven — Press Kit — A month ago, in El Paso, Texas, a gunman with an assault-style rifle launched a hate-filled attack in our store, shooting 48 people resulting in the loss of 22 innocent lives.
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Anne D'innocenzio / Associated Press:
Walmart to stop selling handgun ammunition — NEW YORK (AP) — Walmart says it will discontinue the sale of handgun ammunition and also publicly request that customers refrain from openly carrying firearms in stores even where state laws allow it. — The announcement comes just days …
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Nathaniel Meyersohn / CNN:
Walmart ends all handgun ammunition sales and asks customers not to carry guns into stores
Walmart ends all handgun ammunition sales and asks customers not to carry guns into stores
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Lauren Thomas / CNBC:
Read the full memo from Walmart's CEO about pulling back on ammunition sales, asking the government to act
Read the full memo from Walmart's CEO about pulling back on ammunition sales, asking the government to act
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Hot Air, Vox, Common Dreams, Splinter, Breitbart and Mother Jones
Will Doran / Raleigh News & Observer:
Judges strike down NC state legislature lines as unconstitutional gerrymandering — North Carolina's political maps for the state legislature are unconstitutional and must be redrawn before the 2020 elections, lawyers for the winning side said Tuesday. — The ruling hasn't been posted online yet …
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Sam Levine / HuffPost:
North Carolina Court Says The State's Districts Are Illegal Partisan Gerrymanders — Activists believe state courts may offer a way to rein in excessive gerrymandering. — North Carolina's state legislative maps are so severely gerrymandered to benefit Republicans that they violate …
CNN:
Elizabeth Warren embraces Jay Inslee's climate change platform — Warren to audience member: You may want to sit for this — (CNN)Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Tuesday announced she would adopt Washington Gov. Jay Inslee's 10-year climate plan, while also expanding on his blueprint with a series …
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New York Times, Lawyers, Guns & Money and Political Wire
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John Bresnahan / Politico:
Trump administration raids military construction projects for border wall — The Trump administration is carrying out plans to raid $3.6 billion in military construction projects to build the border wall, further inflaming lawmakers who have accused President Donald Trump of illegally overriding Congress' spending decisions.
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Paul Sonne / Washington Post:
Pentagon approves diversion of military construction funds for Trump's wall — Defense Secretary Mark T. Esper agreed on Tuesday to free up $3.6 billion from the Pentagon budget for President Trump's border wall by effectively defunding 127 military construction projects using emergency authorities.
Associated Press:
Conversion therapy crusader has something to say: He's gay — “Conversion therapy is not just a lie, but it's very harmful,” said McKrae Game, a South Carolinian who founded one of the nation's biggest ex-gay ministries. — SPARTANBURG, S.C. - A South Carolina man who founded …
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Jessica Campisi / The Hill:
Conversion therapy group founder comes out as gay, apologizes
Allan Smith / NBC News:
Trump made ‘suggestion’ Pence stay at president's Irish golf club, VP's chief of staff says — “I don't think it was a request, like a command,” Pence's chief of staff Marc Short told reporters Tuesday. “I think that it was a suggestion.” — President Donald Trump suggested …
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Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
The wild corruption of Trump's golf courses deserves more scrutiny
The wild corruption of Trump's golf courses deserves more scrutiny
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Brandon Conradis / The Hill:
Judge orders White House to restore Playboy reporter's press pass — A U.S. district judge on Tuesday ordered the White House to restore Playboy correspondent Brian Karem's press credentials after the administration said last month it was revoking his hard pass.
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Judge tells White House to reinstate reporter's pass
Judge tells White House to reinstate reporter's pass
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Political Wire
Matt Wilstein / The Daily Beast:
Whoopi Goldberg Goes Off on Debra Messing: 'You Don't Have the Right!' — “Listen, the last time people did this, people ended up killing themselves,” Goldberg said, referring to Joseph McCarthy's Hollywood blacklist of the 1950s. — Whoopi Goldberg is not impressed with actress Debra Messing's call …
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The Root, WayneDupree.com, BizPac Review, Hot Air, Daily Wire, Fox News and Breitbart
Associated Press:
AP source: Texas shooter purchased AK rifle at private sale — ODESSA, Texas (AP) — The gunman in a West Texas rampage that left seven dead obtained his AR-style rifle through a private sale, allowing him to evade a federal background check that previously blocked him from getting a gun …
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Ebony Bowden / New York Post:
Rep. Ilhan Omar's husband wants divorce after affair bombshell: source — MINNEAPOLIS — Rep. Ilhan Omar's marriage appears to be headed for the rocks, a longtime friend of the couple told The Post. — The congresswoman's husband Ahmed Hirsi, the source said, is poised to file for divorce …
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Scott Johnson / Power Line:
Ilhan Omar feels the heat
Ilhan Omar feels the heat
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Clay Masters / NPR:
‘Details Are Irrelevant’: Biden Says Verbal Slip-Ups Don't Undermine His Judgment — Toggle more options — Joe Biden wants voters to look at the big picture. — His campaign is focused on a mission to “restore the soul of this nation.” — That's also why the former vice president does …
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Justin Wise / The Hill:
McConnell: ‘Over-the-top’ Moscow Mitch nickname effort to ‘smear’ me — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Tuesday vehemently denounced political opponents who have dubbed him “Moscow Mitch,” calling the nickname an “over-the-top” effort to “smear” him.
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Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
Trump's Wacky, Angry, and Extreme August — President Trump ended August as he began it, with a blast of angry tweets, ad-hominem insults, and bizarre fulminations that have become so standard that they no longer receive the attention they deserve—emanating, as they do, from the world's most powerful leader.
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Voice of America:
US Imposes Sanctions on Iran Space Agencies — The United States has imposed its first-ever sanctions against Iran's space agency, accusing it of disguising a missile program. — “The United States will not allow Iran to use its space launch program as cover to advance its ballistic missile program …
Ruth Graham / Slate:
The Disgraced Cardinal and the Small Town Where He Was Sent to Disappear — VICTORIA, Kansas—On a cloudy Sunday morning in August, Father John Schmeidler delivered a brisk homily at St. Fidelis Catholic Church on the virtue of trusting that God always has a plan.
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The Daily Caller and Washington Post
Foreign Policy:
State Department Failed to Shield Its Diplomats From Political Reprisals, Officials Concede — But the department's top leaders say they can't sack the Trump appointee at the center of scandal. — U.S. Deputy Secretary of State John Sullivan has acknowledged having failed to act more vigorously …
Julie K. Brown / Miami Herald:
After beating by guards, Florida woman is a quadriplegic. She's suing. — In what's being called one of the worst prison beatings in memory, four male Florida prison guards attacked an inmate suffering from mental illness, slammed her to a concrete floor, elbowed her in the neck …
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Raw Story
Justin Wingerter / Denver Post:
Mike Johnston ends his U.S. Senate campaign against Cory Gardner — U.S. Senate candidate Mike Johnston said Tuesday he is suspending his campaign. — Johnston, a 44-year-old former state senator, led the crowded Democratic field this year in fundraising and was a top-tier candidate in the polls.
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Talking Points Memo and Washington Free Beacon
Jonathan Allen / NBC News:
Trump's 2020 pitch: A powerless presidency — Analysis: The most powerful man in the world would like voters to know he is beset on all sides by sinister forces that deprive him of the authority he needs to deliver on his vision for America. — WASHINGTON — The most powerful man in the world prefers to portray himself as a martyr.