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11:00 PM ET, September 3, 2019

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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.
Discussion: Hot Air, Slate and The Week
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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.
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?
Discussion: The Guardian, ABC News, Axios and BBC
Henry Olsen / Washington Post:
Britain is on the verge of a constitutional crisis  —  British Prime Minister Boris Johnson lost his majority in the House of Commons on Tuesday with the defection of a Conservative member of Parliament to the opposition Liberal Democrats.  That sets up an unpredictable chain of events …
Benjamin Mueller / New York Times:   Britain's Conservatives Erupt Into Civil War as Unlikely Rebels Defy Boris Johnson
Washington Post:
Britain may face snap elections after Prime Minister Boris Johnson suffers major loss in Parliament
Ian Dunt / politics.co.uk:   Historic rebel victory: Parliament moves to stop no-deal
Nick Miller / Sydney Morning Herald:   Boris Johnson loses control as raucous Parliament debates Brexit
Politico:
Boris Johnson defeated as MPs seek to stop no-deal Brexit
Ned Simons / HuffPost:   Boris Johnson's Party Loses Parliamentary Majority As MP Defects Right In Front Of Him
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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Dylan Matthews / Vox:
How mocking anti-Semitism got a Trump official falsely accused of actual anti-Semitism
Josh Blackman / Reason:
Bloomberg Law's False and Misleading Report about Leif Olson
Discussion: twitchy.com and Leif Olson
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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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.
Allison Quinn / The Daily Beast:
Kroger to Customers: No More Open Carry of Firearms in Our Stores
Discussion: CNBC and The Week
Nathaniel Meyersohn / CNN:
Walmart ends all handgun ammunition sales and asks customers not to carry guns into stores
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 …
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
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Elizabeth Warren / Medium:
100% Clean Energy for America
Discussion: Politico
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
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.
Discussion: CNN and UPI
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
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 …
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  —  A judge has blocked the White House's decision to revoke the press pass of Playboy correspondent Brian Karem over a Rose Garden showdown in July with former White House aide Sebastian Gorka.  —  U.S. District Court Judge Rudolph Contreras issued …
Discussion: Washington Post and Political Wire
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 …
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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Summer Eldemire / The Daily Beast:
McConnell Whines About ‘Moscow Mitch’ Nickname: It's ‘Over the Top’  —  Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell complained about the nickname “Moscow Mitch” during a radio interview, calling it “modern day McCarthyism.”  On The Hugh Hewitt Show show Tuesday, the Kentucky Republican said it was …
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Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
Book: Kavanaugh accuser's attack ‘motivated’ by defending Roe v. Wade  —  Christine Blasey Ford and her feminist attorney were “motivated” in their attack on then-federal judge Brett Kavanaugh by their passion to protect abortion rights, not just their “civic duty” to provide information …
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Ashe Schow / Daily Wire:   New Book Suggests Kavanaugh Accuser Made Claims To Protect Roe v. Wade
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 …
Discussion: TheBlaze and Daily Wire
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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.
Discussion: Raw Story
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 …
Discussion: Raw Story
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 …
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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Jacob Kornbluh / Jewish Insider:
Cruz: ‘Deep State’ government employees keeping Iran deal “on life support” until 2021
Discussion: Political Wire
Lydia DePillis / ProPublica:
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David Ignatius / Washington Post:
Why America is losing the information war to Russia
Discussion: Raw Story
Ken Dilanian / NBC News:
House Democrats to hold hearings on Stormy Daniels hush-money case
Discussion: Vox, Fox News and Daily Kos
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Investigation: Anti- ICE “Never Again Action” Not The Spontaneous Grassroots Group It Claims To Be
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Cherokee Nation Names First Delegate To Congress
Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
Will Trumpism Take Deeper Root in New Hampshire?
David Corn / Mother Jones:
How to Stop Russia From Attacking and Influencing the 2020 Election
 Earlier Items: 
The Daily Beast:
The Taliban Scoff at Trump's Afghan Peace Talks Bluff
Discussion: Axios and TOLOnews
Shamlet / RRH Elections:
RRH Elections NC-9 Poll: Bishop (R) Leads McCready (D) 46-45
Discussion: Breitbart and RedState
The Intercept:
Here's How Much the Democratic Party Charges to Be on Each House Committee
Jonathan Allen / NBC News:
Trump's 2020 pitch: A powerless presidency
Justin Wingerter / Denver Post:
Mike Johnston ends his U.S. Senate campaign against Cory Gardner
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Trump's favorite rage-attack on Democrats is facing a big test
Discussion: The Hill and Raw Story
Tom Scocca / Slate:
Governing by Owning the Libs
Discussion: American Thinker