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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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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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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
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
Nick Miller / Sydney Morning Herald:
Boris Johnson loses control as raucous Parliament debates Brexit
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
Shameful: Trump Labor appointee forced to resign after Bloomberg portrays sarcastic Facebook post as anti-Semitic
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National Review, twitchy.com, Mediaite, Instapundit and Patterico's Pontifications
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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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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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.
Michael Corkery / New York Times:
Walmart to Limit Ammunition Sales and Discourage ‘Open Carry’ of Guns in Stores
Walmart to Limit Ammunition Sales and Discourage ‘Open Carry’ of Guns in Stores
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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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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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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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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
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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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 …
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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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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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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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Justin Wise / The Hill:
McConnell: ‘Over-the-top’ Moscow Mitch nickname effort to ‘smear’ me
McConnell: ‘Over-the-top’ Moscow Mitch nickname effort to ‘smear’ me
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The Week, Progress Pond, The Daily Caller, Breitbart and The New Civil Rights Movement
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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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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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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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
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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