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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: The Week, Hot Air and Slate
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Benjamin Mueller / New York Times:
Britain's Conservatives Erupt Into Civil War as Unlikely Rebels Defy Boris Johnson
Discussion: The Week
Ian Dunt / politics.co.uk:   Historic rebel victory: Parliament moves to stop no-deal
Megan McArdle / Washington Post:
Boris Johnson is presiding over Britain's stupidest hour
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
Henry Olsen / Washington Post:   Britain is on the verge of a constitutional crisis
Ben Smith / BuzzFeed News:
A Top White House Reporter Is Taking Over The Washington Free Beacon  —  A leading political reporter is leaving Politico to lead the neoconservative flagship Washington Free Beacon, the latest move in a conservative media world attempting to adjust to the age of Donald Trump.
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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Chelsea Janes / Washington Post:
Kamala Harris, other 2020 candidates offer climate change plans before CNN event
Discussion: Politico, New York Times and CNN
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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New York Times:
Pentagon to Divert Money From 127 Projects to Pay for Trump's Border Wall  —  WASHINGTON — The Pentagon will delay or suspend 127 military construction projects so that $3.6 billion can be diverted to shore up President Trump's border wall, Defense Department officials said Tuesday.
Discussion: Splinter
Washington Post:
Pentagon approves diversion of military construction funds for Trump's wall
Discussion: CNN, Just Security and UPI
New York Times:
Hong Kong's Leader, Carrie Lam, to Withdraw Extradition Bill That Ignited Protests  —  HONG KONG — Carrie Lam, Hong Kong's chief executive, said Wednesday that the government would withdraw a contentious extradition bill that ignited months of protests in the city, moving to quell …
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Washington Post:
Hong Kong leader fully withdraws extradition bill, but protesters say it's not enough
Washington Post:
Top Interior official who pushed to expand drilling in Alaska to join oil company there  —  Joe Balash, a Trump appointee, had served as assistant secretary for Land and Minerals Management until Aug. 30  —  Last summer, Scott Pruitt left his job heading the Environmental Protection Agency …
Discussion: Raw Story and Political Wire
Stephanie Murphy / Washington Post:
Why is the Russian meddling in 2016 such a big secret?  I'm not allowed to say.  —  Stephanie Murphy, a Democrat, represents Florida's 7th Congressional District in the House of Representatives.  —  In May, other members of Florida's congressional delegation and I were briefed for 90 minutes …
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Mark Joseph Stern / Slate:
North Carolina Court Strikes Down Gerrymander, Citing Smoking Gun Evidence in the Hofeller Files  —  A North Carolina court struck down the state's legislative maps on Tuesday, ruling that the districts amounted to a partisan gerrymander in violation of the state constitution.
Discussion: electionlawblog.org
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New York Times:
North Carolina's Legislative Maps Are Thrown Out by State Court Panel
Discussion: Shareblue Media and Mother Jones
Los Angeles Times:
Trump's schedule shows a president with plenty of downtime this summer  —  President Trump's daily Twitter feed in recent weeks has been a torrent of personal attacks, news commentary, weather reports, unfounded claims and congratulatory notes.  But when it comes to his day job, the American people have seen little of him.
Discussion: Mediaite
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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 …
Thomas B. Edsall / New York Times:
The Trump Voters Whose ‘Need for Chaos’ Obliterates Everything Else  —  Political nihilism is one of the president's strongest weapons.  —  Mr. Edsall contributes a weekly column from Washington, D.C. on politics, demographics and inequality.  —  Over the four years during …
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 …
New York Times:
The Secret History of the Push to Strike Iran  —  Hawks in Israel and America have spent more than a decade agitating for war against the Islamic Republic's nuclear program.  Will Trump finally deliver?  —  In july of 2017, the White House was at a crossroads on the question of Iran.
Reuters:
Kroger asks customers to quit openly carrying guns in stores  —  NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. grocer Kroger Co (KR.N) has begun asking customers to stop openly carrying firearms in stores, a change in policy, a spokeswoman said on Tuesday.  —  Kroger previously had followed local and state laws on the matter, she said.
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Allison Quinn / The Daily Beast:
Kroger to Customers: No More Open Carry of Firearms in Our Stores
Discussion: CNBC, The Trace and The Week
Ben White / Politico:
‘They are riding a rubber ducky into alligator-infested waters’  —  President Donald Trump is staring down a series of trigger points that will determine whether he enters the 2020 campaign backed by his most valuable asset — a healthy U.S. economy — or empty-handed and further on the defensive.
Discussion: Raw Story
Noah Bookbinder / USA Today:
G-7 at Trump's Doral resort?  The original sin of this presidency is failure to divest.  —  Trump's corruption now includes more than 2,300 conflicts of interest that benefit his finances, break his promises and violate the Constitution.  —  CONNECT  —  President Donald Trump's use …
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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New York Times:
‘Business as Normal’: Pence's Stay at Trump Hotel in Ireland Follows a Trend
Discussion: Raw Story
Wall Street Journal:
‘Father is Surgeon,’ ‘1 mil pledge’: The Role of Money in USC Admissions  —  Emails in college admissions cheating scandal show the role donations played in decisions to accept students  —  BOSTON—Emails among athletics, admissions and fundraising officials at the University …
Steve Benen / MSNBC:
Why Trump's hurricane antics are so terribly odd  —  In recent years, American presidents have routinely been evaluated on their administrations' responses to hurricanes.  In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, George W. Bush created a low standard, and there's a broad expectation …
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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Andrew Prokop / Vox:
The Trump hush money mystery House Democrats should try to solve
Discussion: National Review and ABC News
Thomas Gift / Washington Post:
China has reasons to keep fighting a trade war
Nick Gillespie / Reason:
Young Americans Prefer Socialism Because They Are Ignorant of the Past: Camille Paglia
Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times:
Google accused of secretly feeding personal data to advertisers
Arthur C. Brooks / Washington Post:
Conspiracy theories are a dangerous threat to our democracy
Rachana Pradhan / Politico:
Democrats bet big on Obamacare to win Virginia statehouse
Discussion: Political Wire
Jessica Levinson / NBC News:
What GOP Rep. Devin Nunes' Twitter defamation lawsuit says about the future of defamation law
Jacob Kornbluh / Jewish Insider:
Cruz: ‘Deep State’ government employees keeping Iran deal “on life support” until 2021
 Earlier Items: 
David Ignatius / Washington Post:
Why America is losing the information war to Russia
Discussion: Raw Story
Samantha Mandeles / Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion:
Investigation: Anti- ICE “Never Again Action” Not The Spontaneous Grassroots Group It Claims To Be
Julie K. Brown / Miami Herald:
After beating by guards, Florida woman is a quadriplegic. She's suing.
Discussion: Raw Story
Graham L Brewer / NPR:
Cherokee Nation Names First Delegate To Congress
Foreign Policy:
State Department Failed to Shield Its Diplomats From Political Reprisals, Officials Concede
Discussion: Just Security
Jonathan Allen / NBC News:
Trump's 2020 pitch: A powerless presidency
Discussion: DownWithTyranny!
 

 
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Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
A New York judge finds Sirius XM liable for a difficult subscription cancellation process; Sirius says it will appeal but abide by a new “click-to-cancel” rule

Ashley Carman / Bloomberg:
A growing number of podcasters, including Tim Ferriss, are moving away from interviews to monologues or co-hosts, as some well-known guests can be overexposed

Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Sources: NBCUniversal Vice Chairman Bonnie Hammer plans to leave the company at the end of the year; she has been with the company since 2004

 
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