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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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twitchy.com and Political Wire
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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
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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Talking Points Memo, Vox, VICE, The Guardian, Raw Story and Patterico's Pontifications
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Washington Post:
Trump encouraged Pence to stay at his golf resort in Ireland — Vice President Pence's top aide said Tuesday that Pence and members of his traveling entourage are staying at a golf resort in Ireland owned by President Trump at Trump's suggestion. But he defended an arrangement that Democrats …
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Politico, Shareblue Media, Kennebec Journal …, Political Wire and CNN
Katie Rogers / New York Times:
President Trump, Weatherman: Dorian Updates and at Least 122 Tweets — WASHINGTON — Over the long weekend, President Trump monitored Hurricane Dorian from a golf cart at his club in Virginia, calling for regular updates from an aide trailing him around the course.
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Raw Story, CNN, Shareblue Media, Washington Post, The Independent and The Right Scoop
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Benjamin Goggin / Business Insider:
Video appears to show Trump golfing in Virginia in the run-up to catastrophic Hurricane Dorian
Video appears to show Trump golfing in Virginia in the run-up to catastrophic Hurricane Dorian
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New York Daily News
Rebecca Falconer / Axios:
5 U.S. states to declare emergency as Dorian closes in on Florida
5 U.S. states to declare emergency as Dorian closes in on Florida
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Associated Press, nhc.noaa.gov and USA Today
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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Washington Post, Talking Points Memo, Axios, Political Wire, Splinter, Washington Times and CNN
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John Wagner / Washington Post:
Biden: Inaccurate details in war story ‘irrelevant’ to policy decisions
Biden: Inaccurate details in war story ‘irrelevant’ to policy decisions
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National Review, New York Post and The Hill
David Karpf / Esquire:
Bret Stephens Compared Me to a Nazi Propagandist in the New York Times. It Proved My Point. — columnist Bret Stephens went searching for an online insult last Monday night. He found a — Twitter joke I wrote — , calling him a metaphorical bedbug as a riff on the — actual bedbugs reported in the
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Salon and Washington Post, more at Mediagazer »
Sahil Kapur / Bloomberg:
Why Kamala Harris Hasn't Caught Fire in the Democratic 2020 Race — Attacks on Biden appear to have backfired in the second debate — Californian faces questions about ideology and prosecutor past — Kamala Harris entered the presidential race with impressive credentials …
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Elena Schneider / Politico:
It's now Biden, Warren, Sanders — and everyone else
It's now Biden, Warren, Sanders — and everyone else
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Associated Press, Washington Post, Reason, Des Moines Register, Outside the Beltway, New York Times and Reuters
John F. Harris / Politico:
What We Know About the Democratic Primary
Washington Post:
Congressional Democrats plan to launch inquiry into Trump's alleged role in scheme to silence affair accusations — House Democrats plan to make President Trump's alleged involvement in a 2016 scheme to silence two women who claimed they had affairs with him a major investigative focus this fall …
Mike Allen / Axios:
Scoop: Trump allies raise money to target reporters — President Trump's political allies are trying to raise at least $2 million to investigate reporters and editors of The New York Times, The Washington Post and other outlets, according to a three-page fundraising pitch reviewed by Axios.
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Hullabaloo, Slate and Big League Politics
Nolan Hicks / New York Post:
De Blasio logged a 7-hour work month at City Hall — Mayor de Blasio spent a mere seven hours — less than one full workday — at City Hall during the month he launched his bid for the White House, records reviewed by The Post show. — Hizzoner showed up at his office on just six occasions in May …
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The Daily Caller, Washington Free Beacon and Mediaite
Sarah Ferris / Politico:
Democrats' messy impeachment push hits critical phase — House Democrats return to Capitol Hill next week with an impeachment mess on their hands and just weeks to make a choice that could define the rest of Donald Trump's presidency. — Lawmakers faced frequently contentious town halls during …
Geoff Brumfiel / NPR:
Amateurs Identify U.S. Spy Satellite Behind President Trump's Tweet — Amateur satellite trackers say they believe an image tweeted by President Trump on Friday came from one of America's most advanced spy satellites. — The image almost certainly came from a satellite known as USA 224 …
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RedState and New York Post
Lee Moran / HuffPost:
People Can't Believe How Easily Kim Jong Un ‘Played’ Donald Trump — “Kim has ridden Trump like a pony.” — President Donald Trump is accused of being “played” by North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un over the advancement of the Hermit Kingdom's weapons arsenal.
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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.
Pat Eaton-robb / Associated Press:
Former Navy SEAL enters Yale as a 52-year-old freshman — NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — Former Navy SEAL James Hatch says heading to class as a freshman at Yale University is just about as nerve-wracking as preparing for the uncertainty of combat. — At 52 years old, Hatch does not fit the profile of the traditional Yale freshman.
Washington Post:
Sen. Joe Manchin III won't run for governor in West Virginia, spokesman says, passing on challenge to GOP incumbent — Manchin, 72, previously served as governor from 2005 to 2010 and last year considered retiring from the Senate before reluctantly agreeing to seek reelection in a state …
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Political Wire and Daily Kos
Ari Fleischer / The Federalist:
Obama-Defending NPR Reporter's Question To Trump At G7 Reinforces Media's Bias Problem — Much of what's wrong with the press was on full display in one question at the president's recent news conference at the G-7 meeting in France. — Anti-Trump press bias has become so routine that it's now taken for granted.
Noreen Malone / The Cut:
The Five Millennials (Actually) Changing the World — So here we are, a generation munching on the last greens of its salad days, saddled with dull, decade-old complaints about our coddledness, our entitlement, our selfies, our political correctness — most blah-blah-blah of all, by the boring cliché of our avocado toast.
Amir Tibon / Haaretz:
Netanyahu, Trump in Intensive Talks for Dramatic Diplomatic Gesture in Coming Days, Ahead of Israeli Election — Israeli prime minister in close contact with people close to U.S. president, with one option under consideration being an American statement on creating ‘defense pact’ with Israel
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middleeastmonitor.com
Jordain Carney / The Hill:
McConnell vows to give gun bill a vote if it is backed by Trump — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Tuesday stressed that President Trump's support is the key to a gun reform bill getting a vote on the Senate floor in the wake of recent mass shootings.
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Washington Post and Political Wire
The Harvard Crimson:
Freshman Previously Denied Entry to the United States Arrives at Harvard — Harvard freshman Ismail B. Ajjawi '23, who United States border officials turned away ten days ago, arrived on campus Monday in time for the start of classes Tuesday. — Ajjawi's family issued a statement Monday through …
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New York Times, New York Post, Splinter, Fox News and TechCrunch
Leo Shane III / Military Times:
In new book, Mattis takes shots at the president (but not that one) — In his new book “Call Sign Chaos,” former Defense Secretary Jim Mattis makes it clear early that he isn't ready to gossip about his messy exit from President Donald Trump's administration and “I don't write about sitting presidents.”