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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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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, Instapundit and Patterico's Pontifications
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, Splinter, The Guardian, The Week and PoliticsHome.com
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Chris Mills Rodrigo / The Hill:
Boris Johnson loses parliamentary majority in UK — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson's Conservative Party lost its parliamentary majority Tuesday after an MP defected to the Liberal Democrats. — MP Phillip Lee, a 27 year veteran of the House of Commons, announced that he would be leaving …
Emilio Casalicchio / Politico:
Boris Johnson loses Commons majority as Tory MP defects
Boris Johnson loses Commons majority as Tory MP defects
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Politico, Financial Times and The Guardian
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 — Photo by Charles McQuillan/Getty Images — Mike Pence is staying three hours outside of Dublin so Trump can make money. — President Donald Trump canceled a planned state visit to Poland on Thursday …
Washington Post:
Trump encouraged Pence to stay at his golf resort in Ireland
Trump encouraged Pence to stay at his golf resort in Ireland
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Politico, Law & Crime, The Week, Kennebec Journal …, Shareblue Media, CNN and Political Wire
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Why Mike Pence Is Lining Trump's Pockets With Taxpayer Dollars
Why Mike Pence Is Lining Trump's Pockets With Taxpayer Dollars
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The Daily Beast, Vanity Fair, Raw Story and The Week
Justin Sink / Bloomberg:
Pence Under Fire Over Stay at Trump's Irish Resort
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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Amber Phillips / Washington Post:
Joe Biden says ‘details are irrelevant.’ Can Democrats get away with that in the Trump era?
Joe Biden says ‘details are irrelevant.’ Can Democrats get away with that in the Trump era?
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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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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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 …
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Law & Crime and Daily Kos
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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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Reade Pickert / Bloomberg:
U.S. Manufacturing Contracts for First Time in Three Years — U.S. factory activity unexpectedly contracted in August for the first time in three years as shrinking orders, production and hiring pushed a widely followed measure of manufacturing to its lowest level since January 2016.
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CNBC, Mother Jones, TRADING ECONOMICS, Political Wire and Shareblue Media
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.
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Lee Moran / HuffPost:
People Can't Believe How Easily Kim Jong Un ‘Played’ Donald Trump
People Can't Believe How Easily Kim Jong Un ‘Played’ Donald Trump
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New York Times and Hullabaloo
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.”
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Kelly Jane Torrance / Washington Examiner:
‘Catastrophic decisions’: Mattis savages Obama for ‘failure’ in foreign policy
‘Catastrophic decisions’: Mattis savages Obama for ‘failure’ in foreign policy
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American Military News, IJR, New York Sun and Mediaite
Alicia Parlapiano / New York Times:
Why More Dogs and Cats Are Making It Out of Shelters Alive — A cultural transformation: Spaying and neutering are now the norm, and rescue adoption is growing in popularity. — DALLAS — When a lost, stray or abandoned pet entered an American city's animal shelter 10 years ago, there was a good chance it would not leave.
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Trump congratulates Poland on its Nazi invasion anniversary — And he still doesn't seem to know what FARC is. — President Trump is known to make the odd comment here and there about foreign nations, often because he doesn't seem particularly versed in what's happening in them.
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Political Wire and Outside the Beltway
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.
Natasha Korecki / Politico:
Biden campaign says Iowa is not a must-win state — Joe Biden's campaign on Tuesday said Iowa is not a must-win state on the former vice president's path to the Democratic presidential nomination and signaled that the campaign is already “ramping up” its Super Tuesday efforts. — “Do I think we have to win Iowa?
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Political Wire
Tom Scocca / Slate:
Governing by Owning the Libs — Fine: Donald Trump wanted to buy Greenland, or at least wanted to talk about wanting to buy Greenland. Presidents are allowed to be silly and imperialist; taking over Greenland is mild stuff compared with, say, planting a flag on the moon.
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American Thinker
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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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.
Jeet Heer / The Nation:
Democracy Dies From Bad Fact-Checking — The Washington Post is feeding into Trump's agenda by turning fact-checking into an ideological weapon. — The Washington Post has fallen into the habit of accusing Bernie Sanders of misleading the public even in cases where the evidence is strongly on the side of the Vermont senator.