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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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Benjamin Mueller / New York Times:
Britain's Conservatives Erupt Into Civil War as Unlikely Rebels Defy Boris Johnson — LONDON — They have been dubbed the Conservative rebels, a group of renegade lawmakers willing to risk their careers to defy their newly chosen leader, Prime Minister Boris Johnson, and hobble his leadership over their clashing views on Brexit.
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Megan McArdle / Washington Post:
Boris Johnson is presiding over Britain's stupidest hour
Boris Johnson is presiding over Britain's stupidest hour
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Business Insider and New York Times
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
Boris Johnson defeated as MPs seek to stop no-deal Brexit
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Politico, One America News Network and The Hill
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
Kamala Harris, other 2020 candidates offer climate change plans before CNN event
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Elizabeth Warren / Medium:
100% Clean Energy for America
100% Clean Energy for America
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New York Times:
Elizabeth Warren Unveils $3 Trillion Climate Plan, Embracing Inslee's Goals
Elizabeth Warren Unveils $3 Trillion Climate Plan, Embracing Inslee's Goals
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Climate Debate and UPI
Gavin Bade / Politico:
How Julián Castro would address climate change
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.
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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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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.
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
Kroger to Customers: No More Open Carry of Firearms in Our Stores
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Anne D'Innocenzio / Associated Press:
Walmart to stop selling handgun ammunition
Walmart to stop selling handgun ammunition
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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
Judge tells White House to reinstate reporter's pass
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Washington Post
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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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, Political Wire, POLITICUSUSA, Breitbart, The Daily Caller, Splinter, Progress Pond and IJR
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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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.
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.
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 …
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Jessica Levinson / NBC News:
What GOP Rep. Devin Nunes' Twitter defamation lawsuit says about the future of defamation law — The congressman's suit is clearly petty. But it does ask the legal system to answer questions it will eventually need to tackle. — Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., does not much like being the subject of criticism or ridicule.
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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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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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 …