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Jake Tapper / CNN:
Trump called Fox News correspondent into Oval Office to argue he wasn't wrong about Alabama — (CNN)Fox News senior White House correspondent John Roberts had just finished his 3 p.m. live shot on Thursday when President Donald Trump beckoned him into the Oval Office.
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Jonathan Lemire / Associated Press:
Mr Never Wrong: Storm spat underscores Trump's mindset — NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump doesn't make mistakes. At least according to him. — Trump's relentless justifications of his erroneous warnings that Hurricane Dorian was threatening Alabama on Sunday …
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Washington Post, Mercury News, Politico and Raw Story
Andrew Egger / The Bulwark:
Sharpie-gate Proves We Are Living in a Real-Life ‘Onion’ Article
Sharpie-gate Proves We Are Living in a Real-Life ‘Onion’ Article
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Raw Story, The Wrap, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, The Daily Caller, Mediaite and Washington Times
Washington Post:
‘What I said was accurate!’: Trump stays fixated on his Alabama error as hurricane pounds the Carolinas
‘What I said was accurate!’: Trump stays fixated on his Alabama error as hurricane pounds the Carolinas
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Talking Points Memo, Politico, Mother Jones, NBC News, Washington Press, CNN, The Daily Caller, Salt Lake Tribune, Daily Wire, Raw Story, The Concourse, Slate, Daily Kos, The Guardian, Fox News, The Week, Mediaite, The Hill, Althouse, The New Civil Rights Movement, The Bulwark, BizPac Review, The Atlantic, Political Flare, The Daily Beast, The Gateway Pundit and Shareblue Media
James Hohmann / Washington Post:
The Daily 202: Trump is the Sharpie president
The Daily 202: Trump is the Sharpie president
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Talking Points Memo, Raw Story and The Week
Jamie Pietruska / Washington Post:
Why President Trump's Sharpied weather map was likely a crime — and should be
Why President Trump's Sharpied weather map was likely a crime — and should be
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Washington Press, Politico and Slate
Michael C. Bender / Wall Street Journal:
'It's Kind of Like an Addiction': On the Road With Trump's Rally Diehards — Libby DePiero is almost always one of the first few people in line at the president's campaign events, part of the self-described group of ‘Front Row Joes’ who routinely travel to see the president perform.
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Republicans to scrap primaries and caucuses as Trump challengers cry foul — Four states are poised to cancel their 2020 GOP presidential primaries and caucuses, a move that would cut off oxygen to Donald Trump's long-shot primary challengers. — Republican parties in South Carolina …
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Raw Story, Reason, Fox News, Talking Points Memo and Contemptor
Washington Post:
Former Starbucks chief executive Howard Schultz announces he will not run for president — Former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz formally abandoned his pursuit of an independent campaign for president Friday, telling his supporters in a letter that he found it tougher than he expected to capture …
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Politico, ZeroHedge News, Breitbart, Jewish Insider, Outside the Beltway and The Week
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Mike Allen / Axios:
Scoop: Howard Schultz to end presidential campaign
Scoop: Howard Schultz to end presidential campaign
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National Review, Slate, Shareblue Media, Bloomberg, ABC News, The Daily Caller, Talking Points Memo, Financial Times, TheBlaze, Politico, CNN and Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Tiana Lowe / Washington Examiner:
The jobs report is even weaker than it seems, shows an economy on tenterhooks at Trump's trade war — On it's face, the August jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics doesn't look too bad for the economy. The economy added 130,000 jobs, missing the 150,000 mark expected by economists.
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Patterico's Pontifications
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Reade Pickert / Bloomberg:
U.S. Payrolls Rise 130,000, Boosted by 25,000 for Census Count
U.S. Payrolls Rise 130,000, Boosted by 25,000 for Census Count
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CNBC, The Week and Political Wire
Washington Post:
Boris Johnson visits a farm, steers bull into police officer — LONDON — The steaks have never been so high for Boris Johnson, who has vowed to steer Britain out of the European Union and lead the country forward. — But things haven't quite gone to plan for the new prime minister.
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BBC:
Brexit: Opposition parties to reject PM election move
Brexit: Opposition parties to reject PM election move
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BBC, The Guardian and The Week
BuzzFeed News:
“The Most Immoral, Unethical Thing I've Ever Seen In My 15 Years Of Politics” — Inside A Small City Mayor's Campaign For President — Wayne Messam's unlikely 2020 campaign has been chaotic from the start. “It's like we were in some D-list version of The Sopranos.”
New York Times:
Trump Aides' Poll Finds Gun Control Politically Problematic for the President — President Trump assured Senator Joe Manchin III, Democrat of West Virginia, on Thursday that he was still considering legislation that could include background checks for gun buyers.
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Washington Monthly, Wall Street Journal, Talking Points Memo and Political Wire
Rani Molla / Vox:
One Trump fundraiser was all it took to slash SoulCycle's attendance — New data shows attendance dipped in the weeks following the boycott. — Last month, cancel culture came for SoulCycle. — The stationary bike exercise company's liberal user base was outraged at news …
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Out Magazine
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James Hamblin / The Atlantic:
People Actually Quit SoulCycle
Alexander Agadjanian / Washington Post:
How Joe Biden attracts both black voters and racially ‘resentful’ voters — Racism and sexism are shaping the Democratic primary in some surprising ways. — By many measures, the two major political parties are moving in opposite directions when it comes to racism and sexism.
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Timothy Puko / Wall Street Journal:
Justice Department Launches Antitrust Probe Into Four Auto Makers — Government seeks to determine if Ford, Honda, BMW, VW violated competition law by agreeing with each other to follow emissions standards beyond those proposed by Trump administration — WASHINGTON—The Justice Department …
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Raw Story and Political Wire
Washington Examiner:
The Washington Post's lost summer — It's been a lost summer for the Washington Post. — From Memorial Day to Labor Day, the Post had some pretty embarrassing moments. Whether it was incorrectly stating that presidents do not deliver remarks on the Fourth of July, ignoring speeches by Presidents Reagan …
David Brooks / New York Times:
And Now, a Word From a Fanatic — Inside the mind of an internet extremist. — I am a sick man. I am a spiteful man. I am an unattractive man. I believe my liver is diseased. — I am one of those fanatics on the alt-right and the alt-left, the ones who make online forums so vicious …
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twitchy.com, Althouse, Lawyers, Guns & Money, Splinter and Mother Jones
Kimberly Atkins / WBUR:
Warren Probes State Department Role In Pence's Trump Property Trip In Ireland — Editor's Note: This is our weekly politics newsletter. Get it in your inbox here. — This week, as Congress readies its return after a long, hot summer, Democrats are already squaring off with the Trump administration:
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Washington Post, USA Today, Balloon Juice and The Mahablog
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Marina Fang / HuffPost:
Top Senate Democrat Wants To Investigate Pence's Stay At Trump Golf Club In Ireland
Top Senate Democrat Wants To Investigate Pence's Stay At Trump Golf Club In Ireland
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ABC News
Windsor Mann / The Week:
Mike Pence will get nothing for his humiliation — Vice President Mike Pence is the rare servant who pays his master. — This week he visited Ireland, where he stayed at one of President Trump's properties, the Trump International Golf Links and Hotel in Doonbeg.
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New York Times, Yahoo News and Splinter
Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
Dare We Dream of the End of the G.O.P.? — In a new book, the pollster Stanley Greenberg predicts a blue tidal wave in 2020. — Toward the end of his new book, “R.I.P. G.O.P.,” the renowned Democratic pollster Stanley Greenberg makes a thrilling prediction, delivered with the certainty of prophecy.
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No More Mister Nice Blog
Jay Weaver / Miami Herald:
American Airlines mechanic in Miami charged with sabotaging plane. It aborted takeoff. — An American Airlines mechanic was arrested Thursday on a sabotage charge accusing him of disabling a navigation system on a flight with 150 people aboard before it was scheduled to take off from Miami International Airport earlier this summer.
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CNBC, The Daily Caller, VICE, New York Times, The Independent, The Gateway Pundit, Jihad Watch, Fox News, News Breaking and Front Page Magazine
Washington Post:
Trump tries to force Ukraine to meddle in the 2020 election — UKRAINE'S NEOPHYTE president, Volodymyr Zelensky, took a big step this week toward proving that he will be, as he promised, the most pro-reform president in Ukraine's history. On Monday, he laid out a breathtakingly ambitious …
Kate Brannen / Just Security:
Trump Cuts “Muscle” from European Defense to Fund Border Wall — The list of military construction projects the Trump administration is defunding to pay for its controversial border wall includes more than $770 million from an initiative started by the Obama administration to shore …
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Defense News, Military Times and Reuters
Jeff Weiner / Orlando Sentinel:
Florida man arrested in Walmart shooting threat called himself white nationalist in Facebook post, cops say — FBI agents waited more than an hour at the Winter Park home of Richard Dean Clayton's parents before the 26-year-old entered unannounced through the back door.
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Raw Story
Helene Cooper / New York Times:
Military Base Loses Funding for New School to Trump's Border Wall — WASHINGTON — For almost two decades, families at Fort Campbell, the sprawling Army base along the Kentucky-Tennessee border, have borne the brunt of the country's war efforts as a steady clip of troops with the 101st Airborne Division …
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Washington Post and Daily Kos
Sonam Sheth / Business Insider:
Trump may have committed tax fraud by fabricating a loan to avoid paying income taxes on nearly $50 million — A bombshell investigation by Mother Jones found that President Donald Trump may have invented a loan to avoid paying income taxes on nearly $50 million.
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CANNONFIRE, Shareblue Media, Mother Jones and Raw Story
Elaine Godfrey / The Atlantic:
Why Steve King's Supporters Are Staying Loyal — HOLSTEIN, IOWA—One of Representative Steve King's most ardent defenders is a man named Mark Leonard. And Mark Leonard is obsessed with the Civil War. — A few times every year, the 63-year-old chair of the Ida County Republicans travels to Gettysburg …
Reuters:
Farm Loan Delinquencies Surge in U.S. Election Battleground Wisconsin — WASHINGTON/CHICAGO (Reuters) - Farm loan delinquencies rose to a record high in June at Wisconsin's community banks, data showed on Thursday, a sign President Donald Trump's trade conflicts with China and other countries …
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Althouse
CNN:
Democrats widen impeachment probe as they confront roadblocks — Impeachment may be tough sell for Dems in red districts — (CNN)Faced with a time crunch ahead of the 2020 election season, the House Judiciary Committee is broadening its investigation beyond special counsel Robert Mueller's findings …
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Politico and Political Wire
Reuters:
Exclusive: U.S. congressional probe finds possible lapses in Deutsche Bank controls - sources — LONDON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. congressional investigators have identified possible failures in Deutsche Bank AG's (DBKGn.D) money laundering controls in its dealings with Russian oligarchs …
Adam Serwer / The Atlantic:
Trump Is Winning His War on the FBI — Former FBI Director James Comey influenced the course of the 2016 election, investigated presidential candidates from each party, and was fired by one of them for leading an inquiry into foreign interference with American democracy.
Monica Hesse / Washington Post:
Ivanka Trump is acting as if everything is normal — Ivanka Trump descended upon Bogota, Colombia, this week to talk about women's empowerment and left us talking about her sleeves. They were voluminous, bell-shaped swaths of green fabric. As the first daughter stood in solemn formation …