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New York Times:
Shoot Migrants' Legs, Build Alligator Moat: Behind Trump's Ideas for Border  —  WASHINGTON — The Oval Office meeting this past March began, as so many had, with President Trump fuming about migrants.  But this time he had a solution.  As White House advisers listened astonished …
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Vincent Wood / The Independent:
Trump shouted 'you're making me look like an idiot' at White House staff, report claims  —  Officials including Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and aide Stephen Miller berated over border policy  —  Donald Trump reportedly told aides and cabinet ministers they were making him look like an …
Nick Miroff / Washington Post:
Acting homeland security chief frustrated and isolated — even as he delivers what Trump wants at the border  —  Nearly six months after taking over the Department of Homeland Security as acting secretary, Kevin McAleenan has guided the United States out of a crisis at the southern border …
Erin Banco / The Daily Beast:
Pompeo Pushed Out His Own Ukraine Rep to Squash a Growing Scandal  —  “Volker was the easier guy to let go,” said one former State Department official.  “But just because it is an easy choice doesn't mean it is the right choice.”  —  When President Donald Trump's personal attorney Rudy Giuliani appeared …
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Veronica Stracqualursi / CNN:
Pompeo: ‘I was on the phone call’ with Trump and Ukrainian President  —  (CNN)US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo admitted Wednesday that he was on the July 25 phone call in which President Donald Trump asked Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden.
New York Times:   Pompeo Confirms He Listened to Trump's Call to Ukraine President
Bloomberg:   Pompeo Says ‘I Was on the Phone Call’ With Trump and Ukraine President
CNN:
State Department inspector general requests briefing on Ukraine with congressional staff
Discussion: Daily Kos and Shareblue Media
Steven Shepard / Politico:
Support for impeaching Trump hits new high  —  Support for impeaching President Donald Trump is growing.  —  A batch of recent polling confirms the Democratic impeachment push is gaining steam — including a new POLITICO/Morning Consult survey that shows for the first time that more voters support …
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Maureen Groppe / USA Today:
Poll: Only 4 in 10 Republicans think Trump mentioned Biden on Ukraine call even though he acknowledged doing so  —  WASHINGTON - A new poll shows that only four in 10 Republicans believe President Donald Trump talked to the Ukrainian president about investigating political rival Joe Biden, even though Trump has acknowledged doing so.
Jake Sherman / Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: What Republicans are saying privately about impeachment  —  WE'RE GOING TO LOS ANGELES!!!!! ...  LET'S GO NATS!  BEAT L.A.!!!  —  SIREN ... REPUBLICAN CONCERN RISING WITH TRUMP'S REACTION TO IMPEACHMENT ...  ON TUESDAY NIGHT, a very seasoned and well-known GOP operative sent us …
Discussion: The Texas Tribune
Frank Bruni / New York Times:
If Trump Goes Down, He's Taking Everyone With Him
Discussion: Daily Kos and Washington Post
Catherine Philp / The Times & The Sunday Times:
Donald Trump impeachment: President called Boris Johnson for help to discredit Mueller inquiry  —  President Trump personally contacted Boris Johnson to ask for help as he tried to discredit the Mueller investigation into possible connections between Russia and his 2016 election campaign, The Times understands.
Discussion: Political Wire
Perry Bacon Jr / FiveThirtyEight:
Why Do Black Democrats Usually Prefer Establishment Candidates?  —  Black voters effectively delivered Hillary Clinton the Democratic presidential nomination in 2016.  She and Sen. Bernie Sanders ran about evenly among white voters, but black voters overwhelmingly backed Clinton.
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Maya King / Politico:
Warren gets ‘dramatic shift’ in support from black voters  —  One element of Elizabeth Warren's surge in the polls is likely to strike fear in her top Democratic rivals — her rising support among African-Americans.  —  After struggling to win over black voters in the early stages of the primary …
Discussion: Vox and Mediaite
Anita Kumar / Politico:
A Trump hotel mystery: Giant reservations followed by empty rooms  —  House investigators are looking into an allegation that groups — including at least one foreign government — tried to ingratiate themselves to President Donald Trump by booking rooms at his hotels but never staying in them.
Discussion: Raw Story
Barbie Latza Nadeau / The Daily Beast:
Barr Went to Rome to Hear a Secret Tape From Joseph Mifsud, the Professor Who Helped Ignite the Russia Probe  —  The U.S. attorney general traveled to Italy to meet with Italian secret service agents—and, potentially, undermine the Mueller investigation.  —  Correspondent-At-Large
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Lee Smith / New York Post:
Dems, media aim to squash Barr's probe of Russia-collusion hoax
Discussion: Associated Press
James Hohmann / Washington Post:
The Daily 202: Mike Pompeo and Bill Barr are increasingly implicated in the impeachment inquiry
Discussion: Raw Story
New York Times:
Was There Another Cover-Up In Response to the Whistle-Blower?  —  The Justice Department should have shared a campaign-finance investigation with the Federal Election Commission.  —  Mr. Geltzer and Mr. Katyal are law professors at Georgetown.  —  One of the first things new prosecutors …
Will Wilkinson / New York Times:
Trump Has Disqualified Himself From Running in 2020  —  The president's brazen attempt at cheating has taken “decide it at the ballot box” off the menu.  Impeachment is imperative.  —  “I think the American people are going to have a chance to decide this at the ballot box in November 2020 …
Discussion: PJ Media Home and Blue Virginia
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Carl Hulse / New York Times:   Impeachment Rules Say Senate Must Act, but Its Act Might Be a Swift Dismissal
Louis Casiano / Fox News:
Virginia police officer suspended after turning in suspected undocumented immigrant over to ICE  —  A Virginia police officer was suspended after allegedly turning over a suspected undocumented immigrant to federal authorities following a traffic accident last month.
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Thomas B. Edsall / New York Times:
Will Trump Ever Leave the White House?  —  It's a loaded question — with no obvious answer.  —  Mr. Edsall contributes a weekly column from Washington, D.C. on politics, demographics and inequality.  —  Since 2015, we have been worrying about how much danger Donald Trump posed to democracy.
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money and Fox News
NBC News:
Giuliani turns on ‘honest’ Ukrainian prosecutor who says Bidens did nothing illegal  —  Rudy Giuliani had nothing but praise for Ukrainian prosecutor Yuriy Lutsenko — until he didn't.  —  WASHINGTON — For much of this year, Rudy Giuliani was counting on Ukraine's former chief prosecutor …
Discussion: Raw Story, Morning Consult and Mediaite
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Dan Alexander / Forbes:
Donald Trump's Sons Have Sold More Than $100 Million Of His Real Estate Since He Took Office  —  There are big dreams, and then there are Trump-size dreams, ones that demand capital letters and tower over cities.  They are what nudged Donald Trump's grandfather Friedrich from Germany to New York …
Kate Brumback / Associated Press:
Federal judge temporarily blocks Georgia abortion law  —  ATLANTA (AP) — A federal judge on Tuesday temporarily blocked Georgia's restrictive new abortion law from taking effect, following the lead of other judges who have blocked similar measures in other states.
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Maya T. Prabhu / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Federal judge blocks Georgia anti-abortion law
Keith J. Kelly / New York Post:
Alan Dershowitz's new book will counter the #MeToo movement  —  Alan Dershowitz — who has been mired in controversy over his taking on Jeffrey Epstein as a client and over his friendly ties to the late sex predator — is about to stir things up again with a new book, “Guilt by Accusation …
New York Times:
Boeing Engineer, in Official Complaint, Cited Focus on Profit Over Safety on 737 Max  —  A senior Boeing engineer filed an internal ethics complaint this year saying that during the development of the 737 Max jet the company had rejected a safety system to minimize costs …
Morgan Simon / Forbes:
GEO Group Runs Out of Banks as 100% of Banking Partners Say ‘No’ to the Private Prison Sector  —  I write about money and social justice.  —  All of the existing banking partners to private prison leader GEO Group have now officially committed to ending ties with the private prison and immigrant detention industry.
Discussion: ImmigrationProf Blog
Reed Richardson / Mediaite:
Corey Lewandowski Hurls Incendiary Charge at Sanders, Warren: They Want ‘Illegal Aliens to Come Across This Border and Kill Americans’  —  Donald Trump's former campaign Corey Lewandowski confirmed his reputation as a ferocious attack dog for the president, hurling a toxic …
Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
‘A presidency of one’: Key federal agencies increasingly compelled to benefit Trump  —  The president's personal concerns have become priorities of departments that traditionally have operated with some degree of political independence from the White House — and their leaders are engaging their boss's obsessions.
Janan Ganesh / Financial Times:
The chances of Republicans deserting Trump are underrated  —  Upon dismissing his chief of staff in 1973, Richard Nixon said that he loved him “like my brother”.  The line seems too easy until you remember that the US president had seen two of his own die young.
Discussion: GZERO
Dan Merica / CNN:
Bennet raises $2.1 million in 3rd quarter, pledges to stay in until New Hampshire  —  (CNN)Sen. Michael Bennet raised $2.1 million in the third quarter of 2019, his campaign tells CNN, a sum that will likely make him one of the lowest-fundraising Democrats in the 2020 presidential field.
Discussion: Axios
Evan Ratliff / Insider:
The story of Jamal Khashoggi's murder and how the world looked the other way  —  One year ago the journalist Jamal Khashoggi walked into the Saudi consulate in Istanbul and never walked out.  In the months that followed the facts of his disappearance and murder would emerge in fragments …
Discussion: Al Jazeera, FRONTLINE and Inquirer.com
Associated Press:
North Korea fires missile days before resuming US talks  —  SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea fired a ballistic missile from the sea on Wednesday, South Korea's military said, a suggestion that it may have tested an underwater-launched missile for the first time in three years ahead …
Discussion: Political Wire
 
 
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Politico:
Democrats turn eye to Rick Perry in Ukrainian probe
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Megan McArdle / Washington Post:
Please don't make it too hard for Republicans to get on the impeachment train
Paul Crookston / Washington Free Beacon:
Chinese Communists Doing ‘Spectacular Job’ Fighting Poverty, NPR Reporter Says
Discussion: NPR and NB Blog
New York Times:
Republicans Changing Delegate Rules to Prevent Discord at Convention
Karin Brulliard / Washington Post:
Dolphins are swimming, mating and even giving birth in the Potomac
Discussion: FiveThirtyEight
Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:
How to Impeach Trump, Do Justice and Win an Election
Discussion: Raw Story
Nick Bilton / Vanity Fair:
DOES HE BELIEVE CHAOS IS A LADDER HE CAN CLIMB? …
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James D. Walsh / New York Magazine:
‘At What Point Does Malfeasance Become Fraud?’: NYU Biz-School Professor Scott Galloway on WeWork
Discussion: Fortune
Steven Erlanger / New York Times:
Ukraine? Impeachment? Trump Can Survive It All, Foreign Analysts Say
France 24:
Australian opposition call for release of Trump transcript
Josh Fiallo / Tampa Bay Times:
Donald Trump Jr. and senior Trump campaign advisor to speak at UF
WOSU Radio:
Ohio State Reports Over 1,500 Instances Of Sexual Assault By Team Doctor
Andrea Salcedo / New York Times:
Trump Is ‘Last Hope for White People,’ Said Police Chief on Trial
 

 
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Reuters:
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