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Rick Noack / Washington Post:
Danes furious over postponement of Trump's visit, call his behavior ‘insulting’ — BERLIN — Danish lawmakers on Wednesday reacted in fury to President's Trump's postponement of his two-day visit in early September to Denmark after its prime minister said she was not interested in selling him the autonomous island of Greenland.
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Annie Karni / New York Times:
Trump Scraps Trip to Denmark, as Greenland Is Not for Sale — WASHINGTON — President Trump on Tuesday night abruptly canceled a coming trip to Denmark, writing on Twitter that because the country's prime minister, Mette Frederiksen, “would have no interest in discussing the purchase of Greenland,” they would meet “another time.”
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BBC:
Trump cancels Denmark visit amid spat over sale of Greenland — US President Donald Trump has cancelled a state visit to Denmark after the nation's prime minister said Greenland was not for sale to the US. — The president was scheduled to visit on 2 September, at the invitation of Denmark's Queen Margrethe II.
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Meagan Flynn / Washington Post:
Trump picked a fight over Greenland with an unlikely target: Denmark's anti-immigration prime minister
Trump picked a fight over Greenland with an unlikely target: Denmark's anti-immigration prime minister
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Martin Selsoe Sorensen / New York Times:
In Denmark, Bewilderment and Anger Over Trump's Canceled Visit
In Denmark, Bewilderment and Anger Over Trump's Canceled Visit
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Matthew Choi / Politico:
Trump postpones visit after Denmark rejects Greenland sale
Trump postpones visit after Denmark rejects Greenland sale
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Trump Says Jews Should Love Him Because He's Almost Literally Jesus — President Trump has been vexed recently by the refusal of the majority of the American Jewish community to support him. For insight into the mysterious paradox of why a traditionally liberal social minority remains unenthusiastic …
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John Wagner / Washington Post:
Trump quotes conspiracy theorist claiming Israelis ‘love him like he is the second coming of God’ — President Trump went on Twitter on Wednesday to quote a conservative radio host and known conspiracy theorist who praised him as “the greatest President for Jews” and claimed that Israelis “love him like he is the second coming of God.”
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Philip Klein / Washington Examiner:
Trump's ‘disloyalty’ comment about American Jews who vote Democrat was disgusting and worrisome
Trump's ‘disloyalty’ comment about American Jews who vote Democrat was disgusting and worrisome
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Annie Grayer / CNN:
Bernie Sanders jabs Trump over comments about Jewish loyalty
Bernie Sanders jabs Trump over comments about Jewish loyalty
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Amir Tibon Washignton / Haaretz:
Jews Who Vote Democrat Are Disloyal or Ignorant, Trump Says
Jews Who Vote Democrat Are Disloyal or Ignorant, Trump Says
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Dahlia Lithwick / Slate:
Donald Trump Is Bad for the Jews
Donald Trump Is Bad for the Jews
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Benjamin Hart / New York Magazine:
Trump Insults Several Million American Jews
Trump Insults Several Million American Jews
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Jacob Kornbluh / Jewish Insider:
Jewish groups react to Trump's latest comments on American Jewish voters
Jewish groups react to Trump's latest comments on American Jewish voters
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New York Times:
Migrant Families Would Face Indefinite Detention Under New Trump Rule — WASHINGTON — The Trump administration unveiled a regulation on Wednesday that would allow it to detain indefinitely migrant families who cross the border illegally, replacing a decades-old court agreement that imposed …
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Department of Homeland Security:
DHS and HHS Announce New Rule to Implement the Flores Settlement Agreement; Final Rule Published to Fulfill Obligations under Flores Settlement Agreement — WASHINGTON - Today, Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Kevin K. McAleenan and Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar announced …
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Maria Sacchetti / Washington Post:
Trump administration moves to terminate court agreement, hold migrant children and parents longer
Trump administration moves to terminate court agreement, hold migrant children and parents longer
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Julia Ainsley / NBC News:
Trump administration to lift limit on how long it can detain migrant families
Trump administration to lift limit on how long it can detain migrant families
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Nancy Cook / Politico:
Trump team braces GOP donors for a potential ‘moderate and short’ recession — In public, President Donald Trump and top White House officials keep extolling the strength of the U.S. economy. In private, they're increasingly worrying about a global economic slowdown triggering a U.S. recession …
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Elaina Plott / The Atlantic:
Trump's Phone Calls With Wayne LaPierre Reveal NRA's Influence — Three days after a pair of mass shootings in Ohio and Texas that left 31 people dead, President Donald Trump was preoccupied with visions of a Rose Garden ceremony. — His daughter and senior adviser, Ivanka Trump …
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New York Times:
Deficit Will Reach $1 Trillion Next Year, Budget Office Predicts — WASHINGTON — The federal budget deficit is growing faster than expected, even as President Trump openly considers more tax cuts and other ideas that would add to government debt. — The deficit will reach $960 billion …
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Julia Ioffe / GQ:
The Summer of Warren — Julia Ioffe joins Elizabeth Warren on the campaign trail, where the surging senator has spent the season overcoming her campaign's wobbly start and getting down to business—trouncing debate foes, climbing in the polls, and somehow making a slew of policy plans feel exciting.
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Michael Brice-Saddler / Washington Post:
Elizabeth Warren just met her look-alike at a rally. Can you tell them apart?
Elizabeth Warren just met her look-alike at a rally. Can you tell them apart?
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Good Morning America:
‘Dancing With the Stars’ 2019: Hannah B, Karamo and more to compete on new season — The celebrities who will battle it out this year on the dancefloor were revealed on “GMA.”
Tiffany Hsu / New York Times:
Tucker Carlson's Fox News Show Loses More Advertisers — In keeping with a monthslong trend, the exodus of advertisers from Tucker Carlson's prime-time Fox News program continued this month. — Over the last year, dozens of advertisers, including Pacific Life, Farmers Insurance and SodaStream …
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The Daily Beast:
'Where's Steve?': Trump Frets as CNN Benches His Biggest Defender — Amid national uproar over mass shootings, possible economic gloom, and gun control, the president has found time to be distressed over a pro-Trump pundit's lack of CNN airtime. — Over the past month …
Washington Post:
Trump critics eye GOP primary race, even if defeating him seems ‘preposterous’ — Joe Walsh, a pugnacious former congressman, is preparing a Republican primary challenge to President Trump that he previewed as a daily “bar fight” with the incumbent over his morality and competency.
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The Economist:
Who is ahead in the Democratic primary race? — Twenty-seven candidates have thrown their hat into the ring for the Democrats' presidential nominating contest in 2020. This field, the largest ever, includes United States senators and House representatives, mayors, entrepreneurs and even a self-help guru.
Washington Post:
Hate crime reports have soared in D.C. Prosecutions have plummeted. … The hatred that day couldn't have been clearer to Ashly Taylor. — She had endured it ever since coming out as a teenager, when strangers said lewd things to her for holding another girl's hand and one of her own relatives called her a “dyke.”
David M. Herszenhorn / Politico:
Tusk and Johnson will meet Sunday for Brexit pow-wow — European Council President Donald Tusk and U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson will meet Sunday in Biarritz, France to discuss Brexit on the sidelines of the G7 summit, a senior EU official said. — It will be their first face …
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Annabelle Dickson / Politico:
Boris Johnson's not-so-grand tour
Boris Johnson's not-so-grand tour
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Ali Watkins / New York Times:
Man Arrested With 17 Guns, Grenade Launcher and Nazi Paraphernalia — The arrest in New Jersey comes amid a spate of mass shootings as officials grapple with a rising white supremacist threat. — Had Joseph Rubino not wrecked his car, he might still be living with a house full of guns in New Jersey.
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Alisa Wiersema / ABC News:
Nearly a year after John McCain's death, Cindy McCain says no one in the GOP carries ‘voice of reason’ — Nearly a year after her husband's death, Cindy McCain said the current Republican Party is “not the party of Abraham Lincoln ... nor the party of Ronald Reagan.”
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Steven T. Dennis / Bloomberg:
Susan Collins Faces Bipartisan Anger in Trump-Era Re-Election Bid — Maine Republican is one of the most at-risk senators in 2020 — Democrats see Maine Senate seat ripe to flip in next election — Republican Susan Collins is caught in the cross-fire of the angry partisan division that's defining …
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