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CBS News:
Omarosa reveals audio of Trump campaign aides allegedly discussing potential fallout of N-word  —  President Trump says former White House staffer Omarosa Manigault-Newman lied when she called him a racist who has said the N-word on tape.  The president tweeted Monday night, “I don't have that word in my vocabulary and never have.
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Veronica Stracqualursi / CNN:
Trump calls Omarosa a ‘dog’ in latest attack on ex-aide  —  Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump on Tuesday referred to former White House staffer Omarosa Manigault Newman, the only African-American to have served in a senior role in the White House, as a “dog.”
Lynne Patton / TwitLonger:
Official Statement on Omarosa Manigault-Newman  —  My name is Lynne Patton and I am a senior official in the Trump Administration.  —  White House leadership, both past and present, can confirm that I was the closest confidante & friend to Ms. Manigault-Newman during her tenure at the White House …
Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Trump Appears to Admit White House Aides Signed Nondisclosure Agreements  —  FORT DRUM, N.Y. — President Trump appeared to acknowledge on Monday something his aides have declined to confirm for months: that his White House had aides sign nondisclosure agreements.
Kaili Joy Gray / Shareblue Media:
Trump calls a black woman a ‘dog’ to prove he's not racist  —  Yes, Trump is racist.  Very, very racist.  And he always has been.  —  Trump is horribly racist.  But we've known that all along.  —  He launched his campaign in 2016 by calling Mexicans rapists.  He says predominantly Latino immigrants are “animals.”
Discussion: Washington Monthly, AOL and France 24
Chris Sommerfeldt / New York Daily News:
President Trump called Donald Jr. ‘a f—kup’ after he released emails about controversial meet with Russian lawyer, book says  —  President Trump blasted his firstborn son as a “f—kup” after learning he had released emails about a controversial Trump Tower meeting attended by a Kremlin-connected lawyer …
Discussion: Mediaite and Political Wire
Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
Exclusive: Charges against Omarosa filed by Trump campaign, ‘millions’ sought  —  President Trump's campaign organization Tuesday filed charges against friend-turned-enemy Omarosa Manigault Newman, claiming that she broke a 2016 nondisclosure contract by disparaging the president in her new book …
John Santucci / ABC News:   Trump campaign files arbitration against Omarosa for violating nondisclosure contract
Frank Scheck / Hollywood Reporter:
Trump Claims N-Word Tapes Don't Exist, Cites Mark Burnett
Politico:
Trump tried to ban top aides from penning tell-all books
Ben White / Politico:
Kudlow: Economy will help GOP keep its grip on House
Bloomberg:
Manafort Turned to Kushner in Attempt to Get Banker a Trump Job  — Stephen Calk sought U.S. Army secretary job, treasury post  — Email request surfaced at Manafort fraud trial on Monday  —  Paul Manafort turned to Jared Kushner for help in an attempt to secure a Trump administration job …
Discussion: Political Wire and Politico
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Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Omarosa puts Trump on his heels  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  AN OMAROSA OBSERVATION ... THIS IS the second time PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP has been entangled with a woman who is equally adept at playing the media.  First it was Stormy Daniels.  Now it seems like Omarosa has gotten in Trump's head.
CNN:
Manafort emailed Kushner with recommendations for senior administration posts
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA
Michael Burke / The Hill:
Roger Stone shares image of himself and Trump as ‘Space Force’ wearing swastikas  —  on Monday shared a digitally altered image on Instagram of himself, President Trump  —  and several other people serving in or aligned with the administration wearing spacesuits with swastikas on them.
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Roger Stone / The Daily Caller:
The Witch Hunt Continues
Discussion: The Hill and emptywheel
Monmouth University Polling Institute:
Tight Race in CD03  —  Low awareness of either candidate  —  West Long Branch, NJ - Republican Rep. Tom MacArthur faces a tough challenge from former national security adviser Andy Kim in the race for New Jersey's 3rd Congressional District, according to the Monmouth University Poll.
Discussion: Political Wire
Cory Bergman / Factal Blog:
Introducing Factal from the founders of Breaking News  —  When BreakingNews.com and the Breaking News app were shut down at the end of 2016, we were inundated with email urging us to bring it back as a new company.  —  There were many personal stories from Breaking News users who were caught …
Luke Broadwater / Baltimore Sun:
Gonzales poll: Hogan leads Jealous by 16 points in Maryland governor's race  —  With less than three months until the general election, Republican Gov. Larry Hogan has a sizable lead over Democratic challenger Ben Jealousaccording to a new poll by Gonzales Research & Marketing Strategies.
Caleb Ecarma / Mediaite:
Ex-Trump Aide Seb Gorka is Giving Out Fake Fox News Business Cards  —  President Donald Trump's former aide Sebastian Gorka is giving out phony Fox News business cards, Mediaite has learned.  —  Gorka, who was fired from his nebulous role at the White House late last year …
Politico:
Swedish PM to arsonists: ‘What the hell are you up to?’  —  Cars were set alight across Sweden overnight in what police believe was a coordinated attack orchestrated on social media.  —  About 80 cars were set on fire in western Sweden, in and around Gothenburg, and there were further incidents in Stockholm and Malmö.
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
As Trump keeps raging at Mueller, another poll shows his lies are failing  —  Because so many of us got it wrong in 2016, we often tend to reflexively tell ourselves that President Trump must be working some kind of hidden magic over public opinion that we're all missing.
Discussion: CNN, Reuters and Roll Call
Bradley P. Moss / Politico:
Trump's Purge of the FBI Is Complete  —  With the odd firing of Peter Strzok, the president has cleansed the bureau of the men who started the Russia investigation.  This is not normal.  —  The announcement Monday morning that former FBI Special Agent Peter Strzok had been fired likely brings …
Zoe Greenberg / New York Times:
What Happens to #MeToo When a Feminist Is the Accused?  —  The case seems like a familiar story turned on its head: Avital Ronell, a world-renowned female professor of German and Comparative Literature at New York University, was found responsible for sexually harassing a male former graduate student, Nimrod Reitman.
Avi Selk / Washington Post:
Antifa protesters couldn't find any fascists at Unite the Right — and harassed the press instead  —  Antifascists, according to their own doctrine, fight fascism.  Sounds simple enough.  —  Granted, members of the loosely organized Antifa movement define “fascism” vaguely …
New York Times:
Trump's Sabotage of Obamacare Is Illegal  —  A president doesn't have the right to dispense with laws he dislikes.  —  Mr. Bagley and Ms. Gluck are law professors.  —  From the moment he took office, President Trump has used all aspects of his executive power to sabotage the Affordable Care Act.
Discussion: Balkinization and Shakesville
Karol Markowicz / New York Post:
The media's blatant hypocrisy — even about media-bashing  —  Welcome to the age of self-congratulatory media.  “Democracy dies in darkness” goes the ridiculous tagline on The Washington Post's front page.  Reporters openly call themselves heroes and firefighters.
Maria Cramer / BostonGlobe.com:
Agencies set ‘trap’ for immigrants seeking legal status, ACLU says  —  Two federal immigration agencies coordinated a campaign to bring unauthorized immigrants who were seeking legal residency in for interviews at government offices, where they were then arrested and in some cases deported, according to internal agency communications.
Discussion: HuffPost
Linda Qiu / New York Times:
Trump Goes for Broke on Claim Military Received No Money Before His Watch.  (He's Still Wrong.)  —  While signing the annual funding bill, President Trump inaccurately claimed that the amount was “historic” and the military had “never” previously received funding.
Jeff Kearns / Bloomberg:
U.S. Farm-Export Prices Drop Most Since 2011  —  Prices for U.S. farm exports dropped in July by the most in more than six years as a trade war with China heated up, Labor Department figures showed Tuesday.  —  Agricultural export prices fell 5.3 percent from the prior month …
Discussion: Raw Story
Nicholas Confessore / New York Times:
The Unlikely Activists Who Took On Silicon Valley — and Won  —  Facebook and Google made billions mining personal data, and fought off anyone who threatened to stop them.  Then came a challenge in their own backyard.  —  The way Alastair Mactaggart usually tells the story of his awakening …
Maxwell Tani / The Daily Beast:
Resistance Twitter Star Seth Abramson Wants to Turn His Threads Into a Book … Over the past two years, New Hampshire professor and writer Seth Abramson has cultivated a #resistance Twitter following of more than 500,000 by posting lengthy threads prognosticating about the direction …
Bloomberg:
Turkey Crisis Tests Putin's Powers in Global Game With U.S.  — Russia cautious amid divisions between U.S. and Turkey  — Erdogan warns U.S. he may seek new allies as Putin ties grow  —  Turkey's political conflict with the U.S. and the crisis engulfing its currency offer …
NBC News:
Avenatti's ‘swagger’ stirs Iowa Democrats  —  The Trump-bashing attorney says 2020 presidential race will be a battle of personalities, not ideas.  —  CLEAR LAKE, Iowa — The man known to most Americans as a porn star's lawyer may never formally enter the presidential race.
Aviva Shen / The Appeal:
NEW ORLEANS COURT ORDERED TO STOP FUNDING ITSELF ON THE BACKS OF THE POOR  —  The criminal court was funneling millions of dollars a year from poor communities to itself.  —  New Orleans courts will need to drastically revamp the way they treat poor defendants after two orders handed …
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Who's Afraid of Nancy Pelosi?  —  Normally, a party that gives away $2 trillion without worrying about where the money will come from can buy itself at least a few votes.  But Donald Trump's tax cut remains remarkably unpopular, and Republicans barely mention it on the campaign trail …
Discussion: Raw Story and New Republic
Alene Tchekmedyian / Los Angeles Times:
Firefighter from Utah dies battling Mendocino Complex, the largest wildfire in California  —  A firefighter from Utah died Monday battling the largest wildfire in recorded California history, marking the latest fatality in a fire season that has taken a grim toll on first responders.
Carlo Muñoz / Washington Times:
Taliban blindsides U.S. forces with surprise Afghan offensive  —  The Taliban is on the verge of dramatically expanding its control over southern and eastern Afghanistan in a surprise offensive that has caught Afghan and U.S. forces off guard and thrown a vexing new wrench …
Discussion: Instapundit
 
 
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Donald J. Trump / The White House:
Statement by President Donald J. Trump on H.R. 5515
Discussion: Roll Call and MSNBC
Peter Hasson / The Daily Caller:
EXCLUSIVE: Iranians Posing As Anti-Immigrant Americans Online
Mollie Hemingway / The Federalist:
Media Conspiracy Theories About Devin Nunes Are Getting Out Of Control
Jerry Zremski / The Buffalo News:
Court battle likely in bid to replace Chris Collins on ballot
Discussion: NY State of Politics
Josh Meyer / Politico:
Handler of alleged spy Butina tied to suspicious U.S.-Russia exchange program
Jeffery C. Mays / New York Times:
Letitia James's Ties to Cuomo Help, and Hinder, Her Bid for Attorney General
Victor Davis Hanson / National Review:
The Deflation of the Academic Brand
John Legend / Washington Post:
It's time for Louisiana to strip white supremacy from its constitution
Discussion: Raw Story
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Susan Estrich / Boston Herald:
Donald Trump numbers not as bad as some believe
Discussion: Instapundit
Eric Felten / Weekly Standard:
Will Don Jr. Be Left Holding the Bag?
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Kellen Browning / Sacramento Bee:
Two men identified in fatal fight on I-5; witnesses say one chased the other with a bat
Discussion: Daily Wire
Haiyang Zhang / Voice of America:
VOA Reporters Freed After Hours-long Detention by Chinese Authorities
Sarah Parvini / Los Angeles Times:
A growing number of California detainees are Indians crossing through Mexico to seek asylum
Discussion: KTLA