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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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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 …
Kevin Breuninger / CNBC:
Trump unloads on special counsel Robert Mueller, the FBI, Attorney General Jeff Sessions and the Justice Department in a furious morning tweet storm  — Trump again slams special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia probe and his own attorney general, Jeff Sessions, for allowing the “witch hunt” to take root in the first place.
Discussion: CNN, ThinkProgress and MSNBC
John Santucci / ABC News:
Trump campaign files arbitration against Omarosa for violating nondisclosure contract  —  A senior Trump campaign official confirms to ABC News, the campaign has filed arbitration against Omarosa Manigault-Newman Tuesday morning in New York for allegations that she violated her non-disclosure agreement with the Trump campaign.
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.
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.”
Frank Scheck / Hollywood Reporter:
Trump Claims N-Word Tapes Don't Exist, Cites Mark Burnett
Discussion: HuffPost, NPR and Breitbart
Katherine Faulders / ABC News:
Manafort attorneys opt to skip defense, proceed to closing arguments  —  Attorneys for Paul Manafort, the former Trump campaign chairman who is on trial for financial crimes in federal district court Alexandria, Virginia, will not call additional witnesses to present a defense.
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
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Yahoo:
Ex-Trump aide Manafort's defense rests, case headed to jury
Bloomberg:
Manafort Turned to Kushner in Attempt to Get Banker a Trump Job
Discussion: Politico
WTVY:
Doug Jones heckled over Brett Kavanaugh at Birmingham town hall  —  BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AL.com) — Sen. Doug Jones was heckled at a town hall meeting Monday night in Birmingham when a woman threw a pair of stuffed lips in the senator's direction while venting her anger that Alabama's junior senator …
NBC News:
How three conspiracy theorists took ‘Q’ and sparked Qanon  —  Pushing the theory on to bigger platforms proved to be the key to Qanon's spread — and the originators' financial gain.  —  In November 2017, a small-time YouTube video creator and two moderators of the 4chan website …
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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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.
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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: Roll Call and Political Wire
Mitch Smith / New York Times:
Fentanyl Used to Execute Nebraska Inmate, in a First for U.S.  —  LINCOLN, Neb. — Prison officials in Nebraska used fentanyl, the powerful opioid at the center of the nation's overdose epidemic, to help execute a convicted murderer on Tuesday.  The lethal injection at the Nebraska State Penitentiary …
Discussion: KTLA and Mother Jones
Michael Graham / CBS News:
Commentary: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez becomes the Sarah Palin of the Left  —  If you're one of the many American progressives cheering on the performance of your new political rock star, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, look around: Many of the people cheering with you are Republicans.
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Victor Davis Hanson / National Review:   The Deflation of the Academic Brand
Roy Strom / LAW.com:
Mayer Brown Supreme Court Practice Founder Shot and Killed  —  Stephen Shapiro, a former U.S. deputy solicitor general and leading Supreme Court advocate, is dead at 71.  —  Stephen Shapiro, the founder of Mayer Brown's U.S. Supreme Court practice, was shot and killed at his home …
Discussion: Above the Law
Washington Post:
Poll: Hogan leads Jealous in Maryland governor's race by double-digits  —  Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R) has a considerable lead over Democratic challenger Ben Jealous and is supported by slightly more than half of likely voters, according to a poll released Tuesday by Gonzales Research and Media Services.
Discussion: Power Line and Politico
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Luke Broadwater / Baltimore Sun:   Gonzales poll: Hogan leads Jealous by 16 points in Maryland governor's race
Kseniya Kirillova / KyivPost:
Veteran Soviet KGB agent talks about Butina  —  Maria Butina's ties with Russian intelligence make her a “grave” flight risk, US officials say, and she should not be bailed before trial.  —  For the past several weeks, the Russian woman Maria Butina who was arrested on July 15 in the U.S …
Discussion: Raw Story
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Josh Meyer / Politico:   Handler of alleged spy Butina tied to suspicious U.S.-Russia exchange program
Donald J. Trump / The White House:
Statement by President Donald J. Trump on H.R. 5515  —  Today, I have signed into law H.R. 5515, “an Act to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2019 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy …
Discussion: Lawfare
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Niels Lesniewski / Roll Call:
Trump Won't Follow Congressional Directives on Russia and Crimea
Discussion: Shareblue Media and MSNBC
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 …
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Petula Dvorak / Washington Post:
At Unite the Right, black-clad antifa again give peaceful protesters a bad name
Discussion: Power Line, USA Today and Balloon Juice
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
BBC:
Venezuela crisis: Maduro to curb fuel subsidies  —  Venezuela's president has said its subsidised fuel prices should rise, to stop smugglers cheating the country out of billions of dollars.  —  “Gasoline must be sold at an international price to stop smuggling to Colombia and the Caribbean …
Bloomberg:
Fox News Segment Draws Angry Reaction From Danish Government  —  A Fox News item characterizing Denmark as a socialist dystopia has drawn an angry response from politicians from the Nordic country.  —  The Fox broadcast suggests that Denmark is an economic failure because of its high taxes and a lack of free-market incentives.
Discussion: Raw Story and BloombergQuint
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 …
Jeremy Bauer-Wolf / Inside Higher Ed:
Optimism for Student Voter Turnout  —  Some lawmakers are making it more difficult for students to vote, but advocacy groups and colleges are pressing ahead with registration campaigns.  —  With fewer than 100 days until the highly anticipated midterm elections, and political activists …
Sohrab Ahmari / Commentary Magazine:
Never Corbyn  —  An appeal for sanity.  —  Can a right-wing American writer help spark a resistance movement inside the U.K. Labour party?  Probably not.  But these aren't ordinary times.  There is a great danger looming inside Labour.  Its shadow extends from the British Isles across the West, including the United States.
Cate Cadell / Reuters:
From laboratory in far west, China's surveillance state spreads quietly  —  BEIJING (Reuters) - Filip Liu, a 31-year-old software developer from Beijing, was traveling in the far western Chinese region of Xinjiang when he was pulled to one side by police as he got off a bus.
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.
David Marchese / Vulture:
In Conversation: Penn Jillette Talking magic, truth, and Trump's alleged Apprentice Tapes.  —  The long and successful career of Penn Jillette, the bigger half (physically and personality-wise) of the magic duo Penn & Teller, itself constitutes a kind of trick.
Mollie Hemingway / The Federalist:
Media Conspiracy Theories About Devin Nunes Are Getting Out Of Control  —  During the 2016 presidential campaign, Hillary Clinton and the Democratic National Committee secretly bought and paid for an information campaign alleging treasonous collusion between Donald Trump and Russia to steal an election belonging to Clinton.
 
 
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Tennessean.com:
NYPD officer being investigated for breaking in Nashville family's home, using racial slur
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New York Times:
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Lauren Thomas / CNBC:
Home Depot crushes Wall Street expectations, raises full-year outlook
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Rasmussen Reports:
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NBC News:
Avenatti's ‘swagger’ stirs Iowa Democrats
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