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10:20 AM ET, August 15, 2018

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New York Times:
Groundbreaking Night for Women and Diversity, While a Trump Critic Falls  —  HARTLAND, Wis. — Tim Pawlenty, the former Minnesota governor and onetime presidential candidate, was soundly defeated Tuesday in his bid to reclaim the Republican nomination for governor, a remarkable upset …
Discussion: New Republic
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Kevin Robillard / HuffPost:
Trump Is Wreaking Havoc On Republican Governor Primaries  —  In Minnesota and Kansas, the victory of Trump-style candidates makes GOP wins less likely.  —  Throughout late 2017, national Republicans had a deep-seated fear President Donald Trump would put their party's majority in the U.S. Senate at risk.
Discussion: TheBlaze
NBC News:
Tim Pawlenty goes down and six takeaways from Tuesday's primaries  —  First Read is your briefing from “Meet the Press” and the NBC Political Unit on the day's most important political stories and why they matter.  —  WASHINGTON — Last night's primaries in Connecticut, Minnesota …
Alexi McCammond / Axios:
Live results: The biggest Wisconsin and Minnesota primary races
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Toluse Olorunnipa / Bloomberg:
White House Falsely Says Trump Beat Obama on Black Employment  — Falsely claims that Obama created only 195,000 jobs for blacks  — African-American employment grew by 3 million under Obama  —  White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders falsely claimed that President Donald Trump …
Discussion: Politico, Splinter, Raw Story and The Root
Benjamin Wermund / Politico:
Omarosa: DeVos said black college students lack the ‘capacity to understand’ her agenda  —  Education Secretary Betsy DeVos allegedly said the students who booed her May 2017 commencement speech at a historically black college didn't have the “capacity to understand” what she wants to accomplish …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Trump Campaign Says It Has Filed Case Against Omarosa Manigault Newman
Washington Post:
‘He created Omarosa’: How Trump's protegee turned his tactics against him
Discussion: New York Times, Roll Call, Politico and CNN
Ted Johnson / Variety:
Ex-'Apprentice' Contestant Kwame Jackson Wants No Part in Omarosa ‘Tomfoolery’ (EXCLUSIVE)
Discussion: Raw Story, RightWire and AOL
David Wasserman / The Cook Political Report:
House: Three More GOP Seats Join the Toss Up Column  —  For Republicans, the 2018 House playing field is a lot like a game of Whack-a-Mole: everywhere they turn, new problems keep popping up in surprising places.  In January, we rated 20 GOP-held seats as Toss Ups or worse, including three leaning towards Democrats.
Jonathan V. Last / Weekly Standard:
Let's Hope There Is No Tape of Trump Using the N-Word  —  But if there is ...  I hope there isn't a tape of Donald Trump using the N-word in a manner that's clearly meant to be offensive, bigoted, and derogatory.  —  We've now reached the stage where the existence of such a tape is not proven, but is more than theoretically possible.
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Scott W. Johnson / Weekly Standard:
Can Keith Ellison Turn Lawman?  —  Few races for state attorney general receive or merit national attention.  In yesterday's Democratic-Farmer-Labor party primary, however, 5th District Rep. Keith Ellison defeated the endorsed DFL candidate and other contenders to run as the party's candidate for the job.
Discussion: Power Line
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Hartford Courant:
Poised to Make History, Jahana Hayes Wins the 5th District Democratic Primary  —  Jahana Hayes wins the Democratic primary for 5th district defeating Mary Glassman Tuesday night.  (John Woike / Hartford Courant)  —  Jahana Hayes, the daughter of a drug addict who grew up in public housing …
Barbara Starr / CNN:
Exclusive: Pentagon spokeswoman under investigation for misusing staff, retaliating against complaints  —  Washington (CNN)One of Defense Secretary James Mattis' most senior civilian advisers is being investigated by the Defense Department Office of Inspector General for allegedly retaliating …
Mackenzie Mays / Fresno Bee:
‘We pay for it, we should have access to it,’ but police close Nunes office during rally  —  Clovis police were called and the building housing Congressman Devin Nunes' office was locked during a rally for Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security on Tuesday.  —  For more than a year …
Discussion: Shareblue Media
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Bob Brigham / Raw Story:   ‘Not what 9-1-1 was designed for’: Devin Nunes slammed for ‘calling the police’ on protesting constituents
Jay Nordlinger / National Review:
'You're on your own,' &c.  —  In the past several days, I have noted three things in the media that bear on the struggle over conservatism.  Well, maybe more than three, but I would like to comment on three.  This will not be a very fun Impromptus, maybe — but, on the plus side, it'll be brief.
Paul Waldman / Washington Post:
Why Trump will pardon Paul Manafort  —  Today saw a major development in the trial of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, as the defense decided not to call any witnesses.  So not only won't Manafort be testifying, neither will anyone else on his behalf.
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Katherine Faulders / ABC News:
Meet the legal team defending former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Rochelle Olson / Star Tribune:
Former U.S. Sen. Norm Coleman says cancer has returned to his lungs, ‘shaken my soul’  —  Coleman said his prognosis is not “overly optimistic,” but he will fight on.  —  TEXT SIZE  —  The throat and neck cancer that former U.S. Sen. Norm Coleman began battling almost three years ago …
Don Behm / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
Earnell Lucas defeats Richard Schmidt in Milwaukee County sheriff's race  —  Earnell Lucas, a Major League Baseball security official, won Tuesday's Democratic primary election for Milwaukee County sheriff and he becomes a sure bet to be hired by voters in November to a four-year term in the office.
Discussion: JSOnline
BuzzFeed News:
Senate Intel Wants To Follow The Money In The Russia Probe.  But Treasury Isn't Making That Easy.  —  In its investigation of Russia's interference in the 2016 election, the Senate Intelligence Committee has spent more than a year trying to follow the money.
Craig Unger / New Republic:
When a Young Trump Went to Russia  —  On a frigid December day in 2017, Oleg Kalugin opens the door of his house in Rockville, Maryland, an upper-middle-class suburb of Washington, D.C., to meet me.  Nothing in particular distinguishes his split-level suburban home from those of the other professionals …
Discussion: Raw Story and New York Times
Bloomberg:
Mueller Probe Seen Pushing Past Trump-Demanded September 1 Deadline  — Giuliani says will ‘unload’ on Mueller if probe lasts longer  — DOJ guidelines don't bar indictments in period before election  —  Special Counsel Robert Mueller doesn't have to shut down his Russia investigation …
Discussion: Political Wire
Amy B Wang / Washington Post:
Kansas Gov. Jeff Colyer concedes GOP primary to Trump ally Kris Kobach  —  Exactly a week after an election that produced one of the closest races in Kansas history, incumbent Gov. Jeff Colyer conceded the Republican gubernatorial primary to Kris Kobach, the Kansas secretary of state …
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adfmedia.org:
Hostility unabated: Colorado seeks to punish cake artist Jack Phillips again  —  ADF attorneys file suit against state officials  —  DENVER - Although the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in June that Colorado cannot treat cake artist Jack Phillips differently than others, state officials have continued …
Laurie Goodstein / New York Times:
Catholic Church Covered Up Child Sex Abuse in Pennsylvania for Decades, Grand Jury Says  —  Bishops and other leaders of the Roman Catholic Church in Pennsylvania covered up child sexual abuse by hundreds of priests over a period of 70 years, persuading victims not to report the abuse …
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Emily Holden / Politico:
Exclusive: Draft details Trump's plan for reversing Obama climate rule  —  A portion of the rule obtained by POLITICO shows Trump's EPA easing the planned limits on the pollution from power generators driving climate change.  —  The Trump administration is preparing to unveil its plan …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Kristen McQueary / Chicago Tribune:
Commentary: A Holocaust denier is running for Congress.  One of his constituents would be Auschwitz prisoner No. 27,276.  —  Concentration camp victims are led through the Auschwitz-Birkenau gate in 1945.  Stasia “Stella” Dorna of Chicago was transported there when she was 14.  (Getty Images)
New York Times:
How Can I Cure My White Guilt?  —  The thing about privilege is that it can be used for good. … Steve Almond: Shame and anger are powerful emotions, Whitey.  And yet your central struggle is around identity.  You write that you don't know your place.  In fact, your letter describes …
Discussion: Althouse
Travis Gettys / Raw Story:
'The guy's not right': Morning Joe raises new questions about Trump's mental health  —  MSNBC's Joe Scarborough has been surprised by President Donald Trump's inability to enlarge his support, saying he had believed his former friend's pathological need to be liked would outweigh his other negative personality traits.
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA
Matt Lewis / The Daily Beast:
Did I Join a Movement That Naturally Attracts Extremists and Kooks? … This week's news about Omarosa secretly taping chief of staff John Kelly and President Donald Trump is yet another reminder of something about Trumpworld: Politics has always attracted eccentric opportunists, but people in this administration are especially weird.
 
 
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Elizabeth Warren / Wall Street Journal:
Companies Shouldn't Be Accountable Only to Shareholders
Discussion: Vox and The Daily Caller
Daily Mail:
He is refusing to co-operate but MailOnline can reveal Khater moved to Britain around five years ago and
Discussion: Breitbart and Front Page Magazine
Jaclyn Peiser / New York Times:
The New York Times Joins Effort to Combat Trump's Anti-Press Rhetoric
Isabella Kwai / New York Times:
Australian Senator Calls for ‘Final Solution’ to Muslim Immigration
Marc A. Thiessen / Washington Post:
Trump's failure to condemn the bigots of the alt-right tars his presidency
Discussion: New York Times
Michael Hawthorne / Chicago Tribune:
Madigan sues Trump Tower for violating clean water laws intended to protect Chicago River fish
Discussion: Washington Post and Raw Story
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Elizabeth Murray / Burlington Free Press:
Hate crime: Essex man charged after allegedly using racial slurs, pointing gun
Discussion: Raw Story
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Welcome to Netanyahu's fortress state
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / Motherboard:
Password Analyst Says QAnon's ‘Codes’ Are Consistent With Random Typing
Philip Marcelo / Associated Press:
ACLU: Federal agencies setting ‘trap’ to deport immigrants
Discussion: Splinter
Andrew Beaujon / Washingtonian:
Why the Washington Post's Twitter Has Been So Good Lately
Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Trump Claims Power to Bypass Limits Set by Congress in Defense Bill
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