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12:30 PM ET, July 2, 2019

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Jeff Stein / Washington Post:
House Democrats sue Trump administration over president's tax returns  —  House Democrats filed a lawsuit Tuesday against the Trump administration seeking access to President Trump's tax returns.  —  Rep. Richard E. Neal (D-Mass.), chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee …
Discussion: Shareblue Media and Political Wire
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Washington Post:
House Democrats are filing a lawsuit for Trump's tax returns, seeking access to financial records  —  House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal is filing a lawsuit in federal court Tuesday seeking to compel the Internal Revenue Service to turn over President Trump's tax returns …
Benjamin Siegel / ABC News:
House Democrats sue Trump administration for president's tax returns  —  House Democrats on Tuesday filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration seeking six years of President Donald Trump's tax returns, escalating their standoff with the Trump administration for the president's financial records …
Discussion: Politico and Breitbart
New York Times:
House Files Lawsuit Seeking Disclosure of Trump Tax Returns
Discussion: BuzzFeed News
Arthur Delaney / HuffPost:   Democrats In No Hurry To Get Trump's Tax Returns
Wall Street Journal:   You Filed Returns. The IRS Compiled the Data. Here's How the New Tax Law Is Working.
Susan Page / USA Today:
Poll: Kamala Harris surges in Iowa as Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders suffer after debate  —  In night two of the Democratic debate, candidates bore down into issues, and each other.  Kamala Harris went after Joe Biden for his past on busing.  —  CONNECT  —  The first Democratic debate …
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Ross K. Baker / USA Today:
Dear Kamala Harris, here's why Joe Biden worked with segregationists in the Senate  —  Harris criticized Biden for working with segregationist senators.  But she would have done the same.  It was then the only way to advance civil rights.  —  CONNECT  —  After hearing Sen. Kamala Harris …
CNN:
CNN Poll: Harris and Warren rise and Biden slides after first Democratic debates
Tess Bonn / The Hill:
Harris surges past Warren to claim third place in post-debate poll
Discussion: Breitbart
Sue Bird / The Players' Tribune:
So the President F*cking Hates My Girlfriend  —  Hi!!  Sue here.  This is my World Cup Semifinals preview.  The title was supposed to be “So the President F*cking Hates My Girlfriend (and 10 Other Things I Want You to Know Before the World Cup Semifinals)” but we ran out of space.  My bad.
New York Times:
Trump Says Tanks Will Be on Display in Washington for July 4  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump said on Monday that the Pentagon would put military tanks on display on Thursday in Washington as part of his plans to turn the annual Fourth of July celebration in the nation's capital into a salute to the country's military prowess.
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HuffPost:
RNC Giving Out Tickets To Trump's Hijacked Fourth Of July Celebration  —  What had been a nonpolitical, nonpartisan celebration on the National Mall will now likely be a multimillion-dollar, taxpayer-financed political rally, critics worry.  —  WASHINGTON ― President Donald Trump …
Jennifer Bendery / HuffPost:
Vets To Give Out Thousands Of USS John McCain Shirts At Trump's July 4 Event
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA
Washington Post:   Trump's Fourth of July plans just keep getting worse
Associated Press:
The Latest: Tanks arrive in DC ahead of July 4 celebration
Discussion: Politico
Reuters:
Trump plans tanks and flyovers at Fourth of July celebration in Washington
Discussion: Associated Press and Axios
Wall Street Journal:
Nike Nixes ‘Betsy Ross Flag’ Sneaker After Colin Kaepernick Intervenes  —  Sneaker maker pulls Independence Day-themed shoe after NFL star raised concerns about its symbolism  —  Nike Inc. is yanking a U.S.A.-themed sneaker featuring an early American flag after former NFL star-turned …
New York Times:
Trump and R.N.C. Raised $105 Million in 2nd Quarter, Outdoing Obama  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump's re-election campaign and the Republican National Committee on Tuesday said they had raised $105 million in the second quarter of this year, dwarfing what President Barack Obama raised …
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Thomas Kaplan / New York Times:
Bernie Sanders Raises $18 Million in 3 Months, Trailing Buttigieg  —  WASHINGTON — Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont raised $18 million in the past three months, his presidential campaign said on Tuesday.  The total was another display of his strength with small donors …
Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
Democrats are learning the wrong lesson from Donald Trump  —  He ran as a moderate — and it worked.  —  Many progressives have what they believe to be a knock-down answer to nervous Nellies who fret that talking about desegregation busing, decriminalizing illegal entry into the United States …
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Brian Beutler / Crooked Media:   An Unnecessary Primary Panic?
Yusra Murad / Morning Consult:   Majority Backs ‘Medicare for All’ Replacing Private Plans, if Preferred Providers Stay
James Hohmann / Washington Post:
The Daily 202: Racist Facebook posts point to cultural problems inside the Border Patrol that money alone cannot fix  —  THE BIG IDEA: Something is rotten in the Border Patrol, but is it a few bad apples or has a fungal disease infected the whole orchard?  —  That's the nub of a debate between …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and CBS News
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Anna Giaritelli / Washington Examiner:
AOC screamed at Border Patrol agents in ‘threatening manner’ during tour: Witnesses
Tony Romm / Washington Post:
The Technology 202: Trump invites conservative tech critics to White House for ‘social media summit’
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Trump is incapable of accepting that most Americans don't like him  —  One of the interesting aspects of the Trump era is that those who cover him are generally hard-pressed to guess what they might end up writing about on any given day.  Perhaps it will be the policy issue his administration is advancing.
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Julia Carrie Wong / The Guardian:
‘We all suffer’: why San Francisco techies hate the city they transformed
Discussion: CityLab
Andy Campbell / HuffPost:
Far-Right Extremists Wanted Blood In Portland's Streets.  Once Again, They Got It.  —  It's not a surprise a conservative writer was bloodied in a street brawl in Portland ― far-right extremists have been freely hosting skirmishes there for years.  —  A conservative writer was injured …
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Megan Brenan / Gallup:
American Pride Hits New Low; Few Proud of Political System  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — As Americans prepare to celebrate the Fourth of July holiday, their pride in the U.S. has hit its lowest point since Gallup's first measurement in 2001.  While 70% of U.S. adults overall say they are proud to be Americans …
Discussion: Florida Politics and Axios
Eliana Johnson / Politico:
The Fox News general who ‘spooked’ Trump out of attacking Iran  —  As President Donald Trump wrestled on the evening of June 20 with how to respond to Iran's downing of a U.S. drone, Jack Keane was making his second appearance of the day on the Fox News Channel.
Discussion: Mediaite
Amanda Arnold / The Cut:
How Much Did Ivanka Embarrass Herself at the G20 Summit?  —  The rumor that Ivanka Trump somehow thinks she has what it takes to one day be president has become even more believable, as she spent her weekend attempting to rub elbows with world leaders at the annual G20 summit in Osaka.
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Joseph Cox / VICE:
China Is Forcing Tourists to Install Text-Stealing Malware at its Border  —  The malware downloads a tourist's text messages, calendar entries, and phone logs, as well as scans the device for over 70,000 different files.  —  Foreigners crossing certain Chinese borders into the Xinjiang region …
Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
The Welcome Humiliation of John Bolton  —  A warmonger is the latest to lose his dignity to Donald Trump.  —  Say this for Donald Trump.  He may be transforming American politics into a kleptocratic fascist reality show and turning our once-great country into a global laughingstock …
The Daily Beast:
Ivanka's North Korea Photobombs Perplex White House Officials  —  Multiple officials in Washington were caught off guard by the news that Ivanka Trump had found her way into a conversation about nuclear weapons between her father and Kim Jong Un.  —  When Donald Trump and his advisors crossed …
Reuters:
Diplomats: Europeans keen to avoid sending Iran nuclear case back to U.N. for now  —  PARIS/DUBAI (Reuters) - France urged Iran on Tuesday to reverse its first major breach of a nuclear pact with world powers as European states signaled they would not seek to reimpose U.N. sanctions - for now.
Discussion: The Daily Caller
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Colby Itkowitz / Washington Post:
House panel demands White House documents related to Puerto Rico hurricanes
Ahmed Aboulenein / Reuters:
Iraq PM orders Iran-allied militias to be reined in
WPTV:
Customs beagles sniff out illegal snails
New York Times:
Democrats Angered by HUD's Hiring of Trump Aide Who Quit After Racist Posts
Discussion: CNN
Dino Grandoni / Washington Post:
The Energy 202: DNC will consider holding a climate debate amid protests
Discussion: New York Times
Nate Cohn / New York Times:
No One Picks Up the Phone, but Which Online Polls Are the Answer?
Jerry Dunleavy / Washington Examiner:
Kamala Harris campaign lawyer hired Fusion GPS for Hillary Clinton
 Earlier Items: 
Tal Kopan / San Francisco Chronicle:
New rules will give AG William Barr more say over immigration courts
New York Times:
To Evade Sanctions on Iran, Ships Vanish in Plain Sight
Daniel Lippman / Politico:
Spies fear a consulting firm helped hobble U.S. intelligence
Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Trump looking ‘very strongly’ at delaying census
David North / CIS.org:
Two Major U.S. Corporations Stand Out in Their Immigration Policies: One Good, One Bad
Discussion: Washington Examiner and IJR