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Vivian Wang / New York Times:
Why the Trump White House Is Caught Up in the Jeffrey Epstein Scandal  —  In the years since Mr. Epstein was first accused of sexually abusing minors, one of Mr. Trump's Cabinet officials has been accused of letting him off easy.  —  By the time Jeffrey Epstein, the billionaire financier and felon …
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Julie K. Brown / Miami Herald:
With Jeffrey Epstein locked up, these are nervous times for his friends, enablers  —  Jeffrey Epstein spent a second night in a New York jail cell Sunday, with a federal indictment expected to be unsealed Monday, charging him with sex offenses involving underage girls he and others allegedly trafficked …
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
New York Times:
Jeffrey Epstein Is Accused of Luring Girls to His Manhattan Mansion and Abusing Them  —  The billionaire financier is charged with running a sex-trafficking operation that brought dozens of girls as young as 14 to his opulent Upper East Side home.  —  Federal prosecutors appear to have resurrected …
Alexander Kacala / Newsweek:
Miami Herald Investigative Reporter: ‘Quite A Few Powerful, Important People’ May Be Named in Jeffrey Epstein Case  —  American billionaire Jeffrey Epstein, Donald Trump's longtime friend, was arrested this weekend for alleged sex trafficking involving multiple minors in Florida and New York this weekend …
Discussion: twitchy.com and RedState
Politico:   POLITICO Playbook: New swing-district polling illustrates impeachment peril
Mimi Rocah / The Daily Beast:
Jeffrey Epstein Shouldn't Expect to Wriggle Free Again
Kat Tenbarge / Business Insider:
Jeffrey Epstein: Trump once praised billionaire charged with sex trafficking minors for liking women …
Discussion: JONATHAN TURLEY
Matt Zapotosky / Washington Post:
Justice Department changing lawyers on census case  —  The Justice Department is swapping out the lawyers who had been representing the administration in its legal battle to put a question about citizenship on the 2020 Census, possibly signaling career attorneys' legal or ethical concerns …
Discussion: Political Wire
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JM Rieger / Washington Post:
The Trump administration has changed its story on the census citizenship question at least 10 times in four months  —  Originally, it was supposed to help the Justice Department enforce the Voting Rights Act.  Then the Supreme Court said that was a pretext.  —  It would not be used for immigration enforcement.
Marty Lederman / Balkinization:   Census Citizenship Question Re-do?  Part I: Moment of Truth (and Integrity) for the Office of the Solicitor General
Sadie Gurman / Wall Street Journal:
A New Team of Government Lawyers Will Take Over Census Fight
Discussion: The Hill and Axios
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Census farce: Trump, Barr and the Justice Department make a mockery of the law
Discussion: Politico
Edward-Isaac Dovere / The Atlantic:
Tom Steyer Is Telling Allies He's Running for President  —  The presidential campaign announcements may not be over yet—with the latest potentially coming from a person who'd ruled out a run just a few months ago.  —  Billionaire investor Tom Steyer, who in the last decade …
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Politico:
Tom Steyer reconsiders 2020 and plans to enter the race  —  The billionaire environmentalist who has poured millions into an effort to impeach President Trump had decided against a run in January.  —  Tom Steyer, the billionaire environmental activist who toyed with a 2020 presidential run …
Courtney Kube / NBC News:
In surprise move, admiral tapped to lead U.S. Navy declines job, retires instead  —  Bill Moran said he turned down the job of Chief of Naval Operations because of a probe of his ties to an officer investigated for inappropriate conduct.  —  WASHINGTON — The man set to take over as the head …
Discussion: USNI News, Wall Street Journal and UPI
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Penelope Green / New York Times:
Do Americans Need Air-Conditioning?  —  Summer's great indoor-temperature debate rages on.  —  Modernity was born 116 years, 11 months, two weeks and two days ago, at a printing plant in the East Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, when a junior engineer named Willis Carrier devised a contraption …
Las Vegas Review-Journal:
MIRIAM ADELSON: A time of miracles  —  Miriam Adelson, a Las Vegas philanthropist, researcher, physician and expert in drug addiction, owns the Las Vegas Review-Journal and Israel Hayom newspapers with her husband, Sheldon Adelson.  —  Cherishing, promoting and safeguarding the U.S.-Israeli alliance …
Catie Edmondson / New York Times:
ICE Used Facial Recognition to Mine State Driver's License Databases  —  WASHINGTON — Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials have mined state driver's license databases using facial recognition technology, analyzing millions of motorists' photos without their knowledge.
Discussion: VICE
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Drew Harwell / Washington Post:
FBI, ICE find state driver's license photos are a gold mine for facial-recognition searches
Gwendolyn Oxenham / ESPN:
Why Megan Rapinoe's brother, Brian, is her greatest heartbreak, and hope  —  Editor's note: Megan Rapinoe gave her brother, Brian, a birthday shout-out on national TV after winning the 2019 Women's World Cup, the Golden Boot as the tournament's top scorer and the Golden Ball as its top player.
Discussion: New York Post
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Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
US Soccer Star and Trump-Basher Megan Rapinoe REFUSES to Sing National Anthem in Protest Before Final Game of World Cup
Discussion: Daily Mail
Nikki Schwab / New York Post:
Melania Trump reportedly told Donald that Christine Blasey Ford was ‘lying’  —  A new book says that first lady Melania Trump told her husband she thought Christine Blasey Ford was lying when she testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee against Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
Discussion: Townhall
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Alayna Treene / Axios:   Exclusive excerpt: Inside Kavanaugh's leaked mock hearing
Bloomberg:
The Trump Tariff Twist That's Cost U.S. Steel $5.5 Billion  — Older mills unable to compete as output soared, demand fell  — Nucor's cheaper-to-run electric-arc furnaces hold their own  —  President Donald Trump's tariffs on foreign steel have sped the decline of some of the U.S. mills he vowed to help.
Errin Haines Whack / Associated Press:
AP Interview: Kamala Harris on race and electability in 2020  —  NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Kamala Harris can't forget the older black woman she met in Iowa while campaigning for Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama before the state's 2008 caucus.  —  “I remember her saying to me …
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Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Joe Biden's reboot: A “wrap the bow” strategy
Discussion: PJ Media Home
Nahal Toosi / Politico:
Trump wants to talk.  Iran isn't interested.  —  When it comes to nuclear negotiations, Iran is not North Korea.  —  President Donald Trump wants to sit down with Iranian leaders — but they don't share his eagerness to talk, revealing the limits of the president's personal diplomatic overtures.
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Associated Press:
AP: Federal grand jury probing GOP fundraiser Elliott Broidy  —  NEW YORK (AP) — A federal grand jury in New York is investigating top Republican fundraiser Elliott Broidy, examining whether he used his position as vice chair of President Donald Trump's inaugural committee to drum up business deals …
Discussion: Political Wire
 
 
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Associated Press:
Iowa, Nevada to launch caucus voting by phone for 2020
Discussion: Axios and Political Wire
Christopher Cadelago / Politico:
Democratic field readies for the big shrink
Daniel Lippman / Politico:
The Purell presidency: Trump aides learn the president's real red line
Discussion: Political Wire
New York Times:
James Monroe Enslaved Hundreds. Their Descendants Still Live Next Door.
Andrew Sparrow / The Guardian:
Trump hits back over UK ambassador's leaked memos
Discussion: Washington Post, Rolling Stone, CNN and Vox
Sydney Morning Herald:
Federal police forced Qantas to hand over the private travel records of an ABC journalist
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