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Vicky Ward / The Daily Beast:
Jeffrey Epstein's Sick Story Played Out for Years in Plain Sight  —  How did the New York financier stay nearly untouchable for decades?  Vicky Ward—who has reported extensively on Epstein, on efforts to rehabilitate him—finds out what's changed.  —  A couple of years ago …
Discussion: The Atlantic, Vox and New York Times
Chris Strohm / Bloomberg:   Barr Won't Recuse Himself From New Case Against Jeffrey Epstein
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Alexander Acosta must go
Washington Post:
Epstein indictment renews questions about earlier case handled by Trump Cabinet official
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Trump team sure liked to party with the British ambassador
Politico:
‘The next 72 hours are critical for Acosta’
Michael Isikoff / Yahoo News:
Exclusive: The true origins of the Seth Rich conspiracy theory.  A Yahoo News investigation.  —  WASHINGTON — In the summer of 2016, Russian intelligence agents secretly planted a fake report claiming that Democratic National Committee staffer Seth Rich was gunned down by a squad …
Cheryl Hall / Dallas Morning News:
Ross Perot, self-made billionaire, patriot and philanthropist, dies at 89  —  Ross Perot, self-made billionaire, renowned patriot and two-time independent candidate for U.S. president, has died after a five-month battle with leukemia.  —  He was 89.  —  The pioneer of the computer services industry …
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Kevin Breuninger / CNBC:
Billionaire and former presidential candidate Ross Perot is dead at 89
Discussion: Breitbart, Outside the Beltway and UPI
Alexander Burns / New York Times:
Tom Steyer Will Run for President and Plans to Spend $100 Million on His Bid  —  Tom Steyer, the former hedge fund investor turned impeachment activist, announced on Tuesday that he would challenge President Trump in 2020, reversing a previous decision not to enter the race.
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YouTube:
Fundamental Change.  —  Tom Steyer Announces Candidacy for President: “I am running to end corruption of our democracy by corporations and give more power to the American people.  Jo...
Chelsea Janes / Washington Post:
Billionaire Tom Steyer says he will run for president after spurning the race earlier this year
Discussion: Slate and New York Post
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Courier-Journal:
Amy McGrath says she will take on Mitch McConnell in 2020 US Senate race  —  Kentucky Democrat Amy McGrath is suiting up to enter the 2020 U.S. Senate race against Republican Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.  —  The former Marine fighter pilot ended months of speculation over whether …
Jill Lawrence / USA Today:
Republicans are eating our lunch. I want a 2020 Democrat tough enough to eat theirs.
Discussion: Althouse
Michael Tackett / Associated Press:   Amy McGrath to run for Mitch McConnell's US Senate seat
Ronn Blitzer / Fox News:
Marine combat aviator Amy McGrath announces Senate campaign against Mitch McConnell
Ann E. Marimow / Washington Post:
President Trump cannot block his critics on Twitter, federal appeals court rules  —  President Trump cannot block his critics from the Twitter feed he regularly uses to communicate with the public, a federal appeals court said Tuesday, in a case with implications for how elected officials nationwide interact …
Discussion: Political Wire
CNN:
House Democrats plan subpoenas for Jared Kushner, Trump officials and immigration documents  —  Border patrol officer disputes reports about facilities  —  (CNN)The House Judiciary Committee moved Tuesday to authorize subpoenas for two separate issues: an array of documents and testimony related …
Discussion: Political Wire
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Politico:
House Dems set to subpoena Kushner, Sessions and 10 other Mueller witnesses
Katie Benner / New York Times:
Barr Says House Subpoenaed Mueller to Create ‘Public Spectacle’
Discussion: Washington Post
Sarah Longwell / The Bulwark:
The Breakup  —  It was bound to happen.  —  Like a summer romance, this relationship always felt doomed to fail.  Brought together by little more than the maxim “the enemy of my enemy is my friend,” Never Trumpers and Democrats seem like they're on the verge of a break up.
Discussion: twitchy.com
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Mona Charen / Politico:   How a Democrat Can Win Over a Never-Trumper
Darren Samuelsohn / Politico:
'What's the point?'  Lawmakers fess up to not fully reading the Mueller report  —  Time for a Mueller report reality check: Only a small segment of America's most powerful have read it.  —  President Donald Trump can't give a straight answer about the subject.
Corky Siemaszko / NBC News:
Sen. Mitch McConnell's great-great-grandfathers owned 14 slaves, bringing reparations issue close to home  —  McConnell has opposed paying reparations to descendants of slaves, though census records show his family, like many others, benefited from their labor.
Public Policy Polling:
Rapinoe 42, Trump 41  —  By popular demand PPP tested how a Megan Rapinoe v. Donald Trump 2020 match up would shake out, and we found that Rapinoe gets 42% to 41% for Trump.  —  Trump's 41% standing is familiar territory.  On PPP's last public national poll we tested 8 of the actual Democratic candidates …
Noam N. Levey / Los Angeles Times:
Obamacare returns to court, creating new uncertainty about health coverage for millions … The future of the Affordable Care Act, and the health coverage it has delivered to millions of Americans, is once again in doubt as a federal appeals court in New Orleans convenes Tuesday to hear arguments …
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Jonathan Cohn / HuffPost:
Obamacare Is Going Back On Trial, With Insurance For 20 Million At Stake
Mark Hosenball / Reuters:
Trump ‘dossier’ author grilled by Justice Department watchdogs: sources  —  (Reuters) - Federal lawyers probing the origins of the investigation of ties between Russia and President Donald Trump's campaign have interviewed the author of a “dossier” that alleged misconduct between Trump and Moscow …
Alex Thompson / Politico:
Elizabeth Warren shuns conventional wisdom for a new kind of campaign  —  When Elizabeth Warren said earlier this year she was swearing off fundraisers, many Democratic strategists saw it as a sign of desperation from a flailing candidate.  —  But that gamble against conventional wisdom …
Discussion: Rolling Stone
Zachary Warmbrodt / Politico:
Kudlow: Powell's job safe ‘presently’  —  President Donald Trump has no plans “presently” to dismiss Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell from his post, chief White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow said today, despite Trump's unrelenting attacks on the central bank's monetary policy.
Fox News:
Trump calls Theresa May ‘foolish’ on Brexit, blasts ‘wacky’ and ‘pompous’ UK ambassador  —  President Trump on Tuesday said Prime Minister Theresa May was “foolish” in her handling of Brexit, as he doubled down on the feud with Britain's ambassador to the U.S. Kim Darroch — whom he called “wacky,” “stupid” and a “pompous fool.”
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Sarah Ruiz-Grossman / HuffPost:
British Government Stands By Ambassador After Leaked Criticism Of Trump
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Why Trump will likely lose the census citizenship fight  —  President Donald Trump's fight to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census is one he seems likely to lose.  —  Eleven days after an unfavorable Supreme Court ruling, a new team of Justice Department attorneys must persuade …
CNN:
CNN debuts new polling standards as 2020 race heats up  —  (CNN)Today, CNN is launching new standards for reporting on polling.  These standards will serve to elevate research conducted by the most skilled pollsters and will make it easier for readers and viewers to understand what a poll says.
Daniel Marans / HuffPost:
Republican Compared Anti-LGBTQ Proposal To Saving Jews From Holocaust  —  State Sen. Dan Bishop, who faces Democrat Dan McCready in a special election, used an Oskar Schindler analogy to characterize his advocacy against gay rights.  —  The Republican candidate for an open House seat …
 
 
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Alan Fram / Associated Press:
Dems want Acosta to quit for role in financier's sex plea
Natasha Bertrand / Politico:
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Emerson College Polling:
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Ross Douthat / New York Times:
The Meaning of Marianne Williamson
Tom Newton Dunn / The Sun:
FROM RUSSIA WITH BUGS? …
Discussion: Washington Times
Aussie Dave / Israellycool:
US Presidential Candidate Elizabeth Warren Has Got a Problem. He's Called Max Berger
Discussion: twitchy.com
Kenneth P. Vogel / New York Times:
Investigation Intensifies Into Top Trump Fund-raiser
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