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Matthew Haag / New York Times:
Inside Epstein's $56 Million Mansion: Photos of Bill Clinton, Woody Allen and Saudi Crown Prince  —  The townhouse where the financier Jeffrey Epstein is accused of abusing girls is one of the largest private homes in Manhattan.  —  The townhouse where the financier Jeffrey Epstein is accused …
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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 …
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Alexander Acosta must go
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Trump team sure liked to party with the British ambassador
Washington Post:
Epstein indictment renews questions about earlier case handled by Trump Cabinet official
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 …
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Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Trump Can't Block Critics From His Twitter Account, Appeals Court Rules  —  The decision may have broader implications for how the First Amendment applies to officials' accounts in the social-media era.  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump has been violating the Constitution by blocking people …
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA and New York Post
Jacqueline Thomsen / The Hill:
Appeals court rules Trump can't block people on Twitter
Discussion: Axios and The Root
Chris Strohm / Bloomberg:
Barr Won't Recuse Himself From New Case Against Jeffrey Epstein  —  Attorney General William Barr won't recuse himself from involvement in the new charges filed against Jeffrey Epstein by federal prosecutors in New York, according to a Justice Department official.
Discussion: New York Post
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Casey Michel / ThinkProgress:
Barr changes his tune on Mueller's testimony  —  Earlier this year, following his bungled roll-out of special counsel Robert Mueller's report on Russian interference in 2016, Attorney General William Barr claimed he had “no objection” to Mueller testifying before Congress.  —  Now, Barr has changed his tune.
Discussion: YouTube, Daily Kos and Fox News
CNN:
House Democrats plan subpoenas for Jared Kushner, Trump officials and immigration documents
Discussion: New York Times and Political Wire
Amy McGrath / YouTube:
“The Letter” — Amy McGrath for U.S. Senate … I'm running for Senate in Kentucky against Mitch McConnell.  Defeat Mitch.  Defend Democracy.
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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
Ronn Blitzer / Fox News:
Marine combat aviator Amy McGrath announces Senate campaign against Mitch McConnell
Discussion: Washington Post
Michael Tackett / Associated Press:
Amy McGrath to run for Mitch McConnell's US Senate seat
Discussion: Washington Post
Adam Goldman / New York Times:
Michael Flynn Changes His Story, Putting Him on Collision Course With Judge  —  WASHINGTON — Michael T. Flynn, the former national security adviser, backed off his planned testimony in a federal case against a former associate, according to court documents unsealed on Tuesday.
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Rachel Weiner / Washington Post:
Government no longer wants Michael Flynn to testify against ex-partner  —  Michael Flynn will not testify against his former business partner at a trial starting in Alexandria federal court next week because prosecutors no longer believe his version of events, according to recently unsealed court filings.
Discussion: Political Wire
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Michael Flynn's relationship with federal prosecutors appears to sour
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 …
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 …
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 …
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Mediaite
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Natasha Bertrand / Politico:
Trump dossier author Steele gets 16-hour DOJ grilling
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA
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.
Discussion: arenastage.org
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 …
Hamilton Nolan / Splinter:
The Bernie-Warren Suicide Pact to Save America  —  Those of you wise enough to read Splinter should understand that the two best candidates policy-wise in the Democratic primary are Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren.  In order for their good policies to triumph, they must both be willing …
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Emerson College Polling:
July National Poll: Biden extends lead in Democratic Primary, Trump Closes the Gap in the General Election.
Discussion: Political Wire
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
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 …
Robert Mackey / The Intercept:
Trump Takes the Bait, Lashing Out at U.K. Ambassador Whose Private Notes Were Leaked  —  Donald Trump's tweet, lashing out Britain's ambassador to the United States, Kim Darroch, for writing private assessments of the American president's shortcomings, arrived on Monday with all the inevitability …
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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: Washington Post and Rolling Stone
Twitter:
Updating our rules against hateful conduct  —  We create our rules to keep people safe on Twitter, and they continuously evolve to reflect the realities of the world we operate within.  Our primary focus is on addressing the risks of offline harm, and research* shows that dehumanizing language increases that risk.
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.
 
 
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Bloomberg:
Acting Defense Secretary, Due $1 Million From Raytheon, Narrows His Recusal
Anna Giaritelli / Washington Examiner:
Exclusive: Illegal immigrant apprehensions dropped by more than 37,500 in June
Matt O'brien / Associated Press:
Amazon, Microsoft wage war over the Pentagon's ‘war cloud’
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Natasha Bertrand / Politico:
Felix Sater to testify after missing previously scheduled appearance
Zachary Warmbrodt / Politico:
Kudlow: Powell's job safe ‘presently’
 Earlier Items: 
Maggie Astor / New York Times:
'It Can't Be Worse': How Republican Women Are Trying to Rebuild
Discussion: Shareblue Media and Daily Kos
New York Times:
The Chicago Defender, Legendary Black Newspaper, Prints Last Copy
New York Times:
One Lesson From the Katz-Cabán Recount
CNN:
CNN debuts new polling standards as 2020 race heats up
Noam N. Levey / Los Angeles Times:
Obamacare returns to court, creating new uncertainty about health coverage for millions
Discussion: Daily Kos
Ross Douthat / New York Times:
The Meaning of Marianne Williamson
Tom Newton Dunn / The Sun:
FROM RUSSIA WITH BUGS? …
Discussion: Washington Times
 

 
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Georg Szalai / The Hollywood Reporter:
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Sara Fischer / Axios:
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Rick Edmonds / Poynter:
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