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Annie Karni / New York Times:
In Another About-Face, Trump Refuses to Condemn ‘Send Her Back’ Chant  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump on Friday demonstrated the limited influence of allies or advisers who try to steer him away from pre-election racial and cultural fights.  He walked back his disavowal of a racially loaded chant …
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Tommy Christopher / Mediaite:
WATCH: Trump Hangs Melania and Ivanka Out to Dry, Says They Never Objected to Racist Chant  —  President Donald Trump contradicted reports that First Lady Melania Trump and White House senior adviser Ivanka Trump objected privately to rally chants urging that U.S. citizen Rep. Ilhan Omar be sent back to Africa.
Daniel Dale / CNN:
Fact check: Trump falsely accuses Ocasio-Cortez of calling Americans ‘garbage’  —  Washington (CNN)During an exchange with reporters as he left the White House on Friday afternoon, President Donald Trump made false accusations against both Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Rep. Ilhan Omar …
Discussion: Slate
Vivian Wang / New York Times:
House Democrats Prepare for Civil War as Challengers Plot Primary Battles  —  Several entrenched New York representatives will face progressive hopefuls seeking to replicate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's success.  —  Representative Jerrold Nadler has served in Congress for 27 years …
Discussion: Instapundit and Power Line
Joseph Wulfsohn / Fox News:
Michelle Obama seemingly swipes at Trump amid ‘send her back’ controversy
Discussion: Breitbart and LifeZette
Becket Adams / Washington Examiner:
Andrea Mitchell messes up again, and coincidentally, it's in defense of Democrats
David Wasserman / NBC News:
How Trump could lose by 5 million votes and still win in 2020  —  Analysis: The nation's two most populous states, California and Texas, are at the heart of Democrats' geography problem.  —  In the wake of President Donald Trump's tweets suggesting several nonwhite progressive congresswomen …
Discussion: twitchy.com
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Matt Vespa / Townhall:
The Democrats' ‘Ultimate Nightmare Scenario’: Trump Loses By 5 Million Votes.... And Still Wins Re-Election
Discussion: Instapundit
Nicholas Fandos / New York Times:
Mueller Hearings on Wednesday Present Make-or-Break Moment for Democrats  —  WASHINGTON — For more than two years, Democrats have hoped that Robert S. Mueller III would show the nation that President Trump is unfit for office — or at the very least, severely damage his re-election prospects.
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Alex Moe / NBC News:   Mueller hearings to highlight ‘shocking evidence of criminal misconduct’ by Trump, Democrats say
Liz Sly / Washington Post:
Iran seizes British tanker in Strait of Hormuz; denies Trump's claim on drone downing  —  DUBAI — Iran's Revolutionary Guard seized at least one British tanker in the Strait of Hormuz on Friday, according to Iranian state media, setting up a new showdown with the West and demonstrating …
Discussion: LobeLog and The Week
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Farnaz Fassihi / New York Times:
As Conflict With U.S. Grows, Some Iran Hard-liners Suggest Talking to Trump
Discussion: Washington Post
Katelyn Polantz / CNN:
Judge halts Democrats' subpoenas of Trump Org docs in emoluments case  —  Washington (CNN)A federal judge Friday paused congressional Democrats' subpoenas of Trump Organization financial records, 10 days before the records were due in a lawsuit over whether President Donald Trump is violating the Constitution.
Discussion: UPI and Daily Wire
Jennifer Schuessler / New York Times:
Polishing the Nationalist Brand in the Trump Era  —  Conservative thinkers are trying to bring intellectual coherence to the Trumpian moment under the banner of nationalism.  But can it be cleansed of its darker currents?  —  WASHINGTON — Ever since Donald J. Trump laid waste …
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Rosie Gray / BuzzFeed News:   There's A New Movement Trying To Create An Intellectual Strain Of Trumpism. …
Leana S. Wen / New York Times:
Why I Left Planned Parenthood  —  I believe abortion is about health care, not politics.  Many of my colleagues disagreed.  —  Dr. Wen is an emergency physician.  —  This week, I left my position as the president and chief executive of Planned Parenthood.
Discussion: Fox News
John Binder / Breitbart:
Twitter Suspends Angel Mom for Posting About Illegal Immigration  —  Angel Mom Mary Ann Mendoza, who heads the Angel Families organization, has been suspended from Twitter after posting about illegal immigration and raising awareness about the harms of sanctuary city policies.
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Sen. Marco Rubio / Orlando Sentinel:
Sen. Rubio: Moon landing was America's defining moment |  Commentary  —  “For thousands of years now, it's been man's dream to walk on the moon,” said legendary CBS anchor Walter Cronkite as he watched Apollo 11 touch down on the lunar surface.  Teary-eyed and awestruck, Cronkite marveled that …
Washington Post:
Internal drug company emails show indifference to opioid epidemic  —  In May 2008, as the opioid epidemic was raging in America, a representative of the nation's largest manufacturer of opioid pain pills sent an email to a client at a wholesale drug distributor in Ohio.
Discussion: WBUR News and Bangor Daily News
Dan Mangan / CNBC:
Mueller witness George Nader charged with transporting 14-year-old boy for sex, child porn  —  KEY POINTS  — George Nader, who was a key witness in special counsel Robert Mueller's probe, is charged in a new federal indictment with transporting a 14-year-old boy for sex, child pornography and carrying obscene materials.
Discussion: Daily Wire and Politico
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Rachel Weiner / Washington Post:
George Nader indicted on child sex transportation charges
Discussion: CNN
Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:
No One Really Wants to ‘Send Her Back’  —  Don't exaggerate the significance of raucous chants.  —  The president can be very entertaining, but I don't pay much attention to political rallies, including his famously raucous ones.  —  For the faithful, the rallies are fun spectacles, like rock concerts or ball games.
CNN:
Trump campaign and RNC spend more than $600,000 on law firm representing Hope Hicks  —  Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump's campaign and the Republican National Committee have paid more than $600,000 in legal fees to the law firm that represents Hope Hicks, according to reports filed with the Federal Election Commission.
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Washington Post:
Trump tells aides to look for big spending cuts in second term, sowing confusion about budget priorities  —  President Trump has instructed aides to prepare for sweeping budget cuts if he wins a second term in the White House, five people briefed on the discussions said …
Kevin Drum / Mother Jones:
Racial Resentment Is Down Since 2016  —  Recent polling on race relations is pretty grim reading.  Ever since Ferguson, both blacks and whites have agreed that race relations in America are getting worse.  No matter how you ask the question, you get the same result.
MJ Lee / CNN:
Donald Trump's accusers: ‘The forgotten’ women of the #MeToo movement  —  Donald Trump's accusers say they feel forgotten  —  Watch CNN's The Lead with Jake Tapper at 4 p.m. ET to see the full interviews.  —  (CNN)Each woman remembers without a shadow of a doubt exactly what they were wearing …
HuffPost:
Trump Puts More GOP Money In His Own Pocket During Another Million-Dollar Golf Trip  —  An RNC fundraiser could put hundreds of thousands of dollars into his own business, while the getaway will bring his taxpayer-paid golf tab to $109.2 million.  —  WASHINGTON ― President Donald Trump …
Brianne Pfannenstiel / Des Moines Register:
Bernie Sanders defends staff compensation after complaints his campaign isn't paying $15 an hour  —  U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders defended his campaign's compensation package Friday after a Washington Post story highlighted concerns among staffers that they were not receiving the $15-an-hour wages Sanders champions on the campaign trail.
Maggie Severns / Politico:
DNC raises $8.5 million in June  —  The Democratic National Committee raised $8.5 million in June, the month of the Democratic debates in Miami, $1.7 million more than during the previous month, new disclosures show.  —  The DNC spent almost as much money as it raised — $7.5 million …
Discussion: Axios
William Lee / Chicago Tribune:
‘Ready to explode’: How a black boy's drifting raft triggered a deadly week of riots 100 years ago in Chicago  —  One hundred years ago, 7-year-old Juanita Mitchell should have been playing with other children in the streets during that summer's heat wave and getting to know her new home on Chicago's South Side.
Andrew Rice / New York Magazine:
Alan Dershowitz Cannot Stop Talking Accused of a slew of terrible things, the defense has no intention of resting.  —  One morning in July, days after his onetime client Jeffrey Epstein was arrested on sex-trafficking charges, the famed attorney Alan Dershowitz was reminiscing as he drove the winding roads of Martha's Vineyard.
Discussion: Mediaite and Lawyers, Guns & Money
Thomas Gibbons-Neff / New York Times:
The Army's Failure to Train and Equip Troops in Afghanistan  —  You're reading this week's At War newsletter.  Sign up here to get it delivered to your inbox every Friday.  Email us at atwar@nytimes.com.  —  It was a strange thing, listening to Army Secretary Mark Esper's confirmation hearing on Tuesday.
Matt Stevens / New York Times:
Democrats Call Out Racism, New Debate Lineups: This Week in the 2020 Race  —  Candidates condemn President Trump's “go back” comment, a Harris-Biden rematch, and a new California poll.  —  Every Saturday morning, we're publishing “This Week in the 2020 Race”: a quick way to catch …
James Comey / Lawfare:
What I Would Ask Robert Mueller  —  If I were a member of Congress with five minutes to question Robert Mueller, I would ask short questions drawn from the report's executive summaries.  —  Volume One: Russia  —  Did you find that there were a series of contacts between the Trump campaign …
Discussion: Law & Crime
Pew Research Center:
Americans say the nation's political debate has grown more toxic and ‘heated’ rhetoric could lead to violence  —  President Donald Trump's recent attacks on four first-term lawmakers - all women of color - triggered an impassioned response from House Democrats, who overwhelmingly backed …
Discussion: US News, The Root and National Review
 
 
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Adam Kredo / Washington Free Beacon:
Obama's Pro-Iran Echo Chamber Finds New Ally in Rand Paul
Discussion: New Yorker, The Atlantic and Politico
Brian Schwartz / CNBC:
Amazon hires Trump-allied lobbyist Jeff Miller as president threatens to intervene in battle over Pentagon contract
Andy Kroll / Rolling Stone:
‘I Came From the Internet’: Inside Andrew Yang's Wild Ride
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James Poniewozik / New York Times:
The Night Democracy Became the Lotto
Discussion: NB Blog
Connor O'Brien / Politico:
500 U.S. troops to headed to Saudi Arabia
CNN:
He tried for years to join his 13-year-old daughter in the US.  Now they're finally reunited — at her deathbed
Discussion: NB Blog
 Earlier Items: 
U.S. Department of Justice:
Three Members of California-Based White Supremacist Group Sentenced on Riots Charges Related …
Discussion: FOX6Now.com
Aaron Mehta / Defense News:
David Trachtenberg, No. 2 policy official, exits Pentagon
The Intercept:
Democrat-Backed Centrist PAC Is Supporting a Republican Against a Vulnerable Swing-District Incumbent
Gerry Smith / Bloomberg:
BuzzFeed Reaches Agreement to Voluntarily Recognize Union
Emma Fantuzzo / NB Blog:
MSNBC's Chris Hayes: Trump Supporters Must Be ‘Confronted and Destroyed’
Jamelle Bouie / New York Times:
The Joy of Hatred  —  Trump and “his people” reach deep …
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