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4:15 PM ET, July 21, 2019

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CBS News:
Biden, Warren, Harris and Sanders top 2020 field — CBS News Battleground Tracker poll  —  Joe Biden continues to be the first choice among Democratic voters across the 2020 primary states holding contests through Super Tuesday.  However, rivals Elizabeth Warren and Kamala Harris are gaining …
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CBS News:
Early contests by the numbers: Democratic delegate race tightens — CBS News Battleground Tracker
Discussion: Opinion Today
Edward-Isaac Dovere / The Atlantic:   Elizabeth Warren Has Momentum. Can She Build a Movement?
CBS News:
Most Americans disagree with Trump's “go back” tweets — CBS News poll  —  The controversy around President Trump's tweets last week comes at a time when nearly nine in 10 Americans see a nation divided along racial lines, and most believe the parties each hold different ideas about what makes a person an American.
Discussion: Hullabaloo and The Week
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Washington Post:
Stephen Miller defends Trump's attacks on Rep. Omar
Bianca Quilantan / Politico:
Elijah Cummings: Trump's words brings back bad memories of racism
Discussion: Breitbart and Axios
Zachary Basu / Axios:
Nadler: Trump has broken the law “6 ways from Sunday”  —  House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.) said on Fox News Sunday that Donald Trump has “violated the law 6 ways from Sunday,” and that he would be indicted if he were not president. … Why it matters: Nadler …
Discussion: Politico and Breitbart
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Noah Weiland / New York Times:
In 88 Trips to Capitol Hill, Mueller Grew Weary of Partisanship  —  Dozens of hours of Robert S. Mueller III's congressional testimony since 1990 reveal his complex relationship with legislators.  —  WASHINGTON — Days after he was appointed special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III visited …
Discussion: Washington Post
Associated Press:
Mueller's testimony poses risk for Trump, but also Democrats
Discussion: KTLA
Miami Herald:
As Trump's reliable sycophant, Rubio drags us further into the president's swamp |  Editorial  —  Witnessing Sen. Marco Rubio's pathetic response last week to President Trump's latest racist outrages, it is impossible now to believe that Florida's senior senator was once hailed as …
Jason Stanley / Newsweek:
Yes, ‘Send her back’ is the face of evil—I know fascism when I see it |  Opinion  —  “All effective propaganda must be confined to very few points,” Adolf Hitler wrote, “which must be brought out in the form of slogans.”  —  “Drain the swamp.”  “Lock her up.”  “Build the wall.”
Discussion: Mother Jones and The Guardian
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Daniel Lippman / Politico:
Meet the woman who ties Jeffrey Epstein to Trump and the Clintons  —  How did wealthy sex offender Jeffrey Epstein come to be palling around with Bill Clinton and Donald Trump?  —  People who know those involved say Epstein's connections to two U.S. presidents ran through one bubbly British heiress: Ghislaine Maxwell.
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Politico:   POLITICO Playbook: Trump reignites battle with The Squad
Alexandra Hutzler / Newsweek:
Bernie Sanders Campaign Responds to $15 Minimum Wage Controversy with Better Hours for Staff  —  Amid a pay war within his own 2020 presidential campaign, Bernie Sanders will limit the amount of time his organizers can work to guarantee that no one is making less than $15 per hour …
Daily Mail:
Why I helped expose ambassador's embarrassing cables: Journalist, 19, behind Trump scoop comes forward to reveal his motivation and fears he's being targeted by security services  —  Lying awake at 2am last Wednesday and unable to sleep for the third night in a row, I listened as footsteps crunched …
Discussion: Bloomberg and The Guardian
Ali Watkins / New York Times:
He Wasn't Seeking to Kill a Mob Boss.  He Was Trying to Help Trump, His Lawyer Says.  —  In new court documents, the lawyer for Anthony Comello says he became obsessed by far-right QAnon conspiracy theories.  —  As his pickup truck roared toward the Todt Hill section of Staten Island …
Holly Aguirre / Vanity Fair:
“THE GIRLS WERE JUST SO YOUNG”: THE HORRORS OF JEFFREY EPSTEIN'S PRIVATE ISLAND  —  Locals say Epstein was flying in underage girls long after his conviction for sex crimes—and authorities did nothing to stop him.  “It was like he was flaunting it,” says an employee at the airstrip on St. Thomas.
New York Times:
Trump Sets the Terms on Racial Division.  Do Democrats Know What to Do?  —  GREENVILLE, N.C. — President Trump waited for 13 seconds, as the chants from the crowd of thousands grew louder.  —  “Send her home!” the North Carolina audience yelled, mimicking Mr. Trump's recent tweet attacking a Somali-born Democratic congresswoman.
Andy Newman / New York Times:
My Frantic Life as a Cab-Dodging, Tip-Chasing Food App Deliveryman  —  I had just started my lunch shift when the phone pinged: Uber Eats, pickup at Cocina del Sur on West 38th Street in Manhattan, five blocks away.  Great!  I pedaled down West 40th into congealing crosstown traffic.
Marisa Fernandez / Axios:
Cory Booker says Trump is “worse than a racist”  —  2020 Democratic candidate Sen. Cory Booker claimed on CNN's “State of the Union” Sunday that President Trump is “worse than a racist,” and that his rhetoric weaponizes race just as Gov. George Wallace — a staunch segregationist — did in his presidential campaigns.
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Eleanor Mueller / Politico:
Cory Booker charges Trump is ‘worse than a racist’
Discussion: Breitbart
James Anderson / Associated Press:
In some states, GOP employs the recall as a political weapon  —  DENVER (AP) — Republicans frustrated by losing their grip on political power in some Western states have begun deploying a new weapon: the recall.  —  Once reserved for targeting corrupt or inept elected officials …
 
 
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Axios:
Scoop: Kushner to travel to Israel, Arab countries for discussions on peace plan
Joseph Simonson / Washington Examiner:
Biden won't promise Americans they'll keep their doctor under his healthcare plan
Discussion: IJR
Associated Press:
Police launch tear gas as Hong Kong protest turns violent
Associated Press:
New audio shows UK could not prevent Iran takeover of tanker
Adam Geller / Associated Press:
Sanders' early life in Brooklyn taught lessons, some tough
Ethan Cai / Campus Reform:
STUDY: Faculty diversity at near stand-still despite MILLIONS spent by universities
 Earlier Items: 
Robert Silverman / The Daily Beast:
Inside Baseball Hall of Famer Mariano Rivera's Far-Right Politics
Discussion: Breitbart
Hans von der Burchard / Politico:
Two UK ministers to quit if Boris Johnson wins
Eliza Collins / Wall Street Journal:
Candidate Sleepovers Mean Tight Quarters, Wet Towels and ‘Surreal’ Family-Room Chats
Ana Swanson / New York Times:
A New Red Scare Is Reshaping Washington
Fox News:
Border agents use tear gas to stop nearly 50 undocumented migrants who stormed Rio Grande bridge
Discussion: PJ Media Home and RedState
 

 
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Laura Kukkonen / Columbia Journalism Review:
After a reporter for Aamulehti, Finland's second-largest daily, acknowledged in his autobiography that he fabricated stories, the paper removes 551 articles

Murray Stassen / Music Business Worldwide:
Warner Music Group sells Uproxx, HipHopDX, and other assets to a new company, Uproxx Studios, formed by Jarret Myer, Rich Antoniello, and will.i.am

Aidan Ryan / The Boston Globe:
Memo: Boston public radio station WBUR CEO Margaret Low says 31 employees, or ~14% of its staff, are leaving, with 24 of them taking a voluntary buyout

 
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