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Nicholas Fandos / New York Times:
Key Aide Will Appear Alongside Mueller During Hearings  —  WASHINGTON — Robert S. Mueller III's longtime right-hand aide will appear beside him at the witness table during Wednesday's hearing with the House Judiciary Committee to assist as needed as the former special counsel answers questions …
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Josh Campbell / CNN:
Robert Mueller will frustrate the hell out of Congress  —  Josh Campbell is a CNN analyst covering national security issues.  He previously served as a Supervisory Special Agent with the FBI, special assistant to the bureau's director and is the author of a forthcoming book on the origins of the FBI's Russia investigation.
Discussion: National Review
Morgan Phillips / Mediaite:
MSNBC Guests Keep Repeating False Claim That Fox News Isn't Covering the Mueller Hearings
Washington Post:
Mueller's top deputy to join him at witness table at House committee hearing
Discussion: The Atlantic
Elaina Plott / The Atlantic:
Bill Barr Already Won  —  Back in May, Representative Justin Amash of Michigan held a town hall to defend his position as the lone Republican calling for impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump.  Amash explained to voters that he'd arrived at this position …
Discussion: Daily Kos and Axios
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CNN:
Trump irritated — not anxious — ahead of Mueller testimony
Discussion: Political Wire
Emily Guskin / Washington Post:   How Americans view Mueller and impeachment, in five charts
Martin Matishak / Politico:
Ahead of Mueller testimony, Democrats rip into McConnell on election security
Discussion: ABC News
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Here's how Mueller's testimony could damage Trump
Discussion: Hullabaloo, New York Times and Mediaite
Katherine Faulders / ABC News:   Robert Mueller's former chief of staff to be his counsel for congressional testimony
Hannah Gilberstadt / Pew Research Center:   For the first time, majority of Republicans express confidence in the fairness of Mueller's investigation
Jared Holt / Right Wing Watch:
This GOP Challenger to Ilhan Omar ‘100%’ Stands with QAnon  —  Danielle Stella, a Republican candidate seeking to unseat Rep. Ilhan Omar from the U.S. House of Representatives in 2020, firmly supports the QAnon conspiracy theory, according to someone identifying themselves as communications volunteer …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Splinter
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Will Sommer / The Daily Beast:
Rep. Ilhan Omar's Republican Challenger Appears to be a QAnon Conspiracy Theorist  —  Danielle Stella is running to unseat Donald Trump's favorite target.  She also seems to be deep into Q.  —  A Republican House candidate challenging Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) has made frequent references …
Kera Bolonik / The Cut:
The Most Gullible Man in Cambridge A Harvard Law professor who teaches a class on judgment wouldn't seem like an obvious mark, would he?  —  It was just supposed to have been a quick Saturday-morning errand to buy picture hooks.  On March 7, 2015, Harvard Law professor Bruce Hay, then 52 …
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Fox News helped radicalize domestic terrorist Cesar Sayoc, say his lawyers  —  Cesar Sayoc pleaded guilty in March to mailing improvised explosive devices to 13 people, including many prominent Democratic figures, among them former president Barack Obama, former vice president Joe Biden …
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Kelly Weill / The Daily Beast:   MAGA Bomber's Lawyers Blame Trump, Sean Hannity for His Radicalization
Ryan J. Reilly / HuffPost:
Lawyers For Trump ‘Super Fan’ Cesar Sayoc Say Trump's Rhetoric Inspired Terrorist Plot On Democrats
Discussion: ThinkProgress and UPI
Kevin Breuninger / CNBC:
Trump sues House Ways and Means panel to block disclosure of his tax returns  —  KEY POINTS  — President Trump filed a lawsuit against the House Ways and Means Committee, the New York state's attorney general and tax chief to block the disclosure of years of his tax returns.
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Zachary Basu / Axios:
Trump sues House Democrats to block release of state tax returns
Discussion: Politico
Bloomberg:   Trump Sues to Stop House From Getting His New York State Tax Returns
Brian Beutler / Crooked Media:
The Case for A More Fighting Democratic Party  —  There's a battle underway between the left and the center for the soul of the Democratic Party.  On the left, insurgent presidential candidates like Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders, along with freshman legislators like “The Squad,” …
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Aidan Smith / The Nation:   The Overlooked Difference Between Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren
Philip Klein / Washington Examiner:
With budget deal, Trump drains the swamp — of the Tea Party  —  President Trump once vowed to drain the swamp, but by joining with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on the latest budget deal, he has merely drained it of the Tea Party.  —  There are many ways in which the Trump presidency has been disruptive to the status quo.
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John Harwood / CNBC:   Why the GOP keeps losing the fight in budget deals
Walter Shapiro / Roll Call:   Moderation in the Trump era? Democrats, it's futile
Maxwell Strachan / HuffPost:
The Fall Of Mic Was A Warning  —  “I don't need a pair of Nikes.  I need a 401(k)” — and other lessons from the death of a venture-backed, Facebook-dependent, millennial-focused news site.  —  Esther Bergdahl felt invigorated.  How could she not?  It was 2014, and she had just joined …
Ben Terris / Washington Post:
Who is Kamala Harris, really?  Ask her sister Maya.  —  DES MOINES — It was the Fourth of July, Independence Day, and Kamala Harris was explaining to her sister, Maya, that campaigns are like prisons.  —  She'd been recounting how in the days before the Democratic debate in Miami life had actually slowed down to a manageable pace.
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New York Times:
Trump Relies on Populist Language, but He Mostly Sides With Corporate Interests  —  WASHINGTON — History will record last week as a moment when President Trump turned to raw racial appeals to attack a group of nonwhite lawmakers, but his attacks also underscored a remarkable fact of his first term …
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Trump transition adviser Bijan Rafiekian is convicted  —  A federal jury on Tuesday convicted Bijan Rafiekian, a former business partner of Michael Flynn, on a pair of foreign-agent felony charges stemming from work the two men did for Turkish interests during the final months of the Trump presidential campaign in 2016.
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
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Adam Goldman / New York Times:
Associate of Michael Flynn Is Found Guilty of Secretly Lobbying for Turkey
Discussion: Political Wire
CNN:
Warplanes from four countries face off in Asian confrontation  —  Seoul (CNN)Warplanes from four countries faced off Tuesday in a chaotic and unprecedented confrontation above a small, disputed island off the coast of South Korea and Japan.  —  South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff issued …
Tom Polansek / Reuters:
Trump administration pursues rule that would remove 3.1 million people from food stamps  —  CHICAGO (Reuters) - The Trump administration on Tuesday will propose a rule to tighten food stamp restrictions that would cut about 3.1 million people from the program, U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) officials said.
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Arthur Delaney / HuffPost:   Trump Administration Circumvents Congress For Food Benefit Cuts (Again)
New York Times:
Jeffrey Epstein Moved Money Overseas in Transactions His Bank Flagged to U.S.  —  As Deutsche Bank officials this year scrambled to extricate themselves from a yearslong relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, the wealthy financier charged this month with sex trafficking, they uncovered suspicious transactions …
Discussion: Florida Politics and Boing Boing
CNN:
ICE officers came for a Tennessee man.  His neighbors stepped in to stop them  —  (CNN)When US Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers tried to take a Tennessee man into custody early Monday morning, the man's neighbors stepped up to stop them, CNN affiliates WTVF and WZTV reported.
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Brent Kendall / Wall Street Journal:
Justice Department to Open Broad, New Antitrust Review of Big Tech Companies  —  Inquiry signals Barr's deep interest in tech sector, poses threat to companies such as Facebook, Google, Amazon, Apple  —  WASHINGTON—The Justice Department is opening a broad antitrust review …
Jim Treacher / PJ Media Home:
IMPORTANT CORRECTION: AOC Was Weeping Over an Empty Road, Not an Empty Parking Lot  —  We've all seen the harrowing, heartbreaking pictures: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez standing next to a chain-link fence, weeping in anguish over what she saw on the other side.
Washington Post:
Newly unsealed exhibits in opioid case reveal inner workings of the drug industry  —  This is a developing story.  Check back for more details.  —  Newly unsealed documents in a landmark lawsuit Tuesday in Cleveland show the pressure within drug companies to sell opioids in the face …
 
 
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John Bresnahan / Politico:
House prepares to formally endorse Trump-related subpoenas
Miami Herald:
He's a Chinese billionaire and a member of Trump's Mar-a-Lago. …
Discussion: Florida Politics
Morgan Chalfant / The Hill:
FBI's Wray says most domestic terrorism arrests this year involve white supremacy
Discussion: The Root
Hamid Shalizi / Reuters:
Kabul seeks clarification on Trump talk of wiping out Afghanistan
Jane Coaston / Vox:
A question for conservatives: what if the left was right on race?
Discussion: The College Fix
David Rutz / Washington Free Beacon:
Tlaib: BDS Movement Against Israel Like American Boycott of Nazi Germany
Discussion: Townhall
C.J. Ciaramella / Reason:
Tucker Carlson's Unhinged Rant Against Prison Reform Makes Us All Dumber
 Earlier Items: 
Alex Pappas / Fox News:
Trump mocks Tlaib for ‘screaming’ at 2016 speech: ‘This is not a sane person’
Discussion: Washington Post and Politico
Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
Mentions of Immigration as Top Problem Surpass Record High
Discussion: National Review, Townhall, IJR and RedState
Lachlan Markay / The Daily Beast:
Heritage Blasts ‘Vengeful’ Conservative Critics—Including Its Former President
Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch:
US attorney general William Barr says Americans should accept security risks of encryption backdoors
Trip Gabriel / New York Times:
Sherrod Brown Is the Only Democrat in America Not Running for President
Obed Manuel / Dallas Morning News:
A Dallas-born citizen picked up by the Border Patrol has been detained for three weeks
 

 
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