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12:35 PM ET, July 27, 2019

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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Mitch McConnell is a Russian asset  —  Mitch McConnell is a Russian asset.  —  This doesn't mean he's a spy, but neither is it a flip accusation.  Russia attacked our country in 2016.  It is attacking us today.  Its attacks will intensify in 2020.  Yet each time we try to raise our defenses …
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Nicole Goodkind / Newsweek:
Mitch McConnell Received Donations from Voting Machine Lobbyists Before Blocking Election Security Bills  —  Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell squashed two bills intended to ensure voting security on Thursday, just one day after former special counsel Robert Mueller warned that Russians …
Betsy Woodruff / The Daily Beast:
Rand Paul Fights Sanctions on Russian Pipeline  —  The Trump ally has quietly moved to postpone efforts to hit the Russian project, and is lobbying his colleagues against a new sanctions bill.  —  Advocates for a massive Russian natural gas pipeline project have a powerful, quiet ally in Congress …
Shane Croucher / Newsweek:
MoscowMitch Trends on Twitter as Mitch McConnell Blocks Election Security Bills Despite ‘Unprecedented Level’ of Russian Interference  —  The hashtag #MoscowMitch was trending on Twitter on Friday morning after Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell blocked two election bills designed …
National Review:   No, McConnell Isn't ‘Moscow Mitch’
Washington Post:
Mueller's team told Congress his acuity was not an issue.  Some lawmakers privately worry it was.  —  The whispers started in 2018, though where they originated remains unclear: Robert S. Mueller III, the taciturn Marine veteran leading an investigation of the president of the United States, might not be as sharp as he once was.
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The Atlantic:
Why We're Moving Forward With Impeachment  —  Our Constitution requires it.  Our democracy depends on it.  —  Vice Chair of the House Judiciary Committee U.S. representative from Rhode Island U.S. representative from Washington U.S. representative from Texas
John DiStaso / WMUR:
Kuster, Pappas join growing call for formal US House inquiry into Trump impeachment
Discussion: CNN and KTLA
Benjamin Siegel / ABC News:
Pelosi says she's ‘not trying to run out the clock’ on Trump impeachment
Discussion: Breitbart and RedState
Joshua Matz / Washington Post:
The House has already opened an impeachment investigation against Trump
Discussion: Mother Jones, Vox and New York Times
Just Security:
How Congress Can Access the Legal Powers of Impeachment Without a Formal Inquiry
VICE:
Democrats Just Delivered a Perfectly Confusing Message On Impeachment
Discussion: Axios and Washington Post
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Supreme Court Lets Trump Proceed on Border Wall  —  WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Friday gave President Trump a victory in his fight for a wall along the Mexican border by allowing the administration to begin using $2.5 billion in Pentagon money for the construction.
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Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Supreme Court says Trump can proceed with plan to spend military funds for border wall construction  —  A split Supreme Court said Friday night that the Trump administration could proceed with its plan to use $2.5 billion in Pentagon funds to build part of the president's wall project along the southern border.
Lawrence Hurley / Reuters:   U.S. Supreme Court lets Trump use disputed funds for border wall
Max Londberg / Cincinnati.com:
$250 million Sandmann lawsuit against Washington Post dismissed by federal judge  —  Ted Sandmann, father Covington Catholic student Nick Sandmann, on why he wants doxing legislation to criminalize revealing a minor's identity online  —  The $250 million lawsuit filed by Nick Sandmann …
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Richard Leiby / Washington Post:
Judge dismisses libel suit against Washington Post brought by Covington Catholic High School student
Discussion: Outside the Beltway and Mediaite
Colby Itkowitz / Washington Post:
Trump attacks Rep. Cummings's district, calling it a ‘disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess’  —  President Trump ranted Saturday morning on Twitter about an African American lawmaker by disparaging the Baltimore district that Rep. Elijah E. Cummings (Md.) represents as a “disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess.”
Discussion: Bloomberg and The Daily Caller
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Why the GOP retirements are a gut punch for the party  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  WHILE WE WERE ALL watching ROBERT MUELLER and Democrats this week, here's what happened to House Republicans: Three popular and well-respected members of Congress decided they weren't going to run for reelection.
Ricardo Alonso-zaldivar / Associated Press:
Despite calls to start over, US health system covers 90%  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — America's much-maligned health care system is covering 9 out of 10 people, a fact that hasn't stopped the 2020 presidential candidates from refighting battles about how to provide coverage, from Bernie Sanders' call …
Washington Post:
Adviser, son-in-law and hidden campaign hand: How Kushner is trying to help Trump win in 2020  —  After Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale decided he wanted to make the recruitment of donors a top strategy in President Trump's 2020 reelection bid, his first conversation was with someone …
Damian Paletta / Washington Post:
Trump suggests he could take steps to weaken U.S. dollar, fueling confusion  —  President Trump gave mixed signals this week as to whether he would intervene and try to weaken the U.S. dollar, telling aides Tuesday he had ruled out the idea but telling reporters on Friday he was still open to it.
Ashe Schow / Daily Wire:
She Verbally Consented To Sex But The School Determined He Committed Sexual Assault Because He ‘Cajoled’ Her With Flattery  —  A new lawsuit filed against Pennsylvania State University includes several abnormalities, including the school's decision to review the first hearing …
Discussion: RedState
Debra Kahn / Politico:
California's Newsom wrestles with Trump tax return bill  —  SACRAMENTO — Gavin Newsom has spent the first six months of his governorship positioning himself as the West Coast anti-Trump while taking pains to distinguish himself from his legendary predecessor, Jerry Brown.
Roger Cohen / New York Times:
Trump's Inhumanity Before a Victim of Rape  —  In his boundless self-absorption, this president is capable of anything.  —  Daniel Patrick Moynihan, the Harvard professor and four-term United States senator from New York, famously observed, “Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts.”
Paul Brand / ITV:
ITV News exclusive: Jacob Rees-Mogg issues style guide to staff  —  The new Leader of the House of Commons Jacob Rees-Mogghas instructed all staff in his new office to use imperial measurements and refer to ‘non-tiled males’ as ‘esquire’.  —  Issuing a style guide in the first week of his job …
Discussion: New York Times and Fox News
Jonathan Montpetit / CBC News:
Video of man taunting mom, daughter with slurs prompts more worries about racial tensions in Quebec  —  WARNING: The following story and accompanying video contain graphic language  —  A white man accosted an Arabic-speaking woman and her two-year-old daughter earlier this week …
 
 
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The Times of Israel:
French city official celebrates his birthday with a swastika cake
Discussion: Geller Report News and Jihad Watch
Washington Post:
We are African Americans, we are patriots, and we refuse to sit idly by
Discussion: Breitbart and Mediaite
Sky News:
Donald Trump and Boris Johnson ‘already working on’ UK-US free trade deal
Discussion: Politico
Adam Jentleson / GQ:
What Moderate House Democrats Are Getting Wrong About 2020 and Impeachment
Discussion: WPIX 11 New York and CNN
Angie Maxwell / Washington Post:
What we get wrong about the Southern strategy
Representative Chris Pappas:
Congressman Pappas Issues Statement on Impeachment Inquiry
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David K. Li / NBC News:
Emmett Till memorial in photo of gun-toting Mississippi students will be made bulletproof
Discussion: CNN, theGrio and The Root
Ellen Huet / Bloomberg:
Juul Targeted Children at Schools and Online, U.S. House Panel Says
Discussion: New York Post and Chalkbeat
Anna Merlan / Jezebel:
The New Yorker Seriously Mischaracterized the Story of One of Al Franken's Accusers
CNN:
Exclusive: Inside the effort to turn Trump against Amazon's bid for a $10 billion contract