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4:20 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
National Review:   No, McConnell Isn't ‘Moscow Mitch’
Betsy Woodruff / The Daily Beast:   Rand Paul Fights Sanctions on Russian Pipeline
Shane Croucher / Newsweek:
MoscowMitch Trends on Twitter as Mitch McConnell Blocks Election Security Bills Despite …
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.
Peter Baker / New York Times:
Trump Assails Congressional Critic, Calling His Majority-Black District a ‘Disgusting’ Rat-Infested ‘Mess’  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump lashed out at a leading African-American congressman on Saturday, calling him “a brutal bully” who represents a Baltimore-based district that has become a …
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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: RedState, Townhall and The Hill
New York Times:
The Roots of Boeing's 737 Max Crisis: A Regulator Relaxes Its Oversight  —  SEATTLE — In the days after the first crash of Boeing's 737 Max, engineers at the Federal Aviation Administration came to a troubling realization: They didn't fully understand the automated system that helped send …
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.
Alexander Burns / New York Times:
What Kamala Harris Believes  —  The Democratic candidate wants relevant policy, not “a beautiful sonnet.”  Is that enough for voters?  —  LOS ANGELES — At her strongest, Senator Kamala Harris is forceful and pragmatic.  She elates crowds in Iowa and South Carolina with her denunciations …
Discussion: The Week, CNN and UPI
Nicholas Clairmont / Washington Free Beacon:
Review: Kevin Williamson's ‘The Smallest Minority’  —  The gloves are off  —  Kevin Williamson is having fun.  “You want to do this?  Okay, let's f—ing do this,” you can almost hear him muttering.  In the resultant extended, hilarious, quixotic rant, he takes the gloves off in the fight …
New York Times:
Anti-Gay Brutality in a Polish Town Blamed on Poisonous Propaganda  —  BIALYSTOK, Poland — The marchers at the first gay pride parade here in the conservative Polish city of Bialystok expected that they would be met with resistance.  —  But last week when Katarzyna Sztop-Rutkowska saw …
James Hill / ABC News:
Judge signs protective order over materials feds to turn over to jailed financier Jeffrey Epstein  —  Federal prosecutors in New York overseeing the case against millionaire Jeffrey Epstein are preparing to hand over highly-sensitive investigative material to the financier's defense attorneys …
Arthur C. Brooks / Washington Post:
You're probably making incorrect assumptions about your opposing political party  —  “You know what they really want.”  —  As America slouches toward the 2020 presidential election, candidates and pundits will regularly tell you this about the other political side, followed by a list …
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.
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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Lawrence Hurley / Reuters:
U.S. Supreme Court lets Trump use disputed funds for border wall
Discussion: TalkLeft
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 …
Matthew Lee / Associated Press:
Trump's ‘maximum pressure’ campaign on Iran faces key test  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump's “maximum pressure” campaign against Iran is at a crossroads.  —  His administration is trying to decide whether to risk stoking international tensions even more by ending …
Conrad Black / American Greatness:
Robert Mueller Can't Recall  —  Even I, as someone who has been blue in the face shrieking that the Mueller inquiry would be an unutterable fiasco since the day it was announced, could not have imagined such a terrible shambles as the world watched, gape-mouthed (like the witness much of the time) …
Discussion: RedState and Fox News
John DiStaso / WMUR:
Kuster, Pappas join growing call for formal US House inquiry into Trump impeachment  —  Kuster was first member of all-Democratic NH congressional delegation to take strong position; Pappas later joined about 100 House Democrats issuing call  —  HIDE TRANSCRIPT SHOW TRANSCRIPT  —  CONCORD, N.H. —
Discussion: CNN, KTLA and Vox
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Benjamin Siegel / ABC News:
Pelosi says she's ‘not trying to run out the clock’ on Trump impeachment
Discussion: Breitbart and RedState
 
 
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Bret Stephens / New York Times:
The New Conservative Pyrite  —  “National conservatism” is another road to serfdom.
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: Townhall, Breitbart and Mediaite
Damian Paletta / Washington Post:
Trump suggests he could take steps to weaken U.S. dollar, fueling confusion
Roger Cohen / New York Times:
Trump's Inhumanity Before a Victim of Rape
Sky News:
Donald Trump and Boris Johnson ‘already working on’ UK-US free trade deal
Discussion: Politico
Jonathan Montpetit / CBC News:
Video of man taunting mom, daughter with slurs prompts more worries about racial tensions in Quebec
 Earlier Items: 
Washington Post:
Adviser, son-in-law and hidden campaign hand: How Kushner is trying to help Trump win in 2020
Ashe Schow / Daily Wire:
She Verbally Consented To Sex But The School Determined He Committed Sexual Assault Because He 'Cajoled …
Discussion: RedState
Angie Maxwell / Washington Post:
What we get wrong about the Southern strategy
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
Paul Brand / ITV:
ITV News exclusive: Jacob Rees-Mogg issues style guide to staff
Discussion: New York Times and Fox News