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10:45 PM ET, August 1, 2019

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Congressman Will Hurd:
Rep. Will Hurd: It's time to serve my country in a different way  —  There are many reasons why I love America.  I have learned over my three terms in Congress, by representing people that voted for me, didn't vote for me or didn't vote at all, that America is better than the sum of its parts.
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Robert Moore / Washington Post:
Texas Rep. Hurd, lone black Republican in House, won't seek reelection  —  Rep. Will Hurd, the lone black Republican in the House and the rare GOP lawmaker to criticize President Trump at times, will not seek reelection, he told The Washington Post.  —  Hurd's retirement is the third …
Jana Winter / Yahoo News:
Exclusive: FBI document warns conspiracy theories are a new domestic terrorism threat  —  The FBI for the first time has identified fringe conspiracy theories as a domestic terrorist threat, according to a previously unpublicized document obtained by Yahoo News.  (Read the document below.)
New York Times:
Manhattan D.A. Subpoenas Trump Organization Over Stormy Daniels Hush Money  —  Cyrus R. Vance Jr., the Manhattan district attorney, is reviving an investigation into payments made to two women during the 2016 campaign.  —  State prosecutors in Manhattan subpoenaed President Trump's family business …
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Wall Street Journal:   Trump Organization Subpoenaed for Documents Related to Stormy Daniels Hush Payment
Marc Caputo / Politico:
‘Stay away from Barack’: Dems seethe over criticism of Obama  —  Joe Biden is fair game.  Barack Obama is not.  —  Former Obama White House officials and allies responded in force Thursday to stress that message after several Democratic contenders criticized the former president in a debate …
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Ed O'Keefe / CBS News:   Obama unfazed by criticism at Democratic debate, source says
Gregg Re / Fox News:
Trump urges rally attendees not to chant ‘send her back’; he also says Harris had ‘bad’ debate night
Discussion: Power Line
David Weigel / Washington Post:
The Trailer: After two nights, we're left with four big questions
John Judis / Talking Points Memo:
The Democrats Need to Get Their Act Together
Discussion: Mother Jones
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Majority of House Democrats now support impeachment inquiry  —  The impeachment dam has broken.  —  More than half of House Democrats say they would vote to launch impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump, a crucial threshold that backers said will require Speaker Nancy Pelosi to reconsider her steadfast opposition.
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Ted Deutch / Sun-Sentinel:
No more debate. Impeachment inquiry is underway
Matt Taibbi / Untitledgate:   The rise and fall of superhero Robert Mueller
Nicholas Fandos / New York Times:
Support for Impeachment Inquiry Grows in the House
Washington Post:
Nearly half of House Democrats back impeachment inquiry of Trump, amplified by calls from presidential candidates
Discussion: Roll Call
CBS Baltimore:
Rep. Elijah Cummings' Baltimore Home Burglarized, Police Say  —  BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Baltimore Police are investigating after the home of Rep. Elijah Cummings was broken into early Saturday morning.  —  The burglary occurred around 3:40 a.m. at his Baltimore home in the 2000 block of Madison Avenue.
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Charles Hurt / Washington Times:   Trump is the least racist person in the world
Mike Lillis / The Hill:
Pelosi hits back at Trump's attacks on Cummings, calls Kushner a ‘slumlord’
Discussion: Vanity Fair
Maggie Astor / New York Times:
Only 7 Candidates Have Qualified for the Next Democratic Debate  —  While 20 presidential candidates debated this past week, far fewer are assured the chance of doing so again in September.  —  So you made it through the second set of Democratic debates.  Congratulations!  Ready to talk about the next ones?
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Walter Shapiro / New Republic:
The Democratic Party Is Culling the Field Too Soon
Discussion: Splinter and Vox
Bret Stephens / New York Times:
Democrats Are Not Up To Their Historic Responsibility
New York Times:
Granddaughter of Robert F. Kennedy Dies After Overdose at Family's Compound  —  BOSTON — A granddaughter of Robert F. Kennedy died on Thursday afternoon after suffering an apparent overdose at the Kennedy compound in Hyannis Port, Mass., according to two people close to the family.
Washington Post:
Trump's pick for national intelligence director is disengaged from committee work on Capitol Hill, officials say  —  President Trump's nominee to be the nation's next spy chief is regarded as a relatively disengaged member of the House Intelligence Committee and is little known across the ranks …
Discussion: Political Wire
Washington Post:
U.S. preparing to withdraw thousands of troops from Afghanistan in initial deal with Taliban  —  The Trump administration is preparing to withdraw thousands of troops from Afghanistan in exchange for concessions from the Taliban, including a cease-fire and a renunciation of al-Qaeda …
Julia Marsh / New York Post:
Bill de Blasio makes fliers wait on tarmac so he can rush to ‘The View’  —  Mayor Bill de Blasio made Delta passengers wait in their seats on the tarmac at La Guardia Airport for 10 minutes Thursday after flying back from his less-than-stellar performance in the Detroit debate — so that he and his security detail could deplane first.
Washington Post:
After Trump cites Amazon concerns, Pentagon re-examines $10 billion JEDI cloud contract process  —  The White House has instructed newly installed Defense Secretary Mark T. Esper to re-examine the awarding of the military's massive cloud-computing contract because of concerns that the bid would go to Amazon …
Discussion: Mother Jones and TechCrunch
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Ryan Broderick / BuzzFeed News:
A Christian Satire Site Says Fact-Checkers Are Helping Facebook De-Platform Conservatives  —  The Babylon Bee, a self-proclaimed Christian satire site with half a million followers on Facebook, has accused fact-checking site Snopes.com of unfairly debunking some of its satirical articles as fake news.
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David French / National Review:
BuzzFeed Publishes a Misleading Story About the Babylon Bee Controversy
Jay Nordlinger / National Review:
Reagan and Race  —  Was the 40th president, and a hero to many, a racist?  —  On Tuesday, The Atlantic published an article by Tim Naftali headed “Ronald Reagan's Long-Hidden Racist Conversation with Richard Nixon.”  The subheading: “In newly unearthed audio, the then-California governor …
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Patti Davis / Washington Post:
The Ronald Reagan who raised me would want forgiveness for his ‘monkeys’ remark
Lachlan Markay / The Daily Beast:
Kris Kobach Uses Border Wall Group to Fund Senate Bid, Likely Illegally  —  The former Kansas secretary of state has used his perch at We Build the Wall to raise campaign money.  That's a no-no, experts say.  —  Former Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach is using a nonprofit group …
Discussion: Political Wire
Rob Copeland / Wall Street Journal:
Fired by Google, a Republican Engineer Hits Back: 'There's Been a Lot of Bullying'  —  Search giant's culture wars flame anew; a senior executive contacts law enforcement over leaks  —  MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.—Kevin Cernekee was still a “Noogler”—Google's term for a new employee …
Wall Street Journal:
Families Go Deep in Debt to Stay in the Middle Class  —  Wages stalled but costs haven't, so people increasingly rent or finance what their parents might have owned outright  —  The American middle class is falling deeper into debt to maintain a middle-class lifestyle.
Robby Soave / Reason:
Carleton College Suspended a Student for Drunken Sex.  He Appealed.  Then They Expelled Him.  —  Should continuing to assert your innocence be seen as a sign of guilt?  After issuing a three-semester suspension to football player “John Doe” for sexual assault, Carleton College in Minnesota gave …
MSNBC:
‘Moscow Mitch’ McConnell ‘fuming’ with trolling  —  New pressure on the top Republican in the Senate, Mitch McConnell, who blocked a series of elections security bills despite warnings from Bob Mueller and American intelligence that Russia is still at it.  McConnell is furious …
BBC:
Trump's former top adviser: tariffs backfiring on US  —  US President Donald Trump's trade war with China is backfiring and impacting the US economy, according to his former chief economic adviser.  —  The tariff battle has had a “dramatic impact” on US manufacturing and capital investment, Gary Cohn told the BBC.
Discussion: ThinkProgress and CNET
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David Brooks / New York Times:
Marianne Williamson Knows How to Beat Trump  —  We need an uprising of decency.  —  If only ...  If only Donald Trump were not president, we could have an interesting debate over whether private health insurance should be illegal.  If only Trump were not president, we could have an interesting debate …
Eliana Johnson / Politico:
Trump to sanction Russia over chemical weapons use  —  President Donald Trump has signed an executive order imposing sanctions on Russia for its use of chemical weapons in the 2018 attack on the Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter, according to two U.S. officials.
Beth Reinhard / Washington Post:
Three NRA board members resign in latest sign of upheaval at gun rights group  —  Three National Rifle Association board members who have raised concerns about reports of reckless spending and mismanagement by the group's leadership resigned Thursday, another sign of mounting dissent within the nation's most powerful gun-rights group.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Jim Waterson / The Guardian:
Revealed: Johnson ally's firm secretly ran Facebook propaganda network  —  Sir Lynton Crosby's firm CTF has built unbranded disinformation pages for Saudi Arabia and major polluters  —  The lobbying firm run by Boris Johnson's close ally Sir Lynton Crosby has secretly built a network of unbranded …
 
 
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North Korea launches another projectile, US official says
David Crary / Associated Press:
Leaders of religious right balk at labeling Trump a racist
Felicia Sonmez / Washington Post:
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Jonathan Capehart / Washington Post:
Kirsten Gillibrand totally mischaracterized Joe Biden's op-ed on ‘deterioration of family’
Discussion: ABC News, Fortune and Refinery29
Will Bunch / Inquirer.com:
Empty parks, pews, and Mexican restaurants: Trump-fed fear has already changed America
Fox News:
DOJ will not prosecute Comey for leaking memos after IG referral: sources
Max Read / New York Magazine:
Is Andrew Yang the Doomer Candidate?
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