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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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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 …
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Axios, Daily Kos, Mediaite, POLITICUSUSA and The Week
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Texas' Will Hurd, Only Black Republican In The House, Announces Retirement
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Balloon Juice and CBS Dallas
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Why go to the trouble of running for president to promote ideas that can't work? — “I DON'T understand why anybody goes to all the trouble of running for president of the United States just to talk about what we really can't do and shouldn't fight for,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) …
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POLITICO Playbook: A gutting few weeks for the GOP — DRIVING THE DAY — IF YOU ARE A HOUSE REPUBLICAN, this has been an absolutely gutting few weeks. And, truly, if someone is trying to spin you on how the political picture is not that bad for the House GOP right now — at this moment …
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‘Lock Her Up!’ but no ‘Send her Back!’ chant at Trump rally in Ohio — CINCINNATI (Reuters) - This time, he didn't quite go there. — President Donald Trump on Thursday briefly renewed his criticism of four minority Democratic congresswomen at his first rally since controversy erupted …
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China threatens retaliation for Trump's planned tariff hike
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Wall Street Journal and Political Wire
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John Ratcliffe, Trump's pick to lead U.S. intelligence claims he arrested 300 illegal immigrants in a single day. He didn't. — President Trump's choice to lead the nation's intelligence community often cites a massive roundup of immigrant workers at poultry plants in 2008 as a highlight of his career.
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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.
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Booker's claim that Democrats lost Michigan because of Russian and GOP suppression — “We lost the state of Michigan because everybody from Republicans to Russians were targeting the suppression of African American voters.” — These remarks jumped out at us during the second night of the debate …
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‘Stay away from Barack’: Dems seethe over criticism of Obama
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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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'We're All Tired of Being Called Racists' — CINCINNATI—Donald Trump's supporters would like to be clear: They are tired of being called racists. — Leave it to the president's eldest son to set the tone. Last night at the 17,500-person-capacity U.S. Bank Arena downtown here …
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Boris Johnson's party suffers defeat in UK special election — LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson's governing Conservative Party has a lost a special election, leaving it with a wafer-thin working majority in Parliament of just one vote. — Jane Dodds of the opposition …
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Erick Erickson, It's Time to Get Out of Pete Buttigieg's Bedroom — Erick Erickson seems creepily focused on Pete Buttigieg's sexuality, and alleged hypocrisy. He would do better to take on Buttigieg's message about Christian behavior and ethics. — Erick Erickson really doesn't like …
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Trump's Encouraging QAnon May Result in Violence—Just ask the FBI — Newly revealed FBI memo warns about conspiracy theories' causal connection to extremist violence — On Thursday, Yahoo! News published an exclusive story detailing a May 2019 FBI assessment that online conspiracy theories …
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Landmark US-Russia arms control treaty is dead — A landmark arms control treaty that President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev signed three decades ago is dead, prompting fears of a new global arms race. — The United States and Russia both walked away from the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces treaty on Friday.
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Politico
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First on NBC: Klobuchar meets donor threshold, clinching spot in next Dem debate — WASHINGTON — Senator Amy Klobuchar has met the donor threshold to compete in September's third Democratic debate, her campaign said early Friday morning. — In an email to supporters less than forty-eight hours …
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Fortune and Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion
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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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Donald Trump doubts Russian meddling in 2020 election, disputing Robert Mueller — Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential elections and helped Donald Trump win. We look back at history and ask: Will they do it again? — CONNECT — WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump …
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Trump to sanction Russia over chemical weapons use
Trump to sanction Russia over chemical weapons use
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The Daily Caller, New York Times and Meduza.io
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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 …
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The debaters eerily sounded like ‘America First’ Democrats
The debaters eerily sounded like ‘America First’ Democrats
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Tulsi Gabbard's Syria record shows why she can't be president — Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii) talks often about her January 2017 trip to Syria, when she met Bashar al-Assad, toured Aleppo after it had been reduced to rubble (by the Assad regime), and interviewed Syrian civilians …
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Former Navy SEAL's Open Letter to Navy Command: 'SEALs Aren't the Problem, it's the Leadership' — The top US Navy SEAL, Rear Adm. Collin Green just sent a message to the Teams that was titled “We have a problem”, and he's not wrong. But I would argue that the problem most of the men see is not what the admiral has in mind.
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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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BuzzFeed Publishes a Misleading Story About the Babylon Bee Controversy
BuzzFeed Publishes a Misleading Story About the Babylon Bee Controversy
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The Daily Caller
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Toward an Electoral College-Free Future — “Abolish the Electoral College,” Bernie Sanders recently tweeted. The Senator's statement was in response to an op-ed authored by The Cook Political Report's Dave Wasserman, who posited that though President Donald Trump suffers …
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Washington Post
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Ignoring Trump's racism betrays our country's victims — I had fully intended to ignore President Trump's latest round of racially charged taunts against an African American elected official, and an African American activist, and an African American journalist and a whole city with a lot of African Americans in it.
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Trump Makes 9/11 and Dad's Funeral All About Him — From his claims to first responders and his self-regarding Fred Trump eulogy to his bombastic Cincinnati rally, the narcissistic shtick is wearing thin. — President Donald Trump started the week with a Rose Garden ceremony …
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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 …
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Talking Points Memo
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‘Fast & Furious’ Stars' Complicated Demand—I Never Want to Lose a Fight — Franchise leads Vin Diesel, Jason Statham and Dwayne Johnson wrestle for more ‘muscle’ time, forcing fight choreographers to get creative — LOS ANGELES—Vin Diesel didn't want to look like a wimp.
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The Daily Beast, The Independent and Vanity Fair
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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.
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U.S. Employers Added 164,000 Jobs in July, Wages Picked Up — Unemployment rate holds at 3.7%, near lowest in half century — Results show solid labor market ahead of Trump tariff threat — U.S. employers kept adding workers at a healthy pace in July and wage gains picked up …
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Good for Google, Bad for America — At its core, artificial intelligence is a military technology. Why is the company sharing it with a rival? — Mr. Thiel is an entrepreneur and investor. — A “Manhattan Project” for artificial intelligence is how Demis Hassabis, the founder of DeepMind …