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12:00 PM ET, August 21, 2019

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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Trump Says Jews Should Love Him Because He's Almost Literally Jesus  —  President Trump has been vexed recently by the refusal of the majority of the American Jewish community to support him.  For insight into the mysterious paradox of why a traditionally liberal social minority remains unenthusiastic …
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John Wagner / Washington Post:
Trump quotes conspiracy theorist claiming Israelis ‘love him like he is the second coming of God’  —  President Trump went on Twitter on Wednesday to quote a conservative radio host and known conspiracy theorist who praised him as “the greatest President for Jews” and claimed that Israelis “love him like he is the second coming of God.”
Philip Klein / Washington Examiner:
Trump's ‘disloyalty’ comment about American Jews who vote Democrat was disgusting and worrisome
Discussion: NB Blog
Amir Tibon Washignton / Haaretz:
Jews Who Vote Democrat Are Disloyal or Ignorant, Trump Says
Annie Grayer / CNN:
Bernie Sanders jabs Trump over comments about Jewish loyalty
Discussion: Front Page Magazine and Axios
Dahlia Lithwick / Slate:
Donald Trump Is Bad for the Jews
Lee Zeldin / Fox News:   Tlaib, Omar all about weakening Israel, they stay silent on Hamas, Palestinian Authority
Julie Hirschfeld Davis / New York Times:
Trump Accuses Jewish Democrats of ‘Great Disloyalty’
Benjamin Hart / New York Magazine:
Trump Insults Several Million American Jews
Discussion: ThinkProgress
Rick Noack / Washington Post:
Danes furious over postponement of Trump's visit, call his behavior ‘insulting’  —  BERLIN — Danish lawmakers on Wednesday reacted in fury to President's Trump's postponement of his two-day visit in early September to Denmark after its prime minister said she was not interested in selling him the autonomous island of Greenland.
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Annie Karni / New York Times:
Trump Scraps Trip to Denmark, as Greenland Is Not for Sale  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump on Tuesday night abruptly canceled a coming trip to Denmark, writing on Twitter that because the country's prime minister, Mette Frederiksen, “would have no interest in discussing the purchase of Greenland,” they would meet “another time.”
BBC:
Trump cancels Denmark visit amid spat over sale of Greenland  —  US President Donald Trump has cancelled a state visit to Denmark after the nation's prime minister said Greenland was not for sale to the US.  —  The president was scheduled to visit on 2 September, at the invitation of Denmark's Queen Margrethe II.
Jan M. Olsen / Associated Press:   Greenland fallout: Trump's canceled trip blindsides Denmark
Meagan Flynn / Washington Post:
Trump picked a fight over Greenland with an unlikely target: Denmark's anti-immigration prime minister
New York Times:
Migrant Families Would Face Indefinite Detention Under New Trump Rule  —  WASHINGTON — The Trump administration unveiled a regulation on Wednesday that would allow it to detain indefinitely migrant families who cross the border illegally, replacing a decades-old court agreement that imposed …
Discussion: Splinter, The Week and The Guardian
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Department of Homeland Security:
DHS and HHS Announce New Rule to Implement the Flores Settlement Agreement; Final Rule Published to Fulfill Obligations under Flores Settlement Agreement  —  WASHINGTON - Today, Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Kevin K. McAleenan and Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar announced …
Colleen Long / Associated Press:   Trump administration moves to end limits on child detention
Ronn Blitzer / Fox News:
DHS moves to end limits on detention of migrant families, close ‘loophole’
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Maria Sacchetti / Washington Post:
Trump administration moves to terminate court agreement, hold migrant children and parents longer
Discussion: ImmigrationProf Blog
Julia Ainsley / NBC News:
Trump administration to lift limit on how long it can detain migrant families
Discussion: VICE
New York Times:
Deficit Will Reach $1 Trillion Next Year, Budget Office Predicts  —  The federal budget deficit is growing faster than expected as President Trump considers plans that would add to government debt, like tax cuts.  —  Breaking87 comments  —  Trump's Message: The Economy Is Great.  But We Need a Big Stimulus.
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Katia Dmitrieva / Bloomberg:   U.S. Budget Gap Set to Top $1 Trillion in 2020, Two Years Sooner Than Expected
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Elaina Plott / The Atlantic:
Trump's Phone Calls With Wayne LaPierre Reveal NRA's Influence
Julia Ioffe / GQ:
The Summer of Warren  —  Julia Ioffe joins Elizabeth Warren on the campaign trail, where the surging senator has spent the season overcoming her campaign's wobbly start and getting down to business—trouncing debate foes, climbing in the polls, and somehow making a slew of policy plans feel exciting.
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Michael Brice-Saddler / Washington Post:
Elizabeth Warren just met her look-alike at a rally. Can you tell them apart?
Discussion: WCCO | CBS Minnesota
Good Morning America:
‘Dancing With the Stars’ 2019: Hannah B, Karamo and more to compete on new season  —  The celebrities who will battle it out this year on the dancefloor were revealed on “GMA.”
Washington Post:
Hate crime reports have soared in D.C. Prosecutions have plummeted. … The hatred that day couldn't have been clearer to Ashly Taylor.  —  She had endured it ever since coming out as a teenager, when strangers said lewd things to her for holding another girl's hand and one of her own relatives called her a “dyke.”
Tiffany Hsu / New York Times:
Tucker Carlson's Fox News Show Loses More Advertisers  —  In keeping with a monthslong trend, the exodus of advertisers from Tucker Carlson's prime-time Fox News program continued this month.  —  Over the last year, dozens of advertisers, including Pacific Life, Farmers Insurance and SodaStream …
The Daily Beast:
'Where's Steve?':  Trump Frets as CNN Benches His Biggest Defender  —  Amid national uproar over mass shootings, possible economic gloom, and gun control, the president has found time to be distressed over a pro-Trump pundit's lack of CNN airtime.  —  Over the past month …
Washington Post:
Trump critics eye GOP primary race, even if defeating him seems ‘preposterous’  —  Joe Walsh, a pugnacious former congressman, is preparing a Republican primary challenge to President Trump that he previewed as a daily “bar fight” with the incumbent over his morality and competency.
The Economist:
Who is ahead in the Democratic primary race?  —  Twenty-seven candidates have thrown their hat into the ring for the Democrats' presidential nominating contest in 2020.  This field, the largest ever, includes United States senators and House representatives, mayors, entrepreneurs and even a self-help guru.
Ali Watkins / New York Times:
Man Arrested With 17 Guns, Grenade Launcher and Nazi Paraphernalia  —  The arrest in New Jersey comes amid a spate of mass shootings as officials grapple with a rising white supremacist threat.  —  Had Joseph Rubino not wrecked his car, he might still be living with a house full of guns in New Jersey.
Annabelle Dickson / Politico:
Boris Johnson's not-so-grand tour  —  LONDON — Boris Johnson is heading to Europe, but his officials are heading out.  —  The U.K. prime minister will touch down in Berlin on Wednesday for talks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel as part of his pledge to work with “energy and determination” …
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David M. Herszenhorn / Politico:
Tusk and Johnson will meet Sunday for Brexit pow-wow
Steven T. Dennis / Bloomberg:
Susan Collins Faces Bipartisan Anger in Trump-Era Re-Election Bid  — Maine Republican is one of the most at-risk senators in 2020  — Democrats see Maine Senate seat ripe to flip in next election  —  Republican Susan Collins is caught in the cross-fire of the angry partisan division that's defining …
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Associated Press:   Outside money flows into race for Susan Collins' Senate seat
Alisa Wiersema / ABC News:
Nearly a year after John McCain's death, Cindy McCain says no one in the GOP carries ‘voice of reason’  —  Nearly a year after her husband's death, Cindy McCain said the current Republican Party is “not the party of Abraham Lincoln ... nor the party of Ronald Reagan.”
Grace Sparks / CNN:
CNN Poll: Public's view on the economy dips for the first time in Trump's presidency  —  (CNN)Almost two-thirds of Americans (65%) say current economic conditions are good, but that's down since May, representing the first significant decline in public perception of the economy during Donald …
Discussion: Political Wire
 
 
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Charles Sykes / The Bulwark:
Who Had ‘War With Denmark’ on Their Trump Bingo Card?
Washington Post:
After Trump blames mental illness for mass shootings, health agencies ordered to hold all posts on issue
Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
GOP sets another 2020 money record, 1,900% increase in online fundraising
Discussion: The Daily Caller and BizPac Review
David M. Drucker / Washington Examiner:
Defiant Steve King vows to run for reelection 'unless I'm dead'
Discussion: National Review
Mitch McConnell / Wall Street Journal:
We Stand With Hong Kong
Jim VandeHei / Axios:
A Trump asset for 2020: He obsesses on turning his campaign promises into reality
Quint Forgey / Politico:
Sean Spicer to try to boost his national profile with ‘Dancing With the Stars’
Bill Ruthhart / Chicago Tribune:
Presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg's overwhelmingly white crowd at event on Chicago's South …
Discussion: Political Wire
 Earlier Items: 
Gabby Orr / Politico:
Team Trump launches ‘coast-to-coast’ campaign for suburban women
Discussion: Political Wire
Jim Geraghty / National Review:
What The 1619 Project Leaves Out
John Solomon / The Hill:
10 declassified Russia collusion revelations that could rock Washington this fall
Discussion: RedState and The Gateway Pundit
Victoria McGrane / BostonGlobe.com:
Markey aide apologizes for sharing ‘despicable’ message about Kennedy family
Discussion: Washington Examiner and Fox News
Scientific American Blog Network:
Scientists Have Been Underestimating the Pace of Climate Change
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
HuffPost:
Trump Inflating Scottish Golf Resorts' Value By $165 Million, Per UK Filings
Discussion: The Week