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Stephen Castle / New York Times:
Brexit Vote Goes Against Boris Johnson, and He Calls for an Election  —  LONDON — British lawmakers on Tuesday rose up against Prime Minister Boris Johnson, moving to prevent him from taking the country out of the European Union without a formal agreement.  The epic showdown has Britain on the verge of a snap general election.
Discussion: The Week, Hot Air and Slate
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Benjamin Mueller / New York Times:
Britain's Conservatives Erupt Into Civil War as Unlikely Rebels Defy Boris Johnson  —  LONDON — They have been dubbed the Conservative rebels, a group of renegade lawmakers willing to risk their careers to defy their newly chosen leader, Prime Minister Boris Johnson, and hobble his leadership over their clashing views on Brexit.
Discussion: The Week
Ian Dunt / politics.co.uk:   Historic rebel victory: Parliament moves to stop no-deal
Megan McArdle / Washington Post:
Boris Johnson is presiding over Britain's stupidest hour
Nick Miller / Sydney Morning Herald:   Boris Johnson loses control as raucous Parliament debates Brexit
Politico:
Boris Johnson defeated as MPs seek to stop no-deal Brexit
Henry Olsen / Washington Post:   Britain is on the verge of a constitutional crisis
Washington Post:
Britain may face snap elections after Prime Minister Boris Johnson suffers major loss in Parliament
CNN:
Elizabeth Warren embraces Jay Inslee's climate change platform  —  Warren to audience member: You may want to sit for this  —  (CNN)Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Tuesday announced she would adopt Washington Gov. Jay Inslee's 10-year climate plan, while also expanding on his blueprint with a series …
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Chelsea Janes / Washington Post:
Kamala Harris, other 2020 candidates offer climate change plans before CNN event
Discussion: Politico
New York Times:
Elizabeth Warren Unveils $3 Trillion Climate Plan, Embracing Inslee's Goals
Discussion: Climate Debate and UPI
Ben Smith / BuzzFeed News:
A Top White House Reporter Is Taking Over The Washington Free Beacon  —  A leading political reporter is leaving Politico to lead the neoconservative flagship Washington Free Beacon, the latest move in a conservative media world attempting to adjust to the age of Donald Trump.
John Bresnahan / Politico:
Trump administration raids military construction projects for border wall  —  The Trump administration is carrying out plans to raid $3.6 billion in military construction projects to build the border wall, further inflaming lawmakers who have accused President Donald Trump of illegally overriding Congress' spending decisions.
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New York Times:
Pentagon to Divert Money From 127 Projects to Pay for Trump's Border Wall  —  WASHINGTON — The Pentagon will delay or suspend 127 military construction projects so that $3.6 billion can be diverted to shore up President Trump's border wall, Defense Department officials said Tuesday.
Discussion: Splinter
Washington Post:
Pentagon approves diversion of military construction funds for Trump's wall
Discussion: CNN and UPI
Washington Post:
Top Interior official who pushed to expand drilling in Alaska to join oil company there  —  Joe Balash, a Trump appointee, had served as assistant secretary for Land and Minerals Management until Aug. 30  —  Last summer, Scott Pruitt left his job heading the Environmental Protection Agency …
Discussion: Raw Story and Political Wire
Stephanie Murphy / Washington Post:
Why is the Russian meddling in 2016 such a big secret?  I'm not allowed to say.  —  Stephanie Murphy, a Democrat, represents Florida's 7th Congressional District in the House of Representatives.  —  In May, other members of Florida's congressional delegation and I were briefed for 90 minutes …
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Mark Joseph Stern / Slate:
North Carolina Court Strikes Down Gerrymander, Citing Smoking Gun Evidence in the Hofeller Files  —  A North Carolina court struck down the state's legislative maps on Tuesday, ruling that the districts amounted to a partisan gerrymander in violation of the state constitution.
Discussion: electionlawblog.org
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Matt Wilstein / The Daily Beast:
Whoopi Goldberg Goes Off on Debra Messing: 'You Don't Have the Right!'  —  “Listen, the last time people did this, people ended up killing themselves,” Goldberg said, referring to Joseph McCarthy's Hollywood blacklist of the 1950s.  —  Whoopi Goldberg is not impressed with actress Debra Messing's call …
New York Times:
Hong Kong's Leader, Carrie Lam, to Withdraw Extradition Bill That Ignited Protests  —  HONG KONG — Carrie Lam, Hong Kong's chief executive, said Wednesday that the government would withdraw a contentious extradition bill that ignited months of protests in the city, moving to quell …
Allison Quinn / The Daily Beast:
Kroger to Customers: No More Open Carry of Firearms in Our Stores  —  Kroger has called on customers to refrain from openly carrying firearms in its stores where state laws allow it, joining Walmart in changing its policy after seven people were killed in a Texas shooting on Saturday.
Discussion: CNBC, The Week and ArkLaTexHomepage
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Reuters:   Kroger asks customers to quit openly carrying guns in stores
Anne D'Innocenzio / Associated Press:
Walmart to stop selling handgun ammunition
Brandon Conradis / The Hill:
Judge orders White House to restore Playboy reporter's press pass  —  A U.S. district judge on Tuesday ordered the White House to restore Playboy correspondent Brian Karem's press credentials after the administration said last month it was revoking his hard pass.
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Judge tells White House to reinstate reporter's pass
Discussion: Washington Post
Thomas B. Edsall / New York Times:
The Trump Voters Whose ‘Need for Chaos’ Obliterates Everything Else  —  Political nihilism is one of the president's strongest weapons.  —  Mr. Edsall contributes a weekly column from Washington, D.C. on politics, demographics and inequality.  —  Over the four years during …
Ebony Bowden / New York Post:
Rep. Ilhan Omar's husband wants divorce after affair bombshell: source  —  MINNEAPOLIS — Rep. Ilhan Omar's marriage appears to be headed for the rocks, a longtime friend of the couple told The Post.  —  The congresswoman's husband Ahmed Hirsi, the source said, is poised to file for divorce …
Allan Smith / NBC News:
Trump made ‘suggestion’ Pence stay at president's Irish golf club, VP's chief of staff says  —  “I don't think it was a request, like a command,” Pence's chief of staff Marc Short told reporters Tuesday.  “I think that it was a suggestion.”  —  President Donald Trump suggested …
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New York Times:
‘Business as Normal’: Pence's Stay at Trump Hotel in Ireland Follows a Trend
Discussion: Raw Story
Noah Bookbinder / USA Today:
G-7 at Trump's Doral resort?  The original sin of this presidency is failure to divest.  —  Trump's corruption now includes more than 2,300 conflicts of interest that benefit his finances, break his promises and violate the Constitution.  —  CONNECT  —  President Donald Trump's use …
Associated Press:
AP source: Texas shooter purchased AK rifle at private sale  —  ODESSA, Texas (AP) — The gunman in a West Texas rampage that left seven dead obtained his AR-style rifle through a private sale, allowing him to evade a federal background check that previously blocked him from getting a gun …
Foreign Policy:
State Department Failed to Shield Its Diplomats From Political Reprisals, Officials Concede  —  But the department's top leaders say they can't sack the Trump appointee at the center of scandal.  —  U.S. Deputy Secretary of State John Sullivan has acknowledged having failed to act more vigorously …
Jessica Levinson / NBC News:
What GOP Rep. Devin Nunes' Twitter defamation lawsuit says about the future of defamation law  —  The congressman's suit is clearly petty.  But it does ask the legal system to answer questions it will eventually need to tackle.  —  Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., does not much like being the subject of criticism or ridicule.
Steve Benen / MSNBC:
Why Trump's hurricane antics are so terribly odd  —  In recent years, American presidents have routinely been evaluated on their administrations' responses to hurricanes.  In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, George W. Bush created a low standard, and there's a broad expectation …
Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times:
Google accused of secretly feeding personal data to advertisers  —  Google is secretly using hidden web pages that feed the personal data of its users to advertisers, undermining its own policies and circumventing EU privacy regulations that require consent and transparency, according to one of its smaller rivals.
 
 
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Nick Gillespie / Reason:
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Discussion: Political Wire
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Discussion: Raw Story
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