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Nate Cohn / New York Times:
One Year From Election, Trump Trails Biden but Leads Warren in Battlegrounds  —  Signs that the president's advantage in the Electoral College has persisted or even increased since 2016.  —  Despite low national approval ratings and the specter of impeachment, President Trump remains highly competitive …
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Natasha Korecki / Politico:
Dems tiptoe around ‘Pocahontas’ and Hunter as Trump licks his chops  —  “Pocahontas?”  A racial slur unfit for discussion.  Bernie's heart attack?  Out of bounds.  Questions about Hunter Biden's business dealings?  Stop carrying Donald Trump's water.  —  To listen to 2020 Democrats …
Christian Toto / Hollywood in Toto:
‘SNL’ Goes Full Pravda for ‘President’ Elizabeth Warren
Discussion: YouTube
CNN:
All four White House officials scheduled for House inquiry depositions Monday won't testify  —  CNN analyst describes hearings: Battle of the branches  —  Washington (CNN)All four White House officials who are scheduled to give depositions on Monday during the House's impeachment inquiry won't show up …
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Fox News:   Kellyanne Conway on White House response to House Democrats' impeachment push
Allan Smith / NBC News:
Trump wants whistleblower to do what he wouldn't: answer questions in person
Mary Clare Jalonick / Associated Press:   White House lawyer expected to defy impeachment subpoena
Ross Ramsey / The Texas Tribune:
Democrats don't have a candidate who would beat Trump in Texas today, poll finds  —  President Donald Trump would win head-to-head races with the top Democratic candidates right now, according to the latest University of Texas/Texas Tribune Poll. … None of the top Democrats seeking …
Discussion: The Hill and Washington Times
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Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Did Trump just threaten a shutdown over impeachment?  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP just made this month much more ... interesting.  Speaking on the South Lawn on Sunday, the president left the door open to a government shutdown in 17 days.
New York Times:
As Warren Gains in Race, Wall Street Sounds the Alarm  —  With a populist message that promises to rein in corporate excess, Ms. Warren has been facing more hostility from the finance industry than any other candidate.  —  Julia Roberts was making the rounds at Blackstone …
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Trump could get whacked by legal losses in coming months  —  The final year of President Donald Trump's first term will be loaded with legal landmines — and it's not just the impeachment cases.  —  Trump could face court rulings that say he is illegally profiting from foreign governments …
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CNBC:
Trump loses appeal of New York tax returns case  — A federal appeals court ruled Monday that President Donald Trump's tax returns must be turned over to a state grand jury.  — The three-judge appeals panel in New York rejected Trump's argument that he is immune as president from criminal investigation while in the White House.
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Trump, the phone call, and consciousness of guilt  —  The July 25 call between President Trump and Ukrainian President Vlodomyr Zelensky is the central piece of evidence in the Democratic drive to remove the president from office.  “That call was a smoking gun,” Speaker Nancy Pelosi …
Washington Post:
Unemployment is climbing in key swing states, including Michigan and Wisconsin  —  There's been a steady increase of people coming to the St. Vincent de Paul Society's food pantry in Marinette, Wis., a small city of about 10,000 just across the border from Michigan's Upper Peninsula.
Matt Novak / Gizmodo:
Internet-Savvy Nazi Says a Bunch of Old Fashioned Nazi Shit in Leaked Tape  —  Richard Spencer, one of the most high profile neo-Nazis in America, has spent the past three years online trying to rebrand his extremist ideology with terms like “alt-right.”  But a newly leaked audio tape makes …
Discussion: VICE
Marshall Allen / ProPublica:
How One Employer Stuck a New Mom With a $898,984 Bill for Her Premature Baby  —  Dignity Health said its employee, an ER nurse, failed to meet the deadline to add her premature newborn to its health plan, so she was responsible for the medical bills.  It rejected her appeals for a year until ProPublica called.
Discussion: Kaiser Health News
Gerald F. Seib / Wall Street Journal:
Biden Pushes Global Engagement.  Do His Competitors Agree?  —  In a WSJ interview, the Democratic presidential candidate staked out a firm argument for the virtues of continued American presence abroad  —  DES MOINES, IOWA—In the Democratic party's primary-season dialogue …
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Orange County Register:
Will Trump end the endless wars?
Matt Canham / Salt Lake Tribune:
In historic shift, The Salt Lake Tribune gets IRS approval to become a nonprofit  —  The Salt Lake Tribune is now a nonprofit, an unprecedented transformation for a legacy U.S. daily that is intended to bolster its financial prospects during a troubling time for journalism nationwide.
Lauren Fedor / Financial Times:
Nearly two-thirds of US voters say Trump has not made them better off  —  Nearly two-thirds of Americans say they are not better off financially than they were when Donald Trump was elected, casting doubt on whether economic expansion and a record bull market will boost the president's re-election campaign in 2020.
Discussion: Alternet.org and The Hill
Axios:
How an impeached Trump wins  —  President Trump is showing how he could be impeached, survive and still win re-election, something never done before in American history.  —  Between the lines: Trump officials think two things must unfold for this to happen: Republicans must stay unified …
Discussion: Deseret News and Breitbart
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Seung Min Kim / Washington Post:
Trump to campaign in Kentucky in hopes of lifting unpopular Gov. Bevin to victory
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Associated Press:
Trump threatens to cut US funding for California wildfires  —  LOS ANGELES — President Donald Trump is threatening to cut U.S. funding to California for aid during wildfires that have burned across the state during dry winds this fall.  —  Trump tweeted Sunday that California Gov. Gavin Newsom has done a …
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Fred Hiatt / Washington Post:
In China, every day is Kristallnacht  —  In China, every day is Kristallnacht.  —  Eighty-one years ago this week, in what is also known as the “Night of Broken Glass,” hundreds of synagogues and Jewish cemeteries in Nazi Germany were damaged or destroyed, along with thousands of Jewish-owned businesses.
Shane Goldmacher / New York Times:
Democratic Strategists Set Up $75 Million Digital Campaign to Counter Trump  —  David Plouffe, the former Obama campaign manager, will advise the effort, which aims to compete with the president on his terms.  —  A progressive organization is plunging itself into the presidential campaign …
Discussion: Political Wire and The Hill
Jamelle Bouie / New York Times:
The Presidency Is Not Enough  —  And without reform, neither is a Democratic Senate.  —  There are still more than a dozen candidates jockeying for the Democratic presidential nomination.  Some are running on big, ambitious platforms for change, like the Medicare-for-All plans pushed by Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren.
Thomas Kaplan / New York Times:
Billionaires Only?  Warren Errs in Saying Whom Her Health Plan Would Tax  —  The Massachusetts senator told reporters that her plan to pay for “Medicare for all” would raise taxes only on billionaires, but that differs from the proposal she unveiled on Friday.
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David Catron / The American Spectator:
Elizabeth Warren's Health-Care Chimera
Amy Knight / The Daily Beast:
Putin's Top Spy: We're Teaming Up With D.C. on Cybersecurity  —  Behind-the-scenes cooperation with U.S. agencies, particularly on cybercrime and terrorism, is a theme the Kremlin likes to push onto center stage.  Trump likes it, too.  —  Following a recent conference of foreign security …
Discussion: Mediaite and TASS
Jon Allsop / Columbia Journalism Review:
A FOIA victory for BuzzFeed and CNN puts Mueller back in the story  —  In March, after William Barr, the attorney general, released his misleading summary of the Mueller report to Congress, Jason Leopold, a reporter with BuzzFeed, starting making requests under the Freedom of Information Act …
 
 
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Robert Hutton / Bloomberg:
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National Review:
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Anita Kumar / Politico:
Before his claims of corruption, Trump tried to build a resort in Ukraine
 Earlier Items: 
Josh Lederman / NBC News:
Amid impeachment circus, the pro-Trump search for dirt on Ukraine, the Bidens, 2016 election goes on
Discussion: Raw Story, Just Security and MSNBC
Deanna Paul / Washington Post:
After decades visiting his parents in prison, this lawyer wants to be San Francisco's next DA
Discussion: The Nation and Eschaton
BBC:
India air pollution at ‘unbearable levels’, Delhi minister says
Willie Brown / San Francisco Chronicle:
Impeachment a winner for Democrats? Don't bet on it
Discussion: National Review, Breitbart and The Hill
Axios:
Behind the scenes: How Trump still gets his NYT and WaPo fix
Discussion: The Hill, HuffPost and Raw Story
Vasco Cotovio / CNN:
Norway arrests US white supremacist ahead of far-right conference
 

 
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