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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
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:   New Poll Shows Democratic Candidates Have Been Living in a Fantasy World
Christian Toto / Hollywood in Toto:
‘SNL’ Goes Full Pravda for ‘President’ Elizabeth Warren
Discussion: YouTube
Benjamin Weiser / New York Times:
Trump Taxes: Appeals Court Rules President Must Turn Over 8 Years of Tax Returns  —  A three-judge appeals panel said the president's accounting firm had to comply with a subpoena.  —  A federal appeals panel said on Monday that President Trump's accounting firm must turn over eight years …
Discussion: Axios and Political Wire
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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.
Discussion: Alternet.org
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 …
Washington Post:   Appeals court rejects Trump's attempt to withhold tax returns from local prosecutors …
Zoe Tillman / BuzzFeed News:   Trump Can't Invoke “Presidential Immunity” To Block A Grand Jury Subpoena For His Tax Returns, A Court Ruled
Allan Smith / NBC News:   Trump loses appeal in New York tax case, must hand over returns
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
Stephen Collinson / CNN:
Trump signals alarm with Democrats poised to escalate impeachment offensive
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
Jan Ransom / New York Times:
E. Jean Carroll, Who Accused Trump of Rape, Sues Him for Defamation  —  The writer says the president hurt her career when he said she had lied about him attacking her in a dressing room in the 1990s.  —  E. Jean Carroll had publicly shared a secret in June that she had kept largely to herself …
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Beth Reinhard / Washington Post:
New York writer who accused Trump of sexual assault sues him for defamation  —  A writer and longtime women's advice columnist on Monday sued President Trump, accusing him of defaming her this summer after she claimed he sexually assaulted her two decades ago in an upscale New York City department store.
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
Aaron Calvin / Columbia Journalism Review:
Twitter hates me.  The Des Moines Register fired me.  Here's what really happened.  —  During the seven months I worked as a trending-news reporter for the Des Moines Register, it was my job to write about viral news in Iowa and to frame my stories in ways that would increase their viral potential.
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
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
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.
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.
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.
Discussion: The Nation
Allan Smith / NBC News:
MSNBC announces Tyler Perry Studios as site for November debate  —  Nine Democratic presidential candidates have qualified for the debate so far, according to an NBC News tally.  —  The fifth Democratic presidential debate, hosted by MSNBC and The Washington Post, will be held at Tyler Perry Studios in Atlanta on Nov. 20.
Discussion: The Hill
Berkeley Lovelace Jr / CNBC:
Wealthy Americans will receive billions in tax cuts if Obamacare is overturned, new report says  — The rich will likely receive billions in tax cuts if the health-care law is overturned, according to a new analysis from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.
Josh Lederman / NBC News:
Amid impeachment circus, the pro-Trump search for dirt on Ukraine, the Bidens, 2016 election goes on  —  Those working in common cause with the president's and Giuliani's campaign to get Ukraine to investigate Trump's political opponents are moving ahead.  —  Ukrainian lawmakers advancing Trump's goal of investigating 2016, Biden
Discussion: Raw Story, MSNBC and Just Security
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 …
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Trump's awful new ‘transcript’ tweets demonstrate how his propaganda works  —  President Trump is now openly calling on his Republican allies to produce doctored transcripts of witness testimony that will exonerate him.  —  Trump did not put it quite that directly, of course.
 
 
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E.J. Dionne / Washington Post:
All politics used to be local. Then along came Trump.
Discussion: HuffPost and The Hill
Navy Times:
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Matthew Continetti / New York Times:
Trump Has to Choose Between the Circus and the White House
Michael Hobbes / HuffPost:
Democrats' Baffling Blind Spot On Cars
Orange County Register:
Will Trump end the endless wars?
Carole Cadwalladr / The Guardian:
Hillary Clinton: Zuckerberg should pay price for damage to democracy
Yaël Eisenstat / Washington Post:
I worked on political ads at Facebook. They profit by manipulating us.
Victor Davis Hanson / American Greatness:
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 Earlier Items: 
Shane Goldmacher / New York Times:
Democratic Strategists Set Up $75 Million Digital Campaign to Counter Trump
Discussion: Political Wire and The Hill
Judd at Popular Information / Popular Information:
The Trump campaign holds a lot of contests. Does anyone win?
National Review:
In No Safe Spaces, an Odd Couple Teams Up to Fight Free-Speech Bans
Anita Kumar / Politico:
Before his claims of corruption, Trump tried to build a resort in Ukraine
Axios:
How an impeached Trump wins
Discussion: Deseret News and Breitbart
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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