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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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Christian Toto / Hollywood in Toto:
‘SNL’ Goes Full Pravda for ‘President’ Elizabeth Warren  —  The once mighty show is reduced to shilling for its preferred candidates, and it'll probably get even worse from here.  —  Pin  —  “Saturday Night Live” lost plenty of fans when it serenaded Hillary Clinton's failed presidential campaign three years ago.
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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Wall Street Journal:
White House Officials Not Expected to Show for Testimony in Impeachment Inquiry  —  Among the witnesses whose testimony was sought Monday are a top White House lawyer and an adviser to chief of staff Mick Mulvaney  —  WASHINGTON—The four administration officials whose testimony impeachment investigators …
Discussion: Political Wire, The Week and Politico
Fox News:
Kellyanne Conway on White House response to House Democrats' impeachment push  —  Counselor to the president Kellyanne Conway joins Chris Wallace on ‘Fox News Sunday.’
Allan Smith / NBC News:
Trump wants whistleblower to do what he wouldn't: answer questions in person
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.
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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 …
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 …
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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James Rainey / Los Angeles Times:
As wildfires burn across California, President Trump lashes out at the state on Twitter
Discussion: Political Wire
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 …
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 …
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
Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:   A Conservative Push to Make Trans Kids and School Sports the Next Battleground in the Culture War
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:
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.
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: The Hill and Raw Story
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.
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 …
Discussion: National Review
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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Axios:
Behind the scenes: How Trump still gets his NYT and WaPo fix  —  If you were skeptical that President Trump would give up his lifelong habit of reading the New York Times, you were right to be.  —  Driving the news: Sources familiar with the president's iPhone told Axios that the president maintains …
Discussion: The Hill, Raw Story and HuffPost
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
Vasco Cotovio / CNN:
Norway arrests US white supremacist ahead of far-right conference  —  (CNN)Norwegian authorities have arrested a high-profile American white supremacist, hours before he was due to give a speech at a far-right conference in Oslo on Saturday.  —  The detained American, Greg Johnson …
National Review:
In No Safe Spaces, an Odd Couple Teams Up to Fight Free-Speech Bans  —  Adam Carolla and Dennis Prager join figures across the political spectrum to examine the plague of censorship and groupthink emanating from college campuses.  —  The pro-free-speech documentary No Safe Spaces …
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.
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: The Hill
 
 
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Wall Street Journal:
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Discussion: The Week and CBS Baltimore
Anita Kumar / Politico:
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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
Rebecca Falconer / Axios:
U.S. embassy takeover anniversary: Iranians chant “death to America”
Discussion: Reuters, Associated Press and Fox News
Atthar Mirza / Washington Post:
Trump's false claim of ‘centuries’ of fighting between Turks and Kurds
 Earlier Items: 
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
Lesley Stahl / CBS News:
Maria Butina: The Russian accused of trying to influence U.S. policies for the Kremlin
Discussion: Axios
Wall Street Journal:
Joe Biden Is Tested in Iowa as Rivals Gain Ground
Michael Weiss / The Daily Beast:
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