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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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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
New Poll Shows Democratic Candidates Have Been Living in a Fantasy World  —  In 2018, Democratic candidates waded into hostile territory and flipped 40 House districts, many of them moderate or conservative in their makeup.  In almost every instance, their formula centered on narrowing …
Discussion: Washington Post and Common Dreams
Ross Ramsey / The Texas Tribune:
Democrats don't have a candidate who would beat Trump in Texas today, poll finds
Discussion: The Hill and Washington Times
Natasha Korecki / Politico:
Dems tiptoe around ‘Pocahontas’ and Hunter as Trump licks his chops
Discussion: The Hill
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Did Trump just threaten a shutdown over impeachment?
Brian Schwartz / CNBC:
Wall Street donors are so worried about Elizabeth Warren that they are snubbing Democrats in 2020 Senate races
Discussion: Daily Kos
Christian Toto / Hollywood in Toto:
‘SNL’ Goes Full Pravda for ‘President’ Elizabeth Warren
Discussion: YouTube
U.S. House of Representatives Permanent …:
COMMITTEES RELEASE TESTIMONY OF YOVANOVITCH AND McKINLEY AS PART OF NEW PUBLIC PHASE OF IMPEACHMENT INQUIRY  —  f t # e  —  Washington, DC - Today, Rep. Adam B. Schiff, the Chairman of the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, Rep. Eliot L. Engel, the Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs …
Discussion: CNN, KTLA and Alternet.org
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NBC News:
Ousted Ukraine ambassador Yovanovitch says she was told to tweet praise of Trump to save her job  —  The three House committees leading the Trump impeachment inquiry released Monday two transcripts of the behind-closed-doors interviews they have so far conducted.
Discussion: The Hill
Steve Benen / MSNBC:
Impeachment transcripts become latest point of panic for Trump  —  Up until now, the congressional impeachment inquiry has unfolded largely behind closed doors.  There have been some exceptions - some witnesses, for example, have publicly released their opening statements - but by and large …
Sam Brodey / The Daily Beast:   Embattled Ukraine Ambassador Marie Yovanovich Was Advised to Tweet Praise of Donald Trump
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Impeachment witnesses detail smear campaign against Ukraine ambassador
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Rebecca Ballhaus / Wall Street Journal:   House Democrats Release Transcripts of Yovanovitch, McKinley Impeachment Testimony
The Guardian:   House releases transcripts from key witnesses in Trump impeachment inquiry - live
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 …
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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 …
CNBC:
Trump loses appeal of New York tax returns case
Discussion: Breitbart and Alternet.org
Washington Post:   Appeals court rejects Trump's attempt to withhold tax returns from local prosecutors …
Larry Neumeister / Associated Press:
Appeals court agrees Trump tax returns can be turned over
Discussion: Sara A. Carter and POLITICUSUSA
Zoe Tillman / BuzzFeed News:   Trump Can't Invoke “Presidential Immunity” To Block A Grand Jury Subpoena For His Tax Returns, A Court Ruled
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Trump tax returns must go to grand jury, appeals court rules
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Allan Smith / NBC News:   Trump loses appeal in New York tax case, must hand over returns
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 …
Discussion: Axios, The Daily Caller and Mediaite
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Beth Reinhard / Washington Post:
New York writer who accused Trump of sexual assault sues him for defamation
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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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.
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.
Kashmir Hill / New York Times:
I Got Access to My Secret Consumer Score.  Now You Can Get Yours, Too.  —  Little-known companies are amassing your data — like food orders and Airbnb messages — and selling the analysis to clients.  Here's how to get a copy of what they have on you.  —  As consumers, we all have …
Brian Stelter / CNN:
Justice Dept. is trying to ‘intimidate’ author of anonymous anti-Trump book, agents say  —  New York (CNN Business)The Justice Department is going on the offensive against the anonymous author of “A Warning,” telling them in a letter obtained by CNN Business that he or she may be violating …
Discussion: Raw Story
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 …
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
Matt Lebovic / The Times of Israel:
Historian: New evidence shows FDR's bigotry derailed many Holocaust rescue plans  —  In his book about Franklin Roosevelt and the Holocaust, Rafael Medoff finds links between the US president's anti-Japanese stances and his policies against Jews fleeing Hitler
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: LGBTQ Nation and VICE
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
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 Alternet.org
Judd at Popular Information / Popular Information:
The Trump campaign holds a lot of contests.  Does anyone win?  —  The Trump campaign has held at least 15 contests since 2018 offering the chance to win breakfast, lunch, or dinner with President Trump.  Supporters are enticed to donate to Trump's campaign with promises of free travel …
Louis Sahagun / Los Angeles Times:
Trump team has a plan for national parks: Amazon, food trucks and no senior discounts  —  At the urging of a controversial team of advisors, the Trump administration is mulling proposals to privatize national park campgrounds and further commercialize the parks with expanded Wi-Fi service …
Discussion: Fortune
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
 
 
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Amy Gardner / Washington Post:
Study: Heavily minority precincts endured longer wait times to cast ballots in 2018
The Guardian:
No 10 blocks Russia EU referendum report until after election
Joseph Marks / Reuters:
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Trump's awful new ‘transcript’ tweets demonstrate how his propaganda works
Berkeley Lovelace Jr / CNBC:
Wealthy Americans will receive billions in tax cuts if Obamacare is overturned, new report says
Navy Times:
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Jon Allsop / Columbia Journalism Review:
A FOIA victory for BuzzFeed and CNN puts Mueller back in the story
Yaël Eisenstat / Washington Post:
I worked on political ads at Facebook. They profit by manipulating us.
Matt Canham / Salt Lake Tribune:
In historic shift, The Salt Lake Tribune gets IRS approval to become a nonprofit
Victor Davis Hanson / American Greatness:
The Military-Intelligence Complex
Shane Goldmacher / New York Times:
Democratic Strategists Set Up $75 Million Digital Campaign to Counter Trump
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