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Giuliani says experts think ‘someone messed’ with Cohen tape — Rudy Giuliani explains that they need to hear the raw version of the Trump, Cohen tape that's been released. Fox News' Ellison Barber reports from Berkeley heights, New Jersey. — President Trump's personal lawyer Rudy …
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GOP Rep. Issa: 'Nobody's Going to be Surprised' If Trump Lied About Russia Meeting — Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) appeared on Fox News for an interview with Neil Cavuto Saturday, and trashed former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen as a “turncoat,” before downplaying the potential that President Donald Trump lied …
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Breitbart

GOP lawmaker: 'Nobody's going to be surprised' if Trump approved Russia meeting — (R-Calif.) on Saturday downplayed renewed scrutiny over whether President Trump — knew in advance about his son's meeting with a Russian lawyer offering dirt on Hillary Clinton
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Breitbart

Giuliani: Cohen and Trump's legal teams have severed ties
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Political Wire and Mediaite

‘Koch brothers’ rebrand underway, still a conservative force — The conservative Koch brothers are no more — even if they remain a political powerhouse. — The Democrats' super villains for much of the last decade have quietly launched a rebranding effort that may vanquish the “Koch brothers” moniker from American politics.
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Maggie Severns / Politico:
Trump tariffs assailed at Koch network gathering
Trump tariffs assailed at Koch network gathering
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The Hill, Raw Story and POLITICUSUSA

Rep. John Lewis hospitalized after falling ill on plane — ATLANTA - Channel 2 Action News has learned that Rep. John Lewis has been hospitalized at a metro area hospital. — Sources confirmed to Channel 2 Action News that Lewis was hospitalized after becoming ill on a flight heading back to Atlanta on Saturday.
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U.S. citizen's family was denied visas under Trump's travel ban. Then he died by suicide. — Salem was one of thousands of Yemeni-Americans separated from non-U.S. citizen family members by Trump's travel ban. — In the early morning hours of July 18, Mahmood Salem told his family …
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Trump supporters, opponents clash at Spicer book signing | VIDEO — WARNING: This video contains strong language. — MIDDLETOWN — Supporters and opponents of President Donald Trump verbally clashed inside and outside Barnes & Noble on Friday evening during a book signing …
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Raw Story and Daily Wire
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In a divided U.S., therapists treating anxiety are hearing the same name over and over: Donald Trump — ‘Trump Anxiety Disorder’ may not be an official diagnosis, but therapists know the symptoms — “Is he gonna blow us all up?” — So inquired one of Elisabeth LaMotte's patients recently …
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Front Page Magazine
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Avery Anapol / The Hill:
Therapists say they've seen a rise in anxiety under Trump: report
Therapists say they've seen a rise in anxiety under Trump: report
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City report on Confederate monuments raises idea of renaming Austin — Highlights — Renaming of seven streets worthy of immediate action, report states, but renaming Austin not a simple matter. — In discussion of possible changes, report also asks, 'What's next and where do we stop?'
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Townhall, The Hill, Althouse and Front Page Magazine

Newest U.S. Strategy in Afghanistan Mirrors Past Plans for Retreat — WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is urging American-backed Afghan troops to retreat from sparsely populated areas of the country, officials said, all but ensuring the Taliban will remain in control of vast stretches of the country.
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Political Wire
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Immigrant girl hides in auto shop after escaping attendants from Florida detention facility — The 15-year-old Honduran girl couldn't take it anymore. She had been held in the Florida detention facility for three weeks, and it felt like a prison. — So when she saw an opportunity …

He Was Dow's ‘Dioxin Lawyer.’ Now He's Trump's Choice to Run the Superfund Program. — The lawyer nominated to run the Superfund toxic cleanup program is steeped in the complexities of restoring polluted rivers and chemical dumps. He spent more than a decade on one of the nation's most extensive cleanups …
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Political Wire

New Hampshire, 94 Percent White, Asks: How Do You Diversify a Whole State? — MANCHESTER, N.H. — Catalina Celentano used to hold training sessions for hospital workers in Lynn, Mass., to familiarize them with the cultures of patients from Cambodia, Russia and the Dominican Republic.
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twitchy.com

‘US Person 2’ in the case of alleged Russian agent Maria Butina is George O'Neill—his daughter interned for Dana Rohrabacher and helped with an anti-Magnitsky event — New research reveals another link between alleged Russian agent Maria Butina and Pro-Russia congressman Dana Rohrabacher.

In Georgia Governor's Race, a Defining Moment for a Southern State — ATLANTA — The Republican won the nomination Tuesday after branding himself a politically incorrect conservative who would “round up criminal illegals” and haul them to the border in his very own pickup.

House Republicans Are In Almost Total Disarray As Summer Recess Begins — Consider all of the following now that the House of Representatives has left Washington until after Labor Day. — Paul Ryan (R-WI) is a lame duck speaker who no longer seems to care about supporting Donald Trump or Trump's legislative agenda.

100 days: Dems have midterm edge, but it's not historic — Democrats and Republicans alike are weighing whether the November midterm elections will turn into a blue wave that acts as a referendum on President Trump — , or whether voters will make only modest adjustments to the levers …
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Julie Hirschfeld Davis / New York Times:
Trump Says He'll Stump for Vulnerable Republicans ‘Six or Seven Days a Week’
Trump Says He'll Stump for Vulnerable Republicans ‘Six or Seven Days a Week’
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Outside the Beltway and Political Wire

Our socialist president — For three months in 1917, Leon Trotsky lived in the Bronx, just south of the congressional district where Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently defeated a 10-term incumbent in a Democratic primary. Because she calls herself a democratic socialist, the word “socialism” …
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Raw Story
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