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Andre Castro / Flores:
Bill Flores Announces Intent to Not Seek Re-election in 2020  —  f t # e  —  U.S. Representative Bill Flores (R-Texas) announced today that he will not seek another term in Congress.  Flores is currently serving his fifth term representing the 17th Congressional District of Texas …
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The Texas Tribune:   U.S. Rep. Bill Flores will not run for reelection, marking the fifth recent GOP retirement in Texas
Ben Smith / BuzzFeed News:
A Top White House Reporter Is Taking Over The Washington Free Beacon  —  A leading political reporter is leaving Politico to lead the neoconservative flagship Washington Free Beacon, the latest move in a conservative media world attempting to adjust to the age of Donald Trump.
Thomas B. Edsall / New York Times:
The Trump Voters Whose ‘Need for Chaos’ Obliterates Everything Else  —  Political nihilism is one of the president's strongest weapons.  —  Mr. Edsall contributes a weekly column from Washington, D.C. on politics, demographics and inequality.  —  Over the four years during …
Discussion: Althouse
Stephen Castle / New York Times:
Brexit Vote Goes Against Boris Johnson, and He Calls for an Election  —  LONDON — British lawmakers on Tuesday rose up against Prime Minister Boris Johnson, moving to prevent him from taking the country out of the European Union without a formal agreement.  The epic showdown has Britain on the verge of a snap general election.
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Anne Applebaum / Washington Post:
21 British Conservatives put country over party. Why can't 21 Republicans do the same?
Discussion: BBC
Megan McArdle / Washington Post:
Boris Johnson is presiding over Britain's stupidest hour
Benjamin Mueller / New York Times:
Britain's Conservatives Erupt Into Civil War as Unlikely Rebels Defy Boris Johnson
Discussion: The Week
Ian Dunt / politics.co.uk:   Historic rebel victory: Parliament moves to stop no-deal
New York Times:
Hong Kong's Leader, Carrie Lam, to Withdraw Extradition Bill That Ignited Protests  —  HONG KONG — Carrie Lam, Hong Kong's chief executive, said Wednesday that the government would withdraw a contentious extradition bill that ignited months of protests in the city, moving to quell …
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Los Angeles Times:
Trump's schedule shows a president with plenty of downtime this summer  —  President Trump's daily Twitter feed in recent weeks has been a torrent of personal attacks, news commentary, weather reports, unfounded claims and congratulatory notes.  But when it comes to his day job, the American people have seen little of him.
Discussion: Mediaite
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Washington Post:
Top Interior official who pushed to expand drilling in Alaska to join oil company there  —  Joe Balash, a Trump appointee, had served as assistant secretary for Land and Minerals Management until Aug. 30  —  Last summer, Scott Pruitt left his job heading the Environmental Protection Agency …
Associated Press:
US watchdog: Separated migrant children suffered trauma  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Migrant children who were separated from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border last year suffered post-traumatic stress and other serious mental health problems, according to a government watchdog report Wednesday.
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Priscilla Alvarez / CNN:   US government watchdog details trauma experienced by separated migrant children
Ben White / Politico:
‘They are riding a rubber ducky into alligator-infested waters’  —  President Donald Trump is staring down a series of trigger points that will determine whether he enters the 2020 campaign backed by his most valuable asset — a healthy U.S. economy — or empty-handed and further on the defensive.
Discussion: Washington Post and Raw Story
New York Times:
The Secret History of the Push to Strike Iran  —  Hawks in Israel and America have spent more than a decade agitating for war against the Islamic Republic's nuclear program.  Will Trump finally deliver?  —  In july of 2017, the White House was at a crossroads on the question of Iran.
John Bresnahan / Politico:
Trump administration raids military construction projects for border wall  —  The Trump administration is carrying out plans to raid $3.6 billion in military construction projects to build the border wall, further inflaming lawmakers who have accused President Donald Trump of illegally overriding Congress' spending decisions.
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New York Times:
Pentagon to Divert Money From 127 Projects to Pay for Trump's Border Wall
Discussion: Washington Post and Splinter
CNN:
Elizabeth Warren embraces Jay Inslee's climate change platform  —  Warren to audience member: You may want to sit for this  —  (CNN)Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Tuesday announced she would adopt Washington Gov. Jay Inslee's 10-year climate plan, while also expanding on his blueprint with a series …
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Reid Wilson / The Hill:
The 10 counties that will decide the 2020 election  —  Three years after a presidential election that came down to 77,000 votes in three Midwestern battlegrounds, Democrats and Republicans are eyeing a much larger battlefield ahead of the 2020 contests, one that stretches from the picturesque coastline …
Discussion: Daily Wire and Political Wire
Jesse McKinley / New York Times:
Why the Internet Thinks Cuomo Rigged N.Y.'s License Plate Contest  —  The theory: Four choices featuring the Statue of Liberty would split the vote, allowing the Cuomo Bridge design to prevail.  —  ALBANY — It seemed, at first glance, to be an innocuous idea.
Mark Joseph Stern / Slate:
North Carolina Court Strikes Down Gerrymander, Citing Smoking Gun Evidence in the Hofeller Files  —  A North Carolina court struck down the state's legislative maps on Tuesday, ruling that the districts amounted to a partisan gerrymander in violation of the state constitution.
Discussion: electionlawblog.org
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John Wagner / Washington Post:
Trump said he granted a disaster declaration at the request of North Carolina's Republican senator.
Discussion: Fox News and Raw Story
Associated Press:
AP source: Texas shooter purchased AK rifle at private sale  —  ODESSA, Texas (AP) — The gunman in a West Texas rampage that left seven dead obtained his AR-style rifle through a private sale, allowing him to evade a federal background check that previously blocked him from getting a gun …
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Associated Press:   McConnell says he's waiting on Trump to chart path on guns
Stephanie Murphy / Washington Post:
Why is the Russian meddling in 2016 such a big secret?  I'm not allowed to say.  —  Stephanie Murphy, a Democrat, represents Florida's 7th Congressional District in the House of Representatives.  —  In May, other members of Florida's congressional delegation and I were briefed for 90 minutes …
Matt Wilstein / The Daily Beast:
Whoopi Goldberg Goes Off on Debra Messing: 'You Don't Have the Right!'  —  “Listen, the last time people did this, people ended up killing themselves,” Goldberg said, referring to Joseph McCarthy's Hollywood blacklist of the 1950s.  —  Whoopi Goldberg is not impressed with actress Debra Messing's call …
Wall Street Journal:
‘Father is Surgeon,’ ‘1 mil pledge’: The Role of Money in USC Admissions  —  Emails in college admissions cheating scandal show the role donations played in decisions to accept students  —  BOSTON—Emails among athletics, admissions and fundraising officials at the University …
Steve Benen / MSNBC:
Why Trump's hurricane antics are so terribly odd  —  In recent years, American presidents have routinely been evaluated on their administrations' responses to hurricanes.  In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, George W. Bush created a low standard, and there's a broad expectation …
Allison Quinn / The Daily Beast:
Kroger to Customers: No More Open Carry of Firearms in Our Stores  —  Kroger has called on customers to refrain from openly carrying firearms in its stores where state laws allow it, joining Walmart in changing its policy after seven people were killed in a Texas shooting on Saturday.
Discussion: CNBC, Big League Politics and The Trace
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Reuters:   Kroger asks customers to quit openly carrying guns in stores
Andrew Prokop / Vox:
The Trump hush money mystery House Democrats should try to solve  —  President Donald Trump with Attorney General William Barr in the Rose Garden of the White House on July 11, 2019 in Washington, DC.  Alex Wong/Getty  —  Why did the investigation wrap up?
Discussion: ABC News and National Review
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Schedule for McGahn legal fight adds to pressure on impeachment backers  —  House Democrats' legal fight to force public testimony from a witness to possible obstruction of justice by President Donald Trump will last until at least Oct. 31, according to a schedule issued by a federal judge Tuesday.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Ross Douthat / New York Times:
Four Things That Are Not White Nationalism  —  Conservatism's racism problem is real.  So is a pattern of media smears against non-racist conservatives.  —  The American right in the Trump era has a racism problem.  It's fed by a Republican president who race-baits, a media ecosystem whose guardrails …
Reid J. Epstein / New York Times:
Life Off the Democratic Debate Stage: Sparse Crowds, Daily Indignities  —  Some low-polling Democrats who didn't make this month's debate are soldiering on, but fewer voters seem to be tuning in.  —  CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — Dozens of reporters and photographers descended on the Hawkeye Downs speedway …
 
 
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Jessica Levinson / NBC News:
What GOP Rep. Devin Nunes' Twitter defamation lawsuit says about the future of defamation law
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Graham L Brewer / NPR:
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Foreign Policy:
State Department Failed to Shield Its Diplomats From Political Reprisals, Officials Concede
Discussion: Just Security