| No Images? Click here  By Holly ThomasEditor's note: Due to an error, today's edition of the Morning Email was delayed. Thanks for reading. Tuesday, July 23LAWYERS: MAGA BOMBER INSPIRED BY TRUMP Cesar Sayoc, the fanatical Donald Trump fan who mailed package bombs to the president’s political opponents, is a cognitively limited sexual abuse survivor who thought of the now-president as a “surrogate father” and came to believe in an “alternative reality” fueled in part by Trump’s attacks on his political opponents, his attorneys told a federal court. [HuffPost]DOJ TELLS MUELLER TO STAY IN LINE The U.S. Justice Department warned former special counsel Robert Mueller that he “must remain within the boundaries” of his public report on the Russia probe when he testifies before Congress this week. [Reuters]TRUMP EXPANDS FAST-TRACK DEPORTATIONS The Trump administration is expanding the authority of immigration officers to deport migrants without requiring them to appear before judges ahead of deportation. Fast-track deportations will apply to anyone who has been in the country illegally for less than two years. [AP]BORIS JOHNSON SET TO BECOME U.K. PRIME MINISTER The Conservative MP and former mayor of London has vowed take the U.K. out of the EU by Oct. 31, even if it means a no-deal Brexit. [HuffPost]NO RAPE CHARGES FOR RONALDO Prosecutors announced they won’t pursue sexual assault charges against soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo, one of the most famous and highest-paid athletes in the world, who is accused of raping a woman in a Las Vegas hotel room 10 years ago. [HuffPost]GOP’S FOOD BENEFIT CUT SKIPS CONGRESS (AGAIN) The Trump administration is reviving another food benefit cut that Republicans couldn’t get through Congress. Under a new proposal, states would lose flexibility to set eligibility standards for food stamps, which would push 3 million people out of the program. [HuffPost]NASA’S FIRST FLIGHT DIRECTOR DEAD AT 95 Chris Kraft, who created NASA’s Mission Control and made split-second decisions from the first daring Mercury mission to the triumphant moon landings, has died. He was 95. His death on Monday was just two days after the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing. [HuffPost].   RASHIDA TLAIB: I’M NOT GOING NOWHERE Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) gave a fierce response to those who have made racist calls for her and several other congresswomen of color to leave the country, declaring “I’m not going nowhere,” before adding: “Not until we impeach this president!” [HuffPost]TRUMP BACK ON HIS SQUAD RAGE Trump tweeted on Monday that Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) and Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), known colloquially as “the Squad” are “a very Racist group of troublemakers.” This follows over a week of Trump’s own repeated racist comments about the congresswomen. [HuffPost]SOUTH KOREA FIRES WARNING SHOTS AT RUSSIAN AIRCRAFT South Korean fighter jets fired more than 300 warning shots at a Russian military aircraft that had violated the country's airspace Tuesday, defense officials said in an account furiously disputed by Moscow. [CNN]CROWDS DEMAND PUERTO RICO GOVERNOR RESIGN Hundreds of thousands of people filled San Juan streets on Monday to demand that Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rosselló resign over offensive chat messages, the latest scandal to hit a bankrupt island struggling to recover from deadly 2017 hurricanes. [Reuters]TRUMP ANNOUNCES DEAL ON DEBT LIMIT White House and congressional negotiators reached a deal on spending caps and a higher debt limit, potentially avoiding the economic brinkmanship and government shutdown headaches that have plagued Congress the last several years. [HuffPost]NYC COPS GAVE EPSTEIN A PASS The New York Police Department allowed convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein to skip dozens of court-mandated check-ins with law enforcement for over eight years before he was arrested and charged with the sex trafficking of minors. Over that period, cops in New York state made at least 7,061 arrests for similar violations. [HuffPost]
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