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Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Donna Brazile: I considered replacing Clinton with Biden as 2016 Democratic nominee — Former Democratic National Committee head Donna Brazile writes in a new book that she seriously contemplated replacing Hillary Clinton as the party's 2016 presidential nominee with then-Vice President Biden …
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Associated Press:
Inside story: How Russians hacked the Democrats' emails — WASHINGTON (AP) — It was just before noon in Moscow on March 10, 2016, when the first volley of malicious messages hit the Hillary Clinton campaign. — The first 29 phishing emails were almost all misfires.
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Max Greenwood / The Hill:
Rand Paul assaulted at Kentucky home: police — Kentucky State Police have arrested a man accused of assaulting Sen. Rand Paul — (R-Ky.) at his home in Bowling Green, the senator's office confirmed on Saturday. — “Senator Paul was blindsided and the victim of an assault,” Kelsey Cooper …
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Kelly Dean / WBKO-TV:
Senator Rand Paul assaulted at Bowling Green home — BOWLING GREEN, Ky. (WBKO) — On Friday, the Kentucky State Police responded to Rand Paul's residence in Bowling Green at 3:21 p.m. — When they arrived, troopers say they discovered that Rene Boucher, 59, of Bowling Green …
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Don Sergent / Daily News:
BG man charged with assaulting Paul at senator's home — A Bowling Green man was arrested Friday and charged with fourth-degree assault following an incident at the Bowling Green home of U.S. Sen. Rand Paul. — Rene Boucher, 59, is in the Warren County Regional Jail in lieu of a $5,000 bond …
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Peter Baker / New York Times:
Both Bush Presidents Worry Trump Is Blowing Up the G.O.P. — WASHINGTON — President Trump is not a favorite in the extended Bush household. Former President George Bush considers him a “blowhard,” only interested in feeding his own ego. Former President George W. Bush, his son …
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Brandon Carter / The Hill:
White House strikes back at Bushes over weak legacy — The White House fired back at former Presidents George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush on Saturday, attacking their legacies after both Bushes expressed their displeasure with President Trump in a new book.
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CNN:
George H.W. Bush labels Trump a ‘blowhard’ in new book — (CNN)Former President George H.W. Bush has a blunt assessment of Donald Trump: “He's a blowhard.” And his son, former President George W. Bush, has harsh words for his Republican successor as well: “This guy doesn't know what it means to be president.”
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Brandon Carter / The Hill:
George H.W. Bush on Trump: He's a ‘blowhard’
George H.W. Bush on Trump: He's a ‘blowhard’
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Mueller braces for challenges to his authority — Robert Mueller is on an early winning streak. — Stacked with some of the country's premier prosecutors, the special counsel has beaten back a pair of preliminary attempts to block his subpoena power and limit who he can question as a potential witness.
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New York Times:
Poised for West Coast Dominance, Democrats Eye Grand Agenda — SAMMAMISH, Wash. — It is the stuff of liberal fantasies: a vast, defiant territory, sweeping along the country's Pacific coastline, governed by Democrats and resisting President Trump at every turn.
Washington Post:
Ed Gillespie wages war on his own principles — AS VIRGINIA'S gubernatorial campaign intensified just after Labor Day, we published an editorial criticizing Ed Gillespie, the Republican candidate once known as a fixture of the GOP establishment, for flirting with the electorate's …
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Trump's latest impeachable actions — At the core of President Trump's unfitness and his malfeasance in office is his interaction with the Justice Department and the courts. This goes from the merely verbal denigration of the courts — “a joke,” “a laughingstock,” “so-called judges” …
Gregory Wallace / CNN:
CIA memo: Oswald link ‘totally unfounded’ — Panel slams JFK assassination records dump — (CNN)The CIA concluded in the weeks after President John F. Kennedy's assassination that allegations that Lee Harvey Oswald worked for the agency were “totally unfounded.”
Alicia A. Caldwell / Wall Street Journal:
Trump Administration to Decide Whether to Extend Stay for Hondurans, Nicaraguans — About 91,000 citizens of those two countries are living in U.S. under Temporary Protected Status program — The Trump administration is set to decide by Monday whether 86,000 Hondurans and 5,000 Nicaraguans living …
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Brad Plumer / New York Times:
A Climate Science Report That Changes Minds? Don't Bet on It — WASHINGTON — The Trump administration published a report Friday on climate change from its own scientists that left no doubt about its grim reality and its causes. — So now what? — With every new authoritative scientific study …
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Brent D. Griffiths / Politico:
McConnell: No need to pass bills to protect Mueller — The Senate majority leader also expressed skepticism of legislation requiring social media companies to disclose the buyers of political ads. — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said on Saturday that special counsel Robert Mueller …
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Associated Press:
AP finds hackers hijacked at least 195 Trump web addresses — Four years ago, well before the furor over allegations Moscow meddled in the 2016 election that put Donald Trump in the White House, at least 195 web addresses belonging to Trump, his family or his business empire were hijacked …
Julia Manchester / The Hill:
House committee to question former Trump bodyguard over Russia dossier: report — The House Intelligence Committee is set to question President Trump's former bodyguard of two decades on the details of Trump's 2013 trip to Moscow, as well as the firing of former FBI Director James Comey, The Washington Post reported Friday.
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Merrit Kennedy / NPR:
ICC Prosecutor Calls For Afghanistan War Crimes Investigation — The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court is calling for an investigation into possible war crimes and crimes against humanity in Afghanistan. — The scope of such an investigation isn't clear, but it has the potential to involve U.S. troops.
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