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Natasha Bertrand / The Atlantic:
Mueller Wants the FBI to Look at a Scheme to Discredit Him — An alleged scheme to pay off women to fabricate sexual-assault allegations against Special Counsel Robert Mueller has been referred to the FBI for further investigation, a spokesman for the special counsel's office told The Atlantic.
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NBC News:
Mueller refers sex assault scheme targeting him to FBI for investigation — “We immediately referred the matter to the FBI for investigation,” said Peter Carr, spokesperson for the special counsel. — Special counsel Robert Mueller last week asked the FBI to investigate a possible scam …
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The Daily Beast:
Inside the Crazy Cabal Trying to Smear Robert Mueller — A Seth Rich conspiracy pusher and fringe online figures appear to be working behind the scenes. — One of the shadier characters in politics, along with a number of fringe internet figures, appears to be behind an attempt to pay women …
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Politico, Talking Points Memo and Spectator USA
Ed Krassenstein / Hill Reporter:
Special Counsel Alerts FBI Of Scheme To Pay Women To Accuse Mueller Of Sexual Assault
Special Counsel Alerts FBI Of Scheme To Pay Women To Accuse Mueller Of Sexual Assault
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Jezebel, BuzzFeed News, The Daily Caller, Law & Crime and The Gateway Pundit
Axios:
Exclusive: Trump targeting birthright citizenship with executive order — President Trump plans to sign an executive order that would remove the right to citizenship for babies of non-citizens and unauthorized immigrants born on U.S. soil, he said yesterday in an exclusive interview for …
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Libby Watson / Splinter:
Jonathan Swan Is a Bootlicker — You might have woken up this morning, as I did, to the Axios headline: “Exclusive: Trump to terminate birthright citizenship.” In your bleary-eyed, pre-java state, you would struggle toward the thought: What... the fuck? Can he do that?
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Caitlin Oprysko / Politico:
Speaker Ryan: ‘You cannot end birthright citizenship with an executive order’ — House Speaker Paul Ryan on Tuesday broke with President Donald Trump on whether an executive order could deny a constitutional guarantee of citizenship to babies born in the U.S. to noncitizen parents.
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CNN, Axios, The Resurgent, Media Matters for America and Hit & Run
Julie Hirschfeld Davis / New York Times:
Trump Wants to End Birthright Citizenship With Executive Order — President Trump said he was preparing an executive order to end birthright citizenship in the United States, his latest attention-grabbing maneuver days before midterm congressional elections, during which he has sought …
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John Nichols / The Nation:
Birthright Citizenship Is in the Constitution — Trump's attempt to undermine it is an impeachable offense. — On January 20, 2017, Donald Trump swore an oath to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States. Yet, this week, as part of his ongoing campaign to divide …
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Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:
Trump's plan to end birthright citizenship is too much for even the judiciary's right-wingers
Trump's plan to end birthright citizenship is too much for even the judiciary's right-wingers
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Washington Post, Bloomberg, BuzzFeed News and Hullabaloo
Ben Domenech / The Federalist:
Trump Sends A Birthright Citizenship Trial Balloon
Trump Sends A Birthright Citizenship Trial Balloon
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ABC News, No More Mister Nice Blog, Hit & Run, IJR and Politico
Washington Post:
House Speaker Paul Ryan rejects President Trump's idea of ending birthright citizenship by executive order
House Speaker Paul Ryan rejects President Trump's idea of ending birthright citizenship by executive order
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Political Wire and NTK Network
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Trump's Birthright Citizenship Proposal Is at Odds With Legal Consensus
Trump's Birthright Citizenship Proposal Is at Odds With Legal Consensus
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Bloomberg, ABC News and Law & Crime
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Don't fall for Trump's desperate, race-baiting birthright citizenship stunt
Don't fall for Trump's desperate, race-baiting birthright citizenship stunt
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Vox, New York Times, twitchy.com, The Mahablog and Axios
Washington Post:
Zinke's own agency watchdog just referred him to the Justice Department — Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke has come under scrutiny on multiple fronts — The Interior Department's Office of Inspector General has referred one of its ongoing probes into the conduct of Secretary Ryan Zinke …
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New York Magazine:
12 Young People on Why They Probably Won't Vote — As told to , Rachel Bashein, Zak Cheney-Rice, Amelia Schonbek, and Emma Whitford — More than half of American adults plan to cast ballots in November, but only a third of people ages 18 to 29 say they will. Here, 12 young adults on why they probably won't vote.
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Washington Post:
Mueller probes Roger Stone's interactions with Trump campaign and timing of WikiLeaks release of Podesta emails — The special counsel investigation into President Trump's longtime ally Roger Stone is pressing witnesses about Stone's private interactions with senior campaign officials …
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Talking Points Memo and Political Wire
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Ali Dukakis / ABC News:
As special counsel closes in, Roger Stone suits up for legal battle — Longtime Republican political operative Roger Stone is gearing up for battle with special counsel Robert Mueller after a parade of witnesses has appeared before a grand jury to be grilled about their relationship …
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Law & Crime and Raw Story
Washington Post:
Shooting victim's family, top officials shun Trump in Pittsburgh: ‘He was blaming the community’ — PITTSBURGH — A mourning family doesn't want to meet him. Top members of his own party refuse to join him. The mayor has explicitly asked him not to come.
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Eli Rosenberg / Washington Post:
'I'm Dr. Cohen': The powerful humanity of the Jewish hospital staff that treated Robert Bowers
'I'm Dr. Cohen': The powerful humanity of the Jewish hospital staff that treated Robert Bowers
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EndPlay / WPXI-TV:
LIVE UPDATES: President Trump on way to Pittsburgh to ‘pay respects’
LIVE UPDATES: President Trump on way to Pittsburgh to ‘pay respects’
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Bloomberg:
Land O'Lakes, Purina Pull Support for Iowa Congressman Steve King Over Racial Remarks — Dairy giant Land O'Lakes announced on Tuesday that it will no longer make financial contributions to Representative Steve King of Iowa after a gun-fueled massacre at a Pittsburgh synagogue brought …
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Kelly Magsamen / Defense One:
Secretary Mattis, Defend This or Resign — If Defense Secretary Mattis believes the migrant caravan is a not threat requiring 5,000 active troops deploying to the border, he should say so and quit. — Let's put this into perspective. Secretary of Defense James Mattis authorized …
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Media Matters for America, KRTV-TV, Shakesville, CNN and Newsweek
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Terry Jones / Investor's Business Daily:
Migrant Caravan: A Foreign-Financed, Leftist-Led Violation Of U.S. Sovereignty
Migrant Caravan: A Foreign-Financed, Leftist-Led Violation Of U.S. Sovereignty
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Power Line
VICE News US:
We posed as 100 senators to run ads on Facebook. Facebook approved all of them. — One of Facebook's major efforts to add transparency to political advertisements is a required “Paid for by” disclosure at the top of each ad supposedly telling users who is paying for political ads that show up in their news feeds.
Mark Murray / NBC News:
Poll: Sinema leads McSally in Arizona Senate race — Democrat Kyrsten Sinema holds a 6-point lead over Republican Martha McSally, fueled by leads among Latinos, Independents and women. — WASHINGTON — Fueled by advantages among Latinos, Independents and women, Democrat Kyrsten Sinema holds …
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Kathy Gannon / Military Times:
5 freed from Gitmo in exchange for Bergdahl join insurgents in Qatar, Taliban says — KABUL, Afghanistan — Five members of the Afghan Taliban who were freed from the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay in exchange for captured American Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl have joined …
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Jennifer Medina / New York Times:
At a Pittsburgh Crime Scene, Jewish Volunteers Guard the ‘Bodies of Holy Martyrs’ — All night long, Jewish volunteers stood solemnly in the rain outside the Tree of Life synagogue, where 11 dead bodies lay inside, sealed off with yellow crime-scene tape. The deceased were not supposed …
Judy L. Thomas / Kansas City Star:
Daughter of Mo. candidate who espouses anti-Semitism has a message: don't vote for him — Emily West has a message for voters in Missouri House District 15. — Don't vote for her dad. — “I can't imagine him being in any level of government,” she told The Star on Monday.
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Raw Story
Mairead McArdle / National Review:
Don Lemon: 'I Don't See Democrats Killing People' Over Politics — CNN anchor Don Lemon said on his show Monday that he sees only “right-wingers,” not Democrats, committing murders over their political beliefs. — Conservative commentator Mike Shields argued on Lemon's show,"CNN Tonight …
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Jeffrey Young / HuffPost:
Believe Republicans When They Say They're Coming After Your Health Care — It's not just the lies about pre-existing conditions. The GOP still wants to go after Obamacare, Medicaid and Medicare. — Republicans have been very busy lying about health care: lying about their policy agenda …
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Talking Points Memo, Washington Post, Daily Kos and The Guardian
Kevin Robillard / HuffPost:
Democrats Are Going Bland To Beat Scott Walker — And It Might Just Work — It's a test of a strategy Democrats could use against President Donald Trump in 2020. — MILWAUKEE — On back-to-back days last week, some of the most exciting Democratic politicians in the country came to get out the vote in this crucial swing state.
U.S. Department of Justice:
Chinese Intelligence Officers and Their Recruited Hackers and Insiders Conspired to Steal Sensitive Commercial Aviation and Technological Data for Years — Chinese intelligence officers and those working under their direction, which included hackers and co-opted company insiders …
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Sputnik International
Elena Schneider / Politico:
Dems regain momentum in final days of battle for House — MATTHEWS, N.C. — The Republican Party base has been electrified by Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation hearings and a campaign blitz from President Donald Trump. But the burst of enthusiasm has not reversed …
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The Daily Beast:
Fox News Undermined Megyn Kelly Long After She Left for NBC — For 18 turbulent months at NBC, when Megyn Kelly stumbled, her former employer was lurking in the shadows. — For 18 turbulent months at NBC, when Megyn Kelly stumbled, her former employer was lurking in the shadows—eagerly waiting to kick her while she was down.
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Hartford Courant:
Campaign Mailer Fuels Anti-Semitism Complaints In State Senate Race — A campaign mailer for Republican state Senate candidate Ed Charamut, showing his Democratic opponent Matthew Lesser, with a fistful of money is fueling ant-Semitism complaints. Lesser is Jewish. (Ed Charamut mailer)
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Julio Rosas / IJR:
Ben & Jerry's Admits They're ‘Comfortable’ Partnering with Women's March Despite Group's Ties to Farrakhan … “Women's March is committed to harnessing the political power of diverse women and their communities to create transformative social change,” Ben & Jerry's website states.
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Monmouth University Polling Institute:
Dem's Lead Inches Higher in CD19 — Challenger increases lead among women — West Long Branch, NJ - Democratic candidate Antonio Delgado has increased his lead over first-term Congressman John Faso in New York's 19th Congressional District race, according to the latest Monmouth University Poll.
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