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Natasha Bertrand / The Atlantic:
Mueller Wants the FBI to Look at a Scheme to Discredit Him — A company that appears to be run by a pro-Trump conspiracy theorist offered to pay women to make false claims against Special Counsel Robert Mueller in the days leading up to the midterm elections—and the special counsel's office has asked the FBI to weigh in.
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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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Lawyers, Guns & Money
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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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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Mother Jones, The Gateway Pundit, BuzzFeed News, The Daily Caller and Law & Crime
Aric Toler / bellingcat:
The Unintelligent Design of SureFire Intelligence
Kevin Breuninger / CNBC:
Special counsel Robert Mueller accuses opponents of offering women money to make ‘false claims’ about him
Special counsel Robert Mueller accuses opponents of offering women money to make ‘false claims’ about him
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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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John Nichols / The Nation:
Birthright Citizenship Is in the Constitution
Birthright Citizenship Is in the Constitution
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Julie Hirschfeld Davis / New York Times:
Trump Wants to End Birthright Citizenship With Executive Order
Trump Wants to End Birthright Citizenship With Executive Order
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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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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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Ben Domenech / The Federalist:
Trump Sends A Birthright Citizenship Trial Balloon
Trump Sends A Birthright Citizenship Trial Balloon
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Dara Lind / Vox:
Birthright citizenship, explained
Birthright citizenship, explained
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Morgan Gstalter / The Hill:
Pittsburgh mayor: Our priority is funerals, not Trump's visit — The mayor of Pittsburgh suggested that President Trump choose a different time to visit the city rather than the day of the first of 11 funerals for the victims of Saturday's synagogue shooting.
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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.
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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Jennifer Medina / New York Times:
At a Pittsburgh Crime Scene, Jewish Volunteers Guard the ‘Bodies of Holy Martyrs’
Jennifer Smith / Daily Mail:
Pittsburgh synagogue rabbi reveals he has been getting hate mail for saying he would welcome Trump …
Pittsburgh synagogue rabbi reveals he has been getting hate mail for saying he would welcome Trump …
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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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Carrie Dann / NBC News:
Poll: Blackburn edges ahead of Bredesen in tight Tennessee Senate contest — Among likely voters, Blackburn leads 51 percent to 46 percent. — WASHINGTON — Republican Marsha Blackburn is now narrowly edging Democrat Phil Bredesen in Tennessee's closely-watched Senate race despite Bredesen's …
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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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Bloomberg:
Republicans Fear Some Voters Are Losing Enthusiasm With a Week Until the Midterms — President's approval rating sags again after bombs, shooting — White House political calculus upended week before midterms — So much for the “Kavanaugh Bump.”
Elena Schneider / Politico:
Dems regain momentum in final days of battle for House
Dems regain momentum in final days of battle for House
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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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CNN:
Sources: Justice Department investigating Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke — Washington (CNN)The Justice Department is investigating Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke for possibly using his office for personal gain, following a referral from Interior's inspector general, two sources familiar with the investigation say.
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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, Political Wire, Raw Story and emptywheel
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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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Washington Post, Law & Crime and Raw Story
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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Des Moines Register:
Land O'Lakes ag co-op, facing boycott threats, pulls support for U.S. Rep. Steve King
Land O'Lakes ag co-op, facing boycott threats, pulls support for U.S. Rep. Steve King
Aris Folley / The Hill:
New poll shows anti-immigration firebrand Steve King up by just one point
New poll shows anti-immigration firebrand Steve King up by just one point
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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.
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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 and Shakesville
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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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RedState and Task & Purpose
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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AOL, Raw Story and The Guardian
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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Maggie Astor / New York Times:
In North Dakota, Native Americans Try to Turn an ID Law to Their Advantage — FORT YATES, N.D. — Nobody in the squat yellow house serving as the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe's get-out-the-vote headquarters knew its address. — It was on Red Tail Hawk Avenue; they knew that much.
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Richard L. Hasen / Slate:
How Democrats Can Reverse Years of Voter Suppression — Faced with the latest flurry of hardball Republican tactics on voting issues this election cycle, Democrats are grappling with the reality of an opposition that now seems determined to cement long-term minority rule.
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Hullabaloo
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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