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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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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.
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 Law & Crime
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:
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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Wall Street Journal:
Mueller Investigators Probe Roger Stone Conference Calls
Mueller Investigators Probe Roger Stone Conference Calls
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The Daily Caller, Hill Reporter, Washington Times, The Week and Raw Story
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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CNN, Axios, Media Matters for America, Hit & Run and The Week
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
Birthright Citizenship Is in the Constitution
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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
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, Axios and The Mahablog
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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ThinkProgress and HuffPost
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:
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
WV News:
Outlets report famed mobster James ‘Whitey’ Bulger found dead in West Virginia federal prison — BRUCETON MILLS — Multiple news outlets report that James “Whitey” Bulger was found dead at the Hazelton federal prison in West Virginia. — NBC News reports that federal officials said Bulger was found dead at the prison Tuesday.
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Whitey Bulger / Boston Herald:
James ‘Whitey’ Bulger dead, had been moved to W. Va.
James ‘Whitey’ Bulger dead, had been moved to W. Va.
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Townhall
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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Washington Post:
Congressional leaders decline to join Trump in visit to Pittsburgh after massacre — President Trump will visit Pittsburgh later Tuesday to pay tribute to the 11 victims of the mass shooting at a synagogue there — yet is traveling with no official public itinerary, little planning …
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ABC News, CNBC and Shakesville
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Kevin Liptak / CNN:
Local, national officials decline to appear with Trump in Pittsburgh
Local, national officials decline to appear with Trump in Pittsburgh
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Talking Points Memo, KTVQ-TV, VICE News US, The Week, Splinter and Jewish Telegraphic Agency
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.
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
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
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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Townhall, RedState, Breitbart, Mediaite and twitchy.com
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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Talking Points Memo, Jewish Telegraphic Agency and Mediaite
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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Washington Monthly, Hot Air, Breitbart and Outside the Beltway
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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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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