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Has Mueller Subpoenaed the President? — Nelson W. Cunningham has served as a federal prosecutor in the Southern District of New York under Rudy Giuliani, general counsel of the Senate Judiciary Committee under then-Chair Joe Biden, and general counsel of the White House Office of Administration under Bill Clinton.
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Exclusive: Trump blamed ex-counsel McGahn for Mueller investigation — Washington (CNN)Former White House Counsel Don McGahn ended his tumultuous tenure at the White House with one last encounter in which President Donald Trump blamed him for Robert Mueller's appointment, sources close to McGahn tell CNN.
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Talking Points Memo and Political Wire

‘Moving day’: White House staffers set to split for 2020 campaign
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iPolitics and Center for Public Integrity


The White-Supremacist Congressman — Steve King, who has a long history of racism, may finally be in political danger. — Steve King, the Republican congressman who represents the northwestern part of Iowa, is a white nationalist. — King has said he doesn't want Muslims working in Iowa meatpacking plants.
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GOP Rep. Mark Sanford: Haitian babies born in US don't deserve birthrights because they are not ‘former slaves’ — Outgoing South Carolina Republican Rep. Mark Sanford on Wednesday insisted that some babies born in the U.S. — from places like Haiti — do not deserve to be citizens because they are not descendants of slaves.
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The Daily Beast


Rewriting the Fourteenth Amendment
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Trump's proposal to end birthright citizenship is unconstitutional
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Power Up: Trump's birthright citizenship comments just made life harder for Republicans in tight races
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Trump lashes out at Paul Ryan over birthright citizenship comments, says he ‘should be focusing on holding the Majority’
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Politico, Talking Points Memo, Vox and New Republic

George Conway breaks with wife, calls revoking birthright citizenship ‘unconstitutional’
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New York Times, IJR and The Daily Caller


O'Connor, Rehnquist And A Supreme Marriage Proposal — Some personal secrets are so well-kept that even family and friends are oblivious. So it is with the story of the late Chief Justice William Rehnquist's marriage proposal to a Stanford Law School classmate in the early 1950s.
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‘Homeland Security’ Ignores White Terror, DHS Veterans Say — As far-right terror attacks mount, DHS is concentrating on a migrant caravan 1000+ miles away—and some FBI veterans say the bureau isn't taking white supremacy seriously enough. — On Tuesday, just days after a white supremacist gunned …
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Trump admin will apparently not renew program to fight domestic terror — The Trump administration had already canceled a grant for a group that fights white supremacist terror. — WASHINGTON — The Trump administration, which already canceled a grant for a group that fights white supremacist terror …


Jews assail ‘Christian rabbi’ who appeared with Pence, and so does his own movement — Loren Jacobs, who spoke at a rally with the vice-president, was stripped of his ordination by the Messianic movement in 2003. — The “Messianic rabbi” who outraged many Jews by invoking the name of Jesus …
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New Republic, Vox, POLITICUSUSA, Talking Points Memo, Raw Story, Daily Kos and HuffPost
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Never Go Full Trump: The Lena Epstein Story
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Lawyers, Guns & Money


Startling new research finds large buildup of heat in the oceans, suggesting a faster rate of global warming — The findings mean the world might have less time to curb carbon emissions. — The world's oceans have been soaking up far more excess heat in recent decades than scientists realized …


Turkish prosecutor says Khashoggi was strangled and dismembered in Saudi Consulate — ISTANBUL — Turkey's public prosecutor said Wednesday that Jamal Khashoggi was strangled and dismembered upon arrival at the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul earlier this month as part of “advance plans” …
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How a lie about George Soros and the migrant caravan multiplied online — This is the life of a lie. — Three weeks ago, a caravan of Hondurans began walking nearly 2,000 miles to the United States. Their ranks grew as they inched north and, along with them, falsehoods grew, too.
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Woman Calls Cops City on Portland Man's Parking Job. She's White. He's Black. — Rashsaan Muhammad and Mattie Khan were waiting for their order inside Little Big Burger on North Mississippi Avenue when they noticed a woman standing across the street, looking at their parked car.


CNN Polls: Tight Senate contests in Arizona, Nevada in final week — WASHINGTON (CNN)The Democratic Party's two best pickup opportunities in the Senate playing field are close contests in the final days of campaigning, according to new CNN Polls conducted by SSRS.
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Political Wire, Washington Times, Bloomberg and NBC News


Oprah Is Going To Georgia To Campaign With Stacey Abrams — Oprah Winfrey, the Oscar-nominated, self-made billionaire and media icon, is heading to Georgia to campaign for Stacey Abrams. — The star will join Abrams, the Democratic candidate for governor, on Thursday.


Authorities probing immigrant Saudi sisters' mystery deaths — NEW YORK (AP) — Police are investigating the mysterious deaths of two sisters from Saudi Arabia whose bodies, bound together with tape, washed up on New York City's waterfront last week. — The sisters, Tala Farea, 16 …
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Law & Crime, twitchy.com, WhoWhatWhy and The Guardian


How a Democratic Dark-Money Group Flooded the 2018 House Map — BRADENTON BEACH, Fla. — The billboard flickered from the side of a truck, displaying an image of Representative Vern Buchanan, Republican of Florida, wearing a yachtsman's cap. Keith Fitzgerald, a local dignitary invited …


Out-of-state political consultants helped direct Josh Hawley's Missouri AG office — Josh Hawley pledged to Missouri voters in 2016 that he was not the kind of career politician who would use “one office to get to another.” — But within weeks of Hawley's swearing in as the state's top …


Don't let your sons play for DJ Durkin — Parents, don't send your kids to Maryland to play football. Just don't do it. It's not a university, it's a canker sore with a couple of dormitories strapped to its suppurating side. Don't let your son so much as look at an application.


Confederate-Friendly Ryan Zinke Likens Robert E. Lee To Martin Luther King Jr. — Civil rights groups' condemnation of his remarks only adds to the Interior Department secretary's mounting woes. — Ryan Zinke, the embattled secretary of the Interior Department, suggested that Robert E. Lee …
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U.S. workers see fastest wage growth in a decade, outpacing inflation — U.S. workers are seeing the largest wage increase in a decade, the Labor Department reported Wednesday, as companies compete harder for employees than they did in recent years. — The typical worker received …
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Wages and salaries jump by 3.1%, highest level in a decade
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Townhall, Washington Free Beacon and Sean Hannity


Judge declines Kemp's request to pause absentee ballot injunction — A federal judge has declined to pause an injunction she ordered that changes how Georgia elections officials evaluate certain absentee ballots. — Secretary of State Brian Kemp had requested that U.S. District Court Judge Leigh Martin …


Record turnout? Not for millennials — just a third say they'll vote. — That number has remained steady since August, according the results of a new NBC News/GenForward survey. — About a third of millennials say they will definitely vote in November, according to results …
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Washington Monthly


Americans Are Easy Marks for Russian Trolls, According to New Data — A Daily Beast analysis of Twitter data shows the Kremlin troll farm's English-language propaganda is nine times more effective than its disinformation in Russian. — You don't need to read the federal indictments to spot …
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Raw Story


Ted Cruz's lead over Beto O'Rourke narrows to 3.6, UT-Tyler poll says — The UT-Tyler poll follows a number of other polls which show Cruz's lead over O'Rourke diminishing. … Republican U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz leads challenger U.S. Rep. Beto O'Rourke, D-El Paso, by 3.6 percentage points among likely voters …
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The Guardian


Aftab Pureval's campaign manager resigns based on ‘new information.’ — Here's what you need to know about Steve Chabot and Aftab Pureval in 30 seconds — Democratic candidate Aftab Pureval told The Enquirer campaign manager Sarah Topy resigned Tuesday night based on “new information.”
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Talking Points Memo and Washington Free Beacon


Pentagon's NATO Policy Chief Steps Down — Thomas Goffus, the U.S. Defense Department's top civilian overseeing Europe and NATO policy, is expected to join the Senate Armed Services Committee. — The U.S. Defense Department's top NATO policy official stepped down last week …


Donald Trump Launches Operation Midterms Diversion — By early afternoon on Tuesday, Donald Trump's latest piece of political chicanery, Operation Midterms Diversion, could be considered a partial success. After a week in which the media narrative was focussed on pipe bombs …
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Bloomberg, Washington Post, New York Post, The Daily Caller and Sputnik International


Steve Bannon draws crowd of tens to rally for Steve Watkins in Topeka — “Any honeybuns left over from the continental this morning?” — Sherman Smith Twitter — I highly recommend that you take a look at Topeka Capital-Journal managing editor Sherman Smith's Twitter thread about attending …


This is how republics end — Warnings from the fall of Rome. — What does a republic in decline look like? — It's an increasingly pressing question for the United States, where rising economic inequality is creating stress, anxiety and resentment. Endemic racism and ethnic prejudice …


New polls: Democrats lead marquee Florida races; Arizona Senate, Kansas governor effectively tied — The final pre-election Reuters/Ipsos/University of Virginia Center for Politics state-level polls of this election cycle shows Democratic candidates leading for the Sunshine State's high-profile gubernatorial …
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Florida Politics, The Capitolist and NTK Network


How to Punish Voters — The prosecution of individual voters for fraud is a trend that seems intended to intimidate. — Ms. Duffy Rice is a lawyer and a criminal justice reporter. — Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp, the chief elections official in the state, is a pioneer of present-day voter suppression.


A Mandarin Duck Mysteriously Appears in Central Park, to Birders' Delight — On the crescent-shaped pond in the southeast corner of Central Park, a spectacularly colorful duck floats on the surface with an air of majesty. — His head looks like a punk rocker's multicolored mohawk.
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Jezebel


Trump's hate and lies are failing. Two new studies show why. — The closing campaign strategy of President Trump and Republicans is often depicted as mainly an effort to galvanize the GOP's blue-collar white base through fear-mongering about immigrants and incitement of racial-cultural …
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Vox, The Mahablog, National Journal and New York Times


The National Enquirer's Plot To Assassinate Ted Cruz's Candidacy — In 2016, American Media Inc.'s employees thought their “bullshit” story about Ted Cruz's dad and Lee Harvey Oswald was a riot. Then Trump ran with it. — The newsroom couldn't quite believe what was happening.


Anti-Defamation League calls for censure of Rep. Steve King over alleged anti-Semitic statements — The head of the Anti-Defamation League on Wednesday penned a letter to House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) calling for Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) to be formally censured over his alleged anti-Semitic words and actions.
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Bloomberg


Former Sen. John Warner, longtime dean of Virginia's GOP, says he supports Cockburn — Former Sen. John Warner, who spent 30 years representing Virginia as a Republican, is lending his support to Leslie Cockburn, a Democrat and former investigative journalist vying to represent the 5th District in the U.S. House.
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Talking Points Memo