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Miriam Jordan / New York Times:
Making President Trump's Bed: A Housekeeper Without Papers — At the president's New Jersey golf course, an undocumented immigrant has worked as a maid since 2013. She said she never imagined she “would see such important people close up.” — BEDMINSTER, N.J. — During more than five years …
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Astead W. Herndon / New York Times:
Elizabeth Warren Stands by DNA Test. But Around Her, Worries Abound. — WASHINGTON — The plan was straightforward: After years of being challenged by President Trump and others about a decades-old claim of Native American ancestry, Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts would take a DNA test …
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BostonGlobe.com:
Deval Patrick knew when to call it quits on a presidential bid. Other politicians take note — Running for president is hard. — Deciding not to run? That can be even harder. — Over the last year, two-term former Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick has explored the possibility …
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Charles P. Pierce / Esquire:
2020 Is Already Shaping Up to Be Another Festival of Stupid
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Washington Post:
William Barr is leading attorney general candidate in Trump discussions — Former attorney general William P. Barr is President Trump's leading candidate to be nominated to lead the Justice Department — a choice that could be made in coming days as the agency presses forward with a probe …
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Elaina Plott / The Atlantic:
The White House Has No Plan for Confronting the Mueller Report — Nobody knows how the White House plans to respond to the Mueller report—including the people who work at the White House. — The special counsel is reportedly nearing the end of his probe. Sentencing memos are dropping.
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Giuliani: The Dog Ate My Counter-Report to Mueller — The Trump administration has been promising they would respond to any charges by Robert Mueller with a devastating point-by-point defense: a “counter-report” written by none other than attorney at law and esteemed cybersecurity expert Rudy Giuliani.
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CNN:
Mueller poised to reveal new details on Russia probe in Manafort, Cohen filings — (CNN)Special counsel Robert Mueller's team could reveal tantalizing new details in its investigation into possible Russian collusion on Friday thanks to a pair of court filing deadlines involving President …
Andrew Napolitano / Fox News:
Judge Andrew Napolitano: Why I don't believe that Mueller is on a fishing expedition (or is about to go home)
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Betsy Woodruff / The Daily Beast:
Senate Intelligence Committee Grilled Steve Bannon About Cambridge Analytica
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Washington Post:
Republican officials had early warnings of voting irregularities in North Carolina — BLADENBORO, N.C. — When GOP Rep. Robert Pittenger lost his primary by a narrow margin in May, he suspected something was amiss. — The congressman turned to a group of friends and family who had gathered …
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Eric Bradner / CNN:
North Carolina GOP director open to new election in disputed House race
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Eric Levitz / New York Magazine:
The GOP Is Making Its Contempt for Democracy Clear. Will the Mainstream Media?
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Mark Follman / Mother Jones:
Documents Point to Illegal Campaign Coordination Between Trump and the NRA — The National Rifle Association spent $30 million to help elect Donald Trump—more than any other independent conservative group. Most of that sum went toward television advertising, but a political message loses …
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Mike Spies / The Trace:
Documents Point to Illegal Campaign Coordination Between Trump and NRA — The National Rifle Association spent $30 million to help elect Donald Trump — more than any other independent conservative group. Most of that sum went toward television advertising, but a political message loses …
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Steven Perlberg / BuzzFeed News:
Reporters At Bloomberg News Are Worried About Michael Bloomberg's Potential Presidential Run — Reporters at Bloomberg News are on edge after their boss announced that if he chooses to run for president in 2020 — a decision he will have to finalize relatively soon — it could mean the end of the news outlet's political coverage.
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
Trump's slow-motion staff ‘shakeup’ stunts 2019 planning — President Donald Trump is still looking for a new United Nations ambassador. He has no deputy national security adviser. His attorney general and Environmental Protection Agency administrator are serving in acting capacities …
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Matt Wilstein / The Daily Beast:
Fox Business Network Apologizes for Louie Gohmert Spreading Anti-Semitic George Soros Conspiracy — The openly anti-Semitic attack initially went unchallenged by host Stuart Varney, who later issued an apology. — Matt Wilstein — Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) on Thursday morning managed …
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Felicia Sonmez / Washington Post:
Rep. Louie Gohmert falsely says George Soros helped take property from fellow Jews
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Zack Beauchamp / Vox:
The Wisconsin power grab is part of a bigger Republican attack on democracy — The GOP's turn against democracy may be a greater threat to the American experiment than President Trump. — The Wisconsin Republican Party is nullifying the results of the 2018 election.
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Paul Szoldra / Task & Purpose:
General McChrystal Told Pompeo To ‘Muddle Along’ In Afghanistan, Leaked Audio Reveals — Stanley McChrystal, the former commander of NATO forces in Afghanistan, recently told Secretary of State Mike Pompeo that he did not know what to do in Afghanistan but offered his “best suggestion” …
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BuzzFeed News:
A Mysterious Imposter Account Was Used On Facebook To Drum Up Support For The Migrant Caravan — Days before the migrant caravan left Honduras, a fake Facebook account was used to try to bolster its numbers. The social media giant has since deactivated the account but has refused to provide information about who created it.
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CNBC:
Stocks drop again with Dow's two-day slide now totaling more than 1,000 points — Stocks fell sharply on Thursday as continuing fears over U.S.-China trade relations and concern over a possible global economic slowdown kept investors on edge. — The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 451 points …
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Emily Stewart / Vox:
The US got Canada to arrest a top Chinese tech executive
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Marc Caputo / Politico:
Trump hotel feud erupts between Lewandowski and Florida senators — MIAMI — It was supposed to be a friendly introduction between Republicans at the Trump International Hotel in Washington on Wednesday night, when the president's former campaign manager and the Republican leader of the Florida Senate met.
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The Guardian:
Trump aide's appearances on RT channel are focus for Russia inquiry — Ted Malloch, a Trump campaign adviser, has been questioned about his relationship with the Kremlin-controlled broadcaster — Robert Mueller is allegedly examining a Trump campaign adviser's appearances …
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Bakersfield Californian:
David Valadao concedes to TJ Cox in California 21st Congressional District race — Congressman David Valadao has conceded the race for the California 21st Congressional District, his office announced Thursday. — The three-term Republican representative has called his challenger TJ Cox …
Pete Williams / NBC News:
In potential blow to Manafort, Supreme Court unlikely to change double jeopardy rule — A presidential pardon could keep Trump's former campaign chairman out of federal prison, but it would not free him from being prosecuted on similar state charges. — WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court …
Rick Wilson / Washington Post:
Trump could've ruined Bush's funeral. Bush didn't let him. — By including the current president, the late president preempted his successor's proclivity for draining the dignity out of solemn occasions. — Rick Wilson is a Republican political consultant, a Daily Beast columnist and the author of …
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Deconstructed / The Intercept:
Is This the Democrat Who Can Beat Trump in the Rust Belt in 2020? — Photo illustration: Soohee Cho/The Intercept, Getty Images — Subscribe to the Deconstructed podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher, Radio Public, and other platforms. New to podcasting? Click here.
Jack Suntrup / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Missouri Secretary of State Ashcroft launches investigation into Josh Hawley — • Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft has launched an investigation into the way Attorney General Josh Hawley ran his attorney general's office, Ashcroft's deputy general counsel wrote to the Democratic-allied American Democracy Legal Fund on Thursday.
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Democrats have a big opportunity to deal Trump a crushing blow — President Trump and Republicans just ran the most virulently xenophobic midterm election campaign in recent memory, closing on a message that plastered the country with dark and terrifying imagery depicting immigrants as violent criminal invaders.
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New York Times:
Allegation of a Doping Cover-Up by Agents Exposes a Hole in Baseball's Authority — Two years ago, lawyers for Major League Baseball sent a confidential document to the players union containing startling allegations against two of the game's top agents. — The document …
John Harwood / CNBC:
Donald Trump could be the first president since Jimmy Carter to run for re-election during a recession — Until now, Robert Mueller's special counsel investigation has loomed as a singular threat to further erode the President Trump's standing. — But the uncertainty on display …
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
Imperiled Weekly Standard magazine may get a reprieve — The Weekly Standard may live to fight another day. — The conservative political and cultural magazine's future appeared imperiled this week by its owner's consideration of a restructuring plan that might restructure it out of existence.
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Hilary Weaver / Vanity Fair:
Amal Clooney Takes on Donald Trump in a Fiery Speech at the U.N. — She said the president has given “the green light” for journalists around the world to be tortured and killed. — The last we saw of Amal Clooney, she was skipping out on Princess Eugenie's wedding to give a speech …
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