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The Daily Beast:
Trump Referred to Shutdown as ‘Strike’ in Profanity-Laced Meeting With Democratic Leaders — The president also dropped three f-bombs and claimed Democrats wanted him impeached. — During Friday's meeting at the White House over the ongoing shutdown standoff, President Donald Trump …
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Nicholas Fandos / New York Times:
Rashida Tlaib's Expletive-Laden Cry to Impeach Trump Upends Democrats' Talking Points — WASHINGTON — Impeachment was always going to hang heavily over a divided Washington. But it took little more than 24 hours this week for a freshman House Democrat's exuberant, expletive-laden impeachment promise …
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Hmm Daily, thenewamerican.com and RedState
Washington Post:
A freshman, a viral video and a profanity revive Trump impeachment talk
A freshman, a viral video and a profanity revive Trump impeachment talk
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The Atlantic, NBC News, The Hill, Patterico's Pontifications and The Guardian
Paul Kane / Washington Post:
Congress isn't feeling the pressure for a fast deal to end the shutdown — yet
Laurie Kellman / Associated Press:
Welcome to the jungle: New Dems get early political lesson
Welcome to the jungle: New Dems get early political lesson
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The Daily Beast and Breitbart
Gallup:
Record Numbers of Americans Want to Leave the U.S. — WASHINGTON, D.C. — While Donald Trump has spent much of his presidency focused on the number of people who want to get into the U.S., since he took office, record numbers of Americans have wanted to get out.
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POLITICUSUSA and Common Dreams
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Andrew Restuccia / Politico:
Trump claims support from past presidents for the wall: Clinton, Bush and Obama beg to differ — President Donald Trump claimed without evidence on Friday that past presidents have privately confided to him that they regret not building a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.
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The Daily Caller and Mediaite
David Perdue / Washington Post:
Sen. David Perdue: Mitt Romney makes the same mistake that cost him the White House — David Perdue, a Republican, is a U.S. senator from Georgia. — In a recent op-ed for The Post, “The president shapes the public character of the nation. Trump's character falls short,” …
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Daily Wire, New Yorker, Latino Rebels and Breitbart
Washington Post:
Millions face delayed tax refunds, cuts to food stamps as White House scrambles to deal with shutdown's consequences — Food stamps for 38 million low-income Americans face severe reductions and more than $140 billion in tax refunds are at risk of being frozen or delayed if the government shutdown stretches …
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The Guardian
CNN:
First on CNN: Hundreds of TSA screeners, working without pay, calling out sick at major airports — Where can't you travel during the shutdown? — Washington (CNN)Hundreds of Transportation Security Administration officers, who are required to work without paychecks through …
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New York Times, The Week, The Gateway Pundit, Payday Report, TheBlaze, Gothamist, Washington Post, POLITICUSUSA, fox8.com, Daily Kos, Raw Story, Mediaite, Axios and Talking Points Memo
Jeff Stein / Washington Post:
Ocasio-Cortez wants higher taxes on very rich Americans. Here's how much money that could raise. — With the help of tax experts, we produced some back-of-the-envelope estimates. — Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) floated a 60 to 70 percent tax rate on the richest Americans …
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New York Magazine, Daily Kos and Politico
Washington Post:
Three dead in national parks as shutdown wears on — Trump administration officials decided to leave the scenic parks open even as the Interior Department has halted most of its operations — a departure from previous extended shutdowns — Three days after most of the federal workforce …
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Daily Kos, Althouse, The Guardian, Raw Story and Axios
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Andy Campbell / HuffPost:
Proud Boys Founder Gavin McInnes Can Get Back To Antifa After He Battles His Neighbors — McInnes is complaining that his neighbors' anti-hate yard signs are an attack on him and his family. — Gavin McInnes' ongoing fight against his detractors has spilled over into his tony neighborhood outside …
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Will Sommer / The Daily Beast:
Gavin McInnes Writes Letters to Neighbors to Take Down Anti-Hate Signs
Gavin McInnes Writes Letters to Neighbors to Take Down Anti-Hate Signs
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Hill Reporter, Raw Story and getoffmylawnpod.libsyn.com
Robin Abcarian / Los Angeles Times:
Can you admire an anti-Semite and advance the cause of women? Maybe so. Life is full of contradictions — It's been a long two years since millions converged on Washington, D.C., for the Women's March, an idea that grew out of a suggestion Teresa Shook, a Hawaii lawyer and educator, spontaneously made to some friends.
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The Advocate
Los Angeles Times:
3 shot dead, 4 injured at Torrance bowling alley — Three men were fatally shot and four were injured late Friday at a Torrance bowling alley, police said, and relatives and friends wept and shouted outside as they awaited word on the victims. — The shooting, which was apparently preceded by a fight …
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Associated Press, Liberty Unyielding, KTLA, NPR, New York Times and MercoPress
Mark Osborne / ABC News:
President Trump, senior White House staff head to weekend retreat at Camp David — President Donald Trump and his senior staff are headed on a group vacation — all at the direction of new acting Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney. — White House senior staffers will spend the weekend at Camp David in Hauvers …
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Political Wire
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Elena Schneider / Politico:
‘The new straw poll’: 2020 candidates race to build small-donor armies — Democratic presidential contenders are already locked in an important battle to showcase their viability, racing to build digital armies to power their campaigns. — Online support is set to play a pivotal role …
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Astead W. Herndon / New York Times:
Elizabeth Warren Campaigns in Iowa: ‘This is How It Starts’
Elizabeth Warren Campaigns in Iowa: ‘This is How It Starts’
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Associated Press
Maxim Rodionov / Reuters:
Moscow accuses Washington of detaining Russian citizen after arresting ex-U.S. Marine — MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Russian Foreign Ministry said on Saturday the United States had detained a Russian citizen, days after Moscow arrested the former U.S. Marine Paul Whelan on suspicion of spying.
New York Times:
The Price of Trump's Migrant Deterrence Strategy: New Chaos on the Border — A crisis is emerging at migrant shelters as the Trump administration focuses, as one official put it, on “how can we deter, rather than how can we handle.” — EL PASO — At a migrant shelter near the Mexican border …
Star Parker / Boston Herald:
Trump using American capitalism to lift up the poor — President Trump's achievements for black Americans are registering in awareness in these communities. It's a subject of enormous importance not just because of what the president is doing to the benefit of low-income Americans …
Julia Ainsley / NBC News:
Fact Check: Did the U.S. catch 4,000 terrorists at the southern border in 2018? — Said one ex-official, “Terrorists trying to infiltrate the U.S. across our southern border was more of a theoretical vulnerability than an actual one.” — WASHINGTON — White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders …
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Washington Post
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Julia Ainsley / NBC News:
Trump admin lawyers working out details of using national emergency to build wall
Trump admin lawyers working out details of using national emergency to build wall
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Vox, Raw Story and The Gateway Pundit
Oliver Darcy / CNN:
Former Weekly Standard staffers find new home at The Bulwark, a conservative site unafraid to take on Trump — New York (CNN)A handful of writers and editors who worked at The Weekly Standard, the now-defunct conservative magazine that was deeply critical of President Donald Trump until its sudden demise in December, have a new home.
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The Daily Caller
Kenneth P. Vogel / New York Times:
Congress Is Examining Decision to Lift Sanctions on Russian's Firms — WASHINGTON — Congress is reviewing the Trump administration's decision to lift sanctions on companies owned by Oleg V. Deripaska, an influential Russian oligarch with close ties to President Vladimir V. Putin, Democrats said on Friday.
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Raw Story
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David Nather / Axios:
Republicans are way more optimistic about the stock market than Democrats — Data: Survey Monkey online poll conducted Dec. 17-18, 2018, among 2,301 adults. Total margin of error is ±3.0 percentage points; Poll methodology; Chart: Naema Ahmed/Axios
WDIV-TV:
Rep. Rashida Tlaib doubles down after explicit Trump comment: ‘President has met his match’ — Rashida Tlaib speaks exclusively with Local 4 — WASHINGTON - Michigan Rep. Rashida Tlaib spoke exclusively to Local 4 after hurling an expletive at President Donald Trump.