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New York Times:
Trump Wants to Deliver Prime Time Address on Government Shutdown and Will Visit the Border — President Trump wants to address the nation about the government shutdown on Tuesday night, and later in the week plans to travel to the southern border as part of his effort to persuade Americans …
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Julia Ainsley / NBC News:
Only six immigrants in terrorism database stopped by CBP at southern border in first half of 2018 — The low number contradicts statements by Trump administration officials. — U.S. Customs and Border Protection encountered only six immigrants on the U.S-Mexico border in the first half …
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New York Daily News and Mediaite
Samantha Cole / Motherboard:
A Fake Nude of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Was Debunked By Foot Fetishists — Wikifeet foiled an attempt to shame the congresswoman with a fake Instagram post. — An image that's being passed off as a nude of congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was debunked as being fake by a foot fetishist on Reddit …
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The Daily Caller
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's very bad defense of her falsehoods … Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) has made a bigger splash than any freshman in the 116th Congress — in either the House or the Senate. And a big reason why is an often-overzealous conservative effort to knock her down a few pegs.
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Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
More AOC: Facts Don't Matter When You're “Morally Right” — Scoff at this all you want, but on this point Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez sounds more mainstream — and bipartisan — than most would admit. During his 60 Minutes interview with the new House member, Anderson Cooper confronted Ocasio-Cortez …
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RedState, Mediaite, Fox News Insider and CBS News
Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
EXCLUSIVE: Yorktown Elitist and Bronx Hoaxer Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Went by “Sandy” …
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Mediaite, No More Mister Nice Blog and Splinter
Anderson Cooper / CBS News:
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: The rookie congresswoman challenging the Democratic establishment
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Colby Hall / Mediaite:
Whoopi Goldberg Rips Ocasio-Cortez: ‘Before You Start Pooping on People...You Got to Do Something’
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Daily Wire and The Daily Caller
Nicole Lafond / Talking Points Memo:
Whoopi Goldberg Advises AOC To ‘Sit Still,’ ‘Learn The Job’ Before ‘Pooping On People’
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Conservative News Today and twitchy.com
Bloomberg:
IRS Will Pay Tax Refunds During Government Shutdown, Official Says — The Internal Revenue Service will issue refunds to taxpayers even if the U.S. government shutdown extends into the filing season, a decision that may reduce political pressure on Congress and President Donald Trump to reach a deal to re-open the federal government.
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Political Wire
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Washington Post:
Democrats pledge to paralyze Senate as shutdown negotiation tactic — Senate Democrats are coalescing behind a strategy to block any legislation on the floor that doesn't re-open the federal government — planning to paralyze the Senate as the partial government shutdown enters its third week with no end in sight.
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Political Wire
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Is there a way to break Trump's will? One Democrat has an idea. — President Trump would almost certainly not be able to continue shutting down the government over his megalomaniacal border wall obsession if it weren't for Mitch McConnell. The Senate majority leader is refusing a Senate vote …
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David Leonhardt / New York Times:
Trump the Vulnerable — A close look at the 2018 midterm results shows why he is so weak.
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Washington Post and Mother Jones
Guy Faulconbridge / Reuters:
WikiLeaks tells reporters 140 things not to say about Julian Assange — LONDON (Reuters) - WikiLeaks on Sunday advised journalists not to report 140 different “false and defamatory” statements about its founder Julian Assange, who has been holed up in the Ecuadorean embassy in London since June 2012.
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Recep Tayyip Erdogan / New York Times:
Turkey Has a Plan to Restore Peace in Syria — A comprehensive strategy to promote long-term peace and stability in Syria can be achieved through Turkey's leadership, the president of Turkey writes. — Mr. Erdogan is the president of Turkey. — President Trump made the right call to withdraw from Syria.
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Missy Ryan / Washington Post:
‘No different from my original statements’: Trump denies changes to Syria exit plan
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Zeke Miller / Associated Press:
US, Turkey set for negotiations on fate of Kurds
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Breitbart
Conor Finnegan / ABC News:
Amid confusion over Syria withdrawal, Pompeo heads to Middle East to reassure US partners
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Politico
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
Campaign journalism needs an overhaul. Here's one radical idea. — As the new year dawned, the top editor at the Associated Press — one of the most influential journalists in the country, though hers is not a household name — was making a resolution. — “We should all resolve to spend less time …
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Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:
Elizabeth Warren is no Hillary Clinton — The line to get into the final event of Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren's weekend tour of Iowa began forming 2½ hours in advance. Standing at the very front were Kristin Wesner and her daughter Alaina. — Arriving for the Sunday morning forum extra-early was Alaina's idea.
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twitchy.com
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Judge blasts lawyers for Russian firm charged by Mueller — A judge publicly slammed the defense lawyers for a Russian company criminally charged by special counsel Robert Mueller, accusing the firm's attorneys of submitting unprofessional and inappropriate court filings attacking Mueller's office …
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New York Times:
Democrats Faked Online Push to Outlaw Alcohol in Alabama Race — The “Dry Alabama” Facebook page, illustrated with stark images of car wrecks and videos of families ruined by drink, had a blunt message: Alcohol is the devil's work, and the state should ban it entirely.
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Daniel Lippman / Politico:
Trump struggles to replace Mattis as Pentagon chief — President Donald Trump is having a tough time hiring a Pentagon chief after the abrupt departure of Defense Secretary Jim Mattis late last month. — Jon Kyl, the retired Arizona Republican senator, became the second person …
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Felicia Sonmez / Washington Post:
Trump to visit U.S.-Mexico border amid shutdown stalemate
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Sarah Kliff / Vox:
A $20,243 bike crash: Zuckerberg hospital's aggressive tactics leave patients with big bills — I spent a year writing about ER bills. Zuckerberg San Francisco General has the most surprising billing practices I've seen. — On April 3, Nina Dang, 24, found herself in a position …
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Front Page Magazine and Bangor Daily News
New York Times:
Mick Mulvaney Has Two Jobs. He Has Been Discussing Another. — Mick Mulvaney, the acting White House chief of staff, as recently as late last year explored the possibility of becoming president of the University of South Carolina, four people familiar with the discussions said.
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Political Wire
Justin Davidson / New York Magazine:
The High Line Has Become a Tunnel Through Glass Towers — The High Line was an epiphany when it opened in 2009, a moment suspended between neglect and possibility. The strips of curated wilderness, the medieval-looking iron railings, the disorienting views, the way the viaduct ducked beneath buildings …
Associated Press:
Ginsburg missing Supreme Court arguments for 1st time — WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court says Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is missing arguments for the first time in more than 25 years as she recuperates from cancer surgery last month. — Court spokeswoman Kathy Arberg said Monday …
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Wall Street Journal:
How China Flexes Its Political Muscle to Expand Power Overseas — A Chinese ‘Belt and Road’ project was planned to help cover debts of Malaysia's troubled 1MDB fund, according to the minutes of secret negotiations. The new Malaysian leader put the deal on hold
Ernesto Araujo / Bloomberg:
Bolsonaro Was Not Elected to Take Brazil as He Found It — Latin America's biggest democracy has a bigger global role to play. — “Brazilian foreign policy cannot change.” That is how a Brazilian politician summarized his dislike for the foreign policy of President Jair Bolsonaro and myself.
Neal Broverman / Advocate:
Another Black Man Has Died in the Home of Democratic Donor Ed Buck — Community leaders were outraged when the L.A. County District Attorney refused to prosecute Buck last year. Now another young man is dead. — The body of another young black man has been found at the West Hollywood apartment …
Lachlan Markay / The Daily Beast:
Top Trump Backer Financed Supreme Court Confirmation Fights Through Shadowy Network — Leonard Leo is the top judicial lobbyist in the country and a well-known booster of the president. But the reach of his influence is just starting to come into focus. — A top conservative judicial activist used …
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Politico and Shakesville
Mattathias Schwartz / New York Magazine:
'Come On Down to the Rio Grande Valley. I'll Show You Around.' Would patrolling with the Border Patrol change your mind about the border? — On the outskirts of McAllen, Texas, a few miles north of the Rio Grande, a dun-colored warehouse squats on the corner of West Ursula Avenue and South Ware Road.
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