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Heather Caygle / Politico:
Exasperated Democrats try to rein in Ocasio-Cortez — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is already making enemies in the House Democratic Caucus — and some of its members are mounting an operation to bring the anti-establishment, democratic socialist with 2.2 million Twitter followers into the fold.
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Kenneth Lovett / New York Daily News:
Ocasio-Cortez's campaign fined by state for failing to carry workers' comp coverage … ALBANY - The campaign for new Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who has made helping the working class and poor her top priority, was fined by the state for not carrying workers' compensation coverage for a month last year.
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Niall Stanage / The Hill:
Exclusive: Trump team should be allowed to ‘correct’ final Mueller report, says Giuliani — Rudy Giuliani says President Trump's legal team should be allowed to “correct” special counsel Robert Mueller's final report before Congress or the American people get the chance to read it.
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Erica Newland / Washington Post:
I worked in the Justice Department. I hope its lawyers won't give Trump an alibi. — Erica Newland is a counsel for the nonprofit group Protect Democracy and a former attorney adviser in the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel. — President Trump said Thursday that he will …
Bob Bauer / The Atlantic:
What Someone Needs to Explain to Trump About ‘National Emergencies’ — When the recently arrived White House counsel Pat Cipollone took up his post, he could have had no illusions that the president he served would make his professional life easy. Just weeks into the job …
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NBC News:
Trump could take billions from disaster areas to fund wall — Under the proposal, Trump could dip into money set aside to fund civil works projects all over the country including storm-damaged areas of Puerto Rico. — President Donald Trump has been briefed on a plan that would use …
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Washington Post:
Trump administration lays groundwork to declare national emergency to build wall — The White House has begun laying the groundwork for a declaration of national emergency to build President Trump's border wall, including searching for unused money in the Army Corps of Engineers budget …
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Katie Rogers / New York Times:
At White House, Empty Desks and Unpaid Bills as Trump Shows No Sign of Relenting — WASHINGTON — As the partial government shutdown took hold over the holidays, President Trump seemed to express wonder at being alone in the White House with little but the cheeriness of heavily armed guards …
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New York Times:
White House Considers Using Storm Aid Funds as a Way to Pay for the Border Wall
White House Considers Using Storm Aid Funds as a Way to Pay for the Border Wall
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Kristina Peterson / Wall Street Journal:
White House Looking Into Diverting Army Corps Funds to Build Wall
White House Looking Into Diverting Army Corps Funds to Build Wall
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Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Shutdown drags toward 3 weeks, without an inch of progress
POLITICO Playbook: Shutdown drags toward 3 weeks, without an inch of progress
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Marissa J. Lang / Washington Post:
‘Pay the workers, furlough Trump’: Federal workers rally at White House for end to shutdown
‘Pay the workers, furlough Trump’: Federal workers rally at White House for end to shutdown
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New York Times:
Prosecutors Examining Ukrainians Who Flocked to Trump Inaugural — WASHINGTON — Hours after he was sworn in as America's 45th president, Donald J. Trump and his wife, Melania, swayed together to a rendition of the Frank Sinatra classic “My Way,” as hundreds of their wealthiest …
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Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
The International Crisis of Donald Trump — While Washington melts down over the government shutdown, the worst-case scenario for the President's foreign policy has actually happened. — Congressional committees, like the priorities of the politicians who run them, change with the times.
Laura Rozen / Al-Monitor:
Pompeo's Cairo speech panned as ‘tone-deaf,’ ‘hyper-partisan,’ ‘offensive’ — US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks to students at the American University in Cairo, Egypt, Jan. 10, 2019. — WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's stridently partisan speech in Cairo today chiding …
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Aaron David Miller / Politico:
Pompeo's Speech vs. Trump's View of the World
Pompeo's Speech vs. Trump's View of the World
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John Podhoretz / New York Post:
Steve King couldn't be more wrong about ‘Western civilization’ — One horrible untruth unites today's far left and far right: the idea that “whiteness” isn't a skin color but a moral, political and social cause. The far left wants to attack whiteness and undo it for the injustices it has supposedly caused.
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Matt Lewis / The Daily Beast:
How Steve King's Idiotic and Odious Words Help the Left Destroy Western Civilization
How Steve King's Idiotic and Odious Words Help the Left Destroy Western Civilization
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John Bresnahan / Politico:
Steve King under fire after embrace of white supremacy
Steve King under fire after embrace of white supremacy
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Nick Gillespie / Hit & Run:
Steve King's White Nationalism Is Deeply Un-American
Steve King's White Nationalism Is Deeply Un-American
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Hollie Silverman / CNN:
Due to TSA absences, Miami airport will temporarily close one terminal early for 3 days — How does the government shutdown affect you? — (CNN)Miami International Airport will close a terminal early for three days because of a shortage of Transportation Security Administration screeners, airport spokesman Greg Chin said Thursday.
Brianna Sacks / BuzzFeed News:
“I Felt Dirty”: Former Employees Of The Veteran Crowdfunding Trump's Wall Say He Pushed Fake News To Get Rich — “He never wanted the truth. It was all just for clicks, and the more inflammatory, the better,” a former employee said. “I felt dirty writing the stuff.”
Mike McKinnon III / KUSI-TV:
CNN requests KUSI for local view on the border, declines our reporter after finding out wall works — SAN DIEGO (KUSI) - Thursday morning, CNN called the KUSI Newsroom asking if one of our reporters could give them a local view of the debate surrounding the border wall and government shutdown.
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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Trump plan would improve current border situation
Trump plan would improve current border situation
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John Burnett / NPR:
Border Patrol Makes Its Case For An Expanded ‘Border Barrier’
Associated Press:
US official says troop withdrawal from Syria has started — BAGHDAD (AP) — After days of back and forth over U.S. President Donald Trump's decision to pullout American troops from Syria, a U.S. military official said Friday the process of withdrawal has begun, declining to comment on specific timetables or movements.
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Ben Hubbard / New York Times:
U.S. Troops Begin Syria Withdrawal, Amid Uncertainty Over Strategy
U.S. Troops Begin Syria Withdrawal, Amid Uncertainty Over Strategy
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Tal Kopan / San Francisco Chronicle:
Kamala Harris in the Senate — California senator gains prominence by grilling Trump officials, laying the groundwork for a likely 2020 presidential run — California senator gains prominence by grilling Trump officials, laying the groundwork for a likely 2020 presidential run
Alexander Burns / New York Times:
Gillibrand Hires New Aide, Signaling Presidential Run Is Imminent — Senator Kirsten Gillibrand of New York has hired a communications director for an expected presidential campaign, a sign that she is all but certain to join the race against President Trump and that her entry may be imminent.
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Daniel Strauss / Politico:
Sherrod Brown plans Iowa trip as top aide accelerates 2020 prep
Taylor Telford / Washington Post:
Now on Craigslist, Facebook: Household items from furloughed workers trying to make ends meet — A federal worker in Morgantown, W.Va., took to Facebook this week to sell welding tools, left behind by his deceased father-in-law. Another, a die-hard Star Wars fan in Woodbridge, Va. …
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Laurens Cerulus / Politico:
Poland arrests Huawei, Orange executives on suspicion of spying: report — Polish security officials arrested two telecoms executives on suspicion of working with Chinese intelligence services, local media reported Friday. — One suspect is a Chinese national working for Huawei …
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Philly.com:
AT&T says it'll stop selling location data amid calls for federal investigation — AT&T said Thursday that it will stop selling its customers' location data to third-party service providers after a report this week said the information was winding up in the wrong hands.
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Joseph Cox / Motherboard:
AT&T to Stop Selling Location Data to Third Parties After Motherboard Investigation
AT&T to Stop Selling Location Data to Third Parties After Motherboard Investigation
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Alex Samuels / The Texas Tribune:
Tarrant County GOP's vice-chairman survives recall vote over his religion — County party officials overwhelmingly rejected attempts to remove Shahid Shafi because he's Muslim. The 139-49 vote came after the state's top Republican officials denounced the failed move to oust the trauma surgeon.
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Jack Andrews / Dailystar.co.uk:
EXCLUSIVE: The Rock slams snowflakes as ‘looking for reasons to be offended’ — THE world's biggest movie star Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson has body slammed Britain's growing snowflake culture. — He “laid the smackdown” on PC softies in an exclusive chat with the Daily Star.
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New York Times:
Farm Country Stood by Trump. But the Shutdown Is Pushing It to Breaking Point. — DENVER, Colo. — In Georgia, a pecan farmer lost out on his chance to buy his first orchard. The local Farm Service Agency office that would have processed his loan application was shut down.
Clare Foran / CNN:
Current shutdown ties record for longest government shutdown in US history — Where can't you travel during the shutdown? — Washington (CNN)The ongoing partial government shutdown hit a new milestone on Friday by matching the record for the longest government shutdown in US history.
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Democrats will object to Senate adjourning amid shutdown