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Julie Irwin Zimmerman / The Atlantic:
I Failed the Covington Catholic Test — Like many people who spend too much time on Twitter, I watched with indignation Saturday morning as stories began appearing about a confrontation near the Lincoln Memorial between students from Covington Catholic High School and American Indians from the Indigenous Peoples March.
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Elizabeth Dias / New York Times:
After Viral Video, Families of Covington Are Swiftly Circling to Protect Their Boys — COVINGTON, Ky. — On Friday night, all anyone at Covington Catholic High School was talking about was that their star Colonels basketball team had unexpectedly lost to the rival St. Xavier Bombers, 55-45.
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Friendly Atheist, The Federalist and TheBlaze
Laura Wagner / The Concourse:
Don't Doubt What You Saw With Your Own Eyes — Two days ago, video was posted online that pretty much everyone who saw immediately recognized for what it was—footage of white teens taunting and harassing a Native American elder named Nathan Phillips on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.
Jon Levine / The Wrap:
Vulture Writer on Covington Students: ‘I Just Want These People to Die, Simple as That’ — Erik Abriss adds that he wishes the same for the families of the students as well — Passions were high over the weekend after video emerged seemingly showing students from Kentucky's Covington …
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The Atlantic, HuffPost, Damian J. Penny and The Daily Signal
New York Daily News:
SEE IT: Covington Catholic High students in blackface at past basketball game — This won't help Kentucky student Nick Sandmann's case. — A photo said to be featuring Covington Catholic High School students clad in blackface during a 2015 basketball game made the rounds on Twitter Monday morning amid …
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Snopes.com and HuffPost
Hunter Hooligan / The Cut:
Staring Down the Smug Face of American Violence
Staring Down the Smug Face of American Violence
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POLITICUSUSA and CNN
Alex Griswold / Washington Free Beacon:
Maybe Reexamine Your Life If You Want to Punch a Kid in the Face
Maybe Reexamine Your Life If You Want to Punch a Kid in the Face
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The Gateway Pundit, The Atlantic, NB Blog and Instapundit
Allum Bokhari / Breitbart:
Twitter Allows ‘Verified’ Calls for Violence Against Conservative High School Kids
Twitter Allows ‘Verified’ Calls for Violence Against Conservative High School Kids
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Power Line, The Daily Caller, Instapundit and Conservative News Today
Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Giuliani Says His Moscow Trump Tower Comments Were ‘Hypothetical’ — President Trump's personal lawyer on Monday walked back the timeline he had offered a day earlier on when negotiations ended with Russian officials about a proposed Trump Tower project in Moscow, calling his comments “hypothetical” and not intended to convey facts.
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Raw Story, Political Wire, CNN and Fox News Insider
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CNN:
After BuzzFeed article, Trump legal team reached out to Mueller's office, Giuliani says — BuzzFeed's scoop: Where is the evidence? — (CNN)President Donald Trump's legal team reached out to special counsel Robert Mueller's office Friday morning after BuzzFeed published …
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emptywheel, Townhall, Raw Story, Talking Points Memo and Washington Post, more at Mediagazer »
Quint Forgey / Politico:
Giuliani walks back statements on Trump Tower Moscow talks
Giuliani walks back statements on Trump Tower Moscow talks
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Washington Post and The Daily Beast
Kara Scannell / CNN:
Emin Agalarov cancels US concert tour after not reaching testimony deal with Mueller and Congress
Emin Agalarov cancels US concert tour after not reaching testimony deal with Mueller and Congress
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FOX 61
Fox News:
Giuliani says his team communicated with Mueller's team on BuzzFeed News article, agreed much of it false
Giuliani says his team communicated with Mueller's team on BuzzFeed News article, agreed much of it false
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Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, The Gateway Pundit and Fox News Insider
Chris Sommerfeldt / New York Daily News:
Trump ‘never spoke’ with Michael Cohen about false testimony, Rudy Giuliani says in latest Moscow deal twist
Trump ‘never spoke’ with Michael Cohen about false testimony, Rudy Giuliani says in latest Moscow deal twist
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Joe.My.God. and The Daily Caller
Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
‘Absolutely out of control’: Cliff Sims's book depicts life in Trump's White House — President Trump watched on television, increasingly angry, as House Speaker Paul D. Ryan criticized his handling of the deadly white supremacist rally in Charlottesville. He held the remote control …
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National Review, POLITICUSUSA, Hullabaloo, New York Times, Raw Story and Joe.My.God.
Matt Novak / Gizmodo:
President Trump Posts Altered Photos to Facebook and Instagram That Make Him Look Thinner — President Donald Trump's social media accounts are filled with vile racism, idiotic xenophobia, and inaccurate statistics. And now we can add another category to the list: fake photos.
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Raw Story, Joe.My.God., POLITICUSUSA, Washington Press, Towleroad Gay News and Mediaite
Kenneth P. Vogel / New York Times:
Russian Oligarch and Allies Could Benefit From Sanctions Deal, Document Shows — WASHINGTON — When the Trump administration announced last month that it was lifting sanctions against a trio of companies controlled by an influential Russian oligarch, it cast the move as tough on Russia and on the oligarch …
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Joe.My.God.
Matt Viser / Washington Post:
Trump voters now blame him for the government shutdown — MACOMB COUNTY, Mich. — Two years ago, Jeff Daudert was fed up with politics. He wanted to shake up the status quo. He didn't mind sending a message to the establishment — and, frankly, he liked the idea of a disruptive president.
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POLITICUSUSA and Raw Story
Louis Nelson / Politico:
Trump marks MLK day with 2-minute memorial visit — President Donald Trump made a brief appearance Monday at Washington's Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial, honoring the civil rights icon with a wreath on the federal holiday bearing his name. — The president, accompanied by Vice President Mike Pence …
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Breitbart, ABC News, Washington Post and Lawyers, Guns & Money
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Astead W. Herndon / New York Times:
Biden Expresses Regret for Support of Crime Legislation in the 1990s
John Verhovek / ABC News:
Joe Biden: White America 'has to admit there's still a systemic racism'
Joe Biden: White America 'has to admit there's still a systemic racism'
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Axios, Breitbart, The American Mirror and twitchy.com
Associated Press:
MLK holiday offers stage for Democratic hopefuls — COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — As Americans commemorated Martin Luther King Jr., Democratic presidential hopefuls fanned out across the country to honor the civil rights leader and make themselves heard on the national stage.
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Astead W. Herndon / New York Times:
Kamala Harris Joins Democratic Presidential Field
Kamala Harris Joins Democratic Presidential Field
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Mother Jones, The Daily Beast, The Guardian, Politico, Outside the Beltway and Althouse
William Cummings / USA Today:
California Sen. Kamala Harris announces 2020 presidential bid on ‘Good Morning America’
California Sen. Kamala Harris announces 2020 presidential bid on ‘Good Morning America’
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ABC News and twitchy.com
Perry Bacon Jr / FiveThirtyEight:
How Kamala Harris Could Win The 2020 Democratic Primary
How Kamala Harris Could Win The 2020 Democratic Primary
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CNN, Washington Post, Splinter, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, InsideSources and AOL
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Exclusive: GOP reaches landmark agreement to juice small-dollar fundraising — President Donald Trump's political team and top Republican officials have reached a landmark agreement to reshape the party's fundraising apparatus and close the financial gap that devastated them in the midterms.
Discussion:
Political Wire
John Schwartz / New York Times:
Greenland's Melting Ice Nears a ‘Tipping Point,’ Scientists Say — Greenland's enormous ice sheet is melting at such an accelerated rate that it may have reached a “tipping point,” and could become a major factor in sea-level rise around the world within two decades, scientists said in a study published on Monday.
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The Guardian and The Daily Caller
Robert A. Caro / New Yorker:
The Secrets of Lyndon Johnson's Archives — On a Presidential paper trail. — I. Mr. Hathway — In 1959, when I went to work for Newsday, on Long Island, the paper had a managing editor named Alan Hathway, who was an old-time newspaperman from the nineteen-twenties.
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Althouse
Bari Weiss / New York Times:
Ilhan Omar and the Myth of Jewish Hypnosis — A conspiracy theory with ancient roots and a bloody history. — Ms. Weiss is a writer and editor in the Opinion section. — In 2012, during one of Israel's periodic wars with Hamas in Gaza, Ilhan Omar, at the time a 32-year-old nutrition coordinator …
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Jonathan S. Tobin / National Review:
Democrats Should Police Hate on Their Side of the Aisle, Too
Catherine Viz / Campus Reform:
Invoking MLK Day, Notre Dame moves to cover up ‘demeaning’ Christopher Columbus mural — The president of the University of Notre Dame announced Sunday that it would cover up murals of Christopher Columbus. — The president of the University of Notre Dame sent an email to all students Sunday night …
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TheBlaze
Daniel Boffey / The Guardian:
Dutch surgeon wins landmark ‘right to be forgotten’ case — Ruling will ensure doctors no longer judged by Google on fitness to practise, lawyer says — A Dutch surgeon formally disciplined for her medical negligence has won a legal action to remove Google search results about her case in a landmark “right to be forgotten” ruling.
Matt Taibbi / Rolling Stone:
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Crusher of Sacred Cows — With its silly swipes at AOC, the American political establishment is once again revealing its blindness to its own unpopularity — One of the first things you learn covering American politicians is that they're not terribly bright.
Tyler Silvy / Greeley Tribune:
Rep. Lori Saine says blacks, whites lynched in ‘nearly equal numbers’ for being Republican — A Colorado representative said black people and white people were lynched in nearly equal numbers for being Republican in the post-Reconstruction era. — Rep. Lori Saine, R-Firestone …
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Raw Story
John Lott / Fox News:
BuzzFeed and me - The incredible thing the site's CEO did using my name without permission — BuzzFeed, a popular “news” website, has once again been shamed for publishing fake allegations against Donald Trump. BuzzFeed's anonymously sourced report claimed that President Trump ordered his former lawyer …
Matt Wilstein / The Daily Beast:
Mike Huckabee: Maybe Ann Coulter Should ‘Run for Office’ If She Can Do Better Than Trump — Huckabee accused Coulter of trying to ‘stir up’ Trump's base against him and said she doesn't know what it's like to govern. — Matt Wilstein — If Ann Coulter is going to dictate the policies …
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
If Trump's ‘walls are closing in,’ they're moving very slowly — On Friday night, Fox News's Ed Henry, guest-hosting the 7 p.m. show “The Story,” threw a cocked elbow at the mainstream media. Seizing on a day of discussion over BuzzFeed's disputed report that President Trump …