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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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Hunter Hooligan / The Cut:
Staring Down the Smug Face of American Violence — My sibling, Autumn, and I arrived at the rally for the first Indigenous Peoples' March with our hearts full and our spirits high. After an unexpectedly long journey navigating the public transit schedule from Baltimore, we were eager to join the demonstration.
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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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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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CNN:
Statement of Nick Sandmann, Covington Catholic High School junior, regarding incident at the Lincoln Memorial
Statement of Nick Sandmann, Covington Catholic High School junior, regarding incident at the Lincoln Memorial
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Michael E. Miller / Washington Post:
A tribal elder and a high school junior stood face to face, and the world reacted
A tribal elder and a high school junior stood face to face, and the world reacted
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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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Kara Scannell / CNN:
Emin Agalarov cancels US concert tour after not reaching testimony deal with Mueller and Congress — Washington (CNN)Emin Agalarov, the Russian pop star who initiated the infamous June 2016 Trump Tower meeting with members of Donald Trump's campaign, canceled his upcoming US tour after failing …
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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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
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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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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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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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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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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Jennifer Kabbany / The College Fix:
University of Notre Dame to cover murals of Christopher Columbus
University of Notre Dame to cover murals of Christopher Columbus
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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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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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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
Astead W. Herndon / New York Times:
Kamala Harris Joins Democratic Presidential Field — Senator Kamala Harris, the California Democrat and barrier-breaking prosecutor who became the second black woman to serve in the United States Senate, declared her candidacy for president on Monday, joining an increasingly crowded …
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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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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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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.
Washington Post:
10 percent of TSA workers called out Sunday as shutdown continues — The government shutdown continues to take a toll on the nation's air safety system as a growing number of workers decide they can't afford to keep working without pay. — The number of Transportation Security Administration agents …
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Eli Watkins / CNN:
10% of TSA employees called out Sunday as shutdown continues
10% of TSA employees called out Sunday as shutdown continues
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Wall Street Journal:
Cohen Threatened CNBC That Trump Would Sue After 2014 Poll Disappointment — Future president also complained to network over ‘business leader’ ranking after fixer tried to rig online survey — Donald Trump and his then-attorney Michael Cohen pressured CNBC in 2014 to place …
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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 …
Robert Mendick / Telegraph:
Kremlin accused of laying false trail linking Sergei Skripal to ex-MI6 officer behind Trump dossier — Russian intelligence created a false trail linking the double agent Sergei Skripal to the former MI6 officer behind the Trump dossier before carrying out the Salisbury nerve agent attack, the Telegraph has been told.
Mike Allen / Axios:
Exclusive excerpt: Chris Christie says Trump hired “riffraff” — Former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, a Republican, writes in his forthcoming memoir — “Let Me Finish,” out Jan. 29 — that President Trump filled his administration with “riffraff” instead of canny players who could help …
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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 …
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 …