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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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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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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.


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


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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Staring Down the Smug Face of American Violence
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POLITICUSUSA and CNN

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

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


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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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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Giuliani walks back statements on Trump Tower Moscow talks
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Washington Post and The Daily Beast

Emin Agalarov cancels US concert tour after not reaching testimony deal with Mueller and Congress
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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

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


‘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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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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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.


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


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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Joe Biden: White America 'has to admit there's still a systemic racism'
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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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Kamala Harris Joins Democratic Presidential Field
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California Sen. Kamala Harris announces 2020 presidential bid on ‘Good Morning America’
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How Kamala Harris Could Win The 2020 Democratic Primary
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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.
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Political Wire


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


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


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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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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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.


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.


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


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 …


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 …


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 …