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Trump's Lawyer Said There Were “No Plans” For Trump Tower Moscow. Here They Are. — Trump's lawyer claims the Moscow tower was barely more than a notion. “There were no drafts. Nothing in the file.” Documents obtained by BuzzFeed News tell a different story.
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Trump exasperated by gaffe-prone Giuliani — Rudy Giuliani has a growing list of enemies in the White House — which now includes his boss, President Donald Trump. — Trump was apoplectic after a pair of weekend media interviews by his personal lawyer, in which Giuliani said that the president …
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“Trump Is Screaming. He's So Mad at Rudy”: Giuliani's Fate Is Uncertain After Botched Interviews — As Giuliani's unforced errors pile up, former West Wing officials and 2016 campaign veterans are privately debating what's gone wrong with Rudy. — Every time Rudy Giuliani opens his mouth …
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Trump pursued a deal in Russia and hid it from voters — Rudy Giuliani vs Chris Cuomo again on CNN...this time it's over collusion. Veuer's Nick Cardona has that story. — Candidate misled voters about ‘nothing to do with Russia.’ He signed a Trump Tower Moscow letter on the day of a presidential debate: Our view
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Washington Post, Just Security and The Atlantic
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Giuliani's media blitz draws ire of Trump and some allies — NEW YORK (AP) — Rudy Giuliani's latest media blitz, which was filled with a dizzying array of misstatements and hurried clarifications, agitated President Donald Trump and some of his allies, who have raised the possibility …
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A viral story spread. The mainstream media rushed to keep up. The Trump Internet pounced. — The online supporters of the president were ready for a moment like the Covington Catholic controversy. — The video, taken from an Instagram account and reposted to Twitter, went viral with the caption …
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The Covington Scissor — Welcome to another controversy algorithmically designed to tear America apart. — In a short story published last October, “Sort by Controversial,” Scott Alexander imagines a Silicon Valley company that accidentally comes up with an algorithm to generate what it calls a “Scissor.”
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House Intelligence Committee Looking Into Tweet About Viral MAGA Hat Teen Video — The Twitter account that promoted a video of Covington Catholic High School Students surrounding a Native American man has since been suspended. — The House Intelligence Committee has asked Twitter to provide …
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Gay valedictorian banned from speaking at Covington graduation ‘not surprised’ by D.C. controversy
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Molly Roberts / Washington Post:
Everyone is still wrong about the Covington kids
Everyone is still wrong about the Covington kids
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Andrew Egger / The Bulwark:
Is It Manly to Use a Bunch of Kids to ‘Own the Libs’?
Is It Manly to Use a Bunch of Kids to ‘Own the Libs’?
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Jennifer Edwards Baker / WXIX-TV:
CovCath, Diocese release statement following school closure Tuesday
CovCath, Diocese release statement following school closure Tuesday
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David French / National Review:
Covington Catholic Is the Terrible Sequel to the Kavanaugh Case
Covington Catholic Is the Terrible Sequel to the Kavanaugh Case
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Melissa Reinert / Cincinnati.com:
Nathan Phillips rejects Jeff Ruby's offer to ‘break bread’ with CovCath students
Nathan Phillips rejects Jeff Ruby's offer to ‘break bread’ with CovCath students
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David French / National Review:
Nathan Phillips's Interview with CNN Is Full of Falsehoods, Inconsistencies, and Nonsense
Nathan Phillips's Interview with CNN Is Full of Falsehoods, Inconsistencies, and Nonsense
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Martin Cizmar / Raw Story:
President Trump wants to meet with Covington Catholic boys at the White House: report
President Trump wants to meet with Covington Catholic boys at the White House: report
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Hollywood Reporter, RT and WXIX-TV
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Ocasio-Cortez and liberal freshmen join Oversight Committee — The House Oversight Committee is adding a group of progressive flamethrowers to its ranks. — Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) and Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) …
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4 progressive Democrats named to House Oversight Committee
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MSNBC contributor Hugh Hewitt: Joe Biden has “transgendered into Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez”
MSNBC contributor Hugh Hewitt: Joe Biden has “transgendered into Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez”
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J. David Goodman / New York Times:
Ocasio-Cortez Builds a National Platform, but a District Office? Not Open Yet
Ocasio-Cortez Builds a National Platform, but a District Office? Not Open Yet
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Clare Malone / FiveThirtyEight:
The Young Left's Anti-Capitalist Manifesto
The Young Left's Anti-Capitalist Manifesto
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Trump's liaison to Congress eyeing exit — Shahira Knight, the president's legislative affairs director and a central figure in the White House's shutdown negotiations with Congress, is planning to leave the White House in the coming months, according to four sources familiar with her plans.
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White House planning to proceed with State of the Union, but details up in the air after Pelosi threat
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Katherine Faulders / ABC News:
Trump preparing two State of the Union speeches for different audiences: Sources
Trump preparing two State of the Union speeches for different audiences: Sources
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Jill Colvin / Associated Press:
Despite Pelosi request to delay, Trump moves ahead with SOTU
Despite Pelosi request to delay, Trump moves ahead with SOTU
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Federal Employees Going Through ‘a Little Bit of Pain’ but Border Wall Is ‘Bigger Than’ Them Says Lara Trump — The 800,000 furloughed federal employees and 400,000 working without pay due to the government shutdown over $5 billion dollars in funding for a wall on the U.S. southern border are going through …
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Senate Leaders Plan Competing Bills to End Shutdown — Senate Leaders Plan Competing Bills on Shutdown — With dueling votes planned for Thursday, the Senate will finally move off the sidelines a month into the partial government shutdown. — Both measures face long odds …
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Hundreds of IRS employees are skipping work. That could delay tax refunds. — Hundreds of Internal Revenue Service employees have received permission to skip work during the partial government shutdown due to financial hardship, and union leaders said Tuesday they expected absences to surge …
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Axios
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Mueller wants to know about 2016 Trump campaign's ties to NRA — Washington (CNN)Special counsel Robert Mueller's team has expressed interest in the Trump campaign's relationship with the National Rifle Association during the 2016 campaign. — “When I was interviewed by the special counsel's office …
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‘Knock them in the teeth.’ How Trump turns crises into leverage. — The 800,000 federal workers who are expected to miss their second paycheck in the coming days are the most extreme example yet of a negotiating tactic President Trump has used repeatedly since taking office.
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Top diplomat for European affairs resigns from State Department
Top diplomat for European affairs resigns from State Department
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Baltimore-raised Pulitzer Prize winner Russell Baker dies at 93 — Former Baltimore Sun foreign correspondent Russell Baker is pictured at his Virginia home in 2012. (Kenneth K. Lam / Baltimore Sun) — Russell Baker, a Baltimore-raised, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist …
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Corporate America Is Getting Ready to Monetize Climate Change — Storms, floods, drought and heat waves worry largest companies — Merck, Apple, Home Depot also see new revenue opportunities — Bank of America Corp. worries flooded homeowners will default on their mortgages.
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Divorce filing: U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst says her husband physically attacked her — Years before her divorce, U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst was assaulted by her husband after she confronted him about his alleged affair with their daughter's babysitter, she wrote in court filings.
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How Trump Offered NASA Unlimited Funding to Go to Mars in His First Term — Donald Trump nearly derailed a televised call to the International Space Station after he got distracted, first by a sudden fantasy of going to Mars before the end of his first term in the White House …
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Power struggle paralyzes ‘irrelevant’ White House press shop — Washington (CNN)White House press briefings, in steady decline even before the partial government shutdown, have now ground to a halt as a prolonged power struggle among President Donald Trump's aides leads to a muddled messaging strategy …
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Three hard-left women is a recipe for Democratic disaster in 2020 — Kamala Harris is officially the nail in the coffin for the Democratic Party looking to take back the White House. The three hard-left progressive women filling up the pool of opponents to take on Trump have sunk their party.
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Trump is being the adult in the room on the shutdown — Last week, Democratic Sen. Mark R. Warner (Va.) offered President Trump some advice on how to end the current border wall standoff. “Always try to find a solution in which both sides come out ahead,” Warner told the president. It's good advice.
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Four Accused of Plotting to Attack Muslim Community — Police in Greece, New York, have arrested and charged four suspects who allegedly planned to attack a nearby Muslim community. The four men were each charged with three counts of criminal possession of a weapon and one count of conspiracy.
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Judge denies Mark Harris request to certify his win despite election fraud investigation — The state's investigation into alleged election fraud by the Mark Harris campaign will continue, a judge ruled Tuesday morning. — Harris is the Republican candidate who appeared to narrowly win …
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Joe.My.God., The Week and Axios
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House passes bill expressing support for NATO — The House passed bipartisan legislation on Tuesday expressing congressional support for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). — The bill, which passed in a 357-22 vote, includes a provision rejecting any efforts made by President Trump …
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Campaign workers demand minimum wage, progressive culture from 2020 Dems — Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., left, accompanied by Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., right, speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2017, to unveil their Medicare for All legislation to reform health care.
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The American Mirror
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Supreme Court Revives Ban on Transgender Military Service — WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Tuesday revived the Trump administration's policy of barring most transgender people from serving in the military. In a brief, unsigned order, the justices lifted nationwide injunctions that had blocked the policy.
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