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Azeen Ghorayshi / BuzzFeed News:
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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Darren Samuelsohn / Politico:
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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Gabriel Sherman / Vanity Fair:
“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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USA Today:
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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Associated Press:
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 …
Ben Kesslen / NBC News:
Gay valedictorian banned from speaking at Covington graduation ‘not surprised’ by D.C. controversy — A gay student who was barred by the Covington diocese from speaking at his 2018 graduation, is “not surprised” by the Covington Catholic High School video.
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Washington Post:
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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David French / National Review:
Nathan Phillips's Interview with CNN Is Full of Falsehoods, Inconsistencies, and Nonsense — As I wrote on the home page today, it's disturbing to see the left-wing hate that is still being directed at the Covington Catholic students — days after the initial framing of the story was thoroughly debunked.
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Molly Roberts / Washington Post:
Everyone is still wrong about the Covington kids — Your opinion on the Covington Catholic fracas depends on the angle you choose to see it from. Literally. — A clash captured on video among a group of white MAGA-wearing schoolboys, a Native American activist and a handful …
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Ross Douthat / New York Times:
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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Nick Robins-Early / HuffPost:
House Intelligence Committee Looking Into Tweet About Viral MAGA Hat Teen Video
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David French / National Review:
Covington Catholic Is the Terrible Sequel to the Kavanaugh Case
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Hot Air:
Joy Behar: We Jumped To Conclusions About The Covington Catholic Kids Because We Desperately Want Trump Out Of Office
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Jennifer Edwards Baker / WXIX-TV:
CovCath, Diocese release statement following school closure Tuesday
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Andrew Egger / The Bulwark:
Is It Manly to Use a Bunch of Kids to ‘Own the Libs’?
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Martin Cizmar / Raw Story:
President Trump wants to meet with Covington Catholic boys at the White House: report
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Politico:
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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Zachary Basu / Axios:
4 progressive Democrats named to House Oversight Committee
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Media Matters for America:
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
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Clare Malone / FiveThirtyEight:
The Young Left's Anti-Capitalist Manifesto
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Nicole Goodkind / Newsweek:
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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Washington Post:
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
Sara Murray / CNN:
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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Joe.My.God., POLITICUSUSA, The Week, Raw Story, Daily Kos and Talking Points Memo
New York Times:
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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Washington Post:
‘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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Carol Morello / Washington Post:
Top diplomat for European affairs resigns from State Department
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Audrey McNamara / The Daily Beast:
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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Nancy Cook / Politico:
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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CNN:
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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Olivia Nuzzi / New York Magazine:
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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Christopher Flavelle / Bloomberg:
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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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
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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Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Trump administration asks Supreme Court to quickly take up census citizenship question
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Colin Campbell / Baltimore Sun:
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 …
Des Moines Register:
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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Los Angeles Times:
Smaller classes, new community schools in tentative deal to end the LAUSD teachers' strike — What was going to be a fierce morning march on school district headquarters became a celebration instead Tuesday as thousands of striking teachers learned of a tentative agreement to end a six-day strike.
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John Solomon / The Hill:
How the Clinton machine flooded the FBI with Trump-Russia dirt ... until agents bit — When at first you don't succeed, try, try again. That's what Hillary Clinton's machine did in 2016, eventually getting the FBI to bite on an uncorroborated narrative that Donald Trump and Russia were trying to hijack the presidential election.
Will Doran / The Charlotte Observer:
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
Marc A. Thiessen / Washington Post:
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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McClatchy Washington Bureau:
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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