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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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Raw Story, CNN, ThinkProgress and Daily Kos


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


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 …


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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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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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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Detroit Free Press, CNN and Breitbart

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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The Stranger, Gizmodo and CNN

Everyone is still wrong about the Covington kids
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New York Times, Rewire.News, The Gateway Pundit and Detroit Metro Times, more at Mediagazer »


The Covington Scissor — Welcome to another controversy …
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The American Spectator, The College Fix, Contemptor, RedState, Vox, The Hill and Instapundit

Vietnam Veteran status of Native American at center of viral encounter in D.C. in question
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Front Page Magazine

Joy Behar: We Jumped To Conclusions About The Covington Catholic Kids Because We Desperately Want Trump Out Of Office
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National Review, twitchy.com and Daily Wire

President Trump wants to meet with Covington Catholic boys at the White House: report
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WXIX-TV, Hollywood Reporter and RT

Is It Manly to Use a Bunch of Kids to ‘Own the Libs’?
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American Greatness, The Root and Washington Free Beacon

Covington Catholic Is the Terrible Sequel to the Kavanaugh Case
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Instapundit, Right Wing Watch and twitchy.com


No, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, this ain't World War II — Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., is a rising star in the Democratic Party. But she needs a history refresher. At an event on Monday, the congresswoman declared that addressing climate change “is our World War II.”
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Ocasio-Cortez and liberal freshmen join Oversight Committee
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MSNBC contributor Hugh Hewitt: Joe Biden has “transgendered into Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez”
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4 progressive Democrats named to House Oversight Committee
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Speaker Nancy Pelosi

Ocasio-Cortez Builds a National Platform, but a District Office? Not Open Yet
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CNN

The Young Left's Anti-Capitalist Manifesto
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twitchy.com, Politico and IJR


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 …


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 …


‘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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Trump is being the adult in the room on the shutdown
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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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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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The Week, Daily Kos, POLITICUSUSA, Raw Story, Joe.My.God. and Talking Points Memo


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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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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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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Splinter, Joe.My.God. and The Week


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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Mashable


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.


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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Jamie Dupree - AJC, The Hill, Mediaite, Daily Wire, POLITICUSUSA, New York Times, Washington Press, RedState, Townhall, IJR, Raw Story, Talking Points Memo and Splinter, more at Mediagazer »


Pete Buttigieg Thinks All the 2020 Democrats Are Too Old — The mayor of South Bend, Indiana, has announced his candidacy, promising “intergenerational justice.” — Pete Buttigieg, the Millennial mayor of South Bend, Indiana, will formally launch an exploratory committee on Wednesday …


Los Angeles Teachers' Strike to End as Deal Is Reached — LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles public schoolteachers reached a deal with officials on Tuesday to end a weeklong strike that had affected more than half a million students, winning an array of supplementary services after an era …
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Despite Bitcoin's Dive, a Former Soviet Republic Is Still Betting Big on It — Tax breaks, land deals and cheap energy have spurred cryptocurrency mining in Georgia, which wants to be a digital data leader. — TBILISI, Georgia — For three years, a windowless warehouse on the edge of town …