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Officials rejected Jared Kushner for top secret security clearance, but were overruled — Jared Kushner was rejected for a top secret clearance by 2 career security specialists, but their supervisor overruled them and approved him, say sources. — WASHINGTON — Jared Kushner's application …
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Exclusive: White House preparing draft national emergency order and identified $7 billion for wall — Washington (CNN)The White House is preparing a draft proclamation for President Donald Trump to declare a national emergency along the southern border and has identified more than $7 billion …
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Heather Caygle / Politico:
Trump White House grows eager to escape losing shutdown fight — Now that the Senate has shot down President Donald Trump's compromise offer to end the month-long government shutdown, White House officials aren't sure of their next move. — But they do know one thing: they're losing, and they want to cut a deal.
McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Kushner floats deal of permanent protections for 1.8 million dreamers, LULAC chief says — Top White House adviser Jared Kushner told members of Latino advocacy organizations on Thursday that President Donald Trump was willing to give 1.8 million Dreamers permanent protections from deportation …
Jonathan Bernstein / Bloomberg:
Trump Just Lost His Leverage for Building a Wall — Two failed votes in the Senate on reopening the government show the president can't even count on the Republican majority to have his back. — President Donald Trump doesn't seem to realize it, but his claim to any leverage on the shutdown …
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Brian Stelter / CNN:
CNN's Jim Acosta is writing a book about Trump's war with the media
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Mike Lillis / The Hill:
Pelosi: No Dem counteroffer on border security
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Washington Post:
‘This is your fault’: GOP senators clash over shutdown inside private luncheon — Republican senators clashed with each other and confronted Vice President Pence inside a private luncheon on Thursday, as anger hit a boiling point over the longest government shutdown in history.
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
GOP senators read Pence riot act before shutdown votes — Frustrated GOP senators read Vice President Pence the riot act at a closed-door meeting Thursday, telling him the partial government shutdown needs to end soon, according to lawmakers in the room. — Republican senators …
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Trump just lost a lot of leverage in the shutdown — Thursday's votes on President Trump's and the Democrats' plans to end the month-long government shutdown were never going to succeed. But they sure seem to have reduced Trump's leverage. — Six Republican senators wound up voting …
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Washington Post:
Wilbur Ross says furloughed workers should take out a loan. His agency's own credit union is charging nearly 9 percent — The Department of Commerce federal credit union is charging furloughed employees almost 9 percent interest on emergency loans to cover their missing paychecks …
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Matthew Choi / Politico:
Trump aides set off furor with out-of-touch shutdown remarks
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Washington Post:
Elizabeth Warren to propose new ‘wealth tax’ on very rich Americans, economist says — Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) will propose a new “wealth tax” on Americans with more than $50 million in assets, according to an economist advising her on the plan, as Democratic leaders vie …
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Jeffrey Schweers / Tallahassee Democrat:
Florida Secretary of State Michael Ertel resigns after Halloween blackface photos emerge — Michael Ertel, the newly appointed Secretary of State of Gov. Ron DeSantis, has resigned after photos emerged of him posing as a Hurricane Katrina victim in blackface at a private Halloween party 14 years ago.
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Elie Mystal / The Nation:
Black Children Don't Have Nick Sandmann's Rights — And they definitely don't get the chance to redeem themselves on national TV with the help of Savannah Guthrie. — On Wednesday morning, I watched Savannah Guthrie help Nick Sandmann gaslight America into disbelieving its own eyes.
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Robin Givhan / Washington Post:
The MAGA hat is not a statement of policy. It's an inflammatory declaration of identity.
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Washington Post:
Koch network tells donors it plans to stay out of 2020 race, once again declining to back Trump — The conservative Koch political network has told donors that it plans to once again stay out of the presidential race and will not work to help reelect President Trump in 2020 …
Washington Post:
Witness in special counsel probe, former Stone associate, collected payments from Infowars through job Stone arranged — Over the past several months, author and conspiracy theorist Jerome Corsi has emerged as one of special counsel Robert S. Mueller III's most vexing witnesses in his probe of Russian interference in the 2016 campaign.
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Raw Story and Talking Points Memo
Rachel Bitecofer / New York Times:
Why Trump Will Lose in 2020 — The president is running hard on a strategy of riling up his base. But by doing that, he riles up the Democratic base, too, and that one is bigger. — Dr. Bitecofer is a professor of political science at Christopher Newport University.
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Washington Post:
Trump administration to start sending asylum seekers back to Mexico — U.S. officials at the southern border will begin sending some asylum applicants back to Mexico on Friday as the Trump administration implements new measures prohibiting migrants from waiting in the United States while their cases are processed.
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Dara Lind / Vox:
The US will begin sending some legal asylum seekers back to Mexico on Friday
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Brian Schwartz / CNBC:
JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon and Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon recently had private meetings with top Democratic Wall Street critic Maxine Waters — J.P. Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon and Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon recently met in private with leading Wall Street critic Rep. Maxine Waters …
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Fareed Zakaria / Washington Post:
Davos is a microcosm of the world — and the outlook is grim — The atmosphere at the 2019 World Economic Forum reflects the global picture perhaps more genuinely than in years past, and the painting is not very pretty. The mood here is subdued, cautious and apprehensive.
Josh Lederman / NBC News:
Skripal poisoning: Trump admin yet to impose new Russia sanctions required by law — The European Union punished 4 Russians this week in connection with the Skripal poisoning, but the U.S. hasn't moved forward with its own penalties. — WASHINGTON — Nearly three months after deeming Russia …
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General Colin L. Powell:
Yesterday was a reassuring day for me. I was on my way to Walter Reed Military Hospital for an exam. As I drove along Interstate 495 my left front tire blew out. I am a car guy and knew I could change it but it was cold outside and the lug bolts were very tight.
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Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
A Rival Who Can Flummox Trump: A Powerful Woman Named Nancy Pelosi — WASHINGTON — When President Trump is battling a man, he tends to belittle his foe with nicknames like “Cryin' Chuck” and “Low-energy Jeb.” When he is in a fight with a woman, he is known to lob insults like “horseface” and “ugly” and “dog.”
Aaron Gordon / Gothamist:
MTA Memo: Cuomo's L Train Plan Will Cause Crowding ‘Greater Than Anything Ever Experienced’ — Just a few weeks ago, Governor Andrew Cuomo upended three years of transportation planning and shocked the city by announcing that L train service between Brooklyn and Manhattan would no longer need to be shut down for 15 months for repairs.
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Alberto Luperon / Law & Crime:
Oregon Man Sentenced to 20 Months for Sexually Assaulting a Horse — Remember Kenneth Lijah Duyck? Law&Crime wrote about him back in April of last year. The Oregon man was arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting a horse. That case closed this week.
Guy Benson / Townhall:
Caring: House Democrats Defeat Second (UPDATE - Third) Bipartisan Effort to Pay Federal Workers During the Shutdown — A few days ago, a tweet from Texas Congressman Dan Crenshaw caught my attention. He mentioned an effort by House Republicans to force a vote on a bill that would have ensured …
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GQ:
The Unfinished Business of Bernie Sanders — He went from the rumpled bit player of the progressive movement to a legit presidential candidate and liberal kingmaker. But now that Sanders wields such enormous power in Democratic politics, the question is, what's he going to do with it?
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Eric Levitz / New York Magazine:
AOC Thinks Concentrated Wealth Is Incompatible With Democracy. So Did Our Founders. — In 1835, Alexis de Tocqueville produced one of the earliest accounts of the American dream. In his famous study of the Jacksonian U.S., the Frenchman wrote that Americans possessed “the charm of anticipated success” …
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