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CNN:
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.
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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 …
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Political Wire
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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Mike Lillis / The Hill:
Pelosi: No Dem counteroffer on border security — Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Thursday that House Democrats are not working behind the scenes to craft a counteroffer to President Trump's border wall demands as a strategy for ending the history-making partial shutdown. — “That's not true.
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Dana Blanton / Fox News:
Fox News Poll: Voters see shutdown as bigger problem than border situation
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Julie Hirschfeld Davis / New York Times:
Two Competing Plans to End Shutdown Fail in the Senate
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ABC News, Raw Story, Townhall, Roll Call and The Gateway Pundit
Cameron Joseph / Talking Points Memo:
Six GOP Senators Buck Trump As Competing Shutdown Measures Fail
Heather Caygle / Politico:
Senate rejects dueling proposals to end the shutdown
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Vox, TheBlaze and Outside the Beltway
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.
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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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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Niels Lesniewski / Roll Call:
Wilbur Ross doesn't understand why furloughed federal workers need food banks — Commerce secretary suggests they should be able to take out bridge loans — Chuck Grassley reminds U.S. Olympic Committee about requirements for its tax exemption Senate sets up Thursday test votes on ending shutdown …
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Axios, Vox, ThinkProgress, The Daily Caller, Shakesville, Jezebel, The Democrats and Washington Post
Washington Post:
‘Am I out of touch?’: Trump administration struggles to show empathy for workers — On Day 34 of the government shutdown, with federal workers set to miss their second straight paycheck on Friday, the Trump administration was prominently represented by two denizens of Wall Street: Wilbur Ross and Larry Kudlow.
Matthew Choi / Politico:
Trump aides set off furor with out-of-touch shutdown remarks
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NBC News:
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 …
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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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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Hullabaloo
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 …
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Axios, Raw Story and Political Wire
Asawin Suebsaeng / The Daily Beast:
Trump's Disney Robot Obsession and Anthony Scaramucci's Dick Joke: Scenes From a White House Insider — They are who we thought they were. — Shortly after Donald Trump's election, a Disney crew was dispatched to the White House to record the new president's voice, which would be played through …
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Colby Itkowitz / Washington Post:
Sen. Michael Bennet slams Ted Cruz for ‘crocodile tears’ over the shutdown — Sen. Michael F. Bennet, typically a mild-mannered, congenial guy, on Thursday unleashed all of his furor over the partial government shutdown on Sen. Ted Cruz. — In a fiery exchange that played …
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Joe.My.God. and The Week
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Trish Turner / ABC News:
Possible short-term compromise brewing on ending shutdown, Trump wants wall ‘down payment’
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POLITICUSUSA and TheBlaze
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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Talking Points Memo
Frank Jack Daniel / Reuters:
Exclusive: U.S. to begin returning asylum seekers to Mexico on Friday - official — MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - The United States will return the first group of migrants seeking asylum in the United States to the Mexican border city of Tijuana on Friday, a spokesman for Mexico's president said on Thursday.
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Brian Stelter / CNN:
CNN's Jim Acosta is writing a book about Trump's war with the media — New York (CNN)CNN's chief White House correspondent Jim Acosta is authoring a book about the Trump administration and its battles with the news media. — The Harper imprint of HarperCollins Publishers announced the book on Thursday morning.
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BuzzFeed News:
Shoot Someone In A Major US City, And Odds Are You'll Get Away With It — A shocking number of shootings go unsolved. In some police departments, hundreds of cases aren't investigated at all. A joint investigation by The Trace and BuzzFeed News. … Devon Little was shot …
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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 …
New York Times:
Venezuela's Military Backs Maduro, as Russia Warns U.S. Not to Intervene — CARACAS, Venezuela — The embattled government of Venezuela struck back against its opponents on Thursday, winning strong support from the country's armed forces and the solid backing of Russia, which warned the United States not to intervene.
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CNN:
Michael Cohen subpoenaed by Senate Intelligence committee — (CNN)President Donald Trump's former personal lawyer Michael Cohen was subpoenaed Thursday to testify before the Senate Intelligence Committee in mid-February, according to a source close to Cohen. — It is not clear how Cohen will respond.
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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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BuzzFeed News:
We Followed YouTube's Recommendation Algorithm Down The Rabbit Hole — How many clicks through YouTube's “Up Next” recommendations does it take to go from an anodyne PBS clip about the 116th United States Congress to an anti-immigrant video from a designated hate organization?
Ezra Klein / Vox:
The political scientist Donald Trump should read — What Trump would do if he really wanted his wall. — It's not often I run across political science that genuinely changes my understanding of how American politics works. But Frances Lee's research has done exactly that. Twice.
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Washington Monthly and The Daily Beast
Meagan Flynn / Washington Post:
‘Trump will handle this’: Florida man tried to force Iraqi family out of his neighborhood, police say — David Allen Boileau kept saying, “the U.S. needs to get rid of all of them,” meaning Middle Easterners, according to police, but for the time being he was focused on getting rid of the neighbors.
NBC News:
Where's the ‘art of the deal’? Trump has simply stopped negotiating to end the shutdown — First Read is your briefing from “Meet the Press” and the NBC Political Unit on the day's most important political stories and why they matter. — WASHINGTON — As workers continue without pay …
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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.
Stephen Dinan / Washington Times:
Group launches ‘Draft Ann Coulter’ for president — A political action committee that pushes for stricter immigration controls said Thursday it is launching a campaign to draft conservative writer Ann Coulter to challenge President Trump. — Americans for Legal Immigration PAC has been among …
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