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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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‘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 …
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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.
CNN:
Exclusive: White House preparing draft national emergency order, has 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 …
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: The losing move — DRIVING THE DAY — DAY 35 ... NEW ... ONE IDEA that seems to be picking up steam at the White House and in some quarters on Capitol Hill is creating a commission to study border security and a border wall. — NEEDLESS TO SAY, THIS WOULD BE REPUBLICANS FOLDING …
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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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Burgess Everett / Politico:
'We're talking': McConnell and Schumer attempt to defuse shutdown
'We're talking': McConnell and Schumer attempt to defuse shutdown
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Trump just lost a lot of leverage in the shutdown
Trump just lost a lot of leverage in the shutdown
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Colby Itkowitz / Washington Post:
Sen. Michael Bennet slams Ted Cruz for ‘crocodile tears’ over the shutdown
Sen. Michael Bennet slams Ted Cruz for ‘crocodile tears’ over the shutdown
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CNN:
Roger Stone indicted on charges brought by special counsel — (CNN)Roger Stone has been indicted by a grand jury on charges brought by special counsel Robert Mueller, who alleges that the longtime Donald Trump associate sought stolen emails from WikiLeaks that could damage Trump's opponents …
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Mark Mazzetti / New York Times:
Roger Stone, Adviser to Trump, Is Indicted in Mueller Investigation — WASHINGTON — Roger J. Stone Jr., a longtime informal adviser to President Trump who has spent decades plying the dark arts of scandal-mongering and dirty tricks to help influence American political campaigns …
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Associated Press:
Trump associate Stone arrested, faces obstruction charge — WASHINGTON (AP) — Roger Stone, a confidant of President Donald Trump, was arrested in the special counsel's Russia investigation in a pre-dawn raid at his Florida home on Friday and was charged with lying to Congress and obstructing the probe.
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Washington Post:
Longtime Trump adviser Roger Stone indicted by special counsel in Russia investigation — Roger J. Stone Jr., a longtime informal adviser to President Trump, was arrested by the FBI on Friday after being indicted in the investigation by special counsel Robert S. Mueller III.
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Ali Dukakis / ABC News:
Roger Stone, longtime Trump friend, indicted by special counsel Robert Mueller — President Donald Trump's longtime friend and veteran political operative Roger Stone has been indicted on seven counts, including one count of obstruction of an official proceeding, five counts of false statements …
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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Sara Murray / CNN:
As Stone waits for Mueller, he's back to going out for pizza on Fridays
As Stone waits for Mueller, he's back to going out for pizza on Fridays
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Lucien Bruggeman / ABC News:
Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort expected in court to confront special counsel's allegations of lying
Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort expected in court to confront special counsel's allegations of lying
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Marc Caputo / Politico:
'Florida is Trump's state to lose' — The nation's biggest swing state looks even more like Trump Country heading into 2020. — Newly released Florida voter data suggest President Donald Trump will begin his reelection campaign as the favorite in a state that offers a windfall of 29 electoral votes.
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Rachel Bitecofer / New York Times:
Why Trump Will Lose in 2020 — The president is running hard …
Why Trump Will Lose in 2020 — The president is running hard …
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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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Marc A. Thiessen / Washington Post:
If Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez were a conservative — If Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) were a conservative, all anyone would be talking about is how uninformed she is. She would be facing trick questions from reporters designed to expose her lack of knowledge, and brutal sketches on …
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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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Kimberley A. Strassel / Wall Street Journal:
Mark Warner's Enablers — The Virginia senator gets too much respect for his Trump-Russia conspiracy theories. — Hand it to Sen. Mark Warner. Of the many Russia-collusion theorists, how many get to claim “bipartisan” credentials? — That's one question that accompanied Thursday's supposedly big news …
Anne Applebaum / Washington Post:
A crisis of conservatism creates gridlock on both sides of the Atlantic — In the capital cities of the two great anglophone powers, public business has ground to a halt. On one side of the Atlantic, federal workers are lining up to receive free food while the president holds the government to ransom.
Associated Press:
Backed by military, Venezuela's Maduro hits back at rival — Backed by Venezuela's military, President Nicolas Maduro went on the offensive against an opposition leader who declared himself interim president and his U.S. supporters, setting up a potentially explosive struggle for power in the crisis-plagued South American nation.
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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.”
Gabby Orr / Politico:
‘People dying in a ditch’: Trump demanded ‘horrifying’ anti-opioid ads, new book says — Former White House aide Cliff Sims recalls Trump wanting to deter young people with images of 'bodies stacked on top of bodies. — Last June, the Trump White House launched a six-figure advertising campaign …
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Brian Stelter / CNN:
CNN's Jim Acosta is writing a book about Trump's war with the media
CNN's Jim Acosta is writing a book about Trump's war with the media
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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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Alicia A. Caldwell / Wall Street Journal:
U.S. to Start Returning Some Asylum Seekers to Mexico