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GOP Lawmaker Tells Ocasio-Cortez Congress Isn't Just ‘Eating Bonbons’ — Leading House conservative addresses New York Democrat — Two lawmakers mix it up at first meeting of Oversight panel — A leading House conservative backer of President Donald Trump decided …
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Some Dems float idea of primary challenge for Ocasio-Cortez — Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) has infuriated colleagues by aligning with a progressive outside group that's threatening to primary entrenched Democrats. Now some of those lawmakers are turning the tables …
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Howard Schultz Blames Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for His Decision to Run as Independent — Billionaire former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz says he can't run for president as a Democrat because he doesn't like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's proposal to slap a 70-percent marginal tax rate on income above $10 million.
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CNBC, Raw Story, Joe.My.God., Breitbart and The New Civil Rights Movement
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‘Empire’ Star Jussie Smollett Beaten by MAGA Backers, Cast Gets Armed Guards — 12:43 PM PT — Sources connected to production tell us Jussie and the rest of the main “Empire” cast members will have armed security going forward while they continue shooting in Chicago.
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Chicago Police Deny Claim That Jussie Smollett Identified Attackers as White, Heard Them Say ‘MAGA’
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theGrio
Victoria Albert / The Daily Beast:
‘Empire’ Star Jussie Smollett Attacked in Possible Hate Crime: Police
‘Empire’ Star Jussie Smollett Attacked in Possible Hate Crime: Police
Sister Toldjah / RedState:
Media Shouldn't Make The Same Mistakes in Jussie Smollett Attack Stories As The Mistakes …
Media Shouldn't Make The Same Mistakes in Jussie Smollett Attack Stories As The Mistakes …
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TMZ.com, Instapundit and theGrio
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Tulsi Gabbard campaign in disarray — Tulsi Gabbard's presidential campaign hasn't officially launched yet but it's already melting down. — Two-and-a-half weeks after she told CNN she had decided to run for the White House—an announcement that even her own staff didn't know was coming …
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Joe.My.God. and Political Wire
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U.S. Intelligence Chiefs Contradict Trump on North Korea and Iran — WASHINGTON — A new American intelligence assessment of global threats has concluded that North Korea is “unlikely to give up” all of its nuclear stockpiles, and that Iran is not “currently undertaking the key nuclear weapons …
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Has Howard Schultz Really Thought This Through? — Howard Schultz is no longer CEO of Starbucks. But as de facto founder (he took it over as a small coffee roaster and developed it into what we know as Starbucks) I imagine he is still a major shareholder. Really he and Starbucks are inseparable.
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Balloon Juice
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‘The View’ Makes Howard Schultz Squirm: Can You Really ‘Live With’ Re-Electing Trump?
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CNBC, Breitbart and The Daily Caller
Sahil Kapur / Bloomberg:
Starbucks' Schultz ‘100% Will Only Run If He Sees a Viable Path,’ Adviser Says
Starbucks' Schultz ‘100% Will Only Run If He Sees a Viable Path,’ Adviser Says
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Washington Examiner, Political Wire and The Guardian
Tim Burke / The Daily Beast:
The Starbucks Music Store Under Howard Schultz Was Painfully White
The Starbucks Music Store Under Howard Schultz Was Painfully White
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Business Insider, twitchy.com and Washington Free Beacon
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Trump sat down with Putin at G20 without US note-taker — Donald Trump sat down with Vladimir Putin for several minutes of conversation at the end of an evening event at the G20 summit in Buenos Aires in November, with no translator or note-taker from the US side to record the dialogue between the leaders …
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Vox, Daily Kos and Shareblue Media
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House Democrats taunt GOP with vote to oppose shutdowns — House Democrats plan to put Republicans on the spot Wednesday with a vote to condemn future government shutdowns, even as the threat of another border wall showdown remains just weeks away. — Democratic leaders will force a vote …
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Political Wire
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Liz Cheney rises amid GOP rubble
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Cliff Sims Is Proud to Have Served Trump — In August, 2016, Cliff Sims, the C.E.O. of an Alabama-based conservative news site, joined the Trump campaign. He then followed Trump to the White House, where he worked as the special assistant to the President and as the director …
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Brian Stelter / CNN:
Trump's Twitter insult about ‘Team of Vipers’ might be helping Cliff Sims sell books
Trump's Twitter insult about ‘Team of Vipers’ might be helping Cliff Sims sell books
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The Daily Beast, Chicks On The Right, Washington Post and twitchy.com
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Senate panel postpones attorney general nominee William P. Barr's confirmation vote amid Democrats' concerns — President Trump's nominee for attorney general is expected to clear the Senate Judiciary Committee and be confirmed by the full Senate, but Democrats are worried …
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Karoun Demirjian / Washington Post:
Senate panel postpones William Barr's confirmation vote amid Democrats' concerns
Senate panel postpones William Barr's confirmation vote amid Democrats' concerns
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Mother Carrying Baby in Stroller Dies After Falling Down Subway Stairs — [What you need to know to start the day: Get New York Today in your inbox.] — A young mother died on Monday night when she fell down a flight of subway stairs in Midtown Manhattan while carrying her baby daughter in a stroller, the police said.
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APNewsBreak: Infamy, zeal for carnage inspired Vegas shooter — LAS VEGAS (AP) — A high-stakes gambler who rained down a hail of gunfire, killing 58 people from his high-rise casino suite in Las Vegas wanted infamy and mass destruction, the FBI told the Associated Press Tuesday …
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Chris Christie: There Is No One With More Influence Over Trump Than Jared Kushner — Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie made headlines in early 2016 when he dropped out of the presidential race and subsequently became the first major Republican to endorse Donald Trump.
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Splinter and Political Wire
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A House Democrat Is Probing Whether Steven Mnuchin Had A Conflict Of Interest In The Russian Sanctions Fight — WASHINGTON — A House Democrat is demanding answers about an alleged business deal that Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin had with an associate of a Russian oligarch whose companies recently received US sanctions relief.
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Mother Jones, Washington Press, Joe.My.God., Law & Crime and Shareblue Media
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Kenneth P. Vogel / New York Times:
Steven Mnuchin Draws Claims of Conflict of Interest in Decision on Russian Oligarch
Steven Mnuchin Draws Claims of Conflict of Interest in Decision on Russian Oligarch
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Ways and Means Committee, HuffPost and Washington Post
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Elizabeth Warren's plan to tax the super-rich has been tried before. Here's what happened. — Versions of a “wealth tax” proposed by the 2020 hopeful have been put in place in a number of countries. Most have gotten rid them. — Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., has made a splash with her plan for a …
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The Mahablog and New York Times
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Cameron Joseph / Talking Points Memo:
Elizabeth Warren Mocks ‘Billionaire’ Howard Schultz
Elizabeth Warren Mocks ‘Billionaire’ Howard Schultz
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Washington Post, Hit & Run, NBC News and Washington Press
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Facebook pays teens to install VPN that spies on them — Desperate for data on its competitors, Facebook has been secretly paying people to install a “Facebook Research” VPN that lets the company suck in all of a user's phone and web activity, similar to Facebook's Onavo Protect app …
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Graham urges Trump to tie debt limit to border security funding — Manchin: Stop Washington's paychecks, stop shutdowns 01:16 — Washington (CNN) — An influential Republican senator is urging President Donald Trump to up the ante in talks over his border wall: To push for an increase …
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Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti will not run for president — Mayor Eric Garcetti will announce in Los Angeles today that he will not run for president in 2020, according to three sources. — Garcetti had been considering a presidential campaign for months and traveled the country raising money for Democrats.
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Democrats tap Georgia's Stacey Abrams to deliver the response to Trump's State of the Union address — Democrats have tapped Georgia's Stacey Abrams to deliver the response to President Trump's State of the Union address, Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) announced Tuesday.
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Texas quietly informs counties that some of the 95,000 voters flagged for citizenship review don't belong on the list — County officials said the number mistakenly flagged is “significant.” … After flagging tens of thousands of registered voters for citizenship reviews …
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Splinter
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APNewsBreak: Schneiderman used campaign cash for legal bills — NEW YORK (AP) — Former New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman used nearly $340,000 in political campaign funds to pay the law firm that represented him during an investigation of allegations that he physically abused several women …
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Gone in a Generation — Across America, climate change is already disrupting lives — The continental United States is 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit warmer than it was a century ago. Seas at the coasts are nine inches higher. The damage is mounting from these fundamental changes, and Americans are living it.
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Exclusive: Clemson's Black Players Refused to Accept Donald Trump's Invitation to the McCookout — When Filet-O-Fish aficionado Donald Trump invited the Clemson Tigers to enjoy the White House's first Presidential Value Meal, most of Clemson's national championship football team members jumped …
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Raw Story, The Guardian and Breitbart
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Harley-Davidson Profit Is Wiped Out by President Trump's Tariffs — Earnings per share miss estimates by widest margin since 2009 — Retail deliveries in home market dropped 10% in fourth quarter — Harley-Davidson Inc. broke even in the last quarter of a year …
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Raw Story, TheDrive and Joe.My.God.
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Labor Secretary's Role in Epstein Plea Deal Under DOJ Scrutiny — The Justice Department's inspector general wants lawmakers to give him the authority to investigate a decade-old plea deal in which Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta allegedly helped an accused sex offender skirt the harshest punishment for crimes against teens.
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Raw Story
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The lowest-paid shutdown workers aren't getting back pay — Janitors, security guards and cooks aren't guaranteed compensation after losing wages — Her debt was mounting: $156 for the gas bill, $300 for electricity, $2,000 for the mortgage. She could no longer afford her blood pressure pills.
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Daily Kos and The Democrats
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GOP Congressman Unveils Bill To Prevent More Blake Farentholds — The BLAKE Act would ban ex-members from lobbying Congress until they repay taxpayer money spent on sex harassment settlements. — WASHINGTON Remember Blake Farenthold? He's the former Texas congressman who spent $84,000 …
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What Kamala Harris Doesn't Understand About Gun Owners — When I read progressive arguments for gun control, I'm struck by how often I'll see a truly strange line of thought. “If only,” they argue, “you really knew what guns do, then you'd favor greater limits on gun rights.”
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Washington Post
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CBO report shows that spending, not Trump tax cuts, are primarily driving the nation's deficits — A new report from the Congressional Budget Office makes it abundantly clear that historically high spending is what's driving the massive growth in deficits over the next decade …