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New York Times:
Trump Inaugural Committee Ordered to Hand Over Documents to Federal Investigators — Trump Inaugural Committee Is Ordered to Give Documents to Investigators — Federal prosecutors demanded documents about the committee's finances and activities, showing interest in whether it received illegal foreign donations.
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John Santucci / ABC News:
New York prosecutors seek records from Trump inauguration committee: Sources — Prosecutors in New York's Southern District have reached out to President Donald Trump's inauguration committee and plan to subpoena the organization for documents, sources with direct knowledge tell ABC News …
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Wall Street Journal:
Lawyers for Trump Inaugural Committee Receive Subpoena for Documents — Lawyers for President Trump's inaugural committee have received subpoenas for documents from the Manhattan U.S. attorney's office.
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Washington Post:
Federal prosecutors issue sweeping subpoena for documents from Trump inaugural committee, a sign of a deepening criminal probe — A wide-ranging subpoena served on the inaugural committee Monday seeks an array of documents, including all information related to inaugural donors, vendors …
Theresa Vargas / Washington Post:
Va. Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax denies sex assault allegation from 2004 — Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax issued a statement early Monday denying a sexual assault allegation that appeared on the same conservative website that posted a racist photograph from Gov. Ralph Northam's medical school yearbook page.
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Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax of Virginia Denounces Sexual Assault Allegation as a ‘Smear’ — RICHMOND, Va. — Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax of Virginia on Monday emphatically denied a woman's claim that he sexually assaulted her in 2004, suggesting that Gov. Ralph Northam's supporters were trying …
Eli Yokley / Morning Consult:
Virginia Voters Quickly Sour on Northam Amid Blackface Scandal — Democrat sees 41-point drop in net approval after yearbook photo emerges — Northam spoke to reporters Saturday, denying that he is in the picture on his medical school yearbook page. (Alex Edelman/Getty Images)
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Jim Morrison / Washington Post:
Northam's med school banned yearbooks in 2013 — after students posed in Confederate garb
Northam's med school banned yearbooks in 2013 — after students posed in Confederate garb
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Washington Post:
Va. Gov. Northam meets with Cabinet and senior staff, weighs resignation
Va. Gov. Northam meets with Cabinet and senior staff, weighs resignation
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David French / National Review:
Comparing the Allegations against Brett Kavanaugh and Justin Fairfax
Comparing the Allegations against Brett Kavanaugh and Justin Fairfax
Patrick Howley / Big League Politics:
Stanford Fellow Hints At Possible Justin Fairfax Sex Assault
Stanford Fellow Hints At Possible Justin Fairfax Sex Assault
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BuzzFeed News:
Lobbyist at Trump Tower Meeting Received Half A Million Dollars In Suspicious Payments — A Russian-born lobbyist who attended the controversial Trump Tower meeting in June 2016 received a series of suspicious payments totaling half a million dollars before and after the encounter.
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
If Trump declares a national emergency, Pelosi can jam Republicans. Here's how. — Senate Republicans appear to be in a panic about President Trump's threat to declare a national emergency to realize his unquenchable fantasy of a big, beautiful wall on the southern border.
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Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Graham: There could be GOP ‘war’ over border wall — Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) warned on Monday that there could be a “war” among Republicans if President Trump declared a national emergency to build the U.S.-Mexico border wall. — Graham, speaking in South Carolina …
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Marianne LeVine / Politico:
Republicans defy Trump on national emergency — Many Senate Republicans are deeply opposed to President Donald Trump declaring a national emergency to build his border wall, with enough resistance that the president might ultimately be forced to veto a measure intended to block him.
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Steven T. Dennis / Bloomberg:
Graham Warns GOP to Back Trump on Wall Emergency
Graham Warns GOP to Back Trump on Wall Emergency
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The White House:
Special Guests for President Trump's Second State of the Union Address — Here are the special guests who will join the President and First Lady at the U.S. Capitol when President Donald J. Trump delivers the second State of the Union Address of his presidency.
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New York Times:
Trump Once Said Power Was About Instilling Fear. In That Case, He Should Be Worried. — WASHINGTON — Richard M. Nixon once said, “People react to fear, not love; they don't teach that in Sunday school, but it's true.” — No president since has deployed fear quite like Donald J. Trump.
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Monmouth University Polling Institute:
Dems Prefer Electability in 2020 — Some GOP voters want a primary challenge but most would back Trump — West Long Branch, NJ - In the run-up to 2020, fewer than 4-in-10 voters back a second term for President Donald Trump. The Monmouth University Poll finds a sizable number of GOP voters …
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Alex Seitz-Wald / NBC News:
Poll: Dems want ‘electable’ challenger who can beat Trump. Values come second.
Poll: Dems want ‘electable’ challenger who can beat Trump. Values come second.
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RT
Brian Schwartz / CNBC:
Democratic super PAC unleashes opposition research taking aim at Starbucks settling lawsuits with employees as Howard Schultz considers 2020 run — A major Democratic group targeting Howard Schultz unleashes opposition research focusing on Starbucks' history settling lawsuits with employees.
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Howard Schultz's Own Polling Finds His Campaign Would Reelect Trump
Howard Schultz's Own Polling Finds His Campaign Would Reelect Trump
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Alexander Burns / New York Times:
Democrats Are Urging Stacey Abrams to Run for Senate. She's Listening. — Stacey Abrams's defeat in the Georgia governor's race was only a few weeks old when she arrived in New York in December to meet with campaign donors and political allies. At a reception in Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood …
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Chris Mills Rodrigo / The Hill:
Bernie Sanders to deliver his own State of the Union response
Bernie Sanders to deliver his own State of the Union response
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Washington Post:
Purge of undocumented workers by the president's company spreads to at least 5 Trump golf courses — President Trump's company has fired at least 18 undocumented workers from five golf courses in New York and New Jersey in the past two months, part of a purge set in motion after a series …
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Politico:
Trump picks World Bank skeptic Malpass to lead institution — President Donald Trump is expected to tap Treasury Department official David Malpass as the U.S. pick to lead the World Bank, according to senior administration officials, a clear sign the administration wants to rein in the international financial institution.
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Kyle Mantyla / Right Wing Watch:
Liz Crokin Warns of ‘Vigilante Justice’ if QAnon's Promised Mass Arrests Don't Happen Soon — Last week, right-wing “journalist” and Trump-worshiping conspiracy theorist Liz Crokin posted a video on her YouTube channel in which she suggested that she was beginning to lose faith …
Ben White / Politico:
Soak the rich? Americans say go for it — The prospect of 70 percent tax rates for multimillionaires and special levies on the super-rich draw howls about creeping socialism and warnings of economic disaster in much of Washington. — But polling suggests that when it comes to soaking the rich …
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Zack Colman / Politico:
Green New Deal won't call for end to fossil fuels
Green New Deal won't call for end to fossil fuels
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Melanie Zanona / Politico:
‘They basically have nothing to do’: Trio of Republicans face life in exile — They're the outcasts of Capitol Hill, personae non gratae even in their own party. — Duncan Hunter, Chris Collins and Steve King have been excommunicated from the House GOP conference in the most public way possible …
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Raw Story
Alexandra DeSanctis / National Review:
Senate Democrats Block Bill Prohibiting Infanticide — On the Senate floor this evening, Senator Ben Sasse (R., Neb.) called for unanimous consent on his Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act, which provides protections for any infants born alive after attempted abortion procedures.
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Kimberly Leonard / Washington Examiner:
Democrats block Senate bill requiring medical care for babies that survive abortion
Democrats block Senate bill requiring medical care for babies that survive abortion
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Clémence Michallon / The Independent:
Liam Neeson interview: Rape, race and how I learnt revenge doesn't work — Exclusive: Sitting down with Clémence Michallon to discuss his latest action film ‘Cold Pursuit’, the actor recounts a disturbing incident from his past — Liam Neeson is sitting in an armchair with a flask of tea at his side.
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Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Ruth Bader Ginsburg makes first public appearance since cancer surgery — Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Monday night made her first public appearance since undergoing cancer surgery in December, attending a celebration of her life presented in song. — The 85-year-old justice attended a production of …
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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
McClatchy buyouts could claim chain's full-time Guantanamo reporter — Carol Rosenberg of the Miami Herald witnessed the arrival of the first al-Qaeda and Taliban prisoners at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba on Jan. 11, 2002. “They wore fluorescent orange jumpsuits, and those whose legs were shackled walked with baby steps.
CNN:
lost to an enemy — The US shipped weapons and secrets to the Saudis and Emiratis. Now, some are in the hands of fighters linked to al Qaeda and Iran. — Hodeidah, Yemen (CNN) - Saudi Arabia and its coalition partners have transferred American-made weapons to al Qaeda-linked fighters …
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The American Conservative
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System:
Statement on Chair Powell's and Vice Chair Clarida's meeting with the President and Treasury Secretary — At the President's invitation, Chair Powell and Vice Chair Clarida joined the President and the Treasury Secretary for an informal dinner tonight in the White House residence …
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Politico
Carl Campanile / New York Post:
Cuomo announces income tax revenues have dropped by $2.3B … Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Monday that state income tax revenues plummeted by $2.3 billion since he introduced his new budget plan last month — a bombshell that will force him to curb spending. — Cuomo attributed the revenue drop …
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Ian Parker / New Yorker:
A Suspense Novelist's Trail of Deceptions — Dan Mallory, who writes under the name A. J. Finn, went to No. 1 with his début thriller, “The Woman in the Window.” His life contains even stranger twists. — Dan Mallory, a book editor turned novelist, is tall, good-looking, and clever.
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