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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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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 …
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CNN:
Federal prosecutors subpoena Trump inaugural committee, source says — (CNN)Federal prosecutors in New York have subpoenaed the Trump inaugural committee for documents related to donors, vendors and finances, according to a source familiar with the outreach.
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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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VICE News, The Guardian and Townhall
Jacqueline Alemany / Washington Post:
Power Up: ‘Tom Brady’ of leakers roils Trump White House before State of Union
Power Up: ‘Tom Brady’ of leakers roils Trump White House before State of Union
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Talking Points Memo, Breitbart and POLITICUSUSA
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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The Daily Caller and The Gateway Pundit
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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New York Times:
Trump's Options for Wall Shrink as Republicans Balk at National Emergency Declaration
Trump's Options for Wall Shrink as Republicans Balk at National Emergency Declaration
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The National Memo, BostonGlobe.com, Vox and Hullabaloo
Marianne LeVine / Politico:
Republicans defy Trump on national emergency
Republicans defy Trump on national emergency
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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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Townhall, The Bulwark, Raw Story, Hot Air, The Week and Fox Carolina News
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.
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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Mary Papenfuss / HuffPost:
Trump Called Nepal And Bhutan ‘Nipple’ And ‘Button’ In Intel Briefing: Time's John Walcott — The national security reporter says on CNN that the president is alarmingly out of touch in White House intelligence sessions. — President Donald Trump mispronounced Nepal and Bhutan as “Nipple” …
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POLITICUSUSA, Raw Story and Daily Kos
Benjamin Siegel / ABC News:
House Democrats ramp up oversight of Trump administration after shutdown
House Democrats ramp up oversight of Trump administration after shutdown
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Political Wire
Nancy Cook / Politico:
The plan to keep Trump's taxes hidden — The new House Democratic majority is widely expected to test one of Donald Trump's ultimate red lines by demanding the president's personal tax returns — and the Trump administration has been gearing up for months to fight back hard.
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Ben White / Politico:
Trump picks World Bank critic 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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Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Senate Dems block Sasse measure meant to respond to Virginia bill — Senate Democrats blocked abortion-related legislation on Monday night in the wake of a political firestorm sparked by a Virginia abortion-rights bill last week. — Sen. Ben Sasse (R-Neb.) tried to pass legislation …
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Valerie Richardson / Washington Times:
Senate Democrats block GOP anti-infanticide bill spurred by Ralph Northam comments
Senate Democrats block GOP anti-infanticide bill spurred by Ralph Northam comments
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Townhall
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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twitchy.com and National Review
Alexandra DeSanctis / National Review:
Senate Democrats Block Bill Prohibiting Infanticide
Senate Democrats Block Bill Prohibiting Infanticide
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The Daily Caller
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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BuzzFeed News:
Secret Files Show How Trump Moscow Talks Unfolded While Trump Heaped Praise On Putin — As a candidate, Donald Trump had a lot of praise for Vladimir Putin — and no business, he kept insisting, in Russia. These documents tell a different story. — When Michael Cohen …
Niels Lesniewski / Roll Call:
Donald Trump is ignoring the law today. And no one really cares. — President Donald Trump is ignoring the law today. — And no one really cares. — In a normal year, policy staff at the White House, Cabinet departments and on Capitol Hill — along with reporters and photographers …
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Raw Story
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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Political Wire and The American Conservative
Vicky Prodeline / Polls:
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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William WeinbaumESPN / ESPN:
Coroner: Fan struck in head by foul ball during Dodgers game died of blunt force injury — A California woman died in August as a result of being hit in the head by a batted ball at Dodger Stadium, according to a Los Angeles County coroner's report obtained by ESPN's “Outside the Lines” …
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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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New York Times, twitchy.com, Political Wire, Hot Air and Media Matters for America
Michael Abramowitz / Washington Post:
Trump is straining democracy at home and around the world — Michael Abramowitz is president of Freedom House. — The challenges facing American democracy did not begin with President Trump. But midway through his term, there remains little doubt that his influence is straining core U.S. values …
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Raw Story and Freedom House
Ryan Saavedra / Daily Wire:
Far-Left Democrats Are Normalizing Anti-Semitism In Democratic Party — A trio of far-left Democrats are normalizing blatant anti-Semitism in the Democratic Party as leaders in the party idly stand by and refuse to condemn their actions and statements. — Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez …
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New York Times:
For Trump, the State of the Union Is a Spectacle, and He Is Ready for It — WASHINGTON — He likes the instant gratification of Twitter tirades to prefab statements from his press office. — He prefers improvising at a political rally to earnest policy addresses.
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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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Sharyl Attkisson / The Hill:
Intel operation against Trump still going strong — There was a great deal of news this past week about President Trump's audacious disregard for the advice and warnings from his own intelligence community experts. — Perhaps there's good reason for alarm.
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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Socially Liberal, Fiscally Conservative Voters Preferred Trump In 2016 — The conventional wisdom is that a socially liberal, fiscally conservative independent presidential candidate — like, say, Howard Schultz, the former Starbucks CEO, who is considering just such a run …
CNN:
UN pick Heather Nauert hosted panel on Sharia law conspiracies in 2009 Fox News webcast — (CNN)President Donald Trump's pick to be United Nations ambassador once hosted a panel on unfounded conspiracy theories that Islamic fundamentalists are secretly trying to destroy America by changing …
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Gideon Rachman / Financial Times:
The Trump era could last 30 years — How long is this going to last? Ever since the twin political upheavals of 2016 — Britain's vote for Brexit and America's election of Donald Trump — analysts have argued about whether this a temporary aberration, or the beginning of a new era.