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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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Patrick Howley / Big League Politics:
Stanford Fellow Hints At Possible Justin Fairfax Sex Assault — A woman named Vanessa Tyson, who is a fellow at Stanford University, says that a man who allegedly sexually assaulted her at the 2004 Democratic National Convention is now an office-holder about to get a “very big promotion,” …
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Daily Wire, RedState, WVEC, Talking Points Memo, Washington Times, Breitbart, WUSA, WTKR-TV, The Gateway Pundit, Washington Free Beacon and The Week
Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
Justin Fairfax, Virginia's Lieutenant Governor, Denies Sexual Assault Allegation — Justin Fairfax, Virginia's lieutenant governor, issued a statement denying an unsubstantiated claim of sexual assault. — PRESIDENT TRUMP — Will the Mueller Report Be Made Public? Trump Won't Commit
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Political Wire, Observer and The American Conservative
WWBT-TV:
Lt. Gov. Fairfax slams ‘defamatory and false’ sexual assault allegation — RICHMOND, VA (WWBT) - Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax issued a statement early Monday after an online article hinted at sexual assault allegations against him in 2004. — The site “Big League Politics” …
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Big League Politics, The Daily Caller, WTVR-TV, Hot Air, Daily Wire and twitchy.com
New York Times:
Virginia Capitol in Chaos as Pressure on Northam Intensifies — RICHMOND, Va. — Gov. Ralph Northam of Virginia, abandoned by allies in the Democratic Party and besieged by demands that he resign, met with his cabinet Monday morning as state legislators returned to a Capitol thrown into chaos …
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Florida Politics and Conservative Review
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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Claire Williams / Morning Consult:
Warren's Proposed Tax on Wealthy Draws More Support Than Ocasio-Cortez's — 63% of voters think upper-income people currently pay too little in taxes — Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) at a Nov. 1, 2017, rally protesting the Republican tax plan outside the U.S. Capitol.
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Vox
Steven Shepard / Politico:
Poll: Democrats have reason to fret Schultz
Poll: Democrats have reason to fret Schultz
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Emerson College, POLITICUSUSA and No More Mister Nice Blog
Keach Hagey / Wall Street Journal:
Site Behind Northam Revelations Is Backed by GOP Operatives — The website that broke the story of the racist yearbook photo that is imperiling Virginia Democratic Gov. Ralph Northam is a scrappy, pro-Trump outfit backed by Republican operatives.
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twitchy.com, Splinter, Politico and Talking Points Memo
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Alejandro de la Garza / TIME:
Photo of Mitch McConnell in Front of a Confederate Flag Resurfaces Amid Northam Yearbook Controversy
Photo of Mitch McConnell in Front of a Confederate Flag Resurfaces Amid Northam Yearbook Controversy
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Raw Story, Da Tech Guy Blog, Washington Post and Townhall
Vann R. Newkirk II / The Atlantic:
Ralph Northam's Mistake
Ralph Northam's Mistake
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New York Times, The Daily Beast and The Resurgent
President Katherine A. Rowe / wm.edu:
Charter Day and recent events
Charter Day and recent events
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Politico and Talking Points Memo
Justin Mattingly / Richmond Times-Dispatch:
Northam agrees not to attend William & Mary celebrations
Washington Post:
Northam meets with senior staff and considers options, including resignation
Northam meets with senior staff and considers options, including resignation
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Media Matters for America, Vox, Politico, Breitbart, Raw Story, Contemptor, WTKR-TV, Talking Points Memo, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, TheBlaze, Daily Kos, Rewire.News, CNN, Splinter and The Daily Caller
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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Political Wire and POLITICUSUSA
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.
Washington Post:
‘Democracy Dies in Darkness’ — When we go off to war. When we exercise our rights. When we soar to our greatest heights. — When we mourn and pray. When our neighbors are at risk. When our nation is threatened. There's someone to gather the facts. — To bring you the story. No matter the cost.
Aída Chávez / The Intercept:
Ana Maria Archila, Who Confronted Sen. Jeff Flake, Will Be Ocasio-Cortez's SOTU Guest — Ana Maria Archila, the Queens woman who famously confronted Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake in a Capitol Hill elevator, will be Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's State of the Union guest on Tuesday.
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CNN, National Review, Joe.My.God., Breitbart, The Gateway Pundit, IJR, The Hill, Jezebel, Hullabaloo and The Week
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Anita Kumar / Politico:
Dems hope to draw blood from potential Trump SCOTUS pick — When the conservative lawyer Neomi Rao appears before the Senate Judiciary Committee this week, she'll be interviewing for a job on the country's second most powerful court. — But both her allies and enemies will be watching …
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The Intercept
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Washington Post:
Iraqi president rejects Trump's plan to ‘watch Iran’ from military bases in Iraq — Iraqi President Barham Salih on Monday rejected a plan floated by President Trump that calls for keeping U.S. forces in Iraq to “watch” neighboring Iran, saying the United States should not burden Iraq with its own “policy priorities.”
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WORLD, Salon, Shareblue Media and The Daily Beast
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Washington Post:
'It's way too many': As vacancies pile up in Trump administration, senators grow concerned — From the Justice Department to Veterans Affairs, vast swaths of the government have top positions filled by officials serving in an acting capacity — or no one at all.
Edward-Isaac Dovere / The Atlantic:
Biden's Anguished Search for a Path to Victory — Joe Biden reliably blows through every public and private deadline for making a decision about running for president. But he's giving everyone he's seen in recent weeks the feeling that he's very close to saying yes.
Associated Press:
Trump campaign takes steps to prevent a challenge within GOP — WASHINGTON (AP) — Worried about a potential Republican primary challenge, President Donald Trump's campaign has launched a state-by-state effort to prevent an intraparty fight that could spill over into the general-election campaign.
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Joe.My.God. and The Guardian
Mike Allen / Axios:
A big leak rattles the White House — The massive leak of President Trump's private schedules, which dropped yesterday in the weekly Axios Sneak Peek newsletter, set off internal finger-pointing and speculation more fevered than any since the New York Times' anonymous op-ed.
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The Daily Beast, Raw Story, Joe.My.God., The Week, Mediaite and CNN
CNN:
CNN Poll: 4 in 10 call this the worst governing of their lifetimes — State of the Union: Paralyzed over border wall fight — (CNN)With a looming February 15 deadline to fund parts of the US government, few are optimistic the President and Congress will be able to reach agreement …