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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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CNN:
GOP senators express concerns about a national emergency declaration to fund border wall
GOP senators express concerns about a national emergency declaration to fund border wall
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Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Graham: There could be GOP ‘war’ over border wall
Graham: There could be GOP ‘war’ over border wall
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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.
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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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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Alexandra DeSanctis / National Review:
Senate Democrats Block Bill Prohibiting Infanticide
Senate Democrats Block Bill Prohibiting Infanticide
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.
Ryan Grim / The Intercept:
Top Nancy Pelosi Aide Privately Tells Insurance Executives Not to Worry About Democrats Pushing “Medicare for All” — Less than a month after Democrats — many of them running on “Medicare for All” — won back control of the House of Representatives in November, the top health policy aide …
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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