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Washington Post:
Second woman accuses Va. Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax of sexual assault — A woman said Friday she was raped by Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax (D) in a “premeditated and aggressive” assault in 2000, while they both were undergraduate students at Duke University.
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New York Times:
Second Woman Accuses Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax of Virginia of Sexual Assault — A second woman came forward Friday with claims that she had been sexually assaulted by Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin E. Fairfax, alleging that he raped her while they were students at Duke University in 2000 and demanding that he resign immediately.
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Darren Sands / BuzzFeed News:
Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam Plans To Survive By Changing His Agenda To Focus On Race — Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam, still facing calls to resign as governor a week after the revelation that his page in a medical school yearbook features a racist photograph, is now tightly focused on coming up with plans to survive.
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Axios:
Second woman accuses Justin Fairfax of sexual assault — A second woman has accused Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax of sexual assault. — Details: An attorney for Meredith Watson alleges that Fairfax raped her in 2000 while they were both students at Duke University.
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Maggie Severns / Politico:
Second woman accuses Virginia lieutenant governor of sexual assault
Second woman accuses Virginia lieutenant governor of sexual assault
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Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Riding It Out? Northam Surrenders To GOP On Tax Cuts As WaPo Reports “Stronger Position”
Riding It Out? Northam Surrenders To GOP On Tax Cuts As WaPo Reports “Stronger Position”
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Richmond Times-Dispatch, Associated Press and Washington Post
Cameron Joseph / Talking Points Memo:
Northam Tells Staff He Definitely Won't Resign As Second Woman Accuses Fairfax Of Sexual Assault
Northam Tells Staff He Definitely Won't Resign As Second Woman Accuses Fairfax Of Sexual Assault
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Vox, The Gateway Pundit, Bloomberg and Big League Politics
Megan Garnache / WTKR-TV:
Lt. Gov. Fairfax “will not resign” following second sexual assault allegation
Lt. Gov. Fairfax “will not resign” following second sexual assault allegation
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John D. Dingell / Washington Post:
My last words for America — John D. Dingell, a Michigan Democrat who served in the U.S. House from 1955 to 2015, was the longest-serving member of Congress in American history. He dictated these reflections to his wife, Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-Mich.), at their home in Dearborn, on Feb. 7, the day he died.
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Associated Press
Bloomberg:
National Enquirer's AMI Scrutinized Over Bezos Story, Sources Say — Federal prosecutors are reviewing the National Enquirer's handling of its story about Jeff Bezos' extramarital affair to determine if the company violated an earlier cooperation deal with prosecutors, according …
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Oliver Darcy / CNN:
“It will all come out now”: Jeff Bezos' bombshell could lead to other National Enquirer plots being exposed
“It will all come out now”: Jeff Bezos' bombshell could lead to other National Enquirer plots being exposed
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Associated Press:
The Latest: Prosecutors probing tabloid's Bezos story
The Latest: Prosecutors probing tabloid's Bezos story
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Timothy L. O'Brien / Bloomberg:
Jeff Bezos Takes on the National Enquirer and Trump
Jeff Bezos Takes on the National Enquirer and Trump
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Trump, Inc.:
New Evidence Emerges of Possible Wrongdoing by Trump Inaugural Committee — Federal prosecutors in New York are circling Donald Trump's inaugural committee as part of a wide-ranging investigation into possible money laundering, illegal contributions and cash-for-access schemes.
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Washington Post:
Facing opposition, Amazon reconsiders NY headquarters site, two officials say — Amazon.com is reconsidering its plan to bring 25,000 jobs to a new campus in New York City following a wave of opposition from local politicians, according to two people familiar with the company's thinking.
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Molly Hensley-Clancy / BuzzFeed News:
Staffers, Documents Show Amy Klobuchar's Wrath Toward Her Aides — Amy Klobuchar has laid the grounds for a presidential run on an image of “Minnesota nice.” — But behind the doors of her Washington, DC, office, the Minnesota Democrat ran a workplace controlled by fear, anger, and shame …
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HuffPost:
Harry Reid Rebuked Amy Klobuchar For Mistreatment Of Staff — A leaked campaign document shows how staff tried to manage her anger. — Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar's mistreatment of her office staff began more than a decade ago and eventually caused such concerns that in 2015 …
BuzzFeed:
Days After Its Disastrous British Launch, Turning Point Has Already Lost One Of Its Star Recruits — “There was a sense of people realising, ‘Who are these cranks?’” — They were here to start a culture war, and Charlie Kirk was looking forward to the backlash.
Washington Post:
‘My whole town practically lived there’: From Costa Rica to New Jersey, a pipeline of illegal workers for Trump goes back years — SANTA TERESA DE CAJON, COSTA RICA — At his home on the misty slope of Costa Rica's tallest mountain, Dario Angulo keeps a set of photographs from the years …
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Olivia Beavers / The Hill:
Judiciary Dem asks Whitaker: ‘How the heck did you become the head of the Department of Justice?’ — Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) in one of the more pointed moments of a testy hearing on Friday questioned how Matthew Whitaker became President Trump's acting attorney general. — “I'm confused.
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Gabriel Sherman / Vanity Fair:
“Trump Is Hated by Everyone Inside the White House”: The State of the Union Left Trump Stoked—But Some of His Staff Are Miserable — The leak of his schedules is a sign of deep disaffection. Mick Mulvaney, chafing at the family, is eyeing the exits, as is Larry Kudlow.
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Raw Story
Mark Joseph Stern / Slate:
Brett Kavanaugh Just Declared War on Roe v. Wade — John Roberts joined the liberals to save the constitutional right to choose—for now. — On Thursday night, the Supreme Court blocked a stringent Louisiana abortion law by a 5-4 vote, with Chief Justice John Roberts joining the liberals to keep the measure on hold.
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Noah Smith / Bloomberg:
The Green New Deal Would Spend the U.S. Into Oblivion — The environmental parts of the plan would be costly, but manageable. The same can't be said of its social programs. — Skeptics of Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's promise of a Green New Deal were worried that the plan …
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Philip Klein / Washington Examiner:
Reality check: Cost of ‘Green New Deal’ would dwarf moon landing, highway system, and New Deal itself
Reality check: Cost of ‘Green New Deal’ would dwarf moon landing, highway system, and New Deal itself
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NB Blog, Washington Post and The Federalist
Kimberley A. Strassel / Wall Street Journal:
The Socialist That Could — Meet Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez …
The Socialist That Could — Meet Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez …
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Bret Stephens / New York Times:
The Progressive Assault on Israel — A movement that can detect a racist dog-whistle from miles away is strangely deaf when it comes to some of the barking on its own side of the fence. — It happened again last month in Detroit. Pro-Palestinian demonstrators seized the stage …
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Washington Free Beacon, Daily Wire and Mondoweiss
Rebecca Morin / Politico:
White House refuses to meet Senate deadline on Khashoggi killing — President Donald Trump has missed a deadline imposed by a bipartisan group of senators to identify the killers of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi and to determine if the U.S. should impose sanctions on them.
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Jon Swaine / The Guardian:
Rosenstein did not want to write memo justifying Comey firing - new book — Deputy attorney general privately complained about Trump's order, according to Comey's former deputy Andrew McCabe — The deputy attorney general, Rod Rosenstein, privately complained that he was ordered …
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David French / National Review:
The Supreme Court Upholds a Grave Violation of the First Amendment — I have no sympathy for Domineque Ray. The man was convicted of raping and murdering a 15-year-old girl, an act so heinous that the death penalty is appropriate and just. But Ray, no matter his crimes …
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CNN
CNN:
First on CNN: Kellyanne Conway describes for the first time alleged October 2018 assault — Washington (CNN)Kellyanne Conway says that she was grabbed and shaken by a woman while out with her teenage daughter in a Maryland restaurant late last year. — In an interview with CNN …
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Christina Wilkie / CNBC:
Firm owned by Trump's longtime bodyguard Keith Schiller has received $225,000 from Republican National Committee — A company owned by Keith Schiller, President Donald Trump's former longtime bodyguard, has received $225,000 from the RNC for security consulting since he left his White House job in September 2017.
Richard A. Oppel Jr / New York Times:
Her Title: Cryptologic Technician. Her Occupation: Warrior. — Given who she really was, the military had little choice in how it described Shannon Kent. They said only that she was a “cryptologic technician,” which anyone might assume meant that her most breakneck work was behind a desk.
Josh Kraushaar / National Journal:
Democrats Are Boosting Trump's Re-election Prospects — Their top 2020 presidential hopefuls are embracing socialist-minded economic policy, from a Green New Deal to single-payer health insurance. It's playing right into the president's hands. — ADD TO BRIEFCASE — See more stories about...
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