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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
Second woman accuses Justin Fairfax of sexual assault
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ABC News, The Gateway Pundit and Front Page Magazine
The Daily Beast:
Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax Accused of Sexual Assault by Second Woman, Meredith Watson
Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax Accused of Sexual Assault by Second Woman, Meredith Watson
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Power Line, Washington Post and The Root
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
Maggie Severns / Politico:
Second sexual assault claim triggers call for Fairfax impeachment
Second sexual assault claim triggers call for Fairfax impeachment
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BuzzFeed News, National Review, RedState, ABC News, Talking Points Memo and Common Dreams
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, Big League Politics, Bloomberg and The Daily Caller
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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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 …
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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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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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Axios:
Whitaker interrogation kicks off two hostile years for Trumpworld — Acting Attorney General Matt Whitaker put on a performance today that's likely to leave plenty of top Trump officials even less excited about the prospect of their day on Capitol Hill. — In what the NYT called a …
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Joe.My.God. and Raw Story
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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?’
Judiciary Dem asks Whitaker: ‘How the heck did you become the head of the Department of Justice?’
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CNN and Political Wire
New York Times:
Matthew Whitaker Hearing Updates: He Declines to Defend the Russia Inquiry
Matthew Whitaker Hearing Updates: He Declines to Defend the Russia Inquiry
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Politico, Al Jazeera, Axios, Talking Points Memo, New York Times and Patterico's Pontifications
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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Associated Press:
The Latest: Prosecutors probing tabloid's Bezos story
The Latest: Prosecutors probing tabloid's Bezos story
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Talking Points Memo
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.
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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David French / National Review:
The Supreme Court Upholds a Grave Violation of the First Amendment
The Supreme Court Upholds a Grave Violation of the First Amendment
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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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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
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
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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RedState, NB Blog and Media Matters for America
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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.
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.
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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Christopher Ingraham / Washington Post:
Wealth concentration returning to ‘levels last seen during the Roaring Twenties,’ according to new research — The 400 richest Americans — the top .00025 percent of the population — have tripled their share of the nation's wealth since the early 1980s, according to a new working paper …
Aaron Lorenzo / Politico:
Average tax refund down 8.4 percent in first filing week — The average tax refund from the IRS dropped 8.4 percent in the first week of the 2019 filing season compared to the same period last year, according to agency statistics. — The dip, to $1,865 from $2,035, is an early barometer of the season …
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