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Houston Chronicle:
20 years, 700 victims: Southern Baptist sexual abuse spreads as leaders resist reforms — Thirty-five years later, Debbie Vasquez's voice trembled as she described her trauma to a group of Southern Baptist leaders. — She was 14, she said, when she was first molested by her pastor in Sanger …
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Russell Moore and The American Conservative
Washington Post:
Border talks at impasse as shutdown looms Friday, officials say — Bipartisan talks aimed at resolving the border wall dispute and averting a government shutdown Friday have broken down and are at an impasse, two people familiar with the situation said Sunday.
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Splinter, POLITICUSUSA, The Guardian and The Week
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
Shutdown talks stalled — Negotiations to avert another government shutdown abruptly fell apart over the weekend, raising the risk of another shuttering of services, a stopgap funding bill or a declaration by President Donald Trump of a national emergency at the southern border.
Ben Kamisar / NBC News:
White House chief of staff Mulvaney won't rule out possibility of another shutdown
White House chief of staff Mulvaney won't rule out possibility of another shutdown
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Sara A. Carter, Mother Jones, New York Times, The Daily Caller and The Week
Elena Schneider / Politico:
Klobuchar's opening pitch sidetracked by staff horror stories — MINNEAPOLIS — Sen. Amy Klobuchar is pitching herself for the White House as the commonsense Midwestern answer to President Donald Trump — while former staffers portray her as a brutal boss who mistreated them.
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RedState and Balloon Juice
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Dan Merica / CNN:
Klobuchar expected to announce 2020 presidential bid
Klobuchar expected to announce 2020 presidential bid
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Reuters, Outside the Beltway and The Week
Mark Fainaru-Wada / ESPN:
Bob Costas, unplugged: From NBC and broadcast icon to dropped from the Super Bowl — IN DECEMBER 2015, the movie “Concussion” was set for a Christmas Day release in nearly 3,000 theaters across America. The film told the story of the NFL's attempts to discredit research tying brain damage to football …
Paul Schwartzman / Washington Post:
Michael Cohen's secret agenda … NEW YORK — At first, Michael Cohen appeared indifferent as he listened to the group of Republican leaders urge his boss to run for governor. — It was the fall of 2013, and Donald Trump was already fixated on “the big thing,” as he referred to running for president.
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Politico, Booman Tribune and Raw Story
Susan Ferrechio / Washington Examiner:
The mysterious case of AOC's scrubbed ‘Green New Deal’ details — On Feb. 5, the congressional office of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez posted a new blog entry under “energy issues” detailing her “Green New Deal” proposal and answering “frequently asked questions.”
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Washington Free Beacon, Breitbart, POLITICUSUSA, Power Line and Daily Wire
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Eliza Relman / Business Insider:
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's staff says a document that supported paying Americans 'unwilling …
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's staff says a document that supported paying Americans 'unwilling …
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Daily Mail:
Mother, 38, is arrested in front of her children and locked in a cell for seven HOURS after calling a transgender woman a man on Twitter — More than two months after her arrest and she has had neither her mobile phone or laptop returned — A mother was arrested in front of her children …
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The First Street Journal, Breitbart and Louder With Crowder
Emily Tillett / CBS News:
“I'm not going anywhere”: Northam vows to remain in office despite calls to resign — Watch the full interview with Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam on “CBS This Morning” on Monday, Feb. 11, 2019, 7 a.m. to 9 a.m. ET. — Virginia Democratic Gov. Ralph Northam says he considered resigning …
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Washington Post:
Virginians are split on governor's fate amid blackface scandal
Virginians are split on governor's fate amid blackface scandal
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Vox, New York Times, Mediaite, The Week and Politico
Michael Brice-Saddler / Washington Post:
This petty poster war says everything you need to know about the immigration debate in Congress — There may be no better way to understand the immigration debate on Capitol Hill than to take a walk through the second floor of the Rayburn House Office Building.
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ImmigrationProf Blog
Mike Allen / Axios:
Scoop: Bob Woodward writes email to Jeff Bezos: “It's Watergate redux” — Bob Woodward — author of “FEAR: Trump in the White House,” and an associate editor of The Washington Post, where he has worked since 1971 — wrote an email of support on Friday to Post owner Jeff Bezos, following his Medium post defying the National Enquirer:
Jim Clifton / Gallup:
What If There Were 42 Million at the Border? — Here's a good question about caravans: How many more are coming? — Gallup asked the whole population of Latin America. There are 33 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean. Roughly 450 million adults live in the region.
Robert Costa / Washington Post:
Colorado Sen. Bennet hints about joining crowded Democratic race for president — Sen. Michael F. Bennet had a message for fellow Democrats this weekend as two more White House contenders formally jumped into the 2020 presidential race: Don't forget about me.
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Political Wire
Jennifer Senior / New York Times:
Our Brains Aren't Designed to Handle the Trump Era — Or mine isn't, anyway. — I am trying to think about when, exactly, I realized that my brain was wretchedly ill suited to the modern world. Was it when Twitter began? With the internet itself? — Certainly by this current presidency.
Mary Papenfuss / HuffPost:
Protesters Raise Funds To Transport Trump Baby Blimp In Time For President's El Paso Rally — A major protest is planned as Trump kicks off his first campaign rally of the year in the Texas border city. — In less than a day, activists from El Paso raised enough money to transport …
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CBS News
Alice Miranda Ollstein / Politico:
Republicans can't wait to debate Medicare for All — The only people more eager than progressive Democrats for hearings on Medicare for All are conservative Republicans. — GOP lawmakers, fresh off an electoral shellacking fueled in large part by health care concerns …
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Washington Free Beacon and The Daily Beast