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Mistress' Brother Leaked Bezos' Racy Texts to Enquirer, Sources Say — Multiples sources tell The Daily Beast that Michael Sanchez, a Trumpworld associate and brother to Bezos' lover, gave the couple's texts to The National Enquirer. — The brother of Jeff Bezos' mistress, Lauren Sanchez …
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Steve Schmidt Storms Off Own Podcast When Asked About Advising Howard Schultz — “This is bullsh*t,” Schmidt exclaims. “I'm not doing this.” — Anti-Trump strategist and pundit Steve Schmidt is feeling the heat from all sides since his client, Starbucks founder Howard Schultz …
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POLITICO Playbook: Beds and barriers at issue, as Washington barrels toward another shutdown — DRIVING THE DAY — OK, WELL WE'RE NOW IN A SHUTDOWN WEEK. Negotiations between Republicans and Democrats have broken down, and they are on the brink of being beyond repair.
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Walter Jones, who worked to atone for his Iraq war vote, is dead at 76 — Rep. Walter B. Jones Jr., an Eastern North Carolina congressman who made it his mission to atone for his vote sending U.S. troops into Iraq in the early 2000s, died Sunday on his 76th birthday.
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Walter Jones, ‘freedom fries’ congressman who became Iraq War critic, dies at 76
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STATEMENT ON CONGRESSMAN WALTER B. JONES
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Don't sleep on “Spartacus” — In every presidential election cycle, there's a sleeper — a candidate not expected to get far who catches fire. Sometimes that candidate goes all the way. Barack Obama and Donald Trump did. Other times the candidate falls short, but only after exceeding expectations and …
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How Amy Klobuchar Could Win The 2020 Democratic Nomination
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Amy Klobuchar Enters 2020 Presidential Race
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Klobuchar jumps into presidential race
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In Closed Hearing, a Clue About ‘the Heart’ of Mueller's Russia Inquiry — WASHINGTON — Of the few hints to emerge from the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, about evidence of possible collusion between President Trump's campaign and Russia, one of the most tantalizing surfaced almost …
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Roger Stone's and Jerome Corsi's Time in the Barrel — Why the mismatched operatives matter to Trump—and to the Mueller investigation. — Roger Stone's house, in Fort Lauderdale, is situated between a quiet street and one of the city's canals, which are the only feature Fort Lauderdale shares with its Italian sister city, Venice.
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Omar ignites new anti-Semitism controversy with comments on AIPAC — Freshman Minnesota Democrat Ilhan Omar ignited a new controversy on Sunday night when she suggested GOP support for Israel is driven by campaign donations from a prominent pro-Israel group.
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Kevin McCarthy Promises ‘Action’ Against Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib
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Scoop: More Trump schedules leaked as enraged officials launch internal hunt — Our lead item in Axios Sneak Peek last week — a leak of three months of Trump's private schedules — enraged White House officials. — The president's secretary Madeleine Westerhout tweeted that the leak was “a disgraceful breach of trust.”
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Private Mossad for Hire — Inside a plot to influence American elections, starting with one small-town race. — One evening in 2016, a twenty-five-year-old community-college student named Alex Gutiérrez was waiting tables at La Piazza Ristorante Italiano, an upscale restaurant in Tulare, in California's San Joaquin Valley.

Millions of Americans could be stunned as their tax refunds shrink — Most Americans received a tax cut in 2018, but their refunds aren't necessarily staying the same. — Millions of Americans filling out their 2018 taxes will probably be surprised to learn that their refund is less …
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Plummeting insect numbers ‘threaten collapse of nature’ — Exclusive: Insects could vanish within a century at current rate of decline, says global review — The world's insects are hurtling down the path to extinction, threatening a “catastrophic collapse of nature's ecosystems”, according to the first global scientific review.


I'll Be Voting for President Trump and Vice President Pence in 2020 — This week in 2016, I declared I would be “Never Trump.” A friend suggested I use a hashtag that had started circulating on Twitter, i.e #NeverTrump. The piece exploded and pushed me into a whirlwind of coverage.


Trump administration's Middle East peace plan finished, officials say — JERUSALEM - The Trump administration's Middle East peace plan is finished and President Trump has been briefed on its contents, two senior administration officials told Fox News on Sunday.


‘Weaker candidate than Hillary’: Democrats cast deep doubt on Biden's 2020 value — Joe Biden is everything a Democratic political consultant should love: He's experienced, well-liked, and his poll numbers look great against Donald Trump. — And yet many party strategists have a bleak assessment …


AP Exclusive: Undercover spy exposed in NYC was 1 of many — LONDON (AP) — When mysterious operatives lured two cybersecurity researchers to meetings at luxury hotels over the past two months, it was an apparent bid to discredit their research about an Israeli company that makes smartphone …


Rep. Seth Moulton Is Thinking About Running For President — WASHINGTON — Massachusetts Rep. Seth Moulton is thinking about running for president, he told BuzzFeed News in an exclusive interview. — The Democrat, best known for being a vocal critic of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi …


Disorganized Virginia Republicans scramble to capitalize on Democratic scandals — Top Virginia Republicans are scrambling to capitalize on Democratic disarray in Richmond, eyeing fresh opportunities for President Trump in 2020 but hamstrung by a rudderless state party plagued by turmoil.


Talks Over Border Security Break Down, Imperiling Effort to Prevent Shutdown — WASHINGTON — Congressional efforts to reach a border security deal ahead of another government shutdown broke down on Sunday over Democratic demands to limit the detention of undocumented immigrants …
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Warren: Trump ‘may not even be a free person’ by 2020 — Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) on Sunday said that President Donald Trump “may not even be a free person” by 2020, suggesting the president might become ensnared by the special counsel's investigation before she has a chance to face him in a general election.
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