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Lachlan Markay / The Daily Beast:
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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Eleanor Clift / The Daily Beast:
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:
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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Washington Post:
Jewish House Democrats urge Pelosi to denounce Ilhan Omar for ‘hateful tropes’ in tweets — Two Jewish House Democrats, alarmed by what they view as anti-Semitic comments from new Muslim colleagues, are urging Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her top lieutenants to denounce the divisive rhetoric and take action to stop it.
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John Bresnahan / Politico:
Omar ignites new anti-Semitism controversy with comments on AIPAC
Omar ignites new anti-Semitism controversy with comments on AIPAC
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Chris Mills Rodrigo / The Hill:
Jewish advocacy group calls on Omar to apologize after ‘stunningly anti-Semitic’ tweet
Jewish advocacy group calls on Omar to apologize after ‘stunningly anti-Semitic’ tweet
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Ron Kampeas / Haaretz:
Kevin McCarthy Promises ‘Action’ Against Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib
Kevin McCarthy Promises ‘Action’ Against Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib
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Marianne LeVine / Politico:
Republicans gush over Klobuchar — Amy Klobuchar has an unusual constituency behind her as she launches her run for president: Senate Republicans. — In a Democratic caucus filled with presidential hopefuls taking a hard line against Donald Trump's presidency, the Minnesota senator's brand of pragmatic politics stands out.
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Amy Klobuchar launches her 2020 bid with a Wisconsin dig at Hillary Clinton
Amy Klobuchar launches her 2020 bid with a Wisconsin dig at Hillary Clinton
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New Yorker:
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.
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Kathleen Ronayne / Associated Press:
California governor to draw down guard troops at border — SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom plans Monday to withdraw several hundred National Guard troops from the state's southern border with Mexico in defiance of the Trump administration's request for support from border states.
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Alexei Koseff / San Francisco Chronicle:
Newsom pulling National Guard troops from border to fight ‘real threats’
Newsom pulling National Guard troops from border to fight ‘real threats’
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Los Angeles Times:
California Gov. Gavin Newsom to pull National Guard from border with Mexico
California Gov. Gavin Newsom to pull National Guard from border with Mexico
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Jose A. Del Real / New York Times:
California Is Expected to Pull National Guard Troops Out of Border Duty
California Is Expected to Pull National Guard Troops Out of Border Duty
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Jeffrey Toobin / New Yorker:
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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Erick Erickson / The Resurgent:
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.
Maeve Reston / CNN:
Harris takes on questions about her ‘blackness’ — (CNN)Sen. Kamala Harris directly confronted critics Monday who have questioned her black heritage, her record incarcerating minorities as a prosecutor and her decision to marry a white man. — In an interview with The Breakfast Club hosts DJ Envy …
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Kate Zernike / New York Times:
‘Progressive Prosecutor’: Can Kamala Harris Square the Circle?
‘Progressive Prosecutor’: Can Kamala Harris Square the Circle?
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Washington Post:
Devastated by one shutdown, dreading the next — FRESNO, Calif. — The federal government had finally called her back to work after 35 days, but now Vicki Ibarra wondered how she could afford to get there. Her used sedan had been repossessed by the bank a few days earlier.
Laura Vozzella / Washington Post:
‘Everyone deserves to be heard,’ Fairfax says in interview as Democrats explored impeachment — RICHMOND — Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax (D) said he will not step down and will preside over the Senate Monday regardless of any attempts to remove him from office amid allegations that he sexually assaulted two women.
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Alex Roarty / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
‘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 …
David Edwards / Raw Story:
Fox & Friends host says he hasn't washed hands in 10 years: 'Germs are not a real thing — I can't see them' — Don't miss stories. Follow Raw Story! — Fox News host Pete Hegseth explained on Sunday that he doesn't wash his hands because “germs are not a real thing.”
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Anna Brown / Pew Research Center:
About a third of Americans say blackface in a Halloween costume is acceptable at least sometimes — A slight majority of Americans (53%) think it is generally unacceptable for a white person to use makeup to darken their skin to appear to be a different race as part of a Halloween costume …
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New York Times:
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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Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet:
Russia to disconnect from the internet as part of a planned test — Russia's internet contingency plan gets closer to reality. — Russian authorities and major internet providers are planning to disconnect the country from the internet as part of a planned experiment, Russian news agency RosBiznesKonsalting (RBK) reported last week.
Brian Murphy / Raleigh News & Observer:
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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J.D. Simkins / Military Times:
Meal, Ready-to-Trump: MRE package bears striking resemblance to president — and Kanye? — In case it has yet to be brought to the attention of Meal, Ready-to-Eat aficionados, one of the MRE's newer bag designs of figures flanking a rifle stack features one individual who bears an uncanny resemblance …
Trey Yingst / Fox News:
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.
Kark-Tv / WATE-TV:
Heaven has a wall: Grocery store ad mailer stirs controversy — CAMDEN, Ark. (KARK) - A family-owned Christian grocery store with several locations in Southeast Arkansas is dealing with backlash as customers argue a weekly ad mailer included a controversial political message.
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