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Eliana Johnson / Politico:
‘It will create a firestorm’: Mulvaney's border wall cash grab sparks dissent in White House — The White House is firming up plans to redirect unspent federal dollars as a way of funding President Donald Trump's border wall without taking the dramatic step of invoking a national emergency.
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ThinkProgress, ABC News, Talking Points Memo, Media Matters for America and The Daily Caller
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Washington Post:
Lawmakers say they have reached an ‘agreement in principle’ to avoid government shutdown — BREAKING: Lawmakers say they have reached an “agreement in principle” to avoid government shutdown. — Top lawmakers say they have reached a deal to fund the government through the fall …
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Talking Points Memo, Daily Kos, The Week, New York Times, USA Today, Just Security, Breitbart, VICE News, Power Line, WINK NEWS, CNBC, Splinter, NBC News, Mother Jones, NPR and Politico
Associated Press:
Budget deal allows far less money than Trump wanted for wall — WASHINGTON (AP) — Congressional negotiators reached agreement to prevent a government shutdown and finance construction of new barriers along the U.S.-Mexico border, overcoming a late-stage hang-up over immigration enforcement issues …
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National Review, The Hill, Conservative Review, POLITICUSUSA and NTK Network
Edmund DeMarche / Fox News:
Sean Hannity slams ‘garbage compromise’ on preliminary agreement on border security
Sean Hannity slams ‘garbage compromise’ on preliminary agreement on border security
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Roll Call, IJR, The Resurgent, The Week, The Daily Caller, Mediaite and Fox News Insider
Samuel Chamberlain / Fox News:
Lawmakers reach ‘agreement in principle’ in border security talks, with $1.3B for barrier
Lawmakers reach ‘agreement in principle’ in border security talks, with $1.3B for barrier
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illegal immigration …, Breitbart, Fox News Insider and The Daily Caller
CNN:
Key Hill negotiators say they have reached an agreement in principle to avert shutdown
Key Hill negotiators say they have reached an agreement in principle to avert shutdown
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New York Times, Politico, Daily Kos, ImmigrationProf Blog, POLITICUSUSA, WTKR-TV, FOX2now.com, The Root and The Week
Veronica Stracqualursi / CNN:
Top Dem negotiator says ‘no one got everything they wanted’ in deal to avoid government shutdown
Top Dem negotiator says ‘no one got everything they wanted’ in deal to avoid government shutdown
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POLITICUSUSA and The Week
Susan Ferrechio / Washington Examiner:
Lawmakers reach border deal ‘in principle,’ including $1.375B for physical barriers
Lawmakers reach border deal ‘in principle,’ including $1.375B for physical barriers
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Townhall
BBC:
Trump supporter attacks BBC cameraman at El Paso rally — A supporter of US President Donald Trump has attacked a BBC cameraman at a campaign rally in El Paso, Texas. — Sporting a Make America Great Again cap, the man shoved and swore at the BBC's Ron Skeans and other news crews before being pulled away.
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Vox, Sky News, Politico, NPR, Talking Points Memo, KTLA, El Paso Times, The Guardian, POLITICUSUSA, Boing Boing and VICE News, more at Mediagazer »
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Anita Kumar / Politico:
Beto takes on Trump in tale of 2 mega-rallies — EL PASO, Texas — The showdown between Donald Trump and Beto O'Rourke Monday night over the president's border wall unfolded at competing rallies with thousands of people in venues barely a block apart. — But the events practically took place …
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RedState, The Intercept, Breitbart, El Paso Times, ABC News, Washington Post and Mediaite
Press Association:
BBC Cameraman ‘Violently Pushed and Shoved’ at Trump Rally
BBC Cameraman ‘Violently Pushed and Shoved’ at Trump Rally
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NBC News, Axios, The Gateway Pundit, TVNewser and Splinter
Lissandra Villa / BuzzFeed News:
Beto O'Rourke Calls The Green New Deal “The Best Proposal” He's Seen For Addressing Climate Change
Beto O'Rourke Calls The Green New Deal “The Best Proposal” He's Seen For Addressing Climate Change
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Breitbart, American Thinker, Snopes.com, CityLab and National Review
Washington Post:
Americans view Mueller as more credible than Trump, but views of his probe are scattered — As the special counsel investigation seems to be nearing its final stage, Americans view Robert S. Mueller III as far more credible than President Trump, but the public has scattered and partisan perceptions …
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Political Wire
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Heather Caygle / Politico:
Superstar freshman Dems replace Pelosi as GOP targets — The Republican Party has a new trio of Democratic villains: Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. — The House GOP midterm strategy largely centered on trying to tie every Democrat to now-Speaker Nancy Pelosi — and it failed spectacularly.
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Outside the Beltway, No More Mister Nice Blog, Washington Free Beacon, New York Times, Splinter and Common Dreams
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Coral Davenport / New York Times:
Ocasio-Cortez Team Flubs a Green New Deal Summary, and Republicans Pounce — WASHINGTON — Days after introducing her Green New Deal — a plan to combat climate change that has won the endorsement of several Democratic presidential candidates — Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez found …
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National Review
Washington Post:
A hedge fund's ‘mercenary’ strategy: Buy newspapers, slash jobs, sell the buildings — When the building housing the downtown Memphis Commercial Appeal newspaper sold last April, the name of the buyer — Twenty Lake Holdings LLC — seemed of little consequence.
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Hullabaloo
Tom Gara / BuzzFeed News:
Ilhan Omar Is Learning The Wrong Lesson From The Trump Era — All those insults and vulgarities and rants and racisms piled up to produce a historically bad president. They mattered. And it's a dynamic the new generation of progressive leaders should learn from. — “AIPAC!”
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CNN and Clarion Project
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Pelosi Press / Speaker Nancy Pelosi:
Democratic Leadership Statement on Anti-Semitic Comments of Congresswoman Ilhan Omar
Democratic Leadership Statement on Anti-Semitic Comments of Congresswoman Ilhan Omar
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Breitbart, Townhall, The Daily Caller, The Gateway Pundit, twitchy.com, Mondoweiss, The Hill, Mediaite, Rewire.News, Roll Call, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Florida Politics, Washington Times, BuzzFeed News, The Guardian, Conservative Review, Washington Free Beacon, Politico, Raw Story, National Review and Power Line
Ryan Grim / The Intercept:
Pro-Israel Lobby Caught on Tape Boasting That Its Money Influences Washington
Pro-Israel Lobby Caught on Tape Boasting That Its Money Influences Washington
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Washington Post, New York Times, Splinter, FITSNews and CNN
Jonah Goldberg / National Review:
Ilhan Omar's Lazy and Anti-Semitic Tweets
Ilhan Omar's Lazy and Anti-Semitic Tweets
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New York Magazine, The Intercept, Shareblue Media and Breitbart
Elizabeth Vaughn / RedState:
Sorry I'm Not Sorry: Ilhan Omar Has Already Learned The Fine Democratic Art Of Apologizing Without Really Apologizing
Sorry I'm Not Sorry: Ilhan Omar Has Already Learned The Fine Democratic Art Of Apologizing Without Really Apologizing
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Townhall, Breitbart and NTK Network
Kevin G. Hall / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
12 months, nearly 1,200 deaths: the year in youth gun violence since Parkland — A year after the Parkland shooting on Valentine's Day, February 14, US gun related deaths of children and teens continue. When they weren't killed by active shooters, kids died in accidents and murder suicides.
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Elizabeth Landers / CNN:
Democrats to propose high-capacity gun magazine ban
Tom Jackman / Washington Post:
William Webster, ex-FBI and CIA director, helps feds nab Jamaican phone scammer — Instead of sending $50,000 to the random caller, he performed reverse phone sting for FBI — The caller with the Jamaican accent told the 90-year-old District man he had won $72 million and a new Mercedes Benz …
New York Times:
Cliff Sims, White House Tell-All Author, Sues Trump for Going After Him Over Book — Cliff Sims, the former White House communications aide who wrote an insider account of life working for President Trump, is suing the president in his official capacity, alleging that he used his campaign organization as a …
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Mediaite, Washington Post, Politico, CNN, The Week, KTLA, Raw Story, Axios, Talking Points Memo and Washington Times
New York Times:
Fairfax Accuser Told Friends She Was Raped by Corey Maggette — The woman who has accused Virginia's lieutenant governor, Justin E. Fairfax, of raping her said that a former N.B.A. player, Corey Maggette, raped her at Duke University 20 years ago and that school officials did not pursue the claim …
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CNN, The Big Lead, TheBlaze, CBS Los Angeles, The Root, Awful Announcing and The Daily Caller
Jonathan J. Cooper / Associated Press:
Mark Kelly announces run for McCain Senate seat in Arizona — PHOENIX (AP) — Retired astronaut Mark Kelly, who rocketed to the national spotlight when his congresswoman wife Gabrielle Giffords was shot in a failed assassination attempt, announced Tuesday he's running to finish John McCain's last term in the U.S. Senate.
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Bloomberg, KVOA-TV and Wall Street Journal
Bruce Schlesman / Judicial Watch:
Judicial Watch: FBI General Counsel Talked to Hillary Clinton's Lawyer about Comey's Letter on Weiner Laptop Clinton Emails — (Washington, DC) - Judicial Watch announced today it received 215 pages of records from the U.S. Department of Justice revealing former FBI General Counsel James Baker discussed …
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Maggie Astor / New York Times:
‘A Woman, Just Not That Woman’: How Sexism Plays Out on the Trail
‘A Woman, Just Not That Woman’: How Sexism Plays Out on the Trail
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The Bulwark
Georgia Wells / Wall Street Journal:
Writer Sues Twitter Over Ban for Criticizing Transgender People — Canadian blogger tweeted 'Men aren't women,' violating harassment rules on the platform — A Canadian writer filed a lawsuit against Twitter Inc. TWTR .79% on Monday, saying the social-media platform unfairly banned …
Burgess Everett / Politico:
GOP livid with Trump over ignored Khashoggi report — Senate Republicans are fuming at President Donald Trump for telling lawmakers he would disregard a law requiring a report to Congress determining who is responsible for the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
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The Week and Front Page Magazine
Gabriel Schoenfeld / The Bulwark:
Michael Anton Is Back to Remind Us That There's Such a Thing as a ‘Trump Intellectual’ — One of the more curious features of the current political landscape is the existence of a small class of people who can be called Trump intellectuals. It's curious not because Trump himself …
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Power Line