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Washington Post:
‘Off the rails’: Inside Trump's attempt to claim victory in his border wall defeat  —  After three weeks of pained negotiations to keep the federal government open, President Trump almost blew the whole thing up again on Thursday.  —  Headed for another defeat on his signature promise …
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Jonathan Allen / NBC News:
Trump asked for a wall.  He's forcing a constitutional crisis.  —  Analysis: The president made his move.  Now, the courts will decide who really has the power over the wall.  —  WASHINGTON — Congress knew President Donald Trump thought there was a border crisis when it voted to curb his wall Thursday.
Discussion: The Week
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Trump liked the idea of a national emergency because it's the maximalist, most dramatic option  —  President Trump liked the idea of declaring a national emergency because it's the maximalist, most dramatic option.  —  Between the lines: Trump never gravitates towards complexity.
Washington Post:
An emergency declaration by Trump will lead to lawsuits.  Lots of them.  —  If President Trump declares a national emergency to construct a wall on the southern border, only one thing is certain: There will be lawsuits.  Lots of them.  From California to Congress, the litigants will multiply.
Washington Post:
Trump's border emergency: President plans a 10 a.m. announcement in the Rose Garden  —  President Trump is set to hold an event at 10 a.m. in the Rose Garden at the White House, where he is expected to sign spending legislation to avert a government shutdown while at the same declare …
Melanie Zanona / Politico:
Trump shocks GOP with emergency declaration  —  The surprise announcement Thursday that President Donald Trump will use his emergency powers to try and build his border wall blindsided some Republicans, confused others and sent the Senate GOP into a general state of shock.
Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Trump's Face-Saving Way Out of Crisis Raises Fears Over Rule of Law  —  WASHINGTON — The White House's announcement Thursday that President Trump would claim emergency powers to build his border wall without congressional approval was a way out of the political crisis he created over shutting down the government.
ABC News:
National emergency will be blocked by courts temporarily, DOJ warns White House
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: The national emergency, and how it messes up Washington for Trump
Josh Israel / ThinkProgress:
Fox hosts are so mad at Rubio for opposing Trump's emergency declaration they want his resignation
Andrew Kaczynski / CNN:
Trump once called executive action on immigration dangerous, unconstitutional and impeachable
Bloomberg:
Trump Plans $8 Billion for Border Wall Invoking His Own Authority
Discussion: Breitbart and CNN
Carl Hulse / New York Times:   In Wielding Emergency Powers, Trump Paves a Dangerous Path Forward
Glenn Thrush / New York Times:   In a Divided Washington, Congress Averted a Shutdown — but at a Price
Allan Smith / NBC News:
NBC News, MSNBC, Telemundo to host first Democratic presidential primary debate
Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:   The New Republican Strategy for Dealing with the Emergency That Is Trump: Pray
Mike Lillis / The Hill:
Pelosi warns GOP: Next president could declare national emergency on guns
Andrew Restuccia / Politico:
Trump technically obese, despite doctor's clean bill of health
Discussion: ABC News and Washington Post
Sean Hannity / Fox News:
How Trump can take Congress' garbage deal, and stick the wall down their throats
Discussion: Politico and Raw Story
Washington Post:
Former Massachusetts governor Bill Weld says he will challenge President Trump for the Republican presidential nomination  —  The president remains popular with Republican voters, but Weld said he would attempt to defeat him or at a minimum hurt him with a primary challenge.
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Joe Battenfeld / Boston Herald:
Bill Weld launches GOP presidential exploratory committee  —  Announces in NH he's eyeing run against Trump  —  Former Massachusetts Gov. William F. Weld is launching a presidential exploratory committee to challenge President Trump in the Republican primaries, saying the country is …
John DiStaso / WMUR:
Live: Republican William Weld announcing launch of presidential exploratory committee  —  Weld speaking at ‘Politics and Eggs’ event  —  BEDFORD, N.H. —  Former Massachusetts Gov. William Weld is announcing on Friday the formation of an exploratory committee for a potential Republican …
Discussion: Axios and Hit & Run
Stephanie Murray / Politico:
Former Massachusetts Gov. Bill Weld exploring primary challenge against Trump  —  Former Massachusetts Gov. Bill Weld said on Friday that he is exploring a challenge to President Donald Trump for the Republican nomination in 2020.  —  “Our president is simply too unstable to carry out the duties …
Discussion: One America News Network and WMUR
Greg Miller / Washington Post:
Andrew McCabe's disturbing account of working for Sessions and Trump  —  Greg Miller is national security correspondent for The Washington Post, a winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the author of “The Apprentice: Trump, Russia and the Subversion of American Democracy.”
David Ignatius / Washington Post:
We're entering a new phase of the Trump-Russia investigation  —  President Trump has been insisting for so long that any investigation of his personal finances would cross a “ red line ” that people may have overlooked the outrageousness of his claim.  But this self-declared immunity is about to change.
Discussion: Raw Story and Talking Points Memo
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Natasha Bertrand / The Atlantic:
The Senate's Russia Probe Is Facing a Reckoning
Discussion: Raw Story
Ishaan Tharoor / Washington Post:
The massacre Trump's envoy to Venezuela wants us to forget  —  Sign up for the Today's WorldView newsletter.  —  “I fail to understand,” the congresswoman said at a hearing Wednesday, “why members of this committee or the American people should find any testimony that you give today to be truthful.”
Discussion: The Week, LewRockwell and Townhall
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Associated Press:
AP Interview: Maduro reveals secret meetings with US envoy
Discussion: Political Wire
CNN:
Top US general disagrees with Trump over Syria troop pullout  —  Muscat, Oman (CNN)The US commander who has been leading the war against ISIS told CNN Friday that he disagreed with Donald Trump's decision to pull troops out of Syria and warned that the terror group was far from defeated, in a stark public break with the President.
Discussion: Political Wire and Raw Story
Jeremy Ben-Ami / The Atlantic:
Stop Alleging Anti-Semitism Just to Score Political Points  —  There's little doubt that Israel is shaping up to be one of the hottest of hot-button issues in the 2020 presidential-election cycle.  While one might hope that a presidential campaign could feature a productive discussion …
Discussion: The Daily Caller and FITSNews
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Fareed Zakaria / Washington Post:
Anti-Semitism has spread through the Islamic world like a cancer
Discussion: New York Times
abc7chicago.com:
Sources: Police investigating whether Jussie Smollett staged attack with help of others, allegedly being written off ‘Empire’  —  Chicago police confirmed Thursday that detectives are talking to two persons of interest in connection with the alleged attack on “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett.
Discussion: Townhall, Hit & Run and TMZ.com
The Daily Beast:
Boyfriend's Email: Butina ‘Manipulated’ Russian Spy Agency for NRA Trip  —  According to her boyfriend, Russian agent Maria Butina had major sway with the FSB officers “assigned” to her.  —  The boyfriend of confessed Russian agent Maria Butina wrote that she “manipulated” …
Discussion: Raw Story
 
 
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NBC Chicago:
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Discussion: Political Wire
Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post:
U.S. cyber force credited with helping stop Russia from undermining midterms
David Siders / Politico:
Beto heading to Wisconsin and Illinois as 2020 decision nears
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Miho Watabe / American Prospect:
Affirmative Action Isn't a Binary Choice for Harvard's Asian Americans
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