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CBS Chicago:
Jussie Smollett Case: Clues Into Potential Motive Behind The Attack — (CBS) -"Empire" actor Jussie Smollett, upset after a racist letter sent to the show's studio didn't get a “bigger reaction,” is suspected of paying two men to attack him a week later, according to multiple sources with direct knowledge of the investigation.
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TMZ.com:
Jussie Smollett — Rehearsed ‘Attack’ with 2 Brothers ... Law Enforcement Says — EXCLUSIVE — Jussie Smollett rehearsed the “attack” against him days before the incident and it was all staged for the camera, this according to what the 2 brothers told cops.
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John Nolte / Breitbart:
Fact Check: Brian Stelter Falsely Claims Media Was ‘Really Careful’ Not to Push Jussie Smollett Hoax
Fact Check: Brian Stelter Falsely Claims Media Was ‘Really Careful’ Not to Push Jussie Smollett Hoax
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RedState, Daily Wire, The Bulwark and NB Blog
Matt Lewis / The Daily Beast:
Fakers Like Jussie Smollett Play Victim, Politicians Buy It And Play Right Into Trump's Hands
Fakers Like Jussie Smollett Play Victim, Politicians Buy It And Play Right Into Trump's Hands
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Kevin Fitzpatrick / Vanity Fair:
Even Nancy Pelosi Has Waded into the Jussie Smollett Fiasco
Even Nancy Pelosi Has Waded into the Jussie Smollett Fiasco
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Townhall, Fox News, Hollywood in Toto and USA Today
Lia Eustachewich / Page Six:
Al Sharpton: Hold Jussie Smollett accountable if he staged attack
Al Sharpton: Hold Jussie Smollett accountable if he staged attack
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New York Times:
16 States Sue to Stop Trump's Use of Emergency Powers to Build Border Wall — WASHINGTON — A coalition of 16 states, including California and New York, on Monday challenged President Trump in court over his plan to use emergency powers to spend billions of dollars on his border wall.
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Li Zhou / Vox:
16 states sue the Trump administration over national emergency declaration — They're contesting the president's attempt to move funding around for his border wall. — Sixteen states, including California, New York, and Michigan, are suing over Trump's decision to declare a national emergency to obtain funding for a border wall.
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Politico, Axios and Shareblue Media
Amy Goldstein / Washington Post:
Coalition of states sues Trump over national emergency to build border wall
Coalition of states sues Trump over national emergency to build border wall
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Jane C. Timm / NBC News:
California AG: At least 13 states suing over Trump's national emergency
California AG: At least 13 states suing over Trump's national emergency
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CNBC
FiveThirtyEight:
Could Congress Block Trump's Emergency Declaration?
Could Congress Block Trump's Emergency Declaration?
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Camilo Montoya-Galvez / CBS News:
Hurd says 1,000 Texas farmers could have land seized to build Trump's border wall
Hurd says 1,000 Texas farmers could have land seized to build Trump's border wall
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Arizona Republic
Priscilla Alvarez / CNN:
16 states file lawsuit to stop Trump's national emergency declaration
16 states file lawsuit to stop Trump's national emergency declaration
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AOL, Splinter, Vox, POLITICUSUSA and The Week
Melissa Brown / The Montgomery Advertiser:
Alabama newspaper editor calls for Klan return to ‘clean out D.C.’ — The editor of a small-town Alabama newspaper published an editorial calling for “the Ku Klux Klan to night ride again” against “Democrats in the Republican Party and Democrats [who] are plotting to raise taxes in Alabama.”
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Raw Story
BuzzFeed News:
Roger Stone Posted A Photo Of The Judge Presiding Over His Case Next To Crosshairs — Roger Stone, a longtime Republican operative and adviser to President Donald Trump who was charged with lying to Congress, posted a photo Monday on Instagram of a judge presiding over his case in which she appears to be next to a crosshairs symbol.
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Christian Vasquez / Politico:
Stone apologizes to federal judge for posting photo of her with crosshairs — Days after a federal judge gagged Roger Stone from talking about the special counsel's Russia investigation around U.S. District Court in Washington, the Republican strategist and provocateur on Monday posted a photo …
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Law & Crime, Washington Post, Raw Story and The Gateway Pundit
Jonathan Cohn / HuffPost:
Elizabeth Warren To Unveil Sweeping Plan For Universal Child Care — The proposal could put the issue on top of the 2020 campaign agenda. — Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) will unveil a major new initiative on Tuesday designed to make sure every family can afford high-quality child care …
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Axios
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Molly Hensley-Clancy / BuzzFeed News:
Kamala Harris Says She'd Support Changing “Columbus Day” To “Indigenous Peoples' Day” — PORTSMOUTH, N.H. — Sen. Kamala Harris told a crowd Monday that she would push for the federal government to rename Columbus Day “Indigenous Peoples' Day,” a focal point for some progressives who say the holiday …
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Katharine Q. Seelye / New York Times:
Kamala Harris Faces Questions About ‘Democratic Socialist’ Label and Jussie Smollett in N.H. Debut
Kamala Harris Faces Questions About ‘Democratic Socialist’ Label and Jussie Smollett in N.H. Debut
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Althouse and Political Wire
Kristine Phillips / Washington Post:
Florida sixth-grader charged with misdemeanor after refusing to recite Pledge of Allegiance — A Florida student is facing misdemeanor charges after a confrontation with his teacher that began with his refusal to recite the Pledge of Allegiance and escalated into what officials described as disruptive behavior.
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Brennan Weiss / Business Insider:
RANKED: The greatest US presidents, according to political scientists — Nearly 200 political scientists ranked the presidents by order of greatness in a survey, and President Donald Trump came in last. — President Abraham Lincoln was first. — Members of the American Political …
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Breitbart
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Hans von der Burchard / Politico:
Juncker: Trump ‘gave me his word’ not to impose car tariffs
Juncker: Trump ‘gave me his word’ not to impose car tariffs
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One America News Network
Ken Meyer / Mediaite:
CBS's Lara Logan Calls Media ‘Mostly Liberal’ in Scorched Earth Interview: I'm Committing ‘Professional Suicide’ — In a recent interview, CBS News Foreign Correspondent Lara Logan critiqued the international “liberal” media while holding up outlets like Breitbart as the opposite side of the coin.
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Power Line, Daily Wire, Breitbart and Instapundit
Catherine Rampell / Washington Post:
What America really needs to do is abolish Congress — The far right wants to eliminate what it considers the vestigial organs of government, including the Education, Commerce and Energy departments. The far left wants to Abolish ICE. — They're both thinking too small.
Dennis Wagner / Arizona Republic:
Grand Canyon tourists exposed for years to radiation in museum building, safety manager says — For nearly two decades at the Grand Canyon, tourists, employees, and children on tours passed by three paint buckets stored in the National Park's museum collection building, unaware that they were being exposed to radiation.
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The Daily Caller
Victor Davis Hanson / American Greatness:
Autopsy of a Dead Coup — The illegal effort to destroy the 2016 Trump campaign by Hillary Clinton campaign's use of funds to create, disseminate among court media, and then salt among high Obama administration officials, a fabricated, opposition smear dossier failed.
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RedState, Chicago Boyz, No More Mister Nice Blog, CNN, Politico and Fox News
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Why allegations of a ‘coup’ against Trump are unfounded
Why allegations of a ‘coup’ against Trump are unfounded
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Law & Crime, The New Civil Rights Movement, Vox, Daily Wire and The Daily Caller
Darby Beane / WBKO-TV:
Man accused of pulling gun on victim wearing MAGA hat — BOWLING GREEN, Ky. (WBKO) — A Tennessee man is in jail after being accused of pulling a gun on a Sam's Club customer Saturday. — According to the police report, officers were called to Sam's Club due to a person with a gun.
David French / National Review:
Stephen Miller's Own Words Show the Weakness of the Trump Legal Argument on the Wall — One of the first rules of effective litigation is that you don't want your client to make statements out loud that reveal the weakness of your legal case. On Sunday morning, Trump adviser Stephen Miller violated that rule.
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Raw Story
Anti-Defamation League:
Anti-Semite Louis Farrakhan Teams Up With Notorious Holocaust Denier at Saviours' Day 2019 Conference — Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam teamed up with a Holocaust denier and anti-Semitic ideologue to attack the Jewish religion and blame numerous ills of modern society on Jews …
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Cameron Cawthorne / Washington Free Beacon:
Farrakhan: The ‘Wicked Jews’ Use Me to Attack Women's Movement, March Leaders
Farrakhan: The ‘Wicked Jews’ Use Me to Attack Women's Movement, March Leaders
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