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Thom Tillis / Washington Post:
I support Trump's vision on border security. But I would vote against the emergency. — Thom Tillis, a Republican, is a U.S. senator from North Carolina. — President Trump has few bigger allies than me when it comes to supporting his vision of 21st-century border security …
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Emily Cochrane / New York Times:
G.O.P. Tries to Hold Down Defections Before Vote to Block Trump's Emergency — WASHINGTON — Republican leaders scrambled to keep rank-and-file members in line ahead of a House vote on Tuesday to kill President Trump's declaration of a national emergency on the Mexican border …
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Alice Miranda Ollstein / Politico:
Senate defeats anti-abortion bill, as GOP tries to jam Dems — The Senate on Monday rejected a bill making it a felony for a doctor to harm or neglect an infant who survives an “attempted abortion,” part of a Republican effort to squeeze Democrats ahead of the 2020 campaign.
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Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Murkowski ‘likely’ to support resolution to block Trump's emergency declaration
Murkowski ‘likely’ to support resolution to block Trump's emergency declaration
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Jordain Carney / The Hill:
GOP Sen. Tillis to vote for resolution blocking Trump's emergency declaration
GOP Sen. Tillis to vote for resolution blocking Trump's emergency declaration
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Just Security:
Exclusive: Full Text of Bipartisan Declaration of Former Senior U.S. Officials Refuting President's …
Exclusive: Full Text of Bipartisan Declaration of Former Senior U.S. Officials Refuting President's …
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Conservative Review, Politico, CNN and Washington Post
Anna North / Vox:
A Republican-backed bill to protect “abortion survivors” won't pass. It still matters.
A Republican-backed bill to protect “abortion survivors” won't pass. It still matters.
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Washington Post, Daily Wire and ThinkProgress
Wall Street Journal:
House Investigators Probe Trump Contact With Matthew Whitaker — A House panel believes it has evidence that President Trump asked Matthew Whitaker, at the time the acting attorney general, whether Manhattan U.S. attorney Geoffrey Berman could regain control of his office's investigation …
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Chris Geidner / BuzzFeed News:
Trump's Memo Appointing Matthew Whitaker Raises Questions About When He Actually Took Over DOJ — WASHINGTON — A newly released document regarding former acting attorney general Matthew Whitaker's appointment shows that, at the earliest, President Donald Trump authorized Whitaker to lead …
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Rosenstein: Barr will do the ‘right thing’ on Mueller report
Rosenstein: Barr will do the ‘right thing’ on Mueller report
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emptywheel:
On August 2, 2016, Paul Manafort Gave Konstantin Kilimnik 75 Pages of Recent, Detailed Polling Data — I want to return again to the question of what Paul Manafort ordered Rick Gates to print out on August 2, 2016, so he could share it with Konstantin Kilimnik at a clandestine meeting that night.
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Washington Post:
Former campaign staffer alleges in lawsuit that Trump kissed her without her consent. The White House denies the charge. — A staffer on Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign says he kissed her without her consent at a small gathering of supporters before a Florida rally …
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Andrew Osborn / Reuters:
After Putin's warning, Russian TV lists nuclear targets in U.S. — MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian state television has listed U.S. military facilities that Moscow would target in the event of a nuclear strike, and said that a hypersonic missile Russia is developing would be able to hit them in less than five minutes.
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Brett Samuels / The Hill:
Russia says US asked for advice on dealing with North Korea — Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov on Monday said that the U.S. asked for Moscow's advice in approaching this week's summit between President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. — The Associated Press reported …
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Ari Natter / Bloomberg:
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Green New Deal Could Cost $93 Trillion, Group Says — Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's ambitious plan to fight climate change won't be cheap, according to a think tank led by a former Congressional Budget Office director.
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Elizabeth Harrington / Washington Free Beacon:
Study: Green New Deal Would Cost Up to $94 Trillion
Study: Green New Deal Would Cost Up to $94 Trillion
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New York Times:
It's Mueller's Investigation. But Right Behind Him Is Andrew Goldstein. — WASHINGTON — The routine was always the same. President Trump's lawyers would drive to heavily secured offices near the National Mall, surrender their cellphones, head into a windowless conference room …
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Shane Goldmacher / New York Times:
Bernie Sanders Raises $10 Million in Less Than a Week — A clutch of advisers to Senator Bernie Sanders began arriving at the Capitol Hill townhouse that served as his makeshift headquarters before dawn last Tuesday, where they readied themselves to track, among other things …
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Daniel Lippman / Politico:
Ex-Clinton staffers slam Sanders over private jet flights
Ex-Clinton staffers slam Sanders over private jet flights
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Dennis Overbye / New York Times:
Have Dark Forces Been Messing With the Cosmos? — Axions? Phantom energy? Astrophysicists scramble to patch a hole in the universe, rewriting cosmic history in the process. — There was, you might say, a disturbance in the Force. — Long, long ago, when the universe …
Shane Dixon Kavanaugh / Oregonian:
State Department says it won't intervene after manslaughter suspect returns to Saudi Arabia — The State Department has indicated little hope of bringing back a Saudi citizen to the United States after he fled before his manslaughter trial in Portland. — The department confirmed …
Casey Newton / The Verge:
The Trauma Floor — The secret lives of Facebook moderators in America — She spent the past three and a half weeks in training, trying to harden herself against the daily onslaught of disturbing posts: the hate speech, the violent attacks, the graphic pornography.
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Stephen Castle / New York Times:
Labour Party Leader, Under Pressure, Backs a New Brexit Referendum — LONDON — Britain's opposition Labour Party said on Monday that it was prepared to support a second referendum on withdrawal from the European Union, a shift that could have significant ramifications for the fate of Brexit and for the country's future.
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Mark Leibovich / New York Times:
How Lindsey Graham Went From Trump Skeptic to Trump Sidekick — “What happened to me?” the senator asks. “Not a damn thing.” — As the luncheon dishes were placed down, the master of ceremonies kicked off a boisterous round of Lindsey Graham trivia. “What is the senator's middle name? …
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Donie O'Sullivan / CNN:
Facebook restores Russia-linked pages, but is still figuring out what to do about state-backed media — New York (CNN Business)Facebook said Monday that it would allow a network of millennial-focused pages tied to the Russian state-backed media outlet RT back on its platform …
Francis X. Donnelly / Detroit News:
Jackson gay rights leader accused of burning down own home … Nikki Joly, transgender activist, arrives in court with defense attorney Daniel Barnett in Circuit Court in Jackson, to face Judge John McBain on Friday, Feb 1, 2019, and is granted a continuance.
Dana Bash / CNN:
Harry Reid wishes for George W. Bush again ‘every day’ — Programming note: For more on George W. Bush and the political family that produced two Presidents, watch CNN's Original Series “The Bush Years” debuting Sunday, March 3 at 9pm ET on CNN. — (CNN)Former Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid …
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ICE:
Joint Statement from ICE and CBP on stillbirth in custody — On Feb. 22, while being processed for release from DHS custody, a 24-year-old Honduran woman went into premature labor and delivered a stillborn baby at the Port Isabel Detention Center (PIDC). — The woman, whose name …
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Christopher Cadelago / Politico:
My bone-chilling adventure trying to cover Kamala Harris in Iowa — BUCKINGHAM, Iowa—Janet and Mike Shock reclined in loungers while trying to write the first sentence of this story. — Janet offered a literal interpretation of my misfortune: “Stranded in Buckingham, Iowa,” she said.
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Michael M. Phillips / Wall Street Journal:
Marine Recruits Learn an Important Lesson: What Happened on 9/11 — The U.S. war in Afghanistan has been going on for so long that the newest recruits weren't alive when it started. In boot camp, they're taught about the terrorist attacks that set off the war they may soon fight.
Bryan Lowry / Kansas City Star:
Activist whose group infiltrated McCaskill campaign will take stage after Josh Hawley — As soon as Sen. Josh Hawley exits the stage at a Friday event in Maryland, a conservative activist responsible for undercover videos of his Democratic opponent will appear on that same stage.
New York Times:
Arrest Record Leaks for a Top Candidate in Tuesday's Public Advocate Election — [What you need to know to start the day: Get New York Today in your inbox.] — A decade-old arrest of Councilman Jumaane Williams has surfaced in the final stretch of the New York City public advocate's race …
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John Williams / New York Times:
New York Review Names 2 Top Editors 5 Months After Ian Buruma's Departure — The New York Review of Books has installed two editors to lead the magazine after being without a top editor since the sudden departure of Ian Buruma in September. Rea Hederman, the publisher of the intellectual journal …