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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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CNN, Talking Points Memo, The Root, Raw Story, POLITICUSUSA, Washington Times and Mediaite
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Marianne LeVine / Politico:
Trump on brink of defeat on border emergency — President Donald Trump is on the verge of a bipartisan rejection of his emergency declaration at the border in what would be an embarrassing rebuke by a Congress opposed to his immigration agenda. — Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) …
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Raw Story
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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Raw Story, Michigan Advance, IJR, The Week, R Street, Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Washington Times
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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Townhall
Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Murkowski ‘likely’ to support resolution to block Trump's emergency declaration — GOP Sen. Lisa Murkowski (Alaska) said over the weekend that she is “likely” to support a resolution blocking President Trump's emergency declaration, which is expected to be sent to the Senate later this week.
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ABC News, CNN, Politico, Bangor Daily News, Washington Press, Daily Kos, Breitbart, Townhall, Shareblue Media and IJR
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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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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Raw Story
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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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One America News Network, Raw Story, Washington Post, Breitbart and Law & Crime
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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New York Post, The Daily Caller and Liberty Unyielding
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Chuck Ross / The Daily Caller:
What The Steele Dossier Got Wrong About Michael Cohen — A previously redacted section of the Steele dossier that was recently unsealed in a legal case makes several false claims about Michael Cohen's wife and father-in-law. — The inaccuracies raise further questions about the veracity …
Brett Samuels / The Hill:
Russia says US asked for advice on dealing with North Korea
Russia says US asked for advice on dealing with North Korea
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Just Security
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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Political Wire
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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Axios
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Hanna Trudo / National Journal:
Sanders Prepares to Release Tax Returns
Sanders Prepares to Release Tax Returns
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Politico, Balloon Juice, Team Warren, Mother Jones and Splinter
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 …
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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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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Law & Crime and Hullabaloo
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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Daily Wire, Capital Research Center, The Hill, Fox News, Power Line, Job Creators Network, Breitbart and IJR
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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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AAF, Daily Wire, Splinter, Townhall, Young Conservatives and Washington Post
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Manafort lawyers ask judge for leniency in sentencing — Lawyers for Paul Manafort, the former Trump campaign chairman, pleaded on Monday for a federal judge to spare their 69-year-old client from a sentence that would essentially send him to prison for the rest of his life.
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Nicole Darrah / Fox News:
Univision anchor Jorge Ramos, team detained, released in Venezuela, network says — Univision anchor Jorge Ramos and five members of his team were detained and later released in Caracas, Venezuela by President Nicolas Maduro on Monday during an interview in which the embattled president …
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Brian Stelter / CNN:
Univision journalists freed after being detained at Venezuelan presidential palace
Univision journalists freed after being detained at Venezuelan presidential palace
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twitchy.com, The Gateway Pundit, The Week and Boing Boing
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 …
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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Lawyers, Guns & Money
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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The Daily Beast and Splinter
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.
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.
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 …
Todd Richmond / Associated Press:
Wisconsin governor orders troops to leave southern border — MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers on Monday ordered the state's National Guard troops to withdraw from the border with Mexico, drawing the ire of a Republican congressman from Illinois who serves as a pilot in the Wisconsin detachment.
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Political Wire and National Review
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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New York Daily News