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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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Washington Times, Talking Points Memo, Raw Story, CNN, The Root, POLITICUSUSA, No More Mister Nice Blog, The Week 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.) …
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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Bloomberg, Raw Story, Michigan Advance, IJR, The Week, R Street and Speaker Nancy Pelosi
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
Murkowski ‘likely’ to support resolution to block Trump's emergency declaration
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Contemptor, CNN, IJR, Politico, ABC News, Washington Press, Bangor Daily News, Daily Kos, Breitbart and Townhall
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 and Talking Points Memo
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 …
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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Hullabaloo and Law & Crime
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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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NPR and Political Wire
Darren Samuelsohn / Politico:
Trump inner circle might escape Mueller charges — but still won't be safe
Trump inner circle might escape Mueller charges — but still won't be safe
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Raw Story, The Daily Beast and CBS News
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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Washington Post, Breitbart, Raw Story and Law & Crime
Wall Street Journal:
Cohen to Testify That Trump Engaged in Criminal Conduct While in Office — Michael Cohen, Donald Trump's former lawyer, will for the first time publicly accuse the president of criminal conduct while in office related to a hush-money payment to a porn star, a person familiar with his planned testimony before Congress said.
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Washington Post, Reuters, New York Times, Axios and Raw Story
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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 …
Washington Post:
In Hanoi, Kim Jong Un and a culture clash with the White House press corps — HANOI — What happens when the authoritarian ruler of North Korea checks into a hotel teeming with American journalists filing round-the-clock news reports? — The free press loses — or at least it did Tuesday …
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Politico, One America News Network, twitchy.com, Bloomberg, Axios, Outside the Beltway and ABC News
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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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One America News Network and 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
Robby Soave / Hit & Run:
This LGBT Activist's House Was Burned Down. Police Now Suspect He Set the Fire Himself. — Cops arrested Nikki Joly of Jackson, Michigan, for alleged hoax that resulted in the death of his five pets. — In 2017, prominent Michigan LGBT activist Nikki Joly, a transgender man …
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Frank Witsil / Detroit Free Press:
Police: Michigan gay-rights activist set fire to own home in fabricated hate crime
Police: Michigan gay-rights activist set fire to own home in fabricated hate crime
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PinkNews and Daily Wire
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 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 …
Washington Post:
Netanyahu's new rival is surging in Israel's polls — Here's why Benny Gantz's ambiguity on Palestinians is a winning strategy. — In April, Israeli voters will head to the polls to elect a new government. Despite corruption charges, surveys have shown Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud Party …
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Shalom Lipner / Politico:
Kushner's Peace Plan Looks Dead on Arrival
Kushner's Peace Plan Looks Dead on Arrival
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CNBC, Jerusalem Post and The National
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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Louder With Crowder, NB Blog, Breitbart, Mediaite, Fox News Insider, TheBlaze and The Daily Caller, more at Mediagazer »
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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
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, FiveThirtyEight, Liberty Unyielding and The Daily Caller
Associated Press:
India strikes inside Pakistan after deadly Kashmir attack — PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistan says India launched an airstrike on its territory early Tuesday that caused no casualties, while India said it targeted a terrorist training camp in a pre-emptive strike that killed a “very large number” of militants.
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Axios, Times of India and The Week
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Ridhima Shukla / NDTV.com:
Live Updates: Preemptive Action Targeted At Jaish Camp, Says Centre
Live Updates: Preemptive Action Targeted At Jaish Camp, Says Centre
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Balloon Juice and RT
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 …
Eli Lake / Bloomberg:
Iran's Charmer-in-Chief Resigns — With the departure of Foreign Minister Javad Zarif, maybe the West will be more realistic about Iran's malign intentions. — There is a temptation to view the resignation of Iran's foreign minister as a bad omen. Here is a man, Javad Zarif, who helped negotiate the 2015 Iran nuclear deal.
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ThinkProgress
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 …