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Don Sergent / Daily News:
Sen. Paul vows to vote against giving Trump ‘extra-Constitutional’ power — The Republican Party cheerleading session that is the Southern Kentucky Lincoln Day Dinner veered slightly off course Saturday with this pronouncement by U.S. Sen. Rand Paul of Bowling Green: “I can't vote to give extra-Constitutional powers to the president.”
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Khorri Atkinson / Axios:
Rand Paul to vote to block emergency declaration, forcing Trump veto — Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) disclosed on Saturday that he will vote in support of a resolution this month to block President Trump's emergency declaration, reports the Bowling Green Daily News.
Burgess Everett / Politico:
Rand Paul to oppose Trump on national emergency — Sen. Rand Paul will vote to disapprove of President Donald Trump's national emergency declaration to secure billions for his border wall, clinching a bipartisan majority in opposition of the president's move.
ABC News:
Over 60 Trump-related documents to be requested from WH: House Judiciary Chair — Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., is interviewed on “This Week.” — 1h ago
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Marisa Fernandez / Axios:
House Judiciary chair: “It's very clear” Trump obstructed justice — House Judiciary Chairman Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.), whose committee would be responsible for starting impeachment proceedings, told ABC's George Stephanopoulos on Sunday that “it's very clear” that President Trump obstructed justice.
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Mark Murray / NBC News:
NBC News/WSJ poll: 2020 race will be uphill for Trump, but he has strong party loyalty — NBC News/WSJ poll finds President Trump facing headwinds on Russia investigation and border wall but bolstered by strong GOP support and a good economy. — WASHINGTON — A year and a half …
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Reid J. Epstein / Wall Street Journal:
Trump's Job-Approval Rating Ticks Up, Along With Warning Signs — President Trump's job-approval rating has ticked up, but many of his party's policy positions are viewed as out of the mainstream, the latest Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll finds.
Isaac Chotiner / New Yorker:
A BuzzFeed Reporter Explains His Controversial Reporting on Michael Cohen and Donald Trump — In January, BuzzFeed published perhaps the clearest accusation against President Trump in all of the reporting about the Russia investigation. Under the headline “President Trump Instructed …
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David D. Kirkpatrick / New York Times:
Saudi Arabia Is Said to Have Tortured an American Citizen — A dual citizen of Saudi Arabia and the United States had been imprisoned in the Ritz Carlton in Riyadh for about a week when he heard a knock on his door. — Guards dragged Walid Fitaihi, a Harvard-trained physician, to another room …
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Nicholas Kristof / New York Times:
Jared and the Saudi Crown Prince Go Nuclear?
Nick Gillespie / Hit & Run:
Trump Just Might Have Won the 2020 Election Today — It's way too early to be thinking this, much less saying it, but what the hell: If Donald Trump is able to deliver the sort of performance he gave today at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), the annual meeting …
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Lauren Egan / NBC News:
Trump lets loose at CPAC in longest speech of his presidency
Trump lets loose at CPAC in longest speech of his presidency
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Robert Costa / Washington Post:
'We're not going to turn on our own': Republicans rally around Trump as threats mount
'We're not going to turn on our own': Republicans rally around Trump as threats mount
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Kelsey Tamborrino / Politico:
Warner: ‘Enormous amounts of evidence’ of possible Russia collusion — The top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee said Sunday lawmakers have found “enormous amounts of evidence” into potential collusion between the presidential campaign of Donald Trump and the Russians during the 2016 election.
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Emily Heil / Washington Post:
At Gridiron dinner, Ivanka tries laughs: 'As if being Donald Trump's daughter isn't the hardest job in the world' — There were several crucial questions surrounding Saturday night's Gridiron dinner, that exclusive, annual white-tie gathering hosted by a club made up of Washington's most elite journalists …
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Edward-Isaac Dovere / The Atlantic:
Andrew Cuomo's Case for 2020—No, Really — NEW YORK—Here's how Andrew Cuomo ends our first interview at the beginning of January, sitting in a chair in his office, after eating cookie No. 4 from the tray his staff prepared. I put a simple question to him: “Would you like to be president?”
New York Times:
To Woo a Skeptical Trump, Intelligence Chiefs Talk Economics Instead of Spies — Intelligence officials who brief the president have warned him about Chinese espionage in bottom-line business terms. They have used Black Sea shipping figures to demonstrate the effect of Russia's aggression in Ukraine.
Renuka Rayasam / Politico:
Texas GOP races to shore up the suburbs for 2020 — AUSTIN, Texas — Texas Republicans barely escaped a colossal defeat last year. Now the party is scrambling to avoid a repeat in 2020. — Facing a rapidly changing voter base, anti-Trump fervor and a more motivated Democratic Party …
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Howie Carr / Boston Herald:
Smirking media bias against GOP couldn't be clearer — Have you ever noticed how differently Republicans are treated in the media than Democrats? — Every newsroom in the country used to have what was called the “AP Stylebook” to use in writing news stories.
Elena Schneider / Politico:
Nevada 2020 caucus ‘free-for-all’ heats up — The Democratic 2020 fight for Nevada — the oft-forgotten but critically important early presidential nominating state — is rapidly ramping up. — While the lion's share of media attention is focused on Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina …
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Devon Ivie / Vulture:
Steven Spielberg Is Reportedly Continuing His Quest to Ban Netflix at the Oscars — The success of Alfonso Cuarón's Roma at this year's Oscars has royally pissed off Steven Spielberg, so much so he's reportedly doubling down on banning streaming films from awards contention once and for all.
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Vegas Tenold / The Guardian:
The neo-Nazi plot against America is much bigger than we realize — Lt Christopher Hasson is the product of traditions in white supremacist circles, and experts say there are ‘thousands like him’ — In the early summer of 2017, US coast guard lieutenant Christopher Hasson had an idea.
Rene Chun / The Daily Beast:
How David Pecker Built His Tabloid Empire on Fear — A previously unpublished profile captures the Enquirer boss at start of his reign as gossip king. ‘He likes people walking around in fear,’ says one worker. ‘He gets off on it.’ … Talk to employees who have passed through the grist mill …
Daniel Jativa / Washington Examiner:
Rashida Tlaib paid herself $17,500 from campaign funds after the election in possible FEC violation — The newly elected firebrand Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., could be in hot water after Federal Election Commission filings show she paid herself thousands of dollars in salary from her successful midterm campaign.
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