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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.
Veronica Stracqualursi / CNN:
Rand Paul's vote likely gives Senate enough to oppose national emergency declaration
Rand Paul's vote likely gives Senate enough to oppose national emergency declaration
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Balloon Juice and KBZK
Burgess Everett / Politico:
Rand Paul to oppose Trump on national emergency
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.
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.
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Raw Story
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 chair: “It's very clear” Trump obstructed justice
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IJR
Christian Vasquez / Politico:
Nadler: Dozens of document requests to be sent in Trump probe
Nadler: Dozens of document requests to be sent in Trump probe
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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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Axios and Associated Press
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Christian Vasquez / Politico:
‘How did everyone like the salad?’: Klobuchar riffs on staff controversies at Gridiron dinner
‘How did everyone like the salad?’: Klobuchar riffs on staff controversies at Gridiron dinner
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CNN, The Guardian, Althouse and Axios
Sarah McCammon / NPR:
Being Trump's Daughter Is The ‘Hardest Job In the World,’ Ivanka Jokes At Dinner
Being Trump's Daughter Is The ‘Hardest Job In the World,’ Ivanka Jokes At Dinner
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The Daily Beast
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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Garry Kasparov / New York Daily News:
Two sides of the globe, one painful lesson: Trump is debasing America — No matter how low your opinion may be of President Trump, he'll always find a way to lower it. On Wednesday, he outdid himself, breaking even the laws of physics by reaching new depths in two places at once.
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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The Gateway Pundit
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 …
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?
Jared and the Saudi Crown Prince Go Nuclear?
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Politico
Jeff Metcalfe / Arizona Republic:
Arizona Senator Kyrsten Sinema breaks 13 hours, sets personal record at Ironman New Zealand — Sen. Kyrsten Sinema set a personal record for an Ironman race on Saturday, breaking 13 hours at Ironman New Zealand. — Sinema, 42, finished in 12 hours, 59 minutes, 57 seconds …
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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POLITICUSUSA and Raw Story
Manny Fernandez / New York Times:
‘You Have to Pay With Your Body’: The Hidden Nightmare of Sexual Violence on the Border — MCALLEN, Tex. — It was dark in the stash house where they kept her, the windows covered so no one could see inside. At first, the smugglers had her cook for the other migrants who had recently crossed illegally into the United States.
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.
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?”
Amie Parnes / The Hill:
Biden seeks donors as he eyes presidential bid — Former Vice President Joe Biden is trying to get donors to commit to his presidential campaign before launching a much-anticipated bid in the coming weeks. — Sources close to Biden expect him to enter the race, but they say he is trying …
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Elena Schneider / Politico:
Nevada 2020 caucus ‘free-for-all’ heats up