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Alana Goodman / Washington Examiner:
AOC's chief of staff ran $1M slush fund by diverting campaign cash to his own companies — Two political action committees founded by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's top aide funneled over $1 million in political donations into two of his own private companies, according to a complaint filed …
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Townhall, The Gateway Pundit, Front Page Magazine, twitchy.com and The New Neo
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Daily Mail:
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's mom hopes daughter marries her boyfriend — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's mother Blanca now lives in Florida and her Trump-supporting neighbors don't know the Democrat star is her daughter.
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The Gateway Pundit, Louder With Crowder, The Hill, New York Post, twitchy.com, Washington Free Beacon and Instapundit
Business Insider:
More than a third of millennials share Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's worry about having kids while the threat of climate change looms — Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said last week that some young people are concerned about having children given the threat climate change could pose to future generations.
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The Daily Caller and Climate Depot
Andrew Kerr / The Daily Caller:
Ocasio-Cortez And Her Chief Of Staff ‘Could Be Facing Jail Time’ If Their Control Over PAC Was Intentionally Hidden, Former FEC Commissioner Says — Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and a top aide appear to control an outside PAC credited with being the central force behind her June 2018 primary victory.
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Daily Wire and New York Post
Alex Pappas / Fox News:
Greenpeace co-founder tears into Ocasio-Cortez, Green New Deal: ‘Pompous little twit’
Greenpeace co-founder tears into Ocasio-Cortez, Green New Deal: ‘Pompous little twit’
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Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, RedState, The Daily Caller, IJR and Pirate's Cove
Jane Mayer / New Yorker:
The Making of the Fox News White House — Fox News has always been partisan. But has it become propaganda? — In January, during the longest government shutdown in America's history, President Donald Trump rode in a motorcade through Hidalgo County, Texas, eventually stopping on a grassy bluff overlooking the Rio Grande.
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Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
Fox News's propaganda isn't just unethical — research shows it's enormously influential
Fox News's propaganda isn't just unethical — research shows it's enormously influential
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Washington Post, Mediaite, Shareblue Media and Hullabaloo
John Bresnahan / Politico:
House Dems will take floor action to confront Omar's latest Israel comments — Speaker Nancy Pelosi and top Democrats will take floor action Wednesday in response to controversial remarks by Rep. Ilhan Omar about Israel, the second such rebuke of the freshman Democrat from party leaders in recent weeks.
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Henry Olsen / Washington Post:
Ilhan Omar is the Steve King of the left — Rep. Ilhan Omar has, yet again, angered many House Democrats and Jewish groups by making anti-Semitic comments over the weekend. Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and the rest of the leadership need to realize that Omar (D-Minn.) has become their party's version of Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa).
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Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Ilhan Omar's Criticism Raises the Question: Is Aipac Too Powerful?
Ilhan Omar's Criticism Raises the Question: Is Aipac Too Powerful?
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twitchy.com, TheBlaze and Townhall
James Comey / Washington Post:
Republicans are wrong. Transparency is possible in the Mueller investigation. — James Comey is a former director of the FBI and a former deputy attorney general. — Attorney General William P. Barr will decide how much of special counsel Robert S. Mueller III's findings and conclusions …
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Raw Story
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Chris Strohm / Bloomberg:
Trump's New Attorney General Won't Recuse Himself in Mueller Probe — William Barr says he is following advice of ethics officers — Trump attacked Sessions for recusing himself in inquiry — Attorney General William Barr said he won't recuse himself from being in charge …
Morgan Chalfant / The Hill:
Whitaker out at Justice Department — Former acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker has left the Department of Justice. — A Justice Department spokesman told The Hill that Whitaker's last day was Saturday but did not expand on the circumstances surrounding his departure or his plans after leaving.
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Axios, Breitbart and The Gateway Pundit
Del Quentin Wilber / Los Angeles Times:
Matthew Whitaker, former acting attorney general, leaves Justice Department
Matthew Whitaker, former acting attorney general, leaves Justice Department
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Lawyers, Guns & Money
Julia Ainsley / NBC News:
Matthew Whitaker has left the Justice Department
Matthew Whitaker has left the Justice Department
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Talking Points Memo and Law & Crime
Nicholas Fandos / New York Times:
With Sweeping Document Request, Democrats Launch Broad Trump Corruption Inquiry — WASHINGTON — The chairman of the House Judiciary Committee delivered a flurry of document demands to the executive branch and the broader Trump world on Monday that detailed the breadth of the Democrats' investigation …
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Democrats are set to take a big step toward impeaching Trump
Democrats are set to take a big step toward impeaching Trump
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Washington Examiner, TheBlaze, Common Dreams, The Nation, Shareblue Media and Bloomberg
Committee on the Judiciary:
House Judiciary Committee Document Requests 3.4.19
House Judiciary Committee Document Requests 3.4.19
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New York Times, The Daily Signal, Vox, The Guardian, Variety, Vanity Fair and ABC News
Jill Lawrence / USA Today:
Whether you call it impeachment or pre-impeachment, the Trump accountability era is here
Whether you call it impeachment or pre-impeachment, the Trump accountability era is here
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Shareblue Media, The Nation and The Week
Darren Samuelsohn / Politico:
House Democrats open sweeping corruption probe into Trump's world
House Democrats open sweeping corruption probe into Trump's world
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ABC News, Raw Story, One America News Network, Above the Law, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, Axios and The New Neo
Dan Mangan / CNBC:
‘Inane and anti-Semitic’: Rep. Jerry Nadler blasts Rep. Jim Jordan for tweet using ‘$’ to spell …
‘Inane and anti-Semitic’: Rep. Jerry Nadler blasts Rep. Jim Jordan for tweet using ‘$’ to spell …
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The Daily Caller, Shareblue Media and The Week
Apoorva Mandavilli / New York Times:
H.I.V. Is Reported Cured in a Second Patient, a Milestone in the Global AIDS Epidemic — Scientists have long tried to duplicate the procedure that led to the first permanent remission 12 years ago. With the so-called London patient, they seem to have succeeded.
Ben Collins / NBC News:
On Amazon, a Qanon conspiracy book climbs the charts — with an algorithmic push — The book is currently No. 9 in all books about politics and No. 1 in all books about “Censorship,” one slot ahead of Ray Bradbury's “Farhenheit 451,” — A book that pushes the conspiracy theory Qanon climbed within …
Daisuke Wakabayashi / New York Times:
Google Moves to Address Wage Equity, and Finds It's Underpaying Many Men — SAN FRANCISCO — When Google conducted a study recently to determine whether the company was underpaying women and members of minority groups, it found that more men than women were receiving less money for doing similar work.
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Lauren Feiner / CNBC:
Google found it was underpaying more men than women for similar jobs
Google found it was underpaying more men than women for similar jobs
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RedState and Front Page Magazine
Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Disputed N.S.A. Phone Program Is Shut Down, Aide Says — WASHINGTON — The National Security Agency has quietly shut down a system that analyzes logs of Americans' domestic calls and texts, according to a senior Republican congressional aide, halting a program that has touched off disputes …
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emptywheel and Lawfare
Dan Mangan / CNBC:
Special counsel Robert Mueller notifies judge that Trump friend Roger Stone posted Instagram image that could violate gag order — Special counsel Robert Mueller on Monday notified a federal judge about an Instagram post by President Donald Trump's friend Roger Stone that could be in violation …
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Jordain Carney / The Hill:
McConnell: Senate will pass resolution blocking Trump's emergency declaration — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Monday said that he expects a resolution blocking President Trump's emergency declaration to pass the Senate, but he does not believe lawmakers will be able to override a veto.
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Gabriel Sherman / Vanity Fair:
“We're F—ked. Gavin Is Going to Get Jeff Back Together with MacKenzie": Inside the Bezos Affair, a Tale of Love, Lust, Uncertainty, and Way More Complexifiers Than Previously Imagined — “At the end of this, we're all going to look really, really bad,” says Michael Sanchez.
Andy Kroll / Rolling Stone:
Pro-Trump Conspiracy Peddler Jerome Corsi Apologizes to Seth Rich's Family — Corsi retracted a column parroting the baseless conspiracy that Rich and his brother hacked the DNC in 2016 — WASHINGTON - The family of Seth Rich, the Democratic National Committee staffer whose unsolved murder …
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Felicia Sonmez / Washington Post:
Jerome Corsi retracts and apologizes for 2018 story promoting Seth Rich conspiracy theory
Jerome Corsi retracts and apologizes for 2018 story promoting Seth Rich conspiracy theory
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Alex Jones' Infowars, Raw Story and The Daily Beast
Lee Davidson / Salt Lake Tribune:
The lengthy legal fight over Utah election law is over as U.S. Supreme Court refuses to accept GOP appeal — The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday ended five years of legal battles by the Utah Republican Party to quash a 2014 election law that allows candidates to qualify for the ballot …
David Nakamura / Washington Post:
'Where are the women's teams?': Trump ignores women's champions in White House sports ceremonies — President Trump on Monday became the first president since Bill Clinton to play host to a college football team that won a title in the NCAA's secondary division when he feted the North Dakota State Bison at the White House.
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The Hill, The White House and Politico
Sister Toldjah / RedState:
Martina Learns That Nothing Short of Total Surrender Will Appease Transgender Activists — Tennis great Martina Navratilova is learning the hard way that apologizing to militant transgender activists is not - and will never be - enough. — On Sunday, Navratilova used her personal website …
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Outsports, NB Blog and Instapundit
bronx.news12.com:
'I'm not running': Hillary Clinton rules out 2020 bid for first time on camera in exclusive interview with News 12 — NEW YORK - — Hillary Clinton ruled out a 2020 presidential run for the first time on camera in an exclusive interview with News 12, pledging instead to take an active role …
Washington Post:
John Bolton puts his singular stamp on Trump's National Security Council — As national security adviser to President Trump, John Bolton has been the chief translator of Trump's unorthodox foreign policy views to the vast U.S. bureaucracy. — To his critics …