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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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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 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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Business Insider:
More than a third of millennials share Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's worry about having kids …
More than a third of millennials share Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's worry about having kids …
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The Daily Caller and Climate Depot
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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Claude Thompson / Washington Examiner:
Ocasio-Cortez refuses to denounce Maduro
Wall Street Journal:
Lawyer for Cohen Approached Trump Attorneys About Pardon — An attorney for Michael Cohen, Donald Trump's former personal lawyer, raised the possibility of a pardon with attorneys for the president after federal agents raided Mr. Cohen's properties in April, according to people familiar with the discussions.
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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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James Kirchick / Washington Post:
Jeremy Corbyn is thoroughly indecent — LONDON — Everything you need to know about the British Labour Party is contained in the fact that Luciana Berger is no longer a member and Alex Scott-Samuel is. — Two weeks ago Berger, a member of parliament, shocked the nation when she announced …
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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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Ilhan Omar is using President Trump's playbook
Ilhan Omar is using President Trump's playbook
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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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Chris Strohm / Bloomberg:
Trump's New Attorney General Won't Recuse Himself in Mueller Probe
Trump's New Attorney General Won't Recuse Himself in Mueller Probe
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Morgan Chalfant / The Hill:
Whitaker out at Justice Department
Whitaker out at Justice Department
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Julia Ainsley / NBC News:
Matthew Whitaker has left the Justice Department
Matthew Whitaker has left the Justice Department
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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
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.
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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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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 …
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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 …
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Jennifer Bendery / HuffPost:
Trump's Judicial Nominees Aren't Just Ideologues. They're Really Young.
Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Trump on brink of GOP rebellion over emergency declaration
Trump on brink of GOP rebellion over emergency declaration
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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 …
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David Morgan / Reuters:
Ivanka Trump could be on next target list from House Democrats: panel chairman — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Some of President Donald Trump's closest advisers, including his daughter Ivanka, were missing from a list of people from whom Democratic lawmakers sought documents on Monday …
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Nicholas Fandos / New York Times:
With Sweeping Document Request, Democrats Launch Broad Trump Corruption Inquiry
With Sweeping Document Request, Democrats Launch Broad Trump Corruption Inquiry
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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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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, Committee on the Judiciary and The Week
Lawrence H. Summers / Washington Post:
The left's embrace of modern monetary theory is a recipe for disaster — We've seen this movie before. — There is widespread frustration with the performance of the economy. Traditional policy approaches are not delivering hoped-for results. A relatively unpopular president is loathed …
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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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.
Chuck Ross / The Daily Caller:
EXCLUSIVE: Fusion GPS Founder Had Contact With State Department Official During 2016 Campaign — Fusion GPS founder Glenn Simpson was in contact with a State Department official who had close contacts with dossier author Christopher Steele, according to emails recently obtained by The Daily Caller News Foundation.
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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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.
Felicia Sonmez / Washington Post:
Jerome Corsi retracts and apologizes for 2018 story promoting Seth Rich conspiracy theory — Conservative author Jerome Corsi on Monday apologized for writing an article in which he falsely alleged that Seth Rich, a Democratic National Committee staffer who was killed in 2016, and Aaron Rich …
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Andy Kroll / Rolling Stone:
Pro-Trump Conspiracy Peddler Jerome Corsi Apologizes to Seth Rich's Family
Pro-Trump Conspiracy Peddler Jerome Corsi Apologizes to Seth Rich's Family
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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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Marianne LeVine / Politico:
Senate Republicans leave Khashoggi briefing dissatisfied — Senate Republicans on the Foreign Relations Committee appeared dissatisfied with a Trump administration briefing Monday on the murder of Saudi Arabian journalist Jamal Khashoggi. — The briefing came after the Trump administration …
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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
Zack Beauchamp / Vox:
A Clinton-era centrist Democrat explains why it's time to give democratic socialists a chance — “The baton rightly passes to our colleagues on our left.” — The rise of the Democratic left, personified by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) …
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New York Times:
Trump's Grip Shows Signs of Slipping as Senate Prepares to Block Wall Emergency — WASHINGTON — Senator Mitch McConnell, the majority leader, conceded on Monday that he could not stave off final passage of a resolution overturning President Trump's national emergency declaration …
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