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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.
Deirdre Shesgreen / USA Today:
Exclusive: Pompeo on the failed North Korea talks, Otto Warmbier and his own trip to Iowa — WASHINGTON - Secretary of State Mike Pompeo refused to say if he believes that Kim Jong Un did not know about Otto Warmbier's mistreatment while the American college student was imprisoned in North Korea, as President Trump has asserted.
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Seung Min Kim / Washington Post:
Trump blames Cohen testimony in part for failed deal with North Korea — President Trump said Sunday that the congressional testimony of Michael Cohen, his former personal lawyer and fixer, was in part responsible for the collapse in negotiations with North Korea over its nuclear program last week …
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Nicole Perlroth / New York Times:
As Trump and Kim Met, North Korean Hackers Hit Over 100 Targets in U.S. and Ally Nations
As Trump and Kim Met, North Korean Hackers Hit Over 100 Targets in U.S. and Ally Nations
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Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Bolton attempts damage control after Trump's Otto Warmbier remarks
Bolton attempts damage control after Trump's Otto Warmbier remarks
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David Weigel / Washington Post:
John Hickenlooper, former Colorado governor, joins Democrats' 2020 slate — John Hickenlooper, who served two terms as governor of Colorado, announced Monday that he is running for president, touting his accomplishments in a state that moved to the left during his time in office.
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Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
John Hickenlooper jumps into crowded 2020 field with ground to make up
Julie Turkewitz / New York Times:
John Hickenlooper, Former Colorado Governor, Declares Candidacy for President
John Hickenlooper, Former Colorado Governor, Declares Candidacy for President
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Eric H. Holder Jr / Washington Post:
Eric Holder: I won't run, but I will fight to elect the right Democratic president — Eric H. Holder Jr. was U.S. attorney general from 2009 to 2015. — There is in the United States today a crisis of leadership — caused and perpetuated by an administration that uses fear to stoke divisions and lies to support broken policies.
Aidan McLaughlin / Mediaite:
Seb Gorka No Longer a Contributor at Fox News — Seb Gorka, pundit turned White House staffer turned pundit, is no longer a Fox News contributor, the network confirmed to Mediaite. — Gorka, a self-proclaimed national security expert, worked as a contributor for Fox News before he joined …
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BuzzFeed News:
WWF's Secret War: One Of The World's Biggest Charities Funds Guards Who Have Tortured And Killed People — The World Wide Fund for Nature funds vicious paramilitary forces to fight poaching. A BuzzFeed News investigation reveals the hidden human cost. — Down the road from the crocodile …
Matt Ford / New Republic:
Conservatives' Coming War on the Warren Court — Two years after Clarence Thomas's bruising confirmation hearing in 1991, The New York Times reported that the Supreme Court justice told two of his law clerks that he planned to serve until 2034. That would give him a record tenure of 43 years on the nation's highest tribunal.
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Sen. Rand Paul / Fox News:
I support President Trump, but I can't support this National Emergency Declaration
I support President Trump, but I can't support this National Emergency Declaration
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Mike Allen / Axios:
House Democrats plan a slow-bleed strategy to publicly examine Trump's finances and presidency — House Democratic leaders worry impeachment proceedings against President Trump could backfire if they move too fast. — The state of play: They plan to pursue a slow-bleed strategy …
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Daniel Lippman / Politico:
Kirstjen Nielsen digs in after surviving Trump's wrath — Shortly after President Donald Trump returned last March from a visit to the San Diego border, Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen found herself in a familiar place — saying no to her boss.
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David Remnick / New Yorker:
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Is Coming for Your Hamburgers! — Sebastian Gorka, late of the Trump Administration, stood before the annual gathering of the Conservative Political Action Conference last week and made plain the inner frenzy of a party that must place its hopes for 2020 in a President …
Robert Costa / Washington Post:
McGahn joins global law firm — and remains involved in Trump's judicial choices — Donald McGahn, the former White House counsel who at times clashed with President Trump over the ongoing special counsel probe but led his overhaul of the federal judiciary, told The Washington Post on Sunday …
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Camilo Montoya-Galvez / CBS News:
Jones calls on Congress to “put some teeth” back in the Voting Rights Act
Salena Zito / New York Post:
Bill Maher's red-state hate will help get Trump re-elected — Americans are as proud of the cities and towns we live in as we are of being American itself. We expect degrading attitudes toward our native lands to come from hostile countries, not from people within our own nation.
Dan Mangan / CNBC:
Trump friend Roger Stone suggests Robert Mueller ‘framed’ him in Instagram post that could violate gag order — Roger Stone on Sunday suggested he has been “framed” by special counsel Robert Mueller in an Instagram post. — The post appeared to run afoul of Judge Amy Berman Jackson's …
NBC News:
Trump admin to let Americans sue some foreign firms doing business in Cuba — The Trump admin has long sought ways to toughen the U.S. economic embargo on Cuba and has rolled back some measures enacted by the Obama administration. — WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is expected …
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Victoria Jones / RealClearInvestigations:
Days After Comey Firing, McCabe's Team Re-Engaged Fired Dossier Author — Two days after then-acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe formally put President Trump under criminal investigation in May 2017, bureau officials reached out to the author of the controversial “Steele dossier” …
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Simon van Zuylen-Wood / New York Magazine:
Pinkos Have More Fun Socialism is AOC's calling card, Trump's latest rhetorical bludgeon, and a new way to date in Brooklyn. — It's the Friday after Valentine's Day. The radical publishing house Verso Books is throwing its annual Red Party, an anti-romance-themed banger.
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