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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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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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CNN:
House Democrats announce broad probe into allegations of obstruction of justice — (CNN)House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler on Monday announced a sweeping investigation into President Donald Trump's campaign, businesses, transition and administration, a probe that would lay the groundwork …
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Washington Post:
House Democrats demand documents from more than 80 people and institutions affiliated with Trump — House Democrats sent more than 80 letters Monday demanding documents from family members, business associates, political confidants and others with ties to President Trump …
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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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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Former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper announces 2020 presidential campaign
Former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper announces 2020 presidential campaign
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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.
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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
Trump blames Cohen testimony in part for failed deal with North Korea
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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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The Guardian:
Banking leak exposes Russian network with link to Prince Charles — Exclusive: investigation reveals how Troika Dialog channelled $4.6bn to Europe and US — A charity run by Prince Charles received donations from an offshore company that was used to funnel vast amounts of cash from Russia …
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RFE / Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty:
Multibillion-Dollar Money-Laundering Scheme Run By Russia's Largest Private Investment Bank Uncovered, Report Says — An almost $9 billion global money-laundering scheme allegedly set up and run by Russia's largest private investment bank and having close ties to the country's ruling elite …
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 …
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Emily Jane Fox / Vanity Fair:
“I'm Sorry for the Tweet That I Sent”: Inside the Bonkers Michael Cohen-Matt Gaetz Apology — The exchange proved that the perils of entering Trump's inner circle have been lost on his newest loyalists. — Michael Cohen was trying to decompress. He'd just returned to his hotel room …
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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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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.
Ottawa Citizen:
Kolga and Gold: How the Kremlin distorts the past to divide us — Putin's weaponization of the history of fascism and Nazism for propaganda purposes must be rejected. — Share Adjust Comment Print — The following is offered in rebuttal to a Feb. 25 blog from Citizen writer David Pugliese entitled …
Ian Shapira / Washington Post:
Charlottesville mystery: Who are the last two attackers of a black man in a parking garage? — CHARLOTTESVILLE — One man was sporting a red, bushy beard. The second man, blond-haired, was wearing sunglasses and a tucked-in white, long sleeve shirt. In footage seen hundreds of thousands of times …
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Washington Post:
President Trump has made 9,014 false or misleading claims over 773 days — Powered by his two-hour stemwinder at the Conservative Political Action Conference on March 2 — which featured more than 100 false or misleading claims — President Trump is on pace to exceed his daily quota set during his first two years in office.
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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 …
Reuters:
Exclusive: OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma exploring bankruptcy - sources — (Reuters) - OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma LP is exploring filing for bankruptcy to address potentially significant liabilities from thousands of lawsuits alleging the drug manufacturer contributed to the deadly opioid crisis sweeping …
Sen. Rand Paul / Fox News:
I support President Trump, but I can't support this National Emergency Declaration — In September of 2014, I had these words to say: “The president acts like he's a king. He ignores the Constitution. He arrogantly says, ‘If Congress will not act, then I must.’
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 …
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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.