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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 — Without the “Fox effect,” neither Bush nor Trump could have won. — Jane Mayer, the New Yorker's longtime star investigative reporter, has a fantastic new longform piece out detailing the extent …
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Mediaite, Washington Post, Hullabaloo and Raw Story
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Democrats are set to take a big step toward impeaching Trump — Rep. Jerrold Nadler, the New York Democrat who chairs the House Judiciary Committee, is set to demand documents from more than 60 people related to President Trump and his businesses. As Nadler puts it, this is necessary because Trump has been …
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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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Dan Mangan / CNBC:
‘Inane and anti-Semitic’: Rep. Jerry Nadler blasts Rep. Jim Jordan for tweet using ‘$’ to spell Trump foe Tom Steyer's name — House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler on Monday blasted Republican Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio for an ‘inane AND anti-Semitic’ tweet that spelled billionaire …
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Darren Samuelsohn / Politico:
House Democrats open sweeping corruption probe into Trump's world — A key House committee with the power to impeach President Donald Trump kicked off a sweeping new investigation on Monday with document demands from the White House, Trump's namesake company, charity, transition team …
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emptywheel:
Puzzling Through the House Requests — In this post, I'll try to make sense of the requests House Judiciary Committee sent out today. — The requests — which they've run by Mueller and SDNY — don't all make sense. Generally, people are being asked for the documents they've already turned over …
Committee on the Judiciary:
House Judiciary Committee Document Requests 3.4.19
House Judiciary Committee Document Requests 3.4.19
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Washington Post:
House Democrats demand documents from more than 80 people and institutions affiliated with Trump
House Democrats demand documents from more than 80 people and institutions affiliated with Trump
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Breitbart
U.S. House of Representatives Permanent …:
House Chairmen Request Documents and Interviews on President Trump's Communications with Putin
House Chairmen Request Documents and Interviews on President Trump's Communications with Putin
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Mother Jones, Talking Points Memo, Axios and POLITICUSUSA
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
House Democrats send message: Impeachment is on
House Democrats send message: Impeachment is on
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CNN:
See the more than 80 names receiving House Judiciary Committee letters in its investigation
See the more than 80 names receiving House Judiciary Committee letters in its investigation
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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Trump on new investigation: ‘I cooperate all the time with everybody’
Trump on new investigation: ‘I cooperate all the time with everybody’
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Mike Allen / Axios:
House Democrats plan a slow-bleed strategy to publicly examine Trump's finances and presidency
House Democrats plan a slow-bleed strategy to publicly examine Trump's finances and presidency
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POLITICUSUSA and Raw Story
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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Alex Pappas / Fox News:
Greenpeace co-founder tears into Ocasio-Cortez, Green New Deal: ‘Pompous little twit’ — Patrick Moore, the co-founder of the environmentalist group Greenpeace, ripped into New York Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez over the weekend as a “pompous little twit,” saying the Green …
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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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Del Quentin Wilber / Los Angeles Times:
Matthew Whitaker, former acting attorney general, leaves Justice Department … Matthew Whitaker, the former acting attorney general whose brief appointment generated intense controversy, resigned from the Justice Department over the weekend. — Justice Department officials said Whitaker's last day at the agency was Saturday.
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Morgan Chalfant / The Hill:
Whitaker out at Justice Department
Whitaker out at Justice Department
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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, The Week and Above the Law
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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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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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 …
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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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Front Page Magazine, The Guardian and Daily Wire
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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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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New York Times:
Pressed by Climate Activists, Senate Democrats Plan to ‘Go on Offense’ — WASHINGTON — Facing a showdown vote as early as this month over the embattled “Green New Deal,” Senate Democrats are preparing a counteroffensive to make combating climate change a central issue of their 2020 campaigns …
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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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Emily Cadei / Sacramento Bee:
Big-dollar donors, including Donald Trump, fueled Kamala Harris' political rise in California — Asked last week if she believes President Donald Trump is a racist, California Sen. Kamala Harris told The Root, “I don't think you can reach any other conclusion.”
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Ryan Goodman / Just Security:
Trump Told Cohen to Lie to Congress About “Collusion” in General—Not just the Moscow Tower deal — Analysts are still picking through all the crimes in which Michael Cohen directly implicated his former boss, President Donald Trump. Among the most significant crimes are those offences …
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The Daily Beast:
Team Trump Keeps Pushing Deal to Send Nuclear Tech to Saudis — Congress raised “grave concerns” about the Trump administration's past attempts to send nuclear technology to the Saudis. But Team Trump isn't done trying. — The Trump administration is still actively working to make a deal …