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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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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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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 $1 million in political donations into two of his own private companies, according to a complaint filed …
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Alex Pappas / Fox News:
Greenpeace co-founder tears into Ocasio-Cortez, Green New Deal: ‘Pompous little twit’ — Patrick Moore, the co-founder of the environmentalist group Greenpeace, ripped into New York Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez over the weekend as a “pompous little twit,” saying the Green …
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Daily Mail:
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's mom hopes daughter marries her boyfriend — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's mother Blanca now lives in Florida and her Trump-supporting neighbors don't know the Democrat star is her daughter.
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David Remnick / New Yorker:
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Is Coming for Your Hamburgers!
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Is Coming for Your Hamburgers!
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Nicholas Fandos / New York Times:
With Sweeping Document Request, Democrats Launch Broad Trump Corruption Inquiry — WASHINGTON — The chairman of the House Judiciary Committee delivered a flurry of document demands to the executive branch and the broader Trump world on Monday that detailed the breadth of the Democrats' investigation …
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House Judiciary Committee Document Requests 3.4.19 — Alan Garten (letter, document requests) Alexander Nix (letter, document requests)
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Dan Mangan / CNBC:
‘Inane and anti-Semitic’: Rep. Jerry Nadler blasts Rep. Jim Jordan for tweet using ‘$’ to spell …
‘Inane and anti-Semitic’: Rep. Jerry Nadler blasts Rep. Jim Jordan for tweet using ‘$’ to spell …
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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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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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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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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
House Democrats send message: Impeachment is on
House Democrats send message: Impeachment is on
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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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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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Henry Olsen / Washington Post:
Ilhan Omar is the Steve King of the left
Ilhan Omar is the Steve King of the left
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Mike DeBonis / Washington Post:
Rep. Omar's comments force Democrats to act on anti-Semitism measure
Rep. Omar's comments force Democrats to act on anti-Semitism measure
Laurie Kellman / Associated Press:
Dems respond to Omar by drafting anti-Semitism resolution
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 — 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 …
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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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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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Associated Press:
Trump claims Cohen hearing may have hurt North Korea summit — WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is suggesting that a congressional hearing Democrats arranged with his former personal attorney may have contributed to his failure to reach a summit deal with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.