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Mike Lillis / The Hill:
New cracks emerge in Dem unity — House Democrats are showing more cracks in their united front just two months into the new Congress. — Leaders are scrambling to contain high-profile rifts between liberals and centrists on everything from the Green New Deal and “Medicare for all,” …
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Rahm Emanuel / The Atlantic:
I've Faced the Charge of Dual Loyalty — I'm all for new voices in the U.S. Congress. But lately, some of those new voices have been voicing some very old canards. — I'm talking about Representative Ilhan Omar, one of the newly elected Democrats who populate the 116th Congress.
Melanie Zanona / Politico:
House repudiates bigotry after Omar comments split Dems
House repudiates bigotry after Omar comments split Dems
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Philip Klein / Washington Examiner:
Jim Clyburn's defense: Ilhan Omar's experience is ‘more personal’ than Jews who had parents in the Holocaust
Jim Clyburn's defense: Ilhan Omar's experience is ‘more personal’ than Jews who had parents in the Holocaust
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Bret Stephens / New York Times:
Ilhan Omar Knows Exactly What She Is Doing
Ilhan Omar Knows Exactly What She Is Doing
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Hussein Ibish / Bloomberg:
Ilhan Omar Is Hurting the Palestinian Cause
NBC News:
House passes resolution condemning anti-Semitism and Islamophobia
House passes resolution condemning anti-Semitism and Islamophobia
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Ken Meyer / Mediaite:
Meghan McCain Breaks Down in Tears After Heated Anti-Semitism Debate: Omar's Comments Are ‘Very Scary’
Meghan McCain Breaks Down in Tears After Heated Anti-Semitism Debate: Omar's Comments Are ‘Very Scary’
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Politico:
Omar uproar swamps Pelosi
Omar uproar swamps Pelosi
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Axios:
House passes resolution condemning anti-Semitism, other bigotry
House passes resolution condemning anti-Semitism, other bigotry
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Washington Post:
Rep. James Clyburn says Ilhan Omar's experience is ‘more personal’ than that of Holocaust survivors' children
Rep. James Clyburn says Ilhan Omar's experience is ‘more personal’ than that of Holocaust survivors' children
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The Babylon Bee:
Ilhan Omar Withdraws Support From Bill To Save The Earth After Learning That's Where Israel Is
Washington Post:
House overwhelmingly passes broad measure condemning hate in response to Rep. Ilhan Omar's alleged anti-Semitic comments
House overwhelmingly passes broad measure condemning hate in response to Rep. Ilhan Omar's alleged anti-Semitic comments
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Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
House Votes to Condemn All Hate as Anti-Semitism Debate Overshadows Congress
House Votes to Condemn All Hate as Anti-Semitism Debate Overshadows Congress
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Washington Post:
Paul Manafort says at his sentencing he feels ‘humiliated and ashamed’ — Paul Manafort, President Trump's onetime campaign chairman, asked a judge for mercy at his sentencing Thursday for a host of financial crimes — conduct that could now earn the once high-flying political consultant years in prison.
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Ryan J. Reilly / HuffPost:
Paul Manafort Sentenced To Less Than 4 Years In Prison In Mueller Probe — Trump's former campaign chairman still faces a separate sentencing in Washington, D.C. — ALEXANDRIA, Va. A federal judge here sentenced former Trump campaign chairman and longtime Republican operative Paul Manafort …
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Zachary Basu / Axios:
Paul Manafort sentenced to 4 years in prison — President Trump's former campaign chairman Paul Manafort has been sentenced in a Virginia court to 4 years in prison for a laundry list of financial crimes, including bank fraud, tax fraud and hiding a foreign bank account.
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Kevin Breuninger / CNBC:
Ex-Trump campaign chief Paul Manafort sentenced to 47 months for fraud in Mueller case
Ex-Trump campaign chief Paul Manafort sentenced to 47 months for fraud in Mueller case
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Kristine Phillips / USA Today:
Paul Manafort faces a prison sentence Thursday, capping the fall of Donald Trump's former campaign chair
Paul Manafort faces a prison sentence Thursday, capping the fall of Donald Trump's former campaign chair
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Sharon LaFraniere / New York Times:
Paul Manafort Is Sentenced to Less Than 4 Years in 1 of 2 Cases Against Him
Paul Manafort Is Sentenced to Less Than 4 Years in 1 of 2 Cases Against Him
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Sam Stein / The Daily Beast:
Eric Holder Says Next Democratic President Should Consider Court Packing — The former attorney general made the comments Thursday during a chat with the Yale Law National Security Group. — Former Attorney General Eric Holder said Thursday that the next Democratic president should …
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Fred Barbash / Washington Post:
Wilbur Ross broke law, violated Constitution in census decision, judge rules — Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross acted in “bad faith,” broke several laws and violated the constitutional underpinning of representative democracy when he added a citizenship question to the 2020 Census, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.
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Jennifer Bendery / HuffPost:
Senate Confirms Trump Court Pick Who Repeatedly Weakened Voting Rights — Every Republican voted to make Eric Murphy, 40, a lifetime federal judge. — WASHINGTON The Senate voted Thursday to confirm Eric Murphy to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit, meaning a 40-year-old lawyer …
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Erin Banco / The Daily Beast:
Embassy Staffers Say Jared Kushner Shut Them Out of Saudi Meetings — When a member of the administration travels overseas, the embassy often helps coordinate the trip. Not when Jared Kushner meets his buddy MBS. — Officials and staffers in the U.S. embassy in Riyadh said they were not read …
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Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
John Kelly, Out of White House, Breaks With Trump Policies — The former White House chief of staff, John F. Kelly, on Wednesday declined to answer questions about the existence of a memo he wrote saying that President Trump had ordered officials to give his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, a security clearance in May 2018.
New York Times:
Joe Biden's 2020 Plan Is Almost Complete. Democrats Are Impatient. — WASHINGTON — The pieces for a Joseph R. Biden Jr. presidential campaign are falling into place: His nucleus of advisers has begun offering campaign positions to seasoned Democratic strategists.
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Matt Viser / Washington Post:
Biden's tough talk on 1970s school desegregation plan could get new scrutiny in today's Democratic Party — When Joe Biden was a freshman senator in the mid-1970s, his home state of Delaware, like other hotspots across the country, was engulfed in a bitter battle over school busing …
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Andrew Kaczynski / CNN:
Biden in 1993 speech pushing crime bill warned of ‘predators on our streets’ who were ‘beyond the pale’
Biden in 1993 speech pushing crime bill warned of ‘predators on our streets’ who were ‘beyond the pale’
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Reid Standish / Foreign Policy:
U.S. Cancels Journalist's Award Over Her Criticism of Trump — Jessikka Aro was to receive a “Women of Courage” prize. Then officials read her Twitter feed. — Jessikka Aro, a Finnish investigative journalist, has faced down death threats and harassment over her work exposing Russia's …
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Bloomberg:
Cohen Fires New Shot at Trump With Suit for Millions in Fees — Ex-Trump lawyer claims he's owed at least $3.8 million — Cohen says he appeared before Congress, Mueller for the firm — Michael Cohen sued the Trump Organization, claiming the president's family company stiffed …
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Timothy L. O'Brien / Bloomberg:
That Time Trump Got $18.3 Million in Palm Beach
That Time Trump Got $18.3 Million in Palm Beach
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Bernard Condon / Associated Press:
Out of the shadows: Loyal money man swept into Trump probes
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
It's time — high time — to take Fox News's destructive role in America seriously — Chris Wallace is an exceptional interviewer, and Shepard Smith and Bret Baier are reality-based news anchors. — Now that we've got that out of the way, let's talk about the overall problem of Fox News …
Associated Press:
Pentagon may tap military pay, pensions for border wall — WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon is planning to tap $1 billion in leftover funds from military pay and pension accounts to help President Donald Trump pay for his long-sought border wall, a top Senate Democrat said Thursday.
Wall Street Journal:
Martin Shkreli Steers His Company From Prison—With Contraband Cellphone — The disgraced pharmaceutical executive dubbed “Pharma Bro” remains the shadow power at the drug company that became a national lightning rod for jacking up the prices of rare drugs.
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Eliana Johnson / Politico:
Fearing mass GOP defections, Trump leans in to emergency fight — Sen. Ron Johnson made no secret of his displeasure with Donald Trump declaring a national emergency to build his border wall, worrying in late January that the president would take the “Emergency Act beyond where it's ever been.”
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Kaitlan Collins / CNN:
White House pressures Republicans to vote against national emergency rebuke
White House pressures Republicans to vote against national emergency rebuke
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CNN:
Top House Republican attacks Nadler probe as unconstitutional — House Judiciary announces sweeping scope in Trump probe — (CNN)The top Republican on the House Judiciary Committee on Thursday charged that the sweeping investigation opened this week by the panel's chairman …
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Vindicator:
U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown will not run for president in 2020 — U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown will not run for president in 2020. — Brown, a Cleveland Democrat, announced today that he has “decided the best place for me to continue fighting for Ohio and for the dignity of workers across the country …
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Sydney Ember / New York Times:
Sherrod Brown, Facing Crowded Democratic Field, Won't Run for President
Sherrod Brown, Facing Crowded Democratic Field, Won't Run for President
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