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Wall Street Journal:
Joe Biden Tells Supporters He Plans 2020 Bid — Former Vice President Joe Biden reached out to at least a half dozen supporters Tuesday to tell them he intends to run for president and to ask for their help in lining up contributions from major donors to quickly raise several million dollars …
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Daniel Lippman / Politico:
World leaders urging Biden to run — When Joe Biden attended the annual Munich Security Conference last month, the wonky foreign policy confab promised an escape from the nonstop speculation back home about the former vice president's political plans. — Instead, Biden's 2020 intentions were the talk of the conference.
Katelyn Polantz / CNN:
In court filing, Robert Mueller's team says it's very busy this week — Washington (CNN)Robert Mueller's prosecutors dropped yet another head-scratching signal in their latest court filing Tuesday that the special counsel investigation may be wrapping up — or maybe it's not. — Either way, they're very busy.
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Mueller's old boss delays departure as probe wraps up
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Fox News and New York Times
Adam Behsudi / Politico:
Trump faces failing strategy on auto jobs as he heads to Ohio — President Donald Trump heads to Ohio Wednesday embroiled in a fight with General Motors and the United Auto Workers over the closing of GM's Lordstown plant. But his attempts to save manufacturing jobs have battered …
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Washington Post:
‘A total loser!’: Trump lashes out at George Conway, who has been questioning his mental health
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Edward-Isaac Dovere / The Atlantic:
Bernie Sanders Just Hired His Twitter Attack Dog — Shortly before he gave speeches launching his 2020 campaign earlier this month, Bernie Sanders emailed his supporters, urging them to “do our very best to engage respectfully with our Democratic opponents—talking about the issues we are fighting for …
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Bryant Harris / Al-Monitor:
2020 Democrats vow to re-enter Iran nuclear deal
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The American Conservative
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
O'Rourke might have won the early money race, but Harris dominated on voter curiosity
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Breitbart
Bloomberg:
Pilot Who Hitched a Ride Saved Lion Air 737 Day Before Deadly Crash — Jumpseat rider played critical role in Indonesian cockpit — Pilot actions show multiple errors required to crash 737 Max — As the Lion Air crew fought to control their diving Boeing Co. 737 Max 8 …
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Quartz, CNBC, The Week, The Atlantic and New York Post
Washington Post:
The real reason the Trump administration is constantly losing in court — Federal judges have ruled against the Trump administration at least 63 times over the past two years, an extraordinary record of legal defeat that has stymied large parts of the president's agenda on the environment, immigration and other matters.
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Shareblue Media, Hullabaloo, POLITICUSUSA and Raw Story
Associated Press:
Shifting hopes as Republicans, Democrats wait for Mueller — WASHINGTON (AP) — It's a witch hunt, a vendetta, the worst presidential harassment in history. — That's what President Donald Trump has shouted for two years about the special counsel's Russia probe.
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Ken Dilanian / NBC News:
Schiff: Real question is if Trump is under the influence of a foreign power — Whether Mueller will answer that question is unclear. But House Intel Chair Adam Schiff said he is steering his probe in a new direction to focus on it. — WASHINGTON — Nearly two years into his investigation …
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Washington Post and Hullabaloo
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Timothy L. O'Brien / Bloomberg:
President Trump Has Some Stories to Tell About Deutsche Bank
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Vanity Fair, New York Times, ThinkProgress, Shareblue Media and Daily Kos
Matt Stieb / New York Magazine:
Report: Trump Repeatedly Inflated His Net Worth in Deals With Deutsche Bank
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444, Washington Post and The Real Deal New York
Washington Post:
Is Trump changing his tune on Fox News? — Fox News, normally the object of presidential praise on Twitter, was subjected to an unusual tweet-lashing over the weekend when the president went after three of its anchors. He called out Leland Vittert and Arthel Neville, lesser-known faces …
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Raw Story
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Mike Memoli / NBC News:
Rep. Clyburn calls Trump family ‘greatest threats to democracy in my lifetime’ — The House majority whip said congressional investigations can set the table for impeachment if “deserved.” — COLUMBIA, S.C. — The third-ranking Democrat in the House on Tuesday called President Donald Trump and his family …
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Politico, USA Today, Raw Story and Political Wire
Amy Spiro / Jerusalem Post:
Kushner's peace plan ‘includes land swaps with Saudi Arabia,’ book claims — A draft of the plan included an oil pipeline from Saudi Arabia to Gaza, according to newly released ‘Kushner, Inc.’ — White House senior adviser Jared Kushner's Middle East peace plan at one point included Jordan giving land …
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Politico
A.B. Stoddard / The Bulwark:
EXCLUSIVE: Sen. Johnny Isakson Stands Up for McCain; Unloads on Trump — Georgia's senior senator gives the president a “whipping.” — Later today Sen. Johnny Isakson will call out President Trump for his continued disparagement of John McCain. The chairman of the Senate Veteran Affairs Committee …
Andrew Beaton / Wall Street Journal:
Florida Prosecutors Offer to Drop Charges Against Patriots Owner Robert Kraft — Florida prosecutors have offered to drop charges against New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft and a number of other men charged with soliciting prostitution.
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Catie Edmondson / New York Times:
Asked Whether White Societies Are Superior, Steve King Demurs — ALGONA, Iowa — It was the kind of question that a politician should have been able to handle with ease, but Representative Steve King is not any politician. — “Do you think a white society is superior to a nonwhite society?”
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Splinter
Joe Pompeo / Vanity Fair:
“It's Such a Hyped-Up Moment”: How the Mueller Press Corps Is Bracing for the Big One — At the Post, Times, Journal, and other outlets, journalists are reading tea leaves, stalking the Justice Department, and writing stories anticipating many possible outcomes. But what if Mueller's bomb is a dud?
Julie K. Brown / miamiherald:
She was the victim in Jeffrey Epstein's secret plea deal. She didn't even know it — The lawyer for the 16-year-old girl who state prosecutors now say was the victim attached to the mysterious plea deal given to multimillionaire Jeffrey Epstein says neither he nor his client was ever informed …
Victor Garcia / Fox News:
Someone in State Department likely involved in bid to take down Trump: Herridge — Fox News' chief intelligence correspondent Catherine Herridge believes a claim by Republican North Carolina Rep. Mark Meadows of a coordinated effort to hurt President Trump — including “sitting ambassadors …
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Gary Fineout / Politico:
Gillum to launch Florida voter-registration campaign to trip up Trump — TALLAHASSEE — Andrew Gillum has launched a Florida voter registration group dedicated to defeating President Donald Trump's re-election chances in the nation's largest swing state. — The former Tallahassee mayor …
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NBC News, POLITICUSUSA and Raw Story
CNN:
Her son died. And then anti-vaxers attacked her — (CNN)Not long ago, a 4-year-old boy died of the flu. His mother, under doctor's orders, watched his two little brothers like a hawk, terrified they might get sick and die, too. — Grieving and frightened, just days after her son's death …
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Daily Wire and Raw Story
Robin Marty / Politico:
I Am an Abortion Rights Activist. I Hope the Supreme Court Overturns Roe v. Wade. — Robin Marty is the author of Handbook for a Post-Roe America, a guide to how to access abortion inside and outside legal channels once Roe v. Wade is overturned. — On January 22, 1973 …
NBC News:
California con man set up bogus websites for Bernie Sanders, Beto O'Rourke to defraud donors, prosecutors say — Instead of passing along the cash to the candidates, John Pierre Dupont used it to pay his rent and buy a $25,300 Mercedes-Benz sedan, the complaint says.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan / Washington Post:
The New Zealand killer and the Islamic State are cut from the same cloth — Recep Tayyip Erdogan is president of Turkey. — Fifty innocent people lost their lives in last week's terrorist attacks in Christchurch, New Zealand. Dozens of other Muslims, who had gathered at local mosques …
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Axios, twitchy.com, Bloomberg, SBS News, CNSNews, Al Jazeera and The Beehive
Rebecca Corey / Yahoo:
Reagan's daughter says he'd be ‘heartbroken’ over state of the country and GOP — “Through Her Eyes” is a weekly half-hour show hosted by human rights activist Zainab Salbi that explores contemporary issues from a female perspective. You can watch the full episode of “Through Her Eyes” …
Daniel Allott / Washington Examiner:
‘Damn socialism, why are you chasing me?’ Chinese-Americans see ghost of communism in Democrats' leftward turn — IRVINE, Calif.— When Saga Zhou first moved to the United States from China in 2009, she steered clear of politics. The Communist Party rules supreme in China …
Seth Augenstein / Forensic Magazine:
Exclusive: The FBI Had Already Accessed Family Tree DNA's Database Before Cooperation — Family Tree DNA, a commercial gene testing company, chose to cooperate with the FBI after discovering that the Bureau was already using its database, CEO Bennett Greenspan told Forensic Magazine this week.
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Slate
John Walcott / TIME:
President Trump Just Sidelined His Own Top Negotiator on North Korea — President Donald Trump has taken increased control of negotiations over North Korea's nuclear weapons program, sidelining his own top negotiator and dismissing the warnings of top intelligence and foreign policy advisors …
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