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Natasha Bertrand / The Atlantic:
The Critical Part of Mueller's Report That Barr Didn't Mention — On Sunday afternoon, Attorney General Bill Barr presented a summary of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's conclusions that contained a few sentences from Mueller's final report, one of which directly addressed the question …
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David Brooks / New York Times:
We've All Just Made Fools of Ourselves — Again — The awful corruption of scandal politics. — “You have a president who, in my opinion, beyond a shadow of a doubt, sought to, however ham-handedly, collude with the Russian government, a foreign power, to undermine and influence our elections.”
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Judiciary Committee seeks obstruction of justice probe records from DOJ
Judiciary Committee seeks obstruction of justice probe records from DOJ
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Ken Dilanian / NBC News:
Obstruction, not collusion, worried Trump's legal team
Dahlia Lithwick / Slate:
Mueller Did His Investigation for a World We Don't Inhabit
Mueller Did His Investigation for a World We Don't Inhabit
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Ryan Cooper / The Week:
Ignore the media's Trump-Russia recriminations. Look at the big picture instead.
Ignore the media's Trump-Russia recriminations. Look at the big picture instead.
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Nathan Layne / Reuters:
Ex-Trump campaign aide Papadopoulos disavows Mueller plea deal
Ex-Trump campaign aide Papadopoulos disavows Mueller plea deal
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Chicago Sun-Times:
Emanuel calls dropping charges against Jussie Smollett a ‘whitewash of justice’ — In a highly unusual decision, prosecutors on Tuesday dropped charges against “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett that accused him of staging a hate-crime attack against himself — a move that Mayor Rahm Emanuel later called a “whitewash of justice.”
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Associated Press:
Jussie Smollett's attorneys say all criminal charges dropped — CHICAGO (AP) — Attorneys for “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett said Tuesday that charges alleging he lied to police about a racist and homophobic attack have been dropped. — Smollett attorneys Tina Glandian and Patricia Brown Holmes …
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ABC News:
Prosecutors drop charges against Jussie Smollett despite believing actor did it — “I have been truthful and consistent on every single level since day one.” — In a stunning move, prosecutors in Chicago dropped all charges against “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett on Tuesday despite …
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Joel B. Pollak / Breitbart:
George Soros Spent $408k on Kim Foxx, Prosecutor in Jussie Smollett Case — Left-wing billionaire mega-donor George Soros donated $408,000 in 2016 to a super PAC that supported Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx, whose office prosecuted — and dropped — the Jussie Smollett case.
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Chicago Tribune:
After charges dropped, ‘Empire’ actor Jussie Smollett says he has ‘been truthful and consistent from day one’ — A grand jury indicted Jussie Smollett on 16 counts of disorderly conduct in February. Cook County prosecutors on March 26, 2019, dropped all charges against Smollett on disorderly conduct charges.
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TMZ.com:
Jussie Smollett Charges Dropped, Mayor Calls it a ‘Whitewash of Justice’
Jussie Smollett Charges Dropped, Mayor Calls it a ‘Whitewash of Justice’
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Jack Crowe / National Review:
Prosecutors Drop Charges against Smollett in Hate-Crime-Hoax Case
Prosecutors Drop Charges against Smollett in Hate-Crime-Hoax Case
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Bloomberg:
Trump Tried to Undo North Korea Penalty, Contrary to U.S. Account — President tweeted that he withdrew North Korea sanctions — U.S. officials talked Trump out of move, devised cover story — President Donald Trump last week intended to reverse sanctions imposed …
Joe Perticone / Business Insider:
Trump's national emergency declaration for a border wall survives after House fails to override veto — The House of Representatives failed to garner enough votes to override President Donald Trump's veto of the resolution crafted to terminate his national emergency declaration.
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Dominique Mosbergen / HuffPost:
Pentagon Transfers $1 Billion In Funding For Trump's Border Wall
Pentagon Transfers $1 Billion In Funding For Trump's Border Wall
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Connor O'Brien / Politico:
House Armed Services chair rejects Pentagon bid to shift $1B toward border wall
House Armed Services chair rejects Pentagon bid to shift $1B toward border wall
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CNN:
Trump administration now says entire Affordable Care Act should be struck down — (CNN)The Trump administration on Monday said the entire Affordable Care Act should be struck down, in a dramatic reversal. — In a filing with a federal appeals court, the Justice Department said it agreed …
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John Hickenlooper / Washington Post:
The Green New Deal sets us up for failure. We need a better approach. — John Hickenlooper, a Democrat, is former governor of Colorado and is running for the Democratic presidential nomination. — Climate change is a defining challenge of our time, and yet we have a president who is taking us in the wrong direction.
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United States Senator Mike Lee:
Remarks on the Green New Deal
Remarks on the Green New Deal
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Timothy Burke / The Daily Beast:
Senator Mike Lee, Reagan, a Machine Gun, and a Velociraptor
Senator Mike Lee, Reagan, a Machine Gun, and a Velociraptor
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Julia Jacobo / ABC News:
New York's Rockland County declares measles state of emergency, bans unvaccinated minors from public spaces — Unvaccinated minors will be barred from public places in Rockland County. — A county in New York has declared a state of emergency after more than 100 people have been diagnosed with measles.
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Michael Gold / New York Times:
New York Suburb to Declare Measles Emergency, Barring Unvaccinated Children From Public — Rockland County, a suburb of New York City, will declare a state of emergency and bar minors who are unvaccinated against measles from being in public places, the latest effort to fight New York State's worst measles outbreak in decades.
Isaac Stanley-Becker / Washington Post:
GOP congressman quotes Hitler's ‘Mein Kampf’ to slam Trump's adversaries as liars — Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Ala.) took to the House floor on Monday to portray President Trump's detractors as Nazis, but ended up slurring them using an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory drawn verbatim from Adolf Hitler's writings.
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Amy Chozick / New York Times:
After Mueller Report, News Media Leaders Defend Their Work — There have been tipping points and bombshells, walls closing in and turning points. And there have been so, so many declarations of “The beginning of the end!” that the comedian John Oliver had a recurring “We got him!” …
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Eric Lipton / New York Times:
Interior Nominee Intervened to Block Report on Endangered Species — WASHINGTON — After years of effort, scientists at the Fish and Wildlife Service had a moment of celebration as they wrapped up a comprehensive analysis of the threat that three widely used pesticides present to hundreds …
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Washington Post:
Why NASA's historic all-female spacewalk isn't happening — NASA has aborted its mission for its first all-female spacewalk outside the International Space Station because there are not enough spacesuits of the best size to fit both female astronauts, the agency said.
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Jamie Ross / The Daily Beast:
Obama Warns New House Dems That Liberal Policies Like the Green New Deal Are Very Expensive — Former President Barack Obama has cautioned freshmen House Democrats that the liberal policies becoming popular in their ranks—such as Medicare for All and the Green New Deal—will cost a lot of money.
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Jazz Shaw / Hot Air:
Obama: Say, Some Of These Liberal Plans Look Kind Of Expensive
Obama: Say, Some Of These Liberal Plans Look Kind Of Expensive
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NBC News:
Mike Pence talked Dan Coats out of quitting the Trump administration — Whenever Trump is souring on Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats, whom he calls “Mister Rogers,” Pence encourages him to stick with Coats. — WASHINGTON — The country's intelligence chief was on the verge …
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Todd Spangler / Detroit Free Press:
Betsy DeVos: Deep cuts to Special Olympics, student programs are warranted — WASHINGTON — Education Secretary Betsy DeVos on Tuesday defended deep cuts to programs meant to help students and others, including eliminating $18 million to support Special Olympics, while urging Congress to spend millions more on charter schools.
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Peter Kiefer / Hollywood Reporter:
Commentator Andrew Sullivan Jeered at Hollywood Inclusion Event — Attendees at the morning panel included actresses Amy Landecker, Michaela Watkins and Sophia Bush, plus showrunners Sarah Gertrude Shapiro and Jenji Kohan. — At an event billed as 'A Day of Unreasonable Conversation …
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Tariq Panja / New York Times:
Irish Police Investigating Conor McGregor Over Sex Assault Accusation — DUBLIN — Conor McGregor, the Ultimate Fighting Championship's biggest star and one of the world's highest-paid athletes, is under investigation in Ireland after a woman accused him of sexual assault in December …
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Molly Ball / TIME:
These Ordinary Americans Discussed the Mueller Investigation. Here's Their Surprising Consensus — As Washington waited with bated breath for the results of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation, a group of Iowa voters tried to figure out what they thought of it all.
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Courtney Kube / NBC News:
Former Mattis aide penning ‘shocking’ book that details Mattis-Trump relationship — The book will tell how ex-Defense Secretary James Mattis “slow-rolled some of Trump's most controversial measures, with no intention of following through.” — WASHINGTON — A close adviser …
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David French / National Review:
The Southern Poverty Law Center Is in a State of Moral Collapse — Progressive media are turning on one of the Left's most corrupt institutions. — The longer you live, the more you see that a lack of integrity often has a viral effect on an organization. Once the compromises begin, they can't be contained.
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