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Gavin de Becker / The Daily Beast:
Bezos Investigation Finds the Saudis Obtained His Private Data — The National Enquirer's lawyer tried to get me to say there was no hacking. — For 40 years, I've advised at-risk public figures and government agencies on high-stakes security matters. My career has included working with the CIA …
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CNBC, New York Times, Gizmodo, Mediaite, One America News Network, Raw Story and Page Six, more at Mediagazer »
USA Today:
'We've never seen anything like this': As Trump threatens to close border, migrants overwhelm Texas cities — EL PASO - Under a bridge connecting the U.S. with Mexico, dozens of migrant families cram into a makeshift camp set up by U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
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David Siders / Politico:
O'Rourke rails against ‘unprecedented concentration of wealth and power’ at kickoff rally
Associated Press:
Trump cuts foreign aid, threatens to close Mexico border
Trump cuts foreign aid, threatens to close Mexico border
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NBC News, Washington Post, ThinkProgress, Chicks On The Right, Splinter, The Week and KTLA
Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Beto O'Rourke's presidential campaign can't be like his Senate campaign
Beto O'Rourke's presidential campaign can't be like his Senate campaign
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Axios
Calvin Woodward / Associated Press:
AP FACT CHECK: Trump twists facts of a migrant girl's death
Alexi McCammond / Axios:
The Beto effect": Republicans starting to lose their grip in Texas
Gavin Newsham / New York Post:
Trump is the world's worst cheat at golf, players and celebs say — Sixteen of the last 19 US presidents have played golf — and now, in Donald John Trump, the nation can finally boast the very best of them all. — Well, that's what he'd like you to believe.
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
When is a summary not a summary? — For a week, criticism rained down on Attorney General William P. Barr. Why did his letter advising Congress of the end of the probe contain his own opinion on obstruction of justice? Why did he not lay out basic information such as the size of the report …
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Washington Post:
Mueller report findings upend partisan views of probe, poll finds — Americans are split over whether House Democrats should continue to investigate President Trump after special counsel Robert S. Mueller III made no determination about whether he attempted to obstruct justice during the inquiry …
Jasmine Wright / CNN:
Elizabeth Warren says Joe Biden needs to give an answer for allegation of inappropriate touching — Biden: Anita Hill ‘paid a terrible price’ — Storm Lake, Iowa (CNN)Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Saturday said former Vice President Joe Biden needs to provide …
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Edward-Isaac Dovere / The Atlantic:
Joe Biden's Campaign-in-Waiting Isn't Ready for #MeToo Accusations — A woman alleges the former vice president kissed the back of her head without her consent. Biden's presidential campaign can't really push back, because it doesn't exist yet. — Politics abhors a vacuum, and Joe Biden has left one for months.
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Daily Mail, ABC News and Fox News
Marc Caputo / Politico:
Biden blindsided by dose of 2020 reality
Biden blindsided by dose of 2020 reality
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USA Today, TMZ.com, Power Line and Townhall
Thomas Beaumont / ABC News:
Biden doesn't recall alleged kissing incident from 2014
Biden doesn't recall alleged kissing incident from 2014
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RedState and Zero Hedge
The Guardian:
Trump Fed pick was held in contempt for failing to pay ex-wife over $300,000 — Records obtained by Guardian show Stephen Moore reprimanded by judge for not paying alimony, child support and other debts — Stephen Moore, the economics commentator chosen by Donald Trump for a seat …
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Talking Points Memo, Outside the Beltway, Axios and Raw Story
Coral Davenport / New York Times:
Trump's Order to Open Arctic Waters to Drilling Was Unlawful, Federal Judge Finds — WASHINGTON — In a legal blow to President Trump's push to expand offshore oil and gas development, a federal judge ruled that an executive order by Mr. Trump that lifted an Obama-era ban on oil and gas drilling in the Arctic Ocean was unlawful.
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Washington Post, Alaska Public Media, Gizmodo and Common Dreams
David D. Kirkpatrick / New York Times:
A Leonardo Made a $450 Million Splash. Now There's No Sign of It. — ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates — The Louvre Abu Dhabi might seem to have all you could ask for in a world-class museum. Its acclaimed design shades its galleries under a vast dome that appears to hover over the waters of the Persian Gulf.
Greg Clary / CNN:
State Department says US cutting off aid to El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras — (CNN)The United States is cutting off aid to the Northern Triangle, otherwise known as the Central American countries of El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras, the State Department told CNN Saturday …
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RedState, Washington Monthly, The Hill, Slate, Hullabaloo, Axios and The New Civil Rights Movement
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Mark Zuckerberg / Washington Post:
The Internet needs new rules. Let's start in these four areas. — Mark Zuckerberg is founder and chief executive of Facebook. — Technology is a major part of our lives, and companies such as Facebook have immense responsibilities. Every day, we make decisions about what speech is harmful …
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Bloomberg, Financial Times, CNN, TechCrunch, The Verge, Gizmodo and CNBC, more at Techmeme »
Washington Post:
For Trump's ‘Party of Healthcare,’ there is no health-care plan — Republicans have no intention of heeding President Trump's urgent demands for a new health-care plan to replace the Affordable Care Act, fearing the potential political damage that such a proposal could cause in 2020 and hoping …
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Nathan J. Robinson / Current Affairs:
All About Pete — Only accept politicians who have proved they actually care about people other than themselves... Pete Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, is being hyped as the “Democratic celebrity” of the moment. Buttigieg has been the subject of buzz since 2014 …
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New Yorker, CNN and Washington Free Beacon
Andy Ngo / New York Post:
Inside the suspicious rise of gay hate crimes in Portland — Last month, Sophia Gabrielle Stanford was at the center of a fundraising campaign. The GoFundMe page described the trans activist as a victim of a “brutal and aggressively blatant hate crime” in which assailants had beaten her unconscious with a bat in southeast Portland.
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The Gateway Pundit and twitchy.com
Douglas Preston / New Yorker:
The Day the Dinosaurs Died — A young paleontologist may have discovered a record of the most significant event in the history of life on Earth. — If, on a certain evening about sixty-six million years ago, you had stood somewhere in North America and looked up at the sky …
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GeekWire and New York Times
Alex N. Press / jacobinmag.com:
Forget Your Middle-Class Dreams — When it comes to workplace organizing, there's no such thing as a “privileged” worker. You're either with your coworkers or you're against them. — Our new issue, on what a President Bernie Sanders could actually do in office, is out now. Subscribe today to receive it!
Siegfried Mortkowitz / Politico:
Political outsider wins Slovakia's presidential election — Zuzana Čaputová is a lawyer and anti-corruption activist. — PRAGUE — Political novice and activist Zuzana Čaputová is on course to became the first female president of Slovakia, swept into office …