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Neil Vigdor / Hartford Courant:
Connecticut woman says then-Vice President Joe Biden touched her inappropriately at a Greenwich fundraiser in 2009 — A Connecticut woman says Joe Biden touched her inappropriately and rubbed noses with her during a 2009 political fundraiser in Greenwich when he was vice president …
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John Solomon / The Hill:
Joe Biden's 2020 Ukrainian nightmare: A closed probe is revived — View Latest Opinions >> — Two years after leaving office, Joe Biden couldn't resist the temptation last year to brag to an audience of foreign policy specialists about the time as vice president that he strong-armed Ukraine into firing its top prosecutor.
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Al Weaver / The Hill:
Pelosi: Accusations against Biden don't disqualify him — Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Monday that a pair of allegations of inappropriate kissing and touching against former Vice President Joe Biden should “not at all” disqualify him from the 2020 race.
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Katherine Miller / BuzzFeed News:
Everyone Already Knows How They Feel About Joe Biden Touching Women
Everyone Already Knows How They Feel About Joe Biden Touching Women
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Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Administration panics over plan to close the border, and inside John Harris' new POLITICO role
POLITICO Playbook: Administration panics over plan to close the border, and inside John Harris' new POLITICO role
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Mike Allen / Axios:
Scoop: Mike Bloomberg might still run in 2020
Scoop: Mike Bloomberg might still run in 2020
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Mike Allen / Axios:
2020 presidential election: Joe Biden advisers smell a conspiracy
2020 presidential election: Joe Biden advisers smell a conspiracy
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Marianne LeVine / Politico:
‘He needs to be a lot more aware’: Dems agonize over Biden
‘He needs to be a lot more aware’: Dems agonize over Biden
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Molly Roberts / Washington Post:
It doesn't matter what Joe Biden meant to do
It doesn't matter what Joe Biden meant to do
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The Federalist, New York Times and Louder With Crowder
Elizabeth E. Alexander / USA Today:
I was with Joe Biden when no one was looking, and he was always a champion for women
I was with Joe Biden when no one was looking, and he was always a champion for women
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Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
The Wrong Time for Joe Biden
The Wrong Time for Joe Biden
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Annie Karni / New York Times:
Trump Lives by Ratings. He Won't Like This One. — WASHINGTON — President Trump has long been focused on measuring his brand, obsessively reviewing television ratings, cataloging his magazine covers and fixating on polls. — But Mr. Trump may not like how his brand is faring in one important metric …
Katie Rogers / New York Times:
White House Whistle-Blower Did the Unexpected: She Returned to Work — WASHINGTON — Tricia Newbold, the Trump administration's latest whistle-blower, did something unexpected only hours after a House committee released her deposition that the White House had overruled career staff members …
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Betsy Woodruff / The Daily Beast:
Homeland Security Disbands Domestic Terror Intelligence Unit — While the body counts from domestic terror attacks mount, the analysts looking into those attacks have been moved. — Betsy Woodruff — The Department of Homeland Security has disbanded a group of intelligence analysts …
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Greg Miller / Washington Post:
Khashoggi children have received houses in Saudi Arabia and monthly payments as compensation for killing of father — The children of slain Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi have received million-dollar houses in the kingdom and monthly five-figure payments as compensation for the killing of their father …
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Pete Buttigieg / New York Magazine:
What Mayor Pete Buttigieg Can't Live Without — If you're like us, you've probably wondered what famous people add to their carts. Not the JAR brooch and Louis XV chair, but the hand sanitizer and the electric toothbrush. We asked potential Democratic presidential candidate Mayor Pete Buttigieg …
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Axios:
Pete Buttigieg has become a force in the Democratic primary
Pete Buttigieg has become a force in the Democratic primary
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Irin Carmon / New York Magazine:
What Was the Washington Post Afraid Of? — The afternoon of March 7, 2018, was go time, or so we believed. Inside a glass huddle room at the Washington Post, its walls covered with headlines from journalistic coups of the past, we began dialing numbers on a speakerphone and pressing send on carefully drafted, bullet-pointed emails.
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NBC News:
Progressive groups plan nationwide protests over Mueller report release — A coalition of grassroots groups are organizing activists to raise awareness over information that might be kept out of any eventual release. — WASHINGTON — A coalition of the nation's biggest progressive grassroots organizations …
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David Rutz / Washington Free Beacon:
The Mueller Report: Media Say This Is Just the Beginning
The Mueller Report: Media Say This Is Just the Beginning
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Mark Joseph Stern / Slate:
The Supreme Court's Conservatives Just Legalized Torture — In an appalling death penalty opinion, Justice Neil Gorsuch just overturned 60 years of precedent. — On Monday, five justices of the Supreme Court authorized Missouri to torture a man to death.
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Justin Baragona / The Daily Beast:
Tucker Carlson: ‘Chris Hayes Is What Every Man Would Be’ if Feminists Had Absolute Power — The Fox News host also called Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez ‘a moron.’ — Fox News host Tucker Carlson began his highly rated primetime show Monday night by taking potshots at Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez …
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Colby Hall / Mediaite:
Sarah Palin Embarrassed By Not Being Invited to John McCain's Funeral: ‘Kind of a Gut Punch’ — Sarah Palin spoke out about being excluded from John McCain's memorial service, which was held last August. — In a Monday interview with Good Morning Britain, Palin complained that she was not invited …
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Zack Budryk / The Hill:
Sarah Palin: ‘I was kind of surprised to be publicly disinvited’ to McCain's funeral
Sarah Palin: ‘I was kind of surprised to be publicly disinvited’ to McCain's funeral
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James Rosen / WJLA-TV:
EXCLUSIVE: Omar facing campaign finance probe — WASHINGTON (SBG) - Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn. , the controversial freshman House Democrat, is soon to learn the results of a probe into her campaign spending as a state lawmaker in Minnesota, Sinclair has learned, with authorities …
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Thomas Brewster / Forbes:
Sources: Martin Shkreli Thrown In Solitary Confinement After Claims He Ran Company From Prison — Earlier this month, the much-maligned pharmaceutical businessman and uber troll Martin Shkreli was put in solitary confinement at Federal Correctional Institution in Fort Dix, New Jersey …
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Kevin Sieff / Washington Post:
U.S. officials said aid to El Salvador helped slow migration. Now Trump is canceling it. — MEXICO CITY — Until last week, U.S. officials held up El Salvador as proof that foreign aid could help curb migration. The partnership between the two countries drew praise from diplomats …
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Chuck Ross / The Daily Caller:
Firms Tied To Fusion GPS, Christopher Steele Were Paid $3.8 Million By Soros-Backed Group — The Democracy Integrity Project, a nonprofit that receives funding from George Soros, paid firms tied to Fusion GPS and Christopher Steele more than $3.8 million in 2017.
Rachel Leingang / Arizona Republic:
University of Arizona will charge 2 students over protest of Border Patrol event on campus — Two students at the University of Arizona will be charged with misdemeanors after a video showing them protesting a Customs and Border Protection event on campus went viral, UA President Robert Robbins announced Friday.
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Erin Lee Carr / The Cut:
Watching the Internet React to the Worst Night of My Life Erin Lee Carr on her father's death. — Sitting in the back of the cab, I was frantic. He had emailed me reminding me not to be late, and of course here I was, ten minutes behind schedule. The cab pulled up to the curb …
Mike Levine / ABC News:
As Trump attacked Mueller, he offered mea culpa to Rosenstein, source says — The president didn't go after Rosenstein the same way he went after others. — Four months ago, shortly after President Donald Trump's Twitter account sent out an image suggesting Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein …
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Tom Feran / Plain Dealer:
Plain Dealer lays off a third of unionized newsroom staff — CLEVELAND, Ohio - The Plain Dealer on Monday laid off 14 newsroom employees as part of a staff reduction first announced in December. The 14, most of them reporters and all members of Local 1 of the News Guild of the Communication Workers …
Lilly Kofler / Politico:
Too Many Democrats Are Running in 2020, According to Science — The first Democratic presidential debate is scheduled to take place over two nights and three TV networks this June. But even with this unprecedented capacity, the stage isn't big enough to handle the dozen-plus candidates seeking …
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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
How bad does border have to be for Democrats to admit it's an emergency? — Is there any number of illegal border crossings into the United States that would strike Democrats as an emergency? — As they resisted President Trump's efforts to stem the flow of illegal migrants across the U.S.-Mexico border …
Ian Duncan / Baltimore Sun:
Baltimore Mayor Pugh to take leave of absence in midst of ‘Healthy Holly’ book controversy — Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh will take a leave of absence Monday, engulfed by a scandal over hundreds of thousands of dollars in payments for self-published “Healthy Holly” children's books.
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ProPublica:
Where in The U.S. Are You Most Likely to Be Audited by the IRS? — Humphreys County, Mississippi, seems like an odd place for the IRS to go hunting for tax cheats. It's a rural county in the Mississippi Delta known for its catfish farms, and more than a third of its mostly African American residents are below the poverty line.