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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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Katherine Miller / BuzzFeed News:
Everyone Already Knows How They Feel About Joe Biden Touching Women — You know when you interact with an artificial intelligence program and it produces language that resembles how humans talk, but feels detached from reality in some fundamental way? — This is how people within …
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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.
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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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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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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New York Times:
Whistle-Blower Tells Congress of Irregularities in White House Security Clearances — WASHINGTON — A whistle-blower working inside the White House has told a House committee that senior Trump administration officials granted security clearances to at least 25 individuals whose applications …
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Rachael Bade / Washington Post:
White House whistleblower says 25 security clearance denials were reversed during Trump administration — A White House whistleblower told lawmakers that more than two-dozen denials for security clearances have been overturned during the Trump administration, calling Congress her “last hope” …
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The Daily Beast:
Trump ‘Very Bitter and Sensitive’ About Puerto Rico, and Dems Say His Team Is Stonewalling Their Investigation
Trump ‘Very Bitter and Sensitive’ About Puerto Rico, and Dems Say His Team Is Stonewalling Their Investigation
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Andrew Desiderio / Politico:
Whistleblower: White House overruled 25 security clearance denials
Whistleblower: White House overruled 25 security clearance denials
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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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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 …
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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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Jerrold L. Nadler / New York Times:
America Is Done Waiting for the Mueller Report
America Is Done Waiting for the Mueller Report
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Benjamin Wittes / The Atlantic:
Bill Barr Has Promised Transparency. He Deserves the Chance to Deliver.
Billy House / Yahoo News:
Democrats Begin Subpoena Process for Mueller Report, Trump Aides
Democrats Begin Subpoena Process for Mueller Report, Trump Aides
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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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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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Lucas Kwan Peterson / Los Angeles Times:
For cramped New York, an expanding dining scene — The bright lights of New York City beckon to the restless and the hungry. In the city that never sleeps, as they say, the marquees of Times Square nearly make one forget the concrete dystopia of what is seemingly an unlivable urban wasteland.
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Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:
Gorsuch just handed down the most bloodthirsty and cruel death penalty opinion of the modern era — The Supreme Court's opinion in Bucklew v. Precythe, which it handed down Monday on a party-line vote, is at once the most significant Eighth Amendment decision of the last several decades and the cruelest in at least as much time.
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Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Divided Supreme Court rules against death-row inmate with rare condition
Divided Supreme Court rules against death-row inmate with rare condition
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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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Fred Ryan / Washington Post:
It's been six months since Jamal Khashoggi's murder, and Trump has done nothing
It's been six months since Jamal Khashoggi's murder, and Trump has done nothing
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Just Security
Randy Ludlow / The Columbus Dispatch:
Ohioans might vote on issue to give presidency to national popular vote winner — Ohioans could vote this fall on a measure to award the presidency to the candidate who wins the national popular vote — regardless of which candidate wins the Buckeye State. — The proposed constitutional amendment …
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Sam Stein / The Daily Beast:
Senators Intro Amendment to Abolish the Electoral College
Senators Intro Amendment to Abolish the Electoral College
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Alex Seitz-Wald / NBC News:
Senate Democrats to introduce constitutional amendment to abolish Electoral College
Senate Democrats to introduce constitutional amendment to abolish Electoral College
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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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New York Post and Joe.My.God.
Jonathan V. Last / The Bulwark:
All the Best People — Would you let these people watch your children? — Two incidents from this weekend illustrate the biggest problem conservatism faces in the age of Trump. — The first was the Twitter meltdown of a writer named D.C. McAllister. — D.C. McAllister—Denise …
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Eddie Scarry / Washington Examiner:
Denise McAllister tweets weren't homophobic, they were righteously angry
Denise McAllister tweets weren't homophobic, they were righteously angry
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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 …
Reuters:
America would run out of avocados in three weeks if Trump shuts down the U.S.-Mexico border — Nearly half of all imported U.S. vegetables and 40 percent of imported fruit are grown in Mexico. — President Donald Trump's threat to shut down the U.S.-Mexico border would hit American consumers — in the gut.
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Associated Press:
AP sources: Trump considers adding ‘immigration czar’ — WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is considering hiring a “border” or “immigration czar” to coordinate the president's policies across various federal agencies. — That's according to three people familiar with the discussions …
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
McConnell shuts down the Pelosi agenda — House Democrats are eager to boast about all they're doing with their new majority. The only problem? Most of it's headed for Mitch McConnell's dustbin. — From a sweeping health care package to ambitious proposals on gun safety …
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Callum Paton / Newsweek:
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez attacked on Twitter for constitutional mistake—but was she actually right? — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was lambasted on Twitter and in the media for confusing the facts while waxing lyrical about the Democratic golden age of the 1930s and 1940s—but was she actually right?
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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David Marchese / New York Times:
Robert A. Caro on L.B.J., Understanding Power and Nearing Completion — “Power reveals. Do I want people to know that? Yes.” — Robert A. Caro on L.B.J., understanding power and nearing completion. — As far as titles go, Robert A. Caro's “Working” is both humbly straightforward and almost comically understated.
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Zachary Basu / Axios:
Kamala Harris raises $12 million from 218,000 individual donors in Q1 — Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris announced Monday that she raised $12 million from more than 218,000 individual contributions in the first quarter of 2019. — The big picture: Harris …
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Timothy L. O'Brien / Bloomberg:
No, Russiagate Isn't This Generation's WMD — Barr gave Trump and media critics a fresh rallying cry. And the Steele dossier is back in vogue. Does anybody really know what's going on here? — SHARE THIS ARTICLE — Share — Tweet — Post — Email
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