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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 …
Shannon Vavra / Axios:
Biden spokesman condemns mischaracterizations of former VP's behavior
Biden spokesman condemns mischaracterizations of former VP's behavior
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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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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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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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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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Jerrold L. Nadler / New York Times:
America Is Done Waiting for the Mueller Report — Someday, Trump will not be in office. Congress needs a full accounting of his misdeeds to ensure they don't happen again. — Mr. Nadler is the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee. — Last Sunday, Attorney General William Barr sent us …
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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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Sen. Mitch McConnell / Politico:
Time to Stop the Democrats' Obstruction — It took six months of partisan delays — and several railroad accidents — before Democrats let the Senate confirm a federal railroad administrator, even though none of them actually voted against the nominee in the end.
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
McConnell shuts down the Pelosi agenda
McConnell shuts down the Pelosi agenda
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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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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?
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Mikhael Smits / Washington Free Beacon:
Ocasio-Cortez Advocates $15 Minimum Wage by Pointing to Expensive Croissants
Ocasio-Cortez Advocates $15 Minimum Wage by Pointing to Expensive Croissants
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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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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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Sam Stein / The Daily Beast:
Senators Intro Amendment to Abolish the Electoral College — The proposal is supported by some of the party's senior members, including Dick Durbin and Dianne Feinstein. — Sen. Brian Schatz (D-HI) is set on Tuesday to unveil a constitutional 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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#CelebrityNews:
Maxine Waters: ‘Correct Thing’ Smollett Charges Dropped — The 50th Annual NAACP Awards were handed out this weekend, and Rep. Maxine Waters (D-California) was honored with the Chairman's Award. — “Extra's” Terri Seymour was with Waters backstage, where she talked about the honor and about Jussie Smollett.
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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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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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Mike Idsin / Greater Greater Washington:
The educational admissions scandal widens dramatically — The education world was shaken recently when federal prosecutors charged 50 people with conspiring to cheat on college admissions tests or bribe athletic coaches to designate students as athletic recruits.
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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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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Peter Beinart / The Atlantic:
Trump Laid a Trap on Immigration—And Only Beto Sees It — Beto O'Rourke isn't known for his wonkish heft. But in his formal announcement for president on Sunday, the former Texas congressman offered one of the most important policy proposals of the nascent presidential campaign …
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Barbara McQuade / Just Security:
How Barr May Interpret What It Means to Withhold “Grand Jury Information” — A three-level game for concealing Mueller's findings — What is Attorney General William Barr doing with removing grand jury information from the Mueller report before disclosing it?
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Fred Ryan / Washington Post:
It's been six months since Jamal Khashoggi's murder, and Trump has done nothing — Fred Ryan is publisher and chief executive of The Post. He served as assistant to President Ronald Reagan. — Six months ago today, a man on the brink of his greatest happiness walked into Saudi Arabia's Consulate …
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Mollie Hemingway / The Federalist:
Here's Why I Didn't Fall For The Russia-Trump Conspiracy — Media outlets regurgitated leaks from politicized intelligence officials. They should have been far more skeptical. — An outlandish theory that Donald Trump was a traitor who had conspired with Russia to steal the 2016 election gripped …
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CBS News:
Justin Fairfax accuser Vanessa Tyson describes alleged sexual assault: “I couldn't feel my neck” — Warning: Some of the details shared in this piece are disturbing. — Vanessa Tyson is one of two women who accuse Virginia's lieutenant governor, Justin Fairfax, of sexual assault.
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Allan Smith / NBC News:
NY's attorney general is one of the most powerful in the nation. That should worry Trump. — The state's chief legal officer, who is investigating the president and his company, has the ability to render a “judgment of corporate death” for business fraud.
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