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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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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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Mike Allen / Axios:
2020 presidential election: Joe Biden advisers smell a conspiracy — Joe Biden advisers believe coverage of allegations of inappropriate behavior is being stoked by rival Democrats — a dynamic that could actually fire up the vice president at a time when others see success as increasingly improbable.
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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Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Administration panics over plan to close the border, and inside John Harris' new POLITICO role — DRIVING THE DAY — THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION is in a state of panic over PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP'S plans to close the southern border. We spoke to several senior administration figures …
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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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The Week, Joe.My.God., The Daily Caller, Forbes, Political Wire and New York Post
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
Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
The Wrong Time for Joe Biden
The Wrong Time for Joe Biden
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Politico, Columbia Journalism Review, Simple Justice, Fox News and The Guardian
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
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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John Bresnahan / Politico:
Trump punts health care until after 2020 — President Donald Trump signaled Monday that congressional Republicans would wait until after the 2020 elections to vote on a GOP replacement for Obamacare — putting off a presumably savage legislative battle on a hot-button campaign issue until after his re-election bid.
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New York Times:
Trump Retreats on Health Care, Saying Republican Plan Will Appear After the 2020 Election
Trump Retreats on Health Care, Saying Republican Plan Will Appear After the 2020 Election
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NBC News:
Trump turns 2020 election into a referendum on health care
Trump turns 2020 election into a referendum on health care
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Raw Story, New York Times and Daily Wire
John Wagner / Washington Post:
Trump punts vote on health-care bill until after next year's elections
Trump punts vote on health-care bill until after next year's elections
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POLITICUSUSA and Vox
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 …
Axios:
Pete Buttigieg has become a force in the Democratic primary — Democratic 2020 hopeful Pete Buttigieg is — by every measure — having an ascendant moment as a candidate for president. — Why it matters: The South Bend, Ind. mayor is generating more social media interest on a per article basis …
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Pete Buttigieg / New York Magazine:
What Mayor Pete Buttigieg Can't Live Without
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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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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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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Political Wire
Washington Post:
The assassination of Jamal Khashoggi — Agents from Saudi Arabia killed a Washington Post columnist. What has been done in the aftermath? Scroll down for a chronology of events surrounding the killing of Jamal Khashoggi.
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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
Khashoggi children have received houses in Saudi Arabia and monthly payments as compensation for killing of 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
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.
Mark Bergen / Bloomberg:
YouTube Executives Ignored Warnings, Letting Toxic Videos Run Rampant — A year ago, Susan Wojcicki was on stage to defend YouTube. Her company, hammered for months for fueling falsehoods online, was reeling from another flare-up involving a conspiracy theory video about the Parkland …
Sarah Ferris / Politico:
Congress fears Trump could stumble over next fiscal cliff — A looming battle between President Donald Trump and Democrats over government spending and the debt limit could make the 35-day government shutdown look like a blip. — A series of budget deadlines converge in the coming months …
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No More Mister Nice Blog and Raw Story
Zack Budryk / The Hill:
Sarah Palin: ‘I was kind of surprised to be publicly disinvited’ to McCain's funeral — Former vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin said not being invited to Sen. John McCain's (R-Ariz.) funeral was a “gut punch.” — Palin, who was McCain's running mate for his 2008 presidential campaign …
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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 Embarrassed By Not Being Invited to John McCain's Funeral: ‘Kind of a Gut Punch’
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Raw Story, Joe.My.God. and IJR
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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Julián Castro:
Putting people first — “Que dios te bendiga,” my grandmother would bless my brother and me every morning as we left for school, making the sign of the cross in front of us. She immigrated here from Mexico when she was seven years old, and though she passed away many years ago, her influence on me is still strong.
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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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Raw Story
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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Splinter
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.
Chris Isidore / CNN:
US auto plants would shut down within a week if border closes, economist says — New York (CNN Business)The entire US auto industry would shutdown within a week if President Donald Trump goes through with his pledge to close the US-Mexican border, according to a leading expert on the industry.
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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 …
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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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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