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Colleen Long / Associated Press:
APNewsBreak: White House pulls nomination to lead ICE head — WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration on Thursday sent paperwork withdrawing the nomination of longtime border official Ron Vitiello to lead Immigration and Customs Enforcement, according to three people with knowledge of the move.
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Hamed Aleaziz / BuzzFeed News:
Homeland Security Staffers Were Warned Not To Leak Information Or Face Legal Consequences — Department of Homeland Security employees were warned Thursday not to disclose “nonpublic information” or potentially face criminal, civil, or administrative consequences, a senior agency official …
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American Greatness and Raw Story
BuzzFeed News:
In New Documents, Cohen Says Trump “Instructed” Him To Lie — WASHINGTON — Attorneys for Michael Cohen, President Trump's former fixer, submitted documents to lawmakers Thursday night accusing Trump and his team of lawyers of instructing Cohen to lie to Congress about when negotiations ended to build a Trump Tower in Moscow.
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Sofie Karasek / Washington Post:
A photo of me and Joe Biden went viral. I want him to take ownership for his actions. — Sofie Karasek is a survivors' rights advocate and progressive organizer. — Two days before my photograph was taken with then-Vice President Joe Biden, as I stood on the 2016 Oscars stage with Lady Gaga …
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Caitlin Oprysko / Politico:
Trump says Biden is ‘only a threat to himself’
Trump says Biden is ‘only a threat to himself’
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New York Times:
Trump Asked That Confirmation of I.R.S. Counsel Be a Priority — President Trump earlier this year asked Senator Mitch McConnell, the majority leader, to prioritize a confirmation vote for his nominee to be the chief counsel of the Internal Revenue Service, indicating that it was a higher priority …
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Washington Post:
White House maneuvers to block release of Trump's tax returns — The White House could attempt to block the release of President Trump's tax returns to Democrats, senior officials signaled on Thursday, an unprecedented step that might lead to a constitutional challenge and catapult the issue into federal court.
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The Week and Patterico's Pontifications
John Solomon / The Hill:
Note to Team Mueller: If you don't indict, you can't incite — View Latest Opinions >> — I've covered the Justice Department for three decades, and seldom have I seen a story like the one published in the New York Times this week under the headline, “Some on Mueller's Team Say Report Was More Damaging Than Barr Revealed.”
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Stephanie Kirchgaessner / The Guardian:
Barr invited to meet DoJ officials on day he submitted memo critical of Mueller — Revealed: The attorney general, then a private lawyer, called the special counsel's obstruction of justice inquiry into Trump ‘fatally misconceived’ — William Barr was invited to meet justice department officials …
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Talking Points Memo, Law & Crime, Raw Story, Just Security, Washington Post and New York Times
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Trump is floundering disastrously on multiple fronts. Stop pretending he's in control. — Because so many of us got it so wrong in 2016, there's a tendency among many commentators to reflexively assume President Trump possesses some kind of hidden sway over the political environment that we're all missing.
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Andrew Restuccia / Politico:
Barrage of setbacks spoils Trump's post-Mueller reset
Barrage of setbacks spoils Trump's post-Mueller reset
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Charles Hurt / Washington Times:
Donald Trump reacts to Barbara Bush quotes — President Trump said he was not surprised by former first lady Barbara Bush's attacks on him, as posthumously quoted in a new biography. — “I have heard that she was nasty to me, but she should be. Look what I did to her sons,” …
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The Daily Beast:
Trump Is Already Plotting His Post-White House Tell-All Memoir — The president is ‘excited’ about penning a dishy book. So much so that he keeps talking about the scores he plans to settle. — As he navigates turbulent domestic and international affairs, President Donald Trump …
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Splinter, POLITICUSUSA, Raw Story and Mediaite
Angry Grammarian / Philly.com:
The unspoken Barr memo travesty: Using two spaces after a period | The Angry Grammarian — The attorney general of the United States has just executed a cover-up so brazen, so grotesque, so audacious, that it was done in plain view. Right under our noses. — He put two spaces after his periods.
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Daily Kos, Politico and The Atlantic
Peggy Noonan / Wall Street Journal:
If Biden Runs, They'll Tear Him Up — The old Democratic Party was warm, like him. The new one rising is colder, less human and divisive.
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National Review and No More Mister Nice Blog
James Arkin / Politico:
Stacey Abrams torn between running for president, Senate — The Georgia Democrat met Thursday with Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, who continues to recruit her for a Senate bid. — Stacey Abrams is doing everything a would-be presidential candidate would do: a nationwide book tour …
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Talking Points Memo, Joe.My.God., The Daily Caller and Breitbart
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
Manchin weighs bid for West Virginia governor in 2020
Manchin weighs bid for West Virginia governor in 2020
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Talking Points Memo
Catherine Rampell / Washington Post:
Trump's next possible Fed nominee can't understand basic policy issues — Nein, nein, nein. — That should be the Senate's response if President Trump actually nominates his friend Herman Cain, the former pizza magnate turned failed Republican presidential candidate, to the Federal Reserve Board, as Trump said he plans to do.
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Samuel Adkisson / USA Today:
So Yale Law School endorses anti-religious bigotry now? — What starts in the ivory tower of academia — including blatant discrimination against religious groups and students — won't stay there for long. — CONNECT — What happens at our nation's elite law schools rarely stays there.
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Washington Examiner
David Margolick / New York Times:
That Noise? The Rich Neighbors Digging a Basement Pool in Their $100 Million Brownstone — The extremely loud and incredibly expensive renovations that have shattered a formerly quiet residential block in Manhattan. — In the middle of West 69th Street between Central Park West and Columbus Avenue …
Aya Batrawy / Associated Press:
Saudi Arabia arrests more activists, including 2 US citizens — DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Saudi Arabia detained eight people, including two dual U.S.-Saudi citizens, in a new round of arrests in the kingdom targeting individuals supportive of women's rights and those with ties to jailed activists …
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The Guardian
Ken Dilanian / NBC News:
How a $230,000 debt and a LinkedIn message led an ex-CIA officer to spy for China — Kevin Mallory went years without a steady job, making him a ripe target for recruitment, court documents say. — Kevin Mallory, a former CIA officer, was $230,000 in debt and months behind on his mortgage in early 2017 …
Ben Terris / Washington Post:
What the heck does Steve King do all day? — Shunned by his party's leadership, bounced from congressional hearings, removed from key parts of the legislative process, and serving in the House minority — the Republican from Iowa has less to do than any congressman in recent history.
Joshua Miller / BostonGlobe.com:
He bought the fencing coach's house. Then his son got into Harvard — NEEDHAM — It was a modest house by this town's standards, a center-entrance colonial, three bedrooms and a two-car garage on a quarter-acre lot. The inside hadn't welcomed a renovator in many, many years, and the outside didn't wear its age particularly well.
Gideon Resnick / The Daily Beast:
Elizabeth Warren Issues Her Strongest Indictment of the Filibuster Yet — The Massachusetts Democrat will deliver some of her harshest words about the Senate filibuster in a speech on Friday morning. — Gideon Resnick — Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) is expected to issue the strongest indictment …
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Washington Post, Politico, Common Dreams and POLITICUSUSA
Ashe Schow / Wall Street Journal:
Biden Reaps the #MeToo Whirlwind — 'It's never, never, never, never, never OK to touch her without her consent,' he told college men in 2011.
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Instapundit
Anna Palmer / Politico:
How Trump Conspired with the Freedom Caucus to Shut Down the Government — It was as if Mark Meadows were watching a political car crash in slow motion. In November 2018, when House Republicans lost their legislative majority, it rendered him a bit player in Donald Trump's Washington.
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Washington Times and The Hill
Dustin Gardiner / Arizona Republic:
Report: David Stringer on child sex trafficking, 'I don't like to demonize it' — Former Arizona Rep. David Stringer made disturbing comments about child sex trafficking and his interactions with children within the past few years, two Prescott women told ethics investigators.
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Talking Points Memo and The Week
Sahil Kapur / Bloomberg:
In Iowa, O'Rourke Says Some Trump Rhetoric Echoes Nazi Germany — He slams the administration for separating families at border — The former congressman spoke to crowd at a college in Iowa — Democratic presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke told a crowd in Sioux City, Iowa …
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Joe.My.God. and Raw Story
Matt Bruenig / People's Policy Project:
People Lose Their Employer-Sponsored Insurance Constantly — Nancy Pelosi said this about Medicare for All yesterday: — The bolded part is probably the most dishonest argument in the entire Medicare for All debate. It implies that, under our current health insurance system …
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Washington Post and Splinter
Associated Press:
UK police outside Ecuador embassy amid WikiLeaks tweets — LONDON (AP) — British police stationed armed officers outside the Ecuadorian Embassy in London on Friday after tweets from WikiLeaks quoted what it said were high-level sources saying that Julian Assange could be kicked out of the building within “hours to days.”
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Mediaite, VICE News and Al Jazeera
Jake Rudnitsky / Bloomberg:
Ex-Congressman's Russian Bank Loses License for Money Laundering — Republican Charles Taylor owns 80% stake in Bank Ivanovo — Bank of Russia said lender broke money-laundering rules — A regional Russian bank owned by a former U.S. congressman had its license revoked Friday …
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Raw Story
Richard Bernstein / RealClearInvestigations:
Culture War and Peace at Stanford: The PC Uprising 25 Years On — PALO ALTO, Calif. — There was an overflow crowd last month at Stanford University's Pigott Hall as 120 or so students listened to Professor Dan Edelstein lecture on “how cities shape culture, states, and people.” — Penguin Random House
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Alan Rappeport / New York Times:
U.S. Ethics Office Declines to Certify Mnuchin's Financial Disclosure — WASHINGTON — The top federal ethics watchdog said on Thursday that Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin's sale of his stake in a film production business to his wife did not comply with federal ethics rules …
Salvador Rizzo / Washington Post:
Trump's false claims about Mexico's immigration system — “Mexico, as you know, as of yesterday, has been starting to apprehend a lot of people at their southern border coming in from Honduras and Guatemala and El Salvador. And they've — they're really apprehending thousands of people.
Kelsey Piper / Vox:
Exclusive: Google cancels AI ethics board in response to outcry — The controversial panel lasted just a little over a week. — This week, Vox and other outlets reported that Google's newly created AI ethics board was falling apart amid controversy over several of the board members.