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Trump has for months been urging administration to reinstate child separation policy — A senior administration official said they believe Trump is convinced that family separation has been the most effective policy at deterring asylum seekers. — President Donald Trump has for months urged …
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Daniel Lippman / Politico:
Stephen Miller pressuring Trump officials amid immigration shakeups — As President Donald Trump roils the capital over illegal immigration, his influential aide Stephen Miller is playing a more aggressive behind-the-scenes role in a wider administration shakeup.
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CNN:
Trump is removing US Secret Service director — (CNN)United States Secret Service director Randolph “Tex” Alles is being removed from his position, multiple administration officials tell CNN. — President Donald Trump instructed his acting chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney, to fire Alles.
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Kirstjen Nielsen just revealed how Trump's pathologies and lawlessness will get worse — It has become a ritual of the Trump years: Each time President Trump parts ways with one of his top advisers or associates, that person then embarks on an effort to expunge the deep moral stain left behind …
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Axios:
Behind the scenes: Kirstjen Nielsen sacked by tweet — Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen brought her resignation letter with her when she met President Trump in the White House residence yesterday afternoon, top sources tell Axios. — Inside the room: She wasn't intent on quitting but was prepared to, sources tell us.
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CNN:
Stephen Miller wants Trump to oust more senior leaders at Homeland Security — Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen resigns — Washington (CNN)White House senior adviser Stephen Miller wants to make sure that outgoing Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen is only the first of a string …
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New York Times:
Kirstjen Nielsen Resigns as Trump's Homeland Security Secretary
Kirstjen Nielsen Resigns as Trump's Homeland Security Secretary
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New York Times:
Kirstjen Nielsen Enforced Cruelty at the Border. Her Replacement Could Be Worse.
Kirstjen Nielsen Enforced Cruelty at the Border. Her Replacement Could Be Worse.
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Jonathan Bernstein / Bloomberg:
Trump's Cabinet Is Increasingly Bare
Trump's Cabinet Is Increasingly Bare
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New York Times, Washington Post and Raw Story
Bradford Betz / Fox News:
Trump aides targeted in corporate blacklist effort by immigration, civil rights groups
Trump aides targeted in corporate blacklist effort by immigration, civil rights groups
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The Gateway Pundit, Conservative News Today and FITSNews
CNN:
How border hardliners nudged out Nielsen
How border hardliners nudged out Nielsen
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The Daily Caller, ImmigrationProf Blog and KTLA
Associated Press:
Bernie Sanders finds himself in a new role as front-runner — DAVENPORT, Iowa (AP) — Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders is quieting critics who questioned whether he could recapture the energy of his upstart 2016 campaign, surpassing his rivals in early fundraising and establishing himself …
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Andy Shain / Post and Courier:
Biden still leads but Abrams, Buttigieg join front-runners in new SC 2020 primary poll — Former Vice President Joe Biden continues to hold a large lead in early polling for the 2020 South Carolina Democratic presidential primary, but it's another politician who has not entered the race …
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Washington Times, Political Wire, FITSNews and Breitbart
NBC News:
Democratic candidates slam Netanyahu ahead of Israeli elections — The Israeli prime minister was branded as a “racist” after he suggested annexing Jewish settlements on the West Bank. — Several Democratic presidential candidates had harsh words for Benjamin Netanyahu after the Israeli prime minister …
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Quartz
Jesse McKinley / New York Times:
To Get Trump's Tax Returns, N.Y. Democrats Try a New Strategy — ALBANY — In an attempt to work around the White House, Democratic lawmakers in Albany are trying to do what their federal counterparts have so far failed to accomplish: to obtain President Trump's tax returns.
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Aaron Rupar / Vox:
Mick Mulvaney rewrites history, claims Trump never promised to release his tax returns
Mick Mulvaney rewrites history, claims Trump never promised to release his tax returns
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ThinkProgress, IJR and Shareblue Media
Kyle Korver / The Players' Tribune:
Privileged — PHOTO BYMELISSA MAJCHRZAK/NBAE/GETTY IMAGES — W — hen the police break your teammate's leg, you'd think it would wake you up a little. — When they arrest him on a New York street, throw him in jail for the night, and leave him with a season-ending injury, you'd think it would sink in.
Kurzius / DCist:
Shaw's Metro PCS Store Has Been Forced To Turn Off Its Go-Go Music, Owner Says — For 24 years, Donald Campbell has been playing go-go music from his Metro PCS storefront in Shaw, at the corner of 7th Street and Florida NW. Until now. — Campbell says that T-Mobile, which acquired Metro PCS …
The White House:
Statement from the President on the Designation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a Foreign Terrorist Organization — Today, I am formally announcing my Administration's plan to designate Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), including its Qods Force …
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Iowa City Press-Citizen:
Iowa student asks Beto O'Rourke ‘Are you here to see Beto?’ in bathroom — On Sunday, minutes before being in front of more than 300 people, Beto O'Rourke took a moment for a requisite bathroom break. While washing his hands, O'Rourke got an unexpected question.
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David Siders / Politico:
Reality bites Beto after high-flying kickoff
Reality bites Beto after high-flying kickoff
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Fox News, Washington Post and The Week
Kyle Swenson / Washington Post:
‘Daddy hurt her’: Nobody believed a boy's story, until he dug up the backyard 20 years later — It was a single-story, three-bedroom ranch house on a quiet residential street in a northern stretch of Jacksonville, Fla. Aaron Fraser had not lived inside since he was 4 years old …
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Florida Times Union and The Daily Caller
John Harwood / CNBC:
Few Americans think they're getting a Trump tax cut: NBC/WSJ poll — Just 17% of people believe their own taxes will go down, the NBC News/Wall Street Journal Poll finds. — No wonder the 2017 Republican tax cut remains so unpopular — the vast majority of Americans don't think they got one at all.
Washington Post:
Trump seeks to campaign on problems he promised to fix — President Trump is ratcheting up his attacks on immigration — making and then rescinding a threat to close the nation's southern border in response to a problem that has worsened on his watch. He's reviving his assault …
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Trump's convoluted, confused threat to impose new tariffs on Mexico
Trump's convoluted, confused threat to impose new tariffs on Mexico
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Axios:
Scoop: Former White House counsel Don McGahn off the record — Don McGahn, who has kept his head down since leaving as White House counsel, shared some off-the-record thoughts on Thursday in a lunch with about 40 senior Republican Senate aides. — Details: “I spent the last couple …
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Erin Banco / The Daily Beast:
Federal Watchdog Probes Trump Admin Push for Saudi Nuke Deal — In 2017 Team Trump worked to clinch a nuclear deal with Saudi Arabia—and an independent investigative agency wants to know what happened behind closed doors. — One of the government's top investigative agencies has looked …
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Raw Story and POLITICUSUSA
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Isaac Chotiner / New Yorker:
A Middle Eastern-Studies Professor on His Conversations with Mohammed Bin Salman
A Middle Eastern-Studies Professor on His Conversations with Mohammed Bin Salman
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The American Conservative
Amanda Terkel / HuffPost:
Bernie Sanders Says Fox News Is A Propaganda Arm Of Trump Administration — The 2020 presidential candidate also defended his decision to do a town hall with the network. — MUSCATINE, Iowa Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) is standing by his decision to do a town hall on Fox News …
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Democrats crafting Mueller response if report drops during recess — Attorney General William Barr is likely days away from issuing a redacted version of special counsel Robert Mueller's findings, but Washington may be a ghost town when he does. — The House leaves for the week …
Alice Miranda Ollstein / Politico:
Trump's health care brain trust says no thanks — President Donald Trump promised a new plan to replace Obamacare. But the four Senate Republicans he tapped for the job aren't jumping at the opportunity. — Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) says any new plan has to come from the White House …
Lesley Stahl / CBS News:
How the NYU School of Medicine is going tuition-free — One of the top medical schools in the United States is going tuition-free. Lesley Stahl reports on how and why they're doing it — Going to medical school today takes more than ambition, good grades in biology in college, and an appetite for hard work.
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Mother Jones
ABC News:
Woman arrested for sending threatening letter to Maine Sen. Susan Collins: Authorities — Suzanne Muscara, 37, allegedly sent the letter to Collins in October. — A 37-year-old Maine woman has been arrested for allegedly sending a threatening letter to Sen. Susan Collins, authorities said Monday.
Crime In Boystown / CWB Chicago:
Prosecutor in Foxx's office speaks out: Criticism “is not an attack on Ms Foxx's race, it is an attack on her ethics and her efficacy as State's Attorney” — On Saturday, Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx appeared at Rainbow PUSH headquarters where she found some friendly faces …
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National Review, CNN and IJR
Charles M. Blow / New York Times:
Trumpism Extols Its Folk Hero — The president's devoted supporters have turned him into a legend of sorts. — My mother is a devout Democrat, but also one of the most socially conservative people I know. This is typical of our home state of Louisiana among black citizens …
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