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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.
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NBC News:
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.
Kevin Breuninger / CNBC:
Trump fires Secret Service chief Randolph Alles: NBC News — President Donald Trump has instructed White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney to fire U.S. Secret Service Director Randolph Alles, NBC News reports. — The Secret Service chief's ouster comes less than a day after the announcement …
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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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Al Jazeera, Talking Points Memo, Bipartisan Report and Raw Story
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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Political Wire
Jonathan Bernstein / Bloomberg:
Trump's Cabinet Is Increasingly Bare
Trump's Cabinet Is Increasingly Bare
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New York Times, CNN and Raw Story
Amanda Terkel / HuffPost:
Bernie Sanders: Trump Wants To Get Rid Of The Filibuster Too, So Be Skeptical Of It — “You should be a little bit nervous if Donald Trump supports it,” the 2020 presidential candidate said. — MUSCATINE, Iowa Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who is running for the Democratic nomination for president in 2020 …
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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, FITSNews, Breitbart and Political Wire
NBC News:
Democratic candidates slam Netanyahu ahead of Israeli elections
Democratic candidates slam Netanyahu ahead of Israeli elections
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Conservative Review
Paul Steinhauser / Fox News:
Cory Booker introduces Senate bill on slavery reparations
Cory Booker introduces Senate bill on slavery reparations
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Politico
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.
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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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Political Wire
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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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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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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.
Rachel 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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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
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 …
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
House GOP calls on Dems to bring in Mueller to testify
House GOP calls on Dems to bring in Mueller to testify
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House Judiciary Committee and IJR
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
Katelyn Polantz / CNN:
Woman accused of illegal entry to Mar-a-Lago had numerous electronic devices, thousands in cash — Trump not worried about Mar-a-Lago security breach — West Palm Beach, Florida (CNN)Yujing Zhang, the woman who allegedly breached security at President Donald Trump's private Florida club …
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POLITICUSUSA and Raw Story
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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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.
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
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 …
Eugene Scott / Washington Post:
Pete Buttigieg is pushing back on Mike Pence and a Christianity that does not support LGBT rights — In the Trump era, one of the loudest voices trying to challenge what it means to be a Christian in the current political sphere is a married, gay small-town mayor from the same state that gave Americans Vice President Pence.
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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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CNN, National Review 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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