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Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Bernie Sanders, Now a Millionaire, Pledges to Release Tax Returns by Monday — WASHINGTON — Senator Bernie Sanders, whose $18 million fund-raising haul has solidified his status as a front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination, said Tuesday that he would release 10 years …
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Damian Paletta / Washington Post:
Mnuchin reveals White House lawyers consulted Treasury on Trump tax returns, despite law meant to limit political involvement — Treasury Department lawyers consulted with the White House general counsel's office about the potential release of President Trump's tax returns …
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Daniel Hemel / Slate:
How Democrats in Congress Could Easily—and Quickly—Get Their Hands on Trump's Taxes — Acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney confidently declared this weekend that congressional Democrats will “never” see President Donald Trump's tax returns. House Ways and Means Committee Chair Richard Neal …
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Raw Story, Washington Post and The American Spectator
Arthur Delaney / HuffPost:
They Say It's Bad Now But Republicans Disclosed Private Tax Returns In 2014
They Say It's Bad Now But Republicans Disclosed Private Tax Returns In 2014
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Vox, Daily Kos and Media Matters for America
Bloomberg:
Barr Forms Team to Review FBI's Actions in Trump Probe — Inquiry comes as House GOP pushes claims of anti-Trump bias — Issue pursued as Democrats emphasize getting Mueller's report — Attorney General William Barr has assembled a team to review controversial counterintelligence decisions …
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Fox News:
Barr assembles ‘team’ to look into counterintelligence investigation on Trump campaign in 2016, official says — Attorney General Bill Barr has assembled a “team” to investigate the origins of the FBI's counterintelligence investigation into the Trump campaign, an administration official briefed …
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Townhall and Daily Wire
Gregg Re / Fox News:
Comey memos contained far more sensitive info than previously known, FBI filing reveals
Comey memos contained far more sensitive info than previously known, FBI filing reveals
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RedState
Associated Press:
The Latest: Gantz declares victory over Netanyahu in Israel — JERUSALEM (AP) — The Latest on Israel's election (all times local): — The leader of Israel's Blue and White party has declared victory in parliamentary elections, despite mixed results in exit polls. — Addressing a raucous crowd of supporters.
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Haaretz:
Israel Election 2019: Gantz and Netanyahu Tied; No Clear Path to Premiership for Either — Exit Polls — Netanyahu's party places 1,200 hidden cameras in Arab polling sites ■ Gantz helps injured motorcyclist ■ 6.3 million people eligible to vote
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Foreign Policy, New York Post, Balloon Juice and Chicago Sun-Times
New York Times:
Israel Elections Live Updates: Exit Polls Show Dead Heat, a Setback for Netanyahu
Israel Elections Live Updates: Exit Polls Show Dead Heat, a Setback for Netanyahu
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Power Line and The Week
Franco Ordoñez / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Trump picks Miller, setting up potential clash with Kushner on immigration — President Donald Trump's choice of Stephen Miller to lead on immigration sets up a potential policy clash with one of the most influential people in the White House, the president's son-in-law.
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NBC News:
Trump admin wants to make asylum harder by putting border agents in charge — The White House wants to make it harder for migrants to get asylum by putting border agents in charge of interviews. — WASHINGTON — The White House is working on plans to make it harder for immigrants at the border …
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New York Times, Talking Points Memo, Trending Home, Breitbart, Daily Kos and Common Dreams
Chuck Ross / The Daily Caller:
Ex-FBI Official Says He Received Steele Dossier From Reporter — Former FBI general counsel James Baker told Congress in 2018 about his interactions with a liberal reporter who was “anxious” to provide the bureau with a copy of the infamous and unverified Steele dossier.
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The Hill and The Gateway Pundit
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Newly released testimony: Former top FBI lawyer says agency concerned Trump obstructed justice
Newly released testimony: Former top FBI lawyer says agency concerned Trump obstructed justice
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Raw Story
Zachary Basu / Axios:
Ex-FBI official says 2 Cabinet members were open to invoking 25th Amendment
Ex-FBI official says 2 Cabinet members were open to invoking 25th Amendment
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Law & Crime and Raw Story
Burgess Everett / Politico:
Republicans press Trump to drop Herman Cain's Fed nomination — Herman Cain is in deep trouble. And he hasn't yet even been formally nominated to the Federal Reserve. — Senate Republicans are warning the White House that the 2012 presidential candidate will face one of the most difficult …
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Jeremy Barr / Hollywood Reporter:
Former CBS News Reporter Lara Logan Joining Sinclair — The ‘60 Minutes’ journalist, who left the network last year, will be a special correspondent for the conservative media giant. — In late February, former CBS News foreign correspondent Lara Logan outlined her conditions …
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Daniel Lippman / Politico:
Nielsen's allies trying to rehab her image for life after Trump — Kirstjen Nielsen's image makeover has already begun—but it may be a hard sell. — Just days after she announced plans to resign as Homeland Security secretary, Nielsen and her allies are working to rehabilitate her reputation …
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J. Arthur Bloom / The Daily Caller:
EXCLUSIVE: Documents Detailing Google's ‘News Blacklist’ Show Manual Manipulation Of Special Search Results — Google does manipulate its search results manually, contrary to the company's official denials, documents obtained exclusively by The Daily Caller indicate.
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Trending Home, NB Blog and The Gateway Pundit
Andrew Marantz / New Yorker:
The Dump Trump Debate — Audience members gasped in horror at some of the arguments put forth as Kris Kobach and Liz Peek faced off against Bret Stephens and Jeff Flake in a public debate over what to do with the President. — Robert Rosenkranz, a financier and a philanthropist, believes in civility.
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Bryan Lowry / Kansas City Star:
'We can't confirm him,' Pat Roberts warns of potential Kobach nomination for DHS
'We can't confirm him,' Pat Roberts warns of potential Kobach nomination for DHS
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Talking Points Memo, Fox News and Politico, more at Mediagazer »
Ryan Browne / CNN:
Pentagon awards nearly $1 billion to build Trump's border wall — Washington (CNN)The Defense Department announced Tuesday that it had awarded $976 million in contracts to build President Donald Trump's much-sought-after border wall with a completion date for these projects of October 2020.
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Brian Naylor / NPR:
FACT CHECK: Trump Wrongly States Obama Administration Had Child Separation Policy — President Trump repeated a false claim to reporters Tuesday, wrongly blaming the Obama administration for instituting a policy in which children were separated from their parents at the southern border.
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Los Angeles Times, The Wrap, CNN, The Daily Beast, New York Times, Raw Story and Contemptor
Jay Root / The Texas Tribune:
Why two former Beto O'Rourke staffers now say they're with Bernie Sanders — Their journey reveals a major fault line for O'Rourke as he transitions from a statewide campaign in which occasional votes with the Republicans can be an asset to a new national playing field where some see those moves as political apostasy.
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Washington Free Beacon
Russell Berman / The Atlantic:
What Barr Told Congress About the Mueller Report — The long-awaited Mueller report will be out “within a week,” Attorney General William Barr assured impatient lawmakers in a hearing on Tuesday. Exactly how much of the book-length document either the public or Congress will be able to see, however, remains a mystery.
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Politico, New York Times and LAW.com
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BuzzFeed News:
Warner Bros. Is Filing A Copyright Claim Over Trump's 2020 Video For Using The “Dark Knight Rises” Score — President Donald Trump on Tuesday posted a video on Twitter that appeared to be part of his 2020 re-election campaign. In less than three hours it had already amassed over 1 million views, but it might not be up much longer.
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New York Times:
The Democratic Electorate on Twitter Is Not the Actual Democratic Electorate — A detailed look at the voters with the numbers to decide the 2020 Democratic nominee. — Democrats on social media — Progressive activists Other Democrats — The Democratic electorate off social media
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Slate, National Review, The Daily Caller, Vanity Fair, Townhall, Balloon Juice and Instapundit
Alexandra Hutzler / Newsweek:
Twitter Gets #YachtCocaineProstitutes Trending to Mock Republican Devin Nunes After He Files Lawsuit — California Representative Devin Nunes is being mocked on Twitter after filing a $150 million lawsuit over a May 2018 story featuring the headline: “A yacht, cocaine, prostitutes …
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Henry J. Gomez / BuzzFeed News:
What Happened When Pete Buttigieg Tore Down Houses In Black And Latino South Bend — “Everyone wants to find a villain,” a South Bend politician said of the Mayor Pete Buttigieg's housing program. “This is just how economic development happens.” — Reporting From — South Bend, Indiana
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The American Conservative
Jonathan Broder / Newsweek:
How Ilhan Omar Is Changing the Conversation About Israel—and Upending the 2020 Campaign — In late March, some 18,000 people crowded into a grand ballroom the size of a commercial airline hangar in downtown Washington, D.C., for the annual conference of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee …
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Daily Wire, Louder With Crowder and The Daily Caller