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Ross Douthat / New York Times:
Trump's Immigration Crisis — Behind the flailing lies a potential disaster for immigration hawks. — Across the decade that preceded Donald Trump's election, American politicians of both parties consistently tried to pass big, sweeping immigration bills that would legalize …
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Axios:
Trump orders dramatic changes in immigration policy, aims to accelerate deportations — President Trump has directed top officials to execute the most aggressive changes in immigration policy since his inauguration, sources tell Axios. Some officials consider the moves legally and politically dubious.
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NBC News:
Trump admin wants to make asylum harder by putting border agents in charge
Trump admin wants to make asylum harder by putting border agents in charge
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Washington Post:
Trump denies plan to separate migrant families, blames Obama for ‘cages’
Trump denies plan to separate migrant families, blames Obama for ‘cages’
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Jonathan Bernstein / Bloomberg:
Trump's Homeland Security Purge Is Destined to Fail
Trump's Homeland Security Purge Is Destined to Fail
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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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Zachary Basu / Axios:
Ex-FBI official says 2 Cabinet members were open to invoking 25th Amendment — Former FBI General Counsel James Baker told the House Judiciary Committee last October that it's his understanding that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein said there were 2 members of President Trump's Cabinet …
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Associated Press:
The Latest: Facebook, Google condemn hate crimes
The Latest: Facebook, Google condemn hate crimes
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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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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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New York Times, Shareblue Media, Axios, The Week and New York Post
Eric Levitz / New York Magazine:
If You Are Defending Stephen Miller, You Are an Ally of Anti-Semitism — Stephen Miller is personally responsible for the most xenophobic policies of the most xenophobic presidency in modern American history. The senior White House adviser authored the travel ban that denied a wide variety …
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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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Sam Stanton / Sacramento Bee:
First Twitter, now The Fresno Bee: Devin Nunes files lawsuit against McClatchy — In his latest legal onslaught against perceived critics of his policies, U.S. Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Tulare, filed a $150 million defamation suit Monday in a Virginia circuit court against the McClatchy Co …
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Alexandra Hutzler / Newsweek:
Twitter Gets #YachtCocaineProstitutes Trending to Mock Republican Devin Nunes After He Files Lawsuit
Twitter Gets #YachtCocaineProstitutes Trending to Mock Republican Devin Nunes After He Files Lawsuit
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Justin Elliott / ProPublica:
Congress Is About to Ban the Government From Offering Free Online Tax Filing. Thank TurboTax. — ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom based in New York. Sign up for ProPublica's Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox as soon as they are published.
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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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Brooke Singman / Fox News:
Trump says no plan to revive family separations, blames Obama for uproar
Trump says no plan to revive family separations, blames Obama for uproar
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Betsy Klein / CNN:
Trump denies reports he will reinstate family separation border policy
Trump denies reports he will reinstate family separation border policy
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
Republicans press Trump to drop Herman Cain's Fed nomination — The resistance comes amid Senate GOP opposition to Trump's DHS purge and potential auto tariffs. — Herman Cain is in deep trouble. And he hasn't even been formally nominated to the Federal Reserve yet.
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Why Does Trump Want to Debase the Fed?
Why Does Trump Want to Debase the Fed?
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Democrats plan to use hearing to press Barr on Mueller report — House Democrats plan to grill Attorney General William Barr about his handling of special counsel Robert Mueller's final report when he appears before an Appropriations subcommittee on Tuesday morning.
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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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Tamar Pileggi / The Times of Israel:
Likud admits deploying cameras at polling stations to monitor ‘problem Arabs’
Likud admits deploying cameras at polling stations to monitor ‘problem Arabs’
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Catherine Clifford / CNBC:
Billionaire Jack Dorsey's 11 ‘wellness’ habits: From no food all weekend to ice baths — The ancient philosophy of Stoicism - which teaches to be satisfied with what you have and includes practices like self-denial — has become a trend among Silicon Valley elites.
New York Times:
Trump Says the U.S. Is ‘Full.’ Much of the Nation Has the Opposite Problem. — An aging population and a declining birthrate among the native-born population mean a shrinking work force in many areas. — President Trump has adopted a blunt new message in recent days for migrants seeking refuge …
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Steve Vladeck / Slate:
Trump Is Abusing His Authority to Name “Acting Secretaries.” Here's How Congress Can Stop Him. — One of the more interesting legal phenomena of the Trump administration has been the attention paid to previously obscure federal statutes—and how the legal authorities they provide can be abused …
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Erik Wasson / Bloomberg:
Moderate Democrats Back Balanced-Budget Amendment, Countering Liberals — Group backs balanced budget amendment to Constitution — Move by Blue Dogs highlights differences with progressives — A group of moderate House Democrats is proposing a balanced budget amendment …
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John Bresnahan / Politico:
House Dems cancel vote on budget plan amid internal revolt
Pew Research Center:
Race in America 2019 — Public has negative views of the country's racial progress; more than half say Trump has made race relations worse — More than 150 years after the 13th Amendment abolished slavery in the United States, most U.S. adults say the legacy of slavery continues …
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Bryan Lowry / Kansas City Star:
'We can't confirm him,' Pat Roberts warns of potential Kobach nomination for DHS — One of the GOP senators from Kris Kobach's home state said Tuesday that the Senate would not be able to confirm the Kansas Republican if President Donald Trump tapped him for a cabinet post.
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Matthew Gault / Motherboard:
Read the Best Parts of Alex Jones's 159-Page Deposition About Pepe the Frog — Jones is getting sued for allegedly violating the copyright of Pepe the Frog's creator by selling Pepe posters on Infowars. — In a court deposition obtained by Motherboard, Infowars's Alex Jones claimed Pepe the Frog was more than just a cartoon frog.
Michael Gerson / Washington Post:
Trump takes an honor of a lifetime and turns it into a black hole — The ouster of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen — the implementer of some of the most unjust immigration policies since the internment of citizens and noncitizens of Japanese descent during World War II …
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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Kirstjen Nielsen's attempt to suck up to Trump ended badly. It always does.
Kirstjen Nielsen's attempt to suck up to Trump ended badly. It always does.
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