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John Solomon / The Hill:
The single-sentence Russia bombshell that Attorney General Barr delivered to Congress — Sitting in the hot seat of a high-profile congressional hearing has a way of unmasking the mettle of any witness. — Attorney General William Barr showed us Tuesday, in his first testimony since the end …
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CNN and New York Times
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Zachary Basu / Axios:
Barr walks back claim that law enforcement spied on Trump campaign — Attorney General Bill Barr told a Senate Appropriations subcommittee on Wednesday that he believes spying by law enforcement officials on the 2016 Trump campaign “did occur,” before clarifying at the end of the hearing …
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Mother Jones, Fox News, Political Wire, The Daily Caller, Herman Cain and Daily Wire
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
William Barr's highly questionable use of Trump's ‘spying’ talking point — From almost the moment he was nominated as President Trump's attorney general, the question has been whether William P. Barr would do Trump's bidding. He was assuming an important post in which Trump had grown frustrated …
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Rolling Stone, The Federalist and Raw Story
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
FBI brass discussed possibility Trump fired Comey ‘at the behest of’ Russia
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Political Wire
Bloomberg:
Barr Forms Team to Review FBI's Actions in Trump Probe
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Washington Post:
Attorney general says he believes ‘spying did occur’ in campaign probe of Trump associates
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Talking Points Memo and The Week
Paula Reid / CBS News:
William Barr believes spying “did occur” on Trump campaign — live updates
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Law & Crime and The Week
Wall Street Journal:
Hush-Money Probe Gathered Evidence From Trump's Inner Circle — Federal investigators, looking into payments to Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal, questioned longtime aides of the president and amassed more evidence than previously known — The Manhattan U.S. attorney's office has gathered …
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Talking Points Memo, CNN, Bipartisan Report, New York Post, Raw Story and Mediaite
Daniel Lippman / Politico:
Trump's ‘truly bizarre’ visit to Mt. Vernon — President Donald Trump had some advice for George Washington. — During a guided tour of Mount Vernon last April with French president Emmanuel Macron, Trump learned that Washington was one of the major real-estate speculators of his era.
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Matt Viser / Washington Post:
Sen. Elizabeth Warren raised $6 million in first quarter of 2018, trailing several other presidential candidates — Sen. Elizabeth Warren's presidential campaign raised $6 million during the first quarter of 2018, a haul that puts the onetime financial juggernaut behind several of her rivals in the Democratic nominating contest.
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Natasha Korecki / Politico:
Warren raises $6 million in first quarter — Sen. Elizabeth Warren raised $6 million in the first three months of the year, landing her in the middle of the pack of 2020 candidates and highlighting the difficulty ahead competing for money against more prolific fundraisers like Bernie Sanders and Beto O'Rourke.
Discussion:
Axios and Political Wire
MJ Lee / CNN:
Elizabeth Warren's campaign announces $6 million first-quarter haul as it makes huge hires in early states — Warren: I'm tired of a Washington that works for the rich — (CNN)Sen. Elizabeth Warren raised more than $6 million for her presidential bid in the first quarter of 2019 …
Cheyenne Haslett / ABC News:
Sen. Elizabeth Warren becomes latest presidential hopeful to release 2018 tax returns
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ThinkProgress, New York Times, Fox News, The Daily Beast and Breitbart
Washington Post:
Miller and Kushner on a potential collision course in Trump's border crisis — In President Trump's latest blowup over immigration, senior adviser Stephen Miller hovered omnipresent in the background — goading him in his threats to close the border, warning him of the dangers of looking weak …
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Politico, Arizona Mirror and Daily Kos
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Washington Post:
Twelve days of chaos: Inside the Trump White House's growing panic to contain the border crisis
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Shareblue Media, America's Voice, Talking Points Memo, Raw Story, The Week and Washington Press
Andrew Restuccia / Politico:
White House eyeing former head of anti-immigration group for DHS job
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Talking Points Memo, Shareblue Media, VICE News, Booman Tribune and Washington Post
Anita Kumar / Politico:
GOP senators try to undermine Kushner's immigration plan
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The Hill, Axios, McClatchy Washington Bureau, One America News Network, Big League Politics and ThinkProgress
CNN:
How Stephen Miller tightened his grip over Trump's immigration and border policy
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Political Wire and WGN-TV
John Burnett / NPR:
Trump Administration Mulls Tougher Immigration Policies Amid DHS Shake-Up
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New York Times, Arizona Mirror and Just Security
New York Times:
Mick Mulvaney Tries Letting Trump Be Trump — WASHINGTON — When President Trump met with his embattled homeland security secretary on Sunday to force her out after months of stormy eruptions over immigration policy, the only other person in the room was Mick Mulvaney, who made no effort …
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Vanity Fair, Daily Kos and Talking Points Memo
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Ryan Goodman / Just Security:
What the President May Now Fear Most in Mueller Report — Special Counsel Robert Mueller's final report is predicated, as far as we know, on a potentially explosive assumption. — Consider a head scratching set of conclusions. The Special Counsel wrote that “the evidence does not establish …
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Raw Story
Abby Vesoulis / TIME:
Donald Trump Inadvertently Killed the Pentagon Press Briefing. Here's How That Hurts the Public — Gerard Butler's last action movie was about Navy SEALs rescuing a kidnapped Russian president to prevent World War III. But the least realistic part may have been when the burly Scottish actor stood …
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Elaina Plott / The Atlantic:
Kirstjen Nielsen's Job Prospects Are Probably Pretty Slim
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Raw Story, Newsweek, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion and The Wrap
Daniel Lippman / Politico:
Nielsen's allies trying to rehab her image for life after Trump
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Bloomberg, Daily Kos, The Atlantic, The Guardian, Splinter, CNN, Bipartisan Report, Vox, The Week, ThinkProgress and Vanity Fair
Daniel Lippman / Politico:
Inside the (semi-)secret society for young Trump staffers — On the first Wednesday evening in February, Anthony Scaramucci entertained a packed house of like-minded souls at Rewind, a retro diner off Dupont Circle. — There, the former White House communications director fielded friendly questions …
Damon Linker / The Week:
There is no left left in Israel — Don't be fooled by misleading stories about Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's disappointing showing in Tuesday's election in Israel. Even if the centrist Blue and White alliance of former military chief Benny Gantz were to eke out a very narrow victory …
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The American Spectator, Washington Post and Power Line
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Washington Post:
If Trump has his way, this major federal agency is on the way out — The White House is moving to do what no president has accomplished since the end of World War II: eliminate a major federal agency. — If the Trump administration succeeds at dismantling the Office of Personnel Management …
Luke O'Neil / New York Magazine:
What I've Learned From Collecting Stories of People Whose Loved Ones Were Transformed by Fox News — It was somewhere around the 100th response that my brain turned to mush. — Last week, I devoted an installment of my newsletter Welcome to Hell World to a dozen stories from people who …
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NB Blog
The Guardian:
Government sacks Roger Scruton after remarks about Soros and Islamophobia — Philosopher loses role as housing adviser following ‘unacceptable comments’ — The government has sacked its housing adviser Roger Scruton after he appeared to repeat antisemitic statements and denied Islamophobia was a problem.
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New Statesman
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George Eaton / New Statesman:
Roger Scruton: “Cameron's resignation was the death knell of the Conservative Party”
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National Review, Coffee House, The American Conservative and The Sun
Aaron Rupar / Vox:
Steve Mnuchin tried to tell Maxine Waters how to run a congressional hearing. It did not go well. — “Please cancel your meeting and respect our time.” — During a hearing on Tuesday, an exasperated Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin made House Financial Services Chair Maxine Waters …
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ABC News, Slate, Common Dreams and The Root
CNN:
Tiny bees found in woman's eye, feeding off tears — (CNN)Doctors treating a Taiwanese woman for a swollen eye were shocked to find four tiny bees living under her left eyelid. — The miniscule insects, known as sweat bees, are 3 to 4 millimeters (0.12-0.16 inches) in length, according to CNN affiliate CTS.
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The Daily Caller and The Guardian
Isaac Stanley-Becker / Washington Post:
A Texas bill would make it possible to put women to death for having abortions — Men and women, young and old, native Texans and immigrants, they rose to ask lawmakers to protect life, describing a “genocide” and foreseeing the arrival of “God's wrath.” — The act of public atonement …
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Faithwire, WTTG-TV, Shareblue Media, Common Dreams, Dallas Morning News and LifeNews.com
Jonathan Van Meter / Vogue:
The Awakening of Kim Kardashian West — WHEN I ENTER Kim Kardashian West's sprawling family home in Hidden Hills, California, on a warm afternoon in January, the first things I notice are boxes of Huggies sitting just inside the door. They are reminders, if I need one …
Amy Walter / The Cook Political Report:
Look at the Forest, Not the Trees: What We Do and Don't Know About 2020 — In this age of constant stimulation and news and information overload, it is harder than ever to get perspective. I am as guilty as anyone of getting sucked into the vortex of political twitter, only to emerge hours later with little to show for it.
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New York Times
Sophie Lewis / CBS News:
“Consent condom” requires four hands to open, making powerful statement about consent — With consent at the forefront of modern conversations about sex, one company is highlighting its importance in a unique way. Argentinian company Tulipán has created a “consent condom” …
Michael Luo / New Yorker:
The Urgent Quest for Slower, Better News — The current system for delivering news online is broken. Readers and journalists will need to work together to find a new one. — Last month, I decided to try an experiment with my media diet. Usually, in the morning, I skim e-mail newsletters in my in-box …
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